Waters, whose nickname came from his proclivity for playing in a creek as a boy, grew up in the cotton country of the Mississippi Delta, where he was raised principally by his grandmother on the Stovall plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi. He taught himself to play harmonica as a child ...
Muddy Waters was from the Mississippi Delta. He was born near Rolling Fork, Mississippi, but moved to the Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale to live with his grandmother when he was very young. He lived and worked on the Stovall Plantation before moving to Chicago in 1943.Who...
Arguably the heaviest bluesman ever, Muddy Waters electrified the Chicago blues world with the 1948 release of his first single. By taking the Robert Johnson and Son House-inspired acoustic Delta blues that he had played in Mississippi and firing it up with raw amplification, he created the blue...
phrase getting back to the last verse—you can hear the direct influence the Mississippi approach to playing blues, Muddy had on Buddy, and also how well Buddy learned it. Side 4 Track 1: "Country Boy" Willie Dixon is a bit out of tune with the guitars (his low E string is just a...
Waters was a product of the fertile Mississippi Delta. Born McKinley Morganfield in Rolling Fork, he grew up in nearby Clarksdale on Stovall's Plantation. His idol was the powerful Son House, a Delta patriarch whose flailing slide work and intimidating intensity Waters would emulate in his own...
He was the bridge between country and city cool, an urban griot with Mississippi Delta dust on his boots. Along the way, Waters fired the career rockets for scores of hot-shot blues musicians, but never seemed to straggle too far away from the grounding sound and message of his art. ...
American singer and guitarist Muddy Waters may have been born in Mississippi, but he defined Chicago blues with songs like "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man."
Muddy Waters 蓝调 · 1964年 试听 歌曲 时长 1 My Home Is in the Delta 4:01 2 Long Distance 3:33 3 My Captain 5:13 4 Good Morning Little School Girl 3:16 5 You Gonna Need My Help 3:13 6 Cold Weather Blues 4:43 7
Muddy Waters is the archetypal blues-man. He was raised as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta, where he learned to play an acoustic guitar. He went to Chicago in 1943, and the band he assembled established the electric blues sound. Directors...