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Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied

  • Episode aired Apr 23, 2003
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  • 51m
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Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied (2003)
Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied
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Muddy Waters is the archetypal blues-man. He was raised as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta, where he learned to play an acoustic guitar. He went to Chicago in 1943, and the band he a... Read allMuddy Waters is the archetypal blues-man. He was raised as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta, where he learned to play an acoustic guitar. He went to Chicago in 1943, and the band he assembled established the electric blues sound.Muddy Waters is the archetypal blues-man. He was raised as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta, where he learned to play an acoustic guitar. He went to Chicago in 1943, and the band he assembled established the electric blues sound.

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    8jaybo_12

    good for an introduction to the man and his music.

    -I would have liked more information on the following things. a. Muddy's methods of songwriting i.e. written or unwritten-improvisation? b. Did Muddy ever get any type of training on the guitar? c. Did Muddy's innovation of big blues sound catch on right away?

    -I am a man who studies feminist theory and am very appreciative of some of feminist history. I don't make it a habit of pointing out what films are sexist, and I definitely would not say that this particular film was. However, while watching "Muddy Waters: can't be satisfied" I heard someone mention a term that struck me as peculiar.

    "He was a 'womanizer'," they said. For this to be true, one should evaluate the meaning of the word, why it is used, and how it is used. "Sterilize" references a process of becoming sterile. Does the term "womanize" refer to a process of becoming a woman?

    -The music is terrific.

    -Keith Richards must have always been under the influence.

    -The outtakes are actually somewhat worthwhile.

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