Free-'Muddy Water'-1973 

Beautiful song

Just an awesome band so tight and together saw them so many times in the 70's truly underrated just great stuff

Beautiful voice of Paul Rodgers... I really love it... ✌️💜

A truly beautiful ballad. So well constructed. Deceptively simple and yet containing many weaves of subtle textures. Piano and keyboards are the foundation but supplemented by solid bass lines and drums with guitar licks. As always Rodgers voice is so melodic, expressive and soulful. Otis Redding sings through him...one of Rodgers heroes. As comments below speak to: what maturity in people so young. I started listening to this in my teens, now in my 60s, and love it even more. Thank you Free for giving me a basis for life in all its many colours. You sing about joy, love, fun, sadness, depression, ecstasy, and even metaphysical experiences. Yes your band life was short but so full, so prolific, so profound. Some people live fast and give much, you were one of these.

Have loved this song for over 40 years now

Thank you for putting one of my all-time fave songs up for everyone to enjoy. Paul Rogers is such a great blues singer.

After the Beatles in the 60's, Free were my favourite band growing up in my teenage years of the 70's. Fire & Water, Highway & Heartbreaker were among my favourite albums of the decade, The amazing voice of Paul Rodgers, the virtuoso guitar playing of Paul Kossoff & the innovative bass of Andy Fraser was a joy to behold, Free's musical legacy will live for a long time to come.

Doesn't matter what year your watching this. if you reading this you have great taste of music!

Now that I'm older, I am so surprised by the depth of this song, a song that was created by such young men in their early 20's. Today I get it now boys....I'm such a slow learner. An amazing and talented group.

Wonderful song, can't wait to see Paul Rodgers performing songs from Free in Glasgow!!

"Muddy Water" I was born on the muddy water I didn't know right from wrong My mom said now look here son I'll show you how it's done Take you a woman and treat her right She'll be by your side every night and day The first time you deceive her You've broken her spell Then I had bad luck Like a fool I fell where I stood I was walking in the rain with my shoes untied Tryin' to find a dry place to hide To hide. But I'd rather sleep than say a word I don't believe a word that's heard The first time I deceived you I held it inside Take you a woman and treat her right She'll be by your side every night and day The first time you deceive her You've broken her spell I held it inside Like a fool I swallowed my pride I was walking in the rain with my shoes untied Tryin' to find a dry place to hide I was walking in the rain with my shoes untied Tryin' to find a dry place to hide To hide. I was walking in the rain

Anyone else walking in the rain with their shoes untied while cryin n listening to this

🤙👍💓🎸🤗 ça c'était de bon et vrai groupes de Musique pas comme aujourd'hui en 2023

A Song for Every Man to Ponder Upon our Rendezvous Trips on Promiscuous Affairs

Credit to John Bundrick for a great song !

Four great souls came together and created a moment in time they were Free

So underrated just couldn't make it last

15 thumbs down.. that are attached to the hands of 15 Bozo's that have No Idea of what Music is or what Music feels like!! PERIOD. 👌🎶🤡🧠⚰🤣🐃💩🗑🎶👌

Preciosa canción...👍👍

It's 'common knowledge' now that Koss lost his golden touch because of his fascination with 'drugs'. However, I respectfully beg to differ. I was very fortunate to count him among my tribe of friends, and made music with him in the studio, as well as just sitting around the house, tho' never live. Koss was a mighty man with a wonderfully twisted sense of humor, which I believe flowed from the same well as his unique way of playing. Yeah, he wrestled with his demons, which made gigging more difficult as time went on. But I NEVER heard him play without his heart and soul come pumping up thru his fingers,, and there was no drug ever made that could take that away from him. Much Respect.

This song is really great. The keyboard sounds fantastic. Kossoff, you will always be missed.

Great song and what can you say about Paul Rodgers, simply the best.

Именно с этой рок-группой я влюбился в рок-н-ролл!

Soul meets blues and mnmnmnmnmnmnmnmnmn an absolute smouldering classic.Beautifully played and as for Mr Rodgers ,oh yeah X❤️X

Heartbreaker the best rock album ever made, even without Fraser and most of the time Kossoff, still incredible, and maybe gives those who know an insight as to what a super group Free could have become?

Amazing song,I have buy the LP on 1972

This song shows the full range of Paul Rodgers superb voice

a very good song,love free,shame this was the last album,but to be fair the oringial 4 was no more,expect paul,just a shame the way things ended with this classic band the kings of blues rock.

Love this band so much, great tune (Maybe McKinley Morganfield, a.k.a. Muddy Waters, heard this song back then and thought it was pretty good). R.I.P. Andy Fraser and Paul Kossoff, thank you for the music 🤘

Incredibly thought full lyrics. Simply amazes me that they were so young to develop such deep music.

Such a special young band 🙏🎶

I was a Free fan all through my mid teens and the Heartbreaker album, although a bit of a bastard child due to the band line up, is still one of my favourite albums.

The coolest & greatest rock ban ever so underrated x

Le plus beau morceau de cet album magnifique ! Merci !

FOR ME, THE GREATEST BALLAD NEVER COMPOSED ! I use to sing it in all my concerts. Thanks Mr. John Bundrick !!! JLG

A heartfelt song from Paul Rogers absolutely beautiful song.

One of the best tracks on Heartbreaker. Paul Rodgers sounds amazing.

i think its snuffy walden on guitar wendall richardson went on 73 us tour but demanded more money to continue playing and that was the end of free they should have stayed with snuffy history might have been different

Well, this is MY favourite Free song! I don't care that everybody else goes on about 'Alright Now'.

Thank you so very much...I read somwhere that Wendell was hired to fill in on some tracks off this album for Kossoff. Simply a great song from a GREAT band.

Muy talentoso Grupo esa Voz,batería,guitarra bajo Conmovía mi ser Al escuchar a Free Interpretando está pieza Si hubo un Bad Company con Exelsas composiciones Y cuates Del Insuperable LED ZEPPELIN Que tiempos Cuando la MUSICA EFA SER CADENCIA AMOR TALENTO INSPIRACION DE DIOS BIBLICO Y DE ORO

Written by John "Rabbit Bundrick" with guitar by Snuffy Waldren (not Paul Kossoff, who wasn't on all Heartbreaker tracks nor Wendell Richardson who was on the subsequent tour as an ill-advised replacement for Kossoff).

I would just like to correct the comment Tom Kane, the credits on the album sleeve are inaccurate; Kossoff plays on the whole of side 1 and the final track on side 2, "Seven Angels". Walden's guitar appears on tracks 2, 3, and 4 of side 2, so "Seven Angels" features both him and Kossoff.

Remarkable one last records whit Paul Kossoff on it , some tracks whit Snuffy over dub's but the chops are Kossoff mark.

Sang this amazing song back in the day ( I’m old!))

Definitely saved their best til last

This song, I love!

Sono contento che ti sia piaciuto, ci sono molti di più sulla mia pagina!

free were far superior to bad co but didnt make much money so rodgers went for the money with rock by numbers bad co who did produce decent stuff on 1st 2 albums but not in the same league as free

This does NOT feature Wendell Richardson on guitar, he only toured with them (final tour of USA?), never went into the studio with them.

Can you find this song for Kerokee or Smule to be more precise?

Desculpe, eu usei o Google Translate para comunicar com você ... Agradecimentos para ver e comentar no meu canal, eu tenho muito mais se você estiver interessado ... Obrigado, Tom

I like the way you put the video together. Suitably tasteful for a tasteful band playing a tasteful track. I don't think Wendell recorded with them, but Snuffy Walden played some of the guitar on Heartbreaker.

did Free ever do a bad song? Stunning, again.

The free ls steen goed.

I was born under muddy water.

Kellimagine, I did cry walking in the rain with my shoelaces untied, but I wasn't introduced to Free. Although I was v.fond of Bad Company! These lads were fallen Angels.

Por siempreeeeeee freeeee ❤✌👍☮🙏🙏👏🌹🙏

Muito obrigado pelo seu comentário tipo! Estou tão feliz que você gostou tanto!

Love this song X

Free конечно лучше чем Bad Co. Также как Deep purple чем Rainbow!

Fantastic Tune

My Favoourite when I was in the Secondary school.

My favorite song

Kossoff was killer

My All Time Favourite!

😎🇬🇷🎸🎼👍✌

Amo esa cancion ❤️

🤜🤛🤝✊

i had the intuition that somebody like Luther Grosvenor (or his other name Ariel Bender) was maybe one of the best potential choices as a new guitarist for the band... an opportunity was lost there... he had the blues touch surely more than mr Ralphs...