Playing Guitar Is Like Telling The Truth.

The Blues Was Like That Problem Child That You May Have Had In The Family. You Was A Little Bit Ashamed To Let Anybody See Him, But You Loved Him. You Just Didn't Know How Other People Would Take It.

I Liked Blues From The Time My Mother Used To Take Me To Church. I Started To Listen To Gospel Music, So I Liked That. But I Had An Aunt At That Time, My Mother's Aunt, Who Bought Records By People Like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson And A Few Others.

I Did Several Shows With Jimi Hendrix, That's When I Got To Know Him Better, I Knew Of Him, I Met Him [when He Was Playing] With Little Richard... And He Was Kind Of Quiet, Shy, He Didn't Open Up Too Much, But There Were Questions As We All Ask Each Other. You Know, "how Do You Do This" And "why Do You Do That..." We Had Very Small Discussions On Things Like That. And He Was Very Polite, I Thought [he Was] A Very Nice Guy.

It's Going To Be Years And Years Before Most People Realize How Greatly He Contributed To American Music.

There Was A Lot Of Other Young Players Around At That Time When I Was Coming, But There Was Older People Like Blind Lemon, Which Was One Of My Favorites. I Don't Know, Just Seemed Like Everybody I Heard Could Play Better Than Me.