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LP: If I get into like a zone, then it can take a couple of weeks. Sometimes, like the last
one I did. I started it, did half and then I had like a month of not doing anything, and

then I suddenly came back and finished it. So it depends if I've got the time and how
I'm feeling. It's the same with the music. I don't sit and play every day, but suddenly
I'll just get an urge and sit down, and I'll just play.

BiTS: Have you ever visited the Delta?

LP: No, no. I think that would be one of the things I would like to do one day because
to go there and actually do it where this music came from. I think that's a bit of a

pilgrimage.

BiTS: I had the good fortune of making friends with some people that lived in
Clarksdale, and I went and spent two weeks living in Clarksdale, my wife and I, and

we toured around all over the place.

LP: Oh, that's great.

BiTS: Went to Parchman Farm Prison.

LP: Oh, Yep, yep.

BiTS: All of that kind of stuff.
Absolutely fabulous.

LP: Yes. I think one of those things I'd
love to do is take my guitar, go and
find Charlie Patton’s grave site and

then play a few of his songs to him.
Then say thank you and then go again.

BiTS: Where would you like to be in,

say, five years’ time? Are you planning
on doing the same thing, or are you

wanting to expand yourself a bit?

LP: Oh well, even if I stop gigs, even
if I don't play any festivals, if I don’t do

anything, I’ll still play this music. It’s
not something that I can stop, it's like
a part of me. So hopefully it'd be nice
to carry on playing and bringing this music to people that might not have heard it

before. I think that's the best thing. I’d like that. It’s not about wanting to be big or
being known by everyone, or whatever it might be because playing this kind of music

anyway, it's kind of strange doing that at a big festival. It's rather unnatural. It's nice
and it's fun and I love doing it, and having the feedback from the crowd is wonderful,
but it's a kind of unnatural thing that the places I like playing, is where I probably don't

need any amplifiers. It's a small place. People are there and they’re right in front of
you.