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 ...

Jimi Hendrix praised Muddy Waters as one of the greatest ever, revealing how the blues icon inspired his approach to guitar ...

Meet the Chicago blues legend whose music shaped rock, from Led Zeppelin to Jimi Hendrix.

This story was originally posted in our sister paper, the Village Voice. Muddy Waters Restored in Rolling Fork: The March tornado that destroyed the Mississippi hamlet near the birthplace of blues ...

There aren’t many branches left on the Muddy Waters blues tree. Waters, known as the father of Chicago blues, fostered a cadre of sensational blues musicians on his albums and in his band, stretching ...

NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks Mud Morganfield, son of blues legend Muddy Waters, along with harmonica great Kim Wilson, about their new album of... Son Records A Testimonial To Muddy Water's Electric ...

Men don't come more masculine than Muddy Waters. The dignified blues great whose face always looked like it was carved out of granite sang with a primordial force. "I'm a man," he famously sang, "That ...

If the blues is the backbone of American popular music, then Muddy Waters was the backbone of the blues. Sure, there were plenty of significant blues artists before him and others after his heyday, ...

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