“Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when I started to listen to music on my own it was around the time of the birth of rock and roll. Shortly thereafter I started to get into more blues and more traditional rootsy American music.” KidsCoursesParentMy OwnRocksBirthJazzTraditionalRock And RollListening To MusicAmerican Music Author:Jorma Kaukonen
“We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid...it had become apparent that there was some stuff I wanted to do that [would require me] to learn how to do that. So I wrote the song and used some of these chord formations so I would have to play them. I thought it would be a great teaching vehicle for a while, and it was, but it ended up as a performance song.” WritingPlayWould BeKidsWantedUsedSongStuffTeachingToughPerformancesSongwritingVehicleChordsFormationGreat Teaching Author:Jorma Kaukonen
