It's Muddy Waters' Birthday!

Born April 4, 1913 (or 15) in Issaquena County, Mississippi

Passed April 30, 1983

Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) was instrumental in bringing the sound of the delta to Chicago and transforming it into the electric blues that we know today. I can't imagine my teenage years without Muddy's music.

When others of my peers were listening to Led Zepplin, or the Rolling Stones, I was being called by the sources of the music.

Even today, twenty-five years after his passing and forty years or so since I first heard this stuff, when I hear Muddy's recordings of "Mannish Boy" or "I Can't Be Satisfied" I get a chill.

Get your mojo workin'!