Keith Richards Talks About The Chicago #Blues Legends

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Keith: #muddywaters is my man. He’s the guy I listened to. Maybe I just picked it up off of him. I recognized it. It was just the same as my drive. I felt an immediate affinity when I heard Muddy go [picks up guitar and plays the opening lick from "Rollin' Stone"]. You can’t be harder than that, man. He said it all right there. So all I want to do is be able to do that.
Meeting Howlin' Wolf is like meeting a great big old bull elephant that knew it all. He would just sort of wisely nod his head: “Very good.” To me, at that age, it was overpowering. And he was such a big guy, and gentle. The strong guys are gentle, always. It’s only weak guys that come on strong. These guys were so kind to us, and this was no sucking-up sort of thing. It wasn’t until two or three years later when they’d all had hit records again, maybe thanks to the Beatles and us. Then we did our gig. But this was even before they had any real need to be that way. There was no payback involved. They were just gentle from the start, like Muddy on the ladder, Howlin’ Wolf. They were always the sweetest. Willie Dixon was another one – encouragement from the start. And we were some snotty-nose little kids from London, taking over their turf, but that’s what being a man is all about. Willie, man, what a guy. It was a pleasure for us to do his songs.
From Jas Obrecht 's interview Talking Blues With #keithrichards #shorts #rollingstones