Artist
Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters is a blues artist from Mississippi, USA formed in 1941. 51 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Blues · Mississippi, USA · Best blues albums
- 51
- Releases
- 1960–2024
- Active years
- 1941
- Formed
Artist
Muddy Waters is a blues artist from Mississippi, USA formed in 1941. 51 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Blues · Mississippi, USA · Best blues albums
Most popular
Electric Mud
1968
After the Rain
1969
Fathers and Sons
1969
Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill Broonzy
1960
Muddy Waters at Newport 1960
1960
"Unk" in Funk
1974
Can't Get No Grindin'
1973
Hard Again
1977
King Bee
1981
I'm Ready
1978
Sweet Home Chicago
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More Real Folk Blues
2024
Muddy, Brass & The Blues
2023
Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill
2022
The Chess Box
2019
Can’t Be Satisfied: The Very Best Of Muddy Waters 1947 – 1975
2018
Super Blues
2018
Folk Singer (Digitally Remastered)
2014
The Real Folk Blues
2014
Walkin' Blues (Live)
2013
You Shook Me - The Chess Masters, Vol. 3, 1958 To 1963
2012
Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981
2012
Good News, Vol. 3
2011
Baby Please Don't Go
2011
Goodbye Newport Blues
2011
Trouble No More
2010
Mannish Boy
2010
Hoochie Coochie Man
2010
The Best Of Muddy Waters
2009
Mississippi Mud
2008
Got My Mojo Working
2006
Muddy Waters Long Distant Call
2006
Ol' Man Mud
2006
The Anthology
2001
Back In The Early Days
2000
Rollin' Stone: The Golden Anniversary Collection
2000
The Lost Tapes
1999
King of the Electric Blues
1997
Chicago Blues Masters, Volume 1
1995
Electric Mud & More
1995
The Blues Collection 11: Chicago Blues
1993
The Complete Plantation Recordings
1993
Muddy Waters
1992
The London Sessions
1991
They Call Me Muddy Waters
1990
The London Muddy Waters Sessions
1989
Muddy, Brass and the Blues
1989
Muddy Waters Sings Bill Bill Broonzy/Folk Singer
1986
Woodstock Album
1975
Going Way Back
1965
Folk Singer
1964
MUDDY WATERS - APRIL 4, 1913 - APRIL 30, 1983 Anyone who's followed the course of modern popular music is aware of the vast influence exerted on its development by the large numbers of blues artists who collectively shaped and defined the approach to amplified music in the late 1940s and early '50s. Chicago was the pivotal point for the development and dissemination of the modern blues and virtually everything else has flowed, in one way or another, from this rich source. The revolution began inauspiciously enough in 1948 with the release of a 78-rpm single by a singer-guitarist called Muddy Waters. Coupled on Aristocrat 1305 were a pair of traditional Mississippi Delta-styled pieces "I Cant Be Satisfied" and "I Feel Like Going Home," and on them Waters' dark, majestic singing. Waters' use of amplification gave his guitar playing a new, powerful, striking edge and sonority that introduced to traditional music a sound its listeners found very exciting, comfortably familiar yet strangely compelling and, above all, immensely powerful, urgent. From the start it was he who dominated the music, who led the way-in style, sound, repertoire, instrumentation, in every way-first as a greatl…