Hi everyone, welcome to our Suggested Listening posting for this week!
Suggested Listening postings are published on Fridays; and our next Suggested Listening posting will be out on Friday, April 11, 2025.
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This week our musical spotlight is on a single musician, Muddy Waters, who was born Mckinley Morganfield on April 4, in Rolling Fork, Mississippi; there is some discrepancy over whether he was born in 1913 or 1915, although recent research suggested the 1913 date, is in fact the correct one; in any case, today is the anniversary of his birth.
He began playing guitar as a youth, was nicknamed “Muddy” by his grandmother as a child, moved to Chicago in 1943, became one of the pillars of the post-war electric blues scene, influencing countless other musicians and guitarists and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with its first class, in 1987.
To put it succinctly, his influence on blues, soul and rock & roll is incalculable!
For more information check out either of the following resources:
From PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/muddy-waters-cant-be-satisfied/730/
And from the site Mississippi Writers and Musicians:
https://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/mississippi-musicians/muddy-waters-mckinley-morganfield#bio
And here is a collection of classic Muddy Waters songs:
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Country Blues
From The Album: Down On Stovall’s Plantation (2004) (The 1941 Library of Congress Recordings)
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I’Be’s Troubled
From The Album: Down On Stovall’s Plantation (1966/2004) (The 1941 Library of Congress Recordings)
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I Just Want To Make Love To You
From The Album: The Best of Muddy Waters (1957) (Chess Records)
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I’m Ready
From The Album: The Best of Muddy Waters (1957) (Chess Records)
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Rolling Stone
From The Album: The Best of Muddy Waters (1957) (Chess Records)
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She Moves Me
From The Album: The Best of Muddy Waters (1957) (Chess Records)
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I Feel So Good
From The Album: Sings Big Bill Broonzy (1960)
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When I Get To Thinking (1960)
From The Album: Sings Big Bill Broonzy (1960)
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My Home Is In The Delta
From The Album: Folk Singer (1964)
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Hoopla Album of the Week
The Chess Box (1989) by Muddy Waters
And from the box set the song:
Louisiana Blues
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Have a great weekend,
Linda Reimer, SSCL
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Information on the four library catalogs
The Digital Catalog aka Libby: https://stls.overdrive.com/
The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, eAudiobooks, and digital magazines. You can use your library card and checkout content on a PC; you can also use the companion app, Libby, to access titles on your mobile devices; so you can enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks on the go!
All card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can check out items from the Digital Catalog.
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Hoopla Catalog: https://www.hoopladigital.com/
The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron check out limit is 10 items per month.
Hoopla is a Southeast Steuben County Library service available to all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders.
The Hoopla companion app, also called Hoopla is available for mobile devices, smart TVs & media streaming players.
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Kanopy Catalog: https://www.kanopy.com/en
The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.
The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!
You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).
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StarCat: The catalog of physical/traditional library materials: https://starcat.stls.org
Card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can access StarCat to search for and request materials available at libraries through out the Southern Tier Library System.
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