Happy Birthday Mud

[Neumann Sennheiser]

Muddy Waters would have been 100 years old today. The mojo still works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hEYwk0bypY

[jon]

Muddy was indeed an amazing Blues pioneer. "Muddy's sound was basically Delta blues electrified, but his use of microtones, in both his vocals and slide playing, made it extremely difficult to duplicate and follow correctly." (Wikipedia)

Interesting that it took almost 100 years to accurately determine his birth date.

Nice that his last public performance was with Eric Clapton who was so heavily influenced by Muddy Waters and never tried to hide the fact.

[Neumann Sennheiser]

...Eric Clapton...was so heavily influenced by Muddy Waters and never tried to hide the fact.

Eric also gave credit to Albert King. His solo on Strange Brew is note for note the same as the guitar work on King's Crosscut Saw.

I also appreciate this quote from yet another influential blues player, Buddy Guy:

"...if you get Eric Clapton to play a Muddy Waters song, they call it classic, and they will put it on that station, but you'll never hear Muddy Waters."

[skyvalleyradio]

Neumann S wrote: "Eric also gave credit to Albert King. His solo on Strange Brew is note for note the same as the guitar work on King's Crosscut Saw."

...and yet Clapton gives himself and 2 others author credit for "Strange Brew" in spite of the note-for-note solo, with no authorship credit to King. A number of British bands in the 60's were bad for ripping off songs, melodies and 'riff's from Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson and other influential bluesmen. They gave themselves songwriting credits and royalty payments instead of the original creators who deserved not only more respect, but some decent royalty cheques, instead of ending their lives in poverty.

Neumann, thanks for noting the Hoochie Coochie man's 100th!!