Artist:Muddy Waters
Song:Mannish Boy
Album:The Chess Box
If you want to talk about The Blues, you have to start with McKinley Morganfield AKA Muddy Waters, probably the greatest of all blues artists. He was born April 4, 1915 in Rolling Fork, MS. But he went to the big city of Chicago like a lot of Mississippi Delta blues artists when musicologist Alan Lomax found him in 1941. He became a fixture on the Chicago blues scene and he was well established by the time he wrote the classic Mannish Boy in 1955. It was based on a riff from Willie Dixon's Hoochie Coochie Man and was an answer to Bo Diddley's I'm a Man. Waters played slide guitar with Little Walter on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Elgin Evans on drums, Big Crawford on bass and Otis Spann on piano. This 3CD Chess Box covers all of Waters' Chess recordings and is a must for blues fans. Mannish Boy was covered by tons of rock musicians and Waters even rerecorded it in 1977 with Johnny Winter. Those 70s records put Waters back on top by the time he died on Apr. 30, 1983 at age 68. Muddy Waters was one of the all time greats of black music and his impact is still felt today. Here's Muddy Waters performing Mannish Boy in 1971.
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