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Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield, Issaquena County, Mississippi, April 4, 1915 - Westmont, Illinois, April 30, 1983) was an American blues musician and is generally considered “the father of chicago blues.” His career spanned over thirty years and he produced what are considered to be some of the finest blues songs ever, such as Hoochie Coochie Man, Mannish Boy and Got My Mojo Working.
Muddy Waters is generally considered one of the most influential bluesmen of all time. His fondness for playing in mud earned him the nickname “Muddy” at an early age. He later changed it to “Muddy Water” and finally “Muddy Waters”.
Waters was born McKinley Morganfield in Issaquena County, Mississippi in 1913 (He later told people that he was born in 1915 in Rolling Fork, Mississippi; the reason for this remains unknown). His grandmother Della Grant raised him after his mother died in 1918. Waters started out on harmonica but by age seventeen he was playing the guitar at parties and “fish fries”, emulating two blues artists who were extremely popular in the south, Son House and Robert Johnson. “His thick heavy voice, the dark coloration of his tone and his firm almost solid personality were all clearly derived from House,” wrote Peter Guralnick in Feel Like Going Home, but the embellishments which he added, the imaginative slide technique and more agile rhythms, were closer to Johnson.”
In 1940 Waters moved to St. Louis before playing with Silas Green a year later and returning back to Mississippi.
Hoochie Coochie Man, Mannish Boy and Got My Mojo Working. Muddy Waters is generally considered one of the most influential bluesmen of all time. His fondness for playing in mud earned him the nickname “Muddy” at an early age. He later changed it to “Muddy Water” and finally “Muddy Waters”.
Waters was born McKinley Morganfield in Issaquena County, Mississippi in 1913 (He later told people that he was born in 1915 in Rolling Fork, Mississippi; the reason for this remains unknown). His grandmother Della Grant raised him after his mother died in 1918. Waters started out on harmonica but by age seventeen he was playing the guitar at parties and “fish fries”, emulating two blues artists who were extremely popular in the south, Son House and Robert Johnson. “His thick heavy voice, the dark coloration of his tone and his firm almost solid personality were all clearly derived from House,” wrote Peter Guralnick in Feel Like Going Home, but the embellishments which he added, the imaginative slide technique and more agile rhythms, were closer to Johnson.”
In 1940 Waters moved to St. Louis before playing with Silas Green a year later and returning back to Mississippi.
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pmrpr wrote:
Nah, electricity had a baby and they named that baby Muddy Waters...
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Muddy Waters invented electricity. [3]
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evrythan gone be alright this mowninnnn
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he is the great manblues
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He is the man.
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Damn, I feel so manly listening to this. hahaha
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Do caralho.
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Hello, I've made an analysis over blues last.fm groups, and 6 artists (from >140) are characteristic: Muddy Waters is leading this week the list. What do you think of the results? http://www.last.fm/user/blues_and_more/journal
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Sweetheartnoemi wrote:
Quality as you rarely hear it ! If the afterlife is about a certain swing of electrons I hope mines will join his from time to time!
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I love you pops
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Great songs!
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got my mojo working !
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marlino2005 wrote:
Einzigartig ist sein unverkennbarer Gesangs-Stil....
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Mogguy wrote:
Funny! Vote, please! http://www.last.fm/music/Muddy+Waters/+images/60323953
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Mogguy wrote:
Such a warm voice!
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