yeah but he wasn't quite the bandleader that McKinley was. I dunno, love them both, but Muddy did more to change the game than Chester did. I mean if you listen to those complete Chess masters of Mud ... damn it's alchemy. Wolfy + Sumlin = incredibly genius. But Muddy ... listen to the complete recordings and marvel at the genius. ..
― Stylez G. White (Stormy Davis), Saturday, 31 January 2009 07:48 (fifteen years ago) link
the graduates from Muddy's school ... Little Walter, Otis Spann, Jimmy Rogers ... jeez... the best. Better band than Wolf had obv
― Stylez G. White (Stormy Davis), Saturday, 31 January 2009 07:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Been digging Still a Fool an awful lot since this poll.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 31 January 2009 10:49 (fifteen years ago) link
The correct answer obv is WILLIE DIXON, for all the right reasons.
Other than that, Wolf-Wolf-Wolf. A big regret that I never got to see him howl, though I did see Sam Lay drumming @ a North Side blues club 15-20 yrs ago. I picked up some left hand shuffle patterns from those late 50s Chess sides.
Some mild entertainment to be found in that terrible Empire Records movie...
― factcheckr, Saturday, 31 January 2009 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Cadillac Records was really great, tho.
― Mordy, Saturday, 31 January 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha. Oops, meant Cadillac. It was terrible IMO.
― factcheckr, Saturday, 31 January 2009 23:57 (fifteen years ago) link
You go no wrong which ever way you go.
For recordings made by an artist so late into his career, the albums Muddy Waters did with Johnny Winter are really good and have a lot of energy.
― earlnash, Sunday, 1 February 2009 04:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I would vote for the Wolf if the poll was still open. He was a better guitarist than he was given credit for and he was a great harp player. But having said that his voice was a force of nature and the reason he wins.
― Jim, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
101 years ago today, Muddy Waters was born
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 April 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
And what did the gypsy woman tell his mama again?
― Tompall Tudor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 April 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
He did alright for a bad-luck child
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
https://www.austin360.com/story/entertainment/music/2021/04/19/austin-paul-oscher-obit-blues-musician-muddy-waters-sideman-dies/7287585002/
Muddy’s first white musician I read was Paul Oscher, harmonica player and guitarist who just died of Covid related causes. Was apparently very ill for awhile
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link