Well this is interesting. When they were young, it was all about the music, and the roller coaster ride of populatity. Then along came Lennon/McCartney and other '60's groups who were coasting along, with stupendous success , on the tracks that Chuck and Johnnie and Fats Domino and others had laid down for them.

It was all magic, back in the day, a magical mystery tour that started in the Mississippi delta and down in the bayous of Louisiana, (both of which are places that hosted my childhood and teen years)

But my theory is that, when the good ole boys got old, as I am now and can understand these nuances, they probably had younger family members . . . wives, children, brothers, sisters, who were thinking in terms of--not musical expression and virtuosity--but copyrights and royalties and--dare I say it-- money.

(Pshaw! Shut yo'. mouth, boy! ) my deep-south identity says to me. I mean, the Beatles, who benefited greatly from Chuck and the good ole boys from down in the delta--had the chutzpah to write a song about it:

"Money--give me money--that's what I want!"

But not really.

When you get back to the heart and soul of it, in the early days, these bold musicians were just making music that flowed through their souls--and hearts and hands and fingers--like the Mississippi Rive flows through the Delta, past New Orleans and down to the Gulf of Mexico.

Thanks, Daniel, for another trip down memory lane with the pioneers of 20th-century music. Keep up the good work.