Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.
I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.
Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.
It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
Turn on, tune up, rock out.
Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.