Muddy Waters

Three musicians from Mississippi are my Big Three of the Blues. They are Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, and Howlin Wolf. They have influenced each other and other musicians around the world. All three grew up in poverty in the delta which filled their music with the sorrowful, soulful sound of the Blues. Muddy Waters was born in poverty in rural Mississippi in 1915. Though his real name is McKinley Morganfield, he earned the name given to him by his grandmother during youthful play in the muddy waters near her home. His blues started early when his mother died in his early childhood. His grandmother raised him on a plantation and he learned early the hard life of hunger and picking cotton. He channeled that pain through music first learning the harmonica and later learning the guitar in the great Delta blues tradition. Water’s style of the blues is distinctive in which he put all his pent up defeat and anger in his music. He was recorded in the 1940s on his plantation and this was when he may have realized he could be a real musician instead of living the frustrated life of a sharecropper. He took his musical dreams on the road and became one of the…

Mckinley Morganfied (Muddy Waters) was born on April 4, 1915, in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. He got the name Muddy Waters because as a child he played in the swampy puddles of the Mississippi River. Waters is best known for being a highly talented singer and guitarist. He made an impact on Chicago blues with songs like “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man.” At the young age of 3, Waters’ mother died and he was sent to live with his grandmother. By the age of 5 he had mastered how to play the…

. . . The Beatles berated reporters for not knowing who Muddy Waters was. The Rolling Stones refused to appear . . . unless Howlin’ Wolf was invited as well.” Muddy Waters himself exclaimed, “That’s a funny damn thing. Had to get somebody from out of another country to let my white kids over here know where we stand. They’re crying for bread and got it in their backyard”…

their beautiful hometown, and the struggle with beliefs that everyone faces in their life. Along with this, he drops in the occasional bit of Spanish, which really creates the feeling that you are there with the characters. He keeps it at a level that English speakers can understand, which makes the writing retain its relatability. He uses all the senses to set the story in a rather nostalgic and fantastic way. Some examples include sight, "Around me the moonlight glittered on the pebbles of the…

Stepping off of the warm, smooth boardwalk taking off your sneakers and setting them nicely on the boardwalk. Your feet are now bare and the sun is beating down on us as you step into the sand. You get excited and jump into the sand burning your feet and retreating back onto the boardwalk ramp. The boardwalk was never this hot, you think. You then see the ocean, looking nice and cool and a sudden burst of confidence runs through you as you take your time stepping off of the boardwalk and into…

Over the summer I went to Kentucky ,Missouri Arkansas and Texas. When I went to Arkansas I saw the old spanish cave. I got to crawl around the cave it was really cold I was 59 degrees.I had to sleep in the cave and i got wet because water leaked through the ceiling. There was not many crystals It was very muddy I was covered in mud I could not sit in a car. It took 9 hours to get there.Then we went to the craters of diamonds but we did not find any diamonds but we found really cool rocks.…

CHAPTER 6: ENTER QUESTION: Page 134 Q 12 12. If you were to find yourself on a boat in the Chesapeake Bay, what aquatic ecosystem would you be in? What ecosystem would you be in if you were in the middle of Everglades National Park? MAIN ANSWER: Answer the question without copying word for word from the book, this means discuss like in a rational conversation. Do NOT expect full credit for one word or phrase answers. Cover the Who, What, Where, When, Why How as much as possible. Various…

Beach Nourishment (or also known as beach replenishment) is the process of dumping or pumping sand from another place onto an eroding shoreline or a shoreline in the process of erosion to create, or expand the length and width of the existing beach. However, Beach nourishment does not stop erosion, it just repairs the destruction caused by the tidal waves for awhile. The waves will erode the nourished sand as an alternative instead of damaging houses, roads, recreational spots, or parking lots.…

heat in water is solar irradiance by direct absorption (Wetzel and Likens, 2000). We might assumed that heat will remain at where it was absorbed and temperature will decrease exponentially with depth, just with the light and may remain constant at the hypolimnion (Lampert and Sommer, 2007). Water has the properties of high heat capacity, thus the larger lake might tends to moderate the local climate and provide the longer growing season for aquatic life (Wetzel and Likens, 2000). Temperature is…

Water: Taken for Granted Water is present on more than seventy percent of the Earth’s surface. It is found in almost every part of the world, whether it is clear and glistening on the beaches of Florida or murky and muddy in the Amazon River. This mesmerizing liquid is able to take the form of a liquid, solid, or a gas which makes it universal solution. The presence of water in the lives of humans is as vast as the universe because it is at the epicenter of sustaining life. It is often said that…