Ryan Coogler's box-office hit "Sinners" is steeped in the blues, its folklore and legends. People can't get enough of the ...

Muddy Waters is arguably the father of modern blues music, and consequently, he influenced major bands and artists such as Cream, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, and Chuck Berry.

(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 ...

It's 1963, and the music world is changing ... and rawness of electric blues to the world in the form of pioneering recordings by the likes of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. But, seeing that ...

Eric Clapton already was a legend before the 1960s were out, but he knew that he was completely fine playing licks for some ...

More than any other musician, Muddy Waters transformed the music of the Delta into modern electric blues. His influence was at the heart of English R&B bands such as the Rolling Stones ...

Joe Louis Walker, the guitarist and electric blues musician, died at the age of 75 last month. Walker’s family confirmed the ...

If you listen to Muddy Waters, for example, he's basically singing Delta blues that are citified and electrified. Delta blues is the foundation for that. When we listen to blues music of the 1920s ...

Image The hard work of blues musicians “has led to the music you ... I was afraid to say anything, him and Muddy Waters and all those great people, Son House, Fred McDowell.