Grammy blues musician Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, who was a longtime sideman for Muddy Waters, died of a stroke on Friday in Chicago at the age of 75 years, according to a statement on its website .
Smith's death comes less than six months after passing the age of 97 blues master Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins, with whom she shared a Grammy winner this year for Best Traditional Blues Album for their 2010 release " joined at the hip. "
Smith said backstage at the Grammy Awards that he met with Perkins as a boy and was happy to have found the record of success with its predecessor. "To tell you the truth, now I'm one of the happiest men on earth," he said at the event in February.
While winning the Grammy Awards in 75 years Smith was first, he had already had a long career playing with the water late blues legend Muddy.
Born in Helena, Arkansas, in 1936, Smith went to Chicago at the age of 17 Waters played and heard for the first time. He later joined the group of Waters as a drummer in the early 1960s.
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