McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer‑songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post‑World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the “father of modern Chicago blues”. His style of playing has been described as “raining down Delta beatitude”. Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and by the age of 17 was playing the guitar and the harmonica, copying local blues artists Son House and Robert Johnson. In 1941, Alan Lomax and Professor John W. Work III of Fisk University recorded him in Mississippi for the Library of Congress. In 1943, he moved to Chicago to become a full‑time professional musician. In 1946, he recorded his first records for Columbia Records and then for Aristocrat Records, a newly formed label run by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess. In the early 1950s, Muddy Waters and his band — Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Elga Edmonds (also known as Elgin Evans) on drums and Otis Spann on piano — recorded several songs that became blues classics, some with the bassist and songwriter Willie Dixon.
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Manish Boy
Hoochie Coochie Man
Forty Days And Forty Nights
Got My Mojo Working
Still A Fool
Rollin’ And Tumblin
Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones – Baby Please Don’t Go – Live At Checkerboard Lounge
I’m A King Bee
Got my Mojo Workin
You Don’t Have to Go – ChicagoFest 1981
Harmonica Rockin
You Can’t Loose What Your Never Had
I Can’t Be Satisfied
She’s Nineteen Years Old – ChicagoFest 1981
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