The need for masks seems to be universal, around the globe and throughout time. It's not a dead thing.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. -Jim Bishop.

(The sequel) would span its own time period. You wouldn't have to see the first one to get it.

It was a matter of being in the right place at the right time with the right stuff. There was this great big huge body of music, the blues, and this great big potential audience in the United States for this non-white music. The Butterfield Band was there to deliver it. People will accept something from somebody who looks more like them. It's a sad but true fact. We weren't playing it as well as our idols, Muddy [Waters] and Wolf.

There's no reason to believe it's anything other than a missing person/runaway at this time.

The No. 1 reason people call is they don't have time.