Dancing with Muddy: My Lucky Life In and Out of the Blues
A Talk, Book Signing & Live Music with Jerry Portnoy,
featuring Ricky "King" Russell on guitar
Friday, July 11
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Members: $18
non-members: $24
Tickets at CCMoA.org
Join Jerry Portnoy for a multimedia presentation on his life with the blues in conjunction with his 2025 book release of "Dancing with Muddy." The book features stories about his world travels while playing harmonica with Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton.
Presentation includes a slideshow, live music, and insight into his new book, available in the Museum Shop.
Jerry Portnoy’s memoir is a backstage pass to the golden age of blues — from playing with Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton to life on the road, in the studio, and deep in the heart of American music. Told with the same clarity and soul he brings to his harmonica, Dancing with Muddy is a must-read for any fan of the blues. Available for purchase in the Museum Shop.
Jerry Portnoy was born in 1943 and grew up in the blues-rich atmosphere of Chicago's famous Maxwell Street Market during the golden age of Chicago Blues. He began his professional career in the late 60s and since that time has performed, live and on television, for millions of people around the world.
During a career that includes six years as a member of the fabled Muddy Waters Blues Band, another six as leader of the Legendary Blues Band, four years at the head of his own band The Streamliners, and another four as a featured member of the Eric Clapton Band, his touring schedule has carried him to every state in the union and twenty-eight foreign countries on six continents, with performances at the White House, Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, the Smithsonian, London's Royal Albert Hall, and at major jazz festivals worldwide, including the Newport Jazz Festival, the Montreaux Jazz Festival, the Warsaw International Jazz Jamboree, the Hawaii Pacific Jazz and Music Fair, and the Grande Parade du Jazz in Nice, France.
Jerry has played on several Grammy Award-winning albums while recording with a wide variety of artists, including Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Hubert Sumlin, Bill Wyman, and many others, and was a Grammy Award nominee in 1997 for his work with the Muddy Waters Tribute Band. Television credits include appearances on Saturday Night Live, Soundstage, MTV, VH1, and the Disney Channel, as well as writing and performing original music for Sesame Street. In addition, he has lectured at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, and his definitive 3/CD instructional package, Jerry Portnoy's Blues Harmonica Masterclass, is widely regarded as the premier teaching tool for those wishing to learn the instrument. Jerry Portnoy now makes his home outside Boston, Massachusetts.
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