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
apartment building felt good literally lived location manager mason photos picked san sent
Our location manager sent me photos of different possibilities, and I picked out my favorite, which was this apartment building at Mason and Green, ... I sent it to Leslie, and she said, 'That's my apartment building! That's literally where I lived in San Francisco.' I felt that was a good sign.
son thinking idols
Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.
play people world
Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.
sunrise sandwiches cents
Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.
country night guitar
At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.
way want worst
I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?
baseball hurt player
I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
dog insanity bark
Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.
johnson knows
Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.
money needs quitting
Now that I'm gettin old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin but quit playin so hard.
kids sticks necks
All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.
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.
world chicago going-out
Going to Chicago was like going out of the world...
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.