It was a privilege talking to Mark Thompson, who interviewed me for this issue of Blues Blast Magazine. I hope you enjoy it!
"I am lucky to be playing with Elvin, and with Kim Wilson, who is a force of nature on stage. I am playing on all cylinders with him. He shoots from the hip. There is no set list. He just calls out a tune, maybe a slow blues in the key of G, and he starts playing. So we are doing a slow blues, and you don't have time to think about sounding like B.B. King or Robert Lockwood Jr. You just have to play and make it work right off the cuff. Half way through, you realize you are doing a B.B. King tune, but playing it like Buddy Guy. It is too late to go back, so you have to finish it out. You just have to play, and consequently you sound like yourself."
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