You young people don't often appreciate the blues. Muddy Waters in not often thought as a guitar hero. He was no speed demon. As a result his playing is more than not, overlooked, especially by the younger audience. His playing has even been called "simple" and "basic".
Well if it's so simple,so basic, how come guitarists as virtuosic as Eric Clapton have been unable to duplicate it convincingly?
When Muddy is playing, everything sounds like him. When Clapton and others play the same licks, they sound like Muddy Waters imitators.
Muddy Waters The Chess Box(Chess/MCA 1989)
The is music geater than the sum of it's parts.
Guitar Slim:Sufferin'Mind(Specialty,1991)
The reason being:Hendrix covered "The Thing That I Used To Do"
John Mayall with Eric Clapton Blues Breakers(London,1965)
The album was one of the among first significant blues purist statement from young white performers. and also one of first the "big musician's" album of the sixties but largely ignored by pop fans but a source of much bonding among players as they passed the word of Slowhand's brilliance.