Muddy Waters or Howlin' Wolf?

[ronzo]

Poll question: Muddy Waters or Howlin' Wolf?

[mr blur]

1. For what?

Muddy for the guitar and influence, the Wolf for the sheer power. But really, it's an impossible choice...

[BrotherBuzz]

2. Hmmm. I always choose the middle choice in a poll

I'll go with Son House...

[SiobhanClancy]

3. Son House...

excellent choice:)

[Friar]

13. I agree

even over Robert Johnson (who's a god to me). Son House was transcedent, or something.

[mitchum]

16. Son House wrote the fucking book...

Johnson really wouldn't have known what to do without House's work.
Did you know that House is the one responsible for the whole Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil story? Honestly. House gave an interview in the 60s where he said the only way that Johnson could have developed into such a good player was through selling his soul to the devil. House didn't believe that Johnson had any innate ability (House was well-known for his disdain for his contemporaries- "Charlie Patton was just a clowning man with a guitar", etc) The whole soul-selling story was NEVER bandied about during Johnson's lifetime (or for decades following) Of course, the ironic thing is that House's putdown eventually became blurred into a central part of the Robert Johnson myth. Johnson was good, but he was no Son House (neither was anyone else)

[Friar]

15. Johnson was a bit better than "good"

Son House is his equal, yes, but don't discount what Johnson contributed. He was his own man and a genius.

It's like any stupid "Whose the Best yadda yadda yadda" question. Son House, Muddy Waters, Freddie King, there's so many...

Johnson was no Son House but neither was Son House Robert Johnson.

[mitchum]

17. Oh no, it wasn't meant like that...

I agree with you. Robert Johnson was way more than just good. I recognise and greatly appreciate Johnson's genius; both lyrical and technical (House was dead wrong about both), but I just get a kick out of House's insistence that he was (as long as he lived and breathed) the father master and owner of this music. And it's easy to hear how might have come to believe that.

[flamingyouth]

4. BOTH!

And all the time, please!

[jus_the_facts]

5. Muddy....heh...he is THE *Original* Lady's MAN!!

www.muddywaters.com
Baby Please Don't Go
Muddy Waters
Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go, down to New Orleans
You know I love you so

Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
I get you way'd out here, and let you walk alone

Turn your lamp down low
Turn your lamp down low
Turn your lamp down low
I beg you all night long, baby, please don't go

You brought me way down here
You brought me way down here
You brought me way down here
'bout to Rolling Forks, you treat me like a dog

Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go, back the New Orleans
I beg you all night long

Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
I get you way'd out here, and let you walk alone

You know your man down gone
You know your man down gone
You know your man down gone
To the country farm, with all the shackles on

by McKinley Morganfield a.k.a. Muddy Waters
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...most awesome cover ever...AC/DC~'74 Jailbreak version by the late great Bon Scott!! :evilgrin:

[NightTrain]

6. Why not just ask me which one of my testicles I like better?!

OK, I gave a slight nod to Wolf, because I love the ravaged quality of his voice. But both of those artists are tops in my book!

[Dr Fate]

7. Muddy- But John Lee Hooker is my favorite..

...I especially enjoy "House Rent Boogie" "Huckle-buck" "Burning Hell", etc...

[Whitacre D_WI]

8. Wolf.

Hands down. Never really been into the Chicago blues thing, more of a Delta man myself; but Wolf coulda hung with House and Johnson and McGhee and James et. al.

What a voice.

[King_Crimson]

9. Guess who I voted for...?

:bounce:

[ronzo]

10. Alright!

I've always been partial to Chester myself :toast:

[mitchum]

11. Howlin' Wolf was the greatest rock star ever!

Not just a bluesman. Listen to the sides he cut in the 50s. They outrock anyone.
He had it all:
the voice
the name
a genius guitarplayer (Hubert Sumlin)
the act

[Friar]

12. Both!

You can't make a choice like this. What were you thinking?

[ronzo]

14. You can listen to both at the same time...

The trick is finding songs that are in the same key. Even then it's kinda strange. Try it. :7