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MUD MORGANFIELD - DEEP MUD
RELEASE DATE SEPTEMBER 26, 2025. ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!
The eldest son of Muddy Waters continues the great tradition of electric Chicago Blues in this set of 12 originals and two Chess-era Muddy revivals. The eldest son of the immortal Muddy Waters, Mud has followed in his beloved dad's mammoth footsteps, staunchly keeping the traditional Chicago blues flame alight by faithfully singing Muddy's songs as well as plenty of his own originals in front of an all-star band of local heavy-hitters. He sauntered onto the main stage at the 2025 Chicago Blues Festival to belt his father's "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" as one of the main cogs in a gala celebration of Chess Records' 75th anniversary, looking and sounding every bit the heir to Muddy's gilded throne.
Everything in Mud's musical life traces directly back to his father. "Dad played the most important role with my being. He shared an affair with my mother, and they had me!" he says. "I was born in the blues, man. I used to have to tap music on the side of my head before I went to sleep. I've had music running through my being all my life, since I've been here."
As Mud grew up, his father was there to help his offspring in any and all of his musical endeavors. "I started out as a drummer," says Mud. "I'd get a set of drums from Dad--first the little paper ones. I had to let this music out some way. Then I would tear them up, and then a couple of weeks later he'd get me another pair. And he finally got me a real set with some tougher skins. You know, just starting off an amateur, I would bust the snare on that. And one day, when I was about 16 years old, I went to an Earth, Wind & Fire concert and saw Verdine White playing bass, and that did it. I put the drums down, and I've been playing the bass secretly at least 30-something years now.
Mud didn't emerge musically until the 2000s when veteran blues chanteuse Mary Lane gave him some of his earliest showcases on the West Side. His debut album was released in 2008. A three-time Blues Music Award nominee, his 2014 Severn Records release in collaboration with harmonica ace Kim Wilson, 'For Pops-A Tribute to Muddy Waters,' earned him the coveted award.
- Bring Me My Whiskey
- Big Frame Woman
- Strange Woman
- Don't Leave Me
- She's Getting Her Groove On
- Ernestine
- Strike Like Lightning
- Cosigner Man
- Lover Man
- In and Out of My Life
- The Man That You're With
- Carolina
- Country Boy
- A Dream Walking
MUD MORGANFIELD
Deep Mud
Nola Blue Records
On his Facebook page, Mud Morganfield dedicates this album to his recently passed mother. Although Muddy Waters was his father, he saw little of him and certainly any similarities in his vocals are genetically generated. This is his sixth album. It contains two of his father’s songs “Country Boy” and “Strange Woman.” Other songs cover a surprisingly varied style and have a more modern sound by blues standards than one might expect.
Recorded at Joyride Studio in Chicago, the album was produced and arranged by Studebaker John. Himself a veteran Chicago blues artist, he’s the son of an Italian plumber who began hanging out on Chicago’s Maxwell Street as a kid where he learned from such hardcore Chicago blues artists as Hound Dog Taylor and J. B. Hutto. Two of his albums are covers of British invasion blues rockers The Yardbirds and The Pretty Things. John’s mentor was Hound Dog Taylor.
An amazingly interesting choice to produce the songs of Chicago’s most famous blues artist, Studebaker John has the flash to match Morganfield, and I can only imagine what their recording sessions were like. While Muddy drove Cadillacs, Studebaker John has long owned a Studebaker Avanti.
If you’ve listened to any of Mud’s former albums, you know that he has his own voice that he applies here to 14 songs that take the South Side sounds of a father who defined that postwar genre.
In the liner notes by veteran Chicago blues journalist Bill Dahl he quotes Mud saying, “Listen, man. It is Chicago blues. None of that rock-blues. No rock-blues here for Mud. I talk and sing about real things, real live people, real situations, things people go through from falling in love to beautiful women. So, it’s real Chicago blues at its best. They ain’t trying to do that no more, but that’s what it is.”
On a recent Facebook entry Mud writes “Thanks Sallie Bengtson, (president) of Nola Blue Records. I couldn’t find our fantastic pianists Ariyo and Rosevelt on organ. These are the cats that helped me make this album what it is (Chicago blues). That is the only way I can describe this album. Lots of hard work, but we made some magic in Joyride Studio. I could have tribute this album to many of our fallen artists, but this one is for my mother and Blaise of Joyride Studio. We hope you enjoy. Thank you.”
The studio musicians here include many of whom have played on Mud’s previous albums including guitarists Rick Kreher (an integral member of Waters’ last touring band) and Mike Wheeler, keyboardists Roosevelt “Mad Hatter” Purifoy and Sumito “Ariyo” Ariyoshi, bassist E.G. McDaniel, and drummer Melvin “Pookie Styx” Carlisle.
– Don Wilcock