- Once Original, Now Common: Nowadays Muddy's blatantly sexual boastfulness might not seem as groundbreaking as it once did. When "Mannish Boy" was released in 1955, a black man declaring he was nobody's boy, but a man, and a sexual Tyrannosaurus at that, was also a pretty potent political statement to white America.
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