Muddy Waters - Folk Singer
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Artist: Muddy WatersEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-07-27
Music Label: Chess
Soundtracks:
- My Home Is In The Delta
- Long Distance
- My Captain
- Good Morning Little School Girl
- You Gonna Need My Help
- Cold Weather Blues
- Big Leg Woman
- Country Boy
- Feel Like Going Home
- The Same Thing
- You Can't Lose What You Never Had
- My John The Conqueror Root
- Short Dress Woman
- Put Me In Your Lay Away
Music reviews of Folk Singer
Music Review: Everything Muddy ever recorded is real folk blues!
Rating: 5 Stars
I first heard this record at a place called "The Commune" a house I stayed in while travelling through Detroit a lot back in the late 1960s working for the Young Socialists. I learned, not with music but in the brain, some of these songs like "My Home in the Delta" and they are so classic that they became part of my brain and my understanding of the blues both as a listener and as a performer. I only got the CD about 10 years ago.This is classic music. This is your basic strong Muddy Waters performance coming straight at you. This record reminds you that no matter what instrument a blues artist plays, no matter what level of world class excellence a blues artist achieves on an instrument or as a band leader---and Muddy was all that and more--BLUES IS A SINGER'S MUSIC. A BLUES SINGER MAKES THE MUSIC WORK BY THE REALITY THAT SHE OR HE PUTS INTO THEIR VOCAL INTO the feeliong of the song whether it is funny, sad, angry, ironic, or all of them together. Blues is about reality, and this music is about reality.
It's interesting that just as we folkies back around 65 realized through Bob Dylan and other folks that being folk music had nothing to do with whether you used an electric or acoustic guitar but what kind of music you were playing, Muddy came out with this record on which he used his acoustic but had supurb backing from the great buddy guy on electric, and Willie Dixon and adds piano and bass and more instruments on other cuts. Are these tunes any more folk music than his superb electric sets from 1947 on? Are these tunes if they are so folk, any less the product of a great conscious artist and arranger assisted by another one, the great Willie Dixon, a combination for the Chicago Blues analgous and just as productive as Strayhorn and Ellington in Jazz?
As someone who more or less performs in the category of folk singer and blues player, I find these artificial barriers between folk and popular forms of blues and country music to be the silly ignorance of people with bad views of culture. So much of the value of real folk music that was coming out of existing traditions of African Americans and Southern whites, among others, has been missed by people propelled by these ignorances.
Two non blues examples I can give are Woody Guthrie and Doc Watson. All the time Guthrie lived in Oklahoma he was a piano player and a mandolin player, two of the standard backup instruments for Texas and Oklahoma ranch dance music. However, when he arrived in Los Angeles got in touch with the "people's music" crowd, he was informed that a true folk performer played the guitar. Guthrie learned to play the guitar in LA on his radio program.
When Ralph Rinzler met Clarence Ashley at the Galax Fiddlers convention and told him he wanted to record him and would be down to North Carolina to record him, Clarence showed up at the studio with Doc Watson with his favorite guitar, his Les Paul Custom, the instrument he learned to do all his lead guitar fiddle tunes (most of which Watson recorded first on the mandolin before he dutifully recorded them on Acoustic guitar).
Everything Muddy ever recorded is real folk blues!
Description of Folk Singer
This is possibly the most talked about 'true audiophile' blues recordings ever. Mastered from the original 1964 Chess analog master tapes, this Quiex SV pressing brings out elements of the intimate studio production as never before. Muddy's supporting cast includes Buddy Guy on guitar, with occasional visits by Chess veteran drummer Clifton James, Otis Spann's piano and Willie Dixon at the upright.Muddy Waters started out playing acoustic blues in the Delta, and it shows on this return to his roots, designed to appeal to the mid-1960s surge of interest in folk music. The back of the CD includes a photo of Waters with bassist and songwriter Willie Dixon, as well as a very young Buddy Guy, gathered around a single microphone. This particular CD reissue includes five bonus tracks, among which are "The Same Thing" and "Short Dress Woman," which take advantage of the longer CD running time. All of the other reasons to hear this one remain--Waters's strong, confident voice, the relaxed smoothness of the material, and the surprisingly clean recording, made even cleaner by the digital remastering. --Genevieve Williams
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