When a local guitarist and blues singer in Clarksdale, Mississippi named McKinley Morganfield made his first field recording at the Stovall plantation, on August 31, 1941, he had no idea where this ...
The Chicago City Council landmarked the home of blues great Muddy Waters today, capping a months-long effort by preservationists and the musician’s family to gain official recognition of the historic ...
Muddy Waters was a Mississippi farmhand but wanted to be a well-known preacher or musician. "I couldn't preach," he says, so there was "nothing left for me to do but grab a guitar." Initially, he ...
The estate of Chicago blues pioneer Muddy Waters has signed a worldwide deal with Sony Music Publishing to administer his complete catalog of songs, including legendary hits such as “Mannish Boy,” ...
"The Prince of Delta Blues," Keith Johnson, will perform at 6:30 p.m. today during the reception for the Nelson Hackett Celebration at the Juke Joint Exhibit in the atrium of the Pryor Center on the ...
A lot of future Hall of Famers made their way through Dooley's Nightclub in the '70s and '80s, from Elvis Costello and the Attractions to Talking Heads and the Police. Tom Petty once recalled a night ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Portrait offers fourteen powerful numbers by Muddy Waters' eldest son, Mud ...
The effort to turn the former home of blues great Muddy Waters into a museum got its biggest financial boost to date, a $1.1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. The grant will go toward ...
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