After working with
Cotton and numerous others around the Memphis area, Hare moved North to Chicago and by the late '50s was a regular member of the
Muddy Waters band, appearing on the legendary Live at Newport, 1960 album. By all accounts Pat was a quiet, introspective man when sober, but once he started drinking the emotional tables turned in the opposite direction. After moving to Minneapolis in the '60s to work with fellow
Waters bandmate Mojo Bruford, Hare was convicted of murder after a domestic dispute, spending the rest of his life behind bars. In one of the great ironies of the blues, one of the unissued tracks Pat Hare left behind in the
Sun vaults was an original composition entitled, "I'm Gonna Murder My Baby." ~ Cub Koda