Waters, Muddy

Waters, Muddy McKinley A. Morganfield, 4 April 1913; Jug’s Corner, MS – 30 April 1983; Westmont, IL Muddy Waters is, in many ways, the archetypal bluesman. He was raised as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta, where he learned to play an acoustic guitar. He went to Chicago in 1943, and the band he assembled established the electric blues sound. During the next three and a half decades, his band became a springboard for many of his sidemen, launching a prominent school of blues performers…