Muddy Waters :: Blues Music

Blues as an graphics form gave Blacks a medium to manifest their feelings. Feelings ranging from humorous to silly to depressed. fortunately for a entire genre of music, the only way for Mckinley Morganfield to express himself was through song. Morganfield better known as Muddy amnionic fluid became a fabled blues vocalist /guitarist. When the Blues industry saw commercial victory many of its artists also saw rising fame. Muddy waters enjoyed advantage in the industry up until and even after his death in 1983. Morganfield was born April 4, 1915 to Ollie Morganfield and Bertha Jones. He was born in Rollingfork, Mississippi. Near their twain board shack in Rollingfork there was a creek, Deer Creek. As a new-fangledster he used to play in the creek and ache all dirty and muddy. It was at this point when his sisters gave him the nickname Muddy Waters. Bertha died when he was about three. After her death he had to move in with his grandm other in Clarksdale. Raised in Clarksdale, he also went to trail there. He went to school until he was old enough to work in the fields. Much like all of the other field laborers Muddy Waters hollered in the fields to pass time or just to cause things off of your chest. Waters would also teach himself to play instruments. When he was cardinal he knew how to play the harmonica and he would later teach himself the guitar. The young Waters followed in his fathers musician footsteps. He was part of a roofy at fifteen, with Scott Bowhandle on guitar and Sonny Simms playing the violin. They would play some Saturday nights in downtown Clarksdale and others he would sell fried fish on nights. And other nights he would watch the greats like Son House, Robert Johnson and Charlie Patton were great musical influences on Waters. The main influence on Waters was Son House, although Waters name of play was more similar to that of Robert Johnson. Muddy Waters was first know by word of mouth. Alan Lomax of The Library of Congress went to Clarksdale to record Robert Johnson. But to his dismay, he found out that Robert Johnson was dead and had been for two years. The word on the channel at that time led Lomax to Muddy Waters. Waters would record two songs with them in 1941, far before he became famous.