“Like the rhythm that is the blues risen up from the muddy Mississisip’ in the spirit of Robert Johnson, pickin up some slide with Son House, electrified by the Wolf and Elmo James, breaking down racial barriers with B’s and Otis’s music and gender barriers by the likes of Sister Rosetta, lighting a fire under soul music like the Stax horn section, taken over the top by Stevie Ray and gone zero gravity with Bruno Mars.” - Tim Arnold