Rock'n'Roll, whose birthday is on April 4th,
I wanted to start off with a tidbit about how
the Rolling Stones got their name.
According to the book "Keith Richards Satisfaction"
by Christopher Sanford, Brian Jones, while registering
the band in a musican's union, decided to take
the name from the Water's song "Rollin' Stone".
You have to hand it to Brian's genius...to come up
with such an incredible
name. Keith "had later
thought it made them sound
like a bunch of
irish acrobats".
Gotta love Keith's thinking.
Here's Muddy Waters performing at the
Newport Jazz Festival in 1960. The whole
band plays such few notes, but
what they do play is so powerful. Muddy's
own playing is amazing! You can just
feel the Delta in each of those notes.
One can only wonder what the
beatniks made of the "Hootchie-
Cootchie" man singing about his
Mojo!
"Rollin' Stone" was one of McKinley Morganfield,
aka Muddy Water's own compositions, a derivative
of "Catfish Blues" by Robert Petway.
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