Comments on: Muddy Waters: Fathers and Sons http://thebluesblogger.com/686/muddy-waters-fathers-and-sons Reflective Blues & Jazz Revue ... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:55:28 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Coolmon http://thebluesblogger.com/686/muddy-waters-fathers-and-sons/comment-page-1#comment-13515 Coolmon Mon, 24 May 2010 00:23:27 +0000 http://thebluesblogger.com/?p=686#comment-13515 Nice to read about one of the fathers of Chicago Blues. Thanks for this information and article. Nice to read about one of the fathers of Chicago Blues. Thanks for this information and article.

]]> By: Musicians Resources http://thebluesblogger.com/686/muddy-waters-fathers-and-sons/comment-page-1#comment-13225 Musicians Resources Mon, 10 May 2010 20:29:42 +0000 http://thebluesblogger.com/?p=686#comment-13225 Excellent post on Muddy Waters, he defined the blues in the early 40's and 50's <a href="http://musi-source.blogspot.com/2010/01/muddy-waters-father-of-chicago-blues.html" rel="nofollow">Father of the Chicago Blues</a> Excellent post on Muddy Waters, he defined the blues in the early 40’s and 50’s

Father of the Chicago Blues

]]> By: David http://thebluesblogger.com/686/muddy-waters-fathers-and-sons/comment-page-1#comment-12634 David Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:11:57 +0000 http://thebluesblogger.com/?p=686#comment-12634 Great review. Thanks, all of Muddy Waters stuff is amazing, but I'm going to have to add this one to the wish list after reading. Great review. Thanks, all of Muddy Waters stuff is amazing, but I’m going to have to add this one to the wish list after reading.

]]> By: hollynoel001 http://thebluesblogger.com/686/muddy-waters-fathers-and-sons/comment-page-1#comment-12633 hollynoel001 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:36:36 +0000 http://thebluesblogger.com/?p=686#comment-12633 what a great article!!! muddy waters is one of my favorite blues singers he has inspired more people than we will ever know and i always enjoy listening to his music!!! what a great article!!! muddy waters is one of my favorite blues singers he has inspired more people than we will ever know and i always enjoy listening to his music!!!

]]> By: Duane http://thebluesblogger.com/686/muddy-waters-fathers-and-sons/comment-page-1#comment-12548 Duane Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:44:44 +0000 http://thebluesblogger.com/?p=686#comment-12548 Oh, where or where was I during the second coming of Muddy? I sometimes reflect on being trapped between cultural generations. I was born about 5 years ahead of the Post-World War II Baby Boom; I came of age in a boarding military school and graduated in ’59; and by this time in ’69 my second child was just born. It is a family joke that my son’s birth kept us from going to the Woodstock Music Festival. I can remember my wife and kid’s misery as I spent way too much time going through the record bins looking for that rare, special find. How strange, after all these years, I never even came close in finding these albums. Thanks to the TBB I have finally rediscovered some more fine music. In my research, I have also discovered another “Woodstock Album” (75), and the “bridge” between “Fathers and Sons” 69) and the Johnny Winter’s albums starting with “Hard Again” (77). This album probably got lost because it is the last Chess album and before the revival of Muddy’s second career under Johnny Winter. This Woodstock gets its name because it was recorded at Levon Helm’s Woodstock studio – not the Festival. Levon and fellow Band-member Garth Hudson team up with Muddy’s touring band and Paul Butterfield blows some killer harp and how can you not like Pinetop Perkins tickling the ivories. It is only 9 tunes and a short 43 minutes but I highly recommend adding this along with the above mention albums to your collection. I may straddle two generations but as Bob Dylan said, “the time they are a-changin’”. I no longer spend hours rummaging through record bins but I do spend hours researching blues and especially enjoy discovering something new. Thanks to technology, I now have 12 hours of Muddy Waters music to add to the Drivin Blues CD collection as I prepare to head to the Mississippi delta and attend the Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale. …. As the present now Will later be past The order is rapidly fadin’ And the first one now will later be last For the times they are a-changin’ Oh, where or where was I during the second coming of Muddy? I sometimes reflect on being trapped between cultural generations. I was born about 5 years ahead of the Post-World War II Baby Boom; I came of age in a boarding military school and graduated in ’59; and by this time in ’69 my second child was just born. It is a family joke that my son’s birth kept us from going to the Woodstock Music Festival. I can remember my wife and kid’s misery as I spent way too much time going through the record bins looking for that rare, special find. How strange, after all these years, I never even came close in finding these albums.

Thanks to the TBB I have finally rediscovered some more fine music. In my research, I have also discovered another “Woodstock Album” (75), and the “bridge” between “Fathers and Sons” 69) and the Johnny Winter’s albums starting with “Hard Again” (77). This album probably got lost because it is the last Chess album and before the revival of Muddy’s second career under Johnny Winter. This Woodstock gets its name because it was recorded at Levon Helm’s Woodstock studio – not the Festival. Levon and fellow Band-member Garth Hudson team up with Muddy’s touring band and Paul Butterfield blows some killer harp and how can you not like Pinetop Perkins tickling the ivories. It is only 9 tunes and a short 43 minutes but I highly recommend adding this along with the above mention albums to your collection.

I may straddle two generations but as Bob Dylan said, “the time they are a-changin’”. I no longer spend hours rummaging through record bins but I do spend hours researching blues and especially enjoy discovering something new. Thanks to technology, I now have 12 hours of Muddy Waters music to add to the Drivin Blues CD collection as I prepare to head to the Mississippi delta and attend the Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale.

….
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin’
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’

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