This is the Statt Mann Baby!!  Time to Scatt a little bit.

I talked with Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top at SEMA this week.

He’s written a great book – Billy F Gibbons – combining his love of cars and music and people.

He told me a great story about one of my favorite ZZ Top songs: My Head’s in Mississippi, a Delta blues tribute.

He said the guitar used on the song came from wood debris in the cabin where Muddy Waters grew up on a plantation outside Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Now here’s the catch that put a twinkle in Billy G’s eye.

He said Muddy Waters’ grandson is a stock broker in Chicago now.

And one of his employees is the grandson of the man who owned that plantation where Muddy grew up.  Think about that for a minute!

I still think Muddy Waters was given the greatest name ever at birth: McKinley Morganfield. 

There’s more dignity in that name than any Royal could ever hope for.

Mac and Billy G… two heads in Mississippi.

Peace…