Odd isn't it .... those old delta guys from way back, whose music we love and try to replicate played cheap very low end guitars, with old strings. That's all they could afford. The kind of guitars Krinkle now calls, with much disdain, monkey junk. . ... and now days we try replicating their music on the expensive instruments. That's what we feel we must have. But I think we are missing something. All in all that old delta music sounds much better, more authentic, much sweeter on cheap, rattly "monkey junk".