Muddy's Home Now An Exhibit At The Delta Blues Museum
CLARKSDALE, Miss. USA (AP) -- April 10, 2001 The cabin where bluesman Muddy Waters lived has returned home. Four walls of the cabin have been installed in an exhibit at the Delta Blues Museum, along with a statue and related memorabilia. Waters moved into the cabin in 1918, at age 3, to live with his sharecropper grandparents. The cabin has been on tour since 1996, most recently at a blues exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
Museum director Tony Czech said a guitar made from a plank of the cabin will return later this month. It has been on loan to the Rock and Hall of Fame. The "Muddy Wood'' guitar will be placed inside the cabin alongside photographs and autographed albums, Czech said.
Born in Rolling Fork, Waters began his blues career as a teen-age harmonica player in Coahoma County. Upon hearing such blues legends as Robert Johnson and Charlie Patton in Delta juke joints, Waters picked up a guitar and developed his own ``bottleneck blues'' style. When his guitar couldn't be heard in city clubs, he plugged it into an amp and ``put a little drive in it,'' giving rise to the electric blues movement that influenced such bands as the Rolling Stones. Waters died in 1983.
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