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.

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(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 ...

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Portnoy spent nearly six years in Muddy Waters’ band ... a general reader and not just blues music diehards. He is also revamping his website and hopes to have a new edition of his “Blues ...

The all-day event will feature the South Shore café's house band, Black Harmonix, alongside musicians Rodney Gipson, Jesse ...

Blues music arose from hardship ... Smokestack Lightning 4. Muddy Waters – 'I Can’t Be Satisfied' (1948) When Muddy Waters picked up an electric guitar in Chicago, the Blues didn’t just ...

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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 ...

Exploring the strange case of Johnny Winter, the blues guitarist who sued DC Comics in 1996 over a grotesque portrayal of him in a series of Jonah Hex comics.