Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Blues musician with over 100 albums, revered by stars like Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton, known for a stunning comeback at 69 with album 'The Healer'.
On the island
Eight records
The keepsakes
In conversation
Presenter asks
5:36What do you think of rap?
But I don't like it. To me, just talking.
Presenter asks
22:14What happened? They all wanted you to stop playing, did they?
How you know that? You must have read about it. Yeah. Well, you're on the road all the time and the … [what] do you think jump in a woman's mind that you are there with other women … They didn't read about musicians, how they do … I was an angel, but I loved in my wise … [if they ask] 'Do you want me to quit playing music and just get a regular job?' Then no way … I will not do that. And so they split. Really, they did me a big favor when they did it.
Presenter asks
23:58How much pleasure does all that [success] give you? I mean, you say money isn't important to you, but
No, it ain't. … Friendship.
Presenter asks
24:15You're seventy-five this year, aren't you? How do you have fun? What's your idea of fun?
The luxury
I'm a baseball nut and I love buying cars, I love T.V. And … Women. … As long as they're not wives.
Presenter asks
26:09Would the blues help you if you were really stranded on a desert island for a long time?
Oh, definitely. Nothing else but the blues. Definitely it'll help me.
Presenter asks
26:32Do you feel a certain responsibility as being one of the last original greats?
I wouldn't say I'm the last, but I'm next to the last. … No, I give in a lot. I don't feel no responsibility. I have covered all tracks.
“Blues is not a downer. Blues is a healer. Get people to feel better. … It soothes your mind, it peaks you up, not put you down.”
“Everything come from the blue. All music is blues at the root. Rock, ballads, rap. … You're talking about a woman, a woman talking about a man. You told me my heartache she left me or he left me.”
“They call it devil music. But it's no devil music.”
“I left there one night with my guitar … I had two dollars in my pocket.”
“That meant more to me than any money I got right now, those years. … I was happy.”
“Probably [I'll meet my maker] on the stage or in my house with the music. You never retire completely from the blues. You just retire off the road.”