Blues Presentation By Julian Meekins

Influential Blues Artists

Muddy waters

Here are some facts about my Blues artist’s life:

● born April 4, 1913?, near Rolling Fork, Mississippi died April 30, 1983

● People often just referred to him as “The Mud” ● Is #17 on the Rolling stones top 100 artists of all time ● Got his name from playing in his local creek as a boy ● Is famous for helping create the Chicago blues and the

Mississippi Delta blues with the use of the electric guitar.

● Was worth around 13 million in today's money

Here is an audio sample of the music and my Music Element analysis:

● Timbre - Piano, drums, electric guitars ● Melody - muddy uses his voice to sing the melody ● Harmony - the harmonica and electric guitar ● Rhythm - the rhythm of the song is pretty slow and relaxed. It’s also in

stop-time musical arrangement ● Tempo - I determined the tempo is around 75 bpm (Adante) ● Dynamics - Mezzo forte(moderately loud) ● Form - AABA

My thoughts/feelings about the artist, their song and Blues in general:

Muddy waters was one of the most outstanding artist from his time and had one of the greatests influences on the incorporation of electric guitar in blues and had a major impact the post-world war 2 electric blues scene