McKinley Morganfield ( April 4 of 1915 - April 30 of 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was a musician of blues U.S. , the Father of Chicago blues .
Born in Rolling Fork , Mississippi, Waters started recording in 1940 . The stage name (in Portuguese, muddy waters) he won due to the custom of a child playing in a river. He would change it later to Chicago , Illinois, where he traded his guitar the electric guitar. His popularity began to grow among black musicians, and this enabled him to move to perform in clubs large movement. The technique is strongly characteristic of Waters because of their use of the clamp on guitar. His first recordings for Chess Records had Waters on guitar and vocals backed by a cello . Later he would add a rhythm section and harmonica Little Walter, inventing the classic Chicago blues.
With his deep voice, rich, charismatic personality and the support of excellent musicians, Waters quickly became the most famous figure of the Chicago Blues. Even BB King would refer to it later as the "Boss of Chicago." His bands were a "who's who of blues musicians from Chicago: Little Walter, Big Walter Horton, James Cotton, Junior Wells, Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, Pinetop Perkins, Buddy Guy, and thereafter.
recordings of Waters in the late 50's and early 60 were particularly their best. Many of the tunes he became successful: "I've Got My Mojo Working," "Hoochie Coochie Man," "She's Nineteen Years Old" and "Rolling and Tumbling" great classics that won versions of several bands of styles more diverse.
His influence was enormous in many genres: blues, rhythm and blues , rock, folk , country. It was Waters who helped Chuck Berry get his first contract. His tours of
England in the early '60s marked possibly the first time a heavy band, amplified and presented through there (some critic felt compelled to leave a show to write his review because he found the band played too loud). Waters's songs including exercised great influence on British bands. The Rolling Stones took its name from "Rollin 'Stone" by 1950, better known as "Catfish Blues." One of the biggest hits of Led Zeppelin , "Whole Lotta Love" was based on "You Need Love," written by Willie Dixon . It was Dixon who composed some of the best-known songs by Muddy Waters as "I Just Want to Make Love to You," "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "I'm Ready."
Among other songs they Waters became known include "Long Distance Call," "Mannish Boy" and the anthem of rock / blues "I've Got My Mojo Working." Muddy Waters died in
Westmont, Illinois, at age 68 and is buried in Restvale Cemetery, Alsip , Illinois, near Chicago.
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