Muddy Waters

2 LPS ON 1 CD Plus 6 BONUS TRACKS

This release includes two of Waters’ finest and most celebrated albums: "At Newport and Muddy Waters Sings “Big Bill”, both originally released in 1960. These two masterpieces have been packaged together in this very special
collector’s edition, which also includes 6 bonus tracks from the same period.

Contained here is the cream of the crop from Muddy Water’s hit-making stretch for Chess Records during his early years. Waters is backed on these tracks by a virtual who’s who of fabulous musicians, such as James Cotton, Otis Spann, Pat Hare, Andrew Stephenson, and Francis Clay, who helped define the exact nature of the Chicago electric blues sound. This great band used amplification to make the music more visceral and raw instead of simply making it a little louder.

PERSONNEL:

MUDDY WATERS vocals and guitar, plus:

James Cotton (harmonica), Pat Hare (guitar), Andrew Stephenson (bass),
Otis Spann (piano on all tracks, vocal on track 9), Francis Clay (drums), Langston Hughes (announcer).
Recorded July 3, 1960, during performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island.

(*) BONUS ALBUM (10-19): MUDDY WATERS SINGS "BIG BILL"

MUDDY WATERS (vocals and guitar), James Cotton (harmonica), Pat Hare (guitar),
Andrew Stephenson (bass), Otis Spann (piano), Francis Clay or Willie “Big Eyes” Smith (drums).
Recorded at Chess Studio, Chicago, June-August 1959.

(**) BONUS TRACKS (20-25): Studio takes.

TRACKS:

01 I GOT MY BRAND ON YOU
02 (I’M YOUR) HOOCHIE COOCHIE MAN
03 BABY, PLEASE DON’T GO
04 SOON FORGOTTEN
05 TIGER IN YOUR TANK
06 I FEEL SO GOOD
07 I’VE GOT MY MOJO WORKING (Part 1)
08 I’VE GOT MY MOJO WORKING (Part 2)
09 GOODBYE NEWPORT BLUES
10 TELL ME BABY (*)
11 SOUTHBOUND TRAIN (*)
12 WHEN I GET TO THINKING (*)
13 JUST A DREAM (ON MY MIND) (*)
14 DOUBLE TROUBLE (*)
15 I FEEL SO GOOD V
16 BABY, I DONE GOT WISE (*)
17 MOPPER’S BLUES (*)
18 LONESOME ROAD BLUES (*)
19 HEY, HEY (*)
20 I’VE GOT MY MOJO WORKING (**)
21 MEANEST WOMAN (**)
22 SOON FORGOTTEN (**)
23 FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS (**)
24 I GOT MY BRAND ON YOU (**)
25 TIGER IN YOUR TANK (**)

TOTAL TIME: 79:03 Min.