The blues giant also called Stevie Ray Vaughan "one of the greatest" and raved about B.B. King and Muddy Waters in this ...

Elvis and Priscilla were married. Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and The Doors all released their debut albums. The Aretha Franklin anthem, “Repect” hit ...

by a Delta blues singer with a big, booming voice who was born McKinley Morganfield, in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. He went under the stage name Muddy Waters, and had already seen some chart action ...

Although Eric Clapton was a bluesy troubadour from the beginning, he had a special fondness for those speaking his musical language.

"What you have to learn about the blues," says Bobby Rush ... the genre's biggest influences but died in 1938, at only 27. Muddy Waters was accidentally discovered in 1941 by the musicologist ...

No one would confuse Berkshire County, Massachusetts, a hospitable place for classical and folk music, with the Mississippi Delta ... by Muddy Waters and “Down Home Blues” by Ethel Waters.

“What you have to learn about the blues,” says Bobby Rush ... He became one of the genre’s biggest influences but died in 1938, at only 27. Muddy Waters was accidentally discovered in 1941 by the ...

The Boswell Sisters in 1933, featuring a blues solo from Connee Boswell ... the moon and stars of the sleepy south or the muddy waters of the delta on songs like “Got The South In My Soul ...

B.B. King, Robert Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Albert King ... Schoppmeyer went on to perform with local blues pushers Delta Heat, whose 2009 CD was recorded by Scottie ...