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Many landmark moments in rock history have resulted from artists updating the blues. And 1967 proved to be an especially ...

Men don't come more masculine than Muddy Waters. The dignified blues great whose face always looked like it was carved out of granite sang with a primordial force. "I'm a man," he famously sang, "That ...

The effort to turn the former home of blues great Muddy Waters into a museum got its biggest financial boost to date, a $1.1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. The grant will go toward ...

NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks Mud Morganfield, son of blues legend Muddy Waters, along with harmonica great Kim Wilson, about their new album of... Son Records A Testimonial To Muddy Water's Electric ...

If the blues is the backbone of American popular music, then Muddy Waters was the backbone of the blues. Sure, there were plenty of significant blues artists before him and others after his heyday, ...

Before and after: The first marker was ripped away by the tornado and hasn't been found; the replacement stands proud, conveying some of the mystery that will always surround the blues legend. L: ...