While traveling through the South collecting music for the Library of Congress, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax ventured onto ...

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Born in Collins, the backwoods of Mississippi in 1943, Willie (Bill) Magee grew up listening to Muddy ... music. As the friendship grew, they spent many hours listening to R&B and rock, especially ...

Recorded by Muddy Waters in 1957 ... revived in the early 60s when the British blues explosion helped put him back in the spotlight and expose his music to a wider audience.

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The blues was the foundation of early rock and roll, and these albums from the 1970s were classic examples of the genre.