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Muddy Waters: At Newport 1960 (LP)

(Friday Music) 9 tracks, gatefold cover - (180 Gram Vinyl, Gatefold LP Jacket, Limited Edition, Audiophile)

Recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 3, 1960, this is perhaps the best live blues album of all time.

At Newport 1960 is a groundbreaking and influential live recording that set the tone for generations of blues artists. It is sometimes considered the first true live blues record. Recorded during the tumultuous time of the Newport Jazz Festival, where police used tear gas and water hoses to control a drunken, rowdy crowd the day before, this extraordinary, historic set features both old blues standards and new Waters compositions. Despite the somewhat dangerous and unruly atmosphere at the festival, Waters and his Electric Blues Band delivered an exquisite, confident performance.

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Interpret: Muddy Waters
Album titlle: At Newport 1960 (LP)
Genre Blues
Label FRIDAY MUSIC
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Vinyl weight 180g Vinyl
Artikelart LP
EAN: 0829421144991
weight in Kg 0.26

Muddy Waters - At Newport 1960 (LP) LP 1
01	I Got My Brand On You	Muddy Waters
02	(I'm Your ) Hoochie Coochie Man	Muddy Waters
03	Baby, Please Don't Go	Muddy Waters
04	Soon Forgotten	Muddy Waters
05	Tiger In Your Tank	Muddy Waters
06	I Feel So Good	Muddy Waters
07	I've Got My Mojo Working	Muddy Waters
08	I've Got My Mojo Working (Part 2)	Muddy Waters
09	Goodbye Newport Blues	Muddy Waters

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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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