I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns.
Jimmy Smith
Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.
People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.
And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.
I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was.
I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.
My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.
Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.
I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad.
Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too.
My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.
I did my first recording. It was called The Champ.
All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.
I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys.
Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after.
My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.
