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“Here’s the cool thing about blues… everybody is influenced by the blues, whether they know it or not.”

“I think that artists like myself are uniquely positioned to affect change in our society, and music is the leading driver of culture I think.”

“I do believe that my job as an artist is to paint and reflect our times; forging soundscapes that resonate from the speakers into your soul.”

“If Paramount had not existed, there would have been a tremendous amount of talent that would have never got recorded.”

“I think that our music is very flexible.”

In the 1960s, most of our music came on 45s, those seven-inch discs that contained one song on each side. 45s were everywhere.

“Blues was underground, you know? It was kind of hard to find.”

“I didn’t have a chance to know Wolf personally, but I had a chance to sit in with Muddy a couple of times.”

It was easy to get them to agree. The hard part was the logistics of scheduling, because every one of these guys is a touring, hard working musician.

“It’s all I ever wanted to do, and I’m going to keep doing it until I can’t do it anymore.”