Mississippi Heartbeat (Opening Title) >> Joe Bonamassa: We went down to the Mississippi Delta to see the land where Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf came from.

To see what was in the dirt and what was in the water that made these men cornerstones of blues music.

When they built the levies to hold back the huge Mississippi River floods that happened every year, the floods plains and marshes dried up and the silt from the river left behind a wonderfully fertilized land... perfect for cotton.

On these cotton plantations all these great blues players were born or were raised as hardworking sharecroppers who picked cotton during the day and at night they played this music that became the blues.

It's just amazing that the delta was a breeding ground for this new genesis of music.

Robert Johnson, Son House, Charlie Patton, Muddy Waters, and Howlin' Wolf all came from the same area.

It's just something that's gotta be in the soil and the water.

And we had to go and see where this seed was planted that was the birth of this blues music, and the music that became the foundation of all rock and roll music that followed.

>> Muddy Waters: I was born in a little town called Rolling Fork and I was raised up in Clarksdale.

I was raised up out on a farm, on a plantation.

So I lived a country life for a long time.

Little rough but I came through it.

I was with them... my grandmother raised me.

Everybody had to work and I did.

Out on that... little kids, ten years old out there working, ya know, on the farm.

I got, I began in Mississippi.

I first started with one harmonica.

I think a started about nine years old, when I was thirteen I was doing pretty good with it.

When I became about seventeen or eighteen I switched over to guitar.

Then finally in 1943 I brought it to Chicago.

>> Announcer: The program begins with Muddy Waters.

>> Muddy Waters: ♪ I'm gonna put a tiger in your tank ♪ ♪ I'm gonna put a tiger in your tank ♪ ♪ I'm gonna put a tiger in your tank ♪ ♪ I'm gonna put a tiger in your tank ♪ ♪ I'm gonna put a tiger in your tank ♪ ♪ I'm gonna put a tiger in your tank ♪ ♪ I like the way you look And I love your little car ♪ ♪ Your tires are too slow you can't go very far ♪ ♪ I talk to you baby and your mind's all blank ♪ ♪ Wanna put a tiger in your tank ♪ ♪ Cause everything you do you know it knocks me out ♪ ♪ Want you to feel good so you'll jump and shout ♪ ♪ I have no money in the bank ♪ ♪ Wanna put a tiger in your tank ♪ ♪ I can raise your hood I can clean your coil ♪ ♪ Check your transmission, And give you oil ♪ ♪ I don't care what the people think ♪ ♪ Wanna put a tiger in your tank ♪ ♪ Your motor needs pimpin' needs a listen to ♪ ♪ That's' one thing I look for you to do ♪ ♪ You give it a push and if your car don't crank ♪ ♪ You know you need a tiger in your tank ♪ ♪ I can raise your hood, I can clean your coil ♪ ♪ Check your transmission, And give you oil ♪ ♪ I don't care what the people think ♪ ♪ Time to put a tiger in your tank ♪ ♪ Your motor needs popin needs a listen to ♪ ♪ That's one thing I look for you to do ♪ ♪ You give it a push and if your car don't crank ♪ ♪ You know you need a tiger in your tank ♪ ♪ You need a tiger in your tank ♪ ♪ I put a tiger in your tank ♪ ♪ I put a tiger in your tank ♪ ♪ I put a tiger in your tank ♪ ♪ I put a tiger in your tank baby With all my love ♪ ♪ Well I'm goin' back to leave ♪ ♪ Won't be back no more, Goin' back down south, child, An' don't you want to go?

♪ ♪ Woman I'm troubled, be all worried mind ♪ ♪ Well I just can't be satisfied And I just can't keep from cryin' ♪ ♪ Well I feel like snappin' A pistol in your face ♪ ♪ I'm gonna let some graveyard, Lord, be my resting place ♪ ♪ Woman I'm troubled, all worried mind ♪ ♪ Well I can't be satisfied, And I just can't keep from cryin' ♪ ♪ Well all in my sleep, Hear my doorbell ring ♪ ♪ Looking for my baby, Cause I couldn't see a doggone thing ♪ ♪ Woman I was troubled, all worried mind ♪ ♪ Cause I can't be satisfied And I just can't keep from cryin' ♪ Come on!

♪ Well you know my little baby, She's gonna jump and shout ♪ ♪ That old train be late man, Lord, Oh I'm walking out ♪ ♪ Woman I'm troubled, all worried mind ♪ ♪ Well can't be satisfied And I just can't keep from crying ♪ ♪ Lenoir You know you shook me, baby ♪ ♪ You shook me all night long ♪ ♪ You know you shook me, darling ♪ ♪ You shook me all night long ♪ ♪ Oh, the way you shook me darlin' ♪ ♪ Oh you're messing my happy home ♪ ♪ You know you move me baby ♪ ♪ Just like a hurricane ♪ You know you move me darling ♪ ♪ Just like a hurricane ♪ Oh, and you move me darling ♪ ♪ Just like an earthquake moves the land ♪ ♪ Oh, sometimes I wonder ♪ what my poor wife and child's gonna do ♪ ♪ Oh, sometimes I wonder ♪ what my poor wife and child's gonna do ♪ ♪ Oh, you made me mistreat 'em darling ♪ ♪ Oh, made me madly in love with you ♪ ♪ Break it down!

♪ You shook me baby ♪ You shook me all night long ♪ ♪ Oh, you know, you know you shook me baby ♪ ♪ You shook me all night long ♪ ♪ Oh, and you kept on shakin' me darlin ♪ ♪ Oh, you messing my happy home ♪ ♪ Thank you!

♪ All aboard!

♪ Mean old Frisco, take my babe away ♪ ♪ Mean old Frisco, take my babe away ♪ ♪ Cause I've been hopin' and tusslin ♪ ♪ Baby come back home one day ♪ ♪ Well, the people, No, they don't understand ♪ ♪ One day people, Oh they don't understand ♪ ♪ Well you take my woman away To try another man ♪ ♪ Stand there tremblin' While the train goes 'round the bend ♪ ♪ Stand there tremblin', While the train goes 'round the bend ♪ ♪ What I've started ain't no crime, Me without all my friends ♪ ♪ Welcome there new love, Round 'em all, tear 'em down ♪ ♪ Welcome there new love, Round 'em all, tear 'em down ♪ ♪ Well, I worked hard all of my life ♪ ♪ Now I'm not getting pushed around ♪ ♪ Mean old Frisco, take my babe away ♪ ♪ Mean old Frisco, take my babe away ♪ ♪ Cause I've been hopin' and tusslin ♪ ♪ Baby come back home one day ♪ >> Howlin' Wolf: I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.

A lot of people's wondering what is the blues?

I hear a lot of people sayin' "the blues?"

"the blues?"

But I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.

When you ain't got no money, you got the blues.

When you ain't got no money to pay your house with, you still got the blues.

A lot of people holler about, "I don't like no blues" but when you ain't got no money and can't pay your house rent and can't buy you no food, you damn sure got the blues.

That's where it's at.

I'll tell ya.

(playing intro to song) (playing intro to song) >> Howlin' Wolf: ♪ How many more years have I had to let you dog me around ♪ ♪ How many more years have I had to let you dog me around ♪ ♪ I would rather be dead, sleeping six feet in the ground ♪ ♪ How many more years have I got to let you dog me around ♪ ♪ How many more years have I got to let you dog me around ♪ ♪ Whoa I'd soon rather be dead sleeping six feet in the ground ♪ ♪ C'mon Reese!

♪ I'm gonna fall on my knees, I'm gonna raise up my right hand ♪ ♪ I'm gonna fall on my knees, I'm gonna raise up my right hand ♪ ♪ Said I'd feel better much darlin', ♪ ♪ if you'd only understand.

C'mon Mike!

♪ ♪ I'm going upstairs, I'm gonna bring back down all my clothes, ♪ ♪ I'm gonna go upstairs, I'm gonna bring back down all my clothes ♪ ♪ If anybody asks about me darlin', just tell 'em I walked on ♪ ♪ Sure look good, don't mean a thing to me ♪ ♪ Boy you sure look good, it don't mean a thing to me ♪ ♪ I got a hip shakin' woman, shake like a willow tree ♪ ♪ You better wait baby, you got back a little too late ♪ ♪ You better wait baby, you got back a little too late ♪ ♪ I got a cool shakin' baby, shake like-a jell-o on a plate C'mon Kirk!

♪ ♪ When my baby walk you know she's fine and mellow ♪ ♪ You know my baby walk you know she's fine and mellow, ♪ ♪ Whoa every time she stops, her flesh shake like jell-o ♪ ♪ Oh shake it baby shake it all for me ♪ ♪ Oh shake it baby shake it all for me ♪ ♪ Oh when you shake it baby Shake like a willow tree.

C'mon Reese!

♪ ♪ If you're long way from home can't sleep at all ♪ ♪ You grab your telephone something just ain't right ♪ ♪ That's evil, evil is going on wrong ♪ ♪ I am warning you brother you better watch your happy home ♪ ♪ Well, a long way from home, you can't sleep at all ♪ ♪ You know another mule is kicking in your stall ♪ ♪ That's evil, evil's going on ♪ ♪ I am warnin' you brother, you better watch your happy home.

♪ ♪ Oh, make it to your house You knock on the front door ♪ ♪ You run around back You catch him before he goes ♪ ♪ That's evil, evil's going on wrong ♪ ♪ I am warning you brother you better watch your happy home ♪ ♪ Come here baby sit down on daddy's knee ♪ ♪ Come here baby sit down on daddy's knee ♪ ♪ I got stuff I gotta tell ya baby that worry me ♪ ♪ I went out last night, baby you stayed all night ♪ ♪ I went out last night, baby you stayed all night ♪ ♪ I been snubbin' and what now woman you ain't treat me right C'mon Reese!

♪ ♪ I cried I cried cried all day long ♪ ♪ I cried I cried cried all day long ♪ ♪ You gotta wear your own now baby you can't have your way C'mon Kirk Fletcher!

♪ ♪ I woke up this mornin' baby I found you gone ♪ ♪ I woke up this mornin' baby I found you gone ♪ ♪ I'm crazy about you, know you done me wrong.

♪ >> Joe Bonamassa: So we figured we'd ramp up the night by playing a few of our own tunes.

♪ What harm can come of that?

♪ ♪ Oh beautiful, if you were mine, I would write you letters and pour you sweet wine ♪ ♪ Oh beautiful, if you were mine, I would write you letters and pour you sweet wine ♪ ♪ Oh beautiful, why you so blue?

If you can only see the way I see you ♪ ♪ Oh beautiful, why you so blue?

If you can only see the way I see you ♪ ♪ Oh gravity weighing on my soul Keeps coming round back to me like dirt to a stone ♪ ♪ Oh gravity weighing on my soul Keeps coming round back to me like dirt to a stone ♪ ♪ Oh gravity don't you ever go to sleep Might wake up in the morning ♪ ♪ and she'll be gone from your reach ♪ ♪ Oh beautiful, if you were mine, I would write you letters and pour you sweet wine ♪ ♪ Oh beautiful, if you were mine, I would write you letters and pour you sweet wine ♪ ♪ Oh beautiful, who you so blue?

If you can only see the way I see you ♪ ♪ Oh beautiful, who you so blue?

If you can only see the way I see you ♪ ♪ Happiness is a bottle, happiness is pain ♪ ♪ Happiness is a woman you know, til she goes on and shames you ♪ ♪ Happiness is a value, happiness is a poem ♪ ♪ Happiness is a woman you know, the calm before the storm ♪ ♪ Ain't nobody love you better, ain't nobody but me ♪ ♪ All I want is a fair shake at love, Get a little something for free ♪ ♪ Love ain't a love song ♪ Tell me baby yeah ♪ Hip them all to the city Hip them all to the scene?

♪ ♪ Hip them all to the woman you want, bringing them all to their knees ♪ ♪ Hip them all to the badlands Hip them all to the stars ♪ ♪ All I know is the woman I knew didn't get me too far ♪ ♪ Ain't nobody love ya better, ain't nobody but me ♪ ♪ All I want is a fair shake at love, get a little something for free ♪ ♪ Ain't nobody work harder, ain't nobody love you more ♪ ♪ All I know is a woman and man wearing a crown of thorns ♪ ♪ Love ain't a love song ♪ Tell me baby yeah ♪ Love ain't a love song ♪ Ain't nobody love ya better, ain't nobody but me ♪ ♪ All I want is a fair shake at love, get a little something for free ♪ ♪ Ain't nobody work harder, ain't nobody love you more ♪ ♪ All I know is the fall of a man wearing a crown of thorns ♪ ♪ Love ain't a love song ♪ Tell me baby yeah ♪ Love ain't a love song ♪ Love ain't a love song (crashing) (birds cawing) (guitar riffing)