PBS Muddy Waters documentary
Posted by: ejl on 23 April 2003
Posted on: 24 April 2003 by Phil Barry
Not very good...I would have preferred either more insight or more music.
Incidentally, for Chicagoans, the Black Ensemble Theater is showing 'Howlin' at the Moon', a show on Howlin' Wolf. The guy playing Wolf did the best 'Got My Mojo Workin'' I've ever heard.
Check out the Trib or the Reader for ticket info.
HW's relationship with Muddy is a big part of this very enjoyable, very musical play. I'd like to have seen this aspect of MW's life explored in the PBS show.
I'd also like to have heard about how an E. McDaniels tune became Muddy's anthem ('I'm a Man').
Muddy at the Cellar Door in D.C. and South Shore Country Club are 2 of my top ten musical experiences. So I ate up the show...and wanted more immediately. Not one of PBS' best efforts.
Regards.
Phil
Incidentally, for Chicagoans, the Black Ensemble Theater is showing 'Howlin' at the Moon', a show on Howlin' Wolf. The guy playing Wolf did the best 'Got My Mojo Workin'' I've ever heard.
Check out the Trib or the Reader for ticket info.
HW's relationship with Muddy is a big part of this very enjoyable, very musical play. I'd like to have seen this aspect of MW's life explored in the PBS show.
I'd also like to have heard about how an E. McDaniels tune became Muddy's anthem ('I'm a Man').
Muddy at the Cellar Door in D.C. and South Shore Country Club are 2 of my top ten musical experiences. So I ate up the show...and wanted more immediately. Not one of PBS' best efforts.
Regards.
Phil
Posted on: 24 April 2003 by ejl
I was a bit disappointed too. It seems to have become the norm for music documentaries to give you only short snippets of songs (do they assume tv viewers can't sit still long enough to listen to the whole thing?)
Eric
Eric
Posted on: 25 April 2003 by Phil Barry
Or has KR pierced his scalp??? If he has, a comb could be pretty painful.
Phil
Phil