When Muddy Waters moved to Chicago in 1943, it didn’t take him terribly long to find his footing in the local music community. “There was quite a few people around singing the blues, but most of them ...

On this day (April 30) in 1983, McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters, died in his sleep in his Westmont, Illinois, home at the age of 70. It is hard to overstate his influence on modern ...

Born McKinley Morganfield in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, Muddy Waters grew up surrounded by the rhythms and traditions that shaped the Delta blues. His early years on Stovall Plantation introduced him ...