page_title: Eddy Clearwater
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Eddy Clearwater / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: American chicago blues guitarist and vocalist Eddy Clearwater in Montreux, Switzerland. Français&#160;: Le guitariste et chanteur américain de chicago blues Eddy Clearwater à Montreux.
context_page_description: Edward Harrington, better known by his stage name Eddy Clearwater, was an American blues musician who specialized in Chicago blues. Blues Revue said he plays “joyous rave-ups…he testifies with stunning soul fervor and powerful guitar. One of the blues’ finest songwriters.”
context_section_description: Clearwater was married to Earlean Harrington of Chicago and was the stepfather of her son Daryl Thompson.
  Clearwater was married to his manager, Renee Greenman. They owned Reservation Blues, a Wicker Park (Chicago) blues bar and restaurant, in the early 2000s (and no longer in operation). It featured Clearwater regularly as well as local and national blues talent.
  He fathered two sons, Jason and Edgar.
  On January 8, 1997, Clearwater underwent successful triple heart bypass surgery.
  Clearwater's hometown for the last few decades of his life was Skokie, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. Skokie's mayor declared January 6 as Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater Day.
  Clearwater died at his home in Skokie on June 1, 2018, of heart failure at the age of 83.
caption: Clearwater in 1978
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