Muddy Waters
15 Greatest Blues Guitarists of All Time: The Definitive List
Ranking the greatest blues guitarists of all time invites argument, and that is exactly the point. However, any honest list has to…
Great Migration Blues: How 6 Million People Changed Music
Great Migration Blues: How 6 Million People Changed Music Great Migration blues began with moments like this one: in 1943, a young…
Blues Music Timeline: African Roots to Today
Blues Music Timeline: 25 Moments That Built America’s Most Powerful Sound This blues music timeline tracks the key moments that forged one…
Little Walter: He Amplified Harmonica and Changed Blues
Little Walter: The Daring Stunning Truth of Blues Harmonica On May 12, 1952, a twenty-two-year-old harmonica player walked into Universal Recording Studios…
Willie Dixon: He Wrote the Songs That Built Chicago Blues
Willie Dixon: The Untold Architect of Chicago Blues In January 1954, Willie Dixon handed Muddy Waters a set of lyrics backstage at…
Origins of Blues Music: From Field Hollers to Records
Origins of Blues Music: A Complete History On a sweltering night around 1903, a traveling bandleader named W.C. Handy fell asleep waiting…
Pinetop Perkins: The Startling Truth of a Blues Piano Life
Pinetop Perkins: The Startling Truth of a Blues Piano Life In a Clarksdale, Mississippi juke joint sometime around 1943, a woman pulled…
10 Amazing Essential Blues Records You Need to Know Now
10 Essential Blues Records That Belong in Every Collection In 1961, a Columbia Records producer pulled together twenty-nine songs by a Mississippi…
Muddy Waters: The Man Who Electrified Chicago Blues
Muddy Waters: The Powerful Hidden New Voice of Chicago Blues In August 1941, a folklorist named Alan Lomax drove a government sedan…
Son House: Revolutionary Slide Guitar Preacher of the Delta
Son House: The Delta Preacher Who Defined Raw Blues In May 1930, a Paramount Records producer traveled to Lula, Mississippi, looking for…