This place needs a thread about Muddy Waters

[Zomby Woof]

MUDDY WATERS
APRIL 4, 1915 - APRIL 30, 1983

Anyone who's followed the course of modern popular music is aware of the vast influence exerted on its development by the large numbers of blues artists who collectively shaped and defined the approach to amplified music in the late 1940s and early '50s. Chicago was the pivotal point for the development and dissemination of the modern blues and virtually everything else has flowed, in one way or another, from this rich source.

The revolution began inauspiciously enough in 1948 with the release of a 78-rpm single by a singer-guitarist called Muddy Waters. Coupled on Aristocrat 1305 were a pair of traditional Mississippi Delta-styled pieces "I Cant Be Satisfied" and "I Feel Like Going Home," and on them Waters' dark, majestic singing. Waters' use of amplification gave his guitar playing a new, powerful, striking edge and sonority that introduced to traditional music a sound its listeners found very exciting, comfortably familiar yet strangely compelling and, above all, immensely powerful, urgent.

http://www.muddywaters.com/bio.html

[GOPisEvil]

1. Who invented electricity?!

Muddy Waters! :D

[Zomby Woof]

2. McKinley Morganfield!

I need to crank up "The Same Thing" right NOW.

[BeyondGeography]

4. The live version from "Fathers and Sons"

is the best.

They're all great, wtf. Best male voice in all of blues (maybe in all of modern music). I love the guy.

[King_Crimson]

3. I couldn't agree more...

n/t

[mr_hat]

5. Yeah, but which one? There were like, eight Muddy Waterses.

[NightTrain]

14. Like hell! There was only ONE Muddy Waters, baby!

Perhaps you're thinking of the three different bluesmen who called themselves Sonny Boy Williamson? :shrug:

[Red_Storm]

6. Rare & Unissued is one of my favorites.......

Great blues on this album...... Smokestack Lightnin', Deep Down In My Heart are killer songs.....

[XanaDUer]

7. I agree...

Time for a break in the action...

[NicoleM]

8. "Long Distance Call"

is one of my favorite songs.

[Intelsucks]

9. "Folk Singer" is known the world over as being one of the greatest

audiophile recordings of all time. The recording is so good that you can hear chairs creaking, feet tapping, etc. If anyone had farted during that recording session, you'd probably be able to smell it during playback.;-)

[Zomby Woof]

10. a ZombyWaters Kick

[Zomby Woof]

11. I Can't Be Satisfied

[LastKnight]

12. if ever there was a father of blues...

it would be muddy waters, influenced buddy miles, jimi hendrix and others greats...

sure im into the modern heavy rock/metal scene... but, doesnt mean i dont aprecieate classic rock, blues, ect.

-LK

[NightTrain]

13. If you haven't already done so, drop whatever you're doing...

...and rush out to the nearest CD store to grab Muddy's "Chess Box" on MCA. That's an order, dammit!

I got 700 dollars...Don't you mess with me!!!

[Leftist78]

15. oh yeah

I think I'll listen to my copy of Newport just to get in the mood :)

[Kat45]

16. Love him. Saw him in concert twice.

The first time, he was headlining an outdoor blues concert out in Lenox, MA. Freddie King was also on the bill. It was a great show! The second time, he was opening for Eric Clapton.