Tribute to Muddy

Album: The Progressive Blues Experiment (1969)
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Songfacts®:

  • Running to 6 minutes 21 seconds, this Johnny Winter composition is less a tribute to Muddy Waters than a pun on his music. Dedicated fans will have no difficulty spotting the names of Waters' songs within. (Six years later, John Lees did the same thing with "Titles"). Winter was not only a fan of the great Mississippi bluesman, he played with him many times and also produced three of his albums.
  • This song was included on Winter's debut album, The Progressive Blues Experiment, following a cover of the Muddy Waters song "Rollin' And Tumblin'." Winter (real name: John Dawson Winter III) died in
    2014 at age 70, the same age Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) was when he passed away in 1983. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England, for above 2

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