Outside of bustling Chicago are a cluster of quiet, park-filled suburbs. Discover which family-friendly suburb blues legend ...

In July 1974 a group of Chicago based blues artists who had already achieved legendary status gathered together with some of their younger blues brethren from all over the country to pay tribute to ...

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Since June 2017, Muddy Waters' image has beamed down from a 10-story mural at 17 N. State St. in Chicago. But the king bee of Chicago blues looms even larger over the city with his outsized musical ...

Today marks the 41 st anniversary of the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the world’s first museum dedicated to preserving the Blues of the past (and the state’s oldest music museum).

Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St., Bettendorf, has a full weekend of blues planned tonight through Sunday, with the first two nights free. Opening the shows is blues saxophonist Eddie Shaw and his band ...

Muddy Waters’ songs such as “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man” and “Rollin’ Stone” helped earn him a spot in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Sun-Times file photo Editor’s note: The weekly Illinois ...