Muddy Waters

On January 16, 2013, we sold the final print of the edition. This work is no longer available from DrewFriedman.net.

Only twenty-five (25) prints of MUDDY WATERS were produced for this edition. Each full-color print is signed in the lower right, hand-titled in the center, and numbered in the lower left (all beneath the image).

The image area is approximately 16″ high x 15″ wide on an untrimmed 22″ x 17″ sheet. Paper, ink, and production specifications, as well as shipping details, are available on our PRINT SPECS page.

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Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield, 1913-1983) was to a generation of 1960s white British R&B nerds (with names like Clapton, Beck, and Page) the embodiment of The Blues. It was a distinction Muddy earned, by doing what a legend spends years at: paying dues. As a youth, he lived in a Mississippi shack; he was discovered by musicologist Alan Lomax on a field trip in 1941. In 1943, Muddy moved to Chicago, where his awesome bottleneck skills and electrifying voice came to define that city’s blues scene. He dominated the R&B charts in the ’50s, as his reputation spread nationwide (and eventually worldwide). Though his chart fortunes dwindled in the ’60s, his stature as a blues pioneer were firmly established, leading to his posthumous induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. As any musician with a sense of history will attest, Waters helped develop the foundations of Rock & Roll avant la lettre.