The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame calls the Muddy Waters recording catalog “one of the great musical treasures” of the 20th century. Besides legendary blues musician Robert Johnson, reads ...

Muddy Waters’ songs such as “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man” and “Rollin’ Stone” helped earn him a spot in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Sun-Times file photo Editor’s note: The weekly Illinois ...

The second single from Bibb's forthcoming album is named after Muddy Waters, and he and guitarist Robbie McIntosh put on a ...

Hailing from Issaquena County, Mississippi (10 bucks to anyone who can prove they’ve actually been there), McKinley Morganfield—the man you know as Muddy Waters—spent the better part of the second ...

When he passed away recently at the age of 89, B.B. King was rightly hailed as “The King of the Blues.” But in an earlier era, that title could have (and did) often belong to another man: Muddy Waters ...

Margolin played with Waters for almost seven years and maintained their friendship until the blues icon's death in 1983 ...

All Is By My Side – the Jimi Hendrix biopic currently being shot in Ireland, starring Outkast‘s Andre Benjamin (a.k.a. Andre 3000) – will feature new recordings of Benjamin covering the Beatles, Muddy ...

OLD SAYBROOK — With a name like Muddy “Mississippi” Waters and an address in Chicago for most of his life, you wouldn’t think blues legend Muddy Waters would be a candidate for enshrinement in the New ...

Trust the British to go and dig up as much blues roots as possible. The blues as a music form was born in the states with folks like Robert Johnson, Son House and Muddy Waters. It was a blend of art ...

The estate of Chicago blues pioneer Muddy Waters has signed a worldwide deal with Sony Music Publishing to administer his complete catalog of songs, including legendary hits such as “Mannish Boy,” ...

Since June 2017, Muddy Waters' image has beamed down from a 10-story mural at 17 N. State St. in Chicago. But the king bee of Chicago blues looms even larger over the city with his outsized musical ...

Carrying on the legacy of Waters and other postwar Chicago blues greats is the mission of current Chicago blues kingpin Buddy Guy, who once operated the late, lamented Checkerboard Lounge on a section ...