When Waters, a Chicago blues legend who spent his last decade living ... Born McKinley Morganfield, Muddy Waters died in 1983. Bloom also donated a painting using ultraviolet paint of Waters ...

The four-bedroom Westmont home that blues legend Muddy Waters owned from 1973 until his death in 1983 sold for $329,000. Many view Waters as the father of Chicago blues, and he found commercial ...

Born McKinley Morganfield, the boy who would become guitarist Muddy Waters embraced the blues from an early age, even if the grandmother who raised him didn’t approve: “Last I checked ...

Muddy Waters is arguably the father of modern blues music, and consequently, he influenced major bands and artists such as Cream, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, and Chuck Berry.

Wertheimer recently talked to Mud Morganfield, son of blues legend Muddy Waters, along with harmonica great Kim Wilson, about their new album of Muddy music, "For Pops: A Tribute to Muddy Waters." ...

CHICAGO — 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 ...

With that in mind, he tasked one of his biggest stars, Mississippi native Muddy Waters, with recording ... realize his misunderstanding of the blues guitar legend. “When Leonard Chess found ...

But there’s another person basking in the movie’s success: blues legend Buddy Guy ... They’re like, ‘Who is that? Who’s Muddy Waters’ My grandkids don’t know nothing about the ...

He moved to Chicago at 18 and came into the blues in the most honest of ways.” Going for a Muddy Waters ... He was Waters’ guitarist and bandleader from 1980 until the legend’s death in ...

There, he joined forces with legendary blues guitarist Muddy Waters and became a key member of Waters’ band. His dynamic playing transformed the harmonica into a lead instrument in blues bands ...