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Jonny Lang has the power to move the music into the next millennium by reaching the ears of a new generation. The great musicians have the power to break all of the 'isms'-race, age, sex, et cetera. Jonny Lang is one of those musicians.
And I can do the rock clubs if I have to.
The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.
I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.
But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?
I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.
But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job.
When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.
What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me.
We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States.
I focused on how these people became how they were.
Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.
I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.
Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday.
In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.
Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.
Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.
I want people to recognize Luther Allison when I play.
In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.
