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Jul 18, 2011 · One of the guitars was on display in the Muddy Waters Exhibit at the Deltal Blues Museum in Clartksdale when I was there last October. I don't remember if the display indicated what type wood was used. The Museum actually had most of the timbers from Muddy's cabin reconstructed inside the museum.
Apr 16, 2015 · "Muddywood", a guitar made of wood from Muddy Waters' Stovall Plantation cabin by Billy Gibbons, of ZZ Top. By Matt Marshall April 5, 2011 Updated: April 4, 2017 No Comments 1 Min Read.
- Muddy Was A Major Influence on Angus Young of AC/DC.
- In 1949, Muddy, Little Walter and Jimmy Rogers Had A Show on King Biscuit
- That Wasn’T The only Time Muddy’s Songs Have Been Featured in Big Movies!
- It Wasn’T Just Muddy Waters Songs That Were Featured in Movies
- Muddy Helped Chuck Berry Get His First Recording Contract
- Eric Clapton Was Best Man at Muddy’s Wedding to Marva Jean Brooks in 1979
- They called Him Mud
- ZZ Top Has A Long History with Muddy
- Muddy’s Stovall House Has Been Almost as Many Places as Muddy!
- Muddy’s Ornate Chicago Home Is in Danger
AC/DC’s monster hit “You Shook Me All Night Long” came from the lyrics of Muddy’s “You Shook Me”, which was written by Willie Dixon. (Fun fact: Led Zeppelin also released a cover of “You Shook Me” as track three on their debut album.) “Because we grew up in Australia,” said Young in an interviewwith Rolling Stone, “to find information about a lot o...
Muddy, Walter and Jimmy Rodgers had a daily show at 6 am on KFFA in Helena, Arkansas that they used to advertise their local gigs. KFFA is famous for Sonny Boy Williamson’s King Biscuit Time, the longest-running daily American radio broadcast in history. Most of the older delta bluesmen like B.B. King and James Cotton discussed King Biscuit Time be...
Scorsese also used Muddy’s songs in scores to some of his biggest movies, including Goodfellas, Casino, The Color of Money, and Shine A Light, the acclaimed Rolling Stones Rock Concert DVD, where the Stones featured Muddy’s “Champaigne and Reefer” song with Buddy Guy. (Fun fact: The movie shows Richards giving Buddy his guitar out of respect at the...
Jeffrey Wright played a lead role as the Chicago Blues master in 2008’s Cadillac Records, next to Adrian Brody, who portrayed Leonard Chess. The movie was about the pair’s struggles building a label from Muddy’s music, and the rise of Chess Records. Chess was the spunky independent record label that churned out the world’s foremost blues content an...
Born in Saint Louis, Berry traveled to Chicago and met with Muddy Waters, who sent him to audition for Chess. Berry came with a country western tune, “Ida Red”, and Chess was sold — except they renamed the song “Maybellene”. Legend has it that Chess saw a Maybelline brand mascera box in the corner of the studio and, with few better options, suggest...
“Muddy was there at a time when, really, the music was getting to me. I was really trying to grasp it and make something out of it,” Clapton told NPR, even writing in his book that Muddy was “the father figure I never really had.” In the last decade of Muddy’s life, he and Clapton had become very close. After he met 19 year old Marva, (about seven ...
In the blues circle on the South Side of Chicago, Waters was a god. But back then, people just referred to him as “The Mud”. Buddy Guy talks about the first time he met Muddy — after showing up Otis Rush at a blues club. “The Mud wants you,” someone told Buddy, who misheard and thought someone wanted to mug him. Instead, The Mud offered Buddy a san...
Muddy opened for ZZ Top on their 1981 tour, the band having long discussed Waters being their musical hero and biggest influence. Billy Gibbons also had a one-of-a-kind special instrument made in honor of the legend: the Muddywood Guitar, made from a piece of Cypress tree from Mud’s own house. Billy Gibbons went to visit Mud’s house while it still ...
Once in the 1990s, House of Blues leased the original log cabin that Mud called home before his trip to Chicago. They dismantled it, cleaned and treated the wood and made the house into a traveling museum, displaying the humble origins of one of history’s most prolific trailblazers across the country. In the decade before that, a tornado blew the r...
Nobody seems to know quite what to do with Mud’s house — yet. Waters’ great-granddaughter owned the building since 2002, according to the Huffington Post, though due to the nature of an unoccupied building facing harsh Chicago winters, the structure has taken its share of expensive damage and is in dire need of serious repairs. The building even la...
Jun 15, 2017 · Chicago Tribune reports this morning that two of Muddy Waters's missing guitars have been returned his family. One of the returned guitars was Muddy's iconic, oft–played burgundy Fender Telecaster that has sustained as an icon from Muddy's long career, even after his death in 1983.
May 27, 2021 · For over five decades, this easily recognizable trio has left its lasting mark on blues-based rock, led by a bona fide six-string legend, the exceptionally talented and stylish Billy Gibbons, a.k.a. Reverend Willy G.
Jun 15, 2017 · A guitar commissioned by Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top for Muddy Waters and presented to Waters as a gift in 1977 is seen in a truck outside the DuPage County courthouse in Wheaton on June...
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photo from 1977 with a custom guitar BFG had made and gave to Muddy Waters as a present. Billy Gibbons Talks About His Hero Muddy Waters (from Rolling Stone Magazine)
