Champagne & Reefer
Muddy Waters
SONGWRITER: Muddy Waters
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: KING BEE
LABEL: BLUE SKY
GENRE: BLUES
YEAR: 1981
McKinley
Morganfield (April 4, 1913 — April 30, 1983), known by his stage name Muddy
Waters, was an American blues musician
who is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".
Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall
Plantation, near Clarksdale,
Mississippi, and by age 17 was playing the
guitar and the harmonica,
emulating local blues artists Son House and Robert Johnson.
He was recorded in Mississippi by Alan Lomax for the Library
of Congress in 1941.
In 1943, he moved to Chicago to become a full-time,
professional musician. In 1946, Muddy Waters eventually
recorded his first record for Columbia
Records and then for Aristocrat
Records, a newly formed label run by the brothers Leonard and Phil Chess.
In the
early 1950s, Muddy Waters and his band—Little
Walter Jacobs on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Elgin Evans on drums and Otis Spann on piano—recorded several blues classics, some with bassist and
songwriter Willie Dixon.
These songs included
"Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You"
and "I'm Ready". In 1958, he traveled to
England, laying the foundations of the subsequent blues boom there. His
performance at the Newport
Jazz Festival in 1960 was recorded and released as
his first live album, At
Newport 1960.
King Bee is
the fourteenth and final studio album by blues singer and guitarist Muddy
Waters. Released in 1981, it is third in a series
of records done for the label Blue
Sky Records under producer/guitarist Johnny Winter.
Recorded in three days (and in the wake of Muddy's failing health) some of the
band members, namely Winter and guitarist Bob
Margolin, were not happy with the result. As his health deteriorated, Muddy
was forced to cancel an increasing number of shows. He died of a heart attack
on April 30, 1983.
The album was recorded in May 1980. A salary dispute
between the band and Muddy Waters's manager, Scott Cameron, halted the session.
Eventually the album was completed by using a couple
of outtakes from 1977's Hard Again.
Yeah bring me champagne when I'm thirsty.
Bring
me reefer when I want to get high.
Yeah
bring me champagne when I'm thirsty.
Bring
me reefer when I want to get high.
Well
you know when I'm lonely
Bring
my woman set her right down here by my side.
Well
you know there should be no law
On
people that want to smoke a little dope.
Well
you know there should be no law
On
people that want to smoke a little dope.
Well
you know it's good for your head
And
it relax your body don't you know.
Everytime
I get high
I lay
my head down on my baby's breast.
Well
you know I lay down be quiet
Tryin'
to take my rest.
Well
you know she done hug and kiss me
Says
Muddy your one man that I love the best.
I'm
gonna get high
Gonna
get high just as sure as you know my name.
Y'know
I'm gonna get so high this morning
It's
going to be a cryin' shame.
Well
you know I'm gonna stick with my reefer
Ain't
gonna be messin' round with no cocaine.
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