I'm sure you'll agree and will enjoy Stevie's immense talent. Muddy Waters have more of a chance of being number one and be high than Robert Johnson them the other 2.I don't have a favorite blues artist I like BB King, Muddy Waters Joe Bonamassa and Stevie Ray Vaughan all the same. Simply the most powerful, most original and best blues artist of all time. He's one of the greatest blues player ever... Would anyone really question this guy and his tallent . His gravestone gives his birth year as 1915. I have seen him and he was 3 feet from me and I fell in love with his music since his first big gig in Orillia Ontario Can. Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and by age 17 was playing the guitar and the harmonica, emulating the local blues artists Son House and Robert Johnson. So I got all of my good moaning and trembling going on for me right out of church,"[14] he recalled. [22] Soon after, Aristocrat changed its name to Chess Records. For me SRV is still No. His funeral was held on May 4, 1983. In this modern world there aren't many original blues artists. He's just a singer A natural born guitar ringer Kind of a clinger to sad old songs He's not a walk behinder He's a new note finder And he sang Hey baby I love you too Hey baby I need you Hey Most of them are blues rock (its good too). [29] 1956 also saw the release of one of his best-known numbers, "Got My Mojo Working", although it did not appear on the charts. In 2017, his youngest son, Joseph "Mojo" Morganfield, began publicly performing the blues, occasionally with his brothers.[57]. In 1972, he won his first Grammy Award, for Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording for They Call Me Muddy Waters, a 1971 album of old, but previously unreleased recordings. He has influenced so many people, and many artists have had hits covering his music, definitely top 5 greatest guitarists of all time. Underrated and the best blues singer in my opinion. B. Lenoir. A 1955 interview in the Chicago Defender is the earliest in which he stated 1915 as the year of his birth, and he continued to say this in interviews from that point onward. One of Led Zeppelin's biggest hits, "Whole Lotta Love", is based on the Muddy Waters hit "You Need Love" (written by Willie Dixon). [56], His sons, Larry "Mud" Morganfield and Big Bill Morganfield, are also blues singers and musicians. In 1988 "Mannish Boy" was also used in a Levi's 501 commercial and re-released in Europe as a single with "(I'm your) Hoochie Coochie Man" on the flip side. The Blues Brothers Band tours the world regularly. [17], In 1943, Muddy Waters headed to Chicago with the hope of becoming a full-time professional musician. The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African-American Vaudeville, 1889–1926. Stevie Ray Vaughan has a great voice, tone, and plays the guitar well. The next morning we were in the headlines of the paper, 'Screaming Guitar and Howling Piano'. 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Go listen to songs by him such as "Grinnin' in your Face" an "John the Revelator" where he simply sings and makes use of clapping. [26] It was, as Ken Chang wrote in his AllMusic review, flooded with "contentious studio banter [...] more entertaining than the otherwise unmemorable music from this stylistic train wreck". Best. Cropper provided guitar for both the original Sam and Dave recording as … [5] He was recorded in Mississippi by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941. Great player. Muddy Waters do have music that sound likes the 60s and 70s listen to Mannish Boy from Hard Again. [64] He also received a plaque on the Clarksdale Walk of Fame. In 1952, Little Walter left when his single "Juke" became a hit, although he continued a collaborative relationship long after he left, appearing on most of the band's classic recordings in the 1950s. "I sold the last horse that we had. [37] In October 1963, Muddy Waters participated in the first of several annual European tours, organized as the American Folk Blues Festival, during which he also performed more acoustic-oriented numbers.[38]. Lyrics to 'Blues Man' by Alan Jackson. It was a Stella. Muddy was giving his blues a little pep." RESPECT THAT! [65], On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Muddy Waters among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire. 6th place... What a shame, should be number one. The Rolling Stones even named their band after one of Water's most prominent tracks "Rollin' Stone". [62]The Chicago suburb of Westmont, where he lived the last decade of his life, named a section of Cass Avenue near his home "Honorary Muddy Waters Way". He stated, "My blues look so simple, so easy to do, but it's not. The 1920 census lists him as five years old as of March 6, 1920, suggesting that his birth year may have been 1914. If you are not truly inspired in any sense of the word. I was a good Baptist, singing in the church. 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 blues classics, some with the bassist and songwriter Willie Dixon. [21] Later that year, he began recording for Aristocrat Records, a newly formed label run by the brothers Leonard and Phil Chess. [11] The remains of the cabin on Stovall Plantation where he lived in his youth are now at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The song was first recorded and released by Marty Robbins in 1956. The lead singer is Rob "The Honeydripper" Paparozzi, and they are frequently joined by Had a voice MADE for blues. [67], Following his death, fellow blues musician B.B. ブルース [注釈 1] （Blues）は、米国 深南部でアフリカ系アメリカ人の間から発生した音楽の一種およびその楽式。 19世紀後半頃に米国深南部で黒人霊歌、フィールドハラー（農作業の際の叫び声）や、ワーク・ソング（労働歌）などから発展したものといわれている。 He is buried next to his wife, Geneva. An influence on the blues Kubik believes that many of today's blues singers unconsciously echo these Arabic-Islamic patterns in their music. Ever. Simply the most powerful, most original and best blues artist of all time. And he's good in a knife fight. 『ブルース・ブラザース』（The Blues Brothers）は、1980年にジョン・ランディスが監督したアメリカ映画。 アメリカ合衆国 の コメディアン である ジョン・ベルーシ と ダン・エイクロイド が主演で、彼らをフロントメンバーとする R&B / ブルース の音楽バンドとしても活動している。 Mamie Smith was primarily a cabaret and vaudeville singer, but she made blues history by being the first singer to record a blues song. This guy's got some REAL blues. Joe is amazingly good, better than Gary Moore and even some higher people on this list. Composed the most influential songs ever who made many guitarists famous. "These boys are top musicians, they can play with me, put the book before 'em and play it, you know," he told Guralnick. "Midnight Special " puts him onto the top ten alone. Wolf had a lot of emotion, Try to play and sing like him, and you''ll find why he is the best, Far and away the most influential artist/musician of the Blues, and is therefore the most deserving of #1 in my opinion. Man, you don't know how I felt that Saturday afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice. If I have to pick what blues artist I like the best it would be JB and SRV Than Muddy Waters. [1] They come from different eras and include styles such as ragtime-vaudeville, Delta and country blues, and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast. Not every talented artist has that. Soul, Skill, Style and he is Smooth! [34] At the Newport Jazz Festival, he recorded one of the first live blues albums, At Newport 1960, and his performance of "Got My Mojo Working" was nominated for a Grammy award. [33] Korner and Davies' own groups included musicians who would later form the Rolling Stones (named after Muddy's 1950 hit "Rollin' Stone"), Cream, and the original Fleetwood Mac. [32] At the time, English audiences had only been exposed to acoustic folk blues, as performed by artists such as Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Big Bill Broonzy. 1! A singer-composer finds an old blues musician living on the streets. Well, perhaps not THE best but he certainly belongs in a high position on this list. He was one of the first Blues artists I was introduced to and fell in love with but I've heard so so many more amazing artists since. Without doubt Muddy is an incredible blues artist. Overlooked I believe because of brother Edgars one hit wonder. It is not related to the 1920 jazz song " Singin' the Blues " recorded by Frank Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke in 1927. The people ordered them from Sears-Roebuck in Chicago. Muddy was dissatisfied by the results, due to the British musicians' more rock-oriented sound. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listed four songs of Muddy Waters among the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. [43], Later in 1969, he recorded and released the album Fathers and Sons, which featured a return to his classic Chicago blues sound. Muddy Waters brought with him two American musicians, harmonica player Carey Bell and guitarist Sammy Lawhorn. In May 2018, the heirs' lawyer sought to hold Scott Cameron's wife in contempt for diverting royalty income. The British and Irish musicians who played on the album included Rory Gallagher, Steve Winwood, Rick Grech, and Mitch Mitchell. The earliest references to blues date back to the 1890s and early 1900s. He felt obliged to electrify his sound in Chicago because, he said, "When I went into the clubs, the first thing I wanted was an amplifier. 100% Authentic, Rock and Roll blues with Fender Stratocaster, Fender Amps Icon. [70], American blues singer and guitarist (1913-1983), "His thick heavy voice, the dark colouration of his tone, and his firm, almost solid, personality were all clearly derived from House," wrote the music historian, CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (, sfn error: no target: CITEREFO'NealVan_Singel2002 (, sfn error: no target: CITEREFWhitburn1996 (, Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording, "Muddy Waters: Celebrating a Great Blues Musician", "What's on View at the Delta Blues Museum", "Ebony, Chicago, Southern, and Harlem: The Mayo Williams Indies", "Show 4 – The Tribal Drum: The Rise of Rhythm and Blues. Factory. Directed by Leo Penn. We opened up in Leeds, England. Years later, he traveled to Florida and met his future wife, 19-year-old Marva Jean Brooks, whom he nicknamed "Sunshine". The band Cream covered "Rollin' and Tumblin'" on their 1966 debut album, Fresh Cream. "[14] He started playing his songs in joints near his hometown, mostly on a plantation owned by Colonel William Howard Stovall.[15]. [66], The British band The Rolling Stones named themselves after Muddy Waters' 1950 song "Rollin' Stone". In the mid-1950s, Muddy Waters' singles were frequently on Billboard magazine's various Rhythm & Blues charts[27][28] including "Sugar Sweet" in 1955 and "Trouble No More", "Forty Days and Forty Nights", and "Don't Go No Farther" in 1956. Made about fifteen dollars for him, gave my grandmother seven dollars and fifty cents, I kept seven-fifty and paid about two-fifty for that guitar. Mr. blues, awesome harp player and blues band leader. "He brought his stuff down and recorded me right in my house," Muddy told Rolling Stone magazine, "and when he played back the first song I sounded just like anybody's records. With Andy Griffith, Nancy Stafford, Julie Sommars, Kene Holiday. Throngs of blues musicians and fans attended his funeral at Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois. I mean that literally. WOW! The 4 blues artist I said I like just as much as the rock ...more. Willie Dixon said that "There was quite a few people around singing the blues but most of them was singing all sad blues. [citation needed]. She died of cancer on March 15, 1973. After his death, a lengthy court battle ensued between his heirs and Scott Cameron, his former manager. He never had it easy, I tell ya. [19] Big Bill Broonzy, then one of the leading bluesmen in Chicago, had Muddy open his shows in the rowdy clubs where Broonzy played. What can I say? [53], In 1982, declining health dramatically stopped his performance schedule. [54], Muddy Waters and his longtime wife, Geneva Wade (a first cousin of R. L. Burnside) were married in Lexington, Mississippi, in 1940. He rules! King Blues Club (Favored Nations). He can play one note, and it would sound like the best note you've ever heard. Scratchy and deep and completely filled with personality. He is not as influential as Robert Johnson or BB King, but he is a technical genius and a great guitarist and singer. Earl Hooker first recorded it as an instrumental, which was then overdubbed with vocals by Muddy Waters in 1962. His performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960 was recorded and released as his first live album, At Newport 1960. Just listen to this very gifted guitar player! While is there isn’t a definite origin as to who exactly created the Blues, we do have a good idea as to how it came to us today:W.C. Handy.William Christopher Handy was born in Alabama in 1873 and who worked a number of odd jobs before establishing himself as both a musician and a music teacher. The rivalry was, in part, stoked by Willie Dixon providing songs to both artists, with Wolf suspecting that Muddy was getting Dixon's best songs. He won another Grammy for his last LP on Chess Records: The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album, recorded in 1975 with his new guitarist Bob Margolin, Pinetop Perkins, Paul Butterfield, and Levon Helm and Garth Hudson of the Band. Best of 2019: Sure, 'Blues the vote!' [39] The Super Super Blues Band united Wolf and Waters, who had a long-standing rivalry. [33], In the 1960s, Muddy Waters' performances continued to introduce a new generation to Chicago blues. [6][7] In 1943, he moved to Chicago to become a full-time professional musician. Muddy Waters's signature tune "Rollin' Stone" also became a hit that year. Definitely should be higher in the list! The performance was made available on DVD in 2009 by Shout! Easily #1. Texas blues begins. But when it first came out, it started selling like wild, and then they started sending them back. For about twenty years Tommy Johnson was perhaps the most important and influential blues singer in the state of Mississippi. His sound reflected the optimism of postwar African Americans. The museum's director, Sid Graves, brought Gibbons to visit Waters original house, and encouraged him to pick up a piece of scrap lumber that was originally part of the roof. He first came to prominence as the lead singer and harmonicist of the successful 1960s group Manfred Mann, with whom he … Both albums were the brainchild of Chess Records producer Norman Dayron, and were intended to showcase Chicago blues musicians playing with the younger British rock musicians whom they had inspired. [40] In 1968, at the instigation of Marshall Chess, he recorded Electric Mud, an album intended to revive his career by backing him with Rotary Connection, a psychedelic soul band that Chess had put together. I would pick blues artist like Joe Bonamassa and Stevie Ray Vaughan but more people would vote for Muddy Waters over them. Both sessions were eventually released by Testament Records as Down on Stovall's Plantation. ブルースなくしてロックン・ロールはなく、その中でも極めて重要な存在だった曲が幾つかある。頻繁にカヴァーされたり、フレーズを拝借されたり、ロッカー達がそのスタイルを学び取った曲たちだ。最も影響力のあるブルース・ソングの多くは、今日に至るまで鳴り響いている。 He puts on a great show, I’ve seen 4 so far! [20] In 1944, he bought his first electric guitar and then formed his first electric combo. These were also shelved, but in 1948, "I Can't Be Satisfied" and "I Feel Like Going Home" became hits, and his popularity in clubs began to take off. He didn't need an instrument to make you feel the blues, just listen to some of his acapella. Singer/guitarist Tony McPhee was a blues obsessed kid who formed 1960s band The Groundhogs. Electric sublime guitar player and bluesman, from the English vein. Too bad he died at the age of 35.R.I.P. King told Guitar World magazine, "It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music." In 1946, he recorded his first records for Columbia Records and then for Aristocrat Records, a newly formed label run by the brothers Leonard and Phil Chess. In 1971, a show at Mister Kelly's, an upmarket Chicago nightclub, was recorded and released, signalling both Muddy Waters's return to form and the completion of his transfer to white audiences. Although I think Robert Johnson is the best, I'm going to put Willie up some more. Muddy Waters' music has influenced various American music genres, including rock and roll and rock music. That soft, mournful falsetto, the beautiful guitarwork- songs like Devil Got My Wonan truly are something special, Still got the blues and The messiah will come again are the key tracks. Jimi Hendrix recalled that "I first heard him as a little boy and it scared me to death". In 1912 Black bandleader W.C. The Historic 1941–42 Library of Congress Field Recordings in 1993 and remastered in 1997. Would be more fair to credit the original artists!! I was definitely too loud for them. I do like all 4 blues artist I said way more than 20s and 30 artist like Robert Johnson and Blind Willie Johnson more because there more and I like rock music the best and 60 to 90s all the best year for music and rock the hardest and coolest. Some as good, none better. [46] In November 1976 he appeared as a featured special guest at The Band's Last Waltz farewell concert, and in the subsequent 1978 feature film documentary of the event. Label: Columbia - CG 33,Columbia - GP 33 • Format: 2x, Vinyl LP, Compilation • … "But that ain't what I need to sell my people, it ain't the Muddy Waters sound. I'm just a singer A natural born guitar ringer Kind of a clinger To sad old songs I'm not a walk behinder I'm a new note finder But my name's a reminder Of a blues man thats already gone So I started drinkin' And took This gave him the opportunity to play in front of a large audience. [30] Also in 1958, Chess released his first compilation album, The Best of Muddy Waters, which collected twelve of his singles up to 1956.[31]. Using … The song was also covered by Canned Heat at the Monterey Pop Festival and later adapted by Bob Dylan on his album Modern Times. In 1993, Paul Rodgers released the album Muddy Water Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters, on which he covered a number of his songs, including "Louisiana Blues", "Rollin' Stone", "(I'm your) Hoochie Coochie Man" and "I'm Ready" in collaboration with guitarists such as Gary Moore, Brian May and Jeff Beck. I couldn't even begin to remix this list. Is he the best? [32], Although his performances alienated the old guard, some younger musicians, including Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies from Barber's band, were inspired to go in the more modern, electric blues direction. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1970 Vinyl release of The World's Greatest Blues Singer on Discogs. McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post- war blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues ". Eric Clapton was a big fan of Muddy Waters while growing up, and his music influenced Clapton's music career. Grant gave him the nickname "Muddy" at an early age because he loved to play in the muddy water of nearby Deer Creek. [30] However, by the late 1950s, his singles success had come to an end, with only "Close to You" reaching the chart in 1958. (°_°). Angus Young, of the rock group AC/DC, has cited Muddy as one of his influences. The blues is not for you. As I really can't decide, Mud gets my vote for sentimental reasons. However, the heirs asked for that citation not to be pursued. [58] He was taken from his Westmont home, which he lived in for the last decade of his life, to Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, Illinois,[59] where he was pronounced dead aged 70. Come on one of the greatest writers and influential musicians of all time... Blues Master, composer, player, charisma, mentor of SRV. "[6] Lomax came back in July 1942 to record him again. Gradually, Chess relented, and by September 1953 he was recording with one of the most acclaimed blues groups in history: Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Elga Edmonds (also known as Elgin Evans) on drums, and Otis Spann on piano. [16] The complete recordings were reissued by Chess Records on CD as Muddy Waters: The Complete Plantation Recordings. His last public performance took place when he sat in with Eric Clapton's band at a concert in Florida in the summer of 1982. He later recalled arriving in Chicago as the single most momentous event in his life. [12][13], He had his first introduction to music in church: "I used to belong to church. [51][52] A DVD version of the performance was released in 2012. [41] The album proved controversial; although it reached number 127 on the Billboard 200 album chart, it was scorned by many critics, and eventually disowned by Muddy Waters himself: That Electric Mud record I did, that one was dogshit. He was joined onstage by Johnny Winter and Buddy Miles, and played classics like "Mannish Boy", "Trouble No More", and "Mojo Working" to a new generation of fans. Thurman. Led Zeppelin also covered it on their debut album. Muddy Waters died in his sleep from heart failure, at his home in Westmont, Illinois, on April 30, 1983, from cancer-related complications. On November 22, he performed live with three members of British rock band the Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood) at the Checkerboard Lounge, a blues club in Bronzeville, on the South Side of Chicago, which was established in 1972 by Buddy Guy and L.C. I'm not a walk-behinder. [32] Both the musicians and audiences were unprepared for Waters' performance, which included his electric slide guitar playing. but he was 30 years ahead of his time! Named Muddywood, the instrument is now exhibited at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale. These songs included "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "I'm Ready". The first episode of the 2007/08 season for The Simpsons featured the Yardbirds' "I'm A Man" from the CD Live at B.B. Blues derived from and was largely played by Southern Black men, most of whom came from the milieu of agricultural workers. Howlin' Wolf moved to Chicago in 1954 with financial support earned through his successful Chess singles, and the "legendary rivalry" with Muddy Waters began. [24] The band recorded a series of blues classics during the early 1950s, some with the help of the bassist and songwriter Willie Dixon, including "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", and "I'm Ready". Fathers and Sons had an all-star backing band that included Michael Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield, longtime fans whose desire to play with him was the impetus for the album. Slow Gin is my favorite song! From 1977 to 1981, blues musician Johnny Winter, who had idolized Muddy Waters since childhood and who had become a friend,[47][48] produced four albums of his, all on the Blue Sky Records label: the studio albums Hard Again (1977), I'm Ready (1978) and King Bee (1981), and the live album Muddy "Mississippi" Waters – Live (1979). We will miss you. [citation needed], In 1981 ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons went to visit the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale with The Blues magazine founder Jim O'Neal. Love Joe Bonamassa, beautiful guitar player and a wonderful voice! The next court date was set for July 10, 2018. I love this man… Muddy Waters's band became a proving ground for some of the city's best blues talent,[25] with members of the ensemble going on to successful careers of their own. Eric Clapton himself said this guy was the best guitarist ever. Couldn't nobody hear you with an acoustic." Muddy developed his sound throughout the late 1930's through the 1950's and came up with masterpiece blues tracks that spurred entire new genres of music, not the least of which is Rock & Roll. Blues musicians are musical artists who are primarily recognized as writing, performing, and recording blues music. Gibbons eventually converted the wood into a guitar. I love this man. Initially, the Chess brothers would not allow Muddy Waters to use his working band in the recording studio;[23] instead, he was provided with a backing bass by Ernest "Big" Crawford or by musicians assembled specifically for the recording session, including "Baby Face" Leroy Foster and Johnny Jones.
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