In 1964, the Rolling Stones took a break from their first American tour to record several songs at Chess Records at 2120 S.

Keith Richards may have one of the best guitarists in modern rock, but he knew he was standing on the shoulders of his own ...

Muddy Waters is known as the father of the blues, and in 1969, he got together to record one of the finest albums of his career with some of his musical sons.

There are few figures in blues history as notable as Muddy Waters. Born McKinley Morganfield in 1913, Muddy was cetral to the ...

The Grammy Award-winning, Kennedy Center Honoree blues guitar legend Buddy Guy has performed with a ton of familiar names ...

This music is raw, rude and visceral and is delivered ... Spann is the keyboard man and co-leader of the legendary Muddy Waters Blues Band. I saw them at the Jazz Workshop about a month ago.

More than any other musician, Muddy Waters transformed the music of the Delta into modern electric blues. His influence was at the heart of English R&B bands such as the Rolling Stones ...

If you listen to Muddy Waters, for example, he's basically singing Delta blues that are citified and electrified. Delta blues is the foundation for that. When we listen to blues music of the 1920s ...

The famed singer-guitarist talks about his musical style, the failure he learned the most from and his memories of local ...