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• ‟ There was nobody in the city I came from - Cork, Ireland - that I could link up with to teach me the guitar.

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• ‟ As a kid, I loved any guitarists, whether it was Elvis Presley, Lonnie Donegan, Chuck Berry or even the cowboy guitarists like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. The image of the guitar appealed to me.

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• ‟ The difficulties people have with me are purely musical things, never personality things. But, you know that's just the way it goes. I like to get things right!

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• ‟ Playing live is much more natural for me. The instant reaction and the feedback from the audience is great for me. I really relish it. And if you play blues-based music, it's not really academic music or recital music. It really needs a bit of atmosphere and a bit of interplay and a bit of roughness, and you really get that with an audience.

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• ‟ Audiences aren't that different for my show from area to area. Other acts, I think, experiences differences, but not me.

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• ‟ Lonnie Donegan and the folk movement were responsible for a lot of the spread of the blues in England. The group Them with Van Morrison was a big influence on me, too, as were The Stones; The Yardbirds, John Mayall, and the other British blues pioneers.

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