Live So God Can Use You

- Muddy Waters

Tom Feldmann - National Reso-Phonic guitar/vocals
Paul Liebenow - Upright Bass
Jed Staack - Drums

Lyrics

Why don't you live so, God can use you, anywhere, anytime
Why don't you live so, God can use you, anywhere, anytime

Why don't you talk so, God can use you, anywhere, anytime
Why don't you talk so, God can use you, anywhere, anytime

Why don't you moan so, God can use you, anywhere, anytime
Why don't you moan so, God can use you, anywhere, anytime

Why don't you live so, God can use you, anywhere, anytime

Why don't you live so, God can use you, anywhere, anytime

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Born McKinley Morganfield in Issaquena County, Mississippi in 1913 or 1914 or 1915, depending on who's telling the story. His fondness for playing in mud earned him the nickname "Muddy" at an early age, which he later changed to Muddy Waters.

By the age of seventeen he was playing the guitar at parties emulating Son House and Robert Johnson. He moved to Chicago in 1940 and returned to Mississippi one year later.

In 1941 folklorist Alan Lomax arrived in Mississippi to record various country blues musicians for the Library of Congress, Muddy was one of the musicians. Lomax returned again in 1942 and the sessions have been compiled on the The Complete Plantation Recordings release

These historic field recordings contain Muddy's earliest recorded works, some previously unreleased material, 4 interviews and several rare photos.

In 1943, Muddy moved back to Chicago. He got his first electric guitar in 1945, recorded for Columbia in 1946 and later that year for Chess. In 1948 Muddy's tunes,"I Can't Be Satisfied", "I Feel Like Going Home" and "Rolling Stone" became big hits and the rest is history.

Muddy Waters died in his sleep at his home in Westmont, Illinois on April 30, 1983 .

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