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“He gets down on his knee and takes Muddy’s hand off his knee and he holds Muddy’s hand in both of his and kisses the back of Muddy Waters’ hand.”
Over in the Delta tent, Bobby Rush, the sassiest and downright sexiest 85 year old on the scene, was thrusting his way through a dynamite set.
“An old man was sitting on the front porch with a straw hat and an acoustic, and he was playing slide and singing. I went ‘Oh my God, what is that?’ My dad was like, ‘That’s the blues.'”
This year, two additional award categories were added, bringing the total to 26. The two new categories are Instrumentalist – Vocals, and Rock Blues Artist.
“I don’t necessarily try to emulate any particular type of singer; I just sing the way it comes naturally to me.”
Are you ready for some Led Zeppelin that’s never been heard before? According to Jimmy Page, it’s on the way in 2018.…
“We had this process that Glenn named “El Blurto.” We’d get to feelin’ good, and then we’d be playing, turn on the cassette recorder and just start making stuff up.”
“Here’s the cool thing about blues… everybody is influenced by the blues, whether they know it or not.”
“I knew what I was doing. I knew what I wanted to do. Then, I got the opportunity to do it.”
The Kentucky Headhunters describe the moment they met blues piano great Johnnie Johnson. Their work together would result in awesome new material, and great stories about Keith Richards and Chuck Berry!