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stuff like that. But hopefully, with the label, we'll get together and maybe get an agent to sniff out
some gigs for us and better, well, not better, but bigger places.

BiTS: I must admit, and it's probably to my disadvantage, but I've never heard of Vince Converse.
What can you tell me about him?

BW: Vince was in a band when he was really young called Sunset Heights, which would have
been late ‘80s, early ‘90s. I think he was like 20 years old or so. Vince is from Houston. He's
currently living in Denver, I think, but he's a really good player, writer and singer, and he was

connected with Arnie
Arnie Goodman with John Mayall Goodman and his Blue
Storm thing, and I knew
Arnie through Mayall. Jim
knew him also through
George Thorogood and
they just decided to get us
all together, do a Texas
guitar thing. There’s so
many of those things that
are being done by other
Texas artists and stuff, and
I mean, we're not going
out saying we're any
better than anybody
because we know we're
not, but we're just happy
to go out and kind of
represent the genre a little bit with some pretty good tunes.

BiTS: It sounds to me that hidden behind what you're saying is that you still really love playing

and performing in public.
BW: Oh, sure, yeah.

BiTS: How's the health keeping up?

BW: Well, I'm doing pretty good. I'm a diabetic and I've got a little bit of neuropathy in my feet
and legs, but I'm doing okay.

BiTS: Good, that’s wonderful.

BW: I've gotten to where some of the time, well a lot of the time, I've got to sit down while I'm
playing, but I've gone out and bought like a drum throne only it's like a stool.

BiTS: Well, I saw B.B. King many times, about five or six times towards the end of his life, and he
was sitting down all the time, so there's a good precedent for sitting down.

BW: Yeah, he would. Well, you know, you get to a certain point, you just go, Come on, man. I
mean, I stood up for 50 years, you know what I mean? Anyway, I'm not going to let it bother me
too much. I can still play, you know?

BiTS: Do you do a lot of practice? Are you playing all the time or just every now and again?

BW: Well, if I have something coming up that I need to know a little more about or be a little
more familiar with, it’s like our Dr Wu band that we do with the Jim Ashworth and Bryan Freeze,