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Articles tagged "muddy waters" Column: Mixtape ConfessionsWaltzing with Wilcoby Ben Rubenstein[7.Apr.09] :. As any experienced concert-goer knows, a lively audience can mean the difference between a lackluster event and a memorable night. Sometimes, it’s more important than the band's actual performance.  Column: Subversive Rock HumorLaughing Through the Tears: The Enduring Journey of Etta Jamesby Iain Ellis[12.Feb.09] :. As much as Etta James used her songwriting and vocal skills as primary sources for empowerment and critique, her performances and image were equally significant in reflecting a public persona bursting with wit, wildness, and sassy radicalism.  Column: Negritude 2.0Retelling the History of Black Music: The Beautiful Music All Around John Work IIIby Mark Reynolds[8.Aug.08] :. Work recorded the soundtrack of people’s lives, and captured the earliest stirrings of much of the music we’ve enjoyed since World War II.  Music ReviewVarious Artists: The Rough Guide to the Bluesby Zeth Lundy[29.May.07] :. Twenty-two track compilation covers eight decades of blues music, from Mamie Smith to Ali Farke Touré, with mixed results.  Music ReviewMuddy Waters: Muddy Mississippi Waters Liveby Barbara Flaska[16.Jan.04] :. Everybody’s got a favorite bluesman story. My current favorite about Muddy Waters is set far in the distant past, just slightly after the time when he was living and working on the Mississippi...  Music ReviewMuddy Waters: Martin Scorsese’s The Blues: Muddy Watersby Peter Su[5.Dec.03] :. Muddy Waters‘s sound is the sound of the blues. Even more than Chuck Berry is the prototypical rock artist, Waters is the prototypical blues artist. Just like one can’t truly be a... Muddy Waters: The Real Folk Blues/More Real Folk Bluesby Marshall Bowden[13.Aug.02] :. Muddy Waters came to Chicago in 1943, but didn’t have a hit recording until 1948’s “I Can’t Be Satisfied”. He learned his craft from Delta bluesman Eddie... The Last Waltz (2002)by Lesley Smith[18.Apr.02] :. The Last Waltz still spirits a tingle up the spine. Muddy Waters: The Anthology: 1947-1972by John Kreicbergs[27.Aug.01] :. Born in 1915 in rural Mississippi, McKinley Morganfield had an early childhood that differed little from those of most African-Americans growing up in the thick of the agricultural South. Raised by... |
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