October 01, 1969
(vol. 80, iss. 24)
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… Jop- lin's wretched face is equated with the "rebirth of the blues." Yet on the other hand, soe white people, like those that at- tended the Ann Arbor Blues Festival, have gotten to the "roots" --- to…
…, Sam Lay, Buddy Miles, Jeff Carp, Phil Upchurch, and Paul Asbell. At the Blues Festival, the then unreleased records were quite a big topic of conversation backstage. At that time, Muddy said he thought…
… on "Moo "Sugar Sweet", "Waikin Thiu the Park", or "The Same Thing". That's some heap,'y stuff. the antithesis of the I've we got from Junior Wells and Ji'nnyv Cotton at the Blues Festival. The…
…, If a young man wants to learn how to play the blues, he must learn its language and he must listen to the poets that speak it best--the old masters, What Muddy Waters did was exactly that and his…
… teacher was Son House, the pioneer of the Mississippi blues guitar. That process is the foundation of the blues tradition --a traditon which years later would make Muddy the teacher and Paul Butterfield the…
… student. Muddy would be seated in the first row, every night, when Son House was playing the local bar. He was the prototype blues freak, his every action adding to the rich legacy of that peculiar vocation…
… anything too different than what everyone else was playing. But Muddy wasn't satisfied, and after World War II he formed the first of the now common, amplified Chicago blues DAILY OFFICIAL B LLETIN…
…- monica players - Little Walter Jacobs, Jimmy Cotton, and George Smith. (Now he has an- other good one, Paul Osher, a white man.) Muddy's blues had the black community in a rhythmic vice, but white America…
… had never even heard his name. What the blues needed, like rock an(; jazz before it, was a white nman to bring the energy from the vortex of black music to the sheltered core of white Amer- ica. Muddy…
…'d eighteen.) Butterfield ,was good, and le was white-a first in blues h:- tory and a winning combination inl any record producer's book. Thus, hie, and not Muddy, brought the blues America's mainstream…