American blues guitarist and singer
Recipient of a National Medal of Arts, 2003.
From Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.
Recipient of the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors. Other recipient that year were Dustin Hoffman , David Letterman , Natalia Makarova , and the rock band Led Zeppelin , comprising John Paul Jones , Jimmy Page , and Robert Plant.
Inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2008.
Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles. .
