“And my way then was to kind of bring that and mix that in with the classical approach, which is sacrilegious for both worlds, I suppose. Mixing blues and classical might seem “sacrilegious” to some, as he explained. To Roth, blues is a musical style that he incorporated into his original music, rather than something that he aimed for. But to this day what is still in my playing is these bendy, wailing notes, which comes from the Blues, including the Blue notes.
“But there came a point where I started to move more towards the classical and moved away from the Blues.
So, I relate to that, and I used to play the Blues, initially. There was a lot of Albert King there, and of course, B.B. Yeah’, I could tell where Jimi Hendrix got his ‘Red House’ from. “But then, of course, being in love with the guitar, I checked out the roots, and I checked out Albert King, and I thought, ‘Wow.
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