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The British band The Rolling Stones named themselves after Muddy Waters' 1950 song, "Rollin' Stone". Jimi Hendrix recalled that "I first heard him as a little boy and it scared me to death". Eric Clapton was a big fan of Muddy Waters growing up and his band Cream covered "Rollin' and Tumblin'" on their 1966 debut album, Fresh Cream.
As an acoustic guitar player, Broonzy inspired Muddy Waters, Memphis Slim, Ray Davies, John Renbourn, Rory Gallagher, [34] and Steve Howe. [35] In the September 2007 issue of Q Magazine, Ronnie Wood, of the Rolling Stones, cited Broonzy's track "Guitar Shuffle" as his favorite guitar music. Wood remarked: "It was one of the first tracks I ...
He returned to Donaldsonville by 1948 and, inspired by Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker, began taking guitar lessons from a cousin. "Boogie Chillun," by John Lee Hooker was the first song that he learned to play. [2]
It originated as "Rockin' and Rollin'", a 1951 song by Lil' Son Jackson, [1] itself inspired by earlier blues. Renditions by Muddy Waters and B.B. King made the song well-known. When B.B. King's recording of "Rock Me Baby" was released in 1964, it became his first single to reach the Top 40 in Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart.
After the release of "I'm a Man", Waters recorded an "answer song" in May 1955, titled "Mannish Boy", [4] referring to Diddley's younger age. In a Rolling Stone magazine interview, Diddley recounts that the song took a long time to record because of confusion regarding the timing of the "M ...
"Mannish Boy" (or "Manish Boy" as it was first labeled) is a blues standard written by Muddy Waters, Mel London, and Bo Diddley (with Waters and Diddley being credited under their birth names). First recorded in 1955 by Waters, it serves as an "answer song" to Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man", [1] which was in turn inspired by Waters' and Willie Dixon's "Hoo
Francis Clay (November 16, 1923 – January 21, 2008) [1] was an American jazz and blues drummer, best known for his work behind Muddy Waters in the 1950s and 1960s, [2] and as an original member of the James Cotton band. [1]
Dixon claimed that the idea of a seer was inspired by history and the Bible. [4] The verses in the song's three sixteen-bar sections proceed chronologically. [51] The opening verse starts before the narrator is born [52] and references Waters' 1947 song "Gypsy Woman": Muddy Waters with James Cotton, 1971