Muddy Waters - Chicago Blues (the Blues Collection Vol.11)
Album Tracks:
01. Track One 02. Track Two 03. Track Three 04. Track Four 05. Track Five 06. Track Six 07. Track Seven 08. Track Eight 09. Track Nine 10. Track Ten 11. Track Eleven 12. Track Twelve 13. Track Thirteen 14. Track Fourteen
Born: April 04, 1915, Rolling Fork, MS Died: April 30, 1983, Westmont, IL Period: `40s, `50s, `60s, `70s, `80s
Biography:
A post-war Chicago blues scene without the magnificent contributions of McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters, is absolutely unimaginable. From the late `40s on, he eloquently defined the city`s aggressive, swaggering, Delta-rooted sound with his declamatory vocals and piercing slide guitar attack. When he passed away in 1983, the Windy City would never quite recover.
Like many of his contemporaries on the Chicago circuit, 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 fashion.
Musicologist Alan Lomax traveled through Stovall`s in August of 1941 under the auspices of the Library of Congress, in search of new talent for the purpose of field recording. With the discovery of Morganfield, Lomax must have immediately known he`d stumbled across someone very special.
Setting up his portable recording rig in the Delta bluesman`s house, Lomax captured for Library of Congress posterity Waters` mesmerizing rendition of "I Be`s Troub ...
