Chess packaged this so that Waters, like John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf et al could compete for the attention of the white beatnik crowd. A fine...
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Once Chess discovered a White folk-blues audience ripe and ready to hear the real thing, they released a series of albums under the Real Folk Blues banner. This is one of...
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Upon its original 1970 release, this was a Grammy winner for Best Ethnic/Traditional Recording. A quarter of a century later, it seems like an interesting, but diffuse,...
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This is an excellent compilation of some of Muddy Waters's lesser-anthologized singles, all of them dating from the late '50s. Some of these were surprisingly hard to...
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The Muddy Waters audible on this reissue is a little past his prime, but still has some tricks up his sleeve. His assertion on the title track that he's "the man who put the...
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The title is a bit of a ringer, since this isn't a collaborative effort in any way, shape or form. This contains a half dozen live Waters tracks with Mike Bloomfield, Paul...
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The profile of Muddy Waters on the front of this album is a classic bit of color portrait photography. The bluesman seems to be staring up at something, a glazed look of...
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The landmark sides which comprise Muddy Waters' First Recording Sessions trace the early evolution of one of the blues' most enduring greats, offering invaluable insight...
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Folk Singer 1/1/1964, Yahoo! Music, John Quaintance
Waters gets back to basics with outstanding support from Willie Dixon and Buddy...
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Muddy's "unplugged" album was cut in September of 1963 and still sounds fresh and vital today. It was Muddy simply returning to his original style on a plain acoustic guitar...
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Goin' Home: Live in Paris 1970 finds Muddy supported by his longtime backing band -- guitarists Pee-Wee Madison and Sam Lawhorn, pianist Pinetop Perkins, bassist Calvin...
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Hard Again 1/1/1970, Yahoo! Music, John Quaintance
A remarkable album. An all-star band backs Waters' return to form--Johnny Winter, (that's him yelping with delight in the background during "Mannish Boy") James Cotton,...
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After a string of mediocre albums throughout most of the 1970s, Muddy Waters hooked up with Johnny Winter for 1977's Hard Again, a startling comeback and a gritty...
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The source for this 1964 live performance appears to be Lippmann and Rau, the sponsors of Europe's American Folk Blues Festival. Considering that Chess Records never...
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The follow up to Hard Again reworks many of Waters's greatest hits, including "I'm Ready" and "Rock Me," with almost equally thrilling results. Jimmy Rogers is added on...
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For the middle album of his Johnny Winter-produced, late-'70s musical trilogy, blues giant Muddy Waters brought a new spirit to some familiar material. Starting with members...
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This 1981 recording found Waters being produced by rocker Johnny Winter, who had brought Muddy back to form on the Hard Again album. Winter was smart enough to surround the...
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These are ten tracks of Waters pretty much on top of his game, with the bulk of them coming from 1965-68 and featuring Pinetop Perkins, Carey Bell, and Sammy Lawhorn in...
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At long last, Muddy's historic 1941-1942 Library of Congress field recordings are all collected in one place, with the best fidelity that's been heard thus far. Waters...
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The companion volume to the first Waters entry in the series is even more down home than the first. Featuring another brace of early Chess sides from 1948-1952, this release...
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For many back in the early '60s, this was their first exposure to live recorded blues, and it's still pretty damn impressive some 40-plus years down the line. Muddy, with a...
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This is a strange -- though in large part, successful -- album on a number of counts. Appearing after the release of the singles compilation Real Folk Blues, Brass and the...
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Accompanied by Johnny Winter and his band, Muddy Waters turns in an enthusiastic performance on Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live. The set list contains most of his biggest...
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Waters's tribute album to the man who gave him his start on the Chicago circuit, this stuff doesn't sound much like Broonzy so much as a virtual recasting of his songs into...
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A double CD of 41 tracks, none of which are found on The Chess Box. With only three exceptions, none of them have ever been available on an American album before, and quite...
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Compiler Dick Shurman rummaged around in the voluminous Chess vaults long enough to emerge with this sterling 14-song collection of unissued and rare sides, most of them...
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This 14-song quasi-best-of anthology appeared during a murky period in which the Chess catalog was briefly owned by the Sugar Hill label. Thus it was only available for a...
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The original version of this two-LPs-on-one-CD release was done by MCA in 1986. Beat Goes On's 1998 remastering runs circles around the MCA version for sound, and also...
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The Chess Box does not contain all the great music Muddy Waters made. His talent and legacy are too large to be captured in a mere three discs, even one that spans from 1947...
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Muddy's next-to-last Chess album, Can't Get No Grindin' marked a return to working with a band of his own after several experimental line-ups and recordings -- Pinetop...
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In the fall of 1958, Muddy Waters came to England to perform for the first time. With his regular pianist Otis Spann along for the ride and backed by the jazzy,...
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This is the same package as one earlier released in England. It's Muddy with Otis Spann, playing England's Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1958 with the Chris Barber Jazz Band...
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If His Best 1947-55 hasn't laid you flat, these cuts will finish you off-- "Rock Me," "She's Nineteen Years Old," and "Got My Mojo Working" to name a few. Lord have...
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The definitive one-record set of Waters's greatest Chess sides, this has some of the heaviest blues numbers ever recorded, from his first Aristocrat single "I Can't Be...
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This entry into MCA's Chess 50th Anniversary Collection now officially takes the place of The Best of Muddy Waters as an essential first purchase in building a Muddy Waters...
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Sony repackaged and re-released three of the last albums Muddy Waters recorded -- Hard Again, I'm Ready and King Bee -- as a slip-cased box set. It's not a bad way to...
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The first 20-bit remastering of any of Muddy's late career work for Johnny Winter's Blue Sky label is of considerable interest. The fact that, in the wake of the earlier...
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This concert in Paris (part of Norman Granz's latter-day Jazz at the Philharmonic master holdings) emanates from a better-than-decent-quality board tape complete with...
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Like any record company worth their salt, MCA knows a good gimmick when they see it, and when the millennium came around...well, the 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium...
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Of all the post-Fathers & Sons attempts at updating Muddy's sound in collaboration with younger white musicians, this album worked best because they let Muddy be himself,...
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Electric Mud 1/1/1968, Yahoo! Music, John Quaintance
Muddy covering the Stones? Feedback? Wah-wah pedal? What the hell is going on? Fans of this album might also enjoy the prospect of a James Brown gangsta rap album. For...
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In an attempt to make Muddy more sellable to his newly-found White audience, Chess lumbered him with Hendrix-influenced psychedelic blues arrangements for Electric Mud....
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Muddy Waters is certainly a "blues legend," and MCA Special Products' budget-priced compilation of the same name goes a long way in proving that statement true. True, many...
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Waters' The Real Folk Blues and More Real Folk Blues, combined here onto one CD, were not exactly random collections of tracks -- the quality was too consistently high for...
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This compilation was assembled from three live performances, two in the Northwest in 1971, and one in Switzerland in April 1976. There are already several live Muddy Waters...
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Like the Bear Family sets that include every available recording of an artist, this two-disc collection finally presents every known track Muddy Waters recorded for the...
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Deep Down in the Blues is yet another repackaging of some of the better parts of Muddy Waters' 1976-1981 stay on Johnny Winter's Blue Sky label, from "I Can't Be Satisfied"...
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It's been awhile since we've seen any unreleased material from Muddy. You've heard all of this before, but the clarity of the sound, and the fact that Muddy seems in pretty...
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An undated and unspecified location Muddy concert (though judging from the set it's probably from the early' 80s because of the inclusion of "Garbage Man"), reasonably well...
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An interesting collection of Muddy's earliest blues recordings. What separates this set from others available is that it combines recordings from his Library of Congress...
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The resurgence of Chicago-based blues in the mid- to late 1960s came with an entirely new breed of icons to bear the torch. Among them were the decidedly electric Paul...
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There have been countless collections of Muddy Waters' classic Chess material released over the years, but Chess began to whittle down the domestic catalog toward the late...
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As part of the compilation series issued in conjunction with the major television series documentary The Blues, this is a collection of 16 of Waters' more notable...
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The importance of Muddy Waters' 1977 album Hard Again cannot be overstated, and its place as a near universal favorite in the Muddy Waters catalog is no mistake. Recorded in...
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King Bee was the last album Muddy Waters recorded. Coming last in a trio of triumphant studio outings, and produced by Johnny Winter, it is also a mixed bag -- literally....
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I'm Ready, the second of Muddy Waters' recordings for Columbia's Blue Sky imprint, like its predecessor was produced by Johnny Winter, who also guests on guitar here. While...
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Feel Like Going Home is a compilation of Muddy Waters' earliest sides, dating between his days at Stovall's Plantation in the early 1940s and his October 1950 sessions for...
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These Library of Congress field recordings done by Alan Lomax from 1941-1942 feature Muddy with Percy Thomas on guitar, Louis Ford on mandolin, and Henry Sims on violin....
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