🎶 You may have heard that Muddy Waters’s Chicago home is becoming a blues museum, mojomuseum. Now you can hear from two women in his family who lived there. | Deitra Farr
and his kids. I would go to the movies with them. Willie would pick me up because I was an only child, so I could be with his kids.
I was about to turn 14 years old. Geneva found a school I could go to for unwed mothers, and I never missed a day of school. I never missed a year of school. I appreciated them for being so strict. I had to go to school, come home, and take care of my baby. And for the record, I was not promiscuous. My first time, and I ended up pregnant. I had really thought about giving my baby up for adoption, but Geneva said, “No, we’ll make it.
I did not grow up with my biological father, but I was able to spend time with him. I looked at my great-grandfather Muddy as my daddy. I called him “daddy.” He was my father figure. When we moved from Lake Park to Westmont, I lived in that house as well. I watched him be the man of the house, and I watched him be a professional. I watched how he handled his friends and his musicians.
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