Paul Oscher was 20 when he started playing harmonica for Muddy Waters. It was 1967, and he was a rare sight for the times: a white man playing in a Black blues band of such prominence. He more than ...

The Easter weekend puts a change in many blues schedules, but there still is plenty to do. On Friday, Black-Eyed Sally’s is hosting a Tribute to Muddy Waters. The show will feature XY Eli and the D.

It’s May 1968 and a turbulent age, with the life-changing political events of half a century still unfolding. Riots and revolution circle this third stone from the sun as war, terrorism and civil ...

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 ...

The four-bedroom Westmont home that blues legend Muddy Waters owned from 1973 until his death in 1983 sold for $329,000. Many view Waters as the father of Chicago blues, and he found commercial ...

KEYSTONE – Muddy Waters always wanted one of his children to follow in his footsteps and play the blues. But his wish didn’t come true until he died. A few years after Waters died in 1983, his son, ...

HARTMAN WILL HAVE YOUR FULL FORECAST IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. THIS YEAR MARKS 100 YEARS OF CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH. THAT’S RIGHT. A TRADITION THAT BEGAN AS JUST A WEEK IN 1926. IT GREW INTO AN ...

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 ...