#chuckberry introduced #muddywaters as “the best blues singer to walk this earth” My favorite story between these two is after Leonard Chess of Chess Records passed on chuck and wasn’t going to sign him , Muddy walked into the office and said if you don’t want chuck berry you can’t have muddy waters… Leonard signed him and the rest is history … #blues #chicago #harmonica #guitar #bluesband #tvshow #mojoworkin | Tony Holiday’s Porch Sessions

St. Louis was a great blues town, but Chicago was bigger, and Chicago had Muddy Waters. The first time Chuck Berry heard the singer and guitarist, he said, “he cracked open my soul to everything he said in his songs. I felt like I knew him.” Now Berry wanted to meet him. He wanted to meet Waters in the hope that the recording star could give him advice about following in his footsteps. So he drove to Chicago with his high school friend Ralph Burris in his red Ford Country Squire station wagon. T

Probably one of the purest gigs ever. Muddy Waters and the Stones in the smallest of small clubs. “Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.” - Keith Richards Being in that bar then was like winning 100 million in the lottery. You can see Muddy was having fun! Don’t forget Muddy’s Band!! JOHN PRIMER (guitar), MOJO BUFORD(harp), KILLER RAY ALLISON (drums), LOVEY LEE (piano), CALVIN FUZZ JONES (bass) and RICK KREHER (guitar)!!! On 22 November 1981, in