Editing Slide guitar (section)

=== Muddy Waters ===
Although [[Muddy Waters]], born McKinley Morganfield, made his earliest recordings using an acoustic slide guitar,{{sfn|Gordon|2002|p=38}} as a guitarist, he was best known for his electric slide playing.<ref name="Droz">{{cite web
| url = http://www.gibson.com/news-lifestyle/features/en-us/muddy-waters-0404-2011.aspx
| title = An Insider's Guide to Muddy Waters' Guitar Sound
| last = Drozdowski
| first = Ted
| website = [[gibson.com]]
| date = April 4, 2011
| access-date = November 11, 2017
}}</ref>  Muddy Waters helped bring the Delta blues to Chicago and was instrumental in defining the city's electric blues style.<ref name="waters-bio">{{cite web|last1=Kemp|first1=Mark|author-link1=Mark Kemp|title=Muddy Waters Bio|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/muddy-waters/biography|website=[[rollingstone.com]]|access-date=October 11, 2017}}</ref> He was also one of the pioneers of electric slide guitar.<ref name="morrison">{{cite web|last1=Morrison|first1=Nick|title=Greasing Strings: Slide Guitar, Past and Present|url=https://www.npr.org/2009/04/14/103034365/greasing-strings-slide-guitar-past-and-present|website=[[npr.org]]|access-date=October 15, 2017|date=April 14, 2009}}</ref> Beginning with "I Can't Be Satisfied" (1948), many of his hit songs featured slide, including "[[Rollin' and Tumblin']]", "[[Rollin' Stone (Muddy Waters song)|Rollin' Stone]]" (whose name was adopted by the well-known rock band and the magazine), "Louisiana Blues", and "Still a Fool".<ref name="Droz"/>{{sfn|Whitburn|1988|p=435}} Waters used an [[open G tuning]] for several of his earlier songs, but later switched to a standard tuning and often used a [[Capo (musical device)|capo]] to change [[Key (music)|key]]s.{{sfn|Rubin|2007|pp=44, 46}}  He usually played single notes with a small metal slide on his little finger and dampened the strings combined with varying the volume to control the amount of [[Distortion (music)|distortion]].<ref name="Droz" /> According to writer Ted Drozdowski, "One last factor to consider is slide vibrato that is achieved by shaking a slide back and forth. Muddy’s slide vibrato was insane, both manic and controlled. That added to the excitement of his playing."<ref name="Droz"/>