Blues as an art 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 Waters became a legendary blues vocalist /guitarist. When the Blues industry saw commercial success many of its artists also saw rising fame. Muddy Waters enjoyed success in the industry up until and even after his death in 1983
in a blues rhythm called the shuffle beat, which works by using the “pre” beat be... ... middle of paper ... ...ow. The lyrics of the song are intended to be quite humorous and play around with old rural traditions as well as a masculine hoochie coochie man. Both B.B King and Muddy Waters have had a huge impact on the blues culture and will remembered as major contributors of not only the blues genre but of music in general. Works Cited • "B.B. King." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Dec
middle of paper ... ... Georgia, as the film Ray portrays, segregation in Georgia was present. The fact that in a state where black people and white people could not even drink from the same drinking fountain selected a state song sung by a black man shows great progress in race relations. It is best summed up as it is in the movie Ray, “Ray Charles changed American Culture by touching people’s hearts,” (Ray, 2:24:05). It is clear that music shaped the social climate and the social climate shaped
music. Growing up in Issaquena County, Mississippi, Waters grew up immersed in the Delta blues, and in 1943, he moved to Chicago and began playing in clubs. A record deal followed, and his major hits like "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" and "Rollin' Stone" made him an iconic Chicago blues man. (Deming, Mark. “Muddy Waters | Biography & History.”) He was given the nickname "Muddy Waters" because he liked to play in the swampy puddles of the Mississippi
National Parks Service. U.S. Department of the Interior, n.d. Web. 7 Apr. 2014. Waters, Muddy, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Otis Spann, Jimmy Rogers, Elgar Edmonds, and Big Crawford. Hoochie Coochie Man. New World Records, 1977. CD. Welna, David. "The Story Of 'I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man'" NPR. NPR, n.d. Web. 7 Apr. 2014.
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
Jump Blues and Chicago Blues Musical Analysis Jump Blues and Chicago Blues are derivatives of Blues music that arrived in the 1940’s although they arguably reached their peak in the 1950’s. Being Blues genres they both have similarities that tie themselves together such as time signature, chord and song structure but there are differences in tempo, lyrical content and instrumentation that
briefly shows Mick Jagger, from The Rolling Stones near the end of the film, and occasionally Howlin Wolf and Hubert Sumlin make an appearance. The movie first introduces the main characters. Leonard Chess is portrayed to audience as an ambitious young man. His parents were polish immigrants, and he dreams of being successful and rich. As the movie progresses and he is shown to be a competent businessman; and he also seems to care for the musicians that he works with, especially Muddy. A few minutes later
McKinley “Muddy Waters” Morganfield left Stovalls plantation outside Clarksdale for Chicago in 1943, drawn by the wartime boom in factory jobs. By the late 1940s his electrified rural delta style brought him success as a blues musician with hits such as “I Cant Be Satisfied” (1948). Having signed to Chess records, Waters’ started to enjoy the commercial success that his music allowed him. The audience responded, Marshall Chess recalled to R&B historian Arnold Shaw that “Waters hit the local crowds