The city of Chicago will dedicate a nine-story mural of Muddy Waters tomorrow (June 8, 2017) in a special ceremony to kick off Chicago Blues Festival. At the same time, for existing Muddy Waters fans, a beautiful artistic work inspired by and about Muddy Waters is a legitimate, tasty homage to what Muddy stands for, the message in his work, and the feeling his music invokes in people." Jimi Hendrix has said Muddy Waters was the first guitar player he heard. “Muddy Waters found his sound in this city, and we are proud to honor the father of modern Chicago blues with Eduardo Kobra's mural,” said Mayor Rahm Emanuel. “So the Muddy Waters mural right smack in the middle of the city, at State and Washington, becomes a marker for our heritage.”

Source: Forbes June 07, 2017 16:34 UTC