His only accessories were a capo, slide, and thumb and index picks.īy the time Waters began recording for Aristocrat Records, his first electric guitar had been stolen. He bought his first electric guitar in 1944, playing it through a variety of small amps for easy portability. Waters realized that he needed to electrify his sound to be heard in the noisy South Side Chicago clubs. By the time he made his way to Chicago the following year, he had a Silvertone acoustic. In 1942, Waters is pictured with Henry “Son” Sims, while holding an unidentified wood-bodied resonator guitar. For the 1941 sessions, he played a Martin Acoustic Guitar, which he borrowed from Lomax. Photo: John Work III, 1942Īlan Lomax first recorded Waters for the Library of Congress in 1941, and again in 1942 on the Stovall Plantation. This Stella was the guitar on which he taught himself to play by listening to Robert Johnson records, and attending live Son House shows in the Mississippi Delta. Muddy Waters bought his first guitar at the age of 17 - a Stella acoustic that he bought for $2.50 from the Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Throughout his career, he had a small army of both acoustic and electric guitars at his disposal. Over the course of four decades Muddy Waters played guitar on plantation shack porches, in sordid clubs, and on elaborate blues festival stages the world over.
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