Real Folk Blues / More Real Folk Blues

Muddy Waters - Real Folk Blues / More Real Folk Blues

Real Folk Blues / More Real Folk Blues
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Artist: Muddy Waters
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-03-12
Music Label: Chess
Soundtracks:
  1. Mannish Boy
  2. Screamin' and Cryin'
  3. Just to Be With You
  4. Walking Thru the Park
  5. Walkin' Blues
  6. Canary Bird
  7. The Same Thing
  8. Gypsy Woman
  9. Rollin' and Tumblin', Part One
  10. Forty Days and Forty Nights
  11. Little Geneva
  12. You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had
  13. Sad Letter Blues
  14. You're Gonna Need My Help I Said
  15. Sittin' Here and Drinkin' (Whiskey Blues)
  16. Down South Blues
  17. Train Fare Home Blues
  18. Kind Hearted Woman
  19. Appealing Blues (Hello Little Girl)
  20. Early Morning Blues
  21. Too Young to Know
  22. She's Alright
  23. Landlady
  24. Honey Bee

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Free Music Review: Classic Muddy Waters
Hit: 5 Stars

While "The Real Folk Blues" and "More Real Folk Blues" were initially released in 1966 and 1967 respectively, the bulk of these tracks were cut at the Chess studios in Chicago between 1947 and 1958 when Waters was at his peak. In fact, only two tracks were recorded outside that time frame: "The Same Thing" and "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had," both from 1964.

These albums were initially released in an attempt to reach the white audience enamored by the burgeoning folk scene. But don't be fooled. This is a collection of Water's Chess singles dating all the way back to his first Aristocrat single, 1947's "Gypsy Woman."

Nearly half of these songs feature Waters on guitar with only Ernest "Big" Crawford backing him up on bass. The rest of the tracks have Waters playing with a small combo featuring piano (Otis Spann), harmonica (Little Walter, Junior Wells or James Cotton), a second guitar (including Jimmy Rogers), bass (including Willie Dixon), and drums.

Most of these are original songs, but Waters pays tribute to Robert Johnson on a pair of songs, "Kind Hearted Woman" from 1948 and "Walkin Blues" from 1950.

Crawdaddy Magazine writer Paul Williams says in the original liner notes: "...blues is happy music, an escape from sadness...when Muddy sings, you feel the blues, and you feel the joy that goes with them." That may fly in the face of everything you thought you know about the blues. But when you put this in your CD player, you'll know he's speaking the truth. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Real Folk Blues / More Real Folk Blues Poster

McKinley Morganfield was hardly the name for a blues giant, let alone one whose influence spread far beyond boundaries of age, geography, and genre. So Muddy Waters it became, a moniker that both epitomized his Delta roots and the troubled moral climate of his age. Deconstruct Waters's music--the Son House-inspired slide work; a jazzman's innate phrasing and sense of timing; a voice that was weary, wise, and dignified all at once--and it won't come close to the mere sum of its parts.

Better to listen as this collection (whose original 1966-67 albums sought to cash in on a waning folk movement) bounces from "Mannish Boy" (his potent response to Chess Records labelmate Bo Diddley's copping his style for "I'm a Man") across 15 years of his history with Chess and his deep Delta roots, including early, stripped-down reworkings of Robert Johnson ("Walkin' Blues," "Kind Hearted Woman") and the roots classic "Rollin' and Tumblin'" to the smoky jazz-blues of "The Same Thing," Willie Dixon's 1964 reworking of his classic, "Spoonful."

The material from the '40s often features Waters accompanied only by Ernest "Big" Crawford on bass, music as elementally pure as Waters ever recorded. It's arguably the only collection of the Real Folk Blues series (which also includes titles by John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, and Sonny Boy Williamson) that really lives up to its "folk blues" billing. More than a mere greatest-hits introduction, the albums compiled here often capture the rare, naked essence of Waters' soulful muse. --Jerry McCulley

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