
Chess Records co-founder Phil Chess, left, and the Chess artist (L-R): Muddy Waters, Little Walter and Bo Diddley in the Tel Mar Studios, Chicago Illinois, 1967
I been in the blues all my life. I’m still delivering ‚cause I got a long memory.
– Muddy Waters

Chess Records co-founder Phil Chess, left, and the Chess artist (L-R): Muddy Waters, Little Walter and Bo Diddley in the Tel Mar Studios, Chicago Illinois, 1967

Muddy Waters and his wife Geneva in Chicago, 1951

Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter and James Cotton backstage Boston Music Hall, 1977