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1<\/td>\nBreakin It Up Breakin It Down<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nElectric Mud<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nFathers and Sons<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nFolk Singer<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nHard Again<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nAt Newport<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

His tale of a tough plantation upbringing is well known but it was heartening to know that even late in life he relished thinking about the early days of learning to play blues and performing for hardworking sharecroppers at Saturday night fish fries. Little did they know they were watching a man who would change the face of music and bring the Delta blues<\/a> to Chicago.<\/p>\n

That surging powerful voice and awesome slide guitar has lost none of its electrifying impact and his brilliance was captured in a performance of Mannish Boy in Martin Scorsese<\/a>‘s concert film of The Band called The Last Waltz. Muddy Waters had nearly been left off the bill because of time and money constraints \u2014 and only one camera was left on while he played \u2014 but it’s a show-stopping performance.<\/p>\n

His main\u00a0impact was on young British musicians, especially the Rolling Stones<\/a>. Although I noted that in Buddy Guy’s 2012 autobiography When I Left Home, the old bluesman pointed out: “When the Rolling Stones came to Chess Records in 1964, they started telling everyone \u2014 and even wrote it up in books \u2014 that they saw Muddy Waters standing on a ladder where he was whitewashing the walls. They said the Mud had whitewash all over his face. For years Keith Richards<\/a> repeated this story.<\/p>\n

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In the blues circle on the South Side of Chicago, Waters was a god. But back then, people just referred to him as \u201cThe Mud\u201d. Buddy Guy<\/a> talks about the first time he met Muddy \u2014 after showing up Otis Rush at a blues club.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mud wants you,\u201d someone told Buddy, who misheard and thought someone wanted to mug him. Instead, The Mud offered Buddy a sandwich and asked him to be a part of the blues that they had invented.<\/p>\n

AC\/DC<\/a>\u2019s monster hit \u201cYou Shook Me All Night Long\u201d came from the lyrics of Muddy\u2019s \u201cYou Shook Me\u201d, which was written by Willie Dixon. (Fun fact: Led Zeppelin<\/a> also released a cover of \u201cYou Shook Me\u201d as track three on their debut album.)<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause we grew up in Australia,\u201d said Young in an interview with Rolling Stone, \u201cto find information about a lot of blues guys I used to go to the library and find the jazz magazines. They didn\u2019t even sell them at the time in news agents and stuff. So I\u2019d go into the library and read all about where these people were playing, like Muddy Waters and Elmore James<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let’s investigate now the top six albums of Muddy Waters:<\/p>\n

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6. At Newport 1960<\/h2>\n

At the 1960 Newport Folk Festival<\/a>, Muddy Waters wasn\u2019t yet a Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame inductee or Chicago Blues titan \u2013 he was simply a man with a band trying to impress a whole bunch of white people. This soulful yet blistering set did the trick, and then some \u2013 igniting interest in electric blues and sending Waters on his way to all those accolades.<\/p>\n

\u201cPut A Tiger In Your Tank\u201d is a perfect example of the barely restrained ferocity that marks the whole set. The band featured Otis Spann<\/a> on piano and James Cotton<\/a> on harmonica, and they provide the underpinning for Waters\u2019 smooth growl. Muddy made many exceptional albums throughout his career, but none surpass the locomotive chug of At Newport 1960<\/em>.<\/p>\n