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 ...

Celebrating more than 40 years playing together, and a combined age of 170, pianist Willie “Pinetop” Perkins, 97, and drummer/harpist Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, 73, are dropping some serious blues on ...

Two definitive blues albums, The Best of Muddy Waters and Moanin’ in the Moonlight, are each, in their own right, a powerful collection of blues songs.

There isn’t an official Mount Rushmore for American blues, but if there was, Muddy Waters would certainly be one of those four figures etched in stone. When his former guitarist Bob Margolin returns ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- DCJ Live knows how to rock! The talented group of CPS students is paying tribute to the iconic Chicago Blues musician Muddy Waters. The band joined ABC7 to talk about how they met, ...

Muddy Waters passed away in 1983. But for his longtime drummer, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, the father of the electric blues is still with us, heard every time any band draws on the hard-edged sound that ...

A veteran of legendary bluesman Muddy Waters' band will play Friday night at the Muddy Waters, 1708 State St., Bettendorf John Primer, a Mississippi native backed by his Chicago-based band, will bring ...

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Paul Oscher, who moved to Austin eight years ago after a career that included many years in blues legend Muddy Waters' band, died Sunday at age 71. He had been hospitalized with COVID-19 for several ...