Muddy Waters - The Anthology (1947-1972)

Muddy Waters - The Anthology (1947-1972)

Artist:    Waters, Muddy

 

Description:
Personnel: Muddy Waters (vocals, guitar); Jimmy Rogers, Mike Bloomfield, Buddy Guy, Pat Hare, Luther Tucker, Fred Robinson, Earl Hooker, James "Pee Wee" Madison, Sammy Lawhorn, Leroy Foster (guitar); Little Walter, Junior Wells, Walter Horton, James Cotton, Paul Butterfield, Jeff Carp (harmonica); A.C. Reed (tenor saxophone); Sunnyland Slim, Otis Spann, Lafayette Leake (piano); John "Big Moose" Walker (organ); Pinetop Perkins (keyboards); Ernest "Big" Crawford, Willie Dixon, Andrew Stephenson, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Phil Upchurch, Calvin James (bass); Fred Below, Elgin Evans, Francis Clay, Bobby Little, Clifton James, S.P. Leary, Sam Lay, Willie Smith (drums); Leonard Chess (bass drum).
Producers: Leonard & Phil Chess, Willie Dixon, Norman Drayton, Ralph Bass.
Compilation producer: Andy McKaie.
Recorded between 1947 and 1972. Includes liner notes by Mary Katherine Aldin.
Digitally remastered by Erick Labson (Universal Mastering Studios-West, Hollywood, California).
Far and away the foremost figure in Chicago`s post-war electric blues scene, Muddy Waters is a towering musical icon who left behind a vast recorded legacy. ANTHOLOGY (1947-1972) nevertheless manages to be a definitive career summary, packing 50 tracks onto two discs, spanning 25 years of recordings for Chess, the premier Chicago blues label. From the earliest tracks, we can literally hear the style`s template being created; while Waters had already abandoned his heavily Robert Johnson-influenced solo country-blues sound by the late `40s, a trace of that approach can still be heard in his first Chess sides.
By the time the `50s rolled around, Muddy had fashioned a powerful engine that ran on high-voltage electricity, and, with the help of songsmith Willie Dixon, fashioned some of the most resonant and seminal blues recordings ever made. To hear Muddy`s biting slide-guitar work and gravitas-filled voice is to understand just how deep into one`s soul the blues can reach. Whether expressing the Tao-like sentiments of "You Can`t Lose What You Ain`t Never Had," coming on like a house afire ("I`m Ready"), or bemoaning the heaviest of heartaches ("Standin` Around Cryin`"), no one reached further into the heart of the blues than Muddy did during his long, productive Chess tenure, as is made gloriously evident on ANTHOLOGY.

 

Track Listing:

• DISC 1:
  1. Gypsy Woman
  2. I Can`t Be Satisfied
  3. I Feel Like Going Home
  4. Train Fare Home Blues
  5. Mean Red Spider
  6. Standin` Here Tremblin`
  7. You Gonna Need My Help
  8. Little Geneva
  9. Rollin` & Tumblin` Part One
  10. Rollin` Stone
  11. Walkin` Blues
  12. Louisiana Blues
  13. Long Distance Call
  14. Honey Bee
  15. Country Boy
  16. She Moves Me
  17. Still A Fool
  18. Stuff You Gotta Watch
  19. Who`s Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I`m Gone
  20. Standin` Around Cryin`
  21. Baby Please Don`t Go
  22. Hoochie Coochie Man, (I`m Your)
  23. I Just Want To Make Love To You
  24. I`m Ready
  25. Young Fashioned Ways
  26. I Want To Be Loved
• DISC 2:
  1. My Eyes (Keep Me In Trouble)
  2. Mannish Boy
  3. Sugar Sweet
  4. Trouble No More
  5. Forty Days And Forty Nights
  6. Just To Be With You
  7. Don`t Go No Farther
  8. Diamonds At Your Feet
  9. I Love The Life I Live (I Live The Life I Love)
  10. Got My Mojo Working
  11. Rock Me
  12. Look What You`ve Done
  13. She`s Nineteen Years Old
  14. Close To You
  15. Walking Thru The Park
  16. Take The Bitter With The Sweet
  17. I Feel So Good - (live)
  18. You Shook Me
  19. My Home In The Delta
  20. Good Morning Little School Girl
  21. Same Thing, The
  22. You Can`t Lose What You Ain`t Never Had
  23. All Aboard (Fathers & Sons)
  24. Can`t Get No Grindin`

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Album Information
Release Date:	08/28/2001
Type:	Performer
Genre:	Blues
Subgenre:	Chicago Blues
Label:	MCA Records (USA)
Catalog Number:	112 649
Original Release Year:	2001
# of Discs:	2
Studio/Live:	Studio
Mono/Stereo:	Mixed
Guest Artist:	Buddy Guy; Willie Dixon; Little Walter; Otis Spann; Paul Butterfield; Junior Wells; Mike Bloomfield

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