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[band playing "blow wind blow"]
♪ Yeah, when the sun rose this morning ♪
♪ I didn't have my baby by my side ♪
♪ Yeah, when the sun rose this morning ♪
♪ I didn't have my baby by my side ♪
♪ Well, I didn't know where she was ♪
♪ She's out with another guy ♪
♪ Yeah, don't the sun look lonesome? ♪
♪ She headed down behind the trees, yeah ♪
♪ Yeah, don't the sun looks so lonesome? ♪
♪ She headed down behind the trees ♪
♪ Well, don't your heart look so lonesome ♪
♪ When your baby pack up to leave? ♪
Announcer: we asked muddy waters about doing
a tribute to his music.
Muddy just said, "never mind the tribute.
Invite a few of my friends in to play some blues."
Muddy's friends include two of the finest
young blues guitarists--
texas-born johnny winter
and a chicago product mike bloomfield.
Nick gravenites, another chicago-bred musician,
jumped at the chance,
as did drummer buddy miles.
Dr. john, the king of new orleans funk,
hopped a plane and came 2,000 miles
to play with his idol,
while junior wells, who started his career
with muddy in the fifties, asked just one question--
"what time do we start?"
Willie dixon, author of "hoochie coochie man"
and many other muddy waters hits, showed up,
as did koko taylor,
the girl who sang "*** dang doodle."
We finally had to draw the line,
or else every admiring musician in the land
would have fought for a spot on the stage.
The result is a product of the love and respect
that this amazingly talented group of musicians holds
for the man who helped create the big city blues--
muddy waters.
♪ Well, blow, wind, blow, wind ♪
♪ Blow my baby back to me ♪
♪ Yeah, blow, wind, blow, wind ♪
♪ Blow my baby back to me ♪
♪ Well, you know if I don't soon find her, pinetop ♪
♪ My heart's gonna be in misery ♪
♪ Yeah, good-bye, baby ♪
♪ I ain't got no more to say now ♪
♪ Well, good-bye, good-bye ♪
♪ I ain't got no more to say ♪
♪ Well, you know, I know you don't love me ♪
♪ Go ahead and have your way ♪
[playing up-tempo blues]
hi, johnny.
All right, boys.
Good to see you guys, man. What's happening?
How you doing, man?
Everything's smooth.
Hello, doc.
Oh, good.
Yeah. it's brother willie dixon.
Dixon: oh, the man himself.
Yes, sir. How are you?
Oh, golly. what a day.
Hi, muddy. How you doing?
Yeah!
Remember me-- the man with the money?
Yes, sir! Yes, sir.
Yeah. what's going on?
Oh, everything's beautiful.
Yeah. how you feeling?
Oh, I'm feeling fine.
That's great, that's great.
I may look a little tired, but I still feel good.
Oh, well, listen. The makeup man will take care of that.
[laughter]
well, you're looking great.
Thank you very much.
Dr. john: I brought you some little hoodoo things.
Well, I need it bad, boy.
My mojo--my mojo is slipping, doc.
I got some mojo hanging over here for you.
Before I go, let him hang it on me, baby.
I'm gonna hand this over, throw it on you
because I know it fits well,
it'll make you feel well.
Yeah, yeah.
I know you done got tired of being sick.
That's right, that's right.
See, the bag on with it.
You can put in what you want,
but all the rest is sitting in the bag.
Everything's smooth. Do have to put in whiskey in there with it?
Put anything you want.
If you want to wrap it in your dust all of that, you know.
Yeah, yeah.
That's up to you how you want to do it,
but, I mean, I just brought you the whole thing.
Well, this is out of sight.
It's been consecrated and got the blessing on it.
Miss "kanzanera" said to give that straight to you.
All right. thank you. Thank you very much.
Oh, no! Ha! Look at you.
How you doing?
Hey, baby. How you feeing?
Fine.
You're looking good.
You're looking good, too. Are feeling well?
I'm feeling pretty good.
Keeping up for an old man.
We'll, you're not that old.
Hello there.
What a beautiful girl.
This is koko taylor. Do y'all know koko taylor?
Koko taylor.
Of the singingest girls I know of.
How are you, johnny?
"*** dang doodle" girl.
That's right.
I just covered your tune.
Yeah, you sure did.
Remember, we worked together
at the ann arbor blues festival.
I was scared to do it on that gig
on account of you being there.
Where, the ann arbor?
Yeah, they know it.
Well, alongside of the originator,
I feel like a stone imitator.
[playing slow blues]
too many audiences do this.
You know them for the blues, but people just think,
"well, that's the blues."
The blues is all kind.
They got church blues,
they got the alley blues,
they got 8-bar blues, 12-bar blues.
Got the lady blues, too.
That's right. They got every kind
of blues you can name, they got a blues.
Happy blues, sad blues.
You name it, they got it,
and the blues entangle-- what ray charles said--
everybody understands the blues.
Winter: it's people music.
It ain't musician music.
You know, it don't make any difference
how fast you play it.
It just don't make no difference.
You might be a cat that don't know but two chords,
but he can put it across where it's like feeling,
you know, it's like life, you know, it's life.
Bloomfield: muddy had this guitar player georgia boy,
and he definitely wasn't no technical guitar player,
but he had that sound, man.
He had that twang, you know what I mean?
He could just take one string and stretch it the right way.
You just play something or sing something
that makes you feel, it makes you feel.
It's the whole thing about it is it's emotional music.
[applause]
gravenites: all right. Muddy waters.
Now if any of you have ever taken music lessons
when you were a kid and you had to practice
all week long and come back and play for the teacher,
well, you get an idea of what most
of the musicians that are gonna be coming up
tonight feel like tonight.
Now listen. You're gonna have
a fantastic blues jam happening
as the show goes on,
and there's no better way to start a fantastic blues jam
than with a fantastic blues harp.
Let's hear it for junior wells.
All right, junior.
All right. Muddy waters.
[playing "long distance call"]
♪ You said you love me, baby ♪
♪ Please call me on the phone sometime ♪
Mike bloomfield!
[applause]
♪ You said you love me, baby ♪
♪ Please call me on the phone sometime ♪
♪ When I hear your voice ♪
♪ You know, it ease my worried mind ♪
♪ One of these days ♪
♪ I'm gonna show you how nice a man can be ♪
♪ One of these days ♪
♪ I'm gonna show you how nice a man can be ♪
♪ I'm gonna buy you a brand-new cadillac ♪
♪ If you only speak some good words about me ♪
♪ You hear my phone keep ringin' ♪
♪ Sound like a long distance call ♪
♪ No, you hear my phone keep ringin', woman ♪
♪ You know, it sound like a long distance call ♪
♪ I picked up my receiver ♪
♪ The party said ♪
♪ "another mule is kickin' in your stall" ♪
Pinetop, well, you kill it!
[cheering and applause]
[cheering and applause]
♪ You hear my phone keep ringin' ♪
♪ Sound like a long distance call ♪
♪ No, you hear my phone keep ringin', woman ♪
♪ You know, it sound like a long distance call ♪
♪ I picked up my receiver ♪
♪ The party said ♪
♪ "there's another mule" ♪
[cheering and applause]
♪ Hey, now, people ♪
♪ I went down in my neighborhood one day ♪
♪ And I was talkin' to some friends of mine ♪
♪ And they all on the corner laughing at me ♪
♪ Said, "another mule" ♪
♪ After while, after while after while, after while ♪
♪ After while, I went back home ♪
♪ Like a good man should ♪
♪ I put my hands in my pocket ♪
♪ And got my key out and unlocked the door ♪
♪ And there stand my wife ♪
♪ She was crying ♪
♪ She said, "another mule" ♪
[laughter]
♪ The little girl, the little girl ♪
♪ The little girl was jumped up in the floor ♪
♪ And she pattin' her hands together ♪
♪ And--and the woman lookin' straight at me ♪
♪ And, and, and, and she was sayin' ♪
♪ And she was sayin' ♪
♪ And she was sayin' ♪
♪ She was sayin', she was sayin' ♪
♪ She was sayin', she was sayin' ♪
♪ She was sayin', she was sayin' ♪
♪ She was sayin', "muddy waters, another mule" ♪
♪ "is kickin' in your stall" ♪
Yeah!
Hey!
Beautiful, muddy.
Gravenites: all right. This is al radford on the bass.
He's gonna join us.
We're gonna let junior wells get even with him.
Wells: look out! 1, 2, you know what to do! Hey!
[playing "messin' with the kid"]
gravenites: ♪ What's this I hear ♪
♪ Goin' all around town? ♪
♪ Everybody here tryin' to put the kid down ♪
♪ Oh, lord ♪
♪ Hey, tell me what you did ♪
♪ You can call it what you want ♪
♪ But I call it messin' with the kid ♪
♪ Well, the kid don't jive ♪
♪ And the kid don't play ♪
♪ He says what he means, and he mean what he says ♪
♪ Oh, lord ♪
♪ Hey, look at what you did ♪
♪ You can call it what you want it ♪
♪ But I call it messin' with the kid ♪
All right!
Wells: ♪ She won't do this ♪
♪ She won't do that ♪
♪ Won't do nothin' till she know where it's at ♪
♪ Oh, lord ♪
♪ Girl, look at what you did ♪
♪ You can call it what you want ♪
♪ But I call it messin' with the kid ♪
♪ The kid don't jive ♪
♪ I don't play ♪
♪ I says what I mean, and I mean what I says ♪
♪ Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Oh, look at what you did ♪
♪ Come on ♪
♪ You can call it what you want it ♪
♪ I call it messin' with the ♪
♪ We're gonna take the kid's car ♪
♪ And drive around town ♪
♪ Tell everybody trying to put him down ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Oh, look at what you did ♪
♪ Come on ♪
♪ You can call it what you want ♪
♪ I call it messin' with the kid ♪
One more time, oh!
All right!
Yeah!
Wells: ♪ Gonna take the kid's car ♪
♪ And drive around town ♪
♪ Tell everybody trying to put him down ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Oh, look at what you did ♪
♪ Ha ha ♪
♪ You can call it what you want ♪
♪ I call it messin' with the ♪
One more.
Do it again.
Hey!
[cheering and applause]
ok. let's welcome dr. john! Ha ha!
[playing "stop breaking down"]
♪ Stop breaking down ♪
♪ Mama, please stop breaking down ♪
♪ Stop breaking down ♪
♪ Mama, please stop breaking down ♪
♪ Lord, I don't think you really, really love me ♪
♪ I think you just like the way my music sound ♪
♪ For 10 long years ♪
♪ Woman, you were my pride and joy ♪
♪ For 10 long years ♪
♪ Woman, you were my pride and joy ♪
♪ You got yourself another man, baby ♪
♪ Little girl, you think you're a prize now ♪
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
Dr. john, watch yourself.
Dr. john, do me a favor.
Would you make it funky so I can smell it?
Hit me.
All right.
Ahh!
Hit me, hit me.
Make it nasty now!
[bloomfield playing guitar solo]
all right.
♪ Stop breaking down ♪
[applause]
♪ Mama, please stop breaking down ♪
♪ Stop breaking down ♪
♪ Mama, please stop breaking down ♪
♪ I don't think you really, really love me ♪
♪ I think you just like the way my music sound ♪
[cheering]
dr john: all right! Yeah! Muddy waters!
All right now.
Thank you very much.
Buddy miles! Johnny winter!
Dr. john!
♪ Ohh, yeah ♪
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
♪ Everything, everything gonna be all right this morning ♪
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
♪ Whoo ♪
♪ Now when I was a young boy ♪
♪ At the age of 5 ♪
♪ My mother said I was gonna be ♪
♪ The greatest man alive ♪
♪ But now I'm a man ♪
♪ A-way past 21 ♪
♪ I want you to believe me, woman ♪
♪ I have lot's of fun ♪
♪ I'm a man ♪
♪ I spell mmm ♪
♪ Aaa, child ♪
♪ Nnn ♪
♪ That represents man ♪
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
♪ No b ♪
♪ O, child ♪
♪ That mean mannish boy ♪
♪ I'm a man ♪
♪ I'm a full grown man ♪
♪ I'm a man ♪
♪ I'm a natural born lovers' man ♪
♪ I'm a man ♪
♪ I'm a rollin' stone ♪
♪ I'm a man ♪
♪ I'm a hoochie coochie man ♪
♪ Sittin' on the outside ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Just me and my mate ♪
♪ You know I'm made the moon, honey ♪
♪ Come up two hours late ♪
♪ Wasn't that a man? ♪
♪ I spell mmm ♪
♪ Aaa, child ♪
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
♪ Nnn ♪
♪ Ow ♪
♪ That represents man ♪
♪ No b ♪
♪ O, child ♪
♪ That mean mannish boy ♪
♪ I'm a man ♪
♪ I'm a full grown man ♪
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
♪ Man ♪
♪ I'm a natural born lovers' man ♪
♪ Man ♪
♪ Ohh ♪
♪ I'm a hoochie coochie man ♪
♪ The line I shoot ♪
♪ Will never miss ♪
♪ When I make love to a girl ♪
♪ She can't resist ♪
♪ I think I'll go down ♪
♪ To old kansas stew ♪
♪ I'm gonna bring back the second cousin ♪
♪ That little johnny concheroo ♪
♪ All you little girls ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Sittin' out at that line ♪
♪ I can make love to you, girl ♪
♪ In five minutes' time ♪
♪ Ain't that a man? ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ I spell mmm ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Aaa ♪
♪ Well ♪
♪ Nnn ♪
♪ That represents I'm grown ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ No b ♪
♪ O, child ♪
♪ Y ♪
♪ That mean mannish boy ♪
♪ Man ♪
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
♪ I'm a full grown man ♪
♪ Man ♪
♪ I'm a natural born lovers' man ♪
♪ Man ♪
♪ I'm a rollin' stone ♪
♪ I'm a man-child ♪
♪ I'm a hoochie coochie man ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Hey, yeah ♪
♪ Hey, yeah ♪
♪ Come on now ♪
♪ Ahhhh ♪
♪ Ahhhhhhh ♪
♪ Hey ♪
♪ Hey, hey ♪
♪ Well, hey ♪
Thank you very much!
Willie dixon, koko taylor,
phil guy-- buddy guy's brother!
Willie dixon!
[playing "*** dang doodle"]
all right!
♪ Tell automatic slim ♪
♪ Tell razor totin' jim ♪
♪ Tell butcher knife totin' annie ♪
♪ Tell fast talking *** ♪
♪ A we gonna pitch a ball ♪
♪ Down to that union hall ♪
♪ We gonna romp and tromp till midnight ♪
♪ We gonna fuss and fight till daylight ♪
♪ We gonna pitch a *** dang doodle ♪
♪ All night long ♪
♪ All night long ♪
♪ All night long ♪
♪ All night long ♪
♪ All night long ♪
♪ All night long ♪
♪ We gonna pitch a *** dang doodle ♪
♪ All night long ♪
♪ Tell kudu-crawlin' red ♪
♪ Tell abyssinian ned ♪
♪ Tell ol' pistol pete ♪
♪ Tell everybody you meet ♪
♪ Tonight we need no rest ♪
♪ We gonna really throw a mess ♪
♪ We gonna to knock down all of the windows ♪
♪ We gonna kick down all the doors ♪
♪ We gonna pitch a *** dang doodle ♪
♪ All night long ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ All night long ♪
♪ All night long ♪
♪ All night long ♪
♪ All night long ♪
♪ We gonna pitch a *** dang doodle ♪
♪ All night long ♪
♪ All night long ♪
♪ All night long ♪
♪ All night long ♪
♪ All night long ♪
♪ We gonna pitch a *** dang doodle ♪
♪ All night long ♪
[cheering and applause]
taylor: oh, yeah! That's it!
Yeah!
Winter: yeah. we're really glad to be here tonight.
We'd like to do a little shuffle for you.
This is one that muddy made famous,
and I wish I could sing it a tenth as good as he can,
but I'm gonna give it a try.
This is for you, muddy.
It's called "walking through the park."
[applause]
1, 2,
1, 2, 3, 4.
♪ I'm goin' out walkin' ♪
♪ Walking down through the park ♪
♪ I'm goin' out walkin' ♪
♪ Walking down through the park ♪
♪ I'm gonna walk till it's midnight ♪
♪ Walk until the night gets dark ♪
♪ Don't bother my baby ♪
♪ No tellin' what she'll do ♪
♪ Don't bother my baby ♪
♪ No tellin' what she'll do ♪
♪ The girl, she might cut you ♪
♪ She might shoot you, too ♪
♪ I'm goin' out walkin' ♪
♪ Walkin' down on the street ♪
♪ I'm goin' out walkin' ♪
♪ Walkin' down on the street ♪
♪ Gonna walk right beside of her ♪
♪ Because i-i know she can't be beat ♪
Get it, junior, get it!
♪ Don't bother my baby ♪
♪ No tellin' what she'll do ♪
♪ Don't bother my baby ♪
♪ No tellin' what she'll do ♪
♪ You know, the girl might cut you ♪
♪ Well, she might shoot you, too ♪
Get it on, john! Get on, man, go!
♪ I'm goin' out walkin' ♪
♪ Walkin' down through the park ♪
♪ I'm goin' out walkin' ♪
♪ Walkin' down through the park ♪
♪ I'm gonna walk till it's midnight ♪
♪ Walk until the night gets dark ♪
Whoo!
[playing "hoochie coochie man"]
[low volume] ♪ The gypsy woman told my mother ♪
What?
[normal volume] ♪ Before I was born ♪
♪ "you got a boy child's coming" ♪
♪ "gonna be a son of a gun" ♪
♪ "gonna make pretty womens" ♪
♪ "jump and shout" ♪
♪ "then the world want to know" ♪
♪ "what this all about" ♪
♪ But you know I'm him ♪
♪ Everybody knows I'm him ♪
Willie dixon! Willie dixon!
♪ Well, you know I'm the hoochie coochie man ♪
♪ Everybody knows I'm him ♪
How you feel?
I feel good right now.
♪ On the seventh hour ♪
♪ On the seventh day ♪
♪ On the seventh month ♪
What happened?
♪ The seventh doctor said ♪
♪ "he was born for good luck" ♪
♪ "and I know you'll see" ♪
Yeah!
♪ I got 700 fans ♪
Yeah!
♪ Don't you mess with me ♪
♪ You know I'm him ♪
Yeah!
♪ Everybody knows I'm him ♪
♪ Well, I'm the hoochie coochie man ♪
♪ Everybody knows that I'm him ♪
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ I got a black cat bone ♪
♪ I got a mojo, too ♪
♪ I got the johnny concheroo ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ I'm gonna mess with you ♪
♪ Sure enough ♪
♪ I'm gonna make you girls ♪
♪ Lead me by my hand ♪
♪ So what? ♪
♪ Then the world will know ♪
♪ That I'm the hoochie coochie man ♪
♪ But you know I'm him ♪
♪ Everybody knows I'm him ♪
♪ Well, you know I'm the hoochie coochie man ♪
♪ Everybody knows I'm him ♪
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ Everybody do ♪
[playing softer]
all right, all right.
Lay it on me, man.
[band playing louder]
♪ Well, I'm the hoochie coochie man ♪
♪ The whole wide world know I'm him ♪
Willie dixon!
He wrote the song, and I recorded it.
Willie dixon!
Dr. john: right now, I'd like to do a song
in the key of "d" natural
made famous by mr. muddy waters,
one of my really idols in my life,
and he always will be my idol in my life,
and this song called "sugar sweet"
in the key of "d."
"d" for dog and "d" for dinky do.
♪ I want to tell about my baby ♪
♪ Speak of her with pride ♪
♪ She go out of the way to make me satisfied ♪
♪ She's my baby ♪
♪ She's my baby, what a treat ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ You know that I can't call her sugar ♪
♪ Sugar never was so sweet ♪
♪ You know, she manicure my nails ♪
♪ Bring breakfast to my bed ♪
♪ Uh-huh ♪
♪ Get up in the morning ♪
♪ With a rag tied around her head ♪
♪ You know, she's my baby ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ She's my baby, now what a treat ♪
♪ Hey ♪
♪ You know that I can't call her sugar, mama ♪
♪ Sugar never was so sweet ♪
♪ Aw, say your business ♪
♪ Come over in the morning ♪
♪ Stayed out all night long ♪
♪ Put that loving on me ♪
♪ Till my loving, yeah, be gone ♪
♪ She's my baby ♪
♪ You know, she's my baby, now what a treat ♪
♪ Aw, now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Hey, hey ♪
♪ Well, I can't call her sugar ♪
♪ Sugar never was so sweet ♪
♪ Late up in the evening ♪
♪ Loving all around ♪
♪ Ain't got no respite ♪
♪ Now, you know, sweetie been around ♪
♪ But, uh, she's my baby ♪
♪ She's my little baby, now what a treat ♪
♪ Hey, yeah ♪
♪ And I won't say I can't call her sugar ♪
♪ Sugar never was so sweet ♪
Oh, do it on out.
Go, michael.
♪ Sugar never was ♪
All right.
Miles: yeah! Yeah!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
[playing "got my mojo working"]
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ But it just don't work on you ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ But it just don't work on you ♪
♪ I want to love you so bad ♪
♪ Till I don't know what to do ♪
♪ I'm going down to louisiana ♪
♪ To get me a mojo hand ♪
♪ I'm going down to louisiana ♪
♪ To get me a mojo hand ♪
♪ I'm gonna have all you women ♪
♪ Right here at my command ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ But it just don't work on you ♪
Lay it on me!
Yeah!
♪ I got a gypsy woman ♪
♪ Giving me advice ♪
♪ I got a gypsy woman ♪
♪ Giving me advice ♪
♪ I got a whole lot of tricks, honey ♪
♪ Keeping on ice ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my bbblll working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ But it just don't work on you ♪
Lay it on me!
Miles: everybody, stand up!
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ But it just don't work on you ♪
♪ Well, all right ♪
[cheering]
go, winter!
Yeah! Yeah!
Yeah!
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my bbblll working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ Got my mojo working ♪
♪ But it just don't work on you ♪
Announcer: production funding provided
by public television stations,
the ford foundation,
and the corporation for public broadcasting.