Muddy Waters shack

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post-war blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".

 

Muddy Waters's place and date of birth are not conclusively known. He stated that he was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, in 1915, but other evidence suggests that he was born in Jug's Corner, in neighboring Issaquena County, in 1913.

 

Muddy Waters lived most of his first thirty years in a house on the Stovall Plantation. In 1996, the restored house was put on display at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale.