David Bromberg on Mick Jagger, folksinger, 1990

My favorite folksinger today, the guy who's most in the blues/folk tradition, who does it best, is Mick Jagger. If you think about it, there's a direct line from Charlie Patton to Mick Jagger. Mick Jagger has recorded quite a few Robert Johnson tunes, two or three anyhow. They don't sound the way they did when Robert Johnson did them, but he did the same thing with them that Robert Johnson did: he took the song and adopted it and made it his own.