Michael L. Castle on JMB's New Old Show

"I traveled around the country looking up many of my early idols. I hung out with Lightnin' Hopkins in his home in Houston, traveled down south with 9-String Big Joe Williams, was the "best lead boy I ever had" according to Sleepy John Estes, and spent time with Rev.Gary Davis in his home in Jamaica, Queens, NY. Otis Rush taught my first electric blues riffs, and I had the great good fortune to be in Chicago when I first started playing guitar, so I met and knew most of the great Chicago Bluesmen. Like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Junior Wells, Otis, and Robert Nighthawk. I learned a great deal from these folks and countless other lesser-known, and unknown musicians, and it was more than their music. I learned a way of life that has been my path ever since.Through my performances, lectures, and these days through my radio shows, I am trying to give back some of the rich experiences that I've been truly blessed to have had. So lets take a trip down some ghost highways and follow the threads of the most powerful cultural force in the world today: American Roots Music.!"