Muddy Waters was an American Blues Musician, in which was known by many as the “father of Modern Chicago blues”. In 1941 he recorded his first recording in his shack in Stovall, Mississippi when Alex Lomax came to him. In 1943, he moved to Chicago with the hopes of ‘making it big’ as a full-time professional musician. Muddy was deeply engrossed in the blues and was excellent at playing the harmonica, and later in his career he became a great electric guitar player.

One of the difficulties Muddy Waters faced in the 1950’s was being a black musician in the midst of the racial segregation era. White teenagers became increasingly interested in the rhythm and blues genre in the early 1950’s. This was an issue according to their parents as they sought that it could have many negative impacts on their children. They had the idea that black men were especially defiant, very sexually driven, and they had they were driven towards white women (Covach, John, and Andrew Flory, p. 70). Because of the segregation it was difficult for …show more content…
In the late 1940’s to early 1950’s, he had made it big enough to begin recoding with larger record labels such as RCA, Aristocrat, and Columbia records. In 1950 Aristocrat records became Chess Records in which Muddy had landed a deal with. While under aristocrat he received little recognition, once it had become Chess records his career had begun to take off (Muddy Waters Biography.com). In the mid to late 1950’s Muddy’s group had brought the electric sound to England making him an international start. After the tour in England, Muddy’s fan base began to grow and expand as it caught the eye of the Rock ‘n’ Roll listeners. It wasn’t until his performance at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival when he caught the attention of the new fan base that he hit his true key point that changed his career. This allowed Waters and his band the ability to adapt to the changing