Muddy Waters, whose real name was McKinley Morganfield, was a famous blues musician known as the Father of Modern Chicago Blues. His music changed the blues and helped create rock and roll. His songs ...

Meet the Chicago blues legend whose music shaped rock, from Led Zeppelin to Jimi Hendrix. Muddy Waters recorded "Hoochie Coochie Man" on this day in 1954, forever shaping blues and future rock music.

The biggest names to come out of the Chicago blues scene are Howlin’ Wolf, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Koko Taylor, Elmore James, and Willie Dixon. Another name that is a part of that list is the one and ...

In 2012 Alex Musso was an economics major at Lafayette College but his passion was music when he formed a trio with fraternity borthers Zach Gold, a biochemistry major and guitarist, and Joey Tumulty, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few figures in American music loom as large as Muddy Waters. A transformative force in the evolution of modern blues, Waters bridged the acoustic traditions of the Mississippi Delta ...

One of the many classic songs written by Willie Dixon and recorded by Muddy Waters, "Hoochie Coochie Man" is a song that every blues guitarist and singer attempts to tackle. Not that they'd ever ...

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 ...

The meaning behind Rick Derringer’s 1973 hit “Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo” is often overshadowed by a single phrase. An initial listen to the burning rock anthem —crackling with power and passion—could ...

Muddy Waters (The Hoochie Coochie Man), Black Ensemble Theater. This is a blues concert masquerading as a play–but it’s a first-rate blues concert, which isn’t all that common anymore. While plenty of ...