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Muddy Waters was an American Blues musician born deep in rural Mississppi. Waters was mainly responsible for the transformation of Blues music in big cities such as Chicago and New York.

Muddy was one of the select people who developed the "slide technique" on the guitar, in which he wore the neck of a glass bottle to slide up and down the strings with, creating continuous transitions in pitch. Muddy was never afraid to try new things, he was one of the first to record tracks using an electric guitar he recieved from his uncle in order to be able to play in noisy clubs on Chicago's Southside. Muddy was more than willing to adapt to his new home, when he came to Chicago his sound changed radically. For the better. He intertwined his young country blues sound that he knew so well with Chicago's urban style that he soon fell in love with. It is said that Muddy and his all-star band "played with a single pulsating rhythm" that was never quite heard before. He is known for bridging the country-urban blues gap, introducing new techniques, and developing a more personal style of song writing.

"Trouble In Mind":

Trouble in mind, and I'm blue Oh you know I won't be blue always You know the sun is gonna shine in my back door some day I'm going down to the river Oh you know I'm gonna sit right down right down there, on the ground You know if I get to thinkin' about my baby, I wanna jump overboard and drown Well I'm going back to Jackson Oh you know to my old Jackson, Tennessee Where you know your girls ain't doin' nothin' but makin' a fool of me Well I'm going down to the railroad Oh you know I'm gonna lay my head right down on the railroad iron I'm gonna let the two-nineteen ease my worried mind.

In Trouble in Mind, Muddy expressed several suicidal thoughts which was not done in Urban Blues and is one of the reasons why he was the most expressive blues artist of his genre and time.


 * __FUN FACTS!!!!!!__**


 * Did you know that in 1932, Muddy sold a horse to buy his firtst guitar for $2.50!


 * In 1978, Water's performed for President Jimmy Carter at the White House.


 * The Rolling Stone's named their band based on a song Muddy did by the name of "Rollin Stone."