Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters, 1978, Toronto

Muddy Waters, gerçek adıyla McKinley Morganfield (4 Nisan 1913, Issaquena County, Mississippi - 30 Nisan 1983, Westmont, İllinois), Amerikalı blues müzisyenidir. Yaygın kanıyla " Chicago blues'un babası".

Blues müzik türünün temelini oluşturduğu varsayılan Waters, II. Dünya Savaşı öncesinde blues tarzın önde gelen adıydı. Mızıka çalmaya başlayarak müziğe olan ilgisini hayata geçiren Waters, "Evlatlar Evi" olarak bilinen Eddie James'le tanışmasının ardından 20'li yaşlarında Willie Wilson'dan etkilendi. O dönemde sahneye çıkarak gitar çaldı. 1943 yılında Chicago'ya taşındı.1958 yılında İngiltere turnesine çıkan sanatçı geniş dinleyici kitlelerince tanınıp sevildi. Yaşamı boyunca maddi sıkıntılar çeken Muddy Waters, kamyon şöförlüğü, boyacılık gibi işlerde çalışarak bir yandan geçimini sağladı ve birçok albüm üretti. İlk çıkan elektrogitarları kullanmaktan kaçınmayan Waters, "Missisipi" takma adıyla anılmaktaydı.

Şarkı sözü yazarlığı da yapan ve Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones gibi müzisyen ve toplulukların etkilendiği sanatçı, kalp yetmezliği nedeniyle yaşamını yitirdi.

“	İnsanı iki şey blues'a iter; ya açsındır, ya da aşık..	„
—Muddy Waters

Ödülleri

Grammy Ödülleri

Muddy Waters Grammy Ödülleri Tarihi
Yıl	Kategori	Ödül	Tür	Etiket	Sonuç
1971	Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording	They Call Me Muddy Waters	folk	MCA/Chess	kazandı
1972	Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording	The London Muddy Waters Session	folk	MCA/Chess	kazandı
1975	Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording	The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album	folk	MCA/Chess	kazandı
1977	Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording	Hard Again	folk	Blue Sky	kazandı
1978	Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording	I'm Ready	folk	Blue Sky	kazandı
1979	Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording	Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live	folk	Blue Sky	kazandı

Grammy Hall of Fame

Recordings of Muddy Waters were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance."

Muddy Waters: Grammy Hall of Fame Awards
Yıl	Ödül	Tür	Etiket	Verilen Yıl	Notlar
1950	"Rollin' Stone"	Blues (single)	Chess	2000
1957	"Got My Mojo Working"	Blues (Single)	Chess	1999
1954	"Hoochie Coochie Man"	Blues (Single)	Chess	1998	Listed in the National Recording Registry by the Kongre Kütüphanesi in 2004.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listed four songs of Muddy Waters of the 500 songs that shaped rock.

Year Recorded	Title
1950	Rollin' Stone
1954	Hoochie Coochie Man
1955	Mannish Boy
1957	Got My Mojo Working

The Blues Foundation Ödülleri

Muddy Waters: Blues Music Awards
Yıl	Kategori	Ödül	Sonuç
1994	Reissue Album of the Year	The Complete Plantation Recordings	Winner
1995	Reissue Album of the Year	One More Mile	Winner
2000	Traditional Blues Album of the Year	The Lost Tapes of Muddy Waters	Winner
2002	Historical Blues Album of the Year	Fathers and Sons	Winner
2006	Historical Album of the Year	Hoochie Coochie Man: Complete Chess Recordings, Volume 2, 1952-1958	Winner

Inductions

Year Inducted	Title
1980	Blues Foundation Hall of Fame
1987	Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1992	Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

U.S. Postage Stamp

Yıl	Pul	ABD	Not
1994	29 cents Commemorative stamp	U.S. Postal Service	Photo

Diskografi

Albüm

• The Best of Muddy Waters (1958), Chess
• At Newport 1960 (1960), Chess
• Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill Broonzy (1960), Chess
• Folk Singer (1964), Chess
• The Real Folk Blues (1966), Chess
• Muddy, Brass and the Blues (1966), Chess
• More Real Folk Blues (1967), Chess
• Super Blues: Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Little Walter (1967), Checker
• The Super Super Blues Band: Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf (1967), Checker
• Electric Mud (1968), MCA/Chess
• After the Rain (1969), Chess
• Fathers and Sons (1969), MCA/Chess
• Sail On (1969), Wolf
• They Call Me Muddy Waters (1971), Chess
• A.K.A. McKinley Morganfield (1971), Chess
• Live (at Mr. Kelly's) (1971), Chess
• The London Muddy Waters Sessions (1972), MCA/Chess
• Can't Get No Grindin' (1973), Chess
• London Revisted with Howlin' Wolf (1974), Chess
• 'Unk' In Funk (1974), Chess
• The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album (1975), MCA/Chess
• Live at Jazz Jamboree '76 (1976), Polljazz
• His Best 1947-1955 (1976)
• Hard Again (1977), Blue Sky
• I'm Ready (1978), Blue Sky
• Muddy "Mississippi" Waters - Live (1979)
• King Bee (album) (1981), Blue Sky
• Rolling Stone (1982), Chess
• Rare and Unissued (1982), MCA/Chess
• Muddy & The Wolf (1983)
• Trouble No More (1989)
• The Complete Plantation Recordings (1993)
• Paris, 1972 (1997)
• Goin' Way Back (1997), Just A Memory
• One More Mile (1998)
• A Tribute To Muddy Waters King Of The Blues (1999)
• Hoochie Coochie Man (1999)
• The Golden Anniversary Collection (2000)
• The Anthology (1947-1972) (2001), MCA/Chess

Single

• 1941 "Country Blues" (Recorded By Alan Lomax)
• 1941 "I Be's Troubled" (Recorded By Alan Lomax)
• 1942 "Ramblin' Kid Blues"
• 1947 "Little Anna Mae"
• 1948 "Hard Days"
• 1948 "Down South Blues"
• 1949 "Screamin' And Cryin'"
• 1949 "Last Time I Fool Around With You"
• 1950 "Rollin' Stone" aka "Catfish Blues"
• 1950 "Rollin' and Tumblin'"
• 1950 "Walkin' Blues"
• 1951 "Howlin' Wolf"
• 1951 "Lonesome Day"
• 1951 "They Call Me Muddy Waters"
• 1951 "Still A Fool"
• 1951 "Long Distance Call"
• 1951 "Honey Bee"
• 1952 "Iodine In My Coffee"
• 1953 "Sad Sad Day"
• 1954 "I Just Want to Make Love to You"
• 1954 "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man"
• 1954 "I'm Ready"
• 1955 "Mannish Boy"
• 1955 "Trouble No More"
• 1955 "Sugar Sweet"
• 1956 "All Aboard"
• 1956 "Rock Me"
• 1956 "Forty Days and Forty Nights"
• 1957 "Got My Mojo Working"
• 1957 "Good Lookin' Woman"
• 1958 "Born Lover"
• 1959 "Goin' Down Louisiana" (aka "Louisiana Blues")
• 1960 "Deep Down In My Heart"
• 1961 "Messin' With The Man"
• 1962 "Going Home"
• 1962 "You Shook Me"
• 1963 "Let Me Hang Around"
• 1964 "My Home is on The Delta"
• 1965 "Early Morning Blues"
• 1966 "Canary Bird"
• 1967 "Trainfare Blues"
• 1968 "Mud In Your Ear"
• 1969 "Blues And Trouble"
• 1970 "Blues For Hippies"
• 1971 "Strange Woman"
• 1972 "My Pencil Won't Write No More"
• 1973 "Muddy Waters Shuffle"
• 1974 "Drive My Blues Away"
• 1975 "Born With Nothing"
• 1977 "Crosseyed Cat"
• 1978 "Copper Brown"
• 1979 "She's Nineteen Years Old"
• 1981 "Forever Lonely"

Dış bağlantılar

• Resmî site
• Muddy Waters entry at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame