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Posted 9-11-00
CLEVELAND -- "Got my Mojo Workin': Muddy Waters and the Modern Blues" will celebrate the life and influence of blues legend Muddy Waters during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's fifth annual American Music Masters Conference, to be held Saturday, September 23 at Case Western Reserve University.
The all-day event, jointly sponsored by CWRU and the Rock Hall, begins with registration at 8 a.m. in Tomlinson Hall (10900 Euclid Avenue), and is part of a week-long celebration of the life of the 1987 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Muddy Waters' music melded deep Mississippi Delta blues with the urban Chicago blues sound. His work has influenced such artists as Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bonnie Raitt, and the Rolling Stones.
The conference will feature general sessions spotlighting two authorities on Muddy Waters' life and music -- Sandra Tooze, the author of Muddy Waters: The Mojo Man, and Robert Gordon, a noted blues scholar and journalist whose biography-in-progress has already proven controversial.
Eight panel discussions will cover a range of issues raised by Muddy Waters' life and music, from spirituality and racial politics to recording technologies and the rise of the electric blues. The day will close with a series of interviews and performances by artists who were associated with or influenced by Muddy Waters.
Advance and door registration is $25. Students with valid identification are admitted free. For information, call the Rock Hall at 216-515-1502, or visit http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/musc/musc.html.