This week on Sunday Morning Blues we wished you a very Happy Easter! It was also the late Muddy Waters birthday a few days before (April 4), so we began with a tribute to the great singer of the blues. Muddy fit the image: he grew up on a southern plantation, lived in relative poverty, found an escape through music, migrated to the industrial north and became the king of post-war Chicago Blues.

He was as vital in his early career in the 1950′s as he was at the end of his life in April 1983. Johnny Winter, the Rolling Stones, Peter Wolf, Paul Butterfield, Rory Gallagher and countless others played with, or sat on Muddy’s knee. He’ll always be missed!

Thank you Daniel Horgan for your great Choose Your Blues list! We played it on air and you get a world-famous Sunday morning blues T-shirt!

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Sunday Morning Blues Playlist: April 8, 2012

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I’m Ready
I’m ready
Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters Blues
Muddy Waters Blues
Paul Rodgers and Neal Schon

Got My Mojo Workin’
Fathers and Sons
Muddy Waters Band with Paul Butterfield

Walking Through the Park
You’re Gonna Miss Me
Muddy Waters Blues Band with Peter Wolf

You Need Love
Chess Box
Muddy Waters

Death of Muddy Waters
Buried Alive in the Blues
Chicago Blues Reunion: Gravenites, Goldberg, Mandel

Right Next Door
Strong Persuader
Robert Cray

Last Two Dollars
Get the Blues!
Johnny Taylor

Got a Broken Heart
Walter Trout
Walter Trout

Born with a Broken Heart
Ledbetter Heights
Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Caught Me Wrong Again
I’m Drivin’
Ursula George with Marty Richards

I’m Having a Ball
Evening
Sugar Ray & the Bluetones

Havin’ a Party
Havin’ a Party – Greatest hits
Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes

Livin’ for the Weekend
Duck Fever
James Montgomery Band

Turn on Your Lovelight
Hard Times
Bonerama

Anyday
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & the Dominos

Soulshine
Delta Hurricane
Larry McCray

Around the Plynth
Snakes and Ladders
The Faces

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CHOOSE YOUR BLUES: Daniel Horgan

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Statesboro Blues/Church Bell Blues
The Player: A Retropsective
David Bromberg

Driving Wheel
Blues Masters Vol. 1: Urban Blues
Junior Parker

King of the Blues
Still Got the Blues
Gary Moore

Things That I Used to Do
Couldn’t Stand the Weather
Stevie Ray Vaughan

Cat’s Squirrel
This Was
Jethro Tull

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Big Shoes
Big Shoes (CD & DVD)
Scissormen

Po Black Maddie
Shake Hands With Shorty
North Mississippi Allstars

Voodoo Moon
Voodoo Moon
Savoy Brown

Killing Floor
Real Folk Blues
Howlin’ Wolf