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

If you are a blues fan then Muddy Waters’ name and legacy are easily recognizable. He brought the Mississippi Delta sound to Chicago, electrified it and redefined the genre. Two young British musicians, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, lifted the name of one of Muddy’s songs when they named their new......more

One of the best music biographies I've ever read. More than just the story of one of the most influential figures in the history of popular music, this is the story of the blues. Gordon traces Waters from his days as a Mississippi sharecropper, to nights spent playing at fish frys in plantation juk......more

I watched / listened to You Tube Muddy Waters videos as I read this book. What an eye opening experience.......more

The Chicago suburbs where I grew up are a long way from the Mississippi Delta. The north suburbs are also in a parallel universe far from the south side of what has been called the most segregated city in America. The country blues of the Deep South played primarily on acoustic instruments came nort......more

The first book I can remember reading, in the 1950s, was a young adult biography of John Paul Jones. That doesn’t mean I love biographies. Honestly, I don’t read them much. My taste in history runs to chronologies, regional and epochal frames of reference, les longues durées of the French Annalistes….......more