Muddy Waters – Discography or real blues
Muddy Waters was considered one of the best American blues artist. Recognizable by old blues style influenced by Robert Jonson mostly. He lived as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta, where he learned to play an acoustic guitar. He went to Chicago in 1943 where he assembled and established the band and electric blues sound.
Muddy Waters was born as McKinley A. Morganfield on April 4, 1913 in Issaquena County, Mississippi known as Jug’s Corner in Sharkey county, a small place called Rolling Fork that was on the train tracks. Muddy like to say Rolling Fork as his home. The area, near the Mississippi River, was wet, and his grandmother nicknamed him (Muddy) because of the mud puddles in which he played. He started playing music on a harmonica since he was five years old. He beat on a kerosene can, then squeezed an old accordion around his grandmother’s house, and fooled with the limited sounds of a jew’s harp. The guitar was popular, and he bought his first around 1930. Muddy always had a strong voice and later he becomes real good musician.
Widely considered to be one of the most important figures after World War II Chicago blues with a tone of old Delta blues. Like most blues musicians his recordings were released as two-song singles until the 1960s (in those time that was normal), when his record company began focusing on long-playing albums. His most celebrated recordings from early in his career are played on various collections and anthologies, often with significant overlap and duplication.
Some of recorder albums and LP s are listed below:
- Muddy Waters - Blues Sky ( 1992)
- Muddy Waters - Trouble No More -- Singles 1955-1959 (1989)
- Muddy Waters - Rollin' Stone ( compilation) (1984)
- Muddy Waters - Rare And Unissued (1984)
- Wolf, Howlin' - The Super Blues Band (1984)
- Muddy Waters - King Bee (1978)
- Muddy Waters - Hard Again (1977)
- Muddy Waters - Muddy 'Mississippi' Waters Live (1979)
- Muddy Waters - Back in the Early Days (1971)
- Muddy Waters - McKinley Morganfield a.k.a Muddy Waters (1971)
- Muddy Waters - After The Rain (1969)
- Muddy Waters - Fathers and Sons (1969)
- Muddy Waters - The Real Folk Blues (1966)
- Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters at Newport (1960)
Muddy Waters as guest recordings:
- Band, The - The Last Waltz (1978)
- Spann, Otis - The Blues Never Die! (1965)
- Thornton, Big Mama - Big Mama Thornton With The Muddy Water (1968)
- Wells, Junior - Blues Hit Big Town (1977)
- Williamson, Sonny Boy - One Way Out (1984)
- Winter, Johnny - Nothin' But The Blues (1977)
- Blues, The - A Real Summit Meeting (1973)
Muddy’s classic band lineup was was in 1951, with Elgin Evans replacing Foster on the drums, and by the addition of Otis Spann on piano. These five players defined the blues and rock and roll band template, and created many of the licks that are still emulated and repeated by bands around the world. The whole band didn’t get to record together until 1953. Leonard Chess was enjoying success with smaller combos and didn’t want to change a good thing. Between 1951 and 1956, Muddy had fourteen songs on the national charts, including “Still A Fool,” “Hoochie Coochie Man,” “Just Make Love To Me,” “I’m Ready,” and “Mannish Boy.”
Playing in Muddy’s band proved a springboard to a solo career for many of his sidemen. Both Jimmy Rogers and Little Walter became stars in the 1950s. Later, Otis Spann, James Cotton, Paul Oscher, Luther “Georgia Boy” “(Creepin’) Snake” Johnson, Luther “Guitar Jr.” Johnson, Jerry Portnoy, Bob Margolin, and Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, among others, enjoyed careers of their own.
Legacy
In Chicago, a stretch of 43rd Street has been renamed Muddy Waters Drive. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, and given the Record Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992. A guitar has been made from a plank off his Stovall cabin, and the cabin itself has been dismantled, sent on a tour, and then placed in the Clarksdale Blues Museum.
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