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

There are few figures in blues history as notable as Muddy Waters. Born McKinley Morganfield in 1913, Muddy was cetral to the evolution of the genre, from its beginnings as the folk music of the ...

Two definitive blues albums, The Best of Muddy Waters and Moanin’ in the Moonlight, are each, in their own right, a powerful collection of blues songs.

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Two-time Grammy nominated blues legend John ...

Thanks to bands such as The Eagles and Led Zeppelin, these three blues albums from the 1970s are overly slept on.

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The blues has always been a music form that’s found its proponents having healthy respect for its roots and history, particularly with younger musicians being sure to pay homage to the elder statesman ...

For 24-year-old Grammy-winning blues guitarist and singer Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, growing up in the shadows of musical giants like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, and Robert Johnson — who were ...

This story was originally posted in our sister paper, the Village Voice. Muddy Waters Restored in Rolling Fork: The March tornado that destroyed the Mississippi hamlet near the birthplace of blues ...