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This paragraph is misleading:
Indeed, the birth of rock and roll can be simplified as an amalgamation of the music of Muddy Waters and Hank Williams. Both artists were popular contemporaries being soaked up in the musical melting pot of the Memphis, Tennessee area by the likes of Sam Phillips, and the artists he was beginning to record, including a young Elvis Presley.
In 1953-1955, when Memphis's contribution to the development of rock and roll was taking place, Muddy Waters's fame was mainly confined to Black fans in Chicago and other northern cities. The country side of rock and roll's development in Memphis had a lot more to do with Carl Perkins than with Hank Williams.
The album Electric Mud was a failure.
Discography
Anyone willing to add a discography?
if you go here:-
http://www.bluesandrhythm.co.uk/classics.html
you can download a PDF of 'The Complete Muddy Waters Discography' by Phil Wight and Fred Rothwell
published by Blues & Rhythm magazine Neverslim (talk) 11:52, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
born in 1913
I have been told by someone who knows a lot about blues that Muddy Waters was actually born in 1913, not 1915, and lied about his birthday often. Unless someone can tell me that this isn't true, I will make the change. Ezradf 18:56, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Here, this article from PBS's American Masters Series says 1913: Muddy Waters - American Masters
Okay, it's been a while and no one has objected, so I'm changing the date to his real birthday, 1913. Ezradf 02:32, 22 December 2005 (UTC)His official website biography lists it as 1915, but doesn't provide any documentation for that date. Epicidiot 07:40, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Not to nitpick but now the article states 1913 in the summery at the top and 1915 in the childhood paragraph....
His estimated age in the 1920 census is the best educated guess for his year of birth. A date he made up later is, by no means, his correct birthdate. He made up April 4, 1913. The date of birth can't be listed to make everything clean and neat. The best guess is 1915. Daviddaniel37 (talk) 22:36, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I found that this website: http://www.muddywaters.com/bio.html and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website (http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=208) say that his birthdate was in 1915.
Geneaolgists and courts of law generally accept the earlist documentation of a birthdate as the most accurate. The earliest known document on which Muddy listed his own birth date is his marrigae license from the 1930s. The second earliest document on which he gave his own birthdate is his musicians union application in the mid 1940s. There are no examples or documents of him giving his birth year as 1915 until 1955 at the peak of his popularity, when he told an interviewer from the Chicago Defender that he was born in 1915. Most later published source give 1915, but the sources closer to the actual event are more likely to be accurate, not the sources further removed from the event in time. With this in mind, and in the absence of a birth certificate (which he never had), 1913 is most likely correct. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.253.212.84 (talk) 02:52, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Influence
Any more about his influence? It's obvious his influence is almost undefinable, it seems we might be able to offer a better summary of the breadth of it. Anyone? -Wikitoddia 04:08, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
This wiki article has become a running joke amongst blues enthusiasts
This biography used to be good, but it has been turned into a useless piece of shit by too many grubby hands with pitiful knowledge.
It reads like something a bunch of myopic, uneducated white people would write.
I mean...ignoring the entire resurgence in the 70s, helped by Edgar Winter?
That was a strong part of the article and whoever deleted it should be banned from Wiki.
jgeiger54 01:14, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey hey, I don't think uneducated black people would do better than uneducated white people but I am white so maybe I don't know. Maybe you're white too, I don't know. Thanks though. I don't think that the use of micro-tones in his playing and singing is what made it hard for people play his music with him. It was common for blues singers to change structures to 13 bars or 11 bars or change to "quick change". This combined with his phrasing made it hard for many players, black or white to find the groove. My name is Kevin Mahoney and I approve this message. (What is a "micro tone" anyway? blah.)The birth date is the least of this articles's problems
Here is one of the greatest blue man ever and the article is completely uninformative. It does not seem to understand his greatness. I don't understand why not. --Mattisse 01:23, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
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Birthdate
The infobox and the lede say 1915. The second paragraph says, "Waters was born ... in 1913 (He later told people that he was born in 1915..." Let's fix this discrepancy. Biruitorul 22:27, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Image:Muddy1.gif
If anyone changes this infobox image, or adds any extra, please make sure you put a fair-use rationale otherwise it will be rapidly deleted, and this guy deffo deserves an image on his page Sue Wallace 16:22, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Flag
I see the flag icon I removed has been replaced. If anyone can provide an encyclopedic reason for keeping it here, I am fine for it to stay. Otherwise I think it should be removed. --John 14:30, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
about that street ...
thanks for clarifying the sentence about the Chicago street named after him, but: the sources i'm looking at indicate that "honorary" is not part of the street name - it's plain Muddy Waters Drive; and can someone confirm that that name is still current, please and thank you? it's not on the current google map of Chicago, as far as i can see. if someone could specify which segment of 43rd Street it is/was, that would be great - between what intersections, i mean? thanks ... Sssoul (talk) 11:53, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Muddy Waters Logo?
I have to do a blues presontation at school and i was wondering if Muddy Waters had a logo so i could use it S
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