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...blue-blooded I-banking firm, McKinley Morganfield is actually the birth name of Muddy Waters, Blues legend. The man is gone, but you can still hear his influence through the Muddy Waters Tribute Band, featuring Pinetop Perkins, Luther Guitar Junior Johnson, Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin and Jerry Portnoy. Somerville Theatre, Davis, Somerville...
...Kentucky, looks as if it has been ravaged by giant groundhogs. But the culprits responsible for digging 400 holes are a more predatory species. Artifact hunters tore up the gravesites late last year to excavate tomahawks, medicine pipes and other antiquities worth hundreds of dollars apiece. Last week in Morganfield, Ky., ten men were charged with overturning 1,200 graves dating back to the 15th century...
DIED. Muddy Waters, 68, the Grammy award-winning blues singer and guitarist whose vibrant Delta sound influenced a generation of rock musicians, including Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones, who took their name from one of his songs; of cardiac arrest; in the Chicago suburb of Westmont. Born McKinley Morganfield, the son of a Mississippi sharecropper, Waters had a guttural baritone that soared in songs such as Hoochie Coochie Man and Got My Mojo Working...
...days when, at the age of 13, he was blowing harmonica and singing for the Saturday night fish fries in Clarksdale, Miss. "I was making about 50? a night, a fish sandwich and half a pint of moonshine, and I was getting on," he recalls. Muddy was born McKinley Morganfield, 56 years ago. His mother died young, so his father sent him to be raised by his grandmother. "She used to say I'd sneak out and play in the mud when I was little, so she started calling me 'Muddy,' " he told TIME Correspondent Joe Boyce...
...HARRY W. THOMPSON St. John's Episcopal Church Morganfield...