{"id":4096,"date":"2012-08-16T12:22:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T17:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=4096"},"modified":"2012-08-16T12:22:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T17:22:52","slug":"one-of-the-great-blues-masters-muddy-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/one-of-the-great-blues-masters-muddy-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"One Of The Great Blues Masters, Muddy Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4097\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4097\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/one-of-the-great-blues-masters-muddy-waters\/muddy_waters_blues_musician-cropped\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4097\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4097\" title=\"Muddy_Waters_(blues_musician)-cropped\" src=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Muddy_Waters_blues_musician-cropped-e1344884323656-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Muddy Waters was one of the great blues masters that brought the blues to the world. Photo courtesy of WIkipedia.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Muddy Waters is one of the first blues guitarists to come out of the Mississippi Delta and really shake things up in Chicago and beyond.\u00a0 Muddy has inspired several generations of blues musicians, including myself, with his raw music and stories.\u00a0 Fortunately, with technology the way it is today, there are early recordings that we can hear and see featuring the incomparable Muddy Waters.\u00a0 I pulled together a few performances that aren&#8217;t necessarily his most popular recordings, but feature him playing the guitar.\u00a0 I hope you enjoy the performances as much as I did!<\/p>\n<p>It was difficult for me to find videos that featured Muddy Waters on guitar, since his voice was such a popular trait of his.\u00a0 Fortunately I found three recordings that feature Muddy on guitar.\u00a0 The first is an audio recording of Muddy down in Mississippi and can be found here at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hprMGHiHdJs\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hprMGHiHdJs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/hprMGHiHdJs&#8221; height=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The next video features a great video performance with Muddy and his band playing the song, &#8220;Long Distance Call.&#8221;\u00a0 Check it out at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z1gpDcc3FBI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z1gpDcc3FBI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/Z1gpDcc3FBI&#8221; height=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The last video I found for you featured Muddy and his band playing the song, &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Lose What You Never Had.&#8221;\u00a0 Check it out at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HgHQalqG6E8&amp;feature=related\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HgHQalqG6E8&amp;feature=related<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/HgHQalqG6E8&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are many great blues recordings from Muddy Waters, so it was hard to narrow it down to just three songs in this post.\u00a0 But like I said before, I wanted to find recordings that featured Muddy on guitar and vocals.\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed the videos as much as I did.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Griff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muddy Waters is one of the first blues guitarists to come out of the Mississippi Delta and really shake things up in Chicago and beyond.\u00a0 Muddy has inspired several generations of blues musicians, including myself, with his raw music and stories.\u00a0 Fortunately, with technology the way it is today, there are early recordings that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}