{"id":1741,"date":"2018-10-26T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2018-10-25T09:57:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T08:57:03","slug":"song-of-the-week-i-cant-be-satisfied-by-muddy-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1741","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Be Satisfied&#8221; by Muddy Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Be Satisfied&#8221; by Muddy Waters:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CakqPuwFAIc\" width=\"351\" height=\"220\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasdyja.com\/the-third-coast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Third Coast<\/em><\/a>, Thomas Dyja describes the results of the April 1948 recording session that produced &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Be Satisfied&#8221; as &#8220;the musical equivalent of watching a prehistoric fish climb out of the primordial ooze, sprout legs, and run,&#8221; which is about as good a description of almost anything I could hope to read. In this case it also accurately captures the thrill of listening to music history changing forever on the genius of a single performer. If you listen to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hP_hoOnyySw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Good Lookin&#8217; Woman<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hGbwj-raUfo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mean Disposition<\/a>&#8221; you can hear exactly what Dyja is talking about. They&#8217;re good, solid recordings of standard blues, but don&#8217;t sound, with Sunnyland Slim&#8217;s piano and Big Crawford&#8217;s bass accompanying Muddy&#8217;s guitar and voice, too many steps down the road from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1671\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memphis Blues<\/a>,&#8221; which swims in something not far removed from Dyja&#8217;s primordial ooze. &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Be Satisfied&#8221; is all guitar and voice, all sex and menace, all electric charge flying around inside a bottle and threatening to smash it to pieces, a whole new way of playing and singing and listening to the blues flying out of the studio and onto your record player and back out again in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3jrIK7YB0tE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">million<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nrIPxlFzDi0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">different<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nrIPxlFzDi0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ways<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22I%20Can%27t%20Be%20Satisfied%22%20by%20Muddy%20Waters\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. This is &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Be Satisfied&#8221; by Muddy Waters: \ufeff In his book The Third Coast, Thomas Dyja describes the results of the April 1948 recording session that produced &#8220;I Can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22I%20Can%27t%20Be%20Satisfied%22%20by%20Muddy%20Waters\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-week","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}