The audio track was recorded in Chicago in 1949 and features Johnny Jones on piano, Tampa Red on guitar, Leroy Foster on drums and, of course, Muddy on guitar and vocals. It's my favorite track so far on the 4-CD Proper box set ??King Of the Chicago Blues??.The video is Muddy live, late in life (1976) singing ??Mannish Boy (AKA I'm A Man)?? onstage with Robbie Robertson on guitar and Paul Butte...
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One of the greats, **Muddy Waters**.This man was a giant in the Folk & Blues world. From the Mississippi Mud to the grandest theaters in the land, McKinley Morgenfield experienced all of it. A man of legendary prowess and vociferous appetites who always conducted himself with the grace & dignity of royalty. Many of his songs were "interpreted" by the blues revivalists of the late sixties, often...
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The celebrated "British Blues Revival" of the mid to late sixties spelled hard times for true blues Titans. We were all convinced that "the blues" was extended guitar solos and neon clothing. Alexis Korner, John Mayall, and others nurtured up and comers in the music, the structure of the blues, but really.....these kids didn't know from The Blues. Oh, they knew the records, they knew the songs...
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The last two months have been dark in more ways than one. Dudley's death added an under- (and sometimes over-)current of sadness to every day and lonely night. I was better during the week, working away from home but couldn't help breaking down every weekend when home.I resisted getting another bulldog until "it was time", though my wife wanted to try to end the mourning immediately. It's time!...
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It always raises a smile to think that so much psychedelic music was just blues played at jet-age volume with lashings of feedback and distortion. What a great idea! All those guys had already been playing the tunes for ages in their “folk years”, before The Beatles and The Stones made them realise it always sounds better on a louder guitar, but they had ample opportunities during the psychede
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Saw Shine A Light this weekend. Pretty good show, and definitely worth the extra couple dollars to see it at the IMAX. This was my favorite song by far:
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This is a classic recording of the great blues man’s “Hoochie Coochie Man” off a cool album, The Lost Tapes. If you’re not familiar with Muddy Waters and and blues, this is a great one to get started. And if you are, you may not have heard this recording before. Dig it.
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1. Rosie & the Originals, "Angel Baby." The video link is to a scene from one of my very favorite movies, My Family, Mi Familia. Subbing for Rosie in the film is Jeanette Jurado from Exposé.2. Duane Eddy, "Because They're Young." The video link here is classic, the trailer for the movie from which this song comes. That movie was Dick Clark's first ... yes, that Dick Clark.3. Brook Benton and Di..
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I've seen a bunch of ads for this flick recently and it is one movie I'm REALLY psyched to see. It tells the story of Chess records and the rise of many of the biggest icons in music. The movie highlights the careers of Muddy Waters, Etta James, Chuck Berry and countless other artists who have shaped the sounds we listen to today.The impact they had on music is probably bigger than any other st...
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Those of us in sales, can attest...when we have a great day - you feel like this. But even if you're not feelin' it tonight, enjoy the smoove sounds of this incredible line-up:Muddy WatersOtis Spann on KeysWillie Dixon on Stand Up BassSonny Boy Williamson on the HarmonicaMatt Murphy on the GuitarThis represents the absolute pinnacle of the Chicago Blues...
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By that I just mean I've learned a lot of great harmonica rifts from Muddy Waters.
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I almost forgot about this pearl of a lyric. It's one of those gems that I hope I don't ever forget. But if I do and I hear it again, I'm sure I'll love it once more.At the Steve Miller concert they sang an old Muddy Waters song that I never heard before but just loved the name. It was during Steve's Blues jam out with Delbert and Johnny Lang.I Love the Life I Live and Live the Life I LoveWh...
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I've notice afew postings over the last week or so, with a blue kinda theme. I thought I'd start off with a nice blue pic, and a cool Muddy tag. Who loves BLUE(s)? Lets me see/hear what ya got..........
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Happy birthday to the Godfather of the blues Mr. Muddy Waters, he was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi in 1915. According to Muddy his grandmother gave him the nickname of Muddy Waters because he liked to play in the muddy creek near his house. He learned to play the blues by listening to other Mississippi Delta blues musicians such as Son House and Robert Johnson. He worked on the farm and...
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