There are few figures in blues history as notable as Muddy Waters. Born McKinley Morganfield ... sound that served as a bedrock for all later guitar-based music. Like many early blues artists ...

Knowing his Mississippi roots, Chess essentially wanted Waters to find for him his own Robert Johnson. Waters had other ideas ...

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not the original—but I am a nineties kid), as well as a handful of Delta blues tunes from the likes of Robert Johnson (“Walking Blues”) and Muddy Waters (“Rollin’ and Tumblin’).

Guitar legend T-Bone Walker ... creating many musical innovations Muddy Waters was a huge influence in turning the music of the Mississippi Delta into modern-style electric blues In 1920 Mamie ...