I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.
When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.
Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.
Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon.
When someone like Kurt Cobain or Jack White comes out, they didn't go, "He sounds just like Muddy Waters," did they? They just said, "He's great, he sounds like him. " When women come out and men write about them, they tend to write about them in a way that other men can understand, which sometimes can seem a bit patronizing.
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.