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SG: There are plenty of artists doing your material on the radio right now.

BD: There are plenty of people doing my stuff that are butchering my music. I get into an argument with my manager and I told him “I don’t understand it, I can’t get away with my own shit. Maybe it’s that I’m playing the stuff too clean, too professionally, and too good,” But I’m in the crossfire because if I had remained as I was twenty years ago everybody would say “Oh that cat ain’t evolved or nothing, he’s in a rut.”

SG: What about the discrepancies I’ve found in previous articles written about you?

BD: There’s a whole bunch of lies that go behind me. People don’t know what my potentials are. They think I’m just Chinka Chink Chinka Chink Chink, that type of thing. That’s supposed to be the limit of my things. No, I happen to be a classical musician. I done forgot more than these guys writing this stuff up that don’t search and find the right sound.

SG: Most of them are over-produced. I’ve seen you make up songs on stage.

BD: That’s right, that’s one of my things.

SG: What do you think about the revitalized interest in Rhythm and Blues?

BD: I was playing Disco before Disco came out and people didn’t know what the hell I was doing then. So I backed off it and backed up to something, rather than to go try to go back to Muddy Waters. I had to stick with my own stylin’, I knew where I wanted to go. I didn’t know if I was going to make it, but I didn’t want to be another Muddy Waters. There’s one Muddy Waters and that’s enough. I’m not imitating anybody. If I imitate some kind of music, like this punk rock song I do, I do it as a gimmick. I’d be cracking up on stage the whole time because it’s funny. I’m waiting to catch a film of me doing this stuff cause I want to see how stupid I look!

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