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 | Title : His Best: 1947 to 1955
Author : Muddy Waters
Release Date : 19970325
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $18.98
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Editorial Reviews :
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.
Buyer Reviews :
This is the REAL beginning of rock'n'roll here, kids. Before Chuck Berry or Bo Diddley, there was Muddy Waters. Although most of the recordings on this disk are just him without a rythm section, this first in a must-have duo shows us The King of Chicago at his most stripped-down and primal. Also included are some really jucy harmonica licks courtesy of Marion 'Little Walter' Jacobs. Anyone vaguely interested in hard-as-nails guitar and shit-kicking proto-rock attitude owes it ot themselves to check both of these disks out. Shaw'nuff!
(by A music fan)
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