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

Author: Gordon, RobertBrand: Back Bay BooksEdition: ReprintBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 448Release Date: 01-06-2003Part Number: 9780316164948Details: Product Description Muddy Waters invented electric blues and created the template for the rock and roll band and its wild lifestyle. Gordon excavates Muddy's mysterious past and early career, taking us from Mississippi fields to postwar Chicago street corners. Review "A brisk account of Waters's journey from the cotton fields of Mississippi to the clubs of Chicago and beyond.... With this entertaining and important book, Robert Gordon has made sure that future generations will never forget the original rolling stone." "Likely to be the definitive treatment of perhaps the genre's definitive artist, a work of musical biography and history that should have the same durability and relevance that Peter Guralnick's treatments of Elvis Presley have had." "Men don't come more masculine than Muddy Waters.... Gordon, whose crisp writt