But the white audience even in Europe discovered him. There he had the chance to record two sides(Gypsy Woman/Little Annie Mae). Two songs (Country Blues/I Be's Troubled) were put on a record for documentary reasons. He worked in a papermill and played and got a reputation as musican. They were not successful but he had the chance to record again. His importance for young musicans was documented in the album "Fathers and Sons" where Muddy Waters, the father, played together with his sons Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield and Donald "Duck" Dunn, all of them white. On April 30, 1983 Muddy Waters died in his sleep from Heart Failure, at his home in Westmont, Illinois. His mother died and he grew up at his grandmothers home in Clarksdale. 1943 Waters went, like a lot of other musicans from the Mississippi delta, north to Chicago. He recorded I Can't Be Satisfied and I Feel Like Going Home, which were successful in the Chicago area. The album debuted at number 12 on the US Billboard 200. He became the "King of the Chicago Blues". [2] As of October 2009, the album has 767,000 copies in the United States. [1] The following lists most of the albums released during his career and the more recent and available compilations released after his death. [9], ^shipments figures based on certification alone, Recording Industry Association of America, List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1996, "allmusic ((( Muddy Waters > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))", "RIAA – Gold & Platinum – January 04, 2011 : Search Results – Redman", "Redman Says That "Muddy Waters 2" Is Happening, Summer 2011", "XXL SCANS: DEF JAM'S ENTIRE DISCOGRAPHY & RECORD SALES", "allmusic ((( Muddy Waters > Credits )))", "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums - December, 28, 1996", "Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 1997", "American album certifications – Redman – Muddy Waters", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muddy_Waters_(album)&oldid=986906051, Short description is different from Wikidata, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Certification Table Entry usages for United States, Pages using certification Table Entry with shipments figures, Pages using certification Table Entry with shipments footnote, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Erick Sermon – executive producer – vocals, This page was last edited on 3 November 2020, at 18:03. To be louder than the visitors of the crowded clubs he changed the acoustic guitar for an electric guitar. He played great festivals like the Montreux Jazz Festival. [2], The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listed four songs of Muddy Waters of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. I Feel Like Going Home This song is by Muddy Waters and appears… on the album Folk Singer (1964) on the album King Bee (1981) The album debuted at number 12 on the US Billboard 200. [1] On February 12, 1997, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over 500,000 copies. In the 1970s he tightend his reputation as live act. He is also … 1960 he played at the Newport Jazz Festival, the first time it was possible for a white audience to hear him. The first release of these recordings was 1993 by MCA Records. Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield, April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983) was an American blues musician. (The Rolling Stones). A band from London was named after one of his songs. He learned to play the harp and played together with other musicans in juke joints and for parties. He liked playing in a creek near his home so his sister gave him the nickname "Muddy Waters". [5], From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Members of Muddy Waters Band/Musicans during recordings, Rollin' Stone: The Golden Anniversary Collection, Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording, https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muddy_Waters&oldid=7112523, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License, "I Live the Life I Love (I Love the Life I Live)", "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had". As a recording artist the 1960s were not good. Even commercials used them. It formed the basis of the song by their younger neighbor Muddy Waters, which was published by the Library of Congress as "Country Blues" and by Aristocrat Records as "I Feel Like Going Home". "[3], Redman had stated that he had planned on releasing a sequel to the album entitled Muddy Waters 2, considering it is his most classic work. A lot of musicians who played in his band later were stars of the blues scene themself. The music was used in movies (especially in longtime fan Martin Scorsese's movies, including The Color of Money, Casino and Goodfellas). Unlike T-Bone Walker, who also used an electric guitar, Waters used riffs consisting of only few accords. The chart position is the highest in the Billboard Rhythm and Blues charts. He is also the actual father of blues musician Big Bill Morganfield.