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2 de abr. de 2014 · Although Waters spent countless hours working as a sharecropper at a cotton plantation, he found time to entertain folks around town with his music. In 1941, he joined the Silas Green Tent...
8 de may. de 2020 · Coming from a family of sharecroppers, Waters spent countless hours working as a sharecropper at a cotton plantation; he, however, made time to entertain folks around town with his music. He...
10 de may. de 2021 · Life as a sharecropper on a plantation in the early 20th century was barely a step above slavery. In exchange for a small plot of land and meager living quarters, a sharecropper was expected to work in the cotton fields from sunup to sundown.
24 de may. de 2006 · May 24, 2006 | Robert Gordon. Muddy Waters is, in many ways, the archetypal bluesman. He was raised as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta, where he learned to play an acoustic guitar. He...
Prior to officially becoming a full time musician, Muddy worked as a sharecropper. Like many African-Americans in the rural South, Muddy faced extreme amount of racism and discrimination. With Jim Crow being the way of life in the South, many black people felt that they would be forever stuck in a state of oppression if they did not leave.
23 de jun. de 2002 · Working as a sharecropper was like being knocked to the ground every time you started to stand up. ... Muddy Waters was raised on a musical cusp, ...
Explain that Muddy Waters recorded this song in 1941, when he was living on a Mississippi farm and working as a sharecropper. Muddy was recorded by Alan Lomax and John Work, two musicologists working for Fisk University and the Library of Congress to study the folk traditions in rural communities.
