April 30, 1983: R.I.P. Muddy Waters. The Mojo is Gone The Master Has Won…

Muddy Waters was born McKinley Morganfield on April 4, 1915, in Rolling Fork, Mississippi.

Waters grew up immersed in the Delta blues,
 and was first recorded by archivist Alan Lomax. 

In 1943, he moved to Chicago and began playing in clubs. 

A record deal followed, and hits like "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man"   and "Rollin'Stone"  made him an iconic Chicago blues man...

McKinley Morganfield "Muddy Waters" died of a heart attack on April 30, 1983 at the age of sixty-eight. Morganfield is buried at the Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois.

 The epitaph on the burial marker reads: "McKinley Morganfield, 1915 - 1983, 
The Mojo is Gone The Master Has Won"

R.I.P. Muddy Waters

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