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“Music-wise, I guess more of the influence came from my dad. He didn’t want me not to be a musician, but he definitely wanted me to stay in school.”

“My goal is to let the younger generation really see what the blues has been and what it can be. To keep the music popular and create a resurgence, the blues needs the young people.” – Keith Dixon Nelson

“We’ve always believed that less is more, and that’s the way we record as well, very simplistically; we don’t overdo things.”

“We ingest all kinds of horrendous crap in our music; it’s just like poison, and it’s really popular and people love it, but do you really want to be taking that?”

“As I get older, I am interested in authenticity. I want to see how close to the bone I can get. I want to see how real to the heart I can get. I want to see how real of a song I can write. I am still chasing that.” Tommy Conwell

“I’m just gifted and blessed. I feel pretty good once I’ve got the ladies on the side of me, and I’m always learning.”

“We thrive on the energy coming from the crowd so the different energy coming from the audience makes us play differently, makes us respond to each other differently…”

In the 1970s, Graves started his own record label to promote the blues music of his early heroes.

“I want to honor Muddy and give his fans all I can about him musically and historically, even as I make my own music.”

“He got married and had a family and nobody even knew he had a career in music, not even his wife. After he died, his wife found a scrapbook that he had kept…”