Muddy Waters - Can't Be Satisfied

Born McKinley Morganfield in rural Mississippi, Muddy Waters literally electrified the local blues sound, took it to Chicago and became the undisputed King of the Blues. His story is both iconic and idiosyncratic--a fieldhand, a bootlegger and a sometimes musician, he personifies the 20th century African American migration from the rural south to the urban north.

Songs like Hoochie Coochie Man, I Just Want To Make Love To You, Still A Fool and Rolling Stone speak for both a people and an era--Rolling Stone inspired a band and a magazine. Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Eric Clapton, among others, kept Muddy in the popular pantheon, openly embracing the elements that Muddy exemplified--an unflinching honesty and an insistence on deep emotion in music.