Country music has many ingredients — among them, the blues, Gospel music ... in 1953 — only 29 years old — a bereaved ...

When elements of R&B became integrated with white country music it became rock 'n' roll. If you were to meet a typical character from a blues song he would most likely be down on his luck ...

I grew up listening to him play old country blues music, and I grew up listening ... I had an idea that I wanted to do each song in the first or second take because that was how the old blues ...