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We wont see the likes of Muddy again ..I got in on the later days of Muddy's career . He passed in '83 when I was a young man and had just learned of him a couple of years before . I was playing or trying to play guitar since I was 10 years old and still trying to play the blues ..God Bless
I just LOVE to hear Willie ‘ Big Eyes ‘ Smith drumming with Muddy. I really can’t think of anyone in the blues field that drummed as beautifully as him. He was what Phil Rudd is to rock. Or Buddy Rich go jazz.
If it wasn't for Muddy i probably would have never picked up a guitar. I've had some great teachers but i learned the most by just listening to muddy and trying to follow
Interesting to hear him credit the Rolling Stones. Jagger looked like a druggie on stage next to Muddy in the one video I saw of them together, and Muddy looked like a gentleman.
That's a good interview, but he's not quite correct in one thing. I'm 80, born in Mississippi, and white. In 1960 I was a senior in high school and had "Got My Mojo Working" on record. I don't believe the Rolling Stones were around then to promote Muddy. All the Mississippi born blues artists were popular with white kids, especially Jimmy Reed, Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf, etc.
Very interesting Albert, as an Englishman I never really believed this thing about young British bands ' bringing thé Blues back to America' but thé fact remains that Merchant seaman were coming back to Britain with thèse great records by American singers/bands and they were inspirational for young musiciens hère (esp. Late fifties/early sixties) anyway what a great musical héritage you have and I Hope you are still enjoying your music now because the Best is Timeless and there for everyone, best regards from UK
Sam Cooke was quite popular too, another Mississippi-born, Chicago-raised crossover with the teens of the age. I met an old white fella from Tennessee whose senior prom slow-dance with his high-school sweetheart was You Send Me in 1958. The musical barriers were certainly eroding in the ‘50s.
