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MUDDY WATERS, CEM ANOS BLUES (por Chico Marques)

Muddy Waters era meio avesso a entrevistas.  Apesar de ser todos os relatos dos que conviveram com ele  indicarem que era uma pessoa afável e generosa,  existem poucos registros de conversas com ele  na Imprensa Americana -- o pouco que existe  foi concedido à Imprensa Européia nas inúmeras tournées  que Muddy e sua banda fizeram por lá nos anos 1960 e 1970.   Mas em Março de 1985, a prestigiada revista Living Blues tratou de suprir essa lacuna publicando  uma extensa entrevista com o Rei do Blues de Chicago  --  que, na verdade, é uma coletânea de conversas gravadas  com Muddy entre 1974, 1980 e 1981  pelo casal  de jornalistas musicais Jim e Amy O'Neal.   O resultado é emocionante,  e, para mim, pessoalmente,  resgatar e traduzir esta entrevista  justo no dia em que Muddy Waters  --  ou McKinley Morganfield, seu nome de batismo --  complet...

SEX, SONGS AND THE STONES - AN INTERVIEW WITH MARSHALL CHESS

por Jon Wilde publicado originalmente no SABOTAGE TIMES January 22, 2012 Marshall Chess, the son of Chess Records co-founder Leonard Chess, spent his childhood hanging out with legends like Muddy Waters and experienced the heyday of the blues at close quarters. Through the Fifties and Sixties he befriended and worked with a pantheon of blues and soul innovators including Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, John Lee Hooker, Etta James and Fontella Bass. With the advent of rock’n’roll, he worked alongside Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, eventually becoming the latter’s road manager. Following the death of his father and the sale of Chess Records in the late Sixties, Marshall became president of Rolling Stones Records. A permanent fixture of the band’s exclusive inner circle he partied hard while overseeing seminal albums like Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main Street during The Stones’ most fervently creative period. In the early 1980s he worked at Sugar Hill Re...