Muddy Waters Muddy Waters got his nickname from ... a cornerstone of what we call rock music today. In 1951 ‘Louisiana Blues’ became the second in his run of sixteen chart hits, which included ...
The R&B charts of the 1950s were profitable territory for Muddy Waters. After scoring his first top ten hit in that format in 1951, with “Louisiana Blues,” he reached that upper echelon of the ...
There are few figures in blues history as notable as Muddy Waters. Born McKinley Morganfield in 1913, Muddy was cetral to the ...