{"id":53547,"date":"2022-02-16T14:04:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/?p=53547"},"modified":"2024-03-18T12:17:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T17:17:11","slug":"muddy-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/muddy-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists That Changed Music: Muddy Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"produ-leaderboard-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;margin-bottom: 30px!important;\" id=\"produ-971158586\"><script async=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/securepubads.g.doubleclick.net\/tag\/js\/gpt.js\"><\/script>\n<script> var googletag = googletag || {}; googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || [];<\/script>\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-5893025199637-0\">\n  <script>\n\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tgoogletag.defineSlot( '\/21927241144\/728x90-Leaderboard', [728,90], 'gpt-ad-5893025199637-0' )\n\t\t.addService(googletag.pubads());\n\t\t\t\twindow.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers || {};\n\t\tconst timers                     = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers;\n\n\t\ttimers['gpt-ad-5893025199637-0'] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\tconst id = 'gpt-ad-5893025199637-0';\n\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t}, 1000 );\n\n\t\tif ( typeof window.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotRequested', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\ttimers[id] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}, 2500 );\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotResponseReceived', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] !== 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tif ( ! ev.slot.getResponseInformation() ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\twindow.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener = true;\n\t\t}\n\n\t\tgoogletag.enableServices();\n\t\tgoogletag.display( 'gpt-ad-5893025199637-0' );\n\t} );\n  <\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<p class=\"p1\">Muddy Waters is widely regarded as the most important blues artist of the second half of the 20th century. He was not only a prime exponent of the delta blues and the Father of electric and Chicago Blues, but he is also recognized as one of the founding fathers of rock and roll.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In an illustration of Waters\u2019 enormous influence, The Rolling Stones named themselves after a song by him, as did Rolling Stone magazine, and Bob Dylan referenced him with his classic song \u201cLike A Rolling Stone.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Waters was an amazing vocalist, with a passionate, yet relaxed, behind-the-beat delivery, and also a marvelous guitarist. Waters was a great acoustic player, but his wailing, screeching approach to the electric blues guitar, particularly when using a bottleneck, was the most influential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born in the 1910s, Waters was a contemporary of blues guitarists and singers like Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Son House, Lonnie Johnson, Willie Brown, Bessie Smith, who are all regarded as foundational to the genre. But unlike them, Waters was a late bloomer who came to prominence after the second world war, and lived long enough to enjoy house-hold name fame in the modern era.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">DEVIL\u2019S MUSIC<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">So who was Muddy Waters, what made him so great, and why did it take so long for him to achieve mainstream success? To start with the beginning, Waters was born as McKinley Morganfield, on April 4th, 1913, in Jugs\u2019 Corner in Issaquena County, close to Rolling Fork.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">McKinley was mostly raised by his grandmother, Della Grant.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 1920, Grant moved to the Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi. This location is noteworthy because Clarksdale calls itself the Birthplace of the Blues. Young McKinley\u2019s grandmother gave her grandson the nickname Muddy, because he loved playing in a rather muddy nearby creek. It is unclear whether she also give him the name Waters, because there also are reports that Muddy was given the additional nickname much later when he began performing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Despite objections from his grandmother, who considered blues \u2018devil\u2019s music,\u2019 Muddy began playing harmonica soon after they arrived at the Stovall Plantation. After a few years he was good enough to perform in the streets to earn extra money.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">When he was a teenager, Muddy saw Son House perform at a local juke joint, and later recalled that it was a life-changing moment. It resulted in him bought a Stella guitar for $2.50 dollars from Sears and Roebuck when he was 17. Practicing hard, Waters soon performed at juke joints around Clarksdale and at home. In addition to his plantation work he earned extra money with illegal activities like fur trapping and moonshining, ie distilling alcohol, in particular whiskey.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">LIFE-CHANGING<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In August 1941, Alan Lomax turned up at Waters\u2019 porch, saying that he wanted to record Waters. Lomax was an ethnomusicologist and musician, who later became legendary for the tens of thousands of field recordings of folk and blues music that he made over many decades, predominantly in America, but also in Europe.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 1941, Lomax was working at the Library of Congress and together with Fisk University music professor John Work had gone to Clarksdale on a mission to find black musicians to record the original spirit of black music. Waters used a Martin guitar owned by Lomax for the recordings, and tuned it to open G, his preferred tuning at the time. When Lomax played him the results back, it was life-changing moment. Waters realized that he sounded just as good as the blues players he\u2019d been listening to all his life.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lomax returned to Clarksdale in July, 1942 for more recordings with Waters. The material from these three sessions was released much later, in 1966, on Testament Records, on the album <i>Down On Stovall\u2019s Plantation, <\/i>and again in 1993 on Chess Records, with additional takes and added interviews with Waters, on <i>The Complete Plantation Recordings. <\/i>The recordings are very much in the acoustic delta blues style that was also pioneered by Robert Johnson,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">ICONIC<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Waters realized that making it as a musician required a move to a big city, and in 1943, he moved to Chicago, which had become the main urban center for blues in the US around that time. He arrived with a Silvertone acoustic guitar and a suitcase, and initially made ends meet as a truck driver and playing house parties and small clubs.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Waters had problems making himself heard, so soon after arriving he obtained an electric guitar. It allowed him to create a new approach to playing the guitar, in which he combined the influences from the founders of the blues with those of contemporary musicians. In so doing, Waters gave birth to the Chicago Blues sound, with the electric guitar center stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It did not take long for Waters to become one of the most prominent musicians in Chicago, and in 1946, he recorded some tracks for a new label called Aristocrat Records. He again recorded for the label in 1948, and two tracks, \u201cI Can&#8217;t Be Satisfied\u201d and \u201cI Feel Like Going Home,\u201d became a hit, placing the by now 35-year old Waters on the map as an up-and-coming blues artist.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 1950, the Aristocrats label transformed into Chess Records, and Waters first release on Chess, was a song that has since become iconic. He performed \u201cRollin\u2019 Stone,\u201d on his Gretsch Synchromatic, in the standard tuning that he was to use for the rest of his career.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Although \u201cRolling\u2019 Stone\u201d did not chart, it sold 70.000 copies, which was enough for Waters to quit his day job. Over time the song had enormous impact beyond the bluesman\u2019s career, as it was the song that The Rolling Stones named themselves after, and it provided the inspiration for Jimi Hendrix\u2019s \u201cCatfish Blues,\u201d which was his tribute to Waters. \u201cVoodoo Chile\u201d and \u201cVoodoo Child (Slight Return)\u201d were further developments of the song.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 1954 Chess Records released another of Waters\u2019 signature songs, \u201cI\u2019m Your Hoochie Coochie Man,\u201d a blues standard originally written by Willie Dixon. It was followed a year later by \u201cMannish Boy,\u201d which was based on Bo Diddley\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m A Man.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHoochie Coochie Man\u201d has also been performed by Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, BB King, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton and many others. Both \u201cHooochie Coochie Man and \u201cMannish Boy\u201d were included in the list of 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, and in the Rolling Stone magazine list of \u201c500 Greatest Songs of All Time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">PROTOTYPE ROCK \u2018N ROLL<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As the fifties wore on, Waters switched to a 1952 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop with P-90 pickups as his main guitar. For his recording sessions he was also often accompanied by his live band, named The Headhunters, which has been called, \u201cthe prototypical rock band.\u201d Many of its members went on to have stellar careers of their own.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">By the end of the fifties, Waters toured England, together with pianist Otis Spann. He arrived armed with his 1957 red Fender Telecaster, while English blues audiences expected him to play traditional delta blues on an acoustic guitar. The opening night in Leeds was a disaster, with headlines like \u201cScreaming Guitar and Howling Piano\u201d and \u201ccoarse and repetitive.\u201d Waters and Spann turned the volume down for the rest of the tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Waters nonetheless left a lasting impression that filtered through on many levels of the English music scene, including to teenage school boys with names like Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend, Eric Burdon, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Peter Green and in Northern Ireland Van Morrison. They all spent a lot of their time listening to obscure blues records, with particularly <i>The Best of Muddy Waters<\/i> in high demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On his return to Chicago, Waters recorded his first proper studio album, <i>Muddy Waters Sings \u201cBig Bill,<\/i>\u201d in 1959. It was released in June 1960 as one of the first albums in stereo. A month later, on July 3<span class=\"s1\"><sup>rd<\/sup><\/span>, 1960, Waters and his band performed at the Newport Jazz Festival.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The live album, <i>At Newport 1960<\/i>, was very influential with budding blues and rock musicians at the time, particularly in the UK, and is regarded as one of the most indispensable blues records of all time. It has been listed among the \u201c100 Essential albums of the 20<span class=\"s1\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span> Century.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">CONTROVERSIAL<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For the remainder of the sixties, Waters was involved in a wide variety of projects, in different styles and with different musicians. First off was the album <i>Folk Singer, <\/i>released in 1964. In a nod to the folk music revival that reached its peak in the mid-1960s, it was entirely acoustic, with Waters playing a 1959 Martin 000-18E. It is regarded as one of Waters\u2019 best.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Brass and the Blues, <\/i>from 1966, was an attempt to go for a popular, modern sound, with the addition of brass and organ and a move away from blues. However, it was critically panned. In 1967, Waters cut an album with blues superstars like Bo Diddley and Buddy Guy, called <i>Super Blues, <\/i>and a year later the exercise was repeated with <i>The Super Blues Band,<\/i> featuring Howlin\u2019 Wolf.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">By this point Waters was also playing a Gibson SG Junior, and he was sometimes seen with a 1963 Guild Thunderbird S-200 and a 1966 S-200, which were the result of an endorsement deal he with Guild. However, his 1957 red Telecaster, which he nicknamed \u2018The Hoss,\u2019 remained his main guitar. He fitted it with Gibson medium gauge strings, 0.12-0.56.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Waters\u2019 next solo album, <i>Electric Mud, <\/i>released in 1968, is his most controversial, as Chess Records supposedly tried to cash in on Waters\u2019 stellar reputation among young rock musicians. Waters was 53 when the album was made, and the distorted, psychedelic vibe might have sounded OK to those steeped in the hippie culture of the day, but for everyone else it seemed the wrong fit. Waters himself later called it \u201cdogshit.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">However, <i>Electric Mud <\/i>sold well, and it was Waters\u2019 first to end up in the mainstream charts. Over time its reputation has grown. Jimi Hendrix reportedly played one of the tracks before going on stage, as a source of inspiration, John Paul Jones has said that the album inspired the riff for Led Zeppelin\u2019s \u201cBlack Dog,\u201d and rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy is a huge fan, saying that it had a major impact on early hip-hop.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Waters himself almost certainly initially had positive feelings about <i>Electric Mud<\/i>, because he went into the studio again a year later with largely the same musicians and producers to record <i>After The Rain<\/i>. Released in 1969, it is less distorted and psychedelic, and far less controversial.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Chess continued trying to connect Waters with a younger audience for his next album, also released in 1969, <i>Father and Sons, <\/i>which contained both live and studio material<i>. <\/i>Featuring ace guitarist Michael Bloomfield, top harmonica player Paul Butterfield, bass legend Donald Dunn, it is a return to a more traditional blues approach, and became Waters\u2019 best-selling album, reaching to number 70 on the Billboard charts.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">ESSENTIAL RECORDINGS<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Waters\u2019 first release in the 1970s was a compilation album, <i>They Call Me Muddy Waters, <\/i>for which he received his first Grammy, in the Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording category. All his six Grammy Awards were in this category. 1971 saw the release of a well-received live album with Waters\u2019 live band, <i>Live at Mr Kelly\u2019s<\/i>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>RELATED:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/the-5-best-blues-harmonica-choices\/\">The 5 Best Blues Harmonica Choices [2024 Guide]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">At the end of the year, Waters travelled to England to record an album with several famous musicians, among them<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>guitarist Rory Gallagher, keyboardists George Fame and Steve Winwood, and Jimi Hendrix\u2019 former drummer Mitch Mitchell. The result, <i>The London Muddy Water Sessions, <\/i>has been called \u201ctepid\u201d but the album nevertheless won him his second Grammy Award.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Waters recorded three more studio albums for Chess, <i>Can\u2019t Get No Grindin\u2019 <\/i>(1973), <i>Unk in Funk <\/i>(1974), and <i>The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album. <\/i>The latter featured keyboardist Garth Hudson and drummer Levon Helm from The Band, as well as Paul Butterfield, and members of Waters own band. Released in 1975, it earned Waters his third Grammy. A year later Waters appeared on stage with The Band at their famous <i>The Last Waltz <\/i>concert, which was immortalized by Martin Scorsese in the feature film of the same name.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Waters\u2019 last three solo albums and a live album appeared on the Blue Sky label, and were all produced by star guitarist Johnny Winter. The first album, <i>Hard Again<\/i>, is widely regarded as a triumph, and an essential recording. Released in 1977, it earned him his fourth Grammy. Waters and Winter redid the entire exercise on <i>I\u2019m Ready, <\/i>which was released in 1978, again well-received and also earned a Grammy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A recording of the live tour promoting <i>Hard Again <\/i>called <i>Muddy &#8220;Mississippi&#8221; Waters \u2013 Live, <\/i>was released in 1979 and resulted in Waters\u2019 sixth Grammy. The third studio album Waters recorded with Winters, <i>King Bee, <\/i>was released in 1980, and less successful, as Waters\u2019 health had begun to deteriorate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">INFLUENCE<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Waters was inducted in the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1980 and in 1981 performed at the Checkerboard Lounge blues club in Chicago, with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood. Waters had already been on tour with Eric Clapton in 1979, and the blues man\u2019s last public performance took place on June 30<span class=\"s1\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span>, 1982, when he sat in with Eric Clapton\u2019s band during a concert in Florida.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Muddy Waters died from cancer-related heart-failure on April 30<span class=\"s1\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span>, 1983, at his home in Westmont, Illinois. He was 70 years old. He was buried in Restvale Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois on May 4<span class=\"s1\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While Waters voice and guitar fell silent, his legacy and influence continues to this day. He has been name-checked and his songs covered by countless musicians, including Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Paul Rodgers, Gary Moore, Bonnie Raitt, Brain May, Supertramp, Chuck Berry, Queen, Steppenwolf, AC\/DC, Billy Gibbons, BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and many others.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Waters was indicted in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in 1987, and there was a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992. The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame included four of his songs in its list of 500 Songs That Shaped Rock \u2018n Roll. And Rolling Stone magazine placed him at number 17 in their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The young boy who liked mud and water, changed the history of music, not only by revolutionizing the blues, but also by laying the foundations of rock \u2018n roll. 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