Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

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My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.

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I did my first recording. It was called The Champ.

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I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was.

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People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.

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All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.

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Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too.

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My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

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Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after.

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I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.

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