The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #68538   Message #1154900
Posted By: GUEST,Steve Latimer
05-Apr-04 - 11:27 AM
Thread Name: Happy Birthday, Muddy Waters
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Muddy Waters
Amos,

Muddy was something else. One of my regrets in life was not ever seeing him perform live. I have a bunch of his CD's, the studio ones are very good, but there was just such an energy to his live stuff that was never captured in the studio. He also seemed like a very nice man. I am really glad that Johnny Winter revived his career in the late seventies when he produced "Hard Again". It brought Muddy back into the limelight that he so deserved.

And lest we forget Martin Luther King. There is still hate and intolerance in our world, but I feel that there is much less of it and Dr. King was one of the main reasons for it. "I have a dream..."