Got turned onto this one by the same guy who hooked me up with the Eddie Fisher album I mentioned a couple of weeks ago...One of Muddy's two late-60s electric records on Cadet, backed by session men Charles Stepney, Phil Upchurch, Louis Satterfield, and Morris Jennings. Muddy Waters through a fuzztone - absolutely incredible. Muddy WatersRamblin Mindfrom After the Rain
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It always raises a smile to think that so much psychedelic music was just blues played at jet-age volume with lashings of feedback and distortion. What a great idea! All those guys had already been playing the tunes for ages in their “folk years”, before The Beatles and The Stones made them realise it always sounds better on a louder guitar, but they had ample opportunities during the psychede
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The audio track was recorded in Chicago in 1949 and features Johnny Jones on piano, Tampa Red on guitar, Leroy Foster on drums and, of course, Muddy on guitar and vocals. It's my favorite track so far on the 4-CD Proper box set ??King Of the Chicago Blues??.The video is Muddy live, late in life (1976) singing ??Mannish Boy (AKA I'm A Man)?? onstage with Robbie Robertson on guitar and Paul Butte...
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One of the greats, **Muddy Waters**.This man was a giant in the Folk & Blues world. From the Mississippi Mud to the grandest theaters in the land, McKinley Morgenfield experienced all of it. A man of legendary prowess and vociferous appetites who always conducted himself with the grace & dignity of royalty. Many of his songs were "interpreted" by the blues revivalists of the late sixties, often...
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The celebrated "British Blues Revival" of the mid to late sixties spelled hard times for true blues Titans. We were all convinced that "the blues" was extended guitar solos and neon clothing. Alexis Korner, John Mayall, and others nurtured up and comers in the music, the structure of the blues, but really.....these kids didn't know from The Blues. Oh, they knew the records, they knew the songs...
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The last two months have been dark in more ways than one. Dudley's death added an under- (and sometimes over-)current of sadness to every day and lonely night. I was better during the week, working away from home but couldn't help breaking down every weekend when home.I resisted getting another bulldog until "it was time", though my wife wanted to try to end the mourning immediately. It's time!...
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It always raises a smile to think that so much psychedelic music was just blues played at jet-age volume with lashings of feedback and distortion. What a great idea! All those guys had already been playing the tunes for ages in their “folk years”, before The Beatles and The Stones made them realise it always sounds better on a louder guitar, but they had ample opportunities during the psychede
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| 1 Champagne & Reefer |
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| 2 Mannish Boy |
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| 3 I Can't Be Satisfied |
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| 4 Rollin' Stone |
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| 5 Mannish Boy |
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