Muddy Waters - The Anthology (1947-1972)

Artist:

Waters, Muddy

UPC:

008811264925

See Also:

Muddy Waters Tribute Band Howlin` Wolf - The Super Super Blues Band Muddy Waters - Muddy & the Wolf John Lee Hooker - Winning Combinations: John Lee Hooker & Muddy Waters

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).
Personnel: Muddy Waters (vocals, guitar); Earl Hooker, Fred Robinson , Jimmy Rogers , Leroy Foster, Luther Tucker, Pat Hare, Buddy Guy (guitar); Jeffrey M. Carp, James Cotton , Little Walter, Junior Wells (harmonica); A.C. Reed (tenor saxophone); Lafayette Leake, Otis Spann, Sunnyland Slim (piano); Clifton James, Francis Clay, Fred Below, Elgin Evans, Sam Lay (drums); Leonard Chess (bass drum).
Liner Note Author: Mary Katherine Aldin.
Recording information: 04/1948-03/1972.
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` and Tumblin`, Pt. 1
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. (I`m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
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 Is in the Delta
20. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
21. Same Thing, The
22. You Can`t Lose What You Ain`t Never Had
23. All Aboard
24. Can`t Get No Grindin`

Album Information

Release Date:

08/28/2001

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Blues

Subgenre:

Chicago Blues

Label:

MCA/Chess

Catalog Number:

1126492

Original Release Year:

2001

# of Discs:

2

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Mixed

Runtime:

147 : 24

Guest Artist:

Buddy Guy; Willie Dixon; Little Walter; Otis Spann; Paul Butterfield; Junior Wells; Mike Bloomfield

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