Muddy Waters, born McKinley Morganfield in Mississippi about 1913, was a dynamic American blues guitarist and singer who played a major role in creating the post-World War II electric blues that typified the Chicago blues style. Waters moved to Chicago in 1943 and later recorded for a local label that became Chess Records. His classic songs include “Trouble No More,” “Got My Mojo Working,” “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man,” and “Mannish Boy.” An enormous influence on rock music, he especially inspired Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones, who took their band name from Waters’s song “Rollin’ Stone.”
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