HOOCHIE COOCHIE MAN
MUDDY WATERS
SONGWRITER: WILLIE DIXON
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: HOOCHIE COOCHIE MAN/VINYL
LABEL: EPIC RECORDS
GENRE: CHICAGO BLUES
YEAR:1988
McKinley
Morganfield(April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy
Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter
and musician who was an important figure in the post-war blues scene,
and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". His
style of playing has been described as "raining down Delta beatitude".
Muddy
Waters grew up on Stovall
Plantation near Clarksdale,
Mississippi, and by age 17 was playing the
guitar and the harmonica,
emulating the 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, he recorded his
first records 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, Elga Edmonds(also
known as Elgin Evans) on drums and Otis Spann on piano—recorded several blues classics, some with the 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 resurgence of interest in the blues
there. His performance at the Newport Jazz
Festival in 1960 was recorded and released as
his first live album, At Newport 1960.
Muddy
Waters' music has influenced various American music genres, including rock and roll and rock music.
The
British band The Rolling Stones named themselves after Muddy Waters' 1950 song "Rollin' Stone". Jimi Hendrix recalled that
"I first heard him as a little boy and it scared me to death". The
band Cream covered "Rollin' and
Tumblin'" on their 1966 debut album, Fresh Cream. Eric Clapton was a big fan of
Muddy Waters while growing up, and his music influenced Clapton's music career.
The song was also covered by Canned Heat at the Monterey Pop
Festival and later adapted by Bob Dylan on his
album Modern Times.
One of Led Zeppelin's
biggest hits, "Whole Lotta Love",
is based on the Muddy Waters hit "You Need Love"
(written by Willie Dixon). "Hoochie
Coochie Man", was covered by Allman
Brothers Band, Humble Pie, Steppenwolf,
Supertramp and Fear. In
1993, Paul Rodgers released
the album Muddy Water Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters, on which he covered a
number of his songs, including "Louisiana Blues", "Rollin'
Stone", "(I'm your) Hoochie Coochie Man" and "I'm
Ready" in collaboration with guitarists such as Gary Moore, Brian May and Jeff Beck. Angus Young, of the
rock group AC/DC, has cited Muddy as one
of his influences. The AC/DC song title "You Shook Me
All Night Long" came from lyrics of the
Muddy Waters song "You Shook Me",
written by Willie Dixon and J. B. Lenoir. Earl Hooker first
recorded it as an instrumental, which was then overdubbed with vocals by Muddy
Waters in 1962. Led Zeppelin also covered it on their debut album.
In 1981 ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons went to visit the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale with The Blues magazine
founder Jim O'Neal. The museum's director, Sid Graves, brought Gibbons to visit Waters
original house, and encouraged him to pick up a piece of scrap lumber that was
originally part of the roof. Gibbons eventually converted the wood into a
guitar. Named Muddywood, the instrument is now exhibited at
the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale.
Following
his death, fellow blues musician B.B. King told Guitar World magazine,
"It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly
he contributed to American music."John P. Hammond told Guitar World magazine,
"Muddy was a master of just the right notes. It was profound guitar
playing, deep and simple... more country blues transposed to the electric
guitar, the kind of playing that enhanced the lyrics, gave profundity to the
words themselves."
The cemetery plot of Muddy Waters, under his real name,
McKinley Morganfield, in Restvale Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois
Muddy
Waters' songs have been featured in long-time fan Martin Scorsese's
movies, including The Color of Money,
Goodfellas, and Casino. A 1970s
recording of his mid-'50s hit "Mannish Boy" was used in the films Goodfellas,
Better Off
Dead, Risky Business,
and the rockumentary The Last Waltz. In 1988 "Mannish Boy"
was also used in a Levi's 501 commercial and re-released in Europe as a single
with "(I'm your) Hoochie Coochie Man" on the flip side.
The
gypsy woman told my mother
Before I was born
You got a boy child's comin'
He's gonna be a son of a gun
Gonna make pretty womens
Jump and shout
Then the world wanna know
What this all about
But you know I'm here
Everybody knows I'm here
Well you know I'm the hoochie coochie man
Everybody knows I'm here
I got a black cat bone
I got a mojo too
I got the Johnny conkeroo
I'm gonna mess with you
I'm gonna make you girls
Lead me by my hand
Then the world will know
That I'm the hoochie coochie man
But you know I'm here
Everybody knows I'm here
Oh you know I'm the hoochie coochie man
Everybody knows I'm here
On the
seventh hour
Of the seventh day
Of the seventh month
The seven doctors say
He was born for good luck
And that you'll see
I got seven hundred dollars
Don't you mess with me
But you know I'm here
Everybody knows I'm here
Well you know I'm the hoochie coochie man
Everybody knows I'm here.
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