CHARLEY PATTON

"I'm going away to a world unknown"

LUCILLE BOGAN

"I got somethin' between my legs'll make a dead man come."

SON HOUSE

"I woke up this morning, feelin' 'round for my shoes"

MISSISSIPPI FRED MCDOWELL

"You may be high, you may be low
You may be rich, child, you may be poor"

BIG BOY CRUDUP

"That's all right, mama,
Just anyway you do."

TOMMY MC CLENNAN

"Now, the men don't like it,
But the women sure do"

BUKKA WHITE

"I ain't no monkey, but I sure know how to climb a tree"

HOWLIN WOLF

"Oh, don't you hear me cryin'?"

ROBERT JOHNSON

"The blues is a low-down shakin' chill,
Yes, it's a low-down shakin' chill."

LIGHTNIN HOPKINS

"Don't call my name
Got me way down here wearin' a ball and chain"

MUDDY WATERS

"You can't spend what you ain't got"

WILLIE DIXON

"I got a black cat bone, I got a mojo too."

ROSSETTA THARPE

"I don't want no short, fat man."

JOHN LEE HOOKER

"You know, I drink a little whiskey, just to keep my heart from breakin'."

HOUND DOG TAYLOR

"I'm gonna tell you one thing, baby, you ain't gonna dog me around."

ALBERT KING

"If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have no luck at all."

B.B.KING

"I'm free now, baby, I'm free from your spell."

CHUCK BERRY

"…Who never ever learned to read or write so well
But he could play a guitar just like a-ringin' a bell"

FREDDIE KING

"I’m a gambling man, and I can’t stop."

JAMES COTTON

"If you want to make a little money, baby,
You got to shake your moneymaker."

JIMI HENDRIX

"If I don’t see you no more in this world."

KEITH RICHARDS

"When your spine is cracking and your hands, they shake
Heart is bursting and your butt's gonna break"

JOHNNY WINTER

"Well you're always tellin' people, I drink too much,
But everything I get a bottle you add your little touch"

ERIC CLAPTON

"I'm gonna keep on rocking, no matter if it's fast or slow."

TOM WAITS

"My Daddy told me, lookin back
The best friend you'll have is a railroad track"