April 30, 1983: R.I.P. Muddy Waters. The Mojo is Gone The Master Has Won…

Muddy Waters was born McKinley Morganfield on April 4, 1915, in Rolling Fork, Mississippi.

Waters grew up immersed in the Delta blues,
 and was first recorded by archivist Alan Lomax. 

In 1943, he moved to Chicago and began playing in clubs. 

A record deal followed, and hits like "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man"   and "Rollin'Stone"  made him an iconic Chicago blues man...

McKinley Morganfield "Muddy Waters" died of a heart attack on April 30, 1983 at the age of sixty-eight. Morganfield is buried at the Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois.

 The epitaph on the burial marker reads: "McKinley Morganfield, 1915 - 1983, 
The Mojo is Gone The Master Has Won"

R.I.P. Muddy Waters

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April 1, 1947: Aristocrat Records becomes Chess and the rest is history...

April 1, 1947:

Leonard and Phillip Chess change the name of their fledgling Chicago record label 

                                 

 to Chess…

Right out of the box they record

Muddy Waters!!!

"I Can't Be Satisfied"

 

"Feel Like Going Home"

GREAT START, HUH!?!

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July 3, 1960: Muddy Waters tears ‘em up at The Newport Jazz Festival…Check out the official set list for that show…

Muddy  Waters  

Opened the show with

“I Got My Brand on You”

Did his classic (Willie Dixon penned) 

“Hoochie Coochie Man”

And the standard

“Baby Please Dont Go”

“Soon Forgotten”

The timely “Tiger in Your Tank”

“Feel So Good”

Covered Ann Cole’s

“Got My Mojo Working”

—and made it his own!

And, according to the official set list, Muddy closed his show with a jam he called “Goodbye Newport Blues”

—I can’t find a postable copy of that tune, but it is available on The Complete Muddy Waters 1947-1967 (Compilation)

 That was Muddy Waters

bringin’ The Blues into the mainstream at 

The Newport Jazz Festival,

 In 1960…

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Jun 29 1961 In Tropical Jon's Evolution of Rock 'n Roll: Muddy Waters, Little Walter and The "5" Royales play the final night of a week at The Howard Theater, Washington, DC, USA

Howard Theater circa 1964

 

Muddy Waters: Fo’ Sho’ doin’ his 1960 Newport Jazz Festival hit Got My Mojo Workin’

Little Walter was without a doubt, still gracing the crowds with his 1958 classic Key To The Highway…

The "5" Royales:  Even though James Brown had “stolen” what should have been their MONSTER hit “Think”

it was still in their show…

And, they were sounding great with new jams like “I’m A Cool Teenager”

AND THAT WAS A CONCERT
AT WASHINGTON D.C.’s
HOWARD THEATER IN 1961!!!

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