Just recently was the birthday of legendary bluesman, McKinley Morganfield, A.K.A. Muddy Waters. Muddy was arguably one of the most influential blues guitar player for several reasons. Online, April 4 ...

It's May 1968 and a turbulent age, with the life-changing political events of half a century still unfolding. Riots and revolution circle this third stone from the sun as war, terrorism and civil ...

The 1970s was a strange time for Muddy Waters, with many longstanding relationships ending. Leonard Chess — the man who ran Muddy’s record label (and underpaid him) for more than 20 years — died of a ...

Bob Corritore has been a major player on the Phoenix blues scene for decades, having moved here from Chicago, the hometown that continues to inspire him, in the early ‘80s. A decade after his arrival, ...

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One of music cinema’s foremost scenes occurs in Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz when Muddy Waters appears without introduction and launches into “Mannish Boy”. Waters stands out among the assembled ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bob Margolin will always be grateful to Muddy Waters, who had him play on six of the blues legend's latter-day records in the '70s ...

BRAINERD — Jack Franzen and the Muddy Water Band will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 11, as part of the Performances in the Park aries in Gregory Park in Brainerd. The Muddy Water Band has been ...

“I didn’t want to do a personal memoir. In fact, I really didn’t want this book to be about me at all,” Peter Wolf reveals, while describing how he came to write Waiting On The Moon: Artists, Poets, ...

Chicago blues legend Muddy Waters’ South Side home is on the cusp of earning landmark status, which would protect the look of the structure where his descendants plan to launch a museum and event ...