Muddy Waters Critic's Choise 1947 - 1971 (2-CD)

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(2016/Rock Beat) 46 tracks. Here are 46 tracks that changed our music... The Chess Classics. His... more

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Muddy Waters: Critic's Choise 1947 - 1971 (2-CD)

(2016/Rock Beat) 46 tracks. Here are 46 tracks that changed our music... The Chess Classics. His legacy has been written about by blues historians, in blogs and numerous magazines. There is no shortage of information about Muddy Waters. Consider this your invitation to The Blues... Muddy Waters style. This collection just touches the surface of his legacy, vision, and depth of his recordings during that tenure.

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Interpret: Muddy Waters
Album titlle: Critic's Choise 1947 - 1971 (2-CD)
Genre Blues
Label ROCK BEAT
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0089353333126
weight in Kg 0.1

Muddy Waters - Critic's Choise 1947 - 1971 (2-CD) CD 1
01	Rollin' and Tumblin' Pt 1	Muddy Waters
02	Rollin Stone	Muddy Waters
03	Mannish Boy	Muddy Waters
04	I'm Ready	Muddy Waters
05	Got My Mojo Working	Muddy Waters
06	I Can't Be Satisfied	Muddy Waters
07	(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man	Muddy Waters
08	Honey Bee	Muddy Waters
09	I Just Want to Make Love to You	Muddy Waters
10	Louisiana Blues	Muddy Waters
11	Long Distance Call	Muddy Waters
12	Trouble No More	Muddy Waters
13	Forty Days and Forty Nights	Muddy Waters
14	I Feel Like Going Home	Muddy Waters
15	Sugar Sweet	Muddy Waters
16	Rock Me	Muddy Waters
17	You Shook Me	Muddy Waters
18	You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had	Muddy Waters
19	Diamonds at Your Feet	Muddy Waters
20	Just to Be with You	Muddy Waters
21	Good Morning Little Schoolgirl	Muddy Waters
22	Stuff You Gotta Watch	Muddy Waters
23	I Love the Life I Live (I Live the Life I Love)	Muddy Waters
24	Standing Around Crying	Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters - Critic's Choise 1947 - 1971 (2-CD) CD 2
01	Baby Please Don't Go	Muddy Waters
02	I Want to Be Loved	Muddy Waters
03	Country Boy	Muddy Waters
04	Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone	Muddy Waters
05	Train Fare Home Blues	Muddy Waters
06	Hard Days	Muddy Waters
07	Gypsy Woman	Muddy Waters
08	She's Into Something	Muddy Waters
09	Lonesome Road Blues	Muddy Waters
10	Walkin' Blues	Muddy Waters
11	Look What You've Done	Muddy Waters
12	You Need Love	Muddy Waters
13	Ooh Wee	Muddy Waters
14	Southbound Train	Muddy Waters
15	Double Trouble	Muddy Waters
16	My Home Is in the Delta	Muddy Waters
17	Big Legged Woman	Muddy Waters
18	Sad Sad Day	Muddy Waters
19	Hey, Hey	Muddy Waters
20	Loving Man	Muddy Waters
21	Walkin' Thru the Park	Muddy Waters
22	They Call Me Muddy Waters	Muddy Waters

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Muddy Waters

Although Chess claimed that Muddy Waters was responsible for penning the rousing Got My Mojo Working on this single, it emanated from outside the confines of Arc Music, Chess’ publishing arm.

"We went on tour with a lady named Ann Cole. She's the one that originally did 'Mojo,’" says his then-road harpist, James Cotton. "Muddy said, 'That's my kind of stuff there, talkin' about the mojo and all that kind of thing. I need to learn that song so I can do it.' He said, 'Learn the words to it for me.' So I learned the words, and I learned to play it. I taught him the words when I knew everything. They recorded it, him and Walter. It did pretty good.

When Muddy got back to Chicago, he made the song his own on either December 1, 1956 or January 16, 1957. As Cotton noted, Little Walter was still his main harp man in the studio; other participants were his essential 88s ace Otis Spann, guitarist Jimmy Rogers, bassist Willie Dixon, and new drummer Francis Clay. But this rendition wouldn’t be the one everyone so widely copied; that version was done live at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival with James on harp (Chess issued Waters’ set on LP). "I put the arrangement on there," says Cotton. "Now it's a classic."

In between the two Mojos, Waters made his maiden voyage to England in 1958, bringing along his electric guitar. British fans accustomed to Big Bill Broonzy’s acoustic blues weren’t quite ready for the aural assault. "I went over there, and they went stone nuts. ‘Where’s he comin’ from with all this noise?’" said Muddy, who tried to comply on his next visit. "I go back a couple of years later and didn’t bring it, and then they’re cryin’, ‘Where’s your electric guitar?’"

Always loyal to Chess, the ‘60s weren’t overly kind to Muddy from a recording standpoint. The nadir was his pseudo-psychedelic 1968 travesty ‘Electric Mud.’ Muddy freely ripped the album later on. "I really went with the company with that part," he said. "I hope they never play it." During the mid-‘70s, Waters underwent a studio renaissance on a new label, Blue Sky. Producer Johnny Winter strove to restore Muddy’s original sound on his acclaimed 1977 LP ‘Hard Again.’ "He was one of the young white kids who was really deep into it," said Muddy.

The King of Chicago Blues died of cancer April 30, 1983 at age 70. It’s a sure bet no one will ever take his place. "Maybe somebody else would have come up and went another way," Waters mused. "I came up at the right time and the right season, and I should say, I just taken it over. I just taken Chicago completely over!"

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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