i think it was a willie dixon song. i was probably 8, 9 years old when i heard this song.e tv the first blues song i heard, that first blue note, and it hit me like a thunderbolt, and i have been vibrating ever since. it was a sort of magical kingdom that i could go to through that door that opened. muddy waters, i suppose my first great hero. didn't want to be, you know, a boy who wants to be a guitar player, and muddy waters was just the king. he was king bee. he was it. >> yeah. you started singing or playing first? >> oh, playing. playing. the singing is -- this is a recent arrival. i'm getting better at it. it's something that i should have done -- it's something i should have done -- well, all of this stuff is -- i should have done more of when i was young. there isn't a human being alive who doesn't wish they had worked harder at a musical instrument. nobody is right. nobody -- i have never met anybody that says i'm really glad i gave up the clarinet. nobody says that. >> i kick myself every day that i stopped playing saxophone and piano. >> do you touch it at all n