Keith Richards himself says it's the song which gave the name to the band in his biography LIFE. But well that was quite accidentally, they were to perform on stage and they were asked what's the name of their band, as they were that time "trying to be the best blues band of London" they were taking a look around them in the room and there was a vinyl of Muddy Watters with this song...
It saddens me to think so many generations don't even know who Muddy Waters is, or John Lee Hooker, or Howlin Wolf, or Buddy Guy... They will be missing out on such a huge peice of rock and roll history. I'm 31 and grew up listening to this on my Dads record player. Happy to say my children will understand the BLUES and history of rock!
@raw142177 who doesn't know Who Chester Arthur Burnett Is That Is SAD!!!! People Are Too ignorant These Days! Glad You Had A Pops Who Knew & Passed it On To You! People Don't Know Charley Patton Or Son House or Short Willie Brown Or Tall Willie Brown or Ike Zinnermon Truly SAD... Take Care
"A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss" was where the phrase originally came from before Muddy Waters and the Rolling Stones were born Muddy Waters song may have also been an influence but it was common phrase long ago especially among black people
It's good to see the crowd isn't segregated in this clip, doesn't it always piss you off when you watch these old videos and the audience is all white or all black? That must've been some right old bullshit back in the day to have to get up and play to a room full of passive aggressive white people who like your music but hate your skin color.
@PeyotePaul I think racists didn't and don't like blues... I think it rather was the way that many people didn't know or care about black people's rights; they weren't racist, just indifferent, wich is almost as bad.
this song has mystery attached to it, because hundreds of bluesmen have done catfish blues, including skip james, memphis slim and jimi hendrix, orginally written by Robert Petway
The emergence of the Rolling Stones has been credited for the greater international popularity of the primitive urban blues typified by Chess Records' artists such as Muddy Waters, who wrote the song from which the band drew its name. According to Richards, Jones christened the band during a phone call to Jazz News. When asked for a band name Jones saw a Muddy Waters LP lying on the floor of which one of the tracks was "Rollin' Stone".
i showed my friend this, hoping he'd be able to see the beauty in it, first ten seconds he said, '*laughs* he's called muddy waters cause he's black'......
@DukeSecom Sometimes you have to work your way backwards. See if they can get into modern blues guys like Bonnamassa, Shephard, Trucks etc and then go back to blues rock guys Zepplin, Johnny Winter, of course SRV and so on. Then go to Jimi Hendrix or Cream, Buddy Guy and so on until finally they might actually be able to understand what their listening too when it comes to blues. Modern music sucks so bad most people don't even know what real music is. They need an education.
@Odin029 i hear ya. the good majority of my generation needs to realize what they've become, with the obsessive overuse of technology and all, its really dumbing them down. heck, i only have 1 real friend at school cause everyone else are hypocritical imbeciles who think i'm dumb for doing things the right way.
continued: That's what I get for 'speed reading" I mistook the "cover on the floor with 'Rolling Stone' written on it, to be the magazine. My apologies to you SimonGarfunkelFolk and also the person who commented below.
@SimonGarfunkelFolk read Keith's book "LIFE", recently. Page 97 second paragraph goes like this:"We've got a gig at..." What do you call yourselves?" We stared at one another. "It?" Then "Thing?" This call is costing. Muddy Waters to the rescue! First track on 'Best of Muddy Waters' is "Rollin' Stone". The cover is on the floor. Desperate, Brian, Mick and I take the dive. "The Rolling Stones." Phew! That saved sixpence. ......
@SimonGarfunkelFolk Well, I'm just repeating what Keith Richards claimed. nothing profound from me, specifically. I'll check the source and get back, in the meantime.
@vulgarcowpower not sure how much hendrix would of used his thumb, since he did play a right-handed guitar with his left hand, so the thin strings would of been on top, not much use when your soloing! and hendrix would solo through 90% of his songs! just saying
@sedali3 he re-strung the strings to suit his left handed style. look it up. trust me on this. although he played it upside down ( so to speak) he still flipped the strings too.
I remember when the Rolling Stones first came on the scene in the US, in 1964... they specifically said they had named themselves after the song by Muddy Waters, Rolling Stone (also known as Catfish Blues). They specifically identified Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry as major inspirations for their music.
@RayBeckerman Actually, though, and this is straight from Keith. They named themselves the Rolling Stones because they were on the phone with someone who was going to produce something for them and he asked them what they were going to call themselves and there was a copy of The Rolling Stone magazine lying about and they glanced at it and then repeated Rolling Stones, down the phone.
@kathieropele: So there is such a thing as time travel! That's great news! (Must be time travel, since The Rolling Stones were formed in April 1962 and the first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine was November 9, 1967.)
@bass0111 Hi Sorry for the mistake. If you scroll up you will see how I came to that. Basically I misread a paragraph that I read in Keith's book, recently. Took it to be cover of Rolling Stone magazine on floor, instead of album Cover with name of song 'Rolling Stone", lying on floor.
i'm a white boy too the fullest and i love music. my # one is rock and hard rap, but this is the best.. this is what birthed everything we have today. This was before platnms and most of these artist's died broke... Now day's it all sound's like pill hie kids
This is unique, and, of course, it can't be matched. Muddy Waters was a master of his craft, and the band is locked in to every stress and quiver. The musicians are so focused and the intensity is searing. No production is necessary--just raw blues music. This is what it's all about.
you are right about the music nowadays, no soul they also got no heart. i live in hawaii and even here the music is not the same. the closest i get to any type of music that has any heart or even some feeling of the old days is country. now if you listen to the melody and lyrics, much of it came from r&b. music is about the feelings and ppl forgot about it, or just just making it rhyme what a joke. now its not about the music, its the money.
Keith Richards mentioned this song in the book.... Rolling Stones was a big Muddy fan and they made their band and had to find a name for their first gig and they just picked this name fast in the phone and then afterwards went to their first gig :)
@ConservativeDK yea thats true, keith was on the phone with the guy getting a gig and the asked him whats the name of your band and they didnt have a name so he stumbled and saw muddy waters records lying on the floor and this was a song on what ever one he picked up
Cymbal Sam played the electric knee cap on this tune. Listen closely and you could hear him creaking in the back round. Only Muddy would use Sam after he became addicted to hot dogs...Good for you, Muddy! You never forgot who your real friends were.
Why are there people in every blues video talking about black people blues and white blues? Skin color is as important as eye color. If youve got the feeling and soul your blues will show that.
what people dont realize is that muddy isnt just a great singer hes a pioneering guitarist, he was one of the first electic players and his slide and rythem playing is fantastic!!
White artists didn't really screw artists like muddy and howlin wolf for money... artists like clapton, rolling stones and a lot more used to pay blues artists like howlin wolf and muddy water to fly to egland to preform and teach them the bliues tunes NOTE FOR NOTE. that is why white people did it so damn well. they were taught by the best. the true blues man
White artists didn't really screw artists like muddy and howlin wolf for money... artists like clapton, rolling stones and a lot more used to pay blues artists like howlin wolf and muddy water to fly to egland to preform and teach them the bliues tunes NOTE FOR NOTE. that is why white people did it so damn well. they were taught by the best. the true blues man
White artists didn't really screw artists like muddy and howlin wolf for money... artists like clapton, rolling stones and a lot more used to pay blues artists like howlin wolf and muddy water to fly to egland to preform and teach them the bliues tunes NOTE FOR NOTE. that is why white people did it so damn well. they were taught by the best. the true blues man
"I'm gonna catch the first thing smokin' back, back down the road I'm goin." Good God, I love that line. This is where it all began folks. This is the music that changed everyone's world.
white people did this great man so bad, they screwd him over for money, and alot more, why were white people so evil back in the day, they still kinda are,
@TeamXTREMEPANTERA dont be mad, did white people not lynch, and kill black people back in the day for the stupidist of reasons, didnt white people kill millions of indians and steal our land, didnt white people force christianity on people or kill them, didnt white people spray blacks with fire hoses for trying to educate them selves, dont white people today love to say nigger, and deny the truth, white people are cruel, gay, nasty, weird, wat hasent your race raped or killed?
@adamjessi4ever what's wrong with being gay and/or weird? and why is it my fault i'm white? if i'm trying to rectify the sins of my ancestors, if i'm trying to be a person, why is it my fault? why do i get labelled with all of that, if i was never personally involved?
those awful things that were done do, i believe, in some ways continue to benefit people today and hurt others. there's an argument there. but what do you expect from me? i am a person, not my race. you are a person, not your race
man muddy waters was a fucking blues pimp absolutely fenominal love this guy .. so much class man hope i could some day be in his shoes and perform for people doing what i love just like muddy rest in peace muddys cant wait to see you on the other side and records so heavinly tracks..
If I was a Catfish...... I have all you pretty fishes swimmin' after me.... There are lots of great Blues Musicians playing their hearts out all over this country... They have great cds as well.... Some are older, but many are in their 20's or 30's... Look them up online , go see them live... buy their cd's ... you won't regret it ...
hey people i need a old bleus song that sounds pretty sad, en i need it be singing by a black man, i forgot some names, can you fokes help me? post me some names of songs okay? thank you
ive been on a research mission today to find some of these old blues guys. listenin to nirvana unplugged got me started. i wish we had more blues musicians today music nowadays blows, no soul(theres a few exceptions). the 90's was the end of music that had meaning. i just hope were in a drought, weve definitley had em b4. but if music was able to make a resurgence after the 80's so theres gotta b hope.
@imsweetasallheezy, you have it all wrong. There is plenty of good music out there, now. Just don't go out there looking for it on the radio. Look up these names: Derek Trucks Band, Joe Bonamassa, Susan Tedeschi, J.J. Grey and Mofro, Robert Randolph and the Family Band. Don't just look these artists up and listen to their music, go to Last FM, and listen to their radio channels, and you'll hear other artists that are similar. the good music you are looking for is out there.
@muxmahony I'm not willing to call it laziness. It used to be that radio delivered music you hadn't heard before. When FM caught on in the 60's/70's, small FM's played deep cuts, indies, new artists, fusion, jam bands, all sorts of things that had been overlooked by major labels and old radio. Over the years that resource has faded, and the overlooked is to be found on the internet. Those who haven't yet found the new resources aren't necessarily lazy. They just need to be pointed there.
@muxmahony To complete my thought (ran out of characters), remember that those folks went out of their way to find the good music once, which disproves laziness. Didn't you have help finding the good stuff the first time? I did. Point them to places like Last.FM, MOG, and others, and they'll find the good stuff again.
@blewsdawg It's way too easy right now to make music. Electronic music is what a lot of people like to listen to now. I want to work as hard as I can to have meaningful blues songs played over popular airwaves.
My mom told me I won't accomplish anything with guitar and I should give it up to focus on school work. She said stevie ray, the edge, jack white, and jimmy page got lucky.
It wasn't luck, they had something. I want to be able to have that something.
@milodaman2 Meaningful blues music has never been played over popular airwaves. High quality music has found it's way into people's ears for decades, in spite of popular radio and major labels Stop banging your head against that wall. Use the internet the way underground music used FM radio in the early 70's.
Musicians have played for decades, in spite of the concerns of protective parents. Work on a backup plan, and she'll be fine. Trust me. I'm the father of a musician.
@muxmahony I dunno, people criticizing music nowadays sounds a lot like parents sounded about rock and roll in the 50's. I don't like any modern music, hell, if it's The Beatles, it's too new for me. But we sure aren't the who the artist's has in mind when singing the songs, so why should we say it's universally bad?
Remember, Ricky Nelson was called a no-talent good-looking boy in the 50's, today he's called pioneer.
@TheDJGrandPa I agree completely. I am 24, I'm guessing you are older than that judging by the username; although I don't like the mainstream music around now, I am very slow to criticize it due to it popularity. I'd rather look for something better, if that means going back a few decades, or going to see some local bands, so be it. I'm sure if youtube was around in the 50's & 60's, there would be a lot of negative stuff written here.
@muxmahony I'm actually 17, the username is not about my taste in music or anything like that at all, it's just a character I just to draw :P
You can look up some of the adult reactions here on Youtube "Rock and Roll Preacher", "Rock and Roll Has Got to Go" and/or "Steve Allen Be-Bop-a-Lula" should do the trick ;)
@imsweetasallheezy The record companies have to take the blame. They hire producers that dont know anything, and lawyers to mess up the whole process.
@imsweetasallheezy Dear Mama by 2pac, When I'm Gone by Eminem, Ghetto Gospel by 2pac, Just the Two of Us by Will Smith, Under the Bridge by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lost in the World by Kanye West, Runaway Love by Ludacris, I Wonder by Kanye West, Cold War by Janelle Monae. There may not be as much emotion in popular music today as there was back in muddy's time but its still there. You just have to look!
I would like to respectfully disagree with your assessment that the 80's had no soul, or meaning. Look at Punk Rock, and a fair amount of the early Metal bands. While their music may not have been as lyrically profound as some of the Blues, or Classic Rock bands, they used it to express feelings they were having, and they did it quite well.
As for current music, check out Gov't Mule, Derek Trucks Band, and Smokin Joe Bonamassa. These guys are rocking the Blues sound!
@imsweetasallheezy Good music never dies. Theres always people out there who will play it. Coupla guys I know all play blues and classic rock n' roll. We're hoping to bring it all back in the next big wave.
@imsweetasallheezy Try some Down ...That to me is some good southern blues for todays time and Some of Black label society (not all but some)...It's not dead...Oh and John Mooney...I worked at a Blues bar in Fl. for 5 years and John is pretty good ...He aint Muddy but....
@imsweetasallheezy lol yea if music can rise up out of the ashes that was the 80's and give us the great bands that came from the 90 i think we can come out from under this gray cloud
@imsweetasallheezy Yeah there are plenty of very good blues musicians out there now, there's that twelve year old kid who's a prodigy already, but I can't remember his name. Also, a lot of the big names are still playing, B.B. King is still going strong at something like 83 years old and Buddy Guy is still playing. You just gotta do your research man and you'll see that the blues is still very much alive and well.
@imsweetasallheezy try early and some new black keys, william elliott whitmore, murder by death, lucero (not the spanish pop group) just to name a few. I look at it as more of a fun time since it's more of a challenge to find good music out there.
@imsweetasallheezy Are you saying the seventies was a musical drought? If so you have no idea what you are talking about. By the Way Muddy is amazing a true pioneer. But seriously get a reality check if you think the seventies were a bad time for music.
@imsweetasallheezy You're an making an ass of your self for first off saying there's no music now that has no soul or meaning. There's music, but it might not appeal to you, and that's fine but don't go around bashing music because YOU don't like it.
IE,Mencken implied that the modern black folk music(modern as in 1930-1940-ish) dose not compare to the black folk music of the mid to late 1800's...dunno.Those were the day of 3 string cigar box guitars or whatever else people got their hands on.
So again,most blues music I come across is corny to me,so maybe he was right that we are not hearing the best stuff.
%99 of people playing "blues' these days,be it youtube gear demos or some guy playing a club with his booteek amp,are laughable,are they not?
They make blues music sound so gaudy and limp,like plain rice day after day.
I recall H L Mencken (sometime perhaps in the 30's or 40's )taking a shot at the black folk/blues music of the day citing it as (paraphrasing) uncomparable to the folk/blues music of the 19th century...make of that what you will.
I'm a middle aged white guy with a non-boutique tube amp who likes to play the blues. I grew up in the South Bronx in the early 60s and heard plenty of blues. Half the kids on my block were from down south. Blues and Motown were the sounds of my youth. Then the Brits too. So what's the problem? I aint rich either. I won't give up the music I love because back-slapping drones think I've no right to play it. B.B thought Peter Green was ace btw.
@futonchild
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The troll.
ThaMrNacho 5 days ago
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futonchild 5 days ago
Keith Richards himself says it's the song which gave the name to the band in his biography LIFE. But well that was quite accidentally, they were to perform on stage and they were asked what's the name of their band, as they were that time "trying to be the best blues band of London" they were taking a look around them in the room and there was a vinyl of Muddy Watters with this song...
smileynoir 1 week ago
It saddens me to think so many generations don't even know who Muddy Waters is, or John Lee Hooker, or Howlin Wolf, or Buddy Guy... They will be missing out on such a huge peice of rock and roll history. I'm 31 and grew up listening to this on my Dads record player. Happy to say my children will understand the BLUES and history of rock!
raw142177 1 week ago 2
@raw142177 who doesn't know Who Chester Arthur Burnett Is That Is SAD!!!! People Are Too ignorant These Days! Glad You Had A Pops Who Knew & Passed it On To You! People Don't Know Charley Patton Or Son House or Short Willie Brown Or Tall Willie Brown or Ike Zinnermon Truly SAD... Take Care
13dolphins13 2 days ago
check out BB Kings version of this
sofuckinndope 1 week ago
@sofuckinndope BB King covered this? Oh man, that just has to kick ass.
Thanks for mentioning it.
polymath7 2 days ago
keith and brian and mick were in business
liquidyodel 2 weeks ago
Just awesome. Many people have forgotten have important Muddy Waters has been for the musical development. Possibly the best blues band ever.
Barrelhousekjell 3 weeks ago 2
"A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss" was where the phrase originally came from before Muddy Waters and the Rolling Stones were born Muddy Waters song may have also been an influence but it was common phrase long ago especially among black people
elamite66 1 month ago
@elamite66 and your point is.....?
harley9967 1 week ago
OMG! how much original can one single beeing be???
HerrZock1 1 month ago
Hendrix´s Catfish Blues?!?!?!
nicbal1986 1 month ago
@nicbal1986 Yes, looks like this is where it came from. But it's hard to beat Hendrix here.
advacoRRR 1 month ago
@nicbal1986 Or you can try John lee hooker Catfish Blues
alakhazom 1 month ago
@alakhazom you mean robert petway's catfish blues
iaskedforwater24 3 weeks ago
It's good to see the crowd isn't segregated in this clip, doesn't it always piss you off when you watch these old videos and the audience is all white or all black? That must've been some right old bullshit back in the day to have to get up and play to a room full of passive aggressive white people who like your music but hate your skin color.
PeyotePaul 1 month ago 9
@PeyotePaul I think racists didn't and don't like blues... I think it rather was the way that many people didn't know or care about black people's rights; they weren't racist, just indifferent, wich is almost as bad.
Gilnar13 1 month ago
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muddy, you LEGEND!
this song has mystery attached to it, because hundreds of bluesmen have done catfish blues, including skip james, memphis slim and jimi hendrix, orginally written by Robert Petway
Rip Muddy
RedEyeRiaan 2 months ago
this is amazing
CrazyJc2000 2 months ago
check it out... this is from the Newport Jazz festival...... beautiful man
wastemgmt07 2 months ago
The emergence of the Rolling Stones has been credited for the greater international popularity of the primitive urban blues typified by Chess Records' artists such as Muddy Waters, who wrote the song from which the band drew its name. According to Richards, Jones christened the band during a phone call to Jazz News. When asked for a band name Jones saw a Muddy Waters LP lying on the floor of which one of the tracks was "Rollin' Stone".
ertzuiop123 2 months ago
the king
HermerTV 2 months ago
that girl at the end is fingering her pussy
Tobiasisgay 2 months ago
i showed my friend this, hoping he'd be able to see the beauty in it, first ten seconds he said, '*laughs* he's called muddy waters cause he's black'......
what has this generation come to......
DukeSecom 3 months ago 4
@DukeSecom Sometimes you have to work your way backwards. See if they can get into modern blues guys like Bonnamassa, Shephard, Trucks etc and then go back to blues rock guys Zepplin, Johnny Winter, of course SRV and so on. Then go to Jimi Hendrix or Cream, Buddy Guy and so on until finally they might actually be able to understand what their listening too when it comes to blues. Modern music sucks so bad most people don't even know what real music is. They need an education.
Odin029 3 months ago 5
@Odin029 i hear ya. the good majority of my generation needs to realize what they've become, with the obsessive overuse of technology and all, its really dumbing them down. heck, i only have 1 real friend at school cause everyone else are hypocritical imbeciles who think i'm dumb for doing things the right way.
who cares, music keeps me company
DukeSecom 3 months ago 3
@DukeSecom Did you tell him WHY he was called that? His nickname when he was little,,by his GrMa.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 1 month ago
Yes the Rolling Stones got their name from this song...
browngrl77 3 months ago 62
@browngrl77
Already knew this, but thanks.
witchywoman530 2 months ago
nice
polkapete11 3 months ago
continued: That's what I get for 'speed reading" I mistook the "cover on the floor with 'Rolling Stone' written on it, to be the magazine. My apologies to you SimonGarfunkelFolk and also the person who commented below.
kathieropele 4 months ago
@SimonGarfunkelFolk read Keith's book "LIFE", recently. Page 97 second paragraph goes like this:"We've got a gig at..." What do you call yourselves?" We stared at one another. "It?" Then "Thing?" This call is costing. Muddy Waters to the rescue! First track on 'Best of Muddy Waters' is "Rollin' Stone". The cover is on the floor. Desperate, Brian, Mick and I take the dive. "The Rolling Stones." Phew! That saved sixpence. ......
kathieropele 4 months ago
@SimonGarfunkelFolk Well, I'm just repeating what Keith Richards claimed. nothing profound from me, specifically. I'll check the source and get back, in the meantime.
kathieropele 4 months ago
This is a profound performance. Thanks for posting.
bass0111 4 months ago 2
The fucking pioneer of every genre right here!
josuneta 4 months ago
jimi covered this on his "blues" record.
muddy is one of the baddest cats ever!
YeshuaISMessiah1 4 months ago
rock on you bunch of hooligans
ianjohnson171 4 months ago
Think this was at Newport ?
beowulf3075 4 months ago
Is it me, or is the neck of that guitar very thin?
uncutsquid 4 months ago
@uncutsquid nah its big hands hommie. ever seen hendrix play? i try to use my thumb as much as possible because of these hommies.
vulgarcowpower 4 months ago
@vulgarcowpower not sure how much hendrix would of used his thumb, since he did play a right-handed guitar with his left hand, so the thin strings would of been on top, not much use when your soloing! and hendrix would solo through 90% of his songs! just saying
sedali3 3 months ago
@sedali3 he re-strung the strings to suit his left handed style. look it up. trust me on this. although he played it upside down ( so to speak) he still flipped the strings too.
vulgarcowpower 3 months ago
@vulgarcowpower that would make a whole lot more sense! i will look it up though!
sedali3 3 months ago
@sedali3 check out his performance at woodstock with his white strat. you'll see. peace love and chicken wings
vulgarcowpower 3 months ago
nothing good around these days,,,i be one lazy fcuker,,,must b the blues,,kick bac people,,,
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noahelp1 4 months ago
I remember when the Rolling Stones first came on the scene in the US, in 1964... they specifically said they had named themselves after the song by Muddy Waters, Rolling Stone (also known as Catfish Blues). They specifically identified Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry as major inspirations for their music.
RayBeckerman 5 months ago
@RayBeckerman Actually, though, and this is straight from Keith. They named themselves the Rolling Stones because they were on the phone with someone who was going to produce something for them and he asked them what they were going to call themselves and there was a copy of The Rolling Stone magazine lying about and they glanced at it and then repeated Rolling Stones, down the phone.
kathieropele 4 months ago
@kathieropele: So there is such a thing as time travel! That's great news! (Must be time travel, since The Rolling Stones were formed in April 1962 and the first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine was November 9, 1967.)
bass0111 4 months ago
@bass0111 Hi Sorry for the mistake. If you scroll up you will see how I came to that. Basically I misread a paragraph that I read in Keith's book, recently. Took it to be cover of Rolling Stone magazine on floor, instead of album Cover with name of song 'Rolling Stone", lying on floor.
kathieropele 4 months ago
u can see in some of his videos he got a sideways smile like yea i know i'm this good this guy is the reason i play guitar
namey420 5 months ago
priceless
Kurtiz76 5 months ago
Muddy Waters – Guitar, Vocals
Otis Spann – Piano, Vocals
Pat Hare – Guitar
James Cotton – Harmonica
Andrew Stephens – Bass
Francis Clay – Drums
SteveArvey 5 months ago 38
@SteveArvey Greatest side band ever.
redredshoes 1 month ago
did n e one notice da guitar dat muddy iz playin with iz not his standard fener telecaster?
MyWoodstock1 5 months ago
beyond cool
TREYOLDHIPPIE 5 months ago
true This is the father of the electric guitar .Amazing
demacaol 6 months ago
Muddy Waters invented electricity.
TusPapi 6 months ago
i'm a white boy too the fullest and i love music. my # one is rock and hard rap, but this is the best.. this is what birthed everything we have today. This was before platnms and most of these artist's died broke... Now day's it all sound's like pill hie kids
caponebella08 6 months ago
check out The Blues Buffet music video clip 'Dirty Water' (something alittle different)
dustylove10 6 months ago
This is unique, and, of course, it can't be matched. Muddy Waters was a master of his craft, and the band is locked in to every stress and quiver. The musicians are so focused and the intensity is searing. No production is necessary--just raw blues music. This is what it's all about.
watches777 6 months ago
you are right about the music nowadays, no soul they also got no heart. i live in hawaii and even here the music is not the same. the closest i get to any type of music that has any heart or even some feeling of the old days is country. now if you listen to the melody and lyrics, much of it came from r&b. music is about the feelings and ppl forgot about it, or just just making it rhyme what a joke. now its not about the music, its the money.
sujokerswild 6 months ago
Original Screwwwwws...... Orig Bluez...
mrbetts 6 months ago
You dont understand the blues till You live it. =)
MightyZumba23 6 months ago
Keith Richards mentioned this song in the book.... Rolling Stones was a big Muddy fan and they made their band and had to find a name for their first gig and they just picked this name fast in the phone and then afterwards went to their first gig :)
ConservativeDK 6 months ago
@ConservativeDK yea thats true, keith was on the phone with the guy getting a gig and the asked him whats the name of your band and they didnt have a name so he stumbled and saw muddy waters records lying on the floor and this was a song on what ever one he picked up
lovethe70srock 5 months ago
Cymbal Sam played the electric knee cap on this tune. Listen closely and you could hear him creaking in the back round. Only Muddy would use Sam after he became addicted to hot dogs...Good for you, Muddy! You never forgot who your real friends were.
paco777771 6 months ago
Yosco Makimba! This guy sure can play the blues. I've never heard anyone better!
paco777771 6 months ago
the raphael saadiq version is better
nopvictor 6 months ago
@nopvictor no... this is real, nothing is ever better then the real version when it comes to blues
Rickardlindgrens 6 months ago
@Rickardlindgrens u got that right
nopvictor 6 months ago
@nopvictor you can't be serious.
themostBenofall 6 months ago
The Rolling Stones
0652411 6 months ago
Go to the archives of the Newport folk an blues festival at Brown Univ Go to the Smithsonian an the library of Congress an see it
carlox1 7 months ago
Keith Richards named his band after this tune!
uhernandez55 7 months ago
@uhernandez55 Mick Jagger also named his band by this song
Bulkinas 7 months ago
@Bulkinas Brian Jones named his band Rolling Stones for this song
not Jagger
midnigthspecial2 7 months ago 2
the problem is, money...he who pays gets his music played !!!
nehouma 7 months ago
Muddy Waters - Rollin' Stone
'The Rolling Stones' adoptó su nombre inspirados en la canción «Rollin' Stone» del músico estadounidense de blues Muddy Waters
Adolfo Vásquez Rocca PH. D.
avrocca20 7 months ago
Why are there people in every blues video talking about black people blues and white blues? Skin color is as important as eye color. If youve got the feeling and soul your blues will show that.
masterknaster 7 months ago 2
Where was this? Some country club?
morriswil32 7 months ago
@morriswil32 newport jazz festival
MyWoodstock1 7 months ago
reggaeton what the hell is that??? this is music!!!!!
rodrigoezequielneira 7 months ago
@rodrigoezequielneira was it necessary to mention that word here?
Gnomitolindo 7 months ago
@Gnomitolindo I'm sorry man, my bad... I'm sure justin bieber is great...
rodrigoezequielneira 7 months ago
what year is this ?
Conflict003 8 months ago
@Conflict003 1960
MyWoodstock1 7 months ago
This is a good video foreal.''Muddy Waters''.
Oriedo 8 months ago
Why wasn't this included in the At Newport album!!!
Manu9078 8 months ago
@Manu9078 - I agree, this is really excellent.
beowulf3075 7 months ago
you gotta love the sexy look of a fender telecaster
sshomero 8 months ago
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RubinFarrCampbel195 8 months ago
It would be cool if the Rolling Stones did a version of this.
RandyAKing 8 months ago
I believe this is where the rolling stones got there name from
MrDjh66 9 months ago 17
@MrDjh66 like really, like the whole world don't know that....
RabbitNouns 3 months ago
what people dont realize is that muddy isnt just a great singer hes a pioneering guitarist, he was one of the first electic players and his slide and rythem playing is fantastic!!
NintendoSinceBirth1 9 months ago
is this newport?
DanFindling 9 months ago
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if you guys like good ol blues tunes you should check out my channel. especially the one i don't need you. i'd say it is pretty soulful blues.
greenriverblues911 9 months ago
White artists didn't really screw artists like muddy and howlin wolf for money... artists like clapton, rolling stones and a lot more used to pay blues artists like howlin wolf and muddy water to fly to egland to preform and teach them the bliues tunes NOTE FOR NOTE. that is why white people did it so damn well. they were taught by the best. the true blues man
greenriverblues911 9 months ago
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White artists didn't really screw artists like muddy and howlin wolf for money... artists like clapton, rolling stones and a lot more used to pay blues artists like howlin wolf and muddy water to fly to egland to preform and teach them the bliues tunes NOTE FOR NOTE. that is why white people did it so damn well. they were taught by the best. the true blues man
greenriverblues911 9 months ago
White artists didn't really screw artists like muddy and howlin wolf for money... artists like clapton, rolling stones and a lot more used to pay blues artists like howlin wolf and muddy water to fly to egland to preform and teach them the bliues tunes NOTE FOR NOTE. that is why white people did it so damn well. they were taught by the best. the true blues man
greenriverblues911 9 months ago
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hey if you guys enjoy blues you should check out my channel. especially the vid "I don't need you"
greenriverblues911 9 months ago
I do not know what is with these people,if I seen Muddy Waters I would have gone mad....*__*
MrNelekv 9 months ago
"I'm gonna catch the first thing smokin' back, back down the road I'm goin." Good God, I love that line. This is where it all began folks. This is the music that changed everyone's world.
jackiechampion 9 months ago
lo mejor excelente...
ernesto336 9 months ago
white people did this great man so bad, they screwd him over for money, and alot more, why were white people so evil back in the day, they still kinda are,
adamjessi4ever 9 months ago
@adamjessi4ever screw you
TeamXTREMEPANTERA 9 months ago
@TeamXTREMEPANTERA dont be mad, did white people not lynch, and kill black people back in the day for the stupidist of reasons, didnt white people kill millions of indians and steal our land, didnt white people force christianity on people or kill them, didnt white people spray blacks with fire hoses for trying to educate them selves, dont white people today love to say nigger, and deny the truth, white people are cruel, gay, nasty, weird, wat hasent your race raped or killed?
adamjessi4ever 9 months ago
@adamjessi4ever im not british
TeamXTREMEPANTERA 9 months ago
@adamjessi4ever what's wrong with being gay and/or weird? and why is it my fault i'm white? if i'm trying to rectify the sins of my ancestors, if i'm trying to be a person, why is it my fault? why do i get labelled with all of that, if i was never personally involved?
those awful things that were done do, i believe, in some ways continue to benefit people today and hurt others. there's an argument there. but what do you expect from me? i am a person, not my race. you are a person, not your race
inkblackRose 9 months ago
the black keys are a modern blues band that have the sound of muddy water's electric mud album they are amazing.
5556665012008 10 months ago
man muddy waters was a fucking blues pimp absolutely fenominal love this guy .. so much class man hope i could some day be in his shoes and perform for people doing what i love just like muddy rest in peace muddys cant wait to see you on the other side and records so heavinly tracks..
nickbarcenas 10 months ago
Mick Jagger name his group after this tune!
5302cmh1958 10 months ago
@5302cmh1958 Actually Brian Jones did.
SasukeUcha77 10 months ago
love the way the band stands there
Lecrae1000 10 months ago
♥♥♥
eskorbutinful 10 months ago
VOLUME SHOULD GO HIGHER THAN 100!!!! TURN IT UP!!!!
kaper721 10 months ago
Words cannot describe how brilliant this is,
SealLoaf 11 months ago
If this song was a person, i'd propose.
cuccu8CFC 11 months ago 7
@cuccu8CFC haha xDD
DaSassyDanca 11 months ago
The father of Chicago blues
harolddoza 11 months ago 4
@harolddoza The father of rock
TheBluesfan12 11 months ago 2
@TheBluesfan12 really?
DaSassyDanca 11 months ago
@TheBluesfan12 no sir, the LORD of the blues.
coxi666 11 months ago
He's a Rollin' stone...
ThomasDeLello 11 months ago
Just to say, "The Rolling Stones", milestones of rock music, took their name from this song...
Vitto40 1 year ago 3
can you feel me...
SAUCEYBUDDY1 1 year ago
They don't have Muddy Waters at fuckin Hot Topic. I'm 16 and exploring the world of true music that just doesn't happen too often anymore.
TheWhitestPersonEver 1 year ago
@imsweetasallheezy, well said also look out for Oli Brown, Aynsley List, Walter Trout
pitchcontrol 1 year ago
If I was a Catfish...... I have all you pretty fishes swimmin' after me.... There are lots of great Blues Musicians playing their hearts out all over this country... They have great cds as well.... Some are older, but many are in their 20's or 30's... Look them up online , go see them live... buy their cd's ... you won't regret it ...
StanHouk 1 year ago
hey people i need a old bleus song that sounds pretty sad, en i need it be singing by a black man, i forgot some names, can you fokes help me? post me some names of songs okay? thank you
nielso3333 1 year ago
ive been on a research mission today to find some of these old blues guys. listenin to nirvana unplugged got me started. i wish we had more blues musicians today music nowadays blows, no soul(theres a few exceptions). the 90's was the end of music that had meaning. i just hope were in a drought, weve definitley had em b4. but if music was able to make a resurgence after the 80's so theres gotta b hope.
imsweetasallheezy 1 year ago 22
@imsweetasallheezy, you have it all wrong. There is plenty of good music out there, now. Just don't go out there looking for it on the radio. Look up these names: Derek Trucks Band, Joe Bonamassa, Susan Tedeschi, J.J. Grey and Mofro, Robert Randolph and the Family Band. Don't just look these artists up and listen to their music, go to Last FM, and listen to their radio channels, and you'll hear other artists that are similar. the good music you are looking for is out there.
blewsdawg 1 year ago 39
@blewsdawg i met a few of those names when i worked at the 2009 bayfront blues fest... supposed to see joe bonamassa march 3rd. total badass
MrGoldenshowers420 1 year ago
@blewsdawg ROBERT RANDOLPH.... yeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
TeamXTREMEPANTERA 11 months ago
@blewsdawg
agree with you. There's no such thing as a genre has died, one just doesn't know where to find it.
LoyalPlayboy 11 months ago
@blewsdawg Yo're spot on, its just laziness to say there is nothing good around now.
muxmahony 10 months ago 17
@muxmahony I'm not willing to call it laziness. It used to be that radio delivered music you hadn't heard before. When FM caught on in the 60's/70's, small FM's played deep cuts, indies, new artists, fusion, jam bands, all sorts of things that had been overlooked by major labels and old radio. Over the years that resource has faded, and the overlooked is to be found on the internet. Those who haven't yet found the new resources aren't necessarily lazy. They just need to be pointed there.
blewsdawg 10 months ago 24
@blewsdawg you're sure right!!! If you listen to the radio for 3 hours you'll have heard the same songs 10 times!
calamityjane131 4 months ago
@muxmahony To complete my thought (ran out of characters), remember that those folks went out of their way to find the good music once, which disproves laziness. Didn't you have help finding the good stuff the first time? I did. Point them to places like Last.FM, MOG, and others, and they'll find the good stuff again.
blewsdawg 10 months ago 3
@blewsdawg It's way too easy right now to make music. Electronic music is what a lot of people like to listen to now. I want to work as hard as I can to have meaningful blues songs played over popular airwaves.
My mom told me I won't accomplish anything with guitar and I should give it up to focus on school work. She said stevie ray, the edge, jack white, and jimmy page got lucky.
It wasn't luck, they had something. I want to be able to have that something.
milodaman2 8 months ago 2
@milodaman2 Meaningful blues music has never been played over popular airwaves. High quality music has found it's way into people's ears for decades, in spite of popular radio and major labels Stop banging your head against that wall. Use the internet the way underground music used FM radio in the early 70's.
Musicians have played for decades, in spite of the concerns of protective parents. Work on a backup plan, and she'll be fine. Trust me. I'm the father of a musician.
blewsdawg 8 months ago
@blewsdawg your all officielly benn MÖP MÖP t
Hollaender1992 6 months ago
@muxmahony I dunno, people criticizing music nowadays sounds a lot like parents sounded about rock and roll in the 50's. I don't like any modern music, hell, if it's The Beatles, it's too new for me. But we sure aren't the who the artist's has in mind when singing the songs, so why should we say it's universally bad?
Remember, Ricky Nelson was called a no-talent good-looking boy in the 50's, today he's called pioneer.
TheDJGrandPa 6 months ago
@TheDJGrandPa I agree completely. I am 24, I'm guessing you are older than that judging by the username; although I don't like the mainstream music around now, I am very slow to criticize it due to it popularity. I'd rather look for something better, if that means going back a few decades, or going to see some local bands, so be it. I'm sure if youtube was around in the 50's & 60's, there would be a lot of negative stuff written here.
muxmahony 5 months ago
@muxmahony I'm actually 17, the username is not about my taste in music or anything like that at all, it's just a character I just to draw :P
You can look up some of the adult reactions here on Youtube "Rock and Roll Preacher", "Rock and Roll Has Got to Go" and/or "Steve Allen Be-Bop-a-Lula" should do the trick ;)
TheDJGrandPa 5 months ago
@muxmahony what's wrong right now is the mainstream! you're soo right!
GeorgiBoyish 5 months ago
look up for robert rudolph and the family band! we still got good music!
GeorgiBoyish 5 months ago
@GeorgiBoyish Robert Randolph
wkg55 5 months ago
@blewsdawg don't forget Philip Sayce!!!
purplejaybird 10 months ago
@imsweetasallheezy The record companies have to take the blame. They hire producers that dont know anything, and lawyers to mess up the whole process.
12stringsforme 1 year ago
@imsweetasallheezy Dear Mama by 2pac, When I'm Gone by Eminem, Ghetto Gospel by 2pac, Just the Two of Us by Will Smith, Under the Bridge by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lost in the World by Kanye West, Runaway Love by Ludacris, I Wonder by Kanye West, Cold War by Janelle Monae. There may not be as much emotion in popular music today as there was back in muddy's time but its still there. You just have to look!
thedoodlekid 11 months ago
@imsweetasallheezy
I would like to respectfully disagree with your assessment that the 80's had no soul, or meaning. Look at Punk Rock, and a fair amount of the early Metal bands. While their music may not have been as lyrically profound as some of the Blues, or Classic Rock bands, they used it to express feelings they were having, and they did it quite well.
As for current music, check out Gov't Mule, Derek Trucks Band, and Smokin Joe Bonamassa. These guys are rocking the Blues sound!
zabbu 11 months ago
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zabbu 11 months ago
@imsweetasallheezy Good music never dies. Theres always people out there who will play it. Coupla guys I know all play blues and classic rock n' roll. We're hoping to bring it all back in the next big wave.
r96x 11 months ago
@imsweetasallheezy Try some Down ...That to me is some good southern blues for todays time and Some of Black label society (not all but some)...It's not dead...Oh and John Mooney...I worked at a Blues bar in Fl. for 5 years and John is pretty good ...He aint Muddy but....
martysmith21 11 months ago
@imsweetasallheezy lol yea if music can rise up out of the ashes that was the 80's and give us the great bands that came from the 90 i think we can come out from under this gray cloud
thisfool89 9 months ago
@imsweetasallheezy Yeah there are plenty of very good blues musicians out there now, there's that twelve year old kid who's a prodigy already, but I can't remember his name. Also, a lot of the big names are still playing, B.B. King is still going strong at something like 83 years old and Buddy Guy is still playing. You just gotta do your research man and you'll see that the blues is still very much alive and well.
DesecrationSmile52 9 months ago
@imsweetasallheezy try early and some new black keys, william elliott whitmore, murder by death, lucero (not the spanish pop group) just to name a few. I look at it as more of a fun time since it's more of a challenge to find good music out there.
troideadh 9 months ago
@imsweetasallheezy Are you saying the seventies was a musical drought? If so you have no idea what you are talking about. By the Way Muddy is amazing a true pioneer. But seriously get a reality check if you think the seventies were a bad time for music.
hermygagala 7 months ago
@imsweetasallheezy You're an making an ass of your self for first off saying there's no music now that has no soul or meaning. There's music, but it might not appeal to you, and that's fine but don't go around bashing music because YOU don't like it.
saron380 7 months ago
@imsweetasallheezy Since when was Nirvana blues?
LedZeppelin2055 6 months ago 2
@imsweetasallheezy Boo Boo davis isnt bad
ajgolfer1 6 months ago
Only this country could produce Muddy, Elvis and CCR. Yes, we are a special country.
19thcentury 1 year ago
@sms1511
IE,Mencken implied that the modern black folk music(modern as in 1930-1940-ish) dose not compare to the black folk music of the mid to late 1800's...dunno.Those were the day of 3 string cigar box guitars or whatever else people got their hands on.
So again,most blues music I come across is corny to me,so maybe he was right that we are not hearing the best stuff.
spentonmediocrity 1 year ago
show of hands
so who here is a middle age white guy with a tube amp who likes to play "blues" riffs and sing "mah baby left me"...
pffft,back slapping drones make me puke
spentonmediocrity 1 year ago
@spentonmediocrity Actually I'm a 22 year old black female that appreciates great blues and legends like Mr. Muddy Waters.
sms1511 1 year ago 4
@sms1511
What's the beef then?
%99 of people playing "blues' these days,be it youtube gear demos or some guy playing a club with his booteek amp,are laughable,are they not?
They make blues music sound so gaudy and limp,like plain rice day after day.
I recall H L Mencken (sometime perhaps in the 30's or 40's )taking a shot at the black folk/blues music of the day citing it as (paraphrasing) uncomparable to the folk/blues music of the 19th century...make of that what you will.
spentonmediocrity 1 year ago
@spentonmediocrity
I'm a middle aged white guy with a non-boutique tube amp who likes to play the blues. I grew up in the South Bronx in the early 60s and heard plenty of blues. Half the kids on my block were from down south. Blues and Motown were the sounds of my youth. Then the Brits too. So what's the problem? I aint rich either. I won't give up the music I love because back-slapping drones think I've no right to play it. B.B thought Peter Green was ace btw.
j0eX 1 year ago
ohh yes..........ONE of the founding FATHERS OF "ROCK N ROLL"...Indeed.
Mspendragon1972 1 year ago
God Bless Muddy Waters.
dennisl2008 1 year ago
Without this man we wouldn't have had the Rolling Stones, thank you sire.
PrimalStones 1 year ago
I love muddys music
Missouriman37 1 year ago
2 idiots and counting
TeamXTREMEPANTERA 1 year ago
a kidney stone?
DuarteOnTheLine 1 year ago