Cadillac Records Page #3

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There you go.

- Can we afford this?

- Don't worry about it. It's classy.

Thank you.

I tell you, that's a whole lot of ocean.

Take a hell of a lot to get me to cross it.

How come you didn't stay your ass

in Poland?

How come you didn't stay your ass

in Mississippi?

Len knew the only way

to make it big was radio.

And that meant taking

Muddy back down South.

- Thank you very much.

- The man don't need no more Scotch.

I got a hell of a mortgage.

Sh*t.

Yeah, I got one of those.

I tell you what.

Throw this record on the table.

It pays off everybody's.

Leonard...

If people buy Muddy's record,

I got to make more.

Then I'm into you every month.

Yeah, but I got to be fair, you know.

I know you got to be fair.

The motherfuckers bring in the Glenfiddich

and the Johnnie Walker.

But you got to ask yourself,

do they really stand up

to Jackson and Grant?

I don't bribe deejays.

I do.

You realize he doesn't care

about your music.

It's just about the money with him.

Everybody, this is the newest race music

right out of Chicago.

You're on your own.

Now, in the South, whites and coloreds

didn't ride around in the same car

unless the colored man was chauffeuring.

F*** Mississippi police.

You got to bless them.

- All right, easy. Thank you.

- Hey, you gotta bless them.

- It's very good.

- Room service.

Well, hello.

- We heard you on the radio.

- Come on in.

No, he don't bite. And I don't either.

Play it, Daddy.

Yeah.

Don't rush it.

Don't step on it now.

That's Chicago's heartbeat.

Go on, now.

You've got such hair.

Play that for me, Daddy.

I lied to you, girl.

Yeah, I like that.

- Where you going? Don't leave us alone.

- I'll swing one over your way.

I'm married.

Yeah, and they ain't redhead.

That's bullshit.

Yeah, that's right. Come on, Daddy.

Come on back.

Preacher lay his Bible down.

We're coming straight to you

from down in the Delta

with Muddy Waters and his hit record.

That's right. Sunshine, how you doing?

I want to say a big hello, if I can,

to everybody down in Coahoma County.

They got a whole mess of bluesmen

working Mississippi fields.

When I was out there I used to sing...

Time don't get no better

Up the road I'm going

So, you know,

I want to thank old Len Chess here for

giving Muddy Water a chance to shine.

Does that mean you're staying

where you are?

Because I know some labels down here

who'd love to snap you up.

Well, they can try all they want to,

but I belong to the Chess family.

We're gonna play a little something

from Muddy Waters right now.

Lay it on me.

It was kind, what you said on the radio.

You know, starting a business together,

it is like starting a family.

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