Muddy Waters

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McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters (April 4, 1915 - April 30, 1983) is a poster boy for 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 “I Want To Be Loved”. Muddy Waters is generally considered one of the greatest bluesmen of all time, and in 2004 he was ranked #17 in Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

Waters lived near a river called “Deer Creek”. In his childhood he often played in the dirty water. That’s how he got his name “Muddy Waters”

Muddy Waters is the father of blues musician Big Bill Morganfield.

Early life

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. His fondness for playing in mud earned him his nickname at an early age. 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.”

Early career

Baby Please Don't Go
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The Best of Muddy Waters
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Muddy Waters Long Distant Call
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Hoochie Coochie Man
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Top Tracks

1	Mannish Boy full track	1,203
2	Rollin' Stone full track	615
3	Got My Mojo Working full track	605
4	Hoochie Coochie Man full track	592
5	Baby Please Don't Go full track	500
6	I Can't Be Satisfied full track	448
7	Long Distance Call full track	429
8	I'm Ready full track	397
9	Louisiana Blues full track	377
10	I Feel Like Going Home full track	339
11	She Moves Me full track	310
12	I Just Want To Make Love To You full track	304
13	I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man full track	287
14	Honey Bee full track	262
15	(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man full track	246

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SirAlecHendrix wrote:
Thursday afternoon

Muddy Waters—this week's special guest in The Mothership of Blues, brandnew group

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harpblues wrote:
Sunday evening

Muddy is the best of Cigago blues.

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Ulysses101 wrote:
last week

Don't know why, but he looks like Mao Zedong in that picture... uh... Take a Look... Mao:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Mao1946.jpg Mud: http://www.lastfm.it/music/Muddy+Waters/+images/177797

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Saturnlane wrote:
last week

Come and join www.last.fm/group/Soul-Funk-Blues-Jazz+and+Psychedelic+Grooves and groove to the music of the soul.

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-GreG- wrote:
last week

Great man from Mississippi to Chicago! He take me back to the beginning! Just great! He one of my first heard bluesman! And he take a stain, what i follow!

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Botoft wrote:
last month

So fuckin' awesome!

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unrockafeller wrote:
last month

ı love you blues , ı love you great master muddy waters.

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mjd560 wrote:
last month

crystal clear

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Aleswy wrote:
last month

muddy on the last waltz film ...!!

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kamriracnas wrote:
last month

muddy lütfen gitme!

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Hoffmanstropfen wrote:
August 2008

go´s on . muddy !!

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Sixx_Sleazer wrote:
August 2008

muddy is the man!

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zuzurro wrote:
July 2008

He is the man!!!

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taobliss wrote:
July 2008

Got to see the man live back in the 70's, God whatta night.

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sass113 wrote:
July 2008

Music owes A LOT to this guy. Got into this old school blues stuff reading about it in an article on Stephen Dale Petit. Now its my new fave thing! Hes amazing – check out "Guitararama- he has some sick blues riffs! http://www.guitararama.co.uk and New vid for dirty bluesey rock song "a better answer" http://youtube.com/watch?v=vbVFdlcyheI

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ExCx wrote:
July 2008

@paranoidchileno chicago blues is a regional scene of delta blues, that's all..

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Tipheret wrote:
July 2008

Awesome

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betavertion wrote:
June 2008

@mojoaxel Why? You don't wanna buy them, or what? :D

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tomwaitsfan1 wrote:
June 2008

@paranoid region,sound,equipment,time period, etc.. its the difference between robert johnson and muddy waters, get it ?

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mojoaxel wrote:
June 2008

It's pure insanity that those great songs are still copyright protected!

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