Muddy Waters (Rolling Fork, 4 april 1915 - Westmomd, 30 april 1983) berne as McKinley Morganfield wie in Amearikaanske blues muzikant dy't oer it algemien sjoen wurdt as de wichtichste fertsjintwurdiger fan de Chicago blues.
Untstean fan de Chicago Blues Doe't er 7 wie begûn er mûle-oargel te spyljen, dêr't er al gauris publyk mei luts. Doe't er 17 wie gong er oer op de gitaar, dêr't er mei op feesten spile. De earste opnamen fan Muddy Waters binne yn 1940 makke op in plantaazje yn de Mississippydelta troch Alan Lomax. Letter ferhuze Morganfield nei Chicago dêr't er fan de akoestyske op elektroanysk fersterke gitaar oerstapte en in ritmeseksje en harmoanika tafoege. Dêrmei ûntstie de klassike gearstalling foar de Chicago blues.
Ynfloed fan Muddy Waters Muddy Waters hie in net te ûnderskatten ynfloed op ferskate muzikale sjânres: fansels op de blues, mar ek op rhythm and blues, rock, folksmuzyk, jazz en country. Waters holp Chuck Berry oan syn earste platekontrakt.
De Rolling Stones ûntlienden har namme oan in nûmer fan Muddy Waters út 1950 "Rollin Stone" ek wol bekend as "Catfish Blues". De grutste hit fan Led Zeppelin, "Whole Lotta Love" wie basearre op Muddy Waters syn nûmer "You Need Love".
In diel fan de komposysjes fan Muddy Waters 1941 - Country Blues (opnommen troch Alan Lomax) 1942 - Ramblin' Kid Blues 1947 - Little Anna Mae 1948 - Hard Days 1949 - Last Time I Fool Around With You 1950 - Rollin' Stone (Catfish Blues) 1951 - Still A Fool (Heard in film Color Of Money) - Long Distance Call - Honey Bee 1952 - Iodine In My Coffee 1953 - Sad Sad Day 1954 - I Just Want to Make Love to You - I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man - I'm Ready 1955 - Mannish Boy - Trouble No More - Sugar Sweet 1956 - All Aboard - Rock Me - Forty Days and Forty Nights - Got My Mojo Working 1957 - Good Lookin' Woman 1958 - Born Lover 1959 - Goin' Down Louisiana (Louisiana Blues) 1960 - Deep Down In My Heart 1961 - Messin' With The Man 1962 - Going Home 1963 - Let Me Hang Around 1964 - My Home is on The Delta 1965 - Early Morning Blues 1966 - Canary Bird 1967 - Trainfare Blues 1968 - Mud In Your Ear 1969 - Blues And Trouble 1970 - Blues For Hippies 1971 - Strange Woman 1972 - My Pencil Won't Write No More 1973 - Muddy Waters Shuffle 1974 - Drive My Blues Away 1975 - Born With Nothing 1977 - Crosseyed Cat 1978 - Copper Brown 1981 - Forever Lonely
Diskografy 1960 - At Newport 1960 - Sings Big Bill Broonzy 1963 - Folk Festival of the Blues (live) 1964 - Folk Singer 1964 - Muddy Waters 1966 - Down on Stovall's Plantation 1967 - Blues from Big Bill's Copacabana 1967 - Brass and the Blues 1967 - Super Blues (Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Little Walter) 1967 - The Super Super Blues Band (Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf) 1968 - Electric Mud 1969 - After the Rain 1969 - Fathers and Sons 1969 - Sail On 1970 - Vintage Mud 1970 - Back in the Good Old Days 1970 - Good News 1970 - Goin' Home - Live in Paris 1970 1970 - They Call Me Muddy Waters [I] 1971 - Muddy Waters Live (At Mr. Kelly's) 1971 - The London Muddy Waters Sessions 1972 - Muddy Waters Live 1973 - Mud in Your Ear 1973 - Can't Get No Grindin 1974 - London Revisited 1974 - Muddy & the Wolf 1975 - Woodstock Album 1976 - Live at Jazz Jamboree '76 1977 - Chess 1977 - Hard Again 1977 - Live Chess 1977 - Unk in Funk 1978 - I'm Ready 1979 - Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live 1981 - King Bee 1995 - Goodbye Newport Blues (live) 1996 - Mississippi Rollin 1996 - Rollin' & Tumblin 1997 - Paris 1972 1997 - Goin' Way Back 2000 - The Essential Collection 2002 - Hoochie Coochie Man In Montreal (live) 2002 - Live in Paris (1970)
Literatuer 2002 Can't be Satisfied: The Life And Times Of Muddy Waters troch Robert Gordon en Keith Richards, 432 siden - ISBN 0-316-32849-9 1997 Muddy Waters: The Mojo Man troch Sandra B. Tooze, - 383 siden - ISBN 1-55022-296-1 1995 Muddy Waters: Deep Blues autobiografy - 183 siden - ISBN 0-7935-0955-6 1996 Muddy Waters: Deep Blues And Good News troch Dave Rubin en Muddy Waters ISBN 0-7935-6501-4 1991 Bossmen: Bill Monroe and Muddy Waters troch James R. Rooney, - 163 siden - ISBN 0-306-80427-1
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Kategory:Amerikaansk gitarist Kategory:Amerikaansk sjonger Kategory:Amerikaansk bluesartyst Kategory:Amerikaansk muzikant Kategory:Grammy-winner Kategory:Amerikaansk muzikant fan Afro-Amerikaansk komôf Kategory:Persoan berne yn 1915 Kategory:Persoan stoarn yn 1983