Muddy Waters - Folk Singer (Hybrid SACD)
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Guitar, Vocals – Muddy Waters [click here to see more vinyl featuring Muddy Waters]
Bass – Willie Dixon
Drums – Clifton James
Guitar – Buddy Guy [click here to see more vinyl featuring Buddy Guy]
Hybrid SACD
Original analog Master tape : YES
Stereo
Studio
Label : Analogue Productions
Original Label : Chess
Recorded at Ter Mar Recording Studios - September, 1963
Engineered by Ron Malo
Produced by Ralph Bass, Willie Dixon
Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
Cover by Don Bronstein
Originally released in 2011
Reissued in 2022
Tracks :
1. My Home Is In The Delta
2. Long Distance
3. My Captain
4. Good Morning School Girl
5. You Gonna Need My Help
6. Cold Weather Blues
7. Big Leg Woman
8. Country Boy
9. Feel Like Going Home
10. The Same Thing
11. You Can't Lose What You Ain't Ever Had
Awards:
Michael Fremer's 100 Recommended All-Analog LP Reissues Worth Owning - Rated 89/100
Reviews :
"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 divvied 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. What makes this version of the album a worthwhile buy is the inclusion of five bonus tracks from his next two sessions: An April 1964 session brings us Willie Dixon's "The Same Thing" and Muddy's "You Can't Lose What You Never Had," while the October 1964 session features J.T. Brown on sax and clarinet on "Short Dress Woman" and "My John the Conqueror Root," as well as "Put Me in Your Lay Away," another strong side. Folk Singer offers both sides of Muddy from the early '60s." AllMusic Review by Cub Koda
Ratings :
AllMusic 4.5/5 , Discogs 4.8 /5 , Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 282/500
Notes:
Tracks 10 and 11 are bonus tracks, taken from the next two consecutive studio sessions for Chess, in April and October 1964. There are a handful of landmark albums in any genre. In the blues, one of them is Muddy Waters' Folk Singer. Originally released in 1964, Folk Singer was the only acoustic album Waters ever recorded, thus becoming the first and perhaps best blues concept album ever. Muddy of course started out playing acoustic blues in the Delta, and he's clearly very comfortable in this return to his roots, which was designed to appeal to the mid-1960s surge of interest in folk music.
This hybrid SACD contains a stereo CD layer that can be played on most conventional CD players!