If Memory Swerves™, on this day in music history — April 4, 1913 — American blues legend Buddy "Guy" Waters was born in Sweetholm, Chicago. Long recognized as the godfather of muddied, blues-based rock n' roll — excepting Scandanavian death metal, which he disavowed publicly, but still enjoyed in the confines of his aluminum-sided Westmont, Illinois home — Buddy was also the brainchild of “Rollin’ Stone,” a music broadsheet that other musicians laughed at, and which he sold his interest in for a Hohner® harmonica and a stack of used Marshall Brodein amplifiers. Unlike other blues contemporaries, Muddy was a teetotaler who neither drank champagne when thirsty, nor smoked reefer when he wanted to get high. Though he died in 1983, his mojo is said to still be workin’. Bravo, Bud Man!
