The eldest son of Muddy Waters continues the great tradition of electric Chicago Blues in this set of 12 originals and two Chess-era Muddy revivals.
The eldest son of the immortal Muddy Waters, Mud has followed in his beloved dad's mammoth footsteps, staunchly keeping the traditional Chicago blues flame alight by faithfully singing Muddy's songs as well as plenty of his own originals in front of an all-star band of local heavy-hitters. He sauntered onto the main stage at the 2025 Chicago Blues Festival to belt his father's "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" as one of the main cogs in a gala celebration of Chess Records' 75th anniversary, looking and sounding every bit the heir to Muddy's gilded throne.
Everything in Mud's musical life traces directly back to his father. "Dad played the most
important role with my being. He shared an affair with my mother, and they had me!" he says. "I
was born in the blues, man. I used to have to tap music on the side of my head before I went to sleep. I've had music running through my being all my life, since I've been here."
As Mud grew up, his father was there to help his offspring in any and all of his musical
endeavors. "I started out as a drummer," says Mud. "I'd get a set of drums from Dad--first the little paper ones. I had to let this music out some way. Then I would tear them up, and then a couple of weeks later he'd get me another pair. And he finally got me a real set with some tougher skins. You know, just starting off an amateur, I would bust the snare on that. And one day, when I was about 16 years old, I went to an Earth, Wind & Fire concert and saw Verdine White playing bass, and that did it. I put the drums down, and I've been playing the bass secretly at least 30-something years now.
Mud didn't emerge musically until the 2000s when veteran blues chanteuse Mary Lane gave him some of his earliest showcases on the West Side. His debut album was released in 2008. A three-time Blues Music Award nominee, his 2014 Severn Records release in collaboration with harmonica ace Kim Wilson, 'For Pops-A Tribute to Muddy Waters,' earned him the coveted award.
Track Listing
Bring Me My Whiskey Strange Woman Don't Leave Me She's Getting Her Groove On Ernestine Cosigner Man In and Out of My Life Country Boy
