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“Nowadays, with so many parents both working 9-to-5 jobs, a lot of people can attest to the fact that they'd love to be around each other all the time.”
“I never really get to go out and see shows, other than your own or if you're at a festival or something.”
“I started learning how to belt when I was about 10, and I had a great aunt who was an opera singer and she taught me how to breath right, so I think I really lucked out in the game right there with her because she was - in my eyes she was probably one of the most amazing singers I ever heard in my life.”
“We've played a bunch of different types of places, like drive-ins, where people have their drive-up spot and then they also like have a pod next to it so they can get up and dance.”
“When I first was playing the first couple records, I had other jobs too, just trying to pay rent and everything.”
“The goal used to be to sit down and write a song a day. But it's like exercising. You just have to get out and do it.”
“Sometimes you see these great musicians on the same playbill, in concert together, and it blows your mind.”
“Really, it was after I got out of college that I began to get into the blues. I started going to blues jams at Johnny D's in Boston and just watching the older players, and then gradually I started sitting in and getting up the confidence to play live on my own.”
“I got to do how many tours with B.B. King and Buddy Guy? I got to tour with John Lee Hooker and record with Little Milton. Pinetop Perkins.”
“For me, the most powerful form of music was gospel music. It led me to the blues.”
“To me, Red Rocks is very Colorado, and you're loving nature and just soaking it all up. If you're that kind of person, it's just incredible.”
“At Norwell High School, I played with The Thompson Brothers. I was also in the jazz band. I acted in a lot of plays.”
“Being in a relationship is hard for anybody, being around each other all of the time is a little insane.”
“I mean Kofi and Oteil Burbridge are like superheroes on their instruments anyway, but get them together and it's a whole other ballgame. It's like getting Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. They have an extra level of connection, reading each other's mind.”
“For a long time, I really didn't know what my calling was, but when I discovered blues in my early twenties, that seemed to be more of my calling.”
“When I was 18 and going to Berklee College of Music, I started singing in a 60-person gospel choir where almost everyone was African-American.”
“I played with Buddy Guy on his 63rd birthday and got to bring him a cake. And I played with B.B. King on his 73rd birthday and got to bring him a cake, too.”
“It is sometimes a lot trickier to kind of be sweet and have, you know, the control and also have your voice sound like you want it to sound, 'cause every day and every time of the day is a little different.”
“The one thing about musician girls is they're used to being around guys all the time, so they're used to being like me, the only girl.”
“The more life stories you have together, the more you have to say on stage.”