Among the biggest names in Chicago blues are Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Howlin’ Wolf, Koko Taylor, Little Walter, Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker, and Buddy Guy. Waters, who moved from Mississippi to Chicago in 1943, was an especially important figure in Chicago blues. Working with a local label that would become Chess Records, he shaped the genre by taking acoustic Delta blues songs and amplifying them with the use of electric guitar.
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