Muddy, Michael Mahin
Muddy, Michael Mahin
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Muddy
The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters

Author: Michael Mahin

Narrator: Damany Jackson

Unabridged: 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/10/2018

Synopsis

Muddy Waters was never good at doing what he was told. When Grandma Della said the blues wouldn't put food on the table, Muddy didn't listen. And when record producers told him that no one wanted to listen to a country boy playing country blues, Muddy ignored them as well. This tenacious streak carried Muddy from the hardscrabble fields of Mississippi to the smoky juke joints of Chicago and finally to a recording studio where a landmark record was made. Soon the world fell in love with the tough spirit of Muddy Waters. In blues-infused prose and soulful illustrations, Michael Mahin and award-winning artist Evan Turk tell Muddy's fascinating and inspiring story of struggle, determination, and hope.

About Michael Mahin

Michael Mahin has loved music ever since his grandmother gave him his first piano lesson at the age of five. Inspired by people like Muddy Waters who, despite great suffering, have found the courage to be themselves in a world that wants them to be something else, he writes books that he hopes inspire kids to do the same. He lives with his family in San Diego, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave

A picturebook biography of Muddy Waters, who came north to Chicago from the Mississippi Delta to help define the city's blues tradition. In Chicago, the city's music people wanted him to be jazzier, but he kept that muddy Mississippi waters in his sound. "I can't Be Satisfied": [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Karen

A corrective to the question asked by the Beatles upon their arrival in the US, "Don't you know your own famous people?" This is a children's picture book biography of Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield), one of the progenitors of modern American music. Evan Turk's Illustrations are gorgeous and dra......more

Goodreads review by Mississippi Library

Muddy is amazing! The illustrations pop--they're unique and gorgeous and utterly awesome. The text is lovely too--rhythmic and inspiring and lyrical. This picture book biography, a perfect introduction to Muddy Waters, also manages to impart the lesson of being true to yourself. Highly recommended.......more

Goodreads review by Laura

I am going to have to come back later to form words for this title. Right night all I can say is it is simply glorious. The story and the illustrations. There is no illustrator today quite like Evan Turk. In a perfect world his name would be as popular and widely known as Mo Willems. Different art t......more

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