Dancing with Muddy: Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and My Lucky Life in and Out of the Blues by Portnoy, Jerry
Dancing with Muddy: Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and My Lucky Life in and Out of the Blues by Portnoy, Jerry

Dancing with Muddy: Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and My Lucky Life in and Out of the Blues

Jerry Portnoy grew up in Chicago hearing the blues being played outside his father's rug store on...
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Author: Jerry Portnoy
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Dancing with Muddy: Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and My Lucky Life in and Out of the Blues by Portnoy, Jerry

Dancing with Muddy: Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and My Lucky Life in and Out of the Blues

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Dancing with Muddy: Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and My Lucky Life in and Out of the Blues by Portnoy, Jerry

Dancing with Muddy: Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and My Lucky Life in and Out of the Blues

$51.74
Author: Jerry Portnoy
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Jerry Portnoy grew up in Chicago hearing the blues being played outside his father's rug store on famed Maxwell Street during the late 1940s and early '50s.

After dropping out of college, he became immersed in the colorful world of pool hustlers like Cornbread Red, and Minnesota Fats as he managed the largest pool hall in Chicago. During a stint as a paratrooper early in the Vietnam war, he applied for discharge as a conscientious objector, and lived in San Francisco during 1967's "summer of love." While bumming around Europe the following year, Portnoy heard the blues again on a record by Sonny Boy Williamson and instantly became obsessed with mastering blues harmonica.

He returned to Chicago and in 1974 he was playing in small Black clubs at night when Muddy Waters plucked him from his day job at Cook County Jail to fill the historic harmonica chair in his fabled band. Eric Clapton followed suit in 1991. In a career that took him from ghetto taverns to the White House and the Royal Albert Hall, he went from the raggedy vans and cheap roadside motels of the blues world to the private jets and five-star hotels of the rock world. Between those two very different gigs was a struggle to survive the vagaries of the music business and the pressures of life on the road. In a remarkable life, he also assisted in surgery, lodged in a Moroccan whorehouse, dined at Giorgio Armani's, and survived a brief shocking gig with Cyndi Lauper.

Dancing with Muddy details the surprising, lively, and sometimes bumpy ride of a blues harmonica legend.



Author: Jerry Portnoy
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 05/13/2025
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780897334587

About the Author
Jerry Portnoy is a Grammy nominated musician whose career has taken him to all fifty states and over thirty countries on six continents. He makes his home on Cape Cod, MA.
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