[discostu]

A lot of it probably depended on where you were, in Chicago the old blues stuff was still pretty popular, but Phil Chess owned a lot of that music and owned a radio station so it could have been manufactured popularity. Also there's the mentality, I remember an interview with Keith Richards (The Stones actually did a lot of Chuck Berry covers in the early years) where he said they were really scared to be putting that stuff on an album because they didn't think it sounded half as good as Chuck and they didn't want to piss him off. So I kind of wonder who was doing these numbers for fun but never gave them to the fans.

[gcruse]

I'm sure location had a lot to do with it. We were in Virginia and North Carolina playing at Nag's Head, Elizabeth City roller rinks, and WGAI radio in EC for the young crowd who only wanted to hear current pop. We also played for local clubs that had older folks for patrons, plus WTID in Norfolk, a country station; that's where the C&W was necessary. Our audiences wouldn't have been nearly as sophisticated as Chicago's.