John Lomax carried out the recording of Lead Belly for the Library of Congress with the help of his assistant and son Alan Lomax. The young folklorist would live to carry on the work of his father and work with and befriend folk musicians such as Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, and countless others. In one case, Alan Lomax brought his recording equipment to Stovall, Mississippi and cataloged the songs of McKinley Morganfield.
Growing up he was known as Muddy. As he began to play the guitar with aspirations of becoming a professional performer, Muddy adopted the stage name of Muddy Waters. He tried his hand as a musician in Chicago once to little success before returning to Mississipi. While there, Lomax stopped by and recorded him on two separate occasions in 1941 and 1942. After receiving a copy of his first recordings, Muddy Waters would return to Chicago with confidence that he could succeed in the music industry.
Here is the discography surrounding Muddy Waters's first recordings:
Country Blues (1941 single)
The Complete Plantation Recordings
"I Be's Troubled" by Muddy Waters
If you have any ideas for where the tour should go next, please give a shout. I'm open to whatever as long as the artists are historically related in some way and go in an artist's chronological order.
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