Sheila A. Donovan exactly, it’s not only music but food as well. But these are all gifts, and the real people among us want to share their cultures, they’re pleased we appreciate, borrow and adapt it. I don’t pretend to be a blues musician, I take what I hear in the blues and mold it to my own life and experience. I don’t copy, imitate or steal, I listen and absorb, it’s a part of me and there’s nothing dishonest about putting it out there.

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