muddy water's mannish boy

late in my high school period i fell in with the “fringe-players”. the artsies, the thinkers. this was a special sort of acceptance for me as until then i had pretty much figured i was on my own. nope. not so. to my great joy, i found out that there were others who loved poetry, art, writing, reading, music, and being absolutely and utterly themselves in a crowd of suburban nouveau riche conformists. no hard feelings exist in me about that awful period oh no!!!!

so in the middle of that was one guy whose name was art, i kid you not(!), and he cracked me open to the blues. sonny terry, the delta blues, blind lemon jefferson, and the mid-to-late sixties british blues musicians who turned into rock behemoths like the stones, and zeppelin and pink floyd.

in the middle of all of this was muddy waters. in the middle of muddy waters was the song ”mannish boy”. mannish boy was written by one ellas mcdaniel (a.k.a. bo diddley), mel london, and the final credit goes to mckinley morganfield (a.k.a muddy waters).




muddy waters died in 1983 but his legend lives on in part through the work of the people who maintain his website.