He's ripped off what I like for as long as I can remember - he started with Right Said Fred and Eminem, moved on to Korn and Judas Priest, then Guns & Roses, Mötley Crüe, that whole LA Glam scene before discovering classic Blues and Bluegrass. So there he is now in an urban hub like Berlin writing archaic Blues. And I sometimes say to him in jest, you know, you're 19, white, live in Berlin and this is 2014 - not the Mississippi Delta in 1925 - you're not even sight-impaired, "Blind Leon Hornung"!
Forgive me, but I sometimes wonder - though he is gifted and an intuitive musician - about the professional aspects of a young Blues musician in modern day Berlin. He's on such a retro trip, he's even bought himself a record player and flea market old Blues records!