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Old Man with a Hat
Yes, the whiskey brand supporting bartenders commercial brought this back for me. Muddy Waters really brought the blues to my attention.
I kind of went the other way. When 15 in about 69 I was blown away by the first Zepplin album a friend played at a party. It was only a few years later I realised how much they "borrowed" from old time blues artists like Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker etc. Here's one example.