These
rare performances, all electric, capture Muddy as the embers of his
career glowed anew. By 1968, the folk blues had waned and the sound
he popularized in the mid-1950s was returning to the fore. Over the
next decade, Muddy secured his place as the godfather of rock and
roll. The slide guitar technique he plays on these versions of
Country Boy, Honey Bee, and Long Distance Call is at once
contemporary and as pure as when he learned it as a dusty child in
the delta fifty years earlier. In Got My Mojo Working, Muddy works
the vocals from his cavernous chest into his mouth and then shakes
the words from his jowls and cheeks. His singing is as glorious as
his playing.
Throughout his career, Muddy always drew
exceptional sideman. Muddy's two great pianists, Otis Spann and
Pinetop Perkins, are both featured here, as are harmonica players
Carey Bell, Paul Oscher, and Jerry Portnoy. Guitarists include Pee
Wee Madison, Bob Margolin, and Luther Johnson, and on the skins are
Muddy's last two great drummers, S.P. Leary and Willie "Big Eyes"
Smith.
Tracklist:
- Blow, Wind, Blow
- Country Boy
- Got My Mojo Working
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Honey Bee
- They Call Me Muddy Waters
- Walking Through the Park
- Long Distance Call
- Mannish Boy
- Caldonia
- Everything Gonna Be All Right
- 12th of April (Soon Forgotten)
Regioncode - 2
Tento produkt byl přidán dne Čtvrtek 18. květen 2006.