>> Teeny Tucker: you would not believe that I actually played every city in Germany.  Bonn, Dresden, Berlin, we played almost every city probably every city in Germany.  I'm going to Belgium in may, I'm going to play in Belgium.  But I did a six week or for alligator records, and they have liked a Chicago blues festival that goes overseas, and travel to like Sweden, Switzerland.  When you leave one place you're in another place, Italy, Paris.  We played at the meridian in Paris for like two weeks.  And I was the only female, with the Michael Burke band and a couple other bands.  So you know I've traveled quite a bit, I've done the Monterey blues festival will probably about six times.  People would love to get to play their one time.  Actually there doing a theme song this year, for the 25th anniversary, and they said they'd like me to do the song.  So I'm working on that too.  And then I was reading too that Jimi Hendrix played in Janis Joplin played, they both did a song, and they both played at the Monterey Bay blues festival.  And I didn't know the Jimi Hendrix called my dad one time, and asked him to write a song, I was like "Wow!" I just found that out about a month ago.

>> Interviewer: because you were reading something?

>> Teeny Tucker: I was reading something and then I was reading the, if you get a chance, look up the john Lennon juke box.  And John Lennon had a juke box that he had the top 40 songs that were his favorites.  And high heel sneakers was in there.

>> Interviewer: unbelievable.  That's your dad.  That's unbelievable.

>> Teeny Tucker: And I remember as a kid, my father, he didn't live with us.  He was constantly gone because he wanted, one thing you have to understand about the position, that I didn't really understand until I got older and started putting myself into it, but it's something inside you, you have to do it at all costs.  That means you have to put everything that happens around you or, I can't explain that, it's hard for you to understand that if you're not a real musician.  Because the music is your first love, no matter what.  And whoever loves you has to understand that, because the music you love, your spouse has to love to.  So musicians are special in a way, you know what I mean?  And my father, as I didn't understand then, I understand now.  He was really into his music, so that was something that we couldn't take away from him, I mean he wrote and he met all kinds of people.  I remember going visiting him every summer on the TWA Air flight.  And I would get on there.  And when he first and high heels sneakers, I was a little girl, and he bought his first convertible Cadillac, 1964.  And he came to my house in the Cadillac, and when he pulled up in front of the house, he had the song high heel sneakers blasting.  He says "Come on get in, I'll take you for a ride!" And they had the armrest in there, that's probably the first time they ever came up with the armrest.  I'm sitting on the armrest, and high heel sneakers is blank.  (Singing).  And then I'm like, " O, I like this!" And that's when I realized I love music.  It was something that I connected with right away.  It was like wow!  And out of all my brothers and sisters I'm the only one that does music.  And he used to have rehearsals at his house, and he had Bo diddley, yeah, if you look on my Facebook you'll see my dad and Bo diddley when they were younger together.  There's some pictures up.  Bo diddley and people like Louisiana red, and all them.  And they would practice at my dad's house.  And that like 830, I'm there visiting him during the summer, I'm sitting at the end of the organ and I'm thinking "Please don't make me go to bed, I want to hear some music too." Eight years old, and I'm thinking I've got to hear this.  How many eight year olds wanna listen to...  And I mean we couldn't afford a record player and all that fancy stuff.  So my mom bought me this radio, and I listened to that radio.  And people don't know, literacy comes in more than just reading I think these things help me to be able to read and write when I got older too.  Because I wasn't reading anything, but the things that were going on around me were more than anything you could ever read.  You know what I mean?  (Laughing).  And they use to let me stay up and they let me stay up and fall asleep under the organ. And I would feel this music inside me, like "O I love this music!" Eight years old.  What else about what you love, especially blues at eight years old.  I mean come on.  I realized at a very young age than I wanted to do this.  But we couldn't afford to send me to lessons or any of that kind of stuff, so you had to just learn it on your own.  But I could actually listen to a song, and put that song in my head, and sing it back just like it was.  The actual arrangement of it, the way it was arranged, the tone, everything, I could just feel it and I just knew.  That that was the way it goes, you know?  Not because I read it...  If the