WHY DADDY PLAYS THE BLUES is about a guy named "DADDY", a successful, middle-aged white guy taking fingerstyle blues guitar lessons from HOWARD, a wheelchair-bound 30-something African American man. Daddy discovers that he has major life lessons to learn from this teacher. Daddy's PRIDE fueled by the karma of business, money, and economics, has put Howard in the wheelchair.

The finger-style blues song they are working with is "C.C.Rider" by Robert Johnson Jr.