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April 15, 2004

The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: 17) Muddy Waters

By Billy Gibbons

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Best Of Muddy Waters

The Best of Muddy Waters collects twelve tracks that the legendary bluesman recorded and released as 78s between 1948 and 1954. These songs, one masterpiece after another, not only made his reputation on the burgeoning Chicago blues scene but charted the music's development to this day. Most specifi...

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O Christmas Tree!: A Bluegrass Collection for the Holidays

2002

The Chess Box

1989

I'm Ready

1978

Live (At Mr. Kelly's)

1977

Hard Again

1977

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Biography

Muddy Waters was the leading exponent of Chicago blues in the '50s. With him, the blues came up from the Delta and went electric, and his guitar licks and repertoire have fueled innumerable blues bands. Muddy Waters was the son of a farmer and, following his mother's death in 1918, was raised by his grandmother. He picked up his nickname because he fished and played regularly in a muddy creek. He ...

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