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Muddy Waters
Solo artist Issaquena County United States blues musician
Muddy Waters is an artist from Issaquena County. Muddy Waters has 25 chart appearances on 17 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 1997–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Mannish Boy”, which appears on 15 lists with a best position of #129. The station that charted Muddy Waters most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 8 appearances.
Muddy Waters, born McKinley Morganfield in 1913, grew up on Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and by 17 he was playing guitar and harmonica, learning from Son House and Robert Johnson. Alan Lomax and John W. Work III recorded him in Mississippi for the Library of Congress in 1941, and two years later he moved to Chicago to play full-time. By 1946 he was recording for Columbia and then for Aristocrat, the new label run by Leonard and Phil Chess.
In Chicago he took the country blues of his youth and turned it into something loud enough to shake a building, which is why he gets called the father of modern Chicago blues. His early '50s band, with Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Elga Edmonds on drums and Otis Spann on piano, cut songs that became blues standards, several with bassist and songwriter Willie Dixon: "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "I'm Ready". His trip to England in 1958 helped kick-start the blues revival there, and his 1960 Newport Jazz Festival set became his first live album.
Everybody in rock owes him rent. Electric Mud, in 1968, cranked the amps higher still, with a fuzzed-out "Mannish Boy" that growls like a motorcycle idling. He died in 1983, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him in 1987.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Muddy Waters on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mannish Boy | 15 | #129 | – | – | |
| 2 | Got My Mojo Working | 4 | #101 | – | – | |
| 3 | Crosseyed Cat | 1 | #971 | – | – | |
| 4 | Rock Me | 1 | #1144 | – | – | |
| 5 | I'm Ready | 1 | #1636 | – | – | |
| 6 | I Just Want To Make Love To You (1954) | 1 | #1871 | – | – | |
| 7 | Rollin' Stone | 1 | #1985 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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