Muddy Waters
USA
Born: 04 April 1915
Died: 30 April 1983
Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80
Genres: Blues
Styles: Chicago Blues, Electric Chicago Blues, Electric Blues, Delta Blues, Country Blues, Pre-War Country Blues, Blues Revival, Acoustic Blues, Early American Blues, Slide Guitar Blues
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A postwar Chicago blues scene without the magnificent contributions of Muddy Waters is absolutely unimaginable. From the late '40s on, he eloquently defined the city's aggressive, swaggering, Delta-rooted sound with his declamatory vocals and piercing slide guitar attack. When he passed away in 1983, the Windy City would never quite recover. Like many of his contemporaries on the Chicago circuit, Waters was a product of the fertile Mississippi Delta. Born McKinley Morganfield in Rolling Fork, he grew up in nearby Clarksdale on Stovall's Plantat...
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