After Muddy Waters first heard himself sing on an acetone record that Alan Lomax mailed to him from the Library of Congress, he said he went straight to the Clarksdale, Mississippi Greyhound bus station and moved to Chicago to pursue music.

“Jazz speaks for life. The blues tell the story of life’s difficulties, and if you think for a moment you will realized that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s opening address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival.

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