Muddy Waters: Can't be Satisfied (DVD)

Note: McKinley Morganfield (a.k.a. Muddy Waters), 68 yrs. (1915-1983). Robert Johnson, 27 yrs. (1911-1938) --
born 4 years apart, they were of the same generation.

1. B.B. King considers Muddy to be the "_______________ of the Blues."

2. Jim Dickinson credits Muddy for inventing the _____________ combo.

3. Who gave him the nickname "Muddy Waters"?

4. Muddy grew up on a Mississippi Delta plantation: ______________ _______________.

5. In 1941, Library of Congress musicologist Alan Lomax was searching for ___________ ____________ to record
when he found Muddy Waters instead. (Lomax didnt realize he had died three years earlier.)

6. What technological innovation helped "push" the sharecropper workforce to leave the South ca. 1940? [note: right
before, and during, WWII]

7. Muddy moves north to _______________.

8. Muddy's first day job in that city: in a _______________.

9. What street was the hub of the Chicago blues scene?

10. Muddy went to Chicago and put the "________ __________ " behind the music.

11. He did that by adding instruments not part of country blues: ___________ and ____________.

12. Polish immigrant Leonard Chess started Chess Records in ______________ (year).

13. According to Ron Wynn, what [78 rpm] record is arguably the most important of the post-war era?

14. In his Chicago house, Muddy had in the basement a ______________ space notorious for having hosted many
touring blues musicians.

15. 1960 Newport Jazz Festival performance clip: "Got My Mojo Workin'" is composed on what form?

16. Late 1950's--early 1960's, the blues audience expands to include more __________, especially college students.

17. The Rolling Stones met Muddy (conflicting stories) on their 1st American tour [1964] at the _____________
______________ studios.

18. Waters' comeback album in which he updated his blues sound with a hard rock influence -- title and year:

19. The transition to the 1970's was difficult:

a) ______________ _____________ dies. b) October 1969:_________________ (6 mo. hospitalization).

c) _____________ ______________ dies. d) ________________ dies.

20. For a variety of reasons, Muddy was generally ______________ in the late 1970's.