Topic: Muddy Waters
AP News | 2009-11-27 11:48:49
At 96, Pinetop Perkins still turning out signature Chicago blues in noisy clubs, smoky bars
Noisy crowds in smoky bars don't bother 96-year-old bluesman Pinetop Perkins. It's all part of his job. Most nights, after he snuffs out his menthol cigarette, Perkins slides onto the piano bench in some club and eases into a wail about hard times ...
AP News | 2008-12-02 00:17:39
In this image released by Sony TriStar Pictures, Adrien Brody portrays Leonard Chess, left and Jeffrey Wright portrays Muddy Waters in a scene from, "Cadillac Records." (AP Photo/Sony TriStar, Eric Liebowitz)
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AP News | 2008-12-02 00:17:34
Movie Review: Music biopic `Cadillac Records' plays song you've heard countless times before
Darnell Martin could have made an entire movie about Muddy Waters. Or Etta James. Or Chuck Berry. Instead, the writer-director has made a movie about all of them with "Cadillac Records," cramming their complicated individual stories into the larger saga of Chicago-based Chess Records, the ...
