Jambase.com: Buddy Guy: Blues is Blood...

Writer Martin Halo turns in a great interview with blues legend Buddy Guy. Definitely worth reading. Here's Guy's response to an inquiry Halo made about Skip James:

"Skip James and all of those guys taught Muddy Waters. That's what Muddy was listening to. My thing was B.B. King, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, and Howlin' Wolf. It wasn't until after I came to Chicago that I sort of went to school and found Skip James, Son House and all of those great players that Muddy had listened to.

"I got a chance to meet them before they died in the '60s because this guy by the name of Dick Waterman went down to Mississippi and found all of them. They were still living when this thing called the British Invasion came. They were still in Mississippi doing the Saturday Night Fish Fries. Dick Waterman was in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when he started bringing these guys up. They came and found me at a time when I was playing with Junior Wells and we'd just made a record. Junior was on the road when they came and found me. I was driving a tow truck. It was from there that I got a chance to go out and play with the late Son House. I did a couple of acoustic gigs with Skip James."

Click here to read my 2005 interview with the blues legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.