It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.
My first concert was Chicago and Moody Blues. I was 15 years old.
I would be on dates with guys, and the radio would be on, and if the Moody Blues song came on I couldn't concentrate on the guy; I would go straight into the music.
The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing.
My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.
I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them.
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
I did a lot of 'NYPD Blues' and 'Law & Orders' and a couple of other ones that were shot in New York earlier in my career.
I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.
When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.
Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.
Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.
It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.
What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.
Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.
