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Muddy Waters

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Release
1
Year
1968
Plays
84

Releases

Biography

American blues guitarist, singer and composer.

Born 4 April 1913, Rolling Fork, Mississippi, USA.

Died 30 April 1983, Westmont, Illinois, USA.

Father of, and (died December 10, 2020, aged 56).

Considered by many to be a founder of the modern Chicago Blues style. A powerful inspiration in the emergence of the electric blues-oriented groups in the UK during the '60s. He became the most prominent interpreter of the electric blues.

On Morganfield's marriage license and Musician's Union card, he indicates the year of his birth as 1913.

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