Juke Joints Quotes

Little Walter and Muddy Waters were incredible. And Bo Diddley was doing some great stuff, too.

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

The South just keeps right on playing good time Southern music.

I think you can hear the Delta blues thing in something like the intro to 'Heaven in This Hell,' which has that down-home acoustic riff.

The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals.

I'm self-taught. But I finally learned that they was having little shows or night dances or whatever you call them at little juke joints not far from where I lived, and I used to go there. They wouldn't let me play inside, but I could sit outside on the weekends, when it wasn't raining or something.

I tend to be a jam-band fan, and I love the Rolling Stones.

My guitar is a 1934 National Trojan. They call it a resonator, which is the guitar guys played in the honky-tonks before amplification. It's very loud. It's the type of guitar that Son House and Robert Johnson played.

I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.

Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I'd go back next Saturday.

And I always say, when Southern people get on the dance floor, they ain't getting off.