Muddy Waters - His Best: 1947 to 1955
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Artist: Muddy WatersEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1997-03-25
Music Label: Chess
Soundtracks:
- I Can't Be Satisfied
- I Feel Like Going Home
- Train Fare Blues
- Rollin' and Tumblin', Pt. 1
- Rollin' Stone
- Louisiana Blues
- Long Distance Call
- Honey Bee
- She Moves Me
- Still a Fool
- Standing Around Crying
- Baby Please Don't Go
- I Want You to Love Me
- (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
- I Just Want to Make Love to You
- I'm Ready
- Young Fashioned Ways
- Mannish Boy
- Sugar Sweet
- Trouble No More
Music reviews of His Best: 1947 to 1955
Music Review: Back Down to the Roots of Rock
Rating: 5 Stars
There may be slightly (and I do mean slightly) better produced Muddy Waters CDs, but this stands out as my favorite. It has an intimate, yet at the same time outstanding, archival feel. Without R+B musicians like Muddy Waters its hard to imagine the evolution of mainstream Rock.
This CD has got to be in any music anthology, and certainly in any R&B collection.
It is a cultural treasure.
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Description of His Best: 1947 to 1955
One of the best recordings in Chess Records' 50th Anniverary series is the first of two bookend Muddy Waters collections, His Best 1947-55. Documenting Waters's most creatively and commercially successful years at Aristocrat/Chess, this CD begins with his formative years and ends with Waters at his peak. So you're in for a lot of terrific bottleneck slide guitar work as well as electric Chicago blues. What's to criticize? Superb remasterings of "I Can't Be Satisfied," "Rollin' and Tumblin'," "I'm Ready," and "Mannish Boy" are simply beyond reproach. With simple bass accompaniment from Ernest "Big" Crawford, Waters's bottleneck tracks are spare, haunting and, quite frankly, perfect country blues. And listening to Waters, Little Walter, Willie Dixon, and Jimmy Rogers piece together (and perfect very quickly) the classic Chicago sound is pure blues epiphany. At the very least, this collection shows you why Waters's rollicking stop-time classics like "Mannish Boy" and "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" have sparked endless imitations over the years--and why nobody has played them better since. --Ken HohmanGeneral CDs
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