What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me.
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Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.
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When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.
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I want to play in a place people want to hear me.
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But my big thing was always the blues.
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I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.
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The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.
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Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s.
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I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.