Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield, known by his stage name Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth4 April 1915
CityIssaquena County,, MS
CountryUnited States of America
kissing night hair
I got your strand of hair, I kiss it day and night.
world chicago going-out
Going to Chicago was like going out of the world...
grandmother church should
My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.
san-francisco quality kind
The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.
voice church sound
You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?
singing way mississippi
I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.
men california black
Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.
mississippi-delta records way
That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
real harmonicas notes
I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.
school boys giving
I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age.
people should used
People should hear the pure blues - the # blues we used to have when we had no money.
johnson knows
Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.
dog insanity bark
Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.
night sunrise sandwiches
Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.