Artist: Muddy Waters
Author: McKinley Morganfield
Label: Library Of Congress
Year: 1941

Among the first songs he recorded, for Alan Lomax, who came to his hut on Stovall's Plantation (near Clarksdale, MS), where Muddy (real name: McKinley Morganfield) was employed. He'd never seen a good guitar before Alan handed him his own. Based on a worksong and his slide was influenced by Son House. Once in Chicago in 1948 he recorded it again as I Can't Be Satisfied (for Aristocrat). Original reissued on Testament lp Down On Stovall's Plantation and Chess cd The Complete Plantation Recordings. In the interview that goes with these first recordings Muddy claims he seldom had the blues, least of all while playing the blues.

The one-room shack Muddy lived in on Stovall's farm was blown to pieces by a tornado, just when plans were underway to move it plank by plank to the Delta Blues Museum in nearby Clarksdale. One plank was used to carve the so-called Muddywood guitar, once used by ZZ Top, now on permanent display inside the wooden walls of Muddy's hut in that same Clarksdale museum. There's a green snake in the form of the Mississippi river, running all over its white body.