Today, we look at Muddy Waters’ circa-1957/58 Fender Tele, aka “The Hoss”. This Tele, which Waters nicknamed “the Hoss,” became almost a holy relic among devotees of electric blues. This was the guitar Muddy played at several Montreux Jazz festivals from 1972-77, on his 1977-81 “comeback” albums produced by Johnny Winter, and at high-profile concerts with Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, and the Rolling Stones. George Blanda of the Fender Custom Shop closely examined the guitar in 1999 when Fender developed the Muddy Waters Artist Signature Series Telecaster produced from 2001 to 2008. In 2017 after Cameron’s death in 2015, Cameron’s widow gave the guitar back to Waters’ family, where it remains to this day.