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Blue Monday — Muddy Waters

// June 30th, 2008 // Uncategorized

I have neglected my blog for far too long. So I decided to take a journey through my eclectic taste in music. All he new stuff, old stuff, classic stuff and obscure and crappy stuff.

Today is Monday… start of the work week and most of us have a hard time getting out of bed. Some would say we get “the Blues.”

What better way to cure those old Monday blues then with some soulful, rich, driving blues.

So today I present on of the Mississippi Delta’s greatest and widely influential blues artist Muddy Waters. You can see how influential in this quote from Wikipedia:

The Rolling Stones named themselves after Waters’ 1950 song “Rollin’ Stone”, (also known as “Catfish Blues”, which Jimi Hendrix covered as well). Cream covered his song “Rollin’ and Tumblin’” on their 1966 debut album Fresh Cream, as Eric Clapton was a big fan of Muddy Waters when he was growing up, and Waters’ music influenced Clapton’s music career. The song was also covered by Canned Heat at the legendary Monterey Pop Festival and later adapted by Bob Dylan on the album Modern Times. One of Led Zeppelin’s biggest hits, “Whole Lotta Love”, is based upon the Waters hit “You Need Love”, written by Willie Dixon. Dixon wrote some of Muddy Waters’ most famous songs, including “I Just Want to Make Love to You” (a big radio hit for the 1970s rock band Foghat), “Hoochie Coochie Man,” which The Allman Brothers Band famously covered, and “I’m Ready”, which was covered by Humble Pie. In 1993, Paul Rodgers released the album Muddy Water Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters, on which he covered a number of Muddy Waters songs, including “Louisiana Blues”, “Rollin’ Stone”, “Hoochie Coochie Man” and “I’m Ready” (among others) in collaboration with a number of famous guitarists such as Brian May and Jeff Beck.

Angus Young of the rock group AC/DC has cited Waters as one of his influences. The song title “You Shook Me All Night Long” came from lyrics of the Muddy Waters song “You Shook Me”, written by Willie Dixon and J. B. Lenoir. Earl Hooker first recorded it as an instrumental which was then overdubbed with vocals by Muddy Waters in 1962.

Waters’ songs have been featured in long-time fan Martin Scorsese’s movies, including The Color of Money, Casino and Goodfellas. Waters’ 1970s recording of his mid-’50s hit “Mannish Boy” (a.k.a. “I’m A Man”) was used in the hit film Risky Business.

Below are a few songs and performances for your enjoyment. I encourage you to dig deeper in to his catalog:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5IOou6qN1o]

“Mannish Boy” for a 1971 performace

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V25iA2XPzuA]

“Got my Mojo working”

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=624TSks9IYQ]

Kate Moss adding some sexiness to “I just want to make love to you”

Mannish Boy from Electric Mud

[audio:http://viince.free.fr/Mannish Boy.mp3]

Rolling Stone

[audio:http://www.bagofsongs.com/samples/MMB/1-11%20Rolling%20Stone.mp3]

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