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"Muddy Waters embodies the American Dream. A Mississippi sharecropper who followed his dreams to Chicago, created the Chicago Blues and changed the world." ...
The Chicago home where blues legend Muddy Waters once lived and recorded music is a step closer to landmark status and becoming a museum in his honor.
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 museum and ...
In Deep by Andy Aledort OPEN WATERS These last few columns have been dedicated to exploring soloing approaches to the Muddy ...
Chicago is a town that oozes great blues. During the '40s and throughout the '50s, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Chuck Berry, and B.B. King all made their names in the Midwestern capital.
Black Ensemble Theater in Chicago will present Blue Heaven, a new original musical written and directed by Daryl D. Brooks, ...
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 ...
The movie "Sinners" showcases blues music from Chicago and Mississippi, linked by the Great Migration. Here's where to see blues in Chicago, as seen in "Sinners".
At 70, Mud Morganfield is now the same age as when his father, the great blues legend Muddy Waters, passed away in 1983. The fact puts new perspective on his ongoing mission: “to try to keep dad ...
Two-time Grammy nominated blues legend John Primer joins Lisa Dent to talk about his career, his time playing with Muddy Waters, and the evolution of blues. You can see John Primer this weekend at the ...
Since June of 1984, just a little over a year removed from the death of legendary Chicago bluesman Muddy Waters, Chicago Blues Fest has operated annually in the Windy City as the country’s ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago plans to dedicate a nine-story mural to blues music legend Muddy Waters before the city's annual blues festival this weekend.