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Title: Muddy Waters – Muddy Waters
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1958, R&B, Chicago Blues, Chicago, Illinois
Matrix #: CHESS 2ACMB
Condition: VG+

Cultural Facts:

1. Scene Ecology: A central architect of postwar Chicago blues, built in the Chess studio ecosystem where Southern migrants turned hard work, noise, and city life into a new electric language.

2. Media Narrative: Later blues revivals sometimes tried to freeze him as “authentic folk,” even though he was always modern and commercial, playing for pay and adapting to survive.

3. Personal Struggle: Born into Mississippi poverty, he worked plantations and lived through Jim Crow violence, then rebuilt his life by moving north and grinding through clubs before the money ever showed.

3/18/26 LM