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Muddy Waters - The Best of Muddy Waters Audio CD

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Muddy Waters Band: Muddy Waters
Title: The Best of Muddy Waters
Rating:
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Just Want to Make Love to You 2: Long Distance Call 3: Louisiana Blues 4: Honey Bee 5: Rollin' Stone 6: I'm Ready 7: (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man 8: She Moves Me 9: I Want You to Love Me 10: Standing Around Crying 11: Still a Fool 12: I Can't Be Satisfied

All the power is here--some noise too
It's the way people heard Muddy's classic stuff in the 1960s. This is a reissue of the late 1950s lp collecting Muddy's best early sides, 10 from 1947-51, 2 from 1954.

All these tracks plus 8 more are on His Best, 1947-1955. All of those extra tracks are great in their own right. But there is more undiluted power in this configuration, and a better cover. 12 songs--a perfect album.

About the sound: all these tracks (or almost all) come from 78s and 45s that reflect the way this music was originally heard. There are some clicks and pops and even some distortion. But if you compare tracks like Honey Bee you hear power in Muddy's voice and sting in the guitar that aren't in the more recent issue (haven't heard the Chess box). The more recent issue has clearly used some noise reduction and compression, and while it's not bad enough to ruin the music, some of the life and edge has been burnished off of this truly elemental music.


Solid album for the money...decent beginner CD
Another problem with this collection is it contains
tracks that were transferred from analog tape, so the
quality of the recording after all these years isn't
going to be that great. While this is a nice sampler of Waters on a single CD, it
does not represent a comprehensive overview of his career,
which requires a more thorough compilation, such as a box
set. Here's the track listing for
this album by Chess Records, with the original composer
in parentheses:
1. I Just Want To Make Love To You 2:49 (Willie Dixon)
2. Long Distance Call 2:38 (McKinley Morganfield)
3. Louisiana Blues 2:49 (McKinley Morganfield)
4. Honey Bee 3:20 (McKinley Morganfield)
5. Rollin' Stone (McKinley Morganfield)
6. I'm Ready 3:01 (Willie Dixon)
7. Hoochie Coochie 2:49 (Willie Dixon)
8. She Moves Me 2:54 (McKinley Morganfield)
9. I Want You To Love Me 3:01 (McKinley Morganfield)
10. Standing Around Crying 3:19 (McKinley Morganfield)
11. Still A Fool 3:14 (McKinley Morganfield)
12. I Can't Be Satisfied 2:41 (McKinley Morganfield)
In addition to the Chess 50th Anniversary Series, which
covers 1947-1955, and 1956-1964, there is another series
which precedes this that may complement the Chess albums
carried by Amazon. The distributor is Allegro Corp,
and the label is Document Records. The catalog number for
the first disc is DOC5146, and the title for the album
is Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) First Recordings
1941-1946 In Chronological Order. This disc contains the
following tracks:
1. Country Blues
2. I Be's Troubled
3. Ramblin' Kid Blues
4. Rosalie
5. Joe Turner Blues
6. Pearly May Blues
7. Take A Walk With Me
8. Burr Clover Blues
9. I Be Bound To Write To You
10. You Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
11. You Got To Take Sick And Die Some Of These Days
12. Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You
13. Country Blues (No. 2)
14. Mean Red Spider
15. I'm Gonna Cut You Head
16. Atomic Bomb Blues
17. Tommorow Will Be Too Late
18. Jitterbug Blues
19. Hard Day Blues
20. Buryin' Ground Blues
21. Come To Me Baby
22. You Can't Make The Grade
23. Rollin' And Tumblin' Pt. 1
24. Rollin' And Tumblin' Pt. 2

The second disc is Muddy Waters 1945-1950 and the
catalog number is CLC5029, and the distributor is
Allegro Corp, but unfortunately I haven't been
able to find information about the track listing
for this particular album. If you're unable to find
this album, you might just opt for the first Allegro
album and splurge on Anthology, which covers Waters
from 1947-1972. Muddy Waters was arguably one of the
most influential blues musicians of the original
British Invasion era, if not the most influential.
.


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