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Muddy Waters - His Best: 1947 to 1955 Audio CD

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Muddy Waters Band: Muddy Waters
Title: His Best: 1947 to 1955
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Release Date: 1997-03-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Can't Be Satisfied 2: I Feel Like Going Home 3: Train Fare Blues 4: Rollin' and Tumblin', Pt. 1 5: Rollin' Stone 6: Louisiana Blues 7: Long Distance Call 8: Honey Bee 9: She Moves Me 10: Still a Fool 11: Standing Around Crying 12: Baby Please Don't Go 13: I Want You to Love Me 14: (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man 15: I Just Want to Make Love to You 16: I'm Ready 17: Young Fashioned Ways 18: Mannish Boy 19: Sugar Sweet 20: Trouble No More

Back Down to the Roots of Rock
It has an intimate, yet at the same time outstanding, archival feel. There may be slightly (and I do mean slightly) better produced Muddy Waters CDs, but this stands out as my favorite. Without R+B musicians like Muddy Waters its hard to imagine the evolution of mainstream Rock.

This CD has got to be in any music anthology, and certainly in any R&B collection.

It is a cultural treasure.

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The foundation of hard rock is right here!
If it weren't for Muddy Waters, hard rock might look totally different. . if it would have even come about. So many classic bands took inspiration from Muddy or covered his songs. Just look at the Rolling Stones (who took their name from one of his songs and covered "I Just Wanna Make Love to You"), the Allman Brothers ("Trouble No More"), Aerosmith (who covered two songs on their recent HONKIN' ON BOBO), Ted Nugent ("Baby Please Don't Go"), Eric Clapton ("I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man") and many others.

But, that statement ignores the quality of this music, which is great. The early tracks like "I Can't Be Satisfied" and "Rollin' and Tumblin' (Pt. 1)" are raw and intimate, just Muddy backed with acoustic guitar and stand-up bass. But the later electric tracks are even better. "I'm Ready," "Mannish Boy," "I Want You to Love Me," and more are stone cold blues classics. Muddy's backing band of the time included Willie Dixon and Little Walter and their great ensemble playing on these tracks contribute to their greatness.

This is a mandatory CD for fans of blues and rock. Get it now.


"I gotta ax handle pistol/On a graveyard frame/That shoots tombstone bullets/Wearing balls and chain"
Anyone besides me love this line? Anyway. .
Though it's hard to say who invented rock, bluesmen can be given much credit for it. I really find it surprising that my friends who are, like me, rock fans aren't into the blues, since blues pretty much shaped rock.
Okay, onto the album itself. It's a damned good one, if you're a fan of the blues and this isn't in your collection, the Ghost of Muddy Waters will be coming for you, and he'll be pissed. . . especially if it's after a long night of him drinkin' T. N. T and smokin' dynamite. Believe me. You need classics like I Can't Be Satisfied, Rollin' and Tumblin', Rollin' Stone, Baby Please Don't Go, I Just Want to Make Love to You, Hoochie Coochie Man, I'm Ready, Mannish Boy and Trouble No More in your collection. And though some rock bands covered these songs excellently, Muddy's versions win out nine times of ten. Oh, and did I mention Willie Dixon plays bass on, and writes, most of these songs? .


There really isn't much to say.
In a talent competition he'd obliterate the competitors on his first note. I don't see how anyone could improve.


Muddy Is The Man!!!
"Mannish Boy" is probably my favorite. If you are a blues fan you have to have at least one Muddy Waters CD and this would be the one. This is the first Muddy Waters song I ever heard although I had heard plenty of his songs done by other artists. It was used in a beer commercial (Budweiser I believe)back in the early '90's and I had to find out who it was. His version of the often recored "Baby Please Don't Go" is my favorite version of this song. This is an essential CD if you are just getting into blues. Also see Howling Wolf's "Rocking Chair album" and "Moaning at Midnight. " And for Delta Blues, Robert Johnson's complete recordings since it is only two CDs and Son House's "Father of the Delta Blues. ".


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