Muddy Waters - She's Nineteen Years Old - ChicagoFest 1981
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In August of 1981, when the undisputed king of Chicago blues headlined ChicagoFest -
then the Windy City's top outdoor music festival - for two nights, his loyal subjects mobbed Navy
Pier on the lakefront to hear one of the greatest innovators the idiom had ever produced.
Muddy Waters led the charge in the late 1940s and early '50s to electrify Delta blues in an
urban setting. His peerless combo would include such future stars as ace guitarist Jimmy Rogers,
harmonica virtuoso Little Walter and piano wizard Otis Spann. But Muddy was always at the center
of the action. His gruff, authoritative vocal delivery and slashing slide guitar define the purest form
of postwar Chicago blues. Waters' charisma was as immense as his musical vision.
Born April 4, 1915, in Issaquena County, Mississippi, McKinley Morganfield learned the
blues while sharecropping on Stovall Plantation. One guitarist particularly influenced him. "I never
seen a man could play at that time as good as Son House, to me. With that big voice he had, he could
sing," said Muddy. "He was preachin' the blues then, and I thought he was the best in the world."
In late August of 1941 musicologists Alan Lomax and John Work rolled into Coahoma
County in search of rural gospel and blues talent. They made field recordings of Muddy, with Lomax
returning the next year to cut more. But those were for the Library of Congress. It was only after
Muddy migrated north in 1943 that he pursued a career as a professional bluesman.
"As soon as I decided to leave, my mind said, 'Go to Chicago!'" he recounted. "So I
came." Pianist Sunnyland Slim introduced Muddy to Leonard Chess, then with the fledgling
Aristocrat label, in 1947. Waters cut a few small combo sides for the label before reverting to his
Delta slide attack the following year on "I Can't Be Satisfied" and "I Feel Like Going Home," his
first hit. "When I did them two sides, that's the sides they went nuts over," said Waters.
"I had a band in less than a week," Muddy remembered. "Mojo Buford - he was with
me before, the harp player - said, 'I'll get you some boys that'll cook just like that.' He called in
about two or three days. He said, 'I'm gonna bring 'em over and let you listen to 'em.' Just that fast,
I had a band!" Buford was joined by guitarists John Primer and Rick Kreher, pianist Lovie Lee,
bassist Earnest Johnson and drummer Ray Allison. They all instinctively understood Muddy's
groove.
After "Mannish Boy" gets the festivities off to a rousing start, Muddy counts off romping
shuffles for the ChicagoFest throng, rolling through Jimmy Reed's "You Don't Have To Go," Big
Joe Williams' "Baby Please Don't Go," Slim Harpo's "I'm A King Bee" and his own 1955 gem
"Trouble No More." For the luxuriantly downbeat "They Call Me Muddy Waters," he peels off a
slide solo that makes the hair on the nape of your neck stand up in silent salute.
In the midst of his rollicking "Walking Thru The Park," Muddy brings out fleet-fingered
guitar wizard Johnny Winter, producer of his 1977 "comeback" album Hard Again. "We met back
in the '60s in Austin, Texas," recalled Muddy. "He was one of the young white kids who was really
deep into it." Johnny sings "Going Down Slow" before Waters blasts out a swaggering "She's
Nineteen Years Old," boasting another jaw-dropping slide ride. Winter takes over again vocally for
a grinding "You've Got To Love Her With A Feeling" that morphs into "Five Long Years" when
local luminary Mighty Joe Young strolls up to the mic, Big Twist following that with a few special
lyrics for the occasion. Muddy brings it all to a close with a rousing "Got My Mojo Working."
"To stay with this music, you got to live with it. Sometimes you might be a little hungry,
but you got to stay with it. I've been where I couldn't get the right food a lot of times. My icebox
wasn't full, you know?" said Muddy, who passed away not long after this show on April 30, 1983.
"I'm glad it was like that. So when I got to the point that I could get what I want, I think I enjoyed it
better."
It's hard to tell who enjoyed those two evenings at ChicagoFest more - the crowd, his
pals onstage or Muddy himself.
- Bill Dahl
Research Materials
Can't Be Satisfied: The Life And Times Of Muddy Waters, by Robert Gordon
(Boston & New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2002)
Spinning Blues Into Gold: The Chess Brothers And The Legendary Chess Records, by Nadine Cohodas
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000)
The Complete Muddy Waters Discography, by Phil Wight and Fred Rothwell
(Cheshire, England: Blues and Rhythm Pub.)
Joel Whitburn's Top R&B Singles 1942--1988, by Joel Whitburn
(Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research Inc., 1988)
The Official Muddy Waters Web site: www.muddywaters....
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A national treasure.....Muddy was the blues master.....
+Jim Munding The King of the Southside Chicago Blues!!
Never to be forgotten...ever...y'all the Godfather of the Blues, 🎉😉
Awesome slide by the great Muddy Waters. When they made him they threw the mold away. He will never be duplicated. Dead since 1983 and his music is still the greatest!!
This is nothing but " Stoned Cold Blues " - Muddy .
You know what is so cool , and you don't it see today , Pay back , Johnny Winters helping Muddy Waters , Eric Clapton helping JJ Cale , Elton John helping Leon Russell . . .
And that , ladies and gentlemen, is how it's done!
muddy rules
Great cut......wow...thank you for posting.....Outstanding.
the God of slide, The Ayatolla of Rock and Rolla. The one and only.
wow this is great, this is the man and the band are so great too!
No wonder Jimi was scared when he first heard Muddy! Those slide moves were sick!
I'm 19 today😌💃
This is The Pope of the BLUES!!!
I know, it made me smile to see him
Muddys guitar wanted to have a cigarette when this song was over...
T Mee it was already smokin’.
moo
I'm say'n something to you,
I don't care how you feel
You just don't realize,
You got yourself a good deal
She's nineteen years old,
And she got ways just like a baby child
Nothing I can do to please her,
I'm just try'n to make this little woman feel satisfied
I'm say'n something to you,
And I don't care if you get mad
You're 'bout the cutest little woman that I'll ever had
She's nineteen years old,
And she got ways just like a baby child
Nothing I can do to please her, oh no,
I'm just try'n to make this little woman feel satisfied
I'm say'n something to you,
And I don't care how you feel
You just don't realize,
You know you got you,
You got yourself a good deal
She's nineteen years old,
And she got ways just like a baby child
Nothing I can do to please her,
I'm just try'n to make this little woman feel satisfied
I can't ask her where she's going,
She tells me where she's been
She'll start a conversation,
That don't have no end
You know she, she's nineteen years old and she got ways just like a baby child
Nothing I can do to please her,
Whoa, Lord I'm just try'n to make this little woman feel satisfied
Damn, I'm real young (14) and this is the first time I've ever heard Muddy Waters, and I gotta say, if the rest of his discography is anything like this, I'm becoming his new fan. This song is better than like all but 5 Led Zeppelins songs and Led Zeppelin is one of my all time favorite bands (top 5).
Now you nearly 25 boyo funny how time flies..hopefully you still enjoy the blues ✨🌼🌿🌞🌿🌼✨
Muddy and Johnny, the way god intended
just remember he played in winnipeg at muddy's
(juz' Da Blues
My dad loves this one "
Τhanks very much for the written information. Greetings from Athens, Greece.
Blues.... gateway to the soul of a true man/woman. Gotta love the King of Blues, Mr. Muddy Waters.
@jrcorperated, Don't kid yourself, lad. These guys used the latest gear they could get their hands on, electric guitars, effects pedals, and Muddy himself had a singing style that could not have existed without the microphone. You cant wail it out loud and have the conversational style that he had. The blues is still alive, you can hear its echoes in Adele's scales. It will never die.
i was at this show and muddy showed up about 1/2 hr late. there was a huge crowd and when he came out and started playing the crowd started moving as a unit. scary stuff!
winter and muddy thas a sweet chocolate ice cream for the soul
One of the greatest collaborations of all time. Along with Hooker & Heat...
Story of my life! Lol.
I think I answered my own question. George 'Mojo' Buford planing harmonica
Thats neck and neck with Elmore James!!!!!
Love Buddy's chaotic soloing.
*muddy's
this man invented electricity
@archy9752 You're awesome brother! Thanks for helping to keep the music alive! Peace
nice
i want to do with my guitar what muddy waters does with his voice- jimi hendrix
Mojo Buford is my favorite of his harp players.
thank you for posting, come see us down in clarksdale and the delta sometime.
check it out, i know here's a juke joint fest coming up in april i think.
google cathead in clarksdale , roger will know.
É, VIVER É BLUES!
My my my...
Excellent video, precious, but forget to quote the illustrious Johnny Winter on guitar was a big failure! Downloading now! Thanked by the posting...
if you dislike this you dont know music bottom line
could someone tell me who's the harpplayer?
George "Mojo' Buford
place superfluous comment here____
[that was perfect]
yeah..that's Johnny Winter...
Is Johnny Winter playing guitar on stage ?
Gregg Brown tiene toda la pinta, segun yo, yes XD
Who is blowing harp?
George "Mojo" Buford
haters gonna love!
@MrRad999 Johnny Winter xD
Little Richard, not muddy
.......
johnny winter looked bone thin!
Winter was bone thin. He lived on heroin... Died rocking tho... The only way it could have been!!!
He was always thin. Methadone for decades after heroin addiction. Tapered off thanks to his Producer and guitarist and friend Paul. Got to see him touring behind his Roots album.
@dekopstuk Mojo Buford
puta que pariu
Little Richard's not Muddy
Played with that dude