King’s Grammy award-winning Blues Summit in 1994. Rooted in the music of Mississippi, and Louisiana Vasti Jackson recorded on B.B. Vasti Jackson and the Roots Gospel Voices of Mississippi So I’d heard the sitar on a Stevie Wonder song, and when I found out they’d made one into a guitar, I figured, “Well, I’m gonna try one,” and so I did.'īuddy Guy interview excerpted from You do everything you can to make the music something that people can get at. 'I’m always trying to do something with the blues to keep it alive. If you take a close look (and listen) Buddy is not playing a typical electric guitar in the song: You know, you take a person down to the skeleton, down the bones - you can’t tell if they were black or white.' I was on the bus talking with my producer and he said, 'Man, you write songs without even knowing it,' and he was noting down what we were talking about and when we got to the studio he came up with this song. And she said, 'Son, that’s only skin deep.' We didn’t have electricity, and she was combing her hair in the mirror - matter of fact, I speak to her onstage every night before I play this song - one afternoon when the sun was going down, and I peeped at her in the mirror and I said - I was just playing - 'Mama, you good-lookin’. 'Well, what happened was, I was between nine and 11 years old.

Buddy Guy talks about the inspiration behind 'Skin Deep:'

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