Muddy Waters didn’t invent the blues but he certainly defined one of its many tributaries, first nailing down a definitive brand of the Mississippi Delta style before taking it north and into an ...

Muddy Waters gets together with Johnny Winter to walk us through classic Chicago blues including such great hits as Mannish Boy and I'm a King Bee.

Jimi Hendrix once said the blues are easy to play, but hard to feel. But that didn’t stop him from paying homage to elders in the genre via covers of Muddy Waters (“Mannish Boy”), Howlin’ Wolf ...

If the blues is the backbone of American popular music, then Muddy Waters was the backbone of the blues. Sure, there were plenty of significant blues artists before him and others after his heyday, ...