MORGANFIELD, McKINLEY (MUDDYWATERS
). Bluesman ( in Rolling Fork, Mississippi). His mother died when he was three years old, and he was sent to live in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He taught himself to play harmonica and guitar at an early age; during the 1930s he played with a string band, and in 1942 he toured with the Silas Green tent show. In 1940 he recorded blues for folklorists
Alan Lomax
and John Work. Although he performed widely during this period,...