78 RPM - McKinley Morganfield - I Be's Troubled / Country Blues - The Library Of Congress - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	McKinley Morganfield
Label:	The Library Of Congress
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	AAFS 18
Date:	1942
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns, 2 Want
Price Guide:	$315
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$315

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	McKinley Morganfield	I Be's Troubled		Rate
B	McKinley Morganfield	Country Blues		Rate

Notes

From the Archive of American Folk Song

A mx: LC 1; B mx: LC 1 A.
Recorded in Stovall, MS, c. August 28-31, 1941.

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xiphophilos 9th May 2020		And he probably knew Robert Johnson's playing through his records. That's why I say it's stupid to paint him as a hick who had never seen records before.



Mike Gann 9th May 2020		I've never read any account of Muddy Waters owning a juke parlor. He was influenced by Robert Johnson (whom he had never met), and Son House, (a man he knew personally, since they were both from the Clarksdale area)



xiphophilos 9th May 2020		Then Pratt's bio does not even have its facts right. Muddy didn't own a juke box parlor. Here are Muddy's own recollections of Lomax' first recordings of him, from the Wikipedia entry: "He brought his stuff down and recorded me right in my house," Muddy recalled for Rolling Stone magazine, "and when he played back the first song I sounded just like anybody's records. Man, you don't know how I felt that Saturday afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice. Later on he sent me two copies of the pressing and a check for twenty bucks, and I carried that record up to the corner and put it on the jukebox. Just played it and played it and said, 'I can do it, I can do it.'"[quoted from Robert Palmer, "Muddy Waters: The Delta Son Never Sets," Rolling Stone (October 5, 1978): 55.] That again sounds as if Muddy was simply proud of his achievement and took the recording as a confirmation that he could make it as a professional musician.



Mike Gann 8th May 2020		Muddy Waters was a tractor driver on the Stovall plantation located on the outskirts of Clarksdale, MS. I had the pleasure of visiting his home place a few years ago.



xiphophilos 8th May 2020		I removed the excerpt from Jimmy Pratt's biography of Muddy Waters that had been copied into the Notes field. If you have to copy someone else's work, at least give that person due credit! I've provided a link to Pratt's entire bio above. The bio seems informative overall, but also presents Muddy Waters like an uncivilized savage who can't believe that it is his own voice that he is hearing on the record. What's amazes me is that someone who apparently admires Muddy Waters' work still spreads such racist garbage about him. It's not as if Muddy Waters had never seen records before Alan Lomax recorded him. In fact, the bio says he owned a juke box parlor in Stowall, Mississippi, at the time.[not actually true, see above!] Of course, Waters played his own record again and again. He must have been really proud of that performance, and why shouldn't he have been?



Fokeman 8th May 2020		Great! On that basis the release date is 1942 and we can put the recording details in the notes.



Mike Gann 8th May 2020		Recorded in Stovall, MS. c. August 28-31, 1941. So yes, that would be the recording date and not the release date.



Fokeman 8th May 2020		Given the date of the other similar issues, I suspect that this is the recording date rather than the issue date of this record. I doubt he could be recorded and then issued so quickly where records with quite significantly earlier catalogue numbers were issued the following year... It's therefore my assertion that this was issued in 1942.



BigBadBluesMan 27th Feb 2015



BigBadBluesMan 27th Feb 2015



Joehilllouis SUBS 15th Feb 2013		The Stones on a nice version of Can't be satisfied (I be Troubled)

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