The Big Muddy Blues Festival celebrates St. Louis’ musical heritage by bringing the blues community together every Labor Day weekend. Staged at Laclede’s Landing, the festival was complicated this ...

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People, how come I can’t be happy, like everybody else? / Yeah, how come I can’t be happy, well you know like everybody else? / You know I’ve been layin’ round in Chicago, you know I just been grievin ...

In the late Sixties and early Seventies, Johnny Winter vied for the pinnacle of guitar heroism with the legendary likes of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix. In retrospect, it's not just his ...

For a Mississippi sharecropper, arriving in the metropolis of Chicago was akin to Dorothy's Technicolor deliverance in "The Wizard of Oz." Sprawling and rich in comparison to the South of 1943, ...

'The sound be empty out there. At night, in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries." So said Muddy Waters to author Robert Palmer, recalling his native Mississippi, when the music he ...

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It was a seminal moment in British rock and blues history when Muddy Waters first toured in 1958, but not because his "screaming" electric guitar horrified the staid, malnourished audience. Apparently ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Sam Lay, a Chicago blues drummer and vocalist who played with Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, has died at age 86. Lay died Saturday of natural ...

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At Westfallenhalle Dortmund on December 10, 1978 for the Rockpalast recording, Muddy Waters mighty vocals and his splendid charisma on stage fascinated the audience. Muddy's guitar play on Fender ...

Martin Chilton is a former Culture Editor for The Telegraph. He was formerly Sports Editor and a columnist for the Evening Standard. Prior to this Martin has edited music books and magazines and ...