Biography

A postwar Chicago blues scene without the magnificent contributions of 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. His idol was the powerful Son House, a Delta patriarch whose flailing slide work and intensity Waters would emulate in his own fashion. By the time of his death in 1983, Waters' exalted place in the history of blues (and 20th century popular music, for that matter) was eternally assured. The Chicago blues genre that he turned upside down during the years following World War II would never recover. ~ Bill Dahl

Top Tracks

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• (i'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man

• (my Eyes) Keep Me In Trouble

• All Aboard

• Baby Please Don't Go

• Blow Wind Blow

• Caldonia

• Can't Be Satisfied

• Can't Get No Grindin'

• Can't Get No Grindin' (what's The Matter With The Meal)

• Can't Lose What You Never Had

• Champagne & Reefer

• Champagne And Reefer

• Clouds In My Heart

• Copper Brown

• Country Blues

• Country Boy

• Crawlin' Kingsnake

• Crosseyed Cat

• Crossseyed Cat

• Dallas

• Deep Down In Florida

• Diamonds At Your Feet

• Don't Go No Farther

• Evans Shuffle (ebony Boogie)

• Feel Like Going Home

• Floyd's Guitar Blues

• Forty Days & Forty Nights

• Forty Days And Forty Nights

• Garbage Man

• Goin' Down Slow

• Going Down Slow

• Going Down To Main Street

• Good Morning Little School Girl

• Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

• Got My Mojo Workin' [live]

• Got My Mojo Working

• Got My Mojo Working (encore)

• Got My Mojo Working, Pt. 1

• Gypsy Woman

• Hello Little Girl

• Honey Bee

• Hoochie Coochie Man

• Howlin' Wolf

• Howling Wolf

• I Be Bound To Write To You

• I Be's Troubled

• I Can't Be Satisfied

• I Feel Like Goin' Home

• I Feel Like Going Home

• I Feel So Good

• I Got My Brand On You

• I Got My Mojo Working

• I Just Want To Make Love To You

• I Love The Life I Live, I Live The Life I Love

• I Want To Be Loved

• I'm A King Bee

• I'm A Man (mannish Boy)

• I'm Ready

• I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man

• Iodine In My Coffee

• I've Got My Mojo Working

• Jealous Hearted Man

• Just To Be With You

• Key To The Highway

• Kind Hearted Woman

• Let The Good Times Roll

• Little Geneva

• Long Distance Call

• Louisiana Blues

• Mad Love

• Mannish Boy

• Mean Disposition

• Mean Old Frisco Blues

• Mean Red Spider

• Mean Town Blues

• Mopper's Blues

• My Home Is In The Delta

• My John The Conqueror Root

• My Love Strikes Like Lightning

• Nine Below Zero

• Nineteen Years Old

• No Escape From The Blues

• One More Mile

• Rock Me

• Rocket 88

• Rollin' & Tumblin', Pt. 1

• Rollin' And Tumblin'

• Rollin' And Tumblin' & 2

• Rollin' And Tumblin', Pt. 1

• Rollin' And Tumblin', Pt. 2

• Rollin' Stone

• Rolling Stone

• Sad Letter Blues

• Screamin' And Cryin'

• She Moves Me

• She's Alright

• She's Nineteen Years Old

• Southbound Train

• Still A Fool

• Stormy Monday Blues

• Streamline Woman

• Stuff You Gotta Watch

• Take A Walk With Me

• Tell Me Baby

• The Blues Had A Baby And They Named It Rock & Roll

• The Red Rooster

• The Same Thing

• The Stuff You Gotta Watch

• Tiger In Your Tank

• Trouble No More

• Walkin' Blues

• Walkin' Thru The Park

• Walking Blues

• Who Do You Trust

• You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had

• You Got To Take Sick And Die Some Of These Days

• You Need Love

• You Shook Me

• You're Gonna Miss Me

• You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone #2

• You're Gonna Need My Help

Discography

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• Authorized Bootleg: Live at the Fillmore Auditorium - San Francisco Nov 04-06 1966

  Geffen

  2009

• Collaboration

  Rhino

  1995

• I'm Ready

  Blue Sky

  1978

• Unk in Funk

  Hip-o Select

  1977

• Live at Jazz Jamboree '76

  Poljazz

  1976

• Muddy & the Wolf

  Chess / MCA/Chess

  1974

• London Revisited

  Chess

  1974

• Can't Get No Grindin'

  Chess

  1973

• Muddy Waters Live

  Chess

  1972

• Muddy Waters Live (At Mr. Kelly's)

  Chess

  1971

• The London Muddy Waters Sessions

  MCA/Chess

  1971

• Goin' Home: Live in Paris 1970

  New Rose

  1970

• Sail On

  Wolf

  1969

• After the Rain

  Cadet/Concept / Get on Down

  1969

• Electric Mud

  MCA/Chess

  1968

• Brass and the Blues

  Chess

  1967

• Blues from Big Bill's Copacabana

  MCA/Chess

  1967

• Down on Stovall's Plantation

  Universe

  1966

• Muddy Waters [Chess]

  Chess

  1964

• Folk Festival of the Blues

  MCA

  1963

• Sings Big Bill Broonzy

  Universal Distribution

  1960