Tom Lounges
One week ago today the world lost a promising blues talent on the rise, and this columnist lost a dear friend. Joseph Mojo Morganfield passed away suddenly after suffering a heart attack leaving the Chicago Blues community and blues fans around the globe stunned.
The sad news came just as a serious buzz was building around Morganfield s forthcoming full-length album for the international blues label, Delmark Records. Publications and blues radio outlets were starting to clamor for interviews with Muddy Waters youngest son, the latest Morganfield to enter the family business.
My path first crossed with Joseph when he made a guest appearance in 2016 on my 89.1FM-Lakeshore Public Radio program to talk about wanting to create a book about his iconic father, bluesman McKinley Muddy Waters Morganfield, and efforts by his family to re-purpose his old family home in Westmont, Illinois into a Muddy Waters museum.
Bluesman Joseph Mojo Morganfield, Son of Muddy Waters, Dies At Age 56
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Bluesman Joseph Mojo Morganfield, Son of Muddy Waters, Dies At Age 56
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Joseph “Mojo” Morganfield on the front steps of his father Muddy Waters’ house at 4339 S. Lake Park Ave. in Chicago, which is being renovated into a museum. The son lived here with his blues legend father before moving to Westmont.
Lynn Orman Weiss
Singer Joseph “Mojo” Morganfield, a son of blues legend Muddy Waters, died Thursday morning, according to his publicist Lynn Orman Weiss.
He collapsed at the home in Waukegan where he lived with his wife, Deborah, whom he’d married three months ago, Orman Weiss said.
He was 56. Orman Weiss said the cause was unknown. An autopsy is pending.