The man known as Muddy Waters was born McKinley A. Morganfield on April 4, 1913 in Jug's Corner, Issaquena County, Mississippi. Settling in Chicago in the 1940s, he would change the year to 1915 in an effort to look younger for showbiz, and the place to Rolling Fork, Sharkey County -- simply because Rolling Fork was where the train stopped, the nearest place "on the map". Although his now-famous nickname does date back to his childhood, the 's' at the end of Waters was only added in 1948, on the label of his first hit record "I Can't Be Satisfied"/"I Feel Like Going Home". English Home Finnish Home CDON.COM - blueslevyt Muddy's mother was Berta Grant, reportedly at least 12 and less than 20 years old when her son was born. Muddy's father, Ollie Morganfield, born October 20, 1890, was known in the area as an entertainer, singing and playing guitar and washboard at country parties. However, when Muddy took his band to meet his Dad in the 1950's, James Cotton asked the old man if he played the guitar and Ollie just pointed to Muddy, stating proudly: "No, that boy!" Muddy's parents never married, and it was his maternal grandmother, Della Grant, who raised him; she was 32 when Muddy was born. By the spring of 1920, they had moved 80 miles north to the Stovall Plantation in Coahoma County. It was there that Muddy was to make his first recordings for the Library of Congress, identifying himself in 1941 as "Stovall's famous guitar picker". That's How You Learn Muddy's first instrument was a kerosene can he used for a drum, next came the accordion, then the Jew's harp, and then a guitar he built from a box and a stick: "Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn!" By the time he was 13, he had spent 6 years mastering the harm... ... middle of paper ... ...la, mandolin, and guitar, and had recorded in Wisconsin with Charlie Patton. A fan of the Mississippi Sheiks, Muddy had hooked up with the similar-sounding Son Sims Four in 1933; Lomax would be back to record the full band in 1942. But it was the two 1941 solo numbers that would build up Muddy's confidence for the move to Chicago and -- as electric reworkings on Chess -- provide his first hit. In January 1943, Lomax sent Muddy two copies of the Library of Congress that had one of his tunes on either side; Muddy got dressed up and had his picture taken with the disc, something he had never done with either of his wives. Six months later Muddy the tractor driver got into an argument over his wages with the plantation overseer, and armed with his grandmother's blessings, a borrowed suit of clothes and an acoustic Sears Silvertone guitar, boarded the train for Chicago.
Maggie was born in Woodland, Mississippi. Her parents were Jim and Maude. Her father was a sharecropper, even though he was more educated that the man he worked for. He was the leader of the farm, other than the fact that the white owner got all the money.
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, more commonly known as Jelly Roll Morton, was born to a creole family in a poor neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. Morton lived with several family members in different areas of New Orleans, exposing him to different musical worlds including European and classical music, dance music, and the blues (Gushee, 394). Morton tried to play several different instruments including the guitar; however, unsatisfied with the teachers’ lack of training, he decided to teach himself how to play instruments without formal training (Lomax, 8). ...
Hank Williams Jr as we know him was born Hank Randall Williams, born in small town Shreveport, Louisiana, on May 26, 1949. Hank Jr was only three when his father Hank died, but that did not stop his music dream. At just the age of 8 Hank Jr began singing his dad songs on stage. “Williams made his stage debut at the age of 8 and his first appearance at Nashville's famed Grand Ole Opry at age 11. At age 15, Williams had his first Top 5 hit on the country charts. " (http://www.biography.com/) Even though his father was gone, Hank Jr helped carry on his legacy through music. His mother being his biggest supporter, helped him along the way.
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Lucky Peterson is a blues musician I had never heard until a couple of weeks before the show. I began to research him as the show approached and found out that Lucky had been performing since he was five years old. Performances such as The Tonight Show with Ed Sullivan in 1964, the same year that The Supremes and The Beatles made their first appearances. The earliest performance I could find of Lucky was when he was seven years old playing a Hammond B3 electric organ. Tonight almost 40 years later he would play at the Epcor Centre in Calgary with his wife Tamara Peterson.
and Sonny Greer left the band together and formed their own band but then in
Robert quit school as a teen and started working in the cotton fields. Robert left that life to travel and play his music. He began to play the guitar around the age of fifteen. Famous blues men; Charlie Patton and Willie Brown influenced Johnson when he was young. At age 17, Robert married Virginia Travis.
Troyal Garth Brooks (well known as Garth Brooks) was born and raised in a small town near Tulsa, Oklahoma on February 7, 1962. He was born the youngest out of five siblings to his parents Troyal and Colleen Carroll Brooks. While growing up, music was not foreign to the family. Every member had some kind of relation to music, whether it be an instrument or singing.
history. But he soon went back to music. He signed with a fusion Jazz band called Secrets,
Louis Armstrong was born in one of the poorest sections in New Orleans, August 4, 1901. Louis a hard-working kid who helped his mother and sister by working every type of job there was, including going out on street corners at night to singing for coins. Slowly making money, Louis bought his first horn, a cornet. At age eleven Armstrong was sent to juvenile Jones Home for the colored waifs for firing a pistol on New Year’s Eve. While in jail Armstrong received his first formal music lesson from one of the friends he met their, he later played in Home’s brass band that was located in the same facility. Armstrong gained experience from the band. After a year and six month he was released. After being released he considered himself as a musician.
Hank Williams was born on September 17, 1923. He was born at Mount Olive, Butler County, Alabama. His full name is Hiram King Williams. His parents were Elonzo Huble and Jessie Lillybelle Skipper Williams. His father actually left him and his family when Hank was little. Williams loved music as a child. According to ( https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/hiram-king-williams-1568.php) Williams learned
One year later, he joined his wife in her group called the Dreamland Syncopators and this was very important as he achieved many of his firsts there (Louis ‘Satchmo’). By this time, he had switched from cornet to trumpet, and the Armstrong Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings of 1925-28 were how he emerged as the first great jazz solo artist and also by that time, the New Orleans ensemble style was not able to contain the creativity that he gave off such as his brilliant technique, his sophisticated and audacious sense of harmony, his always expressive attack, timbre, and inflections, his gift to create vital melodies, its dramatic, often complex sense of individual design, and his enormous energy and musical genius made these recordings great innovations in jazz (“Louis Armstrong”). His fame began rising and by 1929, he was playing with Carrol Dickerson’s Orchestra while also leading his own band in the same place, Hot Chocolates, with the name of Louis Armstrong and his Stompers (Louis ‘Satchmo’). Here, he sang “Ain’t Misbehavin’ ” which became his first popular hit song and his trumpet playing hit a peak around 1933 which after that his music became less complicated giving it a mature feel compared to his playing in previous years and actually re-recorded some of his songs and ended up with great results (“Louis Armstrong”).
When I was younger I would travel down to Jackson, Mississippi for the entire summer to visit my grandparents. There I would play with my cousin day in and day out just in the mud. We would make mud pies and pretend that we had a mud café that was the best in town, or sometimes we would be hairstylists and do each other’s hair with mud. Even though it was a pain to clean up I enjoyed it. Playing in the mud is something that I had in common with the artist Muddy Waters. Born McKinley Morganfield on April 4, 1915 to Ollie Morganfield and Bertha Jones, who later died when McKinley was three. After his mother died he was given to his maternal grandmother Delta Grant. As a child Waters would play and go fishing in muddy ponds and his grandmother
As the years passed, more musicians started to pay attention to Louis. They started to call him "Satchelmouth" because of his large teeth and smile. Soon "Stchmo" was his nickname. King Oliver was especially kind to Louis. He let Louis fill in for him while he rested between songs, and if he had to many music engagements, he sent Louis to fill in for him. Louis found a job driving a coal cart in the day, but at night he was a first class jazz musician. In 1917 Joe "King" Oliver leaves Kid Ory"s orchestra; and Louis replaces him. Louis loved playing in Kid Ory's band. He would sail up and down the Mississippi River playing for the parties and dances. He learned how to read music and soon Louis was righting his own songs. IN 1918 he married Daisy Parker.
Jimi Hendrix, born Johnny Allen Hendrix at 10:15 a.m. on November 27, 1942, at Seattle's King County Hospital, was later renamed James Marshall by his father, James "Al" Hendrix. Young Jimmy (as he was referred to at the time) took an interest in music, drawing influence from virtually every major artist at the time, including B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Holly, and Robert Johnson. Entirely self-taught, Jimmy's inability to read music made him concentrate even harder on the music he heard.