Preservationists are pushing to landmark a Chicago home that legendary blues singer Muddy Waters bought in the 1950s. The group includes city officials and a Waters descendent who owns the North ...

Born in Louisiana in 1936, it was in Baton Rouge during the mid-1950s where Buddy Guy got his indoctrination into the moves that were part and parcel of many blues guitarists’ stage acts. “I saw ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chess Records, which brought blues to white audiences in the 1950s and 60s, is one of a handful of labels identified with one musical genre - as Stax is with soul, Sun with ...

The Chicago home where blues legend Muddy Waters once lived and recorded music is a step closer to landmark status and becoming a museum in his honor. The Commission on Chicago Landmarks on Thursday ...

This story was originally posted in our sister paper, the Village Voice. Muddy Waters Restored in Rolling Fork: The March tornado that destroyed the Mississippi hamlet near the birthplace of blues ...

First, a key spoiler: Cadillac Records is not the story of Chess Records, the blues label started in Chicago in 1950 by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess that featured among its stable of artists Muddy ...

The partnership of guitarists/vocalists Johnny Winter and Muddy Waters in the late-seventies was a collaboration in the truest sense of the word. The success and recognition that arose from their ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO (AP) — Sam Lay, a Chicago blues ...

CHICAGO (AP) - The Chicago home where blues legend Muddy Waters once lived and recorded music is a step closer to landmark status and becoming a museum in his honor. The Commission on Chicago ...