Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Muddy Waters with his iconic red Fender Telecaster. There are few figures in blues history as notable as Muddy Waters. Born ...

Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson is best known as a sideman to Magic Sam and Muddy Waters, but he could tear up a stage all by ...

Everybody around Stovall Plantation knew McKinley Morganfield for two things -- moonshine and blues. So when the 28-year-old sharecropper heard a white man was looking for him, he was sure it was a ...

For a Mississippi sharecropper, arriving in the metropolis of Chicago was akin to Dorothy's Technicolor deliverance in "The Wizard of Oz." Sprawling and rich in comparison to the South of 1943, ...

MUDDY WATERS electrified the blues — literally and figuratively. His iconic 1950s recordings set the template for Chicago’s amplified blues, shape-shifting the sound from its rural, acoustic roots to ...

When Muddy Waters moved to Chicago in 1943, it didn’t take him terribly long to find his footing in the local music community ...

In the late Sixties and early Seventies, Johnny Winter vied for the pinnacle of guitar heroism with the legendary likes of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix. In retrospect, it's not just his ...

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The Easter weekend puts a change in many blues schedules, but there still is plenty to do. On Friday, Black-Eyed Sally’s is hosting a Tribute to Muddy Waters. The show will feature XY Eli and the D.

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 ...