Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1915–April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the father of Chicago blues."

Born in Rolling F

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1915–April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the father of Chicago blues."

Born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, Morganfield moved to Clarksdale, Mississippi at the age of three, when his mother died. Waters was subsequently raised by his grandmother. Waters was first recorded on a Mississippi Delta plantation by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941. Lomax had been looking to make more recordings of the legendary Robert Johnson, and he was unaware of Johnson's death, three years earlier.