My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.Collection: Mom
And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.
I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad.
My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.