Time Can Bring You Down, Time Can

All Along This Path I Tread, My Heart Betrays My Weary Head, With Nothing But My Love To Save, From The Cradle To The Grave.

Yeah, It Is, Because It's A Real Discovery Of Your Inner Resources, You Know. That's What My Character Is All About And What My Playing Is All About. But To Get Up There And Just Go Inside And Draw Out Something That Makes You Feel Good First And Foremost.

It's Very Difficult To Explain The Effect The First Blues Record I Heard Had On Me, Except To Say That I Recognized It Immediately. It Was As If I Were Being Reintroduced To Something That I Already Knew, Maybe From Another, Earlier Life. For Me There Is Something Primitively Soothing About This Music, And It Went Straight To My Nervous System, Making Me Feel Ten Feet Tall.

At First The Music Almost Repelled Me, It Was So Intense, And This Man Made No Attempt To Sugarcoat What He Was Trying To Say, Or Play. It Was Hard-core, More Than Anything I Had Ever Heard. After A Few Listenings I Realized That, On Some Level, I Had Found The Master, And That Following This Man's Example Would Be My Life's Work.

Although They Can Do It All The Time, You Know, They're Far Better Than Me, On A Musically, On A Theoretical Music Level. You Know, They're Out Of My League.