Browsing: Muddy Waters

Regardless of how one celebrates Halloween, most can agree that there’s always a hint of darkness in the air at this time of year.

Muddy Waters was the most important link between his urban black audience in the nightclubs of Chicago and the young white fans who came to know him as a result of the folk music craze beginning in the early to mid ’60s. Blues fans have heard his story time and time again. Here’s some things you may not have heard.

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Remembering Muddy Waters (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983)

Bluesman Brant Buckley’s Chicago Blues-inspired sound is melodic, rhythmic, and haunting, drawing from his folk and spiritual background with hints…

Blind Pig will resume in the coming weeks with a string of new signings, and new releases expected in 2024.

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‘Thanks’ is out October 27 via VizzTone!

Chess went on to put out some of the most beloved LPs in music history. Here are ten of them.

A true paragon of the blues, he brought the music of the Mississippi Delta to Chicago in 1952.