<Ul> <Li> Aristocrat </Li> <Li> Chess </Li> <Li> Blue Sky </Li> </Ul> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> muddywatersofficial.com </Td> </Tr> <P> McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913--April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". </P> <P> Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and by age 17 was playing the guitar and the harmonica, emulating the local blues artists Son House and Robert Johnson . He was recorded in Mississippi by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941 . In 1943, he moved to Chicago to become a full - time professional musician . In 1946, he recorded his first records for Columbia Records and then for Aristocrat Records, a newly formed label run by the brothers Leonard and Phil Chess . </P>

Muddy waters is associated with which subgenre of the blues