Muddy Waters The Mojo Man

Reader Reviews
Toose has created a vivid and compelling read with her "Muddy Waters: Mojo Man." It is thorough, descriptive, and lively. A must as a reference. My biggest complaint is the avoidable romanticizing of the book's blues heroes. Robert Johnson's clutching his guitar in death, and threadbare editorializing of life in the Delta, working for exploitive white owners are a little much. And there are some inaccuracies. At one point Toose decribes Muddy's first electric solidbody guitar as a Les Paul Custom, new in 1954. This was indeed the first year of the Custom, but Jimmy Rogers, a sentence or two later decribes the "gold front" of the guitar. His description and the book's accompanying photos clearly show a Les Paul Standard, new in 1952.


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