Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield, Issaquena County, Mississippi, April 4,… Read Full Bio ↴Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield, Issaquena County, Mississippi, April 4, 1913 - Westmont, Illinois, April 30, 1983) was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the father of Chicago Blues." His career spanned over thirty years and he produced what are considered to be some of the finest blues songs ever, such as Hoochie Coochie Man, Mannish Boy and Got My Mojo Working.
Muddy Waters is generally considered one of the most influential bluesmen of all time. His fondness for playing in mud earned him the nickname "Muddy" at an early age. He later changed it to "Muddy Water" and finally "Muddy Waters".
Waters was born McKinley Morganfield in Issaquena County, Mississippi in 1913 (He later told people that he was born in 1915 in Rolling Fork, Mississippi; the reason for this remains unknown). His grandmother Della Grant raised him after his mother died in 1918. Waters started out on harmonica but by age seventeen he was playing the guitar at parties and "fish fries", emulating two blues artists who were extremely popular in the south, Son House and Robert Johnson. "His thick heavy voice, the dark coloration of his tone and his firm almost solid personality were all clearly derived from House," wrote Peter Guralnick in Feel Like Going Home, but the embellishments which he added, the imaginative slide technique and more agile rhythms, were closer to Johnson."
In 1940 Waters moved to St. Louis before playing with Silas Green a year later and returning back to Mississippi. In the early part of the decade he ran a juke house, complete with gambling, moonshine, a jukebox and live music courtesy of Muddy himself. In the Summer of 1941 Alan Lomax came to Stovall, Mississippi, on behalf of the Library of Congress to record various country blues musicians. "He brought his stuff down and recorded me right in my house," Waters recalled in Rolling Stone, "and when he played back the first song I sounded just like anybody's records. Man, you don't know how I felt that Saturday afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice. 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. Just played it and played it and said, `I can do it, I can do it.'" Lomax came back again in July of 1942 to record Waters again. Both sessions were eventually released as Down On Stovall's Plantation on the Testament label.
In 1943 Waters headed north to Chicago in hopes of becoming a full-time professional. He lived with a relative for a short period while driving a truck and working in a factory by day and playing at night. Big Bill Broonzy was the leading bluesman in Chicago until his death in 1958 and the city was a very competitive market for a newcomer to become established. Broonzy helped Waters out by letting him open Broonzy's show in the rowdy clubs. In 1945 Waters's uncle gave him his first electric guitar, which enabled him to be heard above the noisy crowds. In 1946 Waters recorded some tunes for Mayo Williams at Columbia but they were never released. Later that year he began recording for Aristocrat, a newly-formed label run by two brothers, Leonard and Phil Chess. In 1947 Waters played guitar with Sunnyland Slim on piano on the cuts "Gypsy Woman" and "Little Anna Mae." These were also shelved, but in 1948 Waters's "I Can't Be Satisfied" and "I Feel Like Going Home" became big and his popularity in clubs began to take off. Soon after, Aristocrat changed their name to Chess and Waters's signature tune, "Rollin' Stone", became a smash hit.
The Chess brothers would not allow Waters to use his own musicians (Jimmy Rogers and Blue Smitty) in the studio; instead he was only provided with a backing bass by Big Crawford. However, by 1952 Waters was recording with perhaps the best blues group ever: Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica; Jimmy Rogers on guitar; Elgin Evans on drums; Otis Spann on piano; Big Crawford on bass; and Waters handling vocals and second guitar. The band recorded a string of blues classics during the early 1950s with the help of bassist/songwriter Willie Dixon. "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Number 8 on the R&B charts), "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Number 4), and "I'm Ready". These three were "the most macho songs in his repertoire," wrote Robert Palmer in Rolling Stone. "Muddy would never have composed anything so unsubtle. But they gave him a succession of showstoppers and an image, which were important for a bluesman trying to break out of the grind of local gigs into national prominence."
Waters reigned over the 1950s Chicago blues scene; he was its most popular artist and led its tightest band, fueled by hits from Willie Dixon, its strongest composer. On all these fronts, however, Waters contended with fierce competition from the gravel-voiced singer Howlin' Wolf. Wolf's band rivaled Waters's all-star lineup, notably featuring the now-legendary guitarist Hubert Sumlin. Wolf also competed with Waters for the songwriting attention of Willie Dixon and recorded a large number of Dixon tunes. Nonetheless, Waters consistently retained an edge in popularity and esteem. Both Waters and Wolf are held in immense regard by modern rock and blues aficionados, but Waters scored far more chart hits and is generally considered to be the more commercially successful and the more well-known of the two; especially to the casual listener.
By 1954, Waters was at the height of his career. "By the time he achieved his popular peak, Muddy Waters had become a shouting, declamatory kind of singer who had forsaken his guitar as a kind of anachronism and whose band played with a single pulsating rhythm," wrote Guralnick in his Listener's Guide.
The success of Waters's ensemble paved the way for others in his group to break away and enjoy their own solo careers. In 1952 Little Walter left when his single "Juke" became a hit (although he would continue to play on Muddy's recording sessions until the late '50s), and in 1955 Rogers quit to work exclusively with his own band, which had been a sideline until that time. Waters could never recapture the glory of his pre-1956 years as the pressures of being a leader led him to use various studio musicians for quite a few years thereafter.
He headed to England in 1958 and shocked audiences (whose only previous exposure to blues had come via the acoustic folk/blues sounds of acts such as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and Big Bill Broonzy) with loud, amplified electric guitar and a thunderous beat. His performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960, which was recorded and released as his first live album (see At Newport 1960), helped to turn on a whole new generation to Waters' sound. He expressed dismay when he realized that members of his own race were turning their backs to the genre while a Caucasian audience had shown increasing respect for the blues.
A major inspiration for the British beat explosion in the 1960s.
However, for the better part of twenty years (since his last big hit in 1956, "I'm Ready") Waters was put on the back shelf by the Chess label and recorded albums with various "popular" themes: Brass And The Blues, Electric Mud, etc. In 1972 he went back to England to record The London Muddy Waters Sessions with four hotshot rockers—Rory Gallagher, Steve Winwood, Rick Grech, and Mitch Mitchell — but their playing wasn't up to his standards. "These boys are top musicians, they can play with me, put the book before 'em and play it, you know," he told Guralnick. "But that ain't what I need to sell my people, it ain't the Muddy Waters sound. An if you change my sound, then you gonna change the whole man."
Waters's sound was basically Delta country blues electrified, but his use of microtones, in both his vocals and slide playing, made it extremely difficult to duplicate and follow correctly. "When I plays onstage with my band, I have to get in there with my guitar and try to bring the sound down to me," he said in Rolling Stone. "But no sooner than I quit playing, it goes back to another, different sound. My blues look so simple, so easy to do, but it's not. They say my blues is the hardest blues in the world to play."
In 1977 Johnny Winter convinced his label, Blue Sky, to sign Waters, the beginning of a fruitful partnership. Waters's "comeback" LP, Hard Again, was recorded in just two days and was a return to original Chicago sound he had created 25 years earlier. Producer/guitarist Winter pushed Waters to his limit. Former Waters sideman James Cotton contributed harmonica on the Grammy Award-winning album and a brief but well received tour followed. "He sounds happy, energetic and out for business," stated Dan Oppenheimer in Rolling Stone. "In short, Muddy Waters is kicking in another mule's stall."
The importance of Muddy Waters' 1977 album Hard Again cannot be overstated, and its place as a near universal favorite in the Muddy Waters catalog is no mistake. Recorded in the last decade of his life, it was the first studio collaboration between Waters and guitarist Johnny Winter, who acted as producer on his last four albums -- the others are I'm Ready, King Bee, and Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live -- for Blue Sky, a Columbia subsidiary. The true revelation here is Waters, whose vigor and fire are renewed; he's hungry for the music and completely in possession of his prowess and power as the true King of the Blues. At 64, Waters was revving up for one final go and Winter recorded him like the champ he was. The Muddy Waters Blues Band was one of the crack outfits on the scene at the time and included guitarist Bob Margolin, pianist Pinetop Perkins, and drummer Willie "Big Eyes" Smith were on this session. Winter was on board playing guitar in addition to producing, and Waters asked James Cotton to play harp on the session and he brought his bassist Charles Calmese for the date. According to Margolin's amazingly warm and informative anecdotal liner notes, Waters never picked up his guitar during these sessions. It hardly matters, from the opening roar of "Mannish Boy," with shouts and hollers throughout, with incendiary guitars to the old-style Delta blues of "I Can't Be Satisfied," with a National steel solo by Winter to Cotton's screeching intro to "The Blues Had a Baby," to the moaning closer "Little Girl," Hard Again is rock solid. Its live feel heralds back to the Chess days, and its cooperative musicianship and intimate, good time vibe have rarely been replicated since that time -- and never on a major label. The expanded reissue includes one bonus track, an outtake called "Walking Through the Park," that could have been part of the original album without a problem -- the other outtake ended up on King Bee. Margolin's notes state that while the album has been remastered, it was not remixed because its sound holds up. This has the feel of an old-time blues record and the listener can hear -- even on CD -- the sound of the wood room it was recorded in as well as the camaraderie of the players. Hard Again showcased Waters as a blues lion, and in its grooves lies all the evidence for the legend he remains.
In 1978 Winter recruited Muddy's cohorts from the early '50s Walter Horton and Jimmy Rogers, and brought in the rest of Muddy's touring band at the time (harmonica player Jerry Portnoy, guitarist Luther Johnson, and bassist Calvin Jone) to record Waters's I'm Ready LP, which came close to the critical and commercial success of Hard Again.
The comeback continued in 1979 with the lauded LP Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live. "Muddy was loose for this one," wrote Jas Obrecht in Guitar Player, "and the result is the next best thing to being ringside at one of his foot-thumping, head-nodding, downhome blues shows." Accompanied by Johnny Winter and his band, Muddy Waters turns in an enthusiastic performance on Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live. The set list contains most of his biggest hits, and the sound quality and performances are mostly energetic. Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live is a nice addition to the Muddy Waters catalog, but it's not nearly as essential as his earlier work. King Bee the following year concluded Water's reign at Blue Sky and all four LPs turned out to be his biggest-selling albums ever. King Bee was the last album Muddy Waters recorded. Coming last in a trio of triumphant studio outings, and produced by Johnny Winter, it is also a mixed bag. During the sessions for King Bee, Waters, his manager, and his band were all in dispute over money. According to the liner notes by Bob Margolin, the conflict arose from Waters' health being on the wane and him playing less. The bandmembers wanted more money for the fewer gigs they did play in order to make ends meet. Ultimately a split occurred and the band quit. Because of the tensions in the studio preceding the split, Winter felt the sessions had not produced enough solid material to yield an entire album. He subsequently filled out King Bee with outtakes from the Hard Again sessions. For the listener, King Bee is a leaner and meaner record. None of the good-time exuberance present on the previous two outings is present here. This is blues, direct and immediate, a snarling, growling album. The title track, "Mean Old Frisco," "Sad Sad Day," and "I Feel Like Going Home," are all solid, razor-sharp blues with killer ensemble work and Waters in fine voice. The Sony Legacy issue features completely remastered sound and Margolin's candid notes, but it also hosts two bonus tracks from the King Bee sessions that Winter didn't see fit to release the first time. There's a redo of "I Won't Go Down," a cut from the '50s that Waters sings in his lower baritone roar, and "Clouds in My Heart," a deep, long, sad blues that is one of the great unearthed treasures in Waters catalog. This cut alone with all of its deep emotion and the sound of a band trying to hold the storm of emotions in check and failing is a masterpiece and one of the most amazing blues tunes of the last 30 years. While King Bee may have been considered last and least of Waters' Columbia albums, it is more than worth reconsidering.
In 1983 Waters died peacefully and unexpectedly in his sleep, aged 70. At his funeral, throngs of blues musicians showed up to pay tribute to one of the true originals of the art form. "Muddy was a master of just the right notes," John Hammond Jr., told Guitar World. "It was profound guitar playing, deep and simple. . . . more country blues transposed to the electric guitar, the kind of playing that enhanced the lyrics, gave profundity to the words themselves." Following Waters's death, B.B. King told Guitar World, "It's going to be years and years before most people realize how great he was to American music."
Two years after his death, the city that made Muddy Waters (and vice versa) honored their father by changing the name of 43rd Street to Muddy Waters Drive.
He is the father of blues musicians Big Bill Morganfield and Larry "Mud Morganfield" Williams.
Attesting to the historic place of Muddy Waters in the development of the blues in Mississippi, a Mississippi Blues Trail marker has been placed in Clarksdale by the Mississippi Blues Commission designating the site of Muddy Waters' cabin to commemorate his importance.
Grammy Awards
1971 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording They Call Me Muddy Waters folk MCA/Chess winner
1972 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording The London Muddy Waters Session folk MCA/Chess winner
1975 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album folk MCA/Chess winner
1977 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording Hard Again folk Blue Sky winner
1978 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording I'm Ready folk Blue Sky winner
1979 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live folk Blue Sky winner
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listed four songs of Muddy Waters of the 500 songs that shaped rock.
1950 Rollin' Stone
1954 Hoochie Coochie Man
1955 Mannish Boy
1957 Got My Mojo Working
The Blues Foundation Awards
1994 Reissue Album of the Year The Complete Plantation Recordings Winner
1995 Reissue Album of the Year One More Mile Winner
2000 Traditional Blues Album of the Year The Lost Tapes of Muddy Waters Winner
2002 Historical Blues Album of the Year Fathers and Sons Winner
2006 Historical Album of the Year Hoochie Coochie Man: Complete Chess Recordings, Volume 2, 1952-1958 Winner
Inductions
1980 Blues Foundation Hall of Fame
1987 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1992 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
U.S. Postage Stamp
1994 29 cents Commemorative stamp U.S. Postal Service
In 2004 he was ranked #17 in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Muddy Waters is generally considered one of the most influential bluesmen of all time. His fondness for playing in mud earned him the nickname "Muddy" at an early age. He later changed it to "Muddy Water" and finally "Muddy Waters".
Waters was born McKinley Morganfield in Issaquena County, Mississippi in 1913 (He later told people that he was born in 1915 in Rolling Fork, Mississippi; the reason for this remains unknown). His grandmother Della Grant raised him after his mother died in 1918. Waters started out on harmonica but by age seventeen he was playing the guitar at parties and "fish fries", emulating two blues artists who were extremely popular in the south, Son House and Robert Johnson. "His thick heavy voice, the dark coloration of his tone and his firm almost solid personality were all clearly derived from House," wrote Peter Guralnick in Feel Like Going Home, but the embellishments which he added, the imaginative slide technique and more agile rhythms, were closer to Johnson."
In 1940 Waters moved to St. Louis before playing with Silas Green a year later and returning back to Mississippi. In the early part of the decade he ran a juke house, complete with gambling, moonshine, a jukebox and live music courtesy of Muddy himself. In the Summer of 1941 Alan Lomax came to Stovall, Mississippi, on behalf of the Library of Congress to record various country blues musicians. "He brought his stuff down and recorded me right in my house," Waters recalled in Rolling Stone, "and when he played back the first song I sounded just like anybody's records. Man, you don't know how I felt that Saturday afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice. 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. Just played it and played it and said, `I can do it, I can do it.'" Lomax came back again in July of 1942 to record Waters again. Both sessions were eventually released as Down On Stovall's Plantation on the Testament label.
In 1943 Waters headed north to Chicago in hopes of becoming a full-time professional. He lived with a relative for a short period while driving a truck and working in a factory by day and playing at night. Big Bill Broonzy was the leading bluesman in Chicago until his death in 1958 and the city was a very competitive market for a newcomer to become established. Broonzy helped Waters out by letting him open Broonzy's show in the rowdy clubs. In 1945 Waters's uncle gave him his first electric guitar, which enabled him to be heard above the noisy crowds. In 1946 Waters recorded some tunes for Mayo Williams at Columbia but they were never released. Later that year he began recording for Aristocrat, a newly-formed label run by two brothers, Leonard and Phil Chess. In 1947 Waters played guitar with Sunnyland Slim on piano on the cuts "Gypsy Woman" and "Little Anna Mae." These were also shelved, but in 1948 Waters's "I Can't Be Satisfied" and "I Feel Like Going Home" became big and his popularity in clubs began to take off. Soon after, Aristocrat changed their name to Chess and Waters's signature tune, "Rollin' Stone", became a smash hit.
The Chess brothers would not allow Waters to use his own musicians (Jimmy Rogers and Blue Smitty) in the studio; instead he was only provided with a backing bass by Big Crawford. However, by 1952 Waters was recording with perhaps the best blues group ever: Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica; Jimmy Rogers on guitar; Elgin Evans on drums; Otis Spann on piano; Big Crawford on bass; and Waters handling vocals and second guitar. The band recorded a string of blues classics during the early 1950s with the help of bassist/songwriter Willie Dixon. "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Number 8 on the R&B charts), "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Number 4), and "I'm Ready". These three were "the most macho songs in his repertoire," wrote Robert Palmer in Rolling Stone. "Muddy would never have composed anything so unsubtle. But they gave him a succession of showstoppers and an image, which were important for a bluesman trying to break out of the grind of local gigs into national prominence."
Waters reigned over the 1950s Chicago blues scene; he was its most popular artist and led its tightest band, fueled by hits from Willie Dixon, its strongest composer. On all these fronts, however, Waters contended with fierce competition from the gravel-voiced singer Howlin' Wolf. Wolf's band rivaled Waters's all-star lineup, notably featuring the now-legendary guitarist Hubert Sumlin. Wolf also competed with Waters for the songwriting attention of Willie Dixon and recorded a large number of Dixon tunes. Nonetheless, Waters consistently retained an edge in popularity and esteem. Both Waters and Wolf are held in immense regard by modern rock and blues aficionados, but Waters scored far more chart hits and is generally considered to be the more commercially successful and the more well-known of the two; especially to the casual listener.
By 1954, Waters was at the height of his career. "By the time he achieved his popular peak, Muddy Waters had become a shouting, declamatory kind of singer who had forsaken his guitar as a kind of anachronism and whose band played with a single pulsating rhythm," wrote Guralnick in his Listener's Guide.
The success of Waters's ensemble paved the way for others in his group to break away and enjoy their own solo careers. In 1952 Little Walter left when his single "Juke" became a hit (although he would continue to play on Muddy's recording sessions until the late '50s), and in 1955 Rogers quit to work exclusively with his own band, which had been a sideline until that time. Waters could never recapture the glory of his pre-1956 years as the pressures of being a leader led him to use various studio musicians for quite a few years thereafter.
He headed to England in 1958 and shocked audiences (whose only previous exposure to blues had come via the acoustic folk/blues sounds of acts such as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and Big Bill Broonzy) with loud, amplified electric guitar and a thunderous beat. His performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960, which was recorded and released as his first live album (see At Newport 1960), helped to turn on a whole new generation to Waters' sound. He expressed dismay when he realized that members of his own race were turning their backs to the genre while a Caucasian audience had shown increasing respect for the blues.
A major inspiration for the British beat explosion in the 1960s.
However, for the better part of twenty years (since his last big hit in 1956, "I'm Ready") Waters was put on the back shelf by the Chess label and recorded albums with various "popular" themes: Brass And The Blues, Electric Mud, etc. In 1972 he went back to England to record The London Muddy Waters Sessions with four hotshot rockers—Rory Gallagher, Steve Winwood, Rick Grech, and Mitch Mitchell — but their playing wasn't up to his standards. "These boys are top musicians, they can play with me, put the book before 'em and play it, you know," he told Guralnick. "But that ain't what I need to sell my people, it ain't the Muddy Waters sound. An if you change my sound, then you gonna change the whole man."
Waters's sound was basically Delta country blues electrified, but his use of microtones, in both his vocals and slide playing, made it extremely difficult to duplicate and follow correctly. "When I plays onstage with my band, I have to get in there with my guitar and try to bring the sound down to me," he said in Rolling Stone. "But no sooner than I quit playing, it goes back to another, different sound. My blues look so simple, so easy to do, but it's not. They say my blues is the hardest blues in the world to play."
In 1977 Johnny Winter convinced his label, Blue Sky, to sign Waters, the beginning of a fruitful partnership. Waters's "comeback" LP, Hard Again, was recorded in just two days and was a return to original Chicago sound he had created 25 years earlier. Producer/guitarist Winter pushed Waters to his limit. Former Waters sideman James Cotton contributed harmonica on the Grammy Award-winning album and a brief but well received tour followed. "He sounds happy, energetic and out for business," stated Dan Oppenheimer in Rolling Stone. "In short, Muddy Waters is kicking in another mule's stall."
The importance of Muddy Waters' 1977 album Hard Again cannot be overstated, and its place as a near universal favorite in the Muddy Waters catalog is no mistake. Recorded in the last decade of his life, it was the first studio collaboration between Waters and guitarist Johnny Winter, who acted as producer on his last four albums -- the others are I'm Ready, King Bee, and Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live -- for Blue Sky, a Columbia subsidiary. The true revelation here is Waters, whose vigor and fire are renewed; he's hungry for the music and completely in possession of his prowess and power as the true King of the Blues. At 64, Waters was revving up for one final go and Winter recorded him like the champ he was. The Muddy Waters Blues Band was one of the crack outfits on the scene at the time and included guitarist Bob Margolin, pianist Pinetop Perkins, and drummer Willie "Big Eyes" Smith were on this session. Winter was on board playing guitar in addition to producing, and Waters asked James Cotton to play harp on the session and he brought his bassist Charles Calmese for the date. According to Margolin's amazingly warm and informative anecdotal liner notes, Waters never picked up his guitar during these sessions. It hardly matters, from the opening roar of "Mannish Boy," with shouts and hollers throughout, with incendiary guitars to the old-style Delta blues of "I Can't Be Satisfied," with a National steel solo by Winter to Cotton's screeching intro to "The Blues Had a Baby," to the moaning closer "Little Girl," Hard Again is rock solid. Its live feel heralds back to the Chess days, and its cooperative musicianship and intimate, good time vibe have rarely been replicated since that time -- and never on a major label. The expanded reissue includes one bonus track, an outtake called "Walking Through the Park," that could have been part of the original album without a problem -- the other outtake ended up on King Bee. Margolin's notes state that while the album has been remastered, it was not remixed because its sound holds up. This has the feel of an old-time blues record and the listener can hear -- even on CD -- the sound of the wood room it was recorded in as well as the camaraderie of the players. Hard Again showcased Waters as a blues lion, and in its grooves lies all the evidence for the legend he remains.
In 1978 Winter recruited Muddy's cohorts from the early '50s Walter Horton and Jimmy Rogers, and brought in the rest of Muddy's touring band at the time (harmonica player Jerry Portnoy, guitarist Luther Johnson, and bassist Calvin Jone) to record Waters's I'm Ready LP, which came close to the critical and commercial success of Hard Again.
The comeback continued in 1979 with the lauded LP Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live. "Muddy was loose for this one," wrote Jas Obrecht in Guitar Player, "and the result is the next best thing to being ringside at one of his foot-thumping, head-nodding, downhome blues shows." Accompanied by Johnny Winter and his band, Muddy Waters turns in an enthusiastic performance on Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live. The set list contains most of his biggest hits, and the sound quality and performances are mostly energetic. Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live is a nice addition to the Muddy Waters catalog, but it's not nearly as essential as his earlier work. King Bee the following year concluded Water's reign at Blue Sky and all four LPs turned out to be his biggest-selling albums ever. King Bee was the last album Muddy Waters recorded. Coming last in a trio of triumphant studio outings, and produced by Johnny Winter, it is also a mixed bag. During the sessions for King Bee, Waters, his manager, and his band were all in dispute over money. According to the liner notes by Bob Margolin, the conflict arose from Waters' health being on the wane and him playing less. The bandmembers wanted more money for the fewer gigs they did play in order to make ends meet. Ultimately a split occurred and the band quit. Because of the tensions in the studio preceding the split, Winter felt the sessions had not produced enough solid material to yield an entire album. He subsequently filled out King Bee with outtakes from the Hard Again sessions. For the listener, King Bee is a leaner and meaner record. None of the good-time exuberance present on the previous two outings is present here. This is blues, direct and immediate, a snarling, growling album. The title track, "Mean Old Frisco," "Sad Sad Day," and "I Feel Like Going Home," are all solid, razor-sharp blues with killer ensemble work and Waters in fine voice. The Sony Legacy issue features completely remastered sound and Margolin's candid notes, but it also hosts two bonus tracks from the King Bee sessions that Winter didn't see fit to release the first time. There's a redo of "I Won't Go Down," a cut from the '50s that Waters sings in his lower baritone roar, and "Clouds in My Heart," a deep, long, sad blues that is one of the great unearthed treasures in Waters catalog. This cut alone with all of its deep emotion and the sound of a band trying to hold the storm of emotions in check and failing is a masterpiece and one of the most amazing blues tunes of the last 30 years. While King Bee may have been considered last and least of Waters' Columbia albums, it is more than worth reconsidering.
In 1983 Waters died peacefully and unexpectedly in his sleep, aged 70. At his funeral, throngs of blues musicians showed up to pay tribute to one of the true originals of the art form. "Muddy was a master of just the right notes," John Hammond Jr., told Guitar World. "It was profound guitar playing, deep and simple. . . . more country blues transposed to the electric guitar, the kind of playing that enhanced the lyrics, gave profundity to the words themselves." Following Waters's death, B.B. King told Guitar World, "It's going to be years and years before most people realize how great he was to American music."
Two years after his death, the city that made Muddy Waters (and vice versa) honored their father by changing the name of 43rd Street to Muddy Waters Drive.
He is the father of blues musicians Big Bill Morganfield and Larry "Mud Morganfield" Williams.
Attesting to the historic place of Muddy Waters in the development of the blues in Mississippi, a Mississippi Blues Trail marker has been placed in Clarksdale by the Mississippi Blues Commission designating the site of Muddy Waters' cabin to commemorate his importance.
Grammy Awards
1971 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording They Call Me Muddy Waters folk MCA/Chess winner
1972 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording The London Muddy Waters Session folk MCA/Chess winner
1975 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album folk MCA/Chess winner
1977 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording Hard Again folk Blue Sky winner
1978 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording I'm Ready folk Blue Sky winner
1979 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live folk Blue Sky winner
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listed four songs of Muddy Waters of the 500 songs that shaped rock.
1950 Rollin' Stone
1954 Hoochie Coochie Man
1955 Mannish Boy
1957 Got My Mojo Working
The Blues Foundation Awards
1994 Reissue Album of the Year The Complete Plantation Recordings Winner
1995 Reissue Album of the Year One More Mile Winner
2000 Traditional Blues Album of the Year The Lost Tapes of Muddy Waters Winner
2002 Historical Blues Album of the Year Fathers and Sons Winner
2006 Historical Album of the Year Hoochie Coochie Man: Complete Chess Recordings, Volume 2, 1952-1958 Winner
Inductions
1980 Blues Foundation Hall of Fame
1987 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1992 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
U.S. Postage Stamp
1994 29 cents Commemorative stamp U.S. Postal Service
In 2004 he was ranked #17 in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
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Muddy Waters Lyrics
(I'm Your) Hoochie Choochie Man Gypsy woman told my mother Before I was born You got a…
(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man The gypsy woman told my mother Before I was born I got…
(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man (Electric Mud) Gypsy woman told my mother Before I was born You got a…
(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man (Live) The gypsy woman told my mother Before I was born I got…
01 I Just Want To Make Love To You I don't want you to be no slave I don't want…
04 Train Fare Home Blues If I ever get lucky mama Win my train fare home If…
19 Years Old I'm gonna say somethin' to you I don't care how you…
32 I'm gonna get my 32-20, my baby she ridin' around…
40 Days Forty days and forty nights Since my baby left this town Sun…
All Aboard All aboard Mean old Frisco, take my babe away Mean old Frisc…
All Aboard (Fathers & Sons) All aboard! Mean old Frisco takes my breath away mean old F…
All Night Long I want you to rock me, baby, after the sun…
All Night Long (faster Version I want you to rock me, baby After the sun goes…
Appealing Blues (Hello Little Girl) Hello little girl, honey you sure do appeal to me…
Atomic Blues It was early one morning, when all the good work…
Baby Pleaes Don't Go Baby, please don't go Baby, please don't go Baby, please…
Baby Please Don't Go - Live Baby, please don't go Baby, please don't go Baby, please don…
Baby Please Dont Go Baby, please don't go Baby, please don't go Baby, please…
Baby, Please Don't Go Baby, please don't go Baby, please don't go Baby, please don…
Betty And Dupree Betty told Dupree she wanna diamond ring Betty told Dupree …
Big Leg Woman Big leg womens, keep your dresses down You got stuff to…
Bird Nest On The Ground Yeah you know I done got something good I'm going to…
Birdnest On The Ground Yeah you know I done got something good I′m going to…
Black Night No one cares about me No, I ain't even got a…
Blow Wind When the sun rose this morning, I didn't have my…
Blues and Trouble BLUES AND TROUBLE Muddy Waters from "After the Rain" Album …
Blues Before Sunrise I have the blues before sunrise Tears standing in my eyes I…
Blues Before Sunrise (with false starts, dialogue) I have the blues before sunrise, tears standing in my…
blues had a baby and they named it rock All you people, you know the blues got a soul…
Blues Leave Me Alone blues trying to drive me away from home had the blues…
Bottom of the sea I been all around the world Don't nothin' bother me I been…
Burr Clover Blues Well, now the reason that I love That ol' Stovall's farm…
Burr Clover Farm Blues Well now, I told my man, way up in Dundee…
Burying Ground Blues I got a letter this mornin′, this is the way…
Bus Driver My baby run off with a bus driver And you know…
Caldonia To know you, is to love you,but to know me,…
Caledonia Walkin with my baby shes got great big feet Shes long,…
Can Well I'm goin' away to leave Won't be back no more Goin'…
Can't Get No Grindin I had a little corn I put it in a sack I…
Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had Once I had a pretty little girl I lose my baby,…
Can't Lose What You Never Had I once I had a pretty little girl I lose my…
Canary Bird Hello canary bird, this is a letter home Hello canary bird,…
Cant Get No Grindin I had a little corn I put it in a sack I…
Cant Be Satisfied Well I'm goin' away to leave Won't be back no more Goin'…
Captain Captain Oh captain, captain, hmm, oh, my captain so mean Oh captain,…
Catfish Blues Well, I wish I was a catfish Swimmin' in the deep…
Champagne Yeah bring me champagne when I'm thirsty. Bring me reefer wh…
Close to You I wanna get close to you baby, as white on…
Clouds in My Heart Lauper Cyndi A Night To Remember Hole In My Heart I've got a…
Cold Up North It's so cold up north, that a bird can hardly…
Cold Weather Blues Call my baby You know the little girl fail to come If…
Come Baby Oh, come back, baby Baby, please don't go, yeah Oh, you know…
Copper Brown Heads up She the kind colored brown and her hair hang…
Corinne Corrina Corrina, Corrina, where ya been so long? Tell me Corrina, wh…
Corrina Corrina Corrine Corrina, where you been so long? Corrine Corrina, wh…
Country Blues I get later on in the evenin' time, I feel…
Country Blues Number One I get later on in the evenin′ time, I feel…
Country Boy Don't say I don't love you Because I stays out all…
Crawlin You know I'm a crawlin' king snake, baby, and I…
Crawlin' King Snake Yeah I'm a crawlin' king snake, and I rule my…
Crawlin'kingsnake You know I'm a crawlin' king snake, baby, and I…
Crosseyed Cat Yeah, I'm so sorry I got to leave my woman alone…
Deep Down in Florida Yes, I'm goin' down in Florida, Where the sun shines damn…
Diamonds at Your Feet She got to take sick and die one of these…
Don't Go No Farther You need meat, go to the market You need bread, try…
Don't Say I Don't Love You Ride on Josephine, ride on Ride on Josephine, ride on …
Double Trouble Sitting in my window, I'm looking out at the rain I…
Down South Blues Well I'm goin' down south child This weather here's too col…
Drive My Blues Away My baby mistreat me That ain't right at all She got a…
Dust My Broom I'm gettin' up soon in the mornin' I believe I'll dust…
Electric Man The men call me Muddy But the women call me Electric…
Elevate Me Mama Elevate me mama, mama five or six floors all down Elevate…
Everything's Gonna Be Alright Close your eyes (close your eyes) Take a deep breath (aaahhh…
Everythings Gonna Be Alright Close your eyes (Close your eyes) Take a deep breath (Aah) …
Evil If you're a long way from home Can't sleep at night Grab…
Evil [ I went through the jungle I met a king snake He said…
Feel Like Goin Home Well, it gettin' Late on into the evenin' and I feel…
Five Long Years Have you ever been mistreated? You know just what…
Flood So cloudy, so cloudy, I believe this gonna rain, So cloudy,…
Forever Lonely Yeah to keep our love together baby Oh baby how I…
Forty Day And Forty Nights Forty days and forty nights Since my baby left this town Sun…
Forty Days & Forty Nights Forty days and forty nights Since my baby left this town S…
Forty Days and Forty Nights Forty days and forty nights Since my baby left this town Sun…
Garbage Man Jeah you know my baby, she ran of with the…
Goin' Down Slow Man You know I don't enjoy things that kings and queens…
Goin' Home Well, now it getting, Late on into the evening and I…
Going Down Slow Man You know I don't enjoy things that kings and queens…
Going Down Slow ) Alright, alright. Thank you so much ladies and gentlemen ri…
Going Home Well, it gettin' Late on into the evenin' and I feel…
Gonna Need My Help Well now, let me tell you people about a low-down…
Good Looking Woman Well, you're a good looking woman Any man would go for…
Good Morning Good morning little school girl Good morning little school g…
Good Morning Little School Girl Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you Tel…
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl Good morning little school girl Good morning little school g…
Good Morning School Girl Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you Tel…
Good News I got a letter this morning, my wife had a…
Goodbye Newport Blues Oh whata' groomy day in Newport'verything is sad, sad, sad Y…
goodmorning little school girl Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you Tel…
Got My Mojo Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on…
Gypsy Woman You know the gypsy woman told me that you your…
Hard Day Blues Everyday, everyday I have the blues Ooh everyday, everyday I…
Hello Little Girl Little girl, little girl Won't you please ma'm tell me your…
Hey Hey Hey, hey, hey, baby, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey, baby, hey I…
Honey Bee Sail on Sail on my little honey bee, sail on Sail on Sail…
Honeybee Sail on Sail on my little honey bee, sail on Sail on Sail…
Hoochi Coochie Man The gypsy woman told my mother Before I was born I…
Howlin Wolf I'm a howlin' wolf I've been howlin' all 'round your door I'…
Howling Wolf I'm a howlin' wolf I've been howlin' all 'round your door …
Howling Wolf - Live You know I'm a howlin' wolf, and I been howlin'…
Howlin’ Wolf I'm a howlin' wolf I've been howlin' all 'round your door …
I See you watching me like a hawk I don't mind the…
I Am The Blues I am, I am the blues I am, oh I am…
I Be's Trouble The spark in your eye sets my soul on fire Your…
I Be's Troubled I Be's Troubled Well if I feel tomorrow, like I…
I Be’s Troubled Well, I feel tomorrow like I feel today I'm gonna pack…
I Can Well I'm goin' away to leave Won't be back no more Goin'…
I Can't Call Her Sugar I'm gonna tell you about my baby I speak of her…
I Can’t Be Satisfied Well I'm goin' away to leave Won't be back no more Goin'…
I Don't Know Why Come here, baby Come here and tell me why Oh come here,…
I Feel Like Going Home Well, it gettin' Late on into the evenin' and I feel…
I Feel So Good I got a letter Come to me by mail My baby's comin'…
I Feel So Good (Live) I got a letter, come to me by mail My baby's…
I FELL SO GOOD I got a letter Come to me by mail My baby's comin'…
I Got a Rich Man's Woman Oh yeah, the woman she's livin' on a poor man's…
I Got My Brand on You I got my brand on you I got my brand on…
I Got My Mojo Working Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on…
I Just Make Love to Me I don't want you to be no slave I don't want…
I Live The Life I Love See you watching me like a hawk I don't mind the…
I Live the Life I Love I Love the Life I Live See you watching me like a hawk I don't mind the…
I Love the Life I Live See you watching me like a hawk I don't mind the…
I Want to Be Loved The spark in your eye sets my soul on fire Your…
I Want You to Love Me I don't want you to be no slave I don't want…
I'm a King Bee One, one, two, three I'm a king bee Buzzing around your hiv…
I'm A Man I wonder who, gonna be your sweet man when I'm…
I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town I'm gonna move, way out on the outskirts of town…
I'm Ready I am ready, ready as anybody can be I am…
I'm Ready (1954 Single Version) I'm ready, ready as anybody can be I'm ready, ready as…
I'm The Back Door Man I am, a back door man I am, a back door…
I'm Your Doctor I wonder who, gonna be your sweet man when I'm…
I'm Your Hoochie Coochie The gypsy woman told my mother Before I was born I…
I've Got My Mojo Workin' Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on…
Im A Man I wonder who, gonna be your sweet man when I'm…
Im Your Hoocie Coochie Man The gypsy woman told my mother Before I was born I…
Introduction To Nineteen Years Old I'm gonna say somethin' to you I don't care how you…
Iodine in My Coffee I never will forget when you and I were for…
It's All Over Oh, come back, baby Baby, please don't go, yeah Oh, you know…
It's My Own Fault It's my own fault, baby Treat me the way you…
I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man The gypsy woman told my mother Before I was born I…
Jealous Hearted Man It ain't but two things That I really understand It ain't bu…
Just Make Love to Me I don't want you to be no slave I don't want…
Just to Be With You On a ship that's made of paper Oh yeah, I will…
Kansas City (Oh, let's go to Kansas City, now.) I'm going to Kansas…
Keep Me in Trouble My eyes keep me in trouble Wants every woman I see My…
Key to the Highway I got the key to the highway, Billed out and bound…
Kind earted Woman I got a kindhearted woman, do anything in this world…
Landlady All last night, man I laid in my bed all…
Lay away plan Oh, put me in your layaway plan With just a small…
Let My, my, my, my Don't you worry 'bout what's on your…
Let The Good Times Roll Hey everybody, let's have fun You only live but once and…
Let's Spend The Night Together My, my, my, my Don't you worry 'bout what's on your…
Little Anna Mae Hush, ya'll hush, I heard little Anna Mae callin my name. Hu…
Little Geneva I was standing in my kitchen Looking way out 'cross the…
Little Girl Little girl, little girl Won't you please ma'm tell me your…
little red rooster I'm a little red rooster, Too lazy to crow for day I'm…
Live The Life I Love See you watching me like a hawk I don't mind the…
Lonesome Bedroom Blues Have you ever been walking, walking down that old lonesome…
Lonesome Day Today has been such a long and lonesome day Today has…
Lonesome Road Blues Have you ever been walking, walking down that old lonesome…
Long Distance You say you love me darlin' Please, call me on the…
Long Distance Call You say you love me darling Please, call me on the…
Look What You Now, look what you've done You left me here, the lonely…
Louisiana Blues I'm goin' down in Louisiana Baby, behind the sun I'm goin' d…
Love Deep As The Ocean My love is deep as the ocean for you and my…
Mad Love I want you to love me, love your baby slow I…
Mafia 2: Got My Mojo Working Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on…
Mamie Mamie, don't you hear me call your name Oh Mamie, don't…
Manish Boy Ooh yeah Ooh yeah Everythin' gonna be alright this morni…
Mannish Boy Oh, yeah Oh, yeah Everything gonna be alright this mornin' …
Mannish Boy (live) Everythin', everythin', everythin's gonna be alright this mo…
Me And My Doggs My eyes keep me in trouble Wants every woman I see My…
Mean Disposition She got a mean disposition, she got some low-down, dirty…
Mean Mistreater She's a mean mistreater And she don't mean me no…
Mean Mistreater (Mono Version) She's a mean mistreater And she don't mean me no good She's…
Mean Ol' Frisco Well, that mean old dirty Frisco And that low down Santa…
Mean Red Spider I got a mean red spider, and she been webbin'…
Meanest Woman Who's that young girl come walkin' down the road She's walki…
Messin' With The Man What did I hear goin' on 'round town You tell everybody…
MoJo Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on…
Mopper's Blues I got the mopper's blues, I got the mopper's blues I…
Moppers Blues I got the mopper's blues, I got the mopper's blues I…
Muddy Water's Twist They call me Muddy Water I'm just as restless man as…
My Babe My baby don't stand no cheatin', my babe Oh yeah she…
My Captain Oh captain, captain, hmm, oh, my captain so mean Oh captain,…
My Dog Can't Bark People they're talkin' about you and I What they sayin' I…
My Eyes My eyes keep me in trouble Wants every woman I see My…
My Fault It's my own fault, I don't blame you for treating…
My Home Is In The Delta Well, my home's in the delta Way out on that farmer's…
My John The Conquer Root My pistol may snap, my mojo is frail But I rub…
My Love Strikes Like Lightning My love strikes like lightnin' And it will hit you just…
My Man Blues My baby mistreat me That ain't right at all She got a…
My Name Is In The Delta Well, my home's in the delta Way out on that farmer's…
My Pencil Won't Write No More Well I wonder, I wonder, every place I go Yeah you…
Nine Below Zero Ain't this a pity, people ain't this a cryin' shame Ain't…
Nineteen Years Old I'm gonna say somethin' to you I don't care how you…
No Escape from the Blues Well someone made a mistake When they said life was a…
Oh Yeah Oh yeah, someday I'm goin' to catch you soon Oh yeah,…
One More Mile Oh you know it has been such a hard hard…
Paying The Cost To Be The Boss I've got a good mind to give up living, and…
Piney Brown Blues Well I've been to Kansas City Girls and everything is really…
Put Me In Your Lay Away Oh, put me in your layaway plan With just a small…
Ramblin Well I am a rambling kid, I've been rambling all…
Rock Me Oh Yeah Oh Yeah Oh Yeah Oh Yeah Want you to rock me rock me…
Rock Me. Want you to rock me baby, rock me all night…
Rollin Well, I wish I was a catfish, Swimmin in a oh,…
Rollin And Tumblin Well, I rolled and I tumbled, cried the whole night…
Rollin Stone Well, I wish I was a catfish, Swimmin in a oh,…
Rollin' & Tumblin' Well, I rolled and I tumbled, cried the whole night…
Rollin' And Tumblin' Part 2 Well, I rolled and I tumbled Cried the whole night long Well…
Rollin' and Tumblin' Part One Well, I rolled and I tumbled, cried the whole night…
Rollin' and Tumblin', Part 2 Well, I rolled and I tumbled Cried the whole night long Well…
Rollin' Stone Well, I wish I was a catfish, Swimmin in a oh,…
Rollin' Stone (Alternate Take) Well, I wish, I was a catfish Swimmin' in a oh,…
Rollin' Stone Blues Well, I wish I was a catfish, Swimmin in a oh,…
Rollin'And Tumblin Well, I rolled and I tumbled, cried the whole night…
Rollin'stone Well, I wish I was a catfish, Swimmin in a oh,…
Rosalie Rosalie Rosalie don't you hear me calling you Rosalie Rosali…
Sad Letter Blues I got a letter, this is the way it read I…
Sad Sad Day Oh, sad, sad day Since my baby, she went away Oh, sad,…
Same Thing Why do men go crazy When a woman wears her dress…
Screamin And Cryin Well, I rolled and I tumbled, cried the whole night…
She Moves She moves me, man Honey, and I don't see how it's…
She's 19 Years Old I'm gonna say somethin' to you I don't care how you…
She's All Right Well, I was gone Gone to the army I was gone, ver'…
She's Into Something Say what you do! Snappin of a finger make a dog…
She's Nineteen I'm gonna say somethin' to you I don't care how you…
Shes all right Well, I was gone Gone to the army I was gone, ver'…
Shes Nineteen I'm gonna say somethin' to you I don't care how you…
Short Dress Woman My baby wear her dress so short It come way up…
Smokestack Lightnin' Ah, oh, smokestack lightning Shinin', just like gold Why d…
Smokestack Lightning Ah, oh, smokestack lightning Shinin', just like gold Why don…
So Glad I'm Living My baby's long and tall, Shaped like a cannon ball And every…
Soon Forgotten Give me a pencil and paper, I just want to…
Southbound train I wonder why that southbound train don't run I wonder why…
Spoonful It could be a spoonful of coffee It could be a…
Standin' and Cryin' Oh, baby, look how you got me standin' around cyin' Oh,…
Standin' Here Tremblin' Well I have been standin' here and tremblin' I don't know…
Standin' Round Cryin' Oh, baby, look how you got me standin' around cyin' Oh,…
Standing Here Tremblin' Well I have been standin' here and tremblin' I don't know…
Still a Fool Well, now, there's two, there's two trains running Well, the…
Stormy Monday Blues They call it stormy Monday, but Tuesday's just as bad They…
Streamline Woman Well I've been working on the high line, baby, all…
Streamline Woman - Live Well I've been workin' on the high line Baby, all day…
Stuff You Gotta Watch You know the girl you love, don't treat you right…
Sugar Sweet I want to tell about my baby, speak of her…
Sunrise Blues I have the blues before sunrise Tears standing in my eyes I…
Sweet Little Angel I've got a sweet little angel I love the way she…
Take A Little Walk Come on, please take a walk with me Come on, please…
Take The Bitter With The Sweet You, heard somebody sayin' That I loved another (Oh ooh ooh)…
Tell Me Baby Want you to rock me baby, rock me all night…
That's Why I Don't Mind Oh, you know it breaks my heart to remember, …
The Blues Had A Baby And They Named It Rock & Roll All you people, you know the blues got a soul…
The Same Thing Why do men go crazy When a woman wears her dress…
The Stuff You Gotta Watch You know the girl you love, don't treat you right…
They Call Me Muddy Waters They call me Muddy Water, I'm just as restless man…
Things That I Used To Do Thing that I used to do Lord, I don't do no…
Thirteen Highway I went down 13 Highway, drivin' a brand new V8…
Tiger in Your Tank I put a tiger in your tank I put a tiger…
Tom Cat Yeah you know I'm a tomcat and you's my kitten And…
Too Young to Know Well, I′ve stuck out in your street And I'm lookin′ for…
Train far home If I ever get lucky mama Win my train fare home If…
Train Fare Blues If I ever get lucky mama Win my train fare home If…
Train Fare Home Blues If I ever get lucky mama Win my train fare home If…
Trouble So many days, since you went away I often think of…
Trouble In Mind My eyes keep me in trouble Wants every woman I see My…
Trouble No More Don't care how long you gone I don't care how long…
Turn the Lamp Down Low Baby please don't go Baby please don't go Baby please don'…
Twenty Four Hours Oh I mistreated my baby last night Woman from holding you…
Walkin Woke up this morning, feel 'round for my shoes You know…
Walkin' Blues Woke up this morning, feel 'round for my shoes You know…
Walkin' Throu the Park I'm goin' out walkin' Walking down through the park I'm go…
Walkin' Through the Park I'm goin' out walkin' Walking down through the park I'm goin…
Walkin' Thru The Park - Single Version I'm goin' out walkin', Walking down through the park I'm gon…
Walkin' Thru' The Park I'm goin' out walkin' Walking down through the park I'm goin…
Walking Blues Woke up this morning, feel 'round for my shoes, You know…
Walking Through The Park I'm goin' out walkin', walking down through the park I'm g…
Walking Thru the Park I'm goin' out walkin' Walking down through the park I'm goin…
What Now, look what you've done You left me here, the lonely…
What's The Matter With The Mill I had a little corn I put it in a sack I…
What's the Matter with the Mill? What do I do, I do I do it baby? I…
Where's My Woman I wanna tell you about my baby Yeah, she ran off…
Where's My Woman Been? I wanna tell you about my baby Yeah, she ran off…
Who's Gonna Be You Sweet Man I wonder who, gonna be your sweet man when I'm…
Why Are People Like That They take your love and your money They take your shugar…
Why Don Oh, you know it breaks my heart to remember, …
Why Don't You Live so God Can Use You Why don't you live so, God can use you, anywhere…
You I wanna get close to you baby, as white on…
You Can Once I had a pretty little girl I lose my baby,…
You Can't Loose What Ain't Never Had I once I had a pretty little girl I lose my…
You Can't Lose What You Never Had Had a sweet little girl, I lose my baby, boy…
You Can't Make the Grade Well, your woman's actin' funny When you start to gettin' o…
you cant lose what you aint never had I once I had a pretty little girl I lose my…
You Don't Have To Go Oh baby, you don't have to go Oh baby, you don't…
You Gonna Miss Me Let me tell you people A low down thing or two I…
You Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone Let me tell you people a low down thing or…
You Gonna Need My Help Well now, let me tell you people about a low-down…
You Got Take Sick and Die Some of These Days You got to take sick and die some of these…
You Got To Love Me I want you to love me, love your baby slow I…
you got to take sick & die some of these Days You got to take sick and die some of these…
You Gotta Need My Help Well now, let me tell you people about a low-down…
You Shook Me Hmm You know you shook me, baby You shook me all night…
You're Gonna Miss Me Let me tell you people A low down thing or two I…
You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone Let me tell you people a low down thing or…
You're Gonna Need My Help Well now, let me tell you people about a low-down…
You're Gonna' Miss Me Let me tell you people A low down thing or two I…
Young Fashioned Way I maybe getting old But I got young fashioned ways I maybe…
Your'e Gonna Miss Me Let me tell you people A low down thing or two I…