From the Vault of Art Shay Weekend Bonus: Muddy Waters

By Staff in Arts & Entertainment on Apr 9, 2011 3:00PM

(Ed. Note: Art and I were chatting on the phone the other day when he mentioned he'd been reading the "One for the Road" tributes to Muddy Waters and that he had a photo of Waters and his wife. Art once sold a copy of this photo to Billy Corgan from the trunk of his car. Later that day his assistant e-mailed me the photo above. Art and I discussed holding off on posting this until the anniversary of Waters's death on April 30. Cleaning out my inbox last night I received another e-mail from Art that read, "This might be a good time and place to run my Muddy picture." He's right, of course. That photo is amazing on so many levels; it epitomizes cool. It also reminds me that having Art Shay as a regular contributor to Chicagoist is easily one of the high points of my short tenure as editor. — CS)