Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call

[9htsky]

ben stiller on harmonica :D

[blackwatershore]

@9htsky I think that is Jerry Portnoy on harmonica.

[9htsky]

@blackwatershore im kidding :D

[BlindBob1]

Portnoy watching Muddy the whole time.

[cickalone]

6 people founded muddy kickin' in their stall

[trousertrout55]

Anybody who likes this (I DO!) should get a copy of Fathers and Sons on Chess Records...

[motobilia567]

I had the good fortune to see Muddy in 1973. He is The Man in my books. Last year I attended a seminar hosted by Dick Waterman at Portland Waterfront Blues Festival and he stated Muddy was the most inflential Blues man of the 20th century. I totally agree!!

[chipy1961]

this music is raw no computer generated shit its a thing of beuty

[lonesomejohnnie]

Muddy Waters, Pinetop Perkins, Bob Margolin, Jerry Portnoy, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith,Luther "Guitar Junior " Johnson and Calvin "Fuzz" Jones. What a fuckin' Band!!!

[meuccilawless]

anyone know where i can get the tab for the harp? Ive looked in most of the usual places on the web

[texaspete66]

Absolutely stunning. Simple as that. RIP Muddy-your loss is our eternal sadness.

[thesimguy1905]

Damn,i was born the wrong time...I'd like to be in his concerts so much.

BTW,check out his Tele,it sings!

[DeathxLetter]

Thanks for posting this. I have this DVD and some sites are trying to sell it when it is not theirs to sell.... If it ever officially released then I will buy it.

[DeathxLetter]

If it is....

BTW.. The shows date is: 1976.10.29 Blues & Jazz Festival, Westfalenhallen - Dortmund, Germany

[oldlifeluna93]

wow this is some really good shit

[lanceyoakem]

I am only a newborn baby and I love the blues!!!! Isn't eveyone astonished and proud of me???? I knew you would be!!!!!

[MrMuddymilton]

@lanceyoakem , yes we are! And you are very welcome, my blues friend.

[tanner9072]

i didnt know ben stiller played with muddy waters

[loneranger3169]

WOW MUDDY MAN

[free2bpoppie]

To the five who didn't like this; I feel supremely sorry for you! You must be as "outraged" as Jennifer Lopez is, at America for getting the vote wrong on Pia the other night!

This, is America's second indigenous artform!

This, is the basis for all of the stuf that is being passed off for music nowadays!

This, is MUSIC!

[MrMuddymilton]

@free2bpoppie , very wise words. I agree with you 100%

[lonesomejohnnie]

This song turned me into a blues fan...the Fathers and Sons version. 4 people must have had another mule kicking in their stall....

[Hope6sic6]

RIP Pinetop Perkins [*]

[XrayQueen69]

Taking it Back Old School Blues! Holla! Yes Lord ;D

[lukojason1973]

used to make long distances calls to Virginia LOLz + love this songs

[BrotherPaul57]

get the missisippi muddy waters live album , it's all these classic tunes with this line up and johhny winter , The King of chicago blues!

[shawtyred420]

he is the TRUTH !

[p3ac3nlov37]

I am in LOVEEE with this song!!! Ive replayed it about a million times!!!

It always brightens up my day:))

[35150Alabama]

The white dude plays a mean harp. Like he picked it up at the Crossroads.

[peetie44]

@35150Alabama That's Jerry Portnoy. He still plays around (mostly on the East Coast) and sometimes goes on the road with Eric Clapton.

[ZiggZagger420]

theres only so many of these guys born in a million life times i know why Johnny Winter loved him....why mess with old burn out artists that cant even shine a candle to the mud...RIP

[BlueDog3o]

effin legend. stellar performance.

[suitman36]

every time i hear muddy, i think back to when i was able to meet him. sat in his dressing room with him when he played in boston. i was just in awe being in the same room with him!!

he's the man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!

[norerog]

It don't get any better than this!

[permanetmarker2004]

damn that guy can play that harmonica real good ahha

[JJBLUES1975]

@permanetmarker2004 so can i play just like him willie big eyes smith and walter

[ashstrat07]

When I was in my late teens I had a dream I played with Muddy at a train station - one fo thte greatest moments of my life - just a dream.

[rudedrift]

story of my life.........

[pythons37]

Thanks for posting this great version.

[beowulf3075]

I love the album this is off, The Real Folk Blues - great clip - very clear - tks for the posting, great channel.

[greyskull979]

three people don't like this vid, i wish i would know them...

[SELFlnsurance]

@greyskull979 you didn't like it either?

[DrAyaba]

They were always successful in the community of their Roots family. The measure of success is not defined as after white people accept you. Those are some of them bricks of agony that is part and parcel of what we live with everyday...be it ever so subtle. The narrator said that Muddy became successful later in life. NO! He made more money later in life, when white kids started creepin' round the blues. He and so many others were always successful to us. They had a second success later.

[johnwinters2025]

i like how u can repeat the same line but make it sound and have a different meaning every time u say it

[1beatles]

lol brilliant!~

[AA1ZX]

I think that's Jerry Portnoy on harp, not Charlie Musselwhite. Great blues fer sure.

[stuagu]

the whole thing is on the money. band is fantastic, muddy is sublime.

[rudedrift]

story of my life

[solomillosauditivos]

Sarkozy played harp? I didn´t know

[stevem292]

@solomillosauditivos  - ha ha !!!

[bluesoulady]

yea, we all know that feeling Muddy x

[TheEvangelinemusic]

This is excellent!

[latourneeduchatdiabl]

According to the discography in Sandra Tooze's book 'Muddy Waters: The Mojo Man', this is 29th October 1976.

[djDiagOnfly]

One of the best blues guitar player...ever! Simply say he plays good is reductive. He caresses the strings of guitar, has a divine touch!

[Georgie2047]

Muddy truly knew the importance and effect of "less is more" on the guitar. By not cluttering the music with eccessive playing he perfected the art of the twelve bar blues. Brilliant to the inth degree. Charlie Musselwhite was the same with the harp on this track.

[bluseyg]

@Georgie2047 It's Jerry Portnoy on harp.

[IcamolEdgar]

master

[nuurnwui]

deliberate microtones at 3:19

[tclemmmca]

The Blues had a baby and named it Rock and Roll!!!!

[CLSharpman5000]

i just creamed myself

[FuckStaub]

yeah play the teli

[malenkov]

One of the greatest songs ever!

[mumselcop]

eyes closed and get carried away

[MsGuitargoddess]

Greatness...

[YEGUASOLITARIA]

QUE BUENAS VIBRACIONES ME APORTA ESTE VÍDEO...

UHHHHMMMMMMM!!!!!! ME ENCANTA!

[keymankeys1960]

damn i want that guitar !! man that is the BLUES gotta love it

[yooperlooper]

...Smooooooooooooooth.........­

[chez46077]

Fuck the BITCH

[conradortn]

Ben Stiller on the harmonica ladies and gentleman!

[crappsalot]

@conradortn I didn't know Ben Stiller and Morgin Freeman played, well that's life.

[Patolino43]

the 3 people who marked they didn't like actually misclicked

[12nites12]

who is the piano player, I know is not pinetop, neither otis spann... or is he?

[fosy12345]

Soooooo great !!!!

[wisesatyr72]

This is the definitive Muddy Waters song for me because of his slide playing and Vocal with the final words at the end, its so Haunting..

[sdealo]

it's jerry portnoy on harp

[tball95672]

is that Charlie Musselwhite on Harp, I saw him with Dr.John in 2006.

[johnbivens]

i hear my phone ringing baby!!!!

[joethepainter90]

Pleeeeeaaase Call me on the phone sometime!I'll show you how nice a man can be!!!!!

[ravengirl1960]

Absolutely awesome. One of the best artists of all time, IMO.

[Letmetubenow]

I only saw Muddy live once it wa at the Marquee in London UK. And whilst I have seen Clapton, Peter Green, Freddy King, BB King, Hendrix and many others live this was by far the best ever Blues gig I ever seen. I think Otis Span on piano and Junior Wells on Harp just all wonderful.

[Blusician1965]

Who were the 3 idiots that gave this a thumbs down? I regret never seeing Muddy when he was alive. At least I've seen BB King live. My current favorite is Sonny Boy Williamson II. The dude is the absolute definition of cool. Check out the "keep it to yourself" track on youtube. I started wearing a bowler (derby) hat a few months back. Now that I've seen that Sonny Boy wore one I damn near won't take it off.

[blackknight509]

I wannna learn how to play the damn guitar!!! so little spare time in college.

[fjames499]

I feel ya bluez '81, I'm 31 and was introduced at about 7, to the same guys as well as Sonny Boy Williamson and Junior wells. I can't help but feel this sound, being a Texan, it's inherently in my bones, ya'll need to check out some Dallas blues scene also.

[bluez1981]

Eric Clapton i believe used that harp playing during his nothing but the blues tour/from the cradle. 94-95

i'm 29 years old...and i was 8 or 9 when i feel inlove with this music..through tv shows..my earlist memories are of hearing Muddy and BB King..and Stevie Ray!! i'm a Texan

been hooked every since

[AraGuitar]

i envy my dad to no end, he actually lived through this. Damn my generation ....

[Juliasblues]

@AraGuitar , I lived through that, and met Muddy too, but you guys have Big Bill Morganfield, Muddy Waters Jr., Lurrie Bell, Willie Dixon Jr., and many, many more ! Just make sure you go see them when you can ! K ?....Peace,LoveBlues.....sprea­d the news !

[fjames499]

@AraGuitar I agree

[DiamondSoul]

"Imma kill the mule..." Badass.

[ppericodelosppalotes]

that harp player is fucking wonderful-amazing!!

long live muddy waters!

[wkg55]

@ppericodelosppalotes The harp player is Jerry Portnoy.. Peace and Blessings

[crazyque4m]

take me to the alley because the street are to clean

[909shredr]

i was born in 1987 but this is the best music i've ever herd in my life.....str8 from the soul with this shit....

[MrMuddymilton]

@909shredr I´m 69, and I went crazy when I heard for the first time in my life the CD Muddy "Mississippi" Waters. That was in 1998, today I´m playing harmonica and slide guitar, learning because of him, and knowing nothing of music.

[fitzyuc]

@909shredr born in 94, you could probably say the same for me.

[sharemysoul1]

@909shredr you got a old soul! dats why!

[af69bp21]

@909shredr i hear you im born in 88 and love the blues i swear my soul is so old it aint even funny, ive got the taste of a millionaire and the soul of a 75yo

[cuneo1950]

when another mule been kicin' in your stall you will get the blues

[Deliogul]

epic.

[DANTHETUBEMAN]

muddy started playin guita when he saw a man playin doun at the store and he liked the way he was zingin on it with a slide.

[cedricleecason]

Jerry knows exactly what he's doing. MASTER! To me he's among the top five greatest harp players of all-time. If he's not, he should be, in the Hall of Fame..what an inspiration and my first long distance teacher! I want his CD.

[beeteep60]

what do you mean by last great band?

[basspro82]

This was AWESOME!!! Just perfect!

[heathbar67]

...perfect... simply perfect.

[flypast95]

Muddy, how can you make it all seem so easy?

[gintaras332]

byby prapisa :DDDD xDDD

[gintaras332]

this song suck very mach. ... ;(

[LucasMarquesGHC]

cryin on that

[yooperlooper]

just listen and LOVE it.........

[Zylze]

i agree!

[FrancescoTNM]

My soul's burning.

[jakerandall123]

The Father of Rock n Roll!!!

[portoblues]

Eu te amo Muddy !!

[Chucktheactionstar]

WIthout the blues, we would all be lost souls.

[blacklion1798]

personally i have to think of people who don't love the blues as 'lost' - though they obviously wouldn't see it that way themselves. i'm sure a lot of people think i'm an idiot for my love of this kind of music - honey because the world's gone wrong. :-p

[GOLDBAND45]

Wow Blacklion,I could not have written this better myself!!

[888binis888]

@Chucktheactionstar indeed man..indeed..

[rokedetbamidbar]

@Chucktheactionstar

So true - it feeds our souls.

[jcandstonesfollower]

this isnt what the blues is all about, so stop everyone with the bs.

[elizbethqtyetye]

Nice work. keep it up. mean time come for social media marketing for esteembpo**com GHFJ

[triptoheaveandho]

thbis is the Blues.... Period.. chills up and dqwn my spine.....

[slowjamz101]

this is so like the 50's gosh why did my baby send me this crap

[triptoheaveandho]

are you for real?!? this is the real deal here-great video and i have had the pleasure of meeting everyone oif these band memebrs all great musicians and this music is timeless and as american as it gets.maybe your babay has better taste than you and maybe,, if yoiu dont get some of it-soon .. maybe another muile be kickin; in YOUR stall....

[slowjamz101]

Look you ole` bitch i never made the comment to directly come at the genre or of this music, I solely meant that this type of shack , in the basement 50 year old music when slavery was over is not the type of music i choose to listen to... And further more old lady you might not even be old.. well yeah you gotta be old you listen your old music and ill listen to mines... And Kick rocks Bitch.,... 4GET MEETING SOME OLD Muddy Waters Man. Thank You and Have a Nice day Old Bitch

[krylaffn]

Slowjamz101 your comment is not only offensive its disrespectful to everyone who reads it especially yourself because some day your gonna be the ole' bitch and someone is going to call your music old and tell you to kick rocks. If its wasnt for Bands like Muddy Waters "the type of music i choose to listen to" WOULDNT EXIST!!

[slowjamz101]

Krylaffn: You need to kick rocks as well.. If the ole` lady wouldnt have came at me to the left i wouldnt have never said what i said... People are entitled to the freedom of speech which includes their opinions. With that being said in a few years or maybe more the music i listen to today might be considered old but i would no and realize that as music change so do the years and way of making music do as well. So you and the ole lady can both kick rocks while enjoying Muddy Waters.!!!

[krylaffn]

SLOWJAMZ101 Me and the ole lady should kick rocks at you and push you into some muddy water!!

[triptoheaveandho]

wow!! so intelligent...even with my worst typos i can still string a sentence together that has some cohesiveness...

what about the rest of us having freedom of SPEECH as well as you-or is yours (such as it is) the only one that counts? if yoiu can actually comporehend this it is perfectely fine to not like something but you MADE an inflammatory comment first =-calling this Music crap= I am a pro Blues

singer-its also MY right to defend the only true American Music.

[slowjamz101]

Where and how do you feel it is your right to defend American Music who are you to dictate my opinion. I was taught along time ago if i didnt no how to spell a word i shouldnt use it.. maybe you should take the hint. Or better yet Google some words it would make you seem like a real smart intelligent Bitch... Oh Have a Nice Day.. and Grab a Dictionary... when you comment back..

[triptoheaveandho]

I dont dictate anyone's opnion but i try not to call ANY kind of music "CRAP"and even without resorting to spell checker -which takes too long)i can STILL make myself understood without resorting to calling people names.. grow up. learn some history and stoip looking for fights that don't resolve anything-my goodness you are one angry young woman...that is very sad hope you find some peace in your spirit as you grow up if you dont like somehting =just TURN IT OFF=no one forced you to watch it

[lukojason1973]

Hey little boy..you dont know music if it knocked yo ass in the head...literally!! this is called "Blues"not your Rip rapping ass u listen to..all that junk sshhutff! this man above has broken the barrier to music and still today is#1 to allot of folks...even after his death...theres Percy Sledge, Otis redding, and others that followed this mans footsteps...if u dont have anything nice to say..dont say it at all..

[slowjamz101]

Look who is calling the kettle black. "If you dont have nothing nice to say.. dont say it." You need to take heed to ur own advice. and further more last time i check percy sledge, otis redding was apart of the Blue's era. I mean i might be young but um i atleast no that much... and further more f^ a muddy waters

[lukojason1973]

u disrespected me dis-ing one of my favorite blues singer...Percy is my main man in blues too!! and of course BBKIng...Tom Ware and i know u never heard of TOM WARE!! u too young to have this knowledge of music...

[letvols1]

muddy water is "THE LORD OF DA BLUES"!

[Bluzer86]

Lord have mercy, yes! :)

[RJLRaymond]

The ending of that song was one of the most amazing things Ive ever seen.

"she was jumping up and down, clapping her hands sayin'...sayin'..."

another muu-huuuuule!

[iam01]

YEZZIR... I LOVE THE ENDING!!!! The Greatest EVER!

[fdsrcvuhjkvhg]

el papa del bluess rock

[verydark2]

the Godfather of Chicago blues and the Grandgodfather of Rock!

[jakerandall123]

Well Said. Nobody was ever like Muddy Waters.

[verydark2]

I put a picture of him in my cafe sitting on a cocacola bottle box while performing. He was an achieved legend by then, yet he didn't lose his amazing modesty. What a true legend!

[789pequignot]

great song

[kobieta55]

Genialne!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[imgooley]

MUDDY WATERS!!! There's another mule kickin in your stall.

Just thought you should know.

[Nalgandian]

great ! ,

the guy with the harmonic looks like Ben Stiller XDDDD

[jrg45721]

Sure does - but funnier. He's Jerry Portnoy.

[dsimango]

Muddy is good man you can listen to him all day. D. Simango

[stuagu]

absolutely.

he da man!

[spekeldorf]

that harp sounds sweet...but hes not feelin it at all!!!

muddy sounds awesome...but then he always does

[texaspete66]

Aaah this is so raw, it cuts right through my soul way down, so satisfying, the way he plays that guitar is awesome & off course his singing, love you muddy the emperor of electric blues. Respect to his band too.

[stefanofender]

amazing!!!can someone write the lyric of the ending part of this song?I'm italian..

[dtan117]

that can be pretty true for a lot of blues

[llymphs]

my all time favorite muddy song!

[jakerandall123]

This is the KING! Long live the music of the King, Mr. Muddy Waters. Thank you tonight for singing in my livingroom and R.I.P...We all miss you much.

[peterm3964]

That white jewboy Gangsta is BLOWIN so fine !!!!!!

[ZackPomerleau]

Dude, Portnoy is a god.

[ReGaLiSaToR]

yeah yeah yeah baby i like old blues

[bouteluoa]

That's be cool, except the capo is on the third fret. This is a blues in G.

[TJTele52]

Muddy tuned to open D and then used a capo on the 2nd fret so that he was then playing in the key of E..get it..? Good, Ok class dismissed..

[ZackPomerleau]

Yeah, it isn't E. I got an A harp and it ain't. G.

[KippeTokkeTokHaan]

are A harps for playing in E? I just started playing blues harp.

[ZackPomerleau]

Yes you are right.

[KippeTokkeTokHaan]

ok thanks :)

[ZackPomerleau]

You bet anytime! Got any questions message me.

[TracyFClark]

This is awesome!!!

Thanks for uploading this!

[karni33]

Great tune. Jerr portnoy harmonica part is real caviar.

[baroquemonody]

blues is sex

[corretebethoven17]

yeah that is so right, blues is sex.. !!

[shaserv]

Man, the rolling stones wish they could lay the blues down like Muddy. This is the Crown Jewels of it all.

[kzearo]

This is great. First solo I've watched him do.

[jokebooks]

His style is so unique. Muddy is one of the best to ever pick up a guitar.

[chronaden]

Fucking legendary!

[yogijimi101]

man they still got it....

thats wut i call musicains

[doujamkea]

I've just stumbled across this after watching an Eric Clapton video shot at Glasgow Apollo in 1978. I remember the gig vividly as Muddy was the support (?) act. I was utterly blown away.Sadly it was to be the one and only time I saw him perform live. I reckon that there is probably film footage of this gig as the Clapton set was certainly filmed, as I have just watched Cocaine on You Tube. I have an audio recording on cassette.which I unfortunately recorded over a bit of to get the EC encore.

[pufftazi]

Muddy Muddy Muddy... incredible groove using his slide guitar style!!!!