Francis Clay

Drummer Francis Clay was a linchpin of the postwar Chicago blues and jazz scene, most notably playing with the Muddy Waters Band during its late-1950s heyday. Born November 16, 1923 in Rock Island, Mississippi, Clay was the product of a musical family--his father, a waiter, was a gifted multi-instrumentalist, and his uncle played the drums professionally. As a teen Clay assembled his own homemade ...more