Muddy waters

The original 'Rollin' Stone' on a life with the blues

Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) by Sylvia Pitcher

Chicago blues legends Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon will be honored with what’s billed as a “special centennial celebration” at the 32nd annual Chicago Blues Festival in June in G…

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At Grant Park Chicago

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Junior Wells credited Muddy Waters with his success. “Muddy showed me how to carry myself around people and to remember that didn’t nobody owe me nothin’ and knowin’ not to get the big head or anything like that,” Wells told Living Blues. “He told me it could take sometime years to get a thing to go for yourself and then sometime you could get it quicker than that and then lose the same thing overnight. He’d say, ‘Always remember, whatever you do, do not disrespect the public.’ Gordon…

Take Five takes a detour with jazz's older cousin, the blues, as well as one of its most recognizable techniques: slide guitar. Gliding a bottleneck up and down the strings, the guitarist creates a world-weary sound. Muddy Waters sits at the center of this decades-spanning list.

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