Muddy Waters - Folk Singer (2LP, 45RPM, Box set, 1STEP, SuperVinyl)
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Muddy Waters – guitar, vocals [click here to see more vinyl featuring Muddy Waters]
Buddy Guy – guitar [click here to see more vinyl featuring Buddy Guy]
Sammy Lawhorn – guitar
James Madison – guitar
Otis Spann – harmonica, piano [click here to see more vinyl featuring Otis Spann]
Francis Clay – drums
Clifton James – drums
S.P. Leary – drums
Willie Dixon – bass
Milton Rector – bass
J.T. Brown – clarinet, tenor saxophone
2 LPs, box set
Limited to 10,000 numbered copies
Original analog Master tape : YES
UltraDisc One-Step (UDS1)
Heavy Press : 180g SuperVinyl
Record color : black
Speed : 45 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : RTI
Label : MOFI
Original Label : Chess
Recorded at Ter Mar Recording Studios in September, 1963
Engineered & mixed by Ron Malo
Produced by Ralph Bass, Willie Dixon
Originally released in 1964
Reissued in March 2022
Tracks:
Side A:
- My Home Is In The Delta
- Long Distance
Side B:
- My Captain
- Good Morning School Girl
- You Gonna Need My Help
Side C:
- Cold Weather Blues
- Big Leg Woman
Side D:
- Country Boy
- Feel Like Going Home
Awards :
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - ranked 280
Reviews:
"Muddy Waters was born on April 4, 1913 and died on April 30, 1983. The 35th anniversary of his passing has recently come and gone. (...)
The fifties will always have the bragging rights of being the "golden era" of rock n' roll. But the sixties? Not so much. During the first half, Jerry Lee's great balls of fire had already burned, The King's hound dogs had howled, Johnny had been good (but Chuck the Duck Walker was caught being bad). Yes, Chubby Checker had twisted his way over Fats Domino's blueberry hill, but American teens hadn't yet started to twist and shout, had they?
In a gritty neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago sat a small legendary studio that ultimately became a powerhouse as the years went passing by. Chess Records was owned and operated by Phil and Leonard Chess, who bought the building and hired a few key people to run the recording studio and its offices. They also hired some of the greatest blues musicians in the world to make the music. Among them were three kings: Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, and Buddy Guy. In this early part of 1963, these three gentlemen, along with Chess session drummer Clifton James (the originator of the Bo Diddley drum beat, did you know?) came together to do a special recording for the Chess label. It would be captured in a different manner than the usual approach, and there were reasons for it to be done this way.
By now, the once-plentiful and thriving urban Chicago blues scene was slowly dying on the vine in the black community; several live venues were losing steam and money too; even Muddy's main sidekick, guitarist Jimmy Rogers, had thrown in the towel as early as 1960 and said "I'm retired." His departure from the Chicago clubs lasted throughout the decade, 'til the next one started.
Some of Muddy's biggest Chess pieces had been already recorded between 1950-1960. But things had changed by 1963 when Waters, Dixon, Guy, and James came together for this seminal event, which took place shortly before the 1963 American Folk Blues Festival, an event which, in hindsight, may have very well been the impetus for bringing this session to fruition. Indeed, Muddy Waters was scheduled to perform as one of the main acts on the star-studded blues extravaganza. Based on well-documented itinerary notes from music historian Stefan Wirz, Muddy most likely made his overseas departure in the last week of September to arrive in time for the beginning of the Blues Festival tour in Frankfurt, Germany on September 24th.
Chess producer Ralph Bass, who wrote liner notes for the music that would become Folk Singer, mentions that the folk craze was taking over the country. He wasn't exaggerating—during this early part of decade in American music, it was all about the emergence of artists like Pete Seeger, The Kingston Trio, Odetta, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul & Mary, and a young Bob Dylan among others. But then it became more real when a few music researchers (Dick Waterman, Phil Spero and Nick Perls) went south and found the originators of Mississippi Delta music who were still alive and well, gradually coaxing them out of the shadows and back into the light. Son House, Sleepy John Estes, Skip James, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and some others were now suddenly all the rage, as if being raised from the dead—only they weren't dead, hadn't died. But now white college kids were rediscovering black artists—the originators of the art form—who fueled the folk blues revival across the country…
The Chess Brothers wanted part of that action. Certainly, their franchise was trying to capitalize on the folk movement. What they didn't seem to realize was that they had it all along. Hell, Big Bill Broonzy—the epitome of rural southern black folk music—had lived right there in Chicago, and it was no secret that he was one of the two biggest influences on Muddy's early evolution (the other being Son House). Truth of the matter is, all the best Chess stuff was already folk blues—'The REAL Folk Blues,' as Phil & Leonard eventually began labeling some of these LPs they released on Muddy, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson and John Lee Hooker. Muddy's Folk Singer project was the first of them." Wayne Goins, Positive Feedback, June 2018
“Muddy's "unplugged" album was cut in September of 1963 and still sounds fresh and vital today. It was Muddy simply returning to his original style on a plain acoustic guitar in a well-tuned room with Willie Dixon on string bass, Clifton James on drums, and Buddy Guy on second acoustic guitar. The nine tracks are divided up between full rhythm section treatments with Buddy and Muddy as a duo and the final track, "Feel Like Going Home," which Waters approaches solo.” AllMusic Review by Cub Koda
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Ratings :
AllMusic : 4,5 / 5 , Discogs : 4,66 / 5