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Post by Admin on May 19, 2013 18:00:02 GMT -5
What's your favorite Muddy Waters song?
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Post by Admin on May 20, 2013 9:05:44 GMT -5
Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Workin'
Muddy Waters I Just Want To Make Love To You
Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man
Muddy Waters - Manish Boy
Muddy Waters - I'm Ready
Muddy Waters - Rollin' Stone
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Post by muddylives on May 20, 2013 15:37:52 GMT -5
I chose Long Distance Call.
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Post by Admin on May 31, 2013 9:41:16 GMT -5
30 Years Later: Remembering Muddy Waters It's been 30 years since the great bluesman passed. Gibson has honored Muddy Waters' memory with some tips on how to achieve his gnarly, eviscerating blues tone. Listen to enough of the work of any truly great guitar player through the course of their career and you soon enough learn that they have the ability to stamp their tonal signature on their performances no matter what gear they are using; that said, many legendary guitarists are most associated with particular guitar/amp/effects set-ups, and often have other stylistic traits that influence their sound. The great blues artist Muddy Waters was no exception. From guitar playing, to voice, to songwriting style, he embodied a sound that was all his own, and which has become associated with a timeless breed of electric blues. Early in his career, Waters played a range of acoustic and semi-acoustic electric guitars, including models by Gretsch, Stella, and Harmony, and was famously photographed in the early 1950s with a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop with P-90 pickups. He is far and away most associated, however, with the red Fender Telecaster that became his mainstay from the late 1950s until his death in 1983. Distinguished by the amplifier control knobs with which he replaced his guitar’s original volume and tone controls, and the extra screws that he added to the thin plastic pickguard to prevent it from buckling, Muddy Waters’ Telecaster is one of the most distinctive guitars of all time. Thought of more as a country or early rock and roll instrument, the basic, slab-bodied Tele isn’t associated with the blues as much today as instruments such as the Fender Stratocaster and Gibson ES-335 or Les Paul, but in the hands of Muddy Waters this simple, two-pickup, bolt-neck guitar with alder body finished in candy apple red and maple neck with slab rosewood fingerboard epitomized the raw, wiry, and emotive voice of this artist’s trenchant, moving music. (Note that another blues originator, Albert Collins, also played a Telecaster, and Mike Bloomfield, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck all played Telecasters or Esquires at various times in their careers.) The real magic in the Tele sound occurs at the bridge pickup, where a fat but bright sounding singlecoil pickup is suspended in a thin, stamped-steel bridge plate to which (in the vintage models) three two-string saddles are mounted. This entire bridge assembly becomes a resonating, honking, microphonic tone machine¬—for better or worse—which gives the Tele a blend of sizzle, twang, and strident highs that really aren’t achieved by any other type of electric guitar. This is the definitive country lead guitar sound, but played aggressively with the raw, unique stylings of a master such as Muddy Waters, it also yields an unforgettable blues tone. Waters played through a range of amplifiers early on, but from the mid ’60s he most often blasted his mojo to the masses through a Fender Super Reverb combo. This 40-watt tube amp uses two 6L6GC output tubes in fixed bias, and carries a large output transformer to present a bold, punchy tone to its four 10” speakers. Crank one up, with all knobs on “9” as Muddy liked to play his, and inject a hot, spanking Telecaster, and you’ve got a gnarly, eviscerating blues tone that will cut through any mix. Of course there’s more to the Muddy tone than just the guitar-amp combination. Waters had an unusual playing style that has become a benchmark for a particular genre of electric blues. He picked the bass notes on the lower three strings with a thumb pick, while strumming upwards with bare fingers on the three treble strings for his melody and lead lines, which he frequently executed with a small steel pinky slide. Waters strung his Tele with heavy .012-.056 gauge strings, but often played in open G tuning, which—because it involves dropping the low E to D, the A to G, and the high E to D—takes a little of the tension off the strings, compared to standard tuning. To hear the best of Muddy Waters’ fluid yet frenetic electric style, seek out live recordings of his great tunes such as “Mannish Boy,” “Rollin’ And Tumblin,’” “Hoochie Coochie Man,” “Rock Me,” and “Got My Mojo Workin’.” Using the simplest of ingredients, this master produced a tone that was entirely his own.
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Post by Admin on Jun 8, 2013 9:53:11 GMT -5
The reissue of this 1984 release puts some rare gems on CD for the first time. Some of the seminal bluesman's earliest sessions are here, including two tracks from 1947-48 with the legendary Sunnyland Slim, as well as some early sessions with Jimmy Rogers and Little Walter. There are also some later 1950s sessions, including James Cotton's first recording--that's him playing harmonica on "Let Me Hang Around." This album is far more than a historical curiosity, however; it contains Muddy sessions that can be found nowhere else (except on bootleg, and the sound quality of the legit recording is far, far better), performed with his usual exquisite and unique style, and is thus essential listening. --Genevieve Williams
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Post by muddylives on Jun 8, 2013 15:54:17 GMT -5
Thanks, Jim. I bought that collection when it first came out, and really enjoyed it. That review is a bit dated, however. All of these tracks and much much more can now be found of the three 2-disc compilations that reissue all of Muddy's Aristocrat and Chess recordings in chronological order through 1963:
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Post by Admin on Jun 8, 2013 16:11:26 GMT -5
Thanks, Jim. I bought that collection when it first came out, and really enjoyed it. That review is a bit dated, however. All of these tracks and much much more can now be found of the three 2-disc compilations Thanks.
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Post by steve on Jun 11, 2013 16:19:49 GMT -5
I saw Muddy play in London in, I think, 1977 at the Hammersmith Palais.
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Post by AlanB on Jun 12, 2013 0:27:18 GMT -5
I saw Muddy play in London in, I think, 1977 at the Hammersmith Palais. FWIW my pocket diary for that year tells me I went to see him on Friday 8 July 1977 at the Apollo theatre in Victoria.
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Post by Admin on Oct 22, 2013 11:49:12 GMT -5
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Post by dadfad on Oct 23, 2013 7:22:00 GMT -5
The female genitalia is (was) sometimes called cock, especially from some areas of the south. I remember back when I was about sixteen and I was working in this gas station. Basically most of the guys working there were a bunch of gool ol' boys from Kentucky and Alabama who spent most of their time tinkering with their hot-rods. Once, on payday when we were given our checks, one of them said to me "I'm goin' out tonight an' gettin' me some cock. I suppose a good-lookin' young fellar like you gets plenty!" I thought "Uh-oh........." A few minutes later the station owner, who'd heard it, came up to me and said "Don't worry about Wallace. Where he comes from they call pussy cock. It's kind of old fashioned slang, but it still gets used sometimes. He's okay."
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Post by Admin on Oct 23, 2013 7:40:28 GMT -5
I remember back in my youth, singing the song, "Mademoiselle from Armentières". This was a song that was sung during World War I. It is also known by its ersatz French line, Hinky Dinky Parlez-vous (variant: Parley voo). It was considered a risque song, and when sung on the radio.
One variation was:
The first marine went over the rock, parlez-vous The second marine went over the rock, parlez-vous The third marine went over the rock, To get him a piece of that German Cock, Hinky Dinky Parlez-vous
smiley-laughing024
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Post by Admin on Dec 3, 2013 8:20:00 GMT -5
Muddy Waters on The Blues and Gospel Train One of the most unique concerts from the British blues revival of the 1960s was the “Blues and Gospel Train,” filmed May 7, 1964 by Granada TV for the BBC. Full Story from Open Culture
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Post by Admin on Jan 7, 2014 10:29:19 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Apr 4, 2014 0:40:37 GMT -5
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