American Masters Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied (Season 17, Episode 6)
TV-14
TV Episode | 51 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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American Masters

Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied (Season 17, Episode 6)

TV-14

TV Episode | 51 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Muddy Waters is the archetypal blues-man. He was raised as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta, where he learned to play an acoustic guitar. He went to Chicago in 1943, and the band he assembled established the electric blues sound.

Directors

Robert Gordon | Morgan Neville

Composer

Muddy Waters

Cinematographer

Craig Spirko

Editor

Shaun Peterson

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Edit Released

Updated Jan 24, 2003

Release date

Apr 23, 2003 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

Won 27 Primetime Emmy Awards. Another 31 wins & 82 nominations

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Cast	+ Add Cast
9 cast members

Name	Known for
Mary Austin Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
Chuck D Self Self See fewer	Star Trek Beyond (2016)
Jim Dickinson Self Self See fewer	Streets of Fire (1984)
Ron Flynn Self / Blues Historian Self / Blues Historian See fewer	American Masters (1985)
B.B. King Self Self See fewer	Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
Charlie Musselwhite Self Self See fewer	Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
Bonnie Raitt Self Self See fewer	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
Keith Richards Self Self See fewer	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Muddy Waters Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)