Q&A

“If you’re just taking someone else’s truth, then you’ve lost the essence of the music”

What first attracted you to the blues?

There was a guitar in the house and it belonged to my older sisters. I picked it up and it just felt natural. Blues was just something that came from my curiosity about the guitar. I wanted to play everything I heard, and my mom had a lot of blues albums, like Robert Cray’s . That was one that everybody had in their house. I also remember by BB King and Eric Clapton. It was stuff you’d find in any collection. But the most important one for me was the boxset , which was great. It’s from a time before the internet became what it is now, so it was good to be able to dive into all these different parts of the history. I started playing along with that stuff and it just clicked.