, i got into it, you know, once i heard that boogie, woogie, this was it, it was all over for me. >>s your dad's influence? >> my dad, he's the one that loved the music so much he would go buy the records. my momma didn't buy any records. he would get them records and buy them, nat king cole, arthur price, and i would just sit there and listen to them for hours. it was great. >> how did you manage to get with people like lou rawlses and bb king and go around the world with these people? >> well, at the time there was a club owned by don barksdale, and he had the showcase and the sportsman, and he would have like bobby's club and lou rawlses at the other. and playing at the showcase at that time, i got to play with everybody that was big, you know. and they called it the circuit, but coming from vallajo, i thought i was in band heaven. i mean i got to play with and talk with the greatest r&b entertainers in the world. i mean, it doesn't get much better than that etta james and lou rawls, arthur price, bernie andrews, charles musselwhite, he played on a record with him. so it was great