Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied
Muddy Waters, a Mississippi Delta sharecropper's son, had two choices for escaping the life of a field hand: preacher or musician. In 1943, the sometime guitarist, sometime bootlegger hopped a train to Chicago, where he became the voice for a generation of like-minded Southerners scrambling for opportunity in the North. By the mid-1950s, Waters had, literally, electrified the blues. His hit songs – Hoochie Coochie Man, I Just Want to Make Love to You, Rollin' Stone – spoke for both a people and an era. His "dirty blues" entered the popular pantheon through performances by seminal rock stars from Led Zeppelin to Jimi Hendrix. The Rolling Stones, who took their name from Muddy's song, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton all credit Waters with nothing less than paving the path for rock and roll. To this day, Muddy Waters can be found on jukeboxes throughout the world. Bonnie Raitt sums up his raw power and sizzling vibe this way: "He is the sexiest blues man ever."
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