Muddy Waters
What is Muddy Waters' birth name?
McKinley Morganfield
What is Howlin' Wolf's birth name?
Chester Arthur Burnett
What genre of music began the ideals found in early blues?
Call-and-Response
Leonard and Phil Chess
What artist wrote the song, "Mannish Boy" (hint--this one has a CLASSIC blues riff)
Muddy Waters
What type of music was Muddy strongly influenced by?
Delta Blues
How could one describe Howlin' Wolf's timbre?
Rugged, Raspy, Rough, anything that is vaguely a synonym of these words works well. He had a Powerful voice as well.
Call-and-response requires two major voices. What are they?
Leader and Answer
What producer worked with the likes of Carl Lee Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others to pioneer the music genre rockabilly?
Sam Phillips, who produced music out of Sun Records
Which artist wrote "Smokestack Lightning"?
Howlin' Wolf
How was Muddy Waters' discovered? (Hint: What government official first found Muddy Waters?)
Alan Lomax, a musicologist from the Library of Congress.
Who taught Howlin' Wolf to play the guitar?
Charley Patton
Spirituals
This artist, known for his fanatical piano playing, helped influence the craze and performance aspects of people like Elvis.
Little Richard
Which artist first performed "Tutti Frutti"?
Little Richard
What company signed Muddy two years after he moved to Chicago?
Chess Records
Name one of three influences on Howlin' Wolf's music.
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Sonny Boy Williamson
Charley Patton
Many of the artists we've studied largely came from what area?
Mississippi Delta
Which artist is largely the most well-known rockabilly artist?
Elvis Presley
Which artist wrote the song, "Johnny B. Goode"?
Chuck Berry
Name one of three potential influences on Muddy Waters' music.
"Son" House, Robert Johnson, and Charley Patton were all notable influences on Muddy Waters' style of music.
What drove the competitive spirit between Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters?
Howlin' Wolf's jealousy. The would also switch band members or "steal" the other's songs.
What two artists typified (exemplified) a new style of music born out of Chicago blues?
Little Richard and Chuck Berry
This St. Louis native helped bring together elements of country and rock to the northern iterations of what was developing in Chicago, beginning with his song "Maybelline."
Chuck Berry
What radio personality promoted this new "Rock and Roll" music, much to the exhilaration and chagrin of many new listeners to this fast-paced type of music?
Alan Freed