Muddy Waters - wikipedia Muddy Waters For other uses, see Muddy Waters ( disambiguation ). Muddy Waters Muddy Waters c. 1975 Background information Birth name McKinley Morganfield April 4, 1913 Issaquena County, Mississippi, U.S. April 30, 1983 ( 1983 - 04 - 30 ) ( aged 70 ) Westmont, Illinois Genres Blues Chicago blues Delta blues Occupation ( s ) Musician songwriter bandleader Instruments Vocals guitar harmonica Years active 1941 -- 1982 Labels Aristocrat Chess Blue Sky Website muddywatersofficial.com McKinley Morganfield ( April 4, 1913 -- April 30, 1983 ), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is often cited as the `` father of modern Chicago blues ''. Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and by age 17 was playing the guitar and the harmonica, emulating the local blues artists Son House and Robert Johnson. He was recorded in Mississippi by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941. In 1943, he moved to Chicago to become a full - time professional musician. In 1946, he recorded his first records for Columbia Records and then for Aristocrat Records, a newly formed label run by the brothers Leonard and Phil Chess. In the early 1950s, Muddy Waters and his band -- Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Elgin Evans on drums and Otis Spann on piano -- recorded several blues classics, some with the bassist and songwriter Willie Dixon. These songs included `` Hoochie Coochie Man '', `` I Just Want to Make Love to You '' and `` I 'm Ready ''. In 1958, he traveled to England, laying the foundations of the resurgence of interest in the blues there. His performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960 was recorded and released as his first live album, At Newport 1960. Muddy Waters ' influence was tremendous, not just on blues and rhythm and blues but on rock and roll, hard rock, folk music, jazz, and country music. His use of amplification is often cited as the link between Delta blues and rock and roll. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Early career, 1941 -- 1948 2.2 Commercial success, 1948 -- 1957 2.3 Performances and crossover, 1958 -- 1970 2.4 Resurgence and later career, 1971 -- 1982 3 Personal life 4 Death 5 Legacy 6 Awards and recognition 6.1 Grammy Awards 6.2 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 6.3 Blues Foundation Awards 6.4 Inductions 7 Discography 7.1 Studio albums 8 Notes 9 References 10 External links Early life Muddy Waters ' birthplace and date are not conclusively known. He stated that he was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, in 1915, but it is believed to be more likely that he was born in Jug 's Corner, in neighboring Issaquena County, in 1913. Recent research has uncovered documentation showing that in the 1930s and 1940s, before his rise to fame, the year of his birth was reported as 1913 on his marriage license, recording notes, and musicians ' union card. 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 1920 census lists him as five years old as of March 6, 1920, suggesting that his birth year may have been 1914. 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. His gravestone gives his birth year as 1915. His grandmother, Della Grant, raised him after his mother died shortly after his birth. Grant gave him the nickname `` Muddy '' at an early age because he loved to play in the muddy water of nearby Deer Creek. `` Waters '' was added years later, as he began to play harmonica and perform locally in his early teens. The remains of the cabin on Stovall Plantation where he lived in his youth are now at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He had his first introduction to music in church : `` I used to belong to church. I was a good Baptist, singing in the church. So I got all of my good moaning and trembling going on for me right out of church, '' he recalled. By the time he was 17, he had purchased his first guitar. `` I sold the last horse that we had. 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. It was a Stella. The people ordered them from Sears - Roebuck in Chicago. '' He started playing his songs in joints near his hometown, mostly on a plantation owned by Colonel William Howard Stovall. Career Early career, 1941 -- 1948 In August 1941, Alan Lomax went 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, '' Muddy recalled for Rolling Stone magazine, `` and when he played back the first song I sounded just like anybody 's records. Man, you do n'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 in July 1942 to record him again. Both sessions were eventually released by Testament Records as Down on Stovall 's Plantation. The complete recordings were reissued by Chess Records on CD as Muddy Waters : The Complete Plantation Recordings. The Historic 1941 -- 42 Library of Congress Field Recordings in 1993 and remastered in 1997. In 1943, Muddy Waters headed to Chicago with the hope of becoming a full - time professional musician. He lived with a relative for a short period while driving a truck and working in a factory by day and performing at night. Big Bill Broonzy, then one of the leading bluesmen in Chicago, had Muddy Waters open his shows in the rowdy clubs where Broonzy played. This gave Muddy Waters the opportunity to play in front of a large audience. In 1944, he bought his first electric guitar and then formed his first electric combo. He felt obliged to electrify his sound in Chicago because, he said, `` When I went into the clubs, the first thing I wanted was an amplifier. Could n't nobody hear you with an acoustic. '' His sound reflected the optimism of postwar African Americans. Willie Dixon said that `` There was quite a few people around singing the blues but most of them was singing all sad blues. Muddy was giving his blues a little pep. '' Three years later, in 1946, he recorded some songs for Mayo Williams at Columbia Records, with an old - fashioned combo consisting of clarinet, saxophone and piano ; they were released a year later with Ivan Ballen 's Philadelphia - based 20th Century label, billed as James `` Sweet Lucy '' Carter and his Orchestra - Muddy Waters ' name was not mentioned on the label. Later that year, he began recording for Aristocrat Records, a newly formed label run by the brothers Leonard and Phil Chess. In 1947, he played guitar with Sunnyland Slim on piano on the cuts `` Gypsy Woman '' and `` Little Anna Mae ''. These were also shelved, but in 1948, `` I Ca n't Be Satisfied '' and `` I Feel Like Going Home '' became hits, and his popularity in clubs began to take off. Soon after, Aristocrat changed its name to Chess Records. Muddy Waters 's signature tune `` Rollin ' Stone '' also became a hit that year. Commercial success, 1948 -- 1957 Initially, the Chess brothers would not allow Muddy Waters to use his working band in the recording studio ; instead, he was provided with a backing bass by Ernest `` Big '' Crawford or by musicians assembled specifically for the recording session, including `` Baby Face '' Leroy Foster and Johnny Jones. Gradually, Chess relented, and by September 1953 he was recording with one of the most acclaimed blues groups in history : Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Elga Edmonds ( also known as Elgin Evans ) on drums, and Otis Spann on piano. 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 ''. Along with his former harmonica player Little Walter Jacobs and recent southern transplant Howlin ' Wolf, Muddy Waters reigned over the early 1950s Chicago blues scene, his band becoming a proving ground for some of the city 's best blues talent. Little Walter continued a collaborative relationship long after he left Muddy Waters 's band in 1952, appearing on most of the band 's classic recordings in the 1950s. Muddy Waters developed a long - running, generally good - natured rivalry with Wolf. The success of his ensemble paved the way for others in his group to make their own solo careers. In 1952, Little Walter left when his single `` Juke '' became a hit, and in 1955, Rogers quit to work exclusively with his own band, which had been a sideline until that time. During the mid-1950s, Muddy Waters ' singles were frequently on Billboard magazine 's various Rhythm & Blues charts including `` Sugar Sweet '' in 1955 and `` Trouble No More '', `` Forty Days and Forty Nights '', and `` Do n't Go No Farther '' in 1956. 1956 also saw the release of one of his best - known numbers, `` Got My Mojo Working '', although it did not appear on the charts. However, by the late 1950s, his singles success had come to an end, with only `` Close to You '' reaching the chart in 1958. Also in 1958, Chess released Muddy Waters ' first album, The Best of Muddy Waters, which collected twelve of his singles up to 1956. Performances and crossover, 1958 -- 1970 Muddy toured England with Spann in 1958, where they were backed by local Dixieland - style or `` trad jazz '' musicians, including members of Chris Barber 's band. At the time, English audiences had only been exposed to acoustic folk blues, as performed by artists such as Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Big Bill Broonzy. Both the musicians and audiences were unprepared for Muddy Waters ' performance, which included his electric slide guitar playing. He recalled : They thought I was a Big Bill Broonzy ( but ) I was n't. I had my amplifier and Spann and I was going to do a Chicago thing. We opened up in Leeds, England. I was definitely too loud for them. The next morning we were in the headlines of the paper, ' Screaming Guitar and Howling Piano '. Although his performances alienated the old guard, some younger musicians, including Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies from Barber 's band, were inspired to go in the more modern, electric blues direction. Korner and Davies ' own groups included musicians who would later form the Rolling Stones ( named after Muddy 's 1950 hit `` Rollin ' Stone '' ), Cream, and the original Fleetwood Mac. In the 1960s, Muddy Waters ' performances continued to introduce a new generation to Chicago blues. At the Newport Jazz Festival, he recorded one of the first live blues albums, At Newport 1960, and his performance of `` Got My Mojo Working '' was nominated for a Grammy award. In September 1963, in Chess ' attempt to connect with folk music audiences, Muddy Waters recorded Folk Singer, which replaced his trademark electric guitar sound with an acoustic band, including a then - unknown Buddy Guy on acoustic guitar. 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. In October 1963, Muddy Waters participated in the first of several annual European tours, organized as the American Folk Blues Festival, during which he also performed more acoustic - oriented numbers. In 1967, he re-recorded several blues standards with Bo Diddley, Little Walter, and Howlin ' Wolf, which were marketed as Super Blues and The Super Super Blues Band albums in Chess ' attempt to reach a rock audience. In 1968, at the instigation of Marshall Chess, Muddy Waters recorded Electric Mud, an album intended to revive his career by backing him with Rotary Connection, a psychedelic soul band that Chess had put together. The album proved controversial ; although it reached number 127 on the Billboard 200 album chart, it was scorned by many critics, and eventually disowned by Muddy himself : That Electric Mud record I did, that one was dogshit. But when it first came out, it started selling like wild, and then they started sending them back. They said, `` This ca n't be Muddy Waters with all this shit going on -- all this wow - wow and fuzztone ''. Nonetheless, six months later Muddy Waters recorded a follow - up album, After the Rain, which had a similar sound and featured many of the same musicians. Later in 1969, Muddy Waters recorded and released the album Fathers and Sons, which featured a return to his classic Chicago blues sound. Fathers and Sons had an all - star backing band that included Michael Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield, longtime fans whose desire to play with him was the impetus for the album. It was the most successful album of Muddy Waters ' career, reaching number 70 on the Billboard 200. Resurgence and later career, 1971 -- 1982 Muddy Waters with James Cotton, 1971 In 1971, a show at Mister Kelly 's, an upmarket Chicago nightclub, was recorded and released, signalling both Muddy 's return to form and the completion of his transfer to white audiences. In 1972, he won his first Grammy Award, for Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording for They Call Me Muddy Waters, a 1971 album of old, but previously unreleased recordings. Later in 1972, he flew to England to record the album The London Muddy Waters Sessions. The album was a follow - up to the previous year 's The London Howlin ' Wolf Sessions. 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. Muddy Waters brought with him two American musicians, harmonica player Carey Bell and guitarist Sammy Lawhorn. The British and Irish musicians who played on the album included Rory Gallagher, Steve Winwood, Rick Grech, and Mitch Mitchell. Muddy Waters was dissatisfied by the results, due to the British musicians ' more rock - oriented sound. `` 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 ai n't what I need to sell my people, it ai n't the Muddy Waters sound. An ' if you change my sound, then you gon na change the whole man. '' He stated, `` 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. '' Nevertheless, the album won another Grammy, again for Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording. 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. From 1977 to 1981, blues musician Johnny Winter, who had idolized Waters since childhood, produced four albums of Waters, all on the Blue Sky Records label : the studio albums Hard Again ( 1977 ), I 'm Ready ( 1978 ) and King Bee ( 1981 ), and the live album Muddy `` Mississippi '' Waters -- Live ( 1979 ). The albums were critical and commercial successes, with all but King Bee winning a Grammy. Hard Again has been especially praised by critics, who have tended to describe it as Waters ' comeback album. In 1981, Muddy Waters was invited to perform at ChicagoFest, the city 's top outdoor music festival. He was joined onstage by Johnny Winter, and played classics like `` Mannish Boy '', `` Trouble No More '', and `` Mojo Working '' to a new generation of fans. This historic performance was made available on DVD in 2009 by Shout ! Factory. Later that year, he performed live with the Rolling Stones at the Checkerboard Lounge ; a DVD version of the performance was released in 2012. In 1982, declining health dramatically stopped his performance schedule. His last public performance took place when he sat in with Eric Clapton 's band at a concert in Florida in the summer of 1982. Personal life Muddy Waters 's longtime wife, Geneva ( a first cousin of R.L. Burnside ), died of cancer on March 15, 1973. Gaining custody of some of his children, he moved them into his home, eventually buying a new house in Westmont, Illinois. Years later, he travelled to Florida and met his future wife, 19 - year - old Marva Jean Brooks, whom he nicknamed `` Sunshine ''. Eric Clapton served as best man at their wedding in 1979. His sons, Larry `` Mud '' Morganfield and Big Bill Morganfield, are also blues singers and musicians. In 2017, another son, Joseph `` Joe '' Morganfield, began publicly performing the blues, often with his brothers. Death This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( February 2017 ) Muddy Waters died in his sleep from heart failure, at his home in Westmont, Illinois, on April 30, 1983. Throngs of blues musicians and fans attended his funeral at Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, to pay tribute to one of the true originals of the art form. John P. Hammond told Guitar World magazine, `` Muddy was a master of just the right notes. 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. '' Legacy This section contains information of unclear or questionable importance or relevance to the article 's subject matter. Please help improve this section by clarifying or removing superfluous information. If importance can not be established, the section is likely to be moved to another article, pseudo-redirected, or removed. Find sources : `` Muddy Waters '' -- news newspapers books scholar JSTOR ( July 2017 ) This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( July 2017 ) Two years after his death, Chicago honored him by designating the one - block section between 900 and 1000 East 43rd Street near his former home on the south side `` Honorary Muddy Waters Drive ''. The Chicago suburb of Westmont, where Muddy lived the last decade of his life, named a section of Cass Avenue near his home `` Honorary Muddy Waters Way ''. Following his death, fellow blues musician B.B. King told Guitar World magazine, `` It 's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music ''. A Mississippi Blues Trail marker has been placed in Clarksdale, Mississippi, by the Mississippi Blues Commission designating the site of Muddy Waters ' cabin. In June 2017, a massive mural in downtown Chicago was dedicated to him. The Rolling Stones named themselves after his 1950 song `` Rollin ' Stone '' ( also known as `` Catfish Blues '', which was covered by Jimi Hendrix ). Rolling Stone magazine took its name from the same song. Hendrix recalled that `` the first guitar player I was aware of was Muddy Waters. I first heard him as a little boy and it scared me to death ''. The band Cream covered `` Rollin ' and Tumblin ' '' on their 1966 debut album, Fresh Cream, as Eric Clapton was a big fan of Muddy Waters when he was growing up, and his music influenced Clapton 's music career. The song was also covered by Canned Heat at the Monterey Pop Festival and later adapted by Bob Dylan on his album Modern Times. One of Led Zeppelin 's biggest hits, `` Whole Lotta Love '', is lyrically based on the Muddy Waters hit `` You Need Love '', written by Willie Dixon. Dixon wrote some of Muddy Waters ' songs, including `` I Just Want to Make Love to You '' ( a big radio hit for Etta James, as well as the 1970s rock band Foghat ), `` Hoochie Coochie Man '', which the Allman Brothers Band covered ( the song was also covered by Humble Pie, Steppenwolf, and Fear ), `` Trouble No More '' and `` I 'm Ready ''. In 1993, Paul Rodgers released the album Muddy Water Blues : A Tribute to Muddy Waters, on which he covered a number of Muddy Waters songs, including `` Louisiana Blues '', `` Rollin ' Stone '', `` Hoochie Coochie Man '' and `` I 'm Ready '' in collaboration with a number of guitarists, including Gary Moore, Brian May and Jeff Beck. Angus Young, of the rock group AC / DC, has cited Muddy Waters as one of his influences. 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.B. Lenoir. Earl Hooker first recorded it as an instrumental, which was then overdubbed with vocals by Muddy Waters in 1962. Led Zeppelin also covered it on their debut album. Muddy Waters ' songs have been featured in long - time fan Martin Scorsese 's movies, including The Color of Money, Goodfellas, and Casino. Muddy Waters ' 1970s recording of his mid - ' 50s hit `` Mannish Boy '' ( also known as `` I 'm a Man '' ) was used in the films Goodfellas, Better Off Dead, Risky Business, and the rockumentary The Last Waltz. Awards and recognition Grammy Awards Muddy Waters Grammy Award History Year Category Title Genre Label Result 1972 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording They Call Me Muddy Waters folk MCA / Chess winner 1973 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording The London Muddy Waters Session folk MCA / Chess winner Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album folk MCA / Chess winner 1978 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording Hard Again folk Blue Sky winner 1979 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording I 'm Ready folk Blue Sky winner 1980 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording Muddy `` Mississippi '' Waters Live folk Blue Sky winner Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listed four songs of Muddy Waters among the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. Year recorded Title 1950 `` Rollin ' Stone '' 1954 `` Hoochie Coochie Man '' 1955 `` Mannish Boy '' 1957 `` Got My Mojo Working '' Blues Foundation Awards Muddy Waters : Blues Music Awards Year Category Title Result 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 Year Inducted Title 1980 Blues Foundation Hall of Fame Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award U.S. Postage Stamp Year Stamp USA Note 1994 29 - cent commemorative stamp U.S. Postal Service Photo Discography Main article : Muddy Waters discography Studio albums Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill Broonzy ( 1960 ) Folk Singer ( 1964 ) Brass and the Blues ( 1966 ) Electric Mud ( 1968 ) After the Rain ( 1969 ) Fathers and Sons ( 1969 ) The London Muddy Waters Sessions ( 1972 ) Ca n't Get No Grindin ' ( 1973 ) `` Unk '' in Funk ( 1974 ) The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album ( 1975 ) Hard Again ( 1977 ) I 'm Ready ( 1978 ) King Bee ( 1981 ) Notes Jump up ^ Palmer, Robert ( May 1, 1983 ). `` Muddy Waters, Blues Performer, Dies ''. New York Times. Retrieved December 4, 2017. Jump up ^ Gordon 2002, pp. 4 -- 5. Jump up ^ Muddy Waters : Ca n't Be Satisfied ( DVD ). Winstar Communications. 2003. Jump up ^ `` 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 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. '' ^ Jump up to : Palmer, Robert ( October 5, 1978 ). `` Muddy Waters : The Delta Son Never Sets ''. Rolling Stone : 55. ^ Jump up to : Gordon, Robert. `` Muddy Waters : Ca n't Be Satisfied ''. PBS.org. Retrieved January 6, 2015. Jump up ^ Gordon 2002, p. 3. Jump up ^ Muddy Waters at Find a Grave Jump up ^ Chilton, Martin. `` Muddy Waters : Celebrating a Great Blues Musician ''. The Telegraph. Retrieved January 25, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Trail of the Hellhound : Muddy Waters ''. U.S. National Park Service.gov. Archived from the original on July 2, 2014. Retrieved 2012 - 12 - 24. CS1 maint : BOT : original - url status unknown ( link ) Jump up ^ `` Muddy Waters Cabin and Statue ''. Delta Blues Museum.org. Retrieved January 25, 2017. Jump up ^ `` What 's on View at the Delta Blues Museum ''. National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved January 25, 2017. ^ Jump up to : Szatmary 2014, p. 8. Jump up ^ Gordon 2002, p. 196. Jump up ^ `` Muddy Waters : The Complete Plantation Recordings ''. Discogs.com. Retrieved March 30, 2012. Jump up ^ O'Neal & Van Singel 2002, pp. 172 -- 173. Jump up ^ `` Ebony, Chicago, Southern, and Harlem : The Mayo Williams Indies ''. Archived from the original on June 22, 2009. Retrieved June 25, 2017. Jump up ^ Whitburn 1996, p. 435. Jump up ^ Gilliland, John ( 1969 ). `` Show 4 -- The Tribal Drum : The Rise of Rhythm and Blues. ( Part 2 ) '' ( audio ). Pop Chronicles. University of North Texas Libraries. Jump up ^ Dahl 1996. ^ Jump up to : Whitburn 1988, p. 435. Jump up ^ Gordon 2002, pp. 163 -- 164. ^ Jump up to : Gordon 2002, pp. 157 -- 159. ^ Jump up to : Eder 1996, p. 377. Jump up ^ Gordon 2002, p. 167. Jump up ^ Gordon 2002, p. 169. Jump up ^ Gordon 2002, p. 183. Jump up ^ `` The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ''. Rolling Stone ( 937 ). Straight Arrow. December 11, 2003. pp. 83 -- 178. ISSN 0035 - 791X. OCLC 1787396. Jump up ^ Gordon 2002, pp. 184 -- 185. Jump up ^ Gordon 2002, p. 197. Jump up ^ Gordon 2002, pp. 205 -- 207. Jump up ^ Gordon 2002, p. 207. Jump up ^ Eder, Bruce. `` Muddy Waters : After the Rain -- Album Review ''. AllMusic. Retrieved September 12, 2017. Jump up ^ Paige, Earl ( August 16, 1969 ). `` A Chess Album That May Set a Trend ''. Billboard : 46. Retrieved September 12, 2017. Jump up ^ Palmer 1981, p. 103. Jump up ^ Dahl, Bill ( 2008 ). `` Muddy Waters ''. Blues Finland. Jump up ^ Gioffre, Daniel. Review : Hard Again by Muddy Waters at AllMusic. Retrieved February 6, 2011. Jump up ^ Oppenheimer, Dan ( March 24, 1977 ). `` Album Review : Hard Again by Muddy Waters ''. Rolling Stone. Retrieved February 6, 2011. Jump up ^ `` Checkerboard Lounge : Live Chicago 1981 ( DVD ) -- The Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters ''. AllMusic. Retrieved January 6, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Muddy Waters ''. Rolling Stone. Retrieved January 6, 2015. Jump up ^ Muddy Waters Biography -- Part 3. Blues-Finland.com. Retrieved 2011 - 01 - 06. Jump up ^ Jet, 28 June 1979. Jump up ^ `` List of honorary Chicago street designations '' ( PDF ). Chicagoancestors.org. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 2009 - 03 - 25. Retrieved 2009 - 07 - 18. Jump up ^ `` Photo of `` Honorary Muddy Waters Way '' street sign in Weston, Illinois ``. Todayschicagoblues.blogspot.com. November 23, 2008. Retrieved 2009 - 07 - 18. Jump up ^ `` Mississippi Blues Commission -- Blues Trail ''. Msbluestrail.org. Retrieved May 28, 2008. 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Muddy Waters Studio albums 1964 Folk Singer 1967 Super Blues 1968 Electric Mud 1969 After the Rain Fathers and Sons 1972 The London Muddy Waters Sessions 1977 Hard Again 1978 I 'm Ready 1981 King Bee Live albums 1960 At Newport 1960 1969 Fathers and Sons 1979 Muddy `` Mississippi '' Waters -- Live 2012 Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981 Compilations 1958 The Best of Muddy Waters 1967 The Real Folk Blues 1969 Sail On 2000 Rollin ' Stone : The Golden Anniversary Collection The Anthology ( 1947 -- 1972 ) Noted singles 1950 `` Rollin ' and Tumblin ' '' `` Rollin ' Stone '' `` Walkin ' Blues '' 1951 `` Long Distance Call '' 1953 `` Baby Please Do n't Go '' 1954 `` Hoochie Coochie Man '' `` I Just Want to Make Love to You '' `` I 'm Ready '' 1955 `` Mannish Boy '' 1956 `` Trouble No More '' `` Forty Days and Forty Nights '' `` Rock Me '' `` Got My Mojo Working '' 1962 `` You Shook Me '' Related articles Discography Chicago blues Delta blues Willie Dixon Little Walter Jimmy Rogers Otis Spann Chess Records Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 1987 Performers The Coasters ( Carl Gardner, Cornell Gunter, Billy Guy, Dub Jones ) Eddie Cochran Bo Diddley Aretha Franklin Marvin Gaye Bill Haley B.B. 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Question: muddy waters is associated with which subgenre of the blues
Answer: Chicago blues