Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters, gerçek adıyla McKinley Morganfield, (d. 4 Nisan 1913, Issaquena County, Mississippi - ö. 30 Nisan 1983, Westmont, İllinois), Amerikalı blues müzisyeni, yaygın kanıyla " Chicago blues'un babası".
Blues müzik türünün temelini oluşturduğu varsayılan Waters, II. Dünya Savaşı öncesinde blues tarzın önde gelen adıydı. Mızıka çalmaya başlayarak müziğe olan ilgisini hayata geçiren Waters, "Evlatlar Evi" olarak bilinen Eddie James'le tanışmasının ardından 20'li yaşlarında Willie Wilson'dan etkilendi. O dönemde sahneye çıkarak gitar çaldı. 1943 yılında Chicago'ya taşındı.1958 yılında İngiltere turnesine çıkan sanatçı geniş dinleyici kitlelerince tanınıp sevildi. Yaşamı boyunca maddi sıkıntılar çeken Muddy Waters, kamyon şöförlüğü, boyacılık gibi işlerde çalışarak bir yandan geçimini sağladı ve birçok albüm üretti. İlk çıkan elektrogitarları kullanmaktan kaçınmayan Waters, "Missisipi" takma adıyla anılmaktaydı.
Şarkı sözü yazarlığı da yapan ve Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones gibi müzisyen ve toplulukların etkilendiği sanatçı, kalp yetmezliği nedeniyle yaşamını yitirdi.
Ödülleri
Grammy Ödülleri
Grammy Hall of Fame
Recordings of Muddy Waters were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance."
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listed four songs of Muddy Waters of the 500 songs that shaped rock.
The Blues Foundation Ödülleri
Inductions
U. S. Postage Stamp
Diskografi
Albüm
The Best of Muddy Waters (1958), Chess
At Newport 1960 (1960), Chess
Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill Broonzy (1960), Chess
Folk Singer (1964), Chess
The Real Folk Blues (1966), Chess
Muddy, Brass and the Blues (1966), Chess
More Real Folk Blues (1967), Chess
Super Blues: Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Little Walter (1967), Checker
The Super Super Blues Band: Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf (1967), Checker
Electric Mud (1968), MCA/Chess
After the Rain (1969), Chess
Fathers and Sons (1969), MCA/Chess
Sail On (1969), Wolf
They Call Me Muddy Waters (1971), Chess
A. K. A. McKinley Morganfield (1971), Chess
Live (at Mr. Kelly's) (1971), Chess
The London Muddy Waters Sessions (1972), MCA/Chess
Can't Get No Grindin''' (1973), Chess
London Revisted with Howlin' Wolf (1974), Chess
'Unk' In Funk (1974), Chess
The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album (1975), MCA/Chess
Live at Jazz Jamboree '76 (1976), Polljazz
His Best 1947-1955 (1976)
Hard Again (1977), Blue Sky
I'm Ready (1978), Blue Sky
Muddy "Mississippi" Waters - Live (1979)
King Bee (album) (1981), Blue Sky
Rolling Stone (1982), Chess
Rare and Unissued (1982), MCA/Chess
Muddy & The Wolf (1983)
Trouble No More (1989)
The Complete Plantation Recordings (1993)
Paris, 1972 (1997)
Goin' Way Back (1997), Just A Memory
One More Mile (1998)
A Tribute To Muddy Waters King Of The Blues (1999)
Hoochie Coochie Man (1999)
The Golden Anniversary Collection (2000)
The Anthology (1947-1972)'' (2001), MCA/Chess
Single
1941 "Country Blues" (Recorded By Alan Lomax)
1941 "I Be's Troubled" (Recorded By Alan Lomax)
1942 "Ramblin' Kid Blues"
1947 "Little Anna Mae"
1948 "Hard Days"
1948 "Down South Blues"
1949 "Screamin' And Cryin'"
1949 "Last Time I Fool Around With You"
1950 "Rollin' Stone" aka "Catfish Blues"
1950 "Rollin' and Tumblin'"
1950 "Walkin' Blues"
1951 "Howlin' Wolf"
1951 "Lonesome Day"
1951 "They Call Me Muddy Waters"
1951 "Still A Fool"
1951 "Long Distance Call"
1951 "Honey Bee"
1952 "Iodine In My Coffee"
1953 "Sad Sad Day"
1954 "I Just Want to Make Love to You"
1954 "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man"
1954 "I'm Ready"
1955 "Mannish Boy"
1955 "Trouble No More"
1955 "Sugar Sweet"
1956 "All Aboard"
1956 "Rock Me"
1956 "Forty Days and Forty Nights"
1957 "Got My Mojo Working"
1957 "Good Lookin' Woman"
1958 "Born Lover"
1959 "Goin' Down Louisiana" (aka "Louisiana Blues")
1960 "Deep Down In My Heart"
1961 "Messin' With The Man"
1962 "Going Home"
1962 "You Shook Me"
1963 "Let Me Hang Around"
1964 "My Home is on The Delta"
1965 "Early Morning Blues"
1966 "Canary Bird"
1967 "Trainfare Blues"
1968 "Mud In Your Ear"
1969 "Blues And Trouble"
1970 "Blues For Hippies"
1971 "Strange Woman"
1972 "My Pencil Won't Write No More"
1973 "Muddy Waters Shuffle"
1974 "Drive My Blues Away"
1975 "Born With Nothing"
1977 "Crosseyed Cat"
1978 "Copper Brown"
1979 "She's Nineteen Years Old"
1981 "Forever Lonely"