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 (CBS)-- The nine-story-tall Muddy Waters mural in the Loop was formally dedicated Thursday, accompanied by - what else? The blues. The mural has actually been up on the building at State and ...

Mississippi blues harp player James Cotton was certainly considered lucky for the break he got joining Muddy Waters’ band in the late 1950s, taking over a spot previously held by such venerated ...

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OLD SAYBROOK — With a name like Muddy “Mississippi” Waters and an address in Chicago for most of his life, you wouldn’t think blues legend Muddy Waters would be a candidate for enshrinement in the New ...

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In the official year of the blues, drummer Francis Clay, now in his seventh decade as a working musician, says he's "having a ball." This San Francisco resident's primary claim to fame is as the ...

Former Muddy Waters band member Paul Oscher plays the real blues. He’s not about fancy guitar riffs and shouting. From his home in Austin, he says, “Telling stories is the most important thing. The ...

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 ...

As a young man, Jerry Portnoy certainly didn’t expect or plan to have a career as a blues harmonica player. He’d already been on a roulette wheel of life paths: failed college student, ...

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 ...