Muddy Waters - Breakin It Up: Breakin It Down
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Artist: Muddy WatersPerformer: Johnny Winter
Performer: James Cotton
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Medley: Black Cat Bone/Dust My Broom
- Can't Be Satisfied
- Caledonia
- Dealin' With the Devil
- Rocket 88
- I Done Got Over It
- How Long Can a Fool Go Wrong
- Mama Talk To Your Daughter
- Love Her With a Feeling
- Trouble No More
- Got My Mojo Workin'
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Music Review: Submitted for your approval...
Rating: 5 Stars
...Rod Serling? Eh, no, not quite.
Anyway. The couple of professional reviews I had read suggested that this was a good but somewhat superflous live album, certainly not a must-have, except for the really serious fan. So, I wasn't expecting great things.
But I was pleasantly surprised, actually. This is a really fine album, with extensive recording information and excellent liner notes by guitarist Bob Margolin, and the vast majority of these songs do not usually show up on the many live albums left behind by the great Muddy Waters.
Muddy Waters shares the slide guitar parts with Johnny Winter, who had produced and played on Muddy's then-brand new comeback LP, "Hard Again", and they are backed by a terrific band: Bob Margolin, bassist Charles Calmese, drummer Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, pianist and occational vocalist Joe "Pinetop" Perkins, and the great James Cotton playing the harp. Cotton, Waters and Winter share lead vocals about equally between themselves, and the highlights are numerous: Johnny Winter performs a great, swinging "I Done Got Over It", originally by Guitar Slim. James Cotton rips through "the world's first rock n' roll song", Jackie Brenston's 1951 R&B single "Rocket 88". And Muddy Waters completely steals the show with one magnificent slide guitar fest, a pulsating rendition of his first hit single, "I Can't Be Satisfied". Waters and Winter both play slide on this the finest cut on the album.
Other highlight include the opening medley, Johnny Winter's "Black Cat Bone" fused with "Dust My Broom" (it's basically the same song anyway), a driving, energetic performance of James Cotton's "How Long Can A Fool Go Wrong", the slow burner "Love Her With A Feeling", and of course the obligatory closer, "Got My Mojo Workin'".
But there are really no bad songs here. Great take on "Mama Talk To Your Daughter". Great "Dealin' With The Devil". Great stuff, great playing, and more lively, up-tempo numbers than on most live recordings featuring Muddy Waters, something which, to me at least, is a definite plus.
You might argue that Muddy Waters seriously overshadows Winter and Cotton in the vocal department, and why doesn't he sing all the songs? Well, it's true that he is the best and most commanding singer of the three, even here a few weeks before his 64th birthday. But part of the charm of this album is precisely this loose and relaxed feeling...Johnny sings a verse, then Muddy sings one, then James Cotton sings one, etc.
To me, this is a very worthy addition to the catalogue of all three men, one of the most enjoyable live blues records I have listened to for a long time. I can't see anyone with an interest in the music of Muddy Waters, or blues in general, not liking this one.
4 3/4 stars. Yummy!
Description of Breakin It Up: Breakin It Down
Muddy Waters Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down UK CD albumMuddy Waters had his second coming 30 years ago, when longtime friend and disciple Johnny Winter and his Blue Sky label returned him--after a series of listless recordings aimed at the rock audience--to the raw, powerful authenticity of his timeless Chess material with a series of powerful albums. Beginning with 1977's acclaimed Hard Again, a subsequent tour produced Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live, recorded onstage in Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia with Muddy's band, Winter, and harmonica player/vocalist James Cotton. Enough live material remained for Legacy to release an expanded version with an entire second disc of unissued concert material. It seems even that wasn't the end. This collection returns again to those remarkable concerts, featuring Muddy on five tracks, among them a rousing "I Can't Be Satisfied," "Trouble No More," "Caldonia," and the closing "Got My Mojo Workin'." Winter and Cotton are no less powerful, Cotton redoing Jackie Brenston's hit "Rocket '88'" and Winter ripping up John Lee Hooker's "I Done Got Over It" and "Mama Talk to Your Daughter." --Rich Kienzle
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