🎵 Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy REACTION

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[@thatdamelana]

Mr. Waters is one of the Blueprints of Rock & Roll, the foundation of what was to come. His live performance of this song is one of the greatest performances, nobody does it better. Often imitated, never duplicated. The Rolling Stones got their name from Muddy's song Rollin' Stone.

[@billnorman8995]

Kids in England were listening to this and bands formed like zeppelin, sabbath, The Who, the kinks, the stones etc took it to the next level with their own twist. Eventually bringing it back to the US and inspiring the next 30 years of American rock

[@hmpz36911]

His bassist was Willie Dixon, and he wrote a lot of the songs as well.

[@mattkess3156]

Hell yeah man. Willie Dixon might be the most important songwriter ever. Him, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Big Joe Turner, Little Walter, etc., all those guys are Americans gods

[@joehynes5452]

@@mattkess3156 💯

[@rogerbennett6117]

The heart and soul of what became rock n roll as we know it!

[@mattkess3156]

@@rogerbennett6117 hell yeah brother

[@rogerbennett6117]

Willie dixon, muddy waters ,howling wolf, little walter, b.b king, Albert king, t bone walker, john lee hooker, great music never dies!!!!!!

[@othermotte]

You might want to check out John Lee Hooker ….”Boom Boom” is a good starting point…Lex is right, this type of blues is the great godfather of almost all of todays guitar-based music

[@timothybarham6374]

Boogie Chillen to.

[@brushstroke3733]

Don't miss out on Jimmie Rodgers. Guitar music also came from "country", which originally was not seperate from what became "blues".

[@drunkdrywaller7840]

how about Charley Patton and Robert Johnson? Can’t forget those two

[@othermotte]

@@drunkdrywaller7840 absolutely, plus Sister Rosetta Tharpe ….Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee

[@Wieringa-sl1wy]

Yes Ohw John Lee Hooker man love his blues 🙏☝💜

[@robertlear2735]

This is genuine old style Chicago blues from 1955.

[@sarahp9086]

My dad was a blues drummer, I grew up listening to this kind of stuff. There is nothing like that blues groove!

[@jem1282]

"The body is the instrument". This one goes to my book. Howling Wolf was one of this bodies! Check out "Spoonful", another W. Dixon song also.

[@mikepaulus4766]

Geddy Lee talks about as kids he and Alex Lifeson would pretend they were Cream, and play Spoonful for 20 minutes.

[@arizrich]

Ain't nothing like the blues. Yeah, this is a basic 12 bar blues progression, many songs are based on this. The Rolling Stones took their name from the lyrics of this song!

[@michaeldaugette802]

Brian Jones saw it on one of their albums when he was trying to come up with a name for the band , couldn’t have picked a better name !

[@mikemclaughlin3306]

Nope.... this is NOT a 12 bar blues progression..... it's a drone blues song. A 12 bar is much different.

[@lewstone5430]

*“Ima rollin’ stone!”*

[@gaddygad6926]

There's a cultural importance to this song that you're missing. Back when it was written, a lot of black men were still called boys by white people. He's bellowing that he's a man.

[@IChIDH]

@@fletcherchristian2254 and it's a trip that current culture acts like we're still there. Like no progress was made and Waters never bellowed.

[@Albertanator]

@@IChIDH Oh brother....

[@Herbert04]

I learned that lesson the hard way. I used to call all guys younger than me "boy". Than one day a black guy I knew educated me. I didn't know. After a discussion I understood and never made that mistake.again. He actually became a good friend. And sometimes when things were said I didn't understand I knew where to go to ask.

[@wspencerhand]

He picked up the insult, stuck it on his lapel, and wore it…like a man.

[@louishegarty761]

One of the greatest songs....EVER.

[@MrDeengels]

I absolutely love Muddy Waters, to me he is THE king of the blues!! He had style, attitude, the voice!!!

[@jimmeltonbradley1497]

This is roots Chicago Blues. As raw as it gets.

[@bobby_c07]

There are rough, rare recordings of blues from even the 20s, not diminishing Muddy Waters' place in it's history but it was around decades before him.

[@johnzacharias7928]

George Thoroughgood took a lot of influence from John Lee Hooker, who is similar to Muddy Waters and BB King. They all were around the same time, they were the ones who were noticed for their stylings and taking the blues electric as it was always acoustic prior to this time. John Lee Hooker was often called the Howlin Wolfe of Chicago, his music had style that was a bit heavier in sound. Howlin Wolfe is a great bluesman that often gets overlooked, the guitar was heavier and his voice is crunchy and raspy. Led Zeppelin had listed Muddy Waters as one of their great influences along side of Robert Johnson who is considered the greatest guitarist ever and Zeppelin took there name from Lead Belly. Both Robert Johnson and Lead Belly are much earlier blues than Muddy, Led Zeppelin even covered one of Lead's songs in Gallows Pole they slowed the song down and in the lyrics leave a happier ending than Lead Belly, their version has his friends saving him from the noose in Lead Belly they just show up to see him hang.

[@mikefetterman6782]

Robert Johnson and Lead Belly were among the front movement of the blues (many others too). Muddy, and John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, and BB and Freddie King were all responsible for the resurgence in the later 50s into the 60s. The British invasion brought it back after the 60s pop.

[@edwardrutledge2765]

Muddy at his unbelievable blues best. She’s right, simple…but simple in the sense our blue marble is round, simple and orbits the Sun. Simply incredible.

[@lewstone5430]

Lex got it. This song (and some others) was the beginning of rock and roll, and all future rock music flowed from Muddy and a few others.

[@MsPrincesspaulina]

@Brad&Lex: You're the only reaction channel that I have seen to do a deep dive into the Blues. Thank you. I love the Blues. Lex is learning about the Blues real quick. She gets it.!

[@chrisblair5937]

This version is ancient. It's rough, raw and reveals the beginnings of Rock & Roll. Most future Rock guitarists cut their teeth to Muddy. There is a crisper version, recorded with Johnny Winter around 1977 that is the definitive cut of the song

[@jakeimhotep4866]

I totally agree. That album with Johnny Winter, Hard Again, is absolutely fantastic.

[@DakotaBorn-111]

Johnny produced and played in several of Muddy's albums. He also did one of his own with the Muddy Waters band.

[@DakotaBorn-111]

@@jakeimhotep4866 Muddy got a grammy for Hard Again

[@5yearsout]

Not sure of the original source for it, but I love the version used in the movie Goodfellas, but then again pretty much any version works for me. I love the opening little fills he does on the guitar before the band kicks in, says so much with such few notes.

[@jessediaz1293]

Muddy Waters and a lot of blues musicians didn’t get their dues until the 1970s when they traveled to Europe where the audience had been waiting for them. A lot of the British Invasion bands like The Beatles, The Animals, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin put Muddy Waters as the main influence on their music which all these bands had covers of Muddy Waters songs. Some even directly lifted riffs and lyrics from Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon’s music. (Led Zeppelin) Y’all need to watch the movie Cadillac Records, it tells the story of how Muddy Waters came to be.

[@eximusic]

Muddy Waters grew up in Mississippi in a house on the Stovall plantation. Mississippi is the birthplace of the blues, and why it's called Delta blues. He moved to Chicago later in life, in his thirties, went electric, and started Chicago blues with a number of other players who also moved up from the south. Son House, Charlie Patton, and Robert Johnson all came from the Missippi Delta. Johnson and Waters were both influenced by Son House. Musicologist Alan Lomax captured many of these Delta bluesmen on his field recorder while traveling through the South looking for its roots music. Robert Johnson is probably the most legendary of all of them, having died at 27 from being poisoned by the husband of a women he was seeing. He also started the myth about himself about meeting the devil at the crossroads who taught him how to play guitar so well (an old African myth that several bluesmen claimed about themselves). He only recorded one album, and songs from that album have been covered by numerous rock bands to this day.

[@DSanto-bk6oq]

I grew up in Chicago where Muddy is king. I love everything I've ever heard him do. But my favorite tune of his is a little number called "Champagne and Reefer". It's a real blues banger.

[@ZacCostilla]

This is very old school Chicago Blues, which directly evolved from the Delta Blues of southern Mississippi and Louisiana as folks left the southern agricultural work t take factory jobs in the worker shortage created from WWII (which continued in the economic book of the later ‘40s and the ‘50s). This song is typical “braggadocio”, which is also found in blues songs like Bo Diddley’s “I’m a Man” (which sold so well it actually promoted Muddy to record this song) and “Who Do You Love”, Muddy’s songs “Can’t Be Satisfied”, “Hoochie Koochie Man”, and “I Just Want To Make Love To You”, and even George Thoroughgood’s “Bad to the Bone” (which was actually a tribute to the great Bo Diddley himself!). This song had a tone of Chess Record blues musicians who worked as their house band, and the majority of the Chess labels hits for not only Muddy, but most of their artists were written by the upright bass player Willie Dixon, and probably had Little Walter on the harmonica (just looked it up and it was Junior Wells), Fred Below on drums, and Muddy p,aged guitar as he sung. Most of the early songs on Chess Records was 2-track, with a boom mic to pick up the whole band using the room acoustics (the guitar and harmonica used their own amps), and a second mic for the main vocalist. Most of Muddy’s songs did not have this much reverb on the vocals. I’d love to hear you react to Elmore James’ song “It Hurts Me Too”, or for a more groovy vibe, Albert King’s “I’ll Play The Blues For You” (parts I & II). But you can’t do Muddy without doing Howlin’ Wolf, and I recommend “Smokestack Lightning”, “Killing Floor”, and “Built For Comfort”, in that order.

[@nigelralphmurphy9565]

He was born and grew up in Mississippi in the 20s and 30s moved to Chicago, added electricity to his guitar, and played his Mississippi blues songs. The Chess brothers of Chess Records took him on and boom. Listen to anything on Chess you will not regret it. Chess had ALL the blues greats. They even had Chuck Berry - the pioneer of rock and roll. He was their BIG seller for ages. They had Howling Wolf, Buddy Guy, Little Walter, Junior Wells, Shakey Horton, John Lee Hooker. And that's just a start.

[@ronlondo66]

Rock adapted Big Band swing pacing especially the drumming/Blues attitude and guitar dominance + rockabilly sexy defiance. Most of the major British 60's rock bands used these as their template.

[@Mr05Chuck]

I saw Muddy in concert in Spokane in 1977. He was backing u Bonnie Rait. Legend!

[@davidstephens6462]

This is juke joint and original roadhouse music. I can all but guarantee that all rock guitarists from the 50's through the 90's know about Muddy and can play SOMETHING by him. Major influencer of most of the songs you react to.

[@ronkrupovich7152]

Got to see Muddy Waters live in Hollywood back in 1972 or 1973. Unforgettable experience.

[@TidePride]

Bo Diddley is a blues must..."I'm a Man" or "Who Do You Love"

[@barrycohen311]

Hell Yeah!

[@richardpowell1220]

Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters were throwing response songs back and forth to one another. Muddy Waters started with "Hoochie Coochie Man", and Bo Diddley responded with "I'm a Man", and Muddy Waters responded back with "Mannish Boy".

[@barrycohen311]

@@richardpowell1220 Original Rap Battles! :-)

[@mrdixon3765]

There's an amazing live version of this great song, Boston Music Hall '77. Muddy Waters, James Cotton, and Johnny Winter.

[@michaelpond6386]

Muddy had some really awesome guys in his band Little Walter, Willie Dixon, Jonny Winters. Many others. They would go into blues clubs in Chicago and challenge the bands to a battle , similar to the scene in Crossriads, they referred to it as cuttin heads. Muddy was the king of Chicago blues. Another blues wild man was Howlin Wolf. Such talent.

[@hsbravati1]

Growing up in Mississippi I was surrounded by blues. It’s in every bar, festival, junk joint and it’s one thing that this god forsaken state has going for it. I am so grateful to be from the home of the blues! Muddy waters grew up not to far from me! An I attended B.B kings funeral and boy you wouldn’t believe the ethnicity this music brought together.

[@827dusty]

This comes from the old days in the 1920s and 30s of what is commonly referred to as "the old classic negro Blues." Played in the south, and up into Chicago and St. Louis. This is where "The Blues" was born, and later Rock and Roll in the mid 1950s came from this genre of music, along with Black Gospel. Great stuff.

[@7475bluesman]

We owe so much to those origanal Bluesmen. They layed the foundation for all that came after.

[@iannewborn2544]

Lex can pick out the roots to things and understands music instinctively

[@robc.8269]

There's a video on KZbin, from the 70's I think where the Rolling Stones were on tour in the U.S. & one night went to see Muddy Waters play in a small bar. Muddy asked the boys to come on stage & next thing you know there's all these blues legends & the Stones on a tiny stage jamming. Amazing. Please check out a later Muddy song, "Champagne & Reefer" a great song.

[@neillenet291]

Drums, bass, guitar and harmonica. That's what kind of instruments they are.

[@ralpholson7616]

I saw him perform with Johnny Winter on guitar and James Cotton on harmonica. Listen to the Hard Again album.

[@dennishinkle5010]

I saw Muddy opening for ZZ Top and that's when I fell in love with blues music.

[@DrDixonBhD]

It excites my heart that y’all diggin’ Muddy Waters,,I’ve been blessed to have sit in with him in my hometown of Atlanta from the first night I met him in 1969! Every time He came to Atlanta from that point on and rode with his band to Chicago in 1976 where I my Blues Internship until 1979. Been playing harmonica since 1966 and Muddy Waters is the Freakin’ Himalayas for any harmonica player because of what Little Walter did in Muddy’s band! Check out some of my harmonica playing on my KZbin channel and I’m subscribing to y’all’s channel today and as Jimi Hendrix told me in 1968 “Stay Groovy Stay You”!

[@barriehull7076]

"Mannish Boy" (or "Manish Boy" as it was first labeled) is a blues standard by Muddy Waters. First recorded in 1955, the song is both an arrangement of and an "answer song" to Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man",[1] which was in turn inspired by Waters' and Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Coochie Man".[2] "Mannish Boy" features a repeating stop-time figure on one chord throughout the song and is credited to Waters, Mel London, and Bo Diddley.[3] Although the song contains sexual boasting, its repetition of "I'm a man, I spell M, A child, N" was understood as political. Waters had recently left the South for Chicago. "Growing up in the South, African-Americans [would] never be referred to as a man - but as 'boy'. In this context, the song [is] an assertion of black manhood."[4] Wikipedia.

[@Jamie-lw5sy]

What!! Muddie Waters!!! You guys are really branching out. A great Blues singer that is around right now would be Taj Mahal. Checkout stuck here in Chicago. There's a line about some big legged women down in Mississippi that always makes me crack up.😂👍🇺🇲

[@phonebone81]

This song is written in 1955 and it`s amazing ! A lot of bands has it covered but the best is the original by Muddy Waters (McKinley Margonfield). He and Howlin Wolf are the best blues musicians of all time !

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

I've been called "mannish" a few times. Sometimes it's a complement, sometimes it's not. The Blues is the genesis of American music. EVERYTHING else grew from it.

[@Gufaatkuen]

Lex is right on! Blues is simple but what made it special is the feeling. Pouring their heart and emotion out. The Rolling Stones got their name from this song. There is no Rock And Roll without blues. Rock and Roll was white country boys mixing their country music with the Black blues they fell in love with. The British kids heard it and loved it, that caused them to study blues roots and country roots and create a “new interpretation “ of it. Then Americans heard it and fell in love with it and that was the first “British Invasion” Beatles and Stones The Who etc. And that started to “Hard Rock” scene etc.. Rock keeps morphing and developing but it has to have blues and country. Country is white blues. (Original old country)

[@petersokol1603]

Muddy Waters scares the shit out of me…….Christ he is brilliant

[@beatmet2355]

…and Howlin Wolf with that voice. I’ve seen pictures of him holding a guitar and it looked so tiny in those huge hands of his.

[@suzannesellers7383]

If you saw the film Risky Business, this song figured prominently in the “party” scene. Excellent placement of a song.

[@johncampbell756]

This is a bit of an interesting song. In 1954, Muddy Waters recorded Willie Dixon's "I'm a Hoochie Coochie Man" which he quotes in this song. In 1955, Bo Diddley released an answer song called "I'm a Man." Muddy rewrote that song (still crediting Bo) as this which he released in 1955. He was 42. He recorded versions inv1968 and 1977 and released live versions in 1978 (performed with The Band in their movie abd soundtrack The Last Waltz), and in 1979 on Muddy Waters...Live. (King Bee from 1981 was his last album, which I just played last night and bought last week. Muddy died in 1983.)

[@1drsausage]

This is the "call and response" style of blues song that was the foundation of the genre. Muddy is one of my favorites. There's also John Lee Hooker and Lightnin' Hopkins.

[@1drsausage]

I'm also very fond of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, a well known duo act.

[@lisadubois5866]

Lex you are so real n dorky never loose that!!!! Brad your cool too keep lex sheltered the world will corrupt. YOU GUYS ARE PERFECT TOGETHER

[@dyannastevens4862]

This is the first song on my Blues playlist…gets me in the mood every time.

[@eyespyyourspy1328]

Ooooohhhh Yeah. LOVE Me some Muddy Waters! Grew up listening to "The Kansas City Blues Show" Sunday nights on 101.1 The Fox FM.

[@redlead873]

Muddy Waters the founding father of electric blues. The Rolling Stones took their name from the line ''I'm like a rolling stone''

[@dannybranigan1984]

They took the name from Muddy Waters song called Rollin Stone Blues

[@quikspecv4d]

My favorite Muddy Waters song!! Also anything off his Folk Singer album. I believe he was one of the first to use electric guitar in blues. Son House and Robert Johnson were the first to really record the blues. Back then it was acoustic guitar.

[@jamesharper3933]

I've heard it said that Muddy Waters invented electricity.

[@eximusic]

Blues continued on acoustic guitar with artists like Rev Gary Davis and Mississippi John Hurt. Never stopped.

[@keensoundguy6637]

As Muddy Waters proclaimed, "The blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll."

[@guitarman8462]

Muddy Waters , Albert King , Freddie King & Freddy King is a must listen if you love blues.🎸

[@michaelryan2433]

Howling Wolf’s - killing floor. Some good 50’s electric blues from Chicago by way of Memphis.

[@hectormikerodriguez4455]

You need to listen to some of the real legends of blues Son House, Big Bill Broonzy, Mammie Smith, Blind lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey, Blind Blake, Robert Johnson, Scrapper Blackwell, Bo Carter. They were the influence for a lot of modern and classic musicians, including Muddy Waters and others

[@lesliedavis2185]

I was lucky enough to see him live in the 70s. Just wow.

[@rogeroran2911]

Muddy was a huge influence on Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin among others. Rolling Stones got their name from a Muddy song. He’s a blues legend. Howlin Wolf is another you should listen to. This particular song was originally recorded in 55.

[@scottfrench4139]

Greatest of electric bluesman, greatest Chicago blues.

[@MsPrincesspaulina]

@Brad&Lex: The blues uses the same riff in many different songs. Just so you know. You should react to Muddy Waters, Champagne & Reefer. "Give me champagne when I'm thirsty and reefer when I want to get high."

[@mztweety1374]

Slash played this at my job...yeah, I drooled a little.😂

[@cabel000]

I love this song. My first time hearing it was on The Last Waltz. Such an incredible set of records (4 in all).

[@peterattilakriszt3150]

I like all style of music and usually I choose what my mood wants. But when the Blues is on the air it choose my soul every time, I can't resist. They say you don't understand the Blues while you didn't live harsh times. Maybe it' s true I don't know but I am pretty sure my life wasn't easy at all maybe that's why my soul rezonate with the Blues. Anyhow Muddy Water's Blues is always is on the top for me. The best album what I like the most is the Mannish boy selection. On the album you can hear more instruments in songs than in the original ones but is still remains essential Muddy Waters. Note: Do you know the Blues in backwards? My Babe came back, I don't drink and the Sun is shining.

[@dawnpatrol700]

Anybody else remember an obscure 1984 Canadian movie called " breaking all the rules". This song played right at the beginning

[@bryanhale5254]

Yeah you'll have to hear The Yardbirds version of the song it's pretty good you should also check out the performance he did when he was in that movie called The Last Waltz that was amazing alright kids

[@jonanderson8795]

You might want to react to Muddy Waters and The Rolling Stones at the Checkerboard Lounge in 1981.Baby Please Don't Go is the first song of the show they performed together.

[@brannonjenkins9093]

Love some old blues. Thanks Brad & Lex

[@davidhopper3992]

Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Lightning Hopkins, Howlin’ Wolf; made the sounds of the blues. That Mississippi Delta sound, southern blues that eventually formed Pink Floyd and Zep, Ozzy and Bowie. Don’t miss out on the three Kings either though

[@mr.knowitall6440]

A great album to check out some Muddy is his live Muddy "Mississippi" Waters album. He has Johnny Winter playing guitar with him. It's really good!

[@stuffbenlikes]

Muddy Waters was sort of the third generation of blues... The first came before recording devices were a thing, the second recording devices were rare but around. Check out Son House and Robert Johnson for that generation. There's some stuff available online. It's really raw.

[@jnagarya519]

Muddy Waters was biggest in 1950s Chicago. His rival was Howlin' Wolf.

[@scruffdavies]

Smokestack lightning or spoonful by howlin wolf next please

[@djl9919]

This song is were the Rolling Stones got their band name. OUTSTANDING SONG. Rock on Brad & Lex in the blue's

[@jokervienna6433]

This is the foundation, the kitchen floor for a lot of music that came afterwards. Insane. I would like to see reactions to more of the foundations. When talking about the kitchen floor, there is Mr James Brown, the hardest working man in show business. Without Mr Brown I am not sure there would have been hip hop or rap music. Then we have the huge musician that picked up Mr Browns mantel - Prince. Songs from him might be somewhat harder to find, because he really stopped his music from going on KZbin and other popular channels. Now it is easening up though.

[@roberttompkins6489]

You are at the absoulte roots of Rock and Roll here

[@xatsnwotom]

To hopefully partially answer your question, Muddy Waters's blues riffs have formed the basis of MANY rock songs. Rock musicians like Jimi Hendrix and scores of the "British Invasion" bands like the Rolling Stones (whose name came from one of Muddy Waters's songs) often played his riffs louder, faster, and harder. An excellent example is Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child." That song is literally just a super-electrified Muddy Waters-style tune. Listen closely to the notes. If you turn down all of the hyperamplification, wah-wah pedal, and other electronic effects, you'll clearly hear that he was playing the same licks that Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy (who started by backing Muddy up) were playing ten years earlier. "Voodoo Child" is basically a Muddy Waters song launched from the Mississippi delta into the stratosphere. Underneath all of that electricity, this song is PURE blues... kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmW9q3eOe5J1ntU

[@johnburens3395]

This guy always wrote catchy tunes. Even if you took the words out they would still be something you could listen to and sing your own words...

[@unclefido6484]

She's a metal head to the core! I remember when I was first getting into the blues and perceiving what was going on, correctly as well. But fuck I had a little foreknowledge and background of what was to come. Watch out she's got an EVH guitar!

[@thefoodmercenary]

Muddy Waters was the first REAL band I ever saw live, 1972 here in Chicago. Hell of a bar Muddy set for future concerts I attended since then. He is addressing civil rights in this song. I like your channel. I do highly recommend, do some digging with the artists and know some basics before you start recording. Doing that will increase your connection/joy, or not, with what you are hearing. Maybe try Pat Travers, GO ALL NIGHT - Studio version. The bass player does some stunning riffs alongside a great guitar player.

[@vrvaughn]

There’s a great record called Fathers and Sons.. Muddy Waters with Michael Bloomfield on guitar and Paul Butterfield on harmonica… This song was first released in 1955 and there are a lot of recorded versions of it.

[@alpetrocelli4465]

Some good old Chicago Blues, South Side! I grew up on the South Side, regularly saw Buddy Guy, Luther Allison, Muddy, BB King, and more in many of the bars. Check out anyone on Chess Records. Thanks for listening to the Blues!✌️❤️🎶

[@827dusty]

Every kid that's picked up a guitar, has either heard this song, or tried to play these classic Blues Riffs, by one of the all-time influences on Bands like The Rolling Stones, Eric Burdon and The Animals, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and on and on. This man is an icon to so many people in the music business it's unbelievable.

[@ryanzeigler9763]

ah the first great blues cover artist. This is a Robert Johnson song, as are many of the OG standards. Muddy Waters started making a name for himself covering songs like this years after Johnson died.

[@bobschenkel7921]

This version is an older one than the one that was produced by Johnny Winter, which also has at least one additional verse. Which is also in his appearance in The Band's farewell concert film "The Last Waltz", which was shot in 1976, so you can watch McKinley Morgenfield do his thing.

[@georgem5589]

1955 early rock roots. Creativity baby.

[@theonewhoknows2]

Havent listend to this in a bit! Still great everytime i hear it.

[@berthayoungblood]

Thank you for this Muddy Waters !!!

[@leewalker6371]

He did this at the last waltz ,with the band check it out guys.

[@ShreddFly]

Hey guys what's up! Greetings from South Florida! Muddy Waters maybe one of the greats, but Robert Johnson is the Godfather of the Blues. You guys rock! God bless you! Peace!

[@ironlung2323]

this song cannot be fucked with. straight hard core man energy.

[@briarpatch720]

an "arranged" copy of the great Bo Diddleys classic "I'm a Man" which was inspired by Willie Dixons "Hoochie Coochie Man"

[@michaeldaugette802]

Muddy Waters oh my god just flowing with the blues , he has influenced so many people from Jimi Hendrix to Led Zeppelin and everyone in between !

[@keimahane]

I was hoping you would do this one, such a strong song, the message is clear, and the Blues are real.

[@joehynes5452]

I would say that Robert Johnson and Lead Belly are the Godfathers of Blues, maybe even throw a Blind Willie Johnson under that classification as well. This is a Chicago Blues style, about a generation after their Delta Blues pioneers

[@charlesberton2581]

There would've been no rock and roll without Muddy Waters.

[@jgrecco6492]

You need to check out his Champagne and Reefer album! Classic Muddy Waters!

[@steverusso177]

one of the legends of the blues

[@Mscogg12]

Listen to my home is in the delta my favorite by muddy and it really shows his signature way of playing slide

[@mvellis3863]

A great version of this is Muddy's performance on The Band's album "The Last Waltz"