Muddy Waters: Mannish Boy

heat lightning, moonshine alligators and women stumbling through the burning corn

When Robbie Robertson asked Muddy Waters to participate in the filmed concert that was to become The Last Waltz, Muddy Waters agreed with the condition that Waters would bring his own rhythm section to back him. Robertson had explained during the negotiations that the idea of the concert was that The Band was, well, the band for the night and they’d be …