POP/ROCK - April 4, 1988

Blues-rock band ZZ Top plans to show up for a fund-raising catfish fry in Clarksdale, Miss., on April 21 to honor the group’s “spiritual godfather,” Muddy Waters. The trio is helping launch a $1-million campaign for Clarksdale’s Delta Blues Museum. The money collected in the museum’s Muddy Waters Memorial Fund will improve and expand the museum and help establish a permanent Waters exhibit, said Sid Graves, director of the town’s Carnegie Public Library where the museum is housed. ZZ Top members Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard will also present a special guitar to the museum. Waters died in 1983.