The album was re-issued in 1993 on Chess Records as “The Complete Plantation Recordings”. These recordings were issued as “Down on Stovall’s Plantation” on Testament Records. He then resolves to become a full-time musician. Muddy later receives $20 and two copies of his recording.
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In 1941 Alan Lomax, a folklorist in the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, and John Work, a professor in the music department at Fisk University, traveled to Clarksdale to record ‘The musical habits of a single Negro community in the Delta.” Lomax, initially looking for the legendary Robert Johnson (whom he found out had died) was directed to Muddy and recorded Muddy’s classic Delta country blues songs “I Feel Like Going Home” and “I Can’t Be Satisfied.” At his home in Stovall. After a few months of failing to get work as a musician, Muddy returned to Stovall. He met up with Henry Townsend, a Mississippi-born musician who played open-tuned slide guitar, and who is a key figure in the St. He knew of blues artists based there, such as Lonnie Johnson, and Roosevelt Sykes, many of whose records he owned. Muddy often partnered with his friend Mose “Brownie” Emerson on house parties, charging a nickel entry fee and providing live entertainment and moonshine till dawn. A well-regarded tractor driver, Muddy supplemented his field work by fur trapping and selling moonshine whiskey. Muddy began to play bottleneck slide guitar at dances and picnics., in juke joints and at rent parties around Clarksdale, often with fiddler Henry “Son” Sims. As a teenager, he saw local legend Son House perform and bought a guitar. Muddy started working in cotton fields at the age of eight. Muddy’s grandmother settled with the three-year old Muddy on Stovall Plantation outside Clarksdale, the largest town in the Delta and a magnet for blues musicians such as Charley Patton and Robert Johnson. Muddy did not see his father for many years. His grandmother, Della Grant, then took him to Clarksdale, where she had family. His mother, Berta Grant, died when Muddy was very young. Ollie was also an accomplished blues musician in both singing and playing guitar. Muddy’s father, Ollie Morganfield, was a ‘muleskinner’, meaning he hauled logs from cleared land. His grandmother called him “Muddy” from his habit of playing in mud puddles… Years later, on becoming a musician, the “Waters” part of his name would be added. McKinley Morganfield was born on Apnear Rolling Fork in the Mississippi Delta.
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