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 ...

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 ...

Martin Chilton is a former Culture Editor for The Telegraph. He was formerly Sports Editor and a columnist for the Evening Standard. Prior to this Martin has edited music books and magazines and ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few figures in American music loom as large as Muddy Waters. A transformative force in the evolution of modern blues, Waters bridged the acoustic traditions of the Mississippi Delta ...

Long before he joined the Jesus and Mary Chain, John Moore was in thrall to the blues, and Muddy Waters was his king bee On 8 December 1978, two weeks shy of my 14th birthday, I experienced my first ...

His biography of blues legend Muddy Waters, Can't Be Statisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters, is now out in paperback. Waters is credited with inventing electric blues and creating the template ...

Muddy Waters is, in many ways, the archetypal bluesman. He was raised as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta, where he learned to play an acoustic guitar. He went to Chicago in 1943, and the band ...

'The sound be empty out there. At night, in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries." So said Muddy Waters to author Robert Palmer, recalling his native Mississippi, when the music he ...

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