What’s Your Blues Name

As I was doing research for WINDY CITY BLUES I discovered that almost all the blues artists had blues names. For example McKinley Morganfield was Muddy Waters. Chester Arthur Burnett was Howlin’ Wolf, Marion Walter Jacobs became Little Walter, Ellas McDaniel was Bo Diddley. I know that Muddy got his name from his grandmother because as a child he was prone to playing in the mud. Howlin’ Wolf also got his name as a child after his grandfather told him scary stories about wolves howling at the moon.

 

While we were down South doing research for my book, we drove the Blues Highway and came across a Blues Name Generator. The blues greats didn’t need a chart to create their stage names, but we did. So from that point on my partner in crime was Boney Bones Dupree and I was Skinny Bad Boy Jefferson.

I’m in the middle of my final edits so I’m going to keep this post brief and get back in the Book Bunker. But in the meantime, have some fun with this Blues Name Generator and see what you come up with!

What’s Your Blues Name?