There are few figures in blues history as notable as Muddy Waters. Born McKinley Morganfield in 1913, Muddy was cetral to the evolution of the genre, from its beginnings as the folk music of the ...

Knowing his Mississippi roots, Chess essentially wanted Waters to find for him his own Robert Johnson. Waters had other ideas ...

Blues music arose from hardship. It offered solace. The article lists ten essential blues tracks. These songs capture raw ...

This music is raw, rude and visceral and is delivered ... Spann is the keyboard man and co-leader of the legendary Muddy Waters Blues Band. I saw them at the Jazz Workshop about a month ago.

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More than any other musician, Muddy Waters transformed the music of the Delta into modern electric blues. His influence was at the heart of English R&B bands such as the Rolling Stones ...

The Delta Blues Museum tells the story of sharecroppers turned legends, handmade guitars, and the raw sound that traveled ...

If you listen to Muddy Waters, for example, he's basically singing Delta blues that are citified and electrified. Delta blues is the foundation for that. When we listen to blues music of the 1920s ...