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Muddy Waters … Deep, warm and soulful voice.

 

Photograph: John Cohen/Getty Images

 

 Happy 100th, Muddy Waters

– you made me Wokingham's premier bluesman

Long before he joined the Jesus and Mary Chain,

John Moore was in thrall to the blues,

and Muddy Waters was his king bee

G

Friday 3 April 2015        07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/apr/03/
muddy-waters-happy-100th-birthday-john-moore

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones - Baby Please Don't Go - Live At Checkerboard Lounge    1981

 

 

 

 

Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones - Baby Please Don't Go - Live At Checkerboard Lounge         Rolling Stones        2 July 2012

 

On 22 November 1981,

in the middle of their mammoth American tour,

the Rolling Stones arrived in Chicago prior to playing 3 nights

at the Rosemont Horizon.

 

Long influenced by the Chicago blues,

the band paid a visit to Buddy Guy's

club the Checkerboard Lounge

to see the legendary bluesman perform.

 

It didn't take long

before Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Ian Stewart

were joining in on stage

and later Buddy Guy and Lefty Dizz also played their part.

 

It was a unique occasion

that was fortunately captured on camera.

 

Now, restored from the original footage

and with sound mixed

and mastered by Bob Clearmountain,

this amazing blues night is being made available

in an official release for the first time.

 

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Or7huOK7o

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones - Mannish Boy - Live At Checkerboard Lounge        1981

 

 

 

 

Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones - Mannish Boy - Live At Checkerboard Lounge        Rolling Stones        6 July 2012

 

On 22 November 1981,

in the middle of their mammoth American tour,

the Rolling Stones arrived in Chicago

prior to playing 3 nights at the Rosemont Horizon.

 

Long influenced by the Chicago blues,

the band paid a visit to Buddy Guy's

club the Checkerboard Lounge

to see the legendary bluesman perform.

 

It didn't take long before

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Ian Stewart

were joining in on stage and later Buddy Guy and Lefty Dizz

also played their part.

 

It was a unique occasion

that was fortunately captured on camera.

 

Now, restored from the original footage

and with sound mixed and mastered by Bob Clearmountain,

this amazing blues night is being made available

in an official release for the first time.

 

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32YQYJuxyn0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

McKinley Morganfield "Muddy Waters"    1915-1983

 

Muddy Waters

(...)

played a key role

in the development

of electric blues

and rock-and- roll

and was the greatest

contemporary exponent

of the influential

Mississippi Delta

blues style

 

(...)

 

McKinley (Muddy Waters) Morganfield

was born April 4, 1915,

in Rolling Fork,

in the southern

Mississippi Delta

near Highway 61.

 

His father,

Ollie Morganfield,

farmed and played

blues guitar,

but his parents

separated

when he was

six months old

and he went to live

with his maternal

grandmother

on a plantation

outside

Clarksdale, Miss.,

a town

in the central Delta

where John Lee Hooker

and other future blues

and gospel stars grew up.

 

His grandmother began

calling him "Muddy"

when he was a baby

because he liked

playing in the mud,

and when he was a child

on the plantation playmates

added the surname

"Waters."

 

Muddy Waters

began making music

when he was 3

or 4 years old.

 

He began performing

on harmonica

at country picnics

and fish fries

when he was 12 or 13,

and had plenty

of opportunity

to watch older

blues singers

and guitarists.

 

Robert Johnson

influenced him,

and so did

the impassioned

singer-guitarist

Son House.

 

But he also listened

to commercial

blues recordings

by Memphis Minnie,

Lonnie Johnson,

Tampa Red,

and Blind Lemon Jefferson

on a neighbor's

phonograph.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0404.html

 

 

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/24/
342873680/son-records-a-testimonial-to-muddy-waters-electric-blues

 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=6106175 - September 20, 2006

 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=1151805 - October 17, 2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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