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Muddy Waters discography
Photograph of Muddy Waters on stage playing an electric guitar
Muddy Waters with James Cotton in Ontario Place, Toronto (1978)
Studio albums13
Live albums9+
Compilation albums25+
Singles62
Singles as accompanist20
Albums as accompanist17

Muddy Waters (1913–1983) was an American blues artist who is considered a pioneer of the electric Chicago blues and a major influence on the development of blues and rock music.[1][2] He popularized several early Delta blues songs, such as "Rollin' and Tumblin'", "Walkin' Blues", and "Baby, Please Don't Go", and recorded songs that went on to become blues standards, including "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Mannish Boy", and "Got My Mojo Working".[3] During his recording career from 1941 to 1981, he recorded primarily for two record companies, Aristocrat/Chess and Blue Sky; they issued 62 singles and 13 studio albums (as with most postwar blues musicians, his recordings were released as two-song singles until the 1960s, when the focus shifted to long-playing albums).[4][5]

While he was living in Mississippi, Waters was recorded by Alan Lomax in 1941 for a U.S. Library of Congress folk music project.[6] Two songs were released on a 78 rpm record, "Country Blues" and "I Be's Troubled".[7] After moving to Chicago, he recorded for Leonard Chess and Aristocrat issued Waters's first single in 1947.[8] In 1950, Chess bought out his label partners and formed Chess Records.[9] From 1950 to 1958, Chess issued 15 singles that reached the top 10 of Billboard magazine's R&B chart.[10] Among the many albums the label released are the influential early compilation The Best of Muddy Waters (1958) and the live At Newport 1960.[11]

After Chess went out of business in 1975,[12] Waters recorded several successful albums for Blue Sky. Produced by blues rock singer and guitarist Johnny Winter,[13] Hard Again (1977), I'm Ready (1978), and Muddy "Mississippi" Waters – Live (1978) won Grammy Awards for "Best Ethnic or Traditional Recordings".[14] As a sideman, Waters also contributed to recordings by Little Walter, Junior Wells, Otis Spann, and others.[4] After Waters's death in 1983, a large number of compilation and live albums have been issued by various record companies,[15][16] often with significant overlap and duplication.[17] The double disc The Anthology: 1947–1972 (2001) is ranked at number 483 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2020 list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".[18]

For an in depth, illustrated discography, see https://www.wirz.de/music/waters.htm

Studio albums

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List of studio albums with title, album details, chart peak, and reference(s)
Title Album details Chart
peak
U.S.
200
Ref(s)
Muddy Waters Sings "Big Bill"
  • Released: June 1960
  • Label: Chess (LP-1444)
  • Format: Mono LP
[19]
Folk Singer
  • Released: January 30, 1964
  • Label: Chess (LP-1483)
  • Format: Mono LP
[19]
Muddy, Brass & the Blues
  • Released: October 26, 1966
  • Label: Chess (LP/S-1507)
  • Format: Mono/stereo LP
[19]
Electric Mud
  • Released: October 5, 1968
  • Label: Cadet Concept (LPS-314)
  • Format: Stereo LP
127[a] [19][21]
After the Rain
  • Released: May 12, 1969
  • Label: Cadet Concept (LPS-320)
  • Format: Stereo LP
[19]
Fathers and Sons
  • Released: August 18, 1969
  • Label: Chess (LPS-127; reissue: 2CH 50033, 1972)
  • Format: Stereo LP
  • Note: Sides 1 and 2 are studio recordings
70 [19][21]
The London Muddy Waters Sessions
  • Released: April 1972
  • Label: Chess (CH 60013)
  • Format: Stereo LP
[22]
Can't Get No Grindin'
  • Released: August 1973
  • Label: Chess (CH 50023)
  • Format: Stereo LP
[22]
"Unk" in Funk
  • Released: March 1974
  • Label: Chess (CH 60031)
  • Format: Stereo LP
[22]
The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album
  • Released: April 1975
  • Label: Chess (CH 60035)
  • Format: Stereo LP
[22]
Hard Again
  • Released: January 10, 1977[b]
  • Label: Blue Sky (PZ 34449)
  • Format: Stereo LP
143 [21][24]
I'm Ready
  • Released: January 1978
  • Label: Blue Sky (JZ 34928)
  • Format: Stereo LP
157 [21][25]
King Bee
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Blue Sky (PZ 37064)
  • Format: Stereo LP
192 [21]
"—" denotes a release that did not chart

Selected live albums

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Since Waters's death in 1983, a large number of live albums have been released by a variety of record companies.[16] According to biographer Robert Gordon, "much of it comes from the latter years and the recordings tend to blend."[26] However, some were well-received and appeared on Billboard's Blues albums chart.[21]

List of live albums with title, album details, chart peak, and reference(s)
Title Album details Chart
peak
U.S.
Blues
Ref(s)
At Newport 1960
  • Released: November 15, 1960
  • Label: Chess (LP-1449)
  • Format: Mono LP
[19]
Fathers and Sons
  • Released: August 1969
  • Label: Chess (LPS-127)
  • Format: Stereo LP
  • Note: Sides 3 and 4 are live recordings
[c] [19]
Live at Mr. Kelly's
  • Released: October 1971[d]
  • Label: Chess (CH 50012)
  • Format: Stereo LP
  • Note: Recorded June 1971
[22][27]
Muddy "Mississippi" Waters – Live
  • Released: Early 1979[e]
  • Label: Blue Sky (JZ35712)
  • Format: Stereo LP
  • Note: Recorded March 1977
[29][28]
Collaboration[f]
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Tomato (R2 71661)
  • Format: CD
  • Note: Recorded 1958
[26]
Hoochie Coochie Man
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: LaserLight (17 101)
  • Format: CD
  • Note: Recorded 1964
[26]
The Lost Tapes
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Blind Pig (BPCD 5054)
  • Format: CD
  • Note: Recorded Nov 1971
[31][32]
Live at the Fillmore Auditorium – San Francisco Nov 04–06 1966
  • Released: 2009
  • Label: Geffen/Chess (B0012650-02)
  • Format: CD
8 [21]
Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981 15 [21]
Hoochie Coochie Man: Live at the Rising Sun Celebrity Jazz Club
  • Released: 2016
  • Label: Justin Time
  • Format: LP, CD
  • Note: Recorded Jan 1977
5 [21][29]
Live at Rockpalast 1978
  • Released: 2018
  • Label: MIG/WDR
  • Format: Double LP, 2xCD, 2xDVD
7 [21]
The Montreux Years 1972/1974/1977
  • Released: 2021
  • Label: BMG
  • Format: Double LP, CD
Live In Los Angles 1954
  • Released: 2021
  • Label: GNP Crescendo
  • Format: 10" LP
"—" denotes a release that did not chart

Selected compilation albums

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Muddy Waters's original two-song singles recorded for Chess were later released on various "Best of" and anthology albums.[33] Over the years, many were repackaged with new titles and re-sequenced,[34] with the earlier versions going out-of-print.[35] In the 1990s, Chess's successor, MCA Records, began releasing compilations, sometimes focusing on different periods during Waters's career as well as broader overviews.[33] Around the same time, Charly Records also released a number of albums of Chess recordings, including the nine CD set The Complete Muddy Waters 1947–1967 (1992).[23] After years of litigation, MCA was able to stop Charly from using Chess material without authorization.[36]

List of compilation albums with title, album details, chart peak, and reference(s)
Title Album details Chart
peak
U.S.
Blues
Ref(s)
The Best of Muddy Waters
  • Released: 1958
  • Label: Chess (LP-1427)
  • Format: Mono LP
  • Note: Repackaged and resequenced as Sail On
    (1969, Chess)
[19]
The Real Folk Blues
  • Released: January 1966
  • Label: Chess (LP-1501)
  • Format: Mono LP
[19]
More Real Folk Blues
  • Released: January 27, 1967
  • Label: Chess (LP/S-1511)
  • Format: Mono/stereo LP
[19]
They Call Me Muddy Waters
  • Released: February 1971
  • Label: Chess (CH 1553)
  • Format: LP
[19]
McKinley Morganfield A.K.A. Muddy Waters
  • Released: June 1971
  • Label: Chess (2CH 60006)
  • Format: Double LP
[22]
Rolling Stone
  • Released: November 1982
  • Label: Chess (CH 8202)
  • Format: LP
[22]
Rare and Unissued
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Chess (CH 9180)
  • Format: Mono LP
[22]
Trouble No More: Singles 1955–1959
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Chess (CH/C/D-9291)
  • Format: LP, cassette, CD
[22]
The Chess Box–Muddy Waters
  • Released: 1989[g]
  • Label: Chess (CH/D-80002)
  • Format: LP/CD
[37]
Blues Sky
  • Released: June 16, 1992
  • Label: Columbia/Legacy (ZK/T-49172)
  • Format: CD, cassette
[30]
The Complete Plantation Recordings
  • Released: June 8, 1993
  • Label: Chess (CHD/C-9344)
  • Format: CD, cassette
[30]
One More Mile
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Chess (CHD/C2-9348)
  • Format: CD, cassette
[38]
His Best: 1947 to 1955 [Volume 1]
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Chess (CHD-9370)
  • Format: CD
[39]
His Best: 1956 to 1964 [Volume 2]
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Chess (CHD-9380)
  • Format: CD
[40]
King of the Electric Blues
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Epic/Legacy (65215)
  • Format: CD
[41]
The Best of Muddy Waters: 20th Century Masters/The Millennium Collection
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Chess (CHD-11946)
  • Format: CD
15 [21]
Rollin' Stone: The Golden Anniversary Collection (1947–1952)
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Chess (CHD-112301)
  • Format: CD
[42]
The Anthology (1947–1972)
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Chess (CHD-112649)
  • Format: CD
[43]
Winning Combinations (split release with John Lee Hooker)
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Universal/MCA (088 112 646-2)
  • Format: CD
8 [21]
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Muddy Waters
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Universal (B000048202)
  • Format: CD
4 [21]
Hoochie Coochie Man: The Complete Chess Masters, Volume 2, 1952–1958 [44]
The Definitive Collection
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: Geffen
  • Format: CD
14 [21]
The Father of Chicago Blues 1 [21]
Playlist: The Very Best of Muddy Waters
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: Epic/Legacy
  • Format: CD
[45]
You Shook Me: The Complete Chess Masters, Volume 3, 1958–1963
  • Released: 2012
  • Label: Geffen
  • Format: CD
[46]
"—" denotes a release that did not chart

Singles

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Muddy Waters's first 78 rpm record in 1941 listed him using his birth name, McKinley Morganfield. The late 1940s–mid-1950s record releases by Aristocrat Records and Chess Records sometimes used "Muddy Waters and His Guitar" as well as Muddy Waters. From the late 1950s on, he is identified as Muddy Waters.[47]

List of singles with title, year, label, chart peak, and reference(s)
Title
A-side / B-side
Year Label Chart
peak
U.S.
R&B
Ref(s)
"Country Blues" / "I Be's Troubled" 1941 Library of
Congress
AAFS 18
[7]
"Gypsy Woman" / "Little Anna Mae" 1948 Aristocrat
1302
[7]
"I Can't Be Satisfied" / "I Feel Like Going Home" 1948 Aristocrat
1305
11 [7][10]
"Train Fare Home" / "Sittin' Here and Drinkin' (Whiskey Blues)" 1948 Aristocrat
1306
[48]
"You're Gonna Miss Me (When I'm Dead and Gone)" / "Mean Red Spider" 1948 Aristocrat
1307
[48]
"Streamline Woman" / "Muddy Jumps One" (instrumental) 1949 Aristocrat
1310
[48]
"Little Geneva" / "Canary Bird" 1949 Aristocrat
1311
[48]
"Screamin' and Cryin'" / "Where's My Woman Been" 1949 Aristocrat
406
[48]
"Rollin' and Tumblin'" Part 1 / "Rollin' and Tumblin'" Part 2 1950 Aristocrat
412
[49]
"Rollin' Stone" / "Walkin' Blues" 1950 Chess
1426
[49]
"You're Gonna Need My Help 'I Said' (Gonna Need My Help)" / "Sad Letter Blues" 1950 Chess
1434
[49]
"Louisiana Blues" / "Evans Shuffle" (instrumental) (a.k.a. "Ebony Shuffle") 1950 Chess
1441
10 [10][49]
"Long Distance Call" / "Too Young Too Know" 1951 Chess
1452
8 [10][49]
"Honey Bee" / "Appealing Blues (Hello Little Girl)" 1951 Chess
1468
10 [10][49]
"Still a Fool (Two Trains Running)" / "My Fault" 1951 Chess
1480
9 [10][49]
"She Moves Me" / "Early Morning Blues (Before Daybreak)" 1952 Chess
1490
10 [10][49]
"All Night Long" / "Country Boy" 1952 Chess
1509
[49]
"Please Have Mercy" / "Looking for My Baby" (a.k.a. "I Can't Be Satisfied") 1952 Chess
1514
[49]
"Standing Around Crying" / "Gone to Main Street" 1952 Chess
1526
[49]
"She's All Right" / "Sad, Sad Day" 1953 Chess
1537
[49]
"Turn the Lamp Down Low (Baby Please Don't Go)" / "Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man" 1953 Chess
1542
[50]
"Mad Love (I Want You to Love Me)" / "Blow Wind Blow" 1953 Chess
1550
6 [10][50]
"I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" / "She's So Pretty" 1953 Chess
1560
3 [10][50]
"Just Make Love to Me (I Just Want to Make Love to You)" / "Oh! Yeh" 1954 Chess
1571
4 [10][50]
"I'm Ready" / "I Don't Know Why" 1954 Chess
1579
4 [10][50]
"I'm a Natural Born Lover" / "Loving Man" 1954 Chess
1585
[50]
"I Want to Be Loved" / "My Eyes (Keep Me in Trouble)" 1955 Chess
1596
[50]
"Manish Boy (Mannish Boy)" / "Young Fashioned Ways (Old Fashioned Ways)" 1955 Chess
1602
5[h] [10][50]
"Sugar Sweet (I Can't Call Her Sugar)" 1955 Chess
1612
11 [10][50]
/ "Trouble No More" 1955 Chess
1612
7 [10][50]
"Forty Days and Forty Nights" / "All Aboard" 1956 Chess
1620
7 [10][52]
"Don't Go No Farther (You Need Meat)" / "Diamonds at Your Feet" 1956 Chess
1630
9 [10][52]
"Just to Be with You" / "I Got to Find My Baby" 1956 Chess
1644
[52]
"Got My Mojo Working" / "Rock Me" 1956 Chess
1652
[52]
"Good News" / "Come Home Baby (I Wish You Would)" 1957 Chess
1667
[52]
"I Live the Life I Love (I Love the Life I Live)" / "Evil" 1957 Chess
1680
[52]
"I Won't Go On" / "She's Got It" 1958 Chess
1692
[52]
"Close to You" / "She's Nineteen Years Old" 1958 Chess
1704
9 [10][52]
"Walking Thru the Park (Walking in the Park)" / "Mean Mistreater" 1958 Chess
1718
[52]
"Clouds in My Heart" / "Ooh Wee" 1959 Chess
1724
[52]
"Take the Bitter with the Sweet" / "She's Into Something" 1959 Chess
1733
[52]
"Recipe for Love" / "Tell Me Baby" 1959 Chess
1739
[53]
"I Feel So Good" / "When I Get to Thinking" 1959 Chess
1748
[53]
"Read Way Back" / "I'm Your Doctor" 1960 Chess
1752
[53]
"Look What You've Done" / "Love Affair" 1960 Chess
1758
[53]
"Tiger in Your Tank" / "Meanest Woman" 1960 Chess
1765
[53]
"Got My Mojo Working" Part 1 (live) / "Woman Wanted" 1960 Chess
1774
[53]
"Messin' with the Man" / "Lonesome Bedroom Blues" 1961 Chess
1796
[53]
"Going Home" / "Tough Times" 1962 Chess
1819
[53]
"You Shook Me" / "Muddy Waters Twist" 1962 Chess
1827
[53]
"You Need Love" / "Little Brown Bird" 1962 Chess
1839
[54][55]
"Five Long Years" / "Twenty Four Hours" 1963 Chess
1862
[54]
"The Same Thing" / "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had" 1964 Chess
1865
[54]
"My John the Conquer Root" / "Short Dress Woman" 1964 Chess
1914
[56]
"Put Me in Your Lay Away" / "Still a Fool" (re-release) 1964 Chess
1921
[56]
"My Dog Can't Bark" / "I Got a Rich Man's Woman" 1965 Chess
1937
[56]
"Corine, Corina" / "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" [w/overdubbed horns] 1966 Chess
1973
[56]
"Birdnest on the Ground" / "When the Eagle Flies" 1967 Chess
2018
[57]
"Going Home" (remake) / "I Feel So Good" (remake) 1970 Chess
2085
[58]
"Making Friends" / "Two Steps Forward" 1971 Chess
2107
[59]
"Can't Get No Grindin' (What's the Matter with the Meal)" / "Garbage Man" 1973 Chess
2143
[58]
"The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll (No. 2)" / "Mannish Boy" (remake, 12-inch single) 1977 Blue Sky
MUDT 1
[60]
"I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" (remake) / "Mannish Boy" (edited remake, 12-inch single) 1977 Blue Sky
MUD 1
[60]
"—" denotes a release that did not chart

As accompanist

[edit]

Albums

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List of albums with title, album details, chart peak, and reference(s)
Title Album details
(sortable by listed artist)
Chart
peak
U.S.
Blues
Ref(s)
Broken Soul Blues[i] [53]
The Blues of Otis Spann[j] [54][61]
The Blues Never Die!
  • Otis Spann
  • Released: 1965
  • Label: Prestige (7391)
  • Format: LP
  • Note: credited as "Dirty Rivers"
[56][62]
Big Mama Thornton with the Muddy Waters Blues Band – 1966 [56][63]
Live at Cafe Au Go Go [64]
The Blues Is Where It's At
  • Otis Spann
  • Released: 1967
  • Label: Bluesway (BLS 6003)
  • Format: LP
[57][65]
Super Blues [66][67]
The Super Super Blues Band [68][69]
The Bottom of the Blues
  • Otis Spann
  • Released:1968
  • Label: Bluesway (BLS 6013)
  • Format: LP
[68]
George Smith & the Chicago Blues Band: A Tribute to Little Walter[l] [70][71]
Luther "Georgia Boy Snake" Johnson with the Muddy Waters Blues Band[m] [73]
Come On Home[m] [73]
Nothin' but the Blues [q] [74][76]
The Last Waltz [77][78]
Live the Life[r] [79]
The Last Waltz (box set re-release) [80][81]
Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down 3 [21][82]
"—" denotes a release that did not chart

Singles

[edit]
List of singles with title, year, listed artist, label, chart peak, and reference(s)
Title
A-side / B-side
Year Listed artist Label Chart
peak
U.S.
R&B
Ref(s)
"Johnson Machine Gun" / "Fly Right, Little Girl" 1948 Sunnyland Slim Aristocrat
1301
[7]
"She Ain’t Nowhere" / "My Baby, My Baby" 1948 Sunnyland Slim Aristocrat
1304
[7]
"Florida Hurricane" / "So Nice and Kind" 1948 St. Louis Jimmy Aristocrat
7001
[48]
"Blue Baby" / "I Want My Baby" 1948 Sunnyland Slim Tempo Tone
1396
[48]
"Locked Out Boogie" / "Shady Grove Blues" 1948 Leroy Foster Aristocrat
1234
[48]
"Big Town Playboy" / "Shelby County Blues" 1949 Little Johnny (Jones) Aristocrat
405
[48]
"Bad Acting Woman" / "Muskadine Blues (Take a Walk with Me)" 1950 Baby Face Leroy & Little Walter Regal
3296
[49]
"I Just Keep Loving Her" / "Moonshine Blues" 1950 Baby Face Leroy & Little Walter Parkway
502
[49]
"Boll Weevil" / "Red Headed Woman" 1950 Baby Face Leroy & Little Walter Parkway
104
[49]
"Rollin' and Tumblin'" Part 1 / "Rollin' and Tumblin'" Part 2 1950 Baby Face Leroy & Little Walter Parkway
501
[49]
"Going Away Baby" / "Today, Today Blues" 1950 Jimmy Rogers Chess
1442
[49]
"Juke" / "Can’t Hold Out Much Longer" 1952 Little Walter Checker
758
[49]
"The Last Time" / "Out on the Road" 1952 Jimmy Rogers Chess
1519
[49]
"Left Me with a Broken Heart" / "Act Like You Love Me" 1953 Jimmy Rogers Chess
1543
[50]
"Chicago Bound" / "Sloppy Drunk" 1954 Jimmy Rogers Chess
1574
[50]
"'Bout the Break of Day (Early in the Morning)" / "Lord Lord (Lawdy Lawdy)" 1954 Junior Wells States
139
[50]
"So All Alone (Baby So Long)" (Prison Bars all Around Me) / [t] 1954 Junior Wells States
143
[50]
"Blues All Day Long (Blues Leave Me Alone)" / [t] 1955 Jimmy Rogers Chess
1616
[50]
"Don't Start Me to Talkin'" / "All My Love in Vain" 1955 Sonny Boy Williamson II Checker
824
[50]
"Key to the Highway" / "Rock Bottom" 1958 Little Walter Checker
904
[52]
"—" denotes a release that did not chart

Notes

[edit]

Footnotes

  1. ^ In 1968, Electric Mud reached number 47 on the RPM chart (Canada).[20]
  2. ^ Koda places the Hard Again release date as May 1977.[23]
  3. ^ In 1969, Fathers and Sons reached number 70 on Billboard's 200 album chart.[21]
  4. ^ Dahl places the Live at Mr. Kelly's release date as June 1971.[25]
  5. ^ Billboard includes Muddy "Mississippi" Waters – Live on "New LP/Tape Releases" for week ending February 3, 1979.[28]
  6. ^ Also released as Live in 1958 by MW[30]
  7. ^ Koda places the Chess Box release date as March 1990.[23]
  8. ^ In 1988, "Mannish Boy" reached number 51 on the UK Singles Chart.[51]
  9. ^ Reissued as Chicago Blues Masters, Vol. 1: Muddy Waters and Memphis Slim (Capitol, 1995)
  10. ^ Reissued as Half Ain't Been Told (1980, Black Cat)
  11. ^ Koda places the Super Blues release date as November 1968.[23]
  12. ^ Reissued by Capitol in 1997
  13. ^ a b Some songs reissued on Mud in Your Ear (1973, Muse and others)
  14. ^ The album cover uses "Luther Georgia Boy Snake Johnson", while album reviewer Cub Koda identifies him as "Luther 'Snake Boy' Johnson".[72]
  15. ^ The album cover uses "Luther Johnson", while album reviewer Cub Koda identifies him as "Luther 'Snake Boy' Johnson".[72]
  16. ^ Billboard includes Nothin' but the Blues on "Album Radio Action" National Breakouts for the week ending June 29, 1977.[74]
  17. ^ Nothin' but the Blues reached number 146 on Billboard's 200 album chart.[75]
  18. ^ Reissued as I Wanna Come Home (2003, HighTone)
  19. ^ Billboard includes Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down on "Top Blues Albums" for the week ending June 30, 2007 (shows two weeks on chart).[82]
  20. ^ a b Muddy Waters does not perform on the B-side.

Citations

  1. ^ Herzhaft 1992, pp. 254–257.
  2. ^ Palmer, Robert (May 1, 1983). "Muddy Waters, Blues Performer, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved January 22, 2023.
  3. ^ Herzhaft 1992, pp. 435–478.
  4. ^ a b Wight & Rothwell 1991, pp. 26–53.
  5. ^ Chess 1989, pp. 26–27.
  6. ^ Gordon 2002, pp. 35–38.
  7. ^ a b c d e f Wight & Rothwell 1991, p. 37.
  8. ^ Chess 1989, p. 28.
  9. ^ Gordon 2002, pp. 100–101.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Whitburn 1988, p. 435.
  11. ^ Koda 1996, pp. 269–270.
  12. ^ Gordon 2002, p. 248.
  13. ^ Gordon 2002, pp. 255, 257, 262.
  14. ^ "Grammy Awards History – Muddy Waters". Grammy.com. Retrieved June 19, 2019.
  15. ^ Gordon 2002, pp. 295–296.
  16. ^ a b "Muddy Waters: Discography – Compilations". AllMusic. Retrieved April 6, 2016.
  17. ^ Dahl 1996, pp. 269–271.
  18. ^ Rolling Stone (September 22, 2020). "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
  19. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Chess 1989, p. 26.
  20. ^ "Top 50 Albums" (PDF). RPM. Vol. 10, no. 16. December 16, 1968 – via Collectionscanada.gc.ca.
  21. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Muddy Waters – Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
  22. ^ a b c d e f g h i Chess 1989, p. 27.
  23. ^ a b c d Koda 1996, p. 270.
  24. ^ Billboard (January 22, 1977). "Soul Sauce". Billboard. Vol. 89, no. 3. ISSN 0006-2510.
  25. ^ a b Dahl 1996, p. 270.
  26. ^ a b c Gordon 2002, p. 295.
  27. ^ Wight & Rothwell 1991, pp. 48–49.
  28. ^ a b Billboard (Feb 3, 1979). "New LP/Tape Releases". Billboard. Vol. 91, no. 5. p. 80. ISSN 0006-2510.
  29. ^ a b Wight & Rothwell 1991, p. 52.
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