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The liner notes to the 78 rpm disc from the Library of Congress Archive of American Folk Song AAFES-18 opens with these lines:
"McKinley Morganfield (nicknamed Muddy Waters), a shy, handsome young Negro, lives and works on a huge cotton plantation near the Mississippi River, not far from Clarksdale, Mississippi. Saturday evenings he makes a few dollars by playing for the local dances and parties of his Negro neighbors. He learned to play the guitar only three years ago, learning painfully, finger by finger, from a friend."
I know this because I found the liner notes with the original 78 rpm disc in a footlocker in the basement of an estate sale. I haven't been able to find a transcript of the liner notes on the Internet yet, so that means you now know something that more than 99% of the most devoted Muddy Waters fans do not.
I've found a couple of references to sales of this disc. A newer, red vinyl version sold recently for a little over $500. I read of a sale for $800 of one other copy this disc. I don't know for sure if this big 10" single is vinyl or shellac. I'll be taking it to a local independent record store to be cleaned, graded and digitized. I figure the more I know and can share, the more confidence potential bidders will have. And here is a pic, with the liner notes all artsy fartsy strewn across the disc.
"McKinley Morganfield (nicknamed Muddy Waters), a shy, handsome young Negro, lives and works on a huge cotton plantation near the Mississippi River, not far from Clarksdale, Mississippi. Saturday evenings he makes a few dollars by playing for the local dances and parties of his Negro neighbors. He learned to play the guitar only three years ago, learning painfully, finger by finger, from a friend."
I know this because I found the liner notes with the original 78 rpm disc in a footlocker in the basement of an estate sale. I haven't been able to find a transcript of the liner notes on the Internet yet, so that means you now know something that more than 99% of the most devoted Muddy Waters fans do not.
I've found a couple of references to sales of this disc. A newer, red vinyl version sold recently for a little over $500. I read of a sale for $800 of one other copy this disc. I don't know for sure if this big 10" single is vinyl or shellac. I'll be taking it to a local independent record store to be cleaned, graded and digitized. I figure the more I know and can share, the more confidence potential bidders will have. And here is a pic, with the liner notes all artsy fartsy strewn across the disc.
