Stanley Booth quotes Lightnin' Hopkins as saying:
"The blues is a lot like church. When a preacher's up there preaching the Bible,
he's honest-to-God trying to get you to understand these things.
Well, singing the blues is the same thing."
you can put "the 81 renditions of Time Is On My Side" in there in place of "the blues":
the way that great roaring full-grown extra-strength whoa-nelly rock & roller up there
really honest-to-God wants to get us to hear how rich and beautiful this piece of music is -
that takes my breath away, that does.
"What do you want - what?!"
- Keith