Results for “Muddy Waters”

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Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters restages his own 1955 declaration of manhood as a late-career victory lap, spelling out the word itself to leave no…

masculinity and self-definition aging and vitality racial dignity ('man' vs 'boy')

PJ Harvey

A murder ballad told in fragments, where a narrator confesses to drowning a girl referred to alternately as lover and daughter,…

guilt and confession incest/taboo desire folk horror and Southern gothic

The Staple Singers

This is the Staple Singers' rendition of a traditional African American spiritual, one long believed to have carried coded…

deliverance/salvation biblical exodus imagery collective faith

Guided By Voices

A cryptic, riddling GBV track that uses Fats Domino's real-life survival of Hurricane Katrina as an emblem of resilience, then…

survival and resilience flood/water imagery as threat and purification fame versus obscurity

Otis Redding

A drifter sits by the water in San Francisco, watching boats and tides pass while he takes stock of a life that has stalled out.…

displacement stasis and drift loneliness

Talking Heads

A song about waking up inside a life you don't remember choosing, stitched together from the trappings of suburban success and a…

suburban alienation loss of agency time and repetition