Big Bill Morganfield is the son of McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) and has emerged in the past few years as one of the top blues talents in America. Bill has played all over the world within the past 15 years, bringing pure joy to those who have had the pleasure of seeing one of his live performances.
Many men try to fill their father's shoes when they join the family business. Few, however, must prove they are up to the task by performining in front of an large audience.
That tribute
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Big Bill Morganfield is the son of McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) and has emerged in the past few years as one of the top blues talents in America. Bill has played all over the world within the past 15 years, bringing pure joy to those who have had the pleasure of seeing one of his live performances.
Many men try to fill their father’s shoes when they join the family business. Few, however, must prove they are up to the task by performining in front of an large audience.
That tribute was six long years in coming; years that Morganfield spent teaching himself how to play his musical instrument. He studies the blues styles of the past. Bill claimed, “I learned the old traditional blues, songs written in the 1930’s to the 1950’s.” An evening spent playing harp at Center Stage in Atlanta with Lonnie Mack followed. The audience, which numbered 1,000 people, went wild over the performance and set the novice musician’s spirit afire.
The years of dedication and hard work paid off handsomely. Morganfield’s debut album, Rising Son, was released in 1999 to popular and critical acclaim. Guitar players world-wide expressed their belief that Morganfield’s album would have brought a smile to his father’s face. The following year, the W.C. Handy Awards dubbed Waters’ son as the Best New Blues Artist.
In 2009, Big Bill Morganfield started his own record company, Black Shuck Records. Black Shuck Records is backed by VizzTone Label Group and serves as the backbone of Black Shuck Records.
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