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Muddy Waters The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album
Recorded :1975 Released: 1995 Label: Chess Format: Mp3@320  Of all the post-Fathers & Sons attempts at updating Muddy's sound in collaboration with younger white musicians, this album worked best because they let Muddy be himself, producing music that compared favorably to his concerts of the period, which were wonderful. His final album for Chess (recorded at Levon Helm's Woodstock studio, not in Chicago), with Helm and fellow Band-member Garth Hudson teaming up with Muddy's touring band, it was a rocking (in the bluesy sense) soulful swansong to the label where he got his start. Muddy covers some songs he knew back when (including Louis Jordan's "Caldonia" and "Let The Good Times Roll"), plays some slide, and generally has a great time on this Grammy-winning album. This record got lost in the shuffle between the collapse of Chess Records and the revival of Muddy's career under the auspices of Johnny Winter, and was forgotten until 1995. The CD contains one previously unreleased number, "Fox Squirrel." This album was recorded in Bearsville's Studio at "Turtle Creek" February 6th and 7th, 1975. Tracklist: 01. Why Are People Like That? (03:37) 02. Going Down Main Street (04:16) 03. Born With Nothing (05:23) 04. Caldonia (06:19) 05. Funny Sounds (04:35) 06. Love, Deep As The Ocean (05:13) 07. Let The Good Time Roll (05:15) 08. Kansas City (05:12) 09. Fox Squirrel (03:54) This is a Muddy Waters album, but it intersects so tightly with the history of the Band, that it should be checked out by any serious fans of the group. Levon Helm -- who is as proud of having made this record and worked with Muddy as he is of any music he's ever made -- produced and played, and Garth Hudson played keyboards on these sessions, which otherwise feature Waters' touring band. The repertory includes several blues and R&B standards, among them "Kansas City" and "Caldonia," of the kind that the Band did on Moondog Matinee, except that these performances are better. Further, the album is a prelude to Waters' presence at The Last Waltz. Indeed, The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album is really a nexus between Moondog Matinee and The Last Waltz, and picks up a broken thread from the group's early history -- The Band had hooked up briefly with Sonny Boy (Rice Miller) Williamson II in Arkansas, and had hoped to record with him, but Williamson died of cancer before they could work together. This late-era Muddy album gave Helm and Hudson a chance to work at Chess before the label closed its doors, with a figure of even greater stature than Williamson. What's more, for the record, it's a great album, a Grammy winner for Muddy and one of Helm and Hudson's more rewarding non-Band projects. Personnel: Muddy Waters (vocals, guitar) Pinetop Perkins (vocals, piano) Fred Carter, Sammy Lawhorn, Bob Margolin (guitar) Paul Butterfield (harmonica) Garth Hudson (accordion, saxophone, organ, keyboards) Howard Johnson (saxophone) Levon Helm (drums). Related Torrents
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