Mud Morganfield, the acclaimed son and, to most ears, the vocal double of his iconic dad, Muddy Waters, makes his Nola Blue label debut with Deep Mud. Mud has been recording since 2008, keeping the flame of the Chicago blues alive on Severn or, most recently, in 2022 with Portrait on Delmark. Yet, this seems like a fresh start, a re-energized Mud as he delivers twelve originals of the fourteen, with the other two owing to his dad. Mud is a torch bearer of the tradition, as one would be challenged to find much difference between father and son. As Mud relates, “Listen, man. It is Chicago blues. No rock-blues here for Mud. I talk and I sing about real things, real live people, real situations…So, it’s Chicago blues at its best. They ain’t trying to do that no more, but that’s what it is.”