chicago blues

Magic Slim was forced to give up playing the piano when he lost his little finger in a cotton gin mishap. He moved first to nearby Grenada.He first came to Chicago in 1955 with his friend and mentor Magic Sam. The elder Magic (Sam) let the younger Magic (Slim) play bass with his band, and gave him his nickname. At first Slim was not rated very highly by his peers. He returned to Mississippi to work and got his younger brother Nick interested in playing bass. By 1965 he was back in Chicago and in 1970 Nick joined him in his group, the Teardrops.

Muddy Waters' first-born son arrived in 1954 and was given his mother's maiden name. The boy was raised by his mother and often heard the nicknames "Muddy", "Mud Jr." and "Little Mud". Also known as Larry Williams, today he says you can, "Just call me MUD!" Just like his old man Mud Morganfield was a truck driver with a passion for music and in his spare time he would sing with various soul groups.

A Leicester based blues band,12 years and still going strong after many line-up changes
Current band members are-
Mick Ridgeway,Vocals and Harmonica
Al Sansome,Guitar and Vocals
Charlie Lewin,Bass and Vocals
Adi Wood Drums,Backing Vocals They have released several albums under their own steam including Aint Life Hard, Dark End of the Street,
The First Ten Years,and Listen to the Blues.

Musselwhite was born in the rural hill country of Mississippi. He has said that he is of Choctaw descent, and he was born in a region originally inhabited by the Choctaw. However, in a 2005 interview, he said his mother had told him he was actually Cherokee. His family considered it normal to play music, with his father playing guitar and harmonica, his mother playing piano, and a relative who was a one-man band. At the age of three, Musselwhite moved to Memphis, Tennessee.

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