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The 14 pages that link to Muddy Waters, each with the reason it gives.

• BluesRelated: His electric band sound helped establish a major postwar blues style.

• The Rolling StonesRelated: The band took its name from one of his songs and drew on his music.

• Blues rockRelated: His electric sound influenced British musicians who later formed prominent blues-rock bands.

• Chicago bluesRelated: His band sound and performances became a central model for Chicago blues.

• Chuck BerryRelated: Waters encouraged Berry to approach Chess Records, where Berry’s recording career began.

• Delta bluesRelated: His career shows how Delta musicians reshaped the tradition after migration.

• Eric ClaptonRelated: Waters’s music was a major reference point for Clapton and British blues musicians.

• Alan LomaxBroader topic: Lomax recorded Waters in Mississippi in 1941, before his move to Chicago.

• Chess RecordsRelated: His Chess recordings became central to the label’s identity.

• B. B. KingRelated: Waters and King became leading, distinct voices in the same electric-blues era.

• Johnny B. GoodeRelated: Berry credited Waters with directing him toward Chess Records, where the song was recorded.

• Willie DixonRelated: Dixon wrote and played on many of Waters’s best-known Chess recordings.

• Dinah WashingtonRelated: His Chicago career provides a neighboring view of the city’s blues culture in which Washington worked.

• Big Bill BroonzyRelated: Waters followed Broonzy’s Chicago path while pushing the city’s blues toward amplified band sound.