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Down on Stovall's Plantation Very special document from 1966, recorded in 1941 - 1943 Blues researchers Alan Lomax and John Work were in 1941 in Mississippi delta looking for the legend Robert Johnson to make recordings. He turned out to have died in 1938, but people knew where the best blues player in the area lived, that was at Stovall's Pantation. In a house there they found Muddy Waters who Robert had seen but had never dared to approach him. There was something of the devil around the man, according to Muddy. Muddy had played a lot with Son House, Robert's mentor, from whom he learned the slide / bottleneck technique. They then made recordings of Muddy with their mobile recorder. When listening back, a sense of pride came over Muddy who had never heard himself like this before. In 1943 McKinley Morganfield boarded the train to Chicago confidently. Within a few years, Muddy would prove the link between the old Mississippi blues and the electrically amplified big city blues. With Jimmy Rogers and Little Walter in his Combo he laid the foundation for that typical Guitar / Harmonica-driven Chicago blues style between 1947 - 1952.
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