Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters (Rolling Fork, 4 april 1915 - Westmomd, 30 april 1983) berne as McKinley Morganfield wie in Amearikaanske blues muzikant dy't oer it algemien sjoen wurdt as de wichtichste fertsjintwurdiger fan de Chicago blues.

Untstean fan de Chicago Blues 
Doe't er 7 wie begûn er mûle-oargel te spyljen, dêr't er al gauris publyk mei luts. Doe't er 17 wie gong er oer op de gitaar, dêr't er mei op feesten spile. De earste opnamen fan Muddy Waters binne yn 1940 makke op in plantaazje yn de Mississippydelta troch Alan Lomax. Letter ferhuze Morganfield nei Chicago dêr't er fan de akoestyske op elektroanysk fersterke gitaar oerstapte en in ritmeseksje en harmoanika tafoege. Dêrmei ûntstie de klassike gearstalling foar de Chicago blues.

Ynfloed fan Muddy Waters 
Muddy Waters hie in net te ûnderskatten ynfloed op ferskate muzikale sjânres: fansels op de blues, mar ek op rhythm and blues, rock, folksmuzyk, jazz en country. Waters holp Chuck Berry oan syn earste platekontrakt.

De Rolling Stones ûntlienden har namme oan in nûmer fan Muddy Waters út 1950 "Rollin Stone" ek wol bekend as "Catfish Blues". De grutste hit fan Led Zeppelin, "Whole Lotta Love" wie basearre op Muddy Waters syn nûmer "You Need Love".

In diel fan de komposysjes fan Muddy Waters 
 1941 - Country Blues (opnommen troch Alan Lomax)
 1942 - Ramblin' Kid Blues
 1947 - Little Anna Mae
 1948 - Hard Days
 1949 - Last Time I Fool Around With You
 1950 - Rollin' Stone (Catfish Blues)
 1951 - Still A Fool (Heard in film Color Of Money)
 - Long Distance Call
 - Honey Bee
 1952 - Iodine In My Coffee
 1953 - Sad Sad Day
 1954 - I Just Want to Make Love to You
 - I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
 - I'm Ready
 1955 - Mannish Boy
 - Trouble No More
 - Sugar Sweet
 1956 - All Aboard
 - Rock Me
 - Forty Days and Forty Nights
 - Got My Mojo Working
 1957 - Good Lookin' Woman
 1958 - Born Lover
 1959 - Goin' Down Louisiana (Louisiana Blues)
 1960 - Deep Down In My Heart
 1961 - Messin' With The Man
 1962 - Going Home
 1963 - Let Me Hang Around
 1964 - My Home is on The Delta
 1965 - Early Morning Blues
 1966 - Canary Bird
 1967 - Trainfare Blues
 1968 - Mud In Your Ear
 1969 - Blues And Trouble
 1970 - Blues For Hippies
 1971 - Strange Woman
 1972 - My Pencil Won't Write No More
 1973 - Muddy Waters Shuffle
 1974 - Drive My Blues Away
 1975 - Born With Nothing
 1977 - Crosseyed Cat
 1978 - Copper Brown
 1981 - Forever Lonely

Diskografy 
 1960 - At Newport
 1960 - Sings Big Bill Broonzy
 1963 - Folk Festival of the Blues (live)
 1964 - Folk Singer
 1964 - Muddy Waters
 1966 - Down on Stovall's Plantation
 1967 - Blues from Big Bill's Copacabana
 1967 - Brass and the Blues
 1967 - Super Blues (Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Little Walter)
 1967 - The Super Super Blues Band (Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf)
 1968 - Electric Mud
 1969 - After the Rain
 1969 - Fathers and Sons
 1969 - Sail On
 1970 - Vintage Mud
 1970 - Back in the Good Old Days
 1970 - Good News
 1970 - Goin' Home - Live in Paris 1970
 1970 - They Call Me Muddy Waters [I]
 1971 - Muddy Waters Live (At Mr. Kelly's)
 1971 - The London Muddy Waters Sessions
 1972 - Muddy Waters Live
 1973 - Mud in Your Ear
 1973 - Can't Get No Grindin
 1974 - London Revisited
 1974 - Muddy & the Wolf
 1975 - Woodstock Album
 1976 - Live at Jazz Jamboree '76
 1977 - Chess
 1977 - Hard Again
 1977 - Live Chess
 1977 - Unk in Funk
 1978 - I'm Ready
 1979 - Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live
 1981 - King Bee
 1995 - Goodbye Newport Blues (live)
 1996 - Mississippi Rollin
 1996 - Rollin' & Tumblin
 1997 - Paris 1972
 1997 - Goin' Way Back
 2000 - The Essential Collection
 2002 - Hoochie Coochie Man In Montreal (live)
 2002 - Live in Paris (1970)

Literatuer 
 2002 Can't be Satisfied: The Life And Times Of Muddy Waters troch Robert Gordon en Keith Richards, 432 siden - ISBN 0-316-32849-9
 1997 Muddy Waters: The Mojo Man troch Sandra B. Tooze, - 383 siden - ISBN 1-55022-296-1
 1995 Muddy Waters: Deep Blues autobiografy - 183 siden - ISBN 0-7935-0955-6
 1996 Muddy Waters: Deep Blues And Good News troch Dave Rubin en Muddy Waters ISBN 0-7935-6501-4
1991 Bossmen: Bill Monroe and Muddy Waters troch James R. Rooney, - 163 siden - ISBN 0-306-80427-1

Keppeling om utens
Muddy Waters, offisjele webside
Muddy Waters yn de Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]

Amerikaansk gitarist
Amerikaansk sjonger
Amerikaansk bluesartyst
Amerikaansk muzikant
Grammy-winner
Amerikaansk muzikant fan Afro-Amerikaansk komôf
Persoan berne yn 1915
Persoan stoarn yn 1983