Muddy Waters

When he died in 1983 at the age of sixty-eight, McKinley Morganfield was possibly the
best-known bluesman in the world. Yet the notoriety of the onetime Mississippi plantation
hand known as Muddy Waters is due largely to his overwhelming influence on a pivotal
generation of rockers – Sixties wild boys like the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Eric
Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Winter – who covered his tunes, hot-wired hi... More >