Afro-American Blues and Game Songs (album) ref1
After the Rain (album) ref1, ref2, ref3
Agee, James, ref1
“Ain’t It a Shame,” ref1
Alexander, Willard, ref1, ref2
Alexenburg, Ron, ref1
“All Aboard,” ref1, ref2
Alligator Records, ref1, ref2
Allison, Ray, ref1, ref2
Allman Brothers, ref1
All Platinum Records, ref1, ref2, ref3
All-Star Blues Band, ref1
American Federation of Musicians, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
American Folk Blues Festival, ref1, ref2
American Negro Songs (Work) ref1
Ammons, Gene, ref1, ref2, ref3
Anderson, Anne, ref1
Anderson, Annie Mae, ref1
Anderson, Lois, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Anderson, Sam, ref1, ref2
Animals, ref1
Antone, Clifford, ref1
Antone’s, ref1, ref2
Apollo Records, ref1
Apollo Theater, ref1, ref2
Archia, Tom, ref1
Archive of American Song, ref1
Arc Music, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
The Aristocrat of the Blues (album) ref1
Aristocrat Records, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Armstrong, Henry, ref1
Armstrong, Louis, ref1
Arnold, Billy Boy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Arnold, Kokomo, ref1
Arnold, Mack, ref1
Aron, Evelyn, ref1, ref2, ref3
Associated Records, ref1
Atlantic Records, ref1, ref2
“Atomic Bomb Blues,” ref1
Austin, Mary, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Austin, Texas, ref1
Avedon, Richard, ref1
Avery Fisher Hall, ref1
Aykroyd, Dan, ref1
“Baby Please Don’t Go,” ref1, ref2, ref2, ref3
Baker, Kenny, ref1
The Band, ref1, ref2
Bang Bang. See Williams, Charles
Barbecue Bob, ref1
Barber, Chris, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Bass, Ralph, ref1, ref2, ref3
Batt’s Restaurant, ref1, ref2
Beacon Theater, ref1
Beale Black and Blue (McKee and Chisenhall) ref1
Beale Street, ref1, ref2
“Be Honest with Me,” ref1
Bell, Carey, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bell Grove Missionary Baptist Church, ref1
“Bell Telephone Presents the Blues” (TV) ref1
Below, Fred, ref1, ref2, ref3
Belushi, John, ref1
Bentley, Bill, ref1
Berry, Chuck, ref1, ref2, ref3; band members and, ref1; Chess Records and, ref1; “Come On,” ref1; criminal charges against, ref1; effect of, on blues, ref1; “Maybellene,” ref1; Spann and, ref1
Berry, Mabel, ref1
The Best of Muddy Waters (album) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
The Big Bopper, ref1
Big Foot Chester, ref1
Big John’s, ref1
Bilbo, Theodore G., ref1
Billboard, ref1, ref2; blues music and, ref1, ref2; Chess Records and, ref1, ref2; Electric Mud (album), ref1; “Hoochie Coochie Man,” ref1; “I’m Ready,” ref1; Little Walter and, ref1; “Maybellene,” ref1; Moondog Coronation Ball, ref1; Most-Played Jukebox Race Records chart, ref1, ref2; on standby markets, ref1; “Standing Around Crying,” ref1; Trendsetter Award, ref1
Bishop, Elvin, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Black Boy (Wright) ref1
Black Ensemble Theater Company, ref1
Black Metropolis (Wright) ref1
“Black Night,” ref1
“Black Spider Blues,” ref1
Blackstone Rangers, ref1, ref2, ref3
Blackwell, Scrapper, ref1
Bland, Bobby “Blue,” ref1, ref2, ref3
Blind Blake, ref1
Blind Pig Records, ref1
Bloomfield, Michael, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
“Blow Wind Blow,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
“Bluebird Blues,” ref1, ref2
blues, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; bottleneck style, ref1; Chicago, ref1, ref2, ref3; chiffon, ref1; church and, ref1; country, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; Delta, ref1; early development of, ref1; electric, ref1, ref2; folk music and, ref1, ref2; form of, ref1; gospel music and, ref1, ref2; labels producing, ref1; lyrical structure of, ref1, ref2; poverty and, ref1; rock and roll and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; spirituals and, ref1; St. Louis, ref1; West Side sound, ref1; white audiences and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
“The Blues and Gospel Train” (TV) ref1
“Blues Before Sunrise,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Blues Blues Blues (album) ref1, ref2
Blues Brothers (film) ref1
Blues Foundation, ref1, ref2, ref3
Blues from Big Bill’s Copa Cabana (album) ref1, ref2
Blues from the Cradle (album) ref1
“The Blues Had a Baby,” ref1
Blues Hall of Fame, ref1, ref2, ref3
Blues Incorporated, ref1, ref2
Blue Sky Records, ref1
A Blues Life (Townsend and Greensmith) ref1
Blue Smitty, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Blues Sky (album) ref1
Blues Unlimited (album) ref1
Blues Way label, ref1
The Blues World of Little Walter (album) ref1
Bohaner, Scott, ref1, ref2
“Boll Weevil,” ref1
Bolton, Andrew, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; car accident and, ref1; covers Muddy’s jobs, ref1; death of, ref1; as driver, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; in Muddy’s Chicago house, ref1, ref2, ref3; physical description of, ref1, ref2; Sumlin and, ref1
“Boogie Chillen,” ref1
Boogie Woogie Inn, ref1, ref2
bootlegging, ref1
“Born in Chicago,” ref1, ref2
Bossmen (Rooney) ref1
Boston Phoenix, ref1
bottleneck blues, ref1
Bottom Line, ref1
The Bottom of the Blues (album) ref1, ref2
Bowie, David, ref1
Boyd, Eddie, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Boyd, Joe, ref1, ref2
Brenston, Jackie, ref1
“Bring It On Home to Me,” ref1
Brisbin, John, ref1
Brooks, Harvey, ref1
Broonzy, Big Bill, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Brown, Carrie, ref1
Brown, Earl, ref1
Brown, James, ref1, ref2
Brown, J. T., ref1
Brown, Lee, ref1
Brown, Willie, ref1, ref2
“Brown-Eyed Handsome Man,” ref1
Brown’s Village, ref1
brozine, ref1, ref2
Bubba. See Mildred (outside wife)
Buford, George “Mojo,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Burbridge, Graham, ref1
Burch, Ken, ref1
Burdon, Eric, ref1
Burnett, Chester, ref1, ref2
Burnside, Annie Mae, ref1
Burnside, R. L., ref1, ref2
“Burr Clover Blues,” ref1, ref2, ref3
Butera, Sam, ref1
Butterfield, Paul, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Butterfield Blues Band, ref1
Cadet Concept, ref1
Cafe au Go-Go, ref1
“Caldonia,” ref1
Cameron, Scott: band troubles and, ref1; Chess Records and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; Dixon and, ref1; Geneva and, 361; The Last Waltz (film), ref1; as manager, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; Mandingo (film), ref1; Muddy’s death and, re
f1; Muddy’s family and, ref1, ref2; Muddy’s recordings and, ref1, ref2, ref3
“Canary Bird,” ref1
canned heat, ref1, ref2
Can’t Get No Grinding (album) ref1, ref2, ref3
“Can’t Get No Grinding,” ref1
Carnegie Hall, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Carr, Leroy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Carter, James “Sweet Lucy,” ref1, ref2
Carter, Jimmy, ref1
Cash Box, ref1, ref2
“Catfish Blues,” ref1
Catfish Records, ref1
C. D. (valet) ref1, ref2, ref3
Cellar Door, ref1
Chance Records, ref1
Charles, Ray, ref1, ref2
Charters, Sam, ref1
Chasin’ That Devil Music (Wardlow) ref1
Chatmon Brothers, ref1
Chauvard, Marcel, ref1, ref2
Checkerboard Lounge, ref1, ref2
Chenier, Clifton, ref1
Chess, Leonard: Aristocrat sessions, ref1; Billboard and, ref1; blues market and, ref1; Chess Records sold, ref1, ref2, ref3; Chuck Berry and, ref1; death of, ref1; early history of, ref1; gigs and, ref1, ref2; heart attack of, ref1; “Hoochie Coochie Man,” ref1; lawsuit and, ref1; Library of Congress recordings and, ref1; as manager, ref1, ref2; Muddy’s family and, ref1, ref2; offices moved, ref1; payola charge, ref1; recordings by, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; Rogers and, ref1, ref2; Spann and, ref1; Sunnyland Slim and, ref1
Chess, Marshall, ref1; Arc Music Publishing, ref1, ref2; Bloomfield and, ref1, ref2; Cadet Concept, ref1; Chess Records sold, ref1, ref2, ref3; Electric Mud album, ref1, ref2; lawsuit and, ref1; Leonard and, ref1, ref2, ref3; Muddy’s car accident, ref1; on paying royalties, ref1, ref2; Rolling Stones and, ref1; white audiences, ref1
Chess, Phil, ref1; Aristocrat sessions, ref1; on blues music, ref1, ref2; Chess Records sold, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; early history of, ref1; Goldberg and, ref1; “Hoochie Coochie Man,” ref1; lawsuit and, ref1, ref2; left Chess Records, ref1; recordings and, ref1, ref2; Sunnyland Slim and, ref1
Chess Box (album) ref1, ref2
Chess Records, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; Arc Music and, ref1; blues market and, ref1, ref2, ref3; books about, ref1; Chuck Berry and, ref1, ref2; company sold, ref1, ref2, ref3; lawsuit and, ref1, ref2, ref3; London Sessions (album), ref1; Muddy’s car accident and, ref1; offices moved, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; Pye Records and, ref1; Rolling Stones and, ref1
Chicago, Illinois, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Chicago Blues (documentary) ref1
Chicago Blues (Rowe) ref1
Chicago Blues at Home (album) ref1
Chicago Defender, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Chicken Shack, ref1, ref2, (album) ref1
chiffon blues, ref1
Chisenhall, Fred, ref1
Chisholm, Malcom, ref1
Chris Barber Band, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Christian, Charlie, ref1
church, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Clapton, Eric, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
Clark, James, ref1
Clark, Jimmy, ref1
Clarksdale, Mississippi, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Clarksdale Citizens Association, ref1
Clarksdale Civic Auditorium, ref1
Clay, Francis, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Clay, Jesse, ref1
“Close to You,” ref1, ref2
“Clouds in My Heart,” ref1
Clovers, ref1
Club ref1, ref2, ref3
Coast Recorders, ref1
Cohn, David, ref1
Cohodas, Nadine, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Cole, Ann, ref1, ref2
Collaboration (album) ref1
Colt Management Company, ref1
Columbia Records, ref1, ref2, ref3
combs, ref1
“Come On,” ref1
“Come See Me Early in the Morning,” ref1
The Complete Plantation Recordings (album) ref1
Conversation with the Blues (Oliver) ref1, ref2
Cooper, Amelia “Cookie.” See Morganfield, Cookie (granddaughter)
Cooper, Azelene Morganfield. See Morganfield, Azelene (daughter)
Cooper, J. B., ref1, ref2
Cooper, Lee, ref1
“Copper Brown,” ref1
Copperfield, David, ref1
copyright, ref1, ref2
“Corn Song,” ref1
“Corrine, Corrina,” ref1
Corroza, Silvio, ref1
Cosey, Pete, ref1, ref2
Cosmic Joy–Scout Super Jam, ref1
cotton, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Cotton, Ceola, ref1
Cotton, James, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; cancer and, ref1; Can’t Get No Grinding (album), ref1; Clay and, ref1, ref2; gigs and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; Grossman and, ref1; Hare and, ref1; Muddy “Mississippi” Waters Live (album), ref1; in Muddy’s band, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; in Muddy’s Chicago house, ref1; Muddy’s funeral, ref1, ref2; “My Dog Can’t Bark,” ref1; quits band, ref1; on rock and roll, ref1; solo career of, ref1; Spann and, ref1; Stephenson and, ref1; white audiences and, ref1
Cotton Club, ref1
“Cotton Crop Blues,” ref1
Cottonwood Plantation, ref1
country blues, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
“Country Blues,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
The Country Blues (Charter) ref1
Crawford, Ernest “Big,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Crawford, Pete, ref1
“Crawling Kingsnake,” ref1
“The Crazy Blues,” ref1
Creedence Clearwater, ref1
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, ref1
“Crossroads,” ref1
Crudup, Arthur, ref1, ref2, ref3
Crutchfield, Freddie, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Czxy Records, ref1
Daley, Richard, ref1, ref2, ref3
Damn Right I’ve Got the Blues (Guy) ref1
Darin, Bobby, ref1
Davis, Cyril, ref1, ref2
Davis, Reverend Gary, ref1, ref2, ref3
Davis, Walter, ref1, ref2, ref3
Dawson, William, ref1, ref2
Dayron, Norman, ref1
Dease, Lucille, ref1, ref2; children of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; drugs and, ref1; “Mean Disposition,” ref1; Muddy’s women and, ref1; as road wife, ref1; travels with Muddy, ref1. See also McClenton, Lucille
Deep Blues (Palmer) ref1
The Deep Blues of Paul Oscher (album) ref1
“Deep Down in Florida,” ref1
Deep in the Blues (album) ref1
“Deep in the Heart of Texas,” ref1
delay singer, ref1
Delmark Records, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Delta Blues Festival, ref1
Delta Blues Museum, ref1
Demetre, Jacques, ref1, ref2
The Devil Is a Busy Man (album) ref1
“Diamonds at Your Feet,” ref1
Diddley, Bo, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
diddley bow, ref1
Dixon, Marie, ref1
Dixon, Willie, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; Cameron and, ref1, ref2, ref3; car accident and, ref1; gigs and, ref1, ref2, ref3; Marie and, ref1; Muddy’s funeral, ref1; songwriting and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; on SoundStage, ref1; Williamson and, ref1
Docie’s Lounge, ref1
Dockery Plantation, ref1, ref2
Donegan, Lonnie, ref1
“Don’t Go No Further,” ref1, ref2
Dorothy (outside wife) ref1, ref2, ref3
Douglas, Alan, ref1
Downbeat, ref1, ref2
“Down in the Bottom,” ref1
Down on Stovall’s Plantation (album) ref1
Driftwood, Jimmy, ref1
Dr. John, ref1, ref2, ref3
&nbs
p; Du Drop Lounge, ref1
Dugger, Carl, ref1
Duncan, Adolph “Billy,” ref1
Dunn, Duck, ref1
Dylan, Bob, ref 1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
“Early Morning Blues,” ref1
Earwig Music, ref1, ref2
Ebony (magazine) ref1
Ebony Lounge, ref1, ref2
Edmonds, Elga, ref1, ref2; fired by Muddy, ref1, ref2; gigs and, ref1, ref2, ref3; joins Muddy’s band, ref1, ref2; in Muddy’s Chicago house, ref1; name of, ref1; at Newport, ref1
Edwards, Esmond, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Edwards, Honeyboy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
electric blues, ref1, ref2
Electric Circus, ref1
Electric Flag, ref1
Electric Mud (album) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Elektra Records, ref1, ref2
Ellington, Duke, ref1
Emerson, Brownie, ref1
Epic Records, ref1, ref2
Ertegun, Nesuhi, ref1, ref2
Estes, Sleepy John, ref1, ref2, ref3
Evans, Sam, ref1, ref2
“Evans Shuffle,” ref1, ref2, ref3
F&J Lounge, ref1, ref2, ref3
Fame, Georgie, ref1, ref2
Fathers and Sons (album) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Federal label, ref1
Feel Like Going Home (Guralnick) ref1
field holler, ref1, ref2
Fields, Bobby, ref1
Filene, Benjamin, ref1
Fisk Jubilee Singers, ref1
Fisk–Library of Congress recordings, ref1, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Fisk University, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
“Five Long Years,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
“Five Spot,” ref1
Flame Club, ref1
Fleischer, Richard, ref1
Floyd, Quin, ref1
Flying Fish Records, ref1
Foghat, ref1
Folk Festival of the Blues (album) ref1
folklore, ref1
folk music, ref1, ref2, ref3
Folk Singer (album) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
“Folksong: ’59,” ref1, ref2
“For Blacks Only” (TV) ref1
Ford, Aleck. See Williamson, Sonny Boy, II
Ford, Lewis, ref1, ref2, ref3
“Forty Days and Forty Nights,” ref1, ref2, ref3
“Forty-Four Blues,” ref1
Foster, “Baby Face” Leroy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Foster, Preston, ref1
Foster, Willie, ref1
“Fox Squirrel,” ref1
Frank, Michael, ref1