There is something we learn from Cadillac Records. Leonard Chess came from poverty and isn't great with money, but had very smart business sense to develop Chess Records with undiscovered talent. By redistributing the income of whoever is hot among Chess's "family" members, the point is not lost on any of them that Chess is the boss, that Chess decides who plays when and even how to play. ...Muddy Waters would soon find out how beholden he became to Chess's arrangements because he was always borrowing against future royalties. We can expect some division of labor in business partnerships to focus on what one does best, but free spending Muddy Waters would find himself having to ask Leonard Chess for money whenever he needed something. The same was true for Little Walter, even to the point that Little Walter called Chess his white daddy. Chess pays his musicians with brand new Cadillacs, much of their money is advances on royalties, houses made of straw. When he needed a car, to treat his wife and companions, when his wife wanted to get a house, he would have to borrow on royalties from Chess. [Chess takes care of it.] Chuck Berry and Howlin' Wolf would manage their money much differently. Chuck saved money while others threw it away on vice, and wouldn't spend a dime on segregated hotels or restaurants, eating sandwiches instead and sleeping in his Cadillac. When Howlin' Wolf arrives in Chicago at Chess Records from Mississippi in his banged up pickup truck, Muddy and <b>...</b>