He's currently touring the US with his Copper Bottom Band in support of second album Didn't It Rain. But his thoughts often return to a moment in his childhood when he heard Willie Dixon on BBC radio.

Laurie tells OC Register: "It was like I had been hit by lightning - it was like an electrical shock. I'm still quivering from it even now and I think I always will. I knew at the age of 7 or 8, whatever it was, that it was the music I was going to love all of my life."