Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick and some of that stuff was made on wire not even tape let alone digital.
Throughout my whole life as a performer I've never played with a band. I've always played alone so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.
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When I was producing on my own I was doing it in order to – in a very patriarchal entertainment industry let alone planet – very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself if nothing else that I could do it as a woman.