I'm Happy Whenever Anybody Does My Material.

I Sang And Wrote Songs When I Was 12 Years Old.

My Main Influences Have Always Been The Classic Jazz Players Who Sang, Like Louis Armstrong And Nat King Cole And Jack Teagarden.

Everybody Cryin' Mercy / When They Don't Know The Meaning Of The Word.

I Do Very Few Standards. Hardly Any. Other People's Tunes That I Do Are Usually Obscure Tunes, For The Most Part, Although I Do A Couple Of Duke Ellington Tunes That Are Well Known.

I Don't Remember Any Impression [from Blues].the Blues Was Just Everywhere In The Mississippi Delta. It Was Mostly Black Sharecroppers Living There, And There Was A Lot Of Blues Around. Sometimes The Guys Would Sing The Blues In The Fields, Working.