Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Muddy Waters with his iconic red Fender Telecaster. There are few figures in blues history as notable as Muddy Waters. Born ...

When Muddy Waters moved to Chicago in 1943, it didn’t take him terribly long to find his footing in the local music community ...

HARTMAN WILL HAVE YOUR FULL FORECAST IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. THIS YEAR MARKS 100 YEARS OF CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH. THAT’S RIGHT. A TRADITION THAT BEGAN AS JUST A WEEK IN 1926. IT GREW INTO AN ...

In 1964, the Rolling Stones took a break from their first American tour to record several songs at Chess Records at 2120 S. Michigan Ave. It was where Chicago’s Black blues performers made the records ...

Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson is best known as a sideman to Magic Sam and Muddy Waters, but he could tear up a stage all by ...

In addition to being one of the oldest American music genres, the blues is also the very foundation of rock ‘n’ roll. Without them, bands such as the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and truly any other ...

Music fans are singing the blues following the closure this week of The Stanhope House, the cramped Sussex County club where Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, and Stevie Ray Vaughn once played. A notice on ...

It’s appropriate that when ZZ Top’s Billy F. Gibbons makes his appearance at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale this Wednesday, April 9 th, he will be celebrating both the creation of the “Muddywood ...

The red-brick two-flat in Kenwood was the longtime home and rehearsal space of the blues great and provided temporary housing and a place to jam for several other musicians. McKinley Morganfield ...

Getting his start as a member of the legendary Muddy Waters’ band, Little Walter Jacobs took the harmonica to a whole new level. Developing his own unique techniques, blues musicians still look to him ...