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Muddy Waters - The Complete Plantation Recordings Audio CD

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Muddy Waters Band: Muddy Waters
Title: The Complete Plantation Recordings
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Release Date: 1993-06-08
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Country Blues 2: Interview #1 - Alan Lomax 3: I Be's Troubled 4: Interview #2 - Alan Lomax, John Work 5: Burr Clover Farm Blues 6: Interview #3 - John Work 7: Ramblin' Kid Blues 8: Ramblin' Kid Blues 9: Rosalie 10: Joe Turner 11: Pearlie May Blues 12: Take a Walk With Me 13: Burr Clover Blues 14: Interview #4 15: I Be Bound to Write You [First Version] 16: I Be Bound to Write You [Second Version] 17: You're Gonna Miss Me 18: You Got to Take Sick and Die Some of These Days 19: Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You? 20: Country Blues 21: You're Gonna Miss Me 22: 32-20 Blues

Raw Mud
A must have for any Muddy fan. It was great hearing Muddy's voice (yassir) during the interviews, and his raw version of Country Blues. Great album to hear Muddy as the plantation workers heard him.


Already the greatest blues artist in history, further enhances his reputation.
This CD proves that Muddy,(in additon to being the greatest ever electric ensemble singer-guitarist-leader), is also the equal of Robert Johnson as a solo acoustic performer. If I hadn't heard these recordings, I might divide the acoustic greats of the Old South from the more modern, (usually electric, with a band), Waters. The only point that might more highly rank his electric work is that he -invented- it(!), but as far as power, nuance and creativity are concerned, this material may be -better- than his later work! .


Indispensable Early Work of a Blues Genius
Few people have ever impacted any artform as much as Muddy has American music. This is where the legend of the one and only, tremendous Muddy Waters starts. Though he is accompanied on some songs, Muddy is also solo on many and performs some future classics w/ just an acoustic and his powerful voice. When Muddy heard the playback after "Country Blues" he knew that he had what it took to be a blues professional. . . possibly the greatest that there ever was. If you've never heard Muddy play acoustic, you are in for a shock; I believe my jaw dropped to the floor when I heard the amazing, full-bodied, vibrant sound that he got out of just a guitar and his voice on songs such as the first cut and "I Be's Troubled" (later recorded as "I Can't Be Satisfied. " This is indispensable and essential listening, not just some study in the roots of American music.


Muddy's Delta Blues
Most fans have a lot of Muddy Waters chicago blues. Most Blues fans have heard a lot of chicago blues. But not alot of Muddy Waters fans would have heard Muddy sing the delta blues. This CD is very intersting because it shows Muddy playing the first blues he ever heard, The Delta Blues. Much like the sounds of Son House, Robert Johnson and Skip JAmes this cd is all acoustic blues. It is great to be able to hear a very young Muddy sing delta blues because once he went to Chicago he abandoned the delta sound and went electric. Muddy does several Robert Johnson songs on this cd quite well, and there are some interesting interviews with Muddy explaining what life was like in the delta and why he made songs out of his experiences. For those who like the old delta blues this cd is a must have, on no other cd do we hear Muddy singing blues like these.


Muddy's Real Real Folk Blues
He didnt own a guitar and had to borrow Alan Lomax's Martin. When Muddy Waters made the first recordings here, he was 26 or 27 and had not been playing regularly. You see here your basic Delta and Mississippi blues in full blossom, by a man who was a great player if he could sound like this when he wasn't in practice. People look at Mississippi blues with a distorted mind thinking of it only through the stream of Robert Johnson, when the music and the tradition was much broader.


In the interviews on this recording you can see how lame and ignorant at times the folklorists were, both white and black, Lomax and Work. But you also see a testament to Son House who taught Robert Johnson, Muddy, and a whole layer of bluesmen and who was such a great artist even in his revival 1960s that Muddy would make his band members keep quiet and play close attention when House performed with them at Newport and elsewhere.

However, you also see his roots beyond this. We get to hear a good string band performance with Muddy Playing with fiddler Son Sims and a mandolin player in a blues fiddle band that was typical of what was going on at the time. Muddy explains his decision to start playing music was inspired by Sims and the string band with Sims and the mandolin player was the band he performed with when he got work. Neither Waters nor the liner notes let you know that Waters also played mandolin, and that when Muddy was a teenager in the 1930s, his favorite blues group was the fiddle band The Mississippi Sheiks. Years later, Muddy would explain he walked all day just to hear the Sheiks.

Despite all this history, this is some good blues music to listen to,. More relaxed,and less intense, and of course less masterful than the Chess masterpieces Muddy began putting out in Chicago in the 1940s, but this is still a CD I put on my player with it set to keep replaying it because I want to hear it.


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