George 'Mojo' Buford
Blues harmonica player Mojo Buford was born in Hernando, Mississippi,
in 1929. He learned how to play the blues harp by listening to his
father, who was a musician, and from the records of
Little Walter. In 1952 Buford moved to
Chicago, and formed a band he called The Savage Boys, which eventually
became known as The Muddy Waters Jr. Band. In 1959 he replaced
James Cotton in Waters' band, but
he left three years later to form his own band, The Chi-Fours, in
Minneapolis. He came back to Waters' band in 1967 to replace harmonica
player George Smith, but returned to Minneapolis a year later to form
the Mojo Buford Band. He continued to work occasionally with Waters and
even toured with him.