I was messing around with the harmonica... But I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.
That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?
Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice.
Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.
I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.
I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.
I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.