He won another Grammy for his last LP on Chess Records: The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album, recorded in 1975 with his new guitarist Bob Margolin, Pinetop Perkins, Paul Butterfield, and Levon Helm and Garth Hudson of the Band. I Can't Be Satisfied This song is by George Thorogood& the Destroyers and appears on the album Boogie People (1991). In the early 1930s, Waters accompanied Big Joe Williams on tours of the Delta, playing harmonica. "I sold the last horse that we had. The band Cream covered "Rollin' and Tumblin'" on their 1966 debut album, Fresh Cream. Made about fifteen dollars for him, gave my grandmother seven dollars and fifty cents, I kept seven-fifty and paid about two-fifty for that guitar. "[14] He started playing his songs in joints near his hometown, mostly on a plantation owned by Colonel William Howard Stovall.[15]. [63], In 2008, a Mississippi Blues Trail marker has been placed in Clarksdale, Mississippi, by the Mississippi Blues Commission designating the site of Muddy Waters' cabin. Muddy Waters' birthplace and date are not conclusively known. This gave him the opportunity to play in front of a large audience. I Can't Be Satisfied This song is by The Rolling Stones and appears on the album The Rolling Stones No. 2 (1965) and on the compilation album More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) (1972). In 1971, a show at Mister Kelly's, an upmarket Chicago nightclub, was recorded and released, signalling both Muddy Waters's return to form and the completion of his transfer to white audiences. The song was also covered by Canned Heat at the Monterey Pop Festival and later adapted by Bob Dylan on his album Modern Times. Muddy was dissatisfied by the results, due to the British musicians' more rock-oriented sound. Gaining custody of his three children, Joseph, Renee, and Rosalind, he moved them into his home, eventually buying a new house in Westmont, Illinois. Hoppkorv is Swedish for "Jumping Hot Dog". [36] Folk Singer was not a commercial success, but it was lauded by critics, and in 2003 Rolling Stone magazine placed it at number 280 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. [32] He recalled: They thought I was a Big Bill Broonzy [but] I wasn't. "But that ain't what I need to sell my people, it ain't the Muddy Waters sound. One of Led Zeppelin's biggest hits, "Whole Lotta Love", is based on the Muddy Waters hit "You Need Love" (written by Willie Dixon). [3] His style of playing has been described as "raining down Delta beatitude".[4]. Williams recounted to Blewett Thomas that he eventually dropped Waters "because he was takin' away my women [fans]". '"[6] Lomax came back in July 1942 to record him again. [10] "Waters" was added years later, as he began to play harmonica and perform locally in his early teens. Williams recounted to Blewett Thomas that he eventually dropped Waters "because he was takin' away my women [fans]". The AC/DC 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. Named Muddywood, the instrument is now exhibited at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale. In the early 1950s, Muddy Waters and his band—Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Elga Edmonds (also known as Elgin Evans) on drums and Otis Spann on piano—recorded several blues classics, some with the bassist and songwriter Willie Dixon. Emerson concluded that the song "both distills and expands upon this knot of despair, which contrasts with the architectural magnificence of the song's musical accomplishments". The album was a follow-up to the previous year's The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions. In 2017, his youngest son, Joseph "Mojo" Morganfield, began publicly performing the blues, occasionally with his brothers.[57]. [24] The band recorded a series of blues classics during the early 1950s, some with the help of the bassist and songwriter Willie Dixon, including "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", and "I'm Ready". [64] He also received a plaque on the Clarksdale Walk of Fame. In 1996, RCA released the CD box set Hot Tuna in a Can which included a remastered version of this album, along with remasters of the albums Hot Tuna, First Pull Up, Then Pull Down, Burgers and America's Choice. Watch video at YouTube After his death, a lengthy court battle ensued between his heirs and Scott Cameron, his former manager. It was a Stella. King told Guitar World magazine, "It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music." [21] Later that year, he began recording for Aristocrat Records, a newly formed label run by the brothers Leonard and Phil Chess. [70], American blues singer and guitarist (1913-1983), "His thick heavy voice, the dark colouration of his tone, and his firm, almost solid, personality were all clearly derived from House," wrote the music historian, CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (, sfn error: no target: CITEREFO'NealVan_Singel2002 (, sfn error: no target: CITEREFWhitburn1996 (, Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording, "Muddy Waters: Celebrating a Great Blues Musician", "What's on View at the Delta Blues Museum", "Ebony, Chicago, Southern, and Harlem: The Mayo Williams Indies", "Show 4 – The Tribal Drum: The Rise of Rhythm and Blues. He is buried next to his wife, Geneva. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listed four songs of Muddy Waters among the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. [26] 1955 saw the departure of Jimmy Rogers, who quit to work exclusively with his own band, which had been a sideline until that time. In addition to four new original songs by Jorma Kaukonen and one by Nick Buck, the album includes covers of Buddy Holly's "It's So Easy", Muddy Waters' "I Can't … A 1955 interview in the Chicago Defender is the earliest in which he stated 1915 as the year of his birth, and he continued to say this in interviews from that point onward. The rivalry was, in part, stoked by Willie Dixon providing songs to both artists, with Wolf suspecting that Muddy was getting Dixon's best songs. His gravestone gives his birth year as 1915. In August 1941,[7] Alan Lomax went to Stovall, Mississippi, on behalf of the Library of Congress to record various country blues musicians. Later on he sent me two copies of the pressing and a check for twenty bucks, and I carried that record up to the corner and put it on the jukebox. The people ordered them from Sears-Roebuck in Chicago. The album had its highest peak at #116 on the Billboard charts. [44] It was the most successful album of Muddy Waters' career, reaching number 70 on the Billboard 200. The performance was made available on DVD in 2009 by Shout! Hoppkorv was the seventh album by the American blues rock band Hot Tuna, and their last studio album recorded for Grunt Records, as Grunt BFL1-1920. Jimi Hendrix recalled that "I first heard him as a little boy and it scared me to death". His sound reflected the optimism of postwar African Americans. [58] He was taken from his Westmont home, which he lived in for the last decade of his life, to Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, Illinois,[59] where he was pronounced dead aged 70. Muddy Waters's band became a proving ground for some of the city's best blues talent,[25] with members of the ensemble going on to successful careers of their own. [51][52] A DVD version of the performance was released in 2012. Whether you write a whole page or just a sentence each day on what you feel grateful for, this activity may help you feel satisfied by bringing all the positives of your life to light. The Social Security Death Index, relying on the Social Security card application submitted after his move to Chicago in the mid-1940s, lists him as being born April 4, 1913. Unlike previous albums, Hot Tuna relied entirely on an outside producer for this effort, Harry Maslin. [14]. Led Zeppelin also covered it on their debut album. I was a good Baptist, singing in the church. Muddy was giving his blues a little pep." I was definitely too loud for them. Earl Hooker first recorded it as an instrumental, which was then overdubbed with vocals by Muddy Waters in 1962. [citation needed], In 1981 ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons went to visit the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale with The Blues magazine founder Jim O'Neal. Both albums were the brainchild of Chess Records producer Norman Dayron, and were intended to showcase Chicago blues musicians playing with the younger British rock musicians whom they had inspired.