Can't Be Satisfied The Life And Times of Muddy Waters

Details how McKinley Morganfield, aka Muddy Waters, invented electric blues & created the template for the rock-&-roll band & its wild lifestyle. Alan Lomax, & his recordings of Muddy -- the first ever made -- rocketed him from farmhand to musical legend. In this first biography of Muddy Waters, Gordon excavates Muddy's mysterious past & early career, taking us from Mississippi cotton fields to postwar Chicago street corners. We meet the men & women who surrounded Muddy as his his style evolved. We get a primer on blues, including an introduction to the other essential musicians who shaped this bedrock of modern culture. Gordon evokes the creative process & takes us in the studio & on the road with Muddy's band as they drive across the South. Photos.Gordon, Robert is the author of 'Can't Be Satisfied The Life And Times of Muddy Waters', published 2002 under ISBN 9780756786182 and ISBN 0756786185.