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Offers an authoritative biography of the father of modern blues, detailing his turbulent life from the cotton fields of rural Mississippi to his extraordinary rise to success that forever changed the music industry.
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“A biography that crackles with as much energy as the great bluesman’s songs.” —Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix The epic, rollicking, up-and-down life of Muddy Waters—who went from Mississippi farmhand to musical legend, invented electric blues, and created the template for the rock-and- roll band and its wild lifestyle—is chronicled with rare vividness in Robert Gordon’s widely praised biography.
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