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“I’m from the east coast and I grew up on R&B, but blues is where my heart is.”

“With The Brotherhood, we’ve all got skin in the game; the pride of ownership.”

“I like what I would call authentic Blues. It is dangerous to use this term because people think you are not open to anything new.”

“The older I get the more and more I respect and am proud of the blues as a musical art form.” – Giles Robson

“Once you’ve been doing this a while, a festival like this becomes like a big family reunion.”

“I thought that everybody was getting into bad health over the way we were living and I had a concern that Stevie could die.”

The Blues philosophy is about making music as emotional and from the heart as possible.

I don’t like to be greedy. I want to be able to play the guitar like Jimi Hendrix, write songs like Bob Dylan, and perform like Elvis Presley.

“I think you have to argue as a school founded on Jazz, Jazz was founded on Blues.”

Although he never heard blues music at home, he became one of the most influential figures in Blues during the twentieth century.