Muddy Waters's Birth Card: The 4 of Spades

In the record

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". The birth-card coordinate for April 4 is the 4 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1987 Performers induction.

Rock Hall record

• 1987 Performers — Muddy Waters

The 4 of Spades coordinate

Muddy Waters's birthday maps to the 4 of Spades (The Rigid Truth). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Muddy Waters. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build enough container that change can happen without the floor disappearing.

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Muddy Waters in the public record

Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and by the age of 17 was playing the guitar and the harmonica, copying local blues artists Son House and Robert Johnson. In 1941, Alan Lomax and Professor John W. Work III of Fisk University recorded him in Mississippi for the Library of Congress. In 1943, he moved to Chicago to become a full-time professional musician. In 1946, he recorded his first records for Columbia Records and then for Aristocrat Records, a newly formed label run by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess. In the early 1950s, Muddy Waters and his band—Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Elga Edmonds (also known as Elgin Evans) on drums and Otis Spann on piano—recorded several songs that became blues classics, some with the bassist and songwriter Willie Dixon. These songs included "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "I'm Ready". In 1958, he traveled to England, laying the foundations of the resurgence of interest in the blues there.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Muddy Waters (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 4 of Hearts

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Muddy Waters, and not a forecast of induction.

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McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: father.

Also on the record

1. His performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960 was recorded and released as his first live album, At Newport 1960.
2. Muddy Waters' music laid the foundation for various American music genres, including rock and roll and subsequently rock.

Other inductees with this card

• Aynsley Dunbar — 2017 Performers with Journey
• Berry Oakley — 1995 Performers with The Allman Brothers Band
• David Gilmour — 1996 Performers with Pink Floyd
• Donald Fagen — 2001 Performers with Steely Dan
• Hugh Grundy — 2019 Performers with The Zombies
• Lou Gramm — 2024 Performers with Foreigner
• Mary Wilson — 1988 Performers with The Supremes
• Pat Benatar — 2022 Performers with Pat Benatar
• Pick Withers — 2018 Performers with Dire Straits
• Rod Stewart — 1994 Performers; 2012 Performers with The Small Faces

FAQ

What is Muddy Waters's birth card?

The 4 of Spades. April 4 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Muddy Waters's dates come from?

Birth date 1913-04-04 is the day-precision date on Muddy Waters's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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