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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-co...more

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I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, ...more

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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it chan...more

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For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

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I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with ...more

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I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in t...more