Muddy Waters - Folk Singer (1LP, 33 tours)
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]
1 LP, Gatefold jacket with extra photos and Liner Notes By Michael Fremer
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 1/3 RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Quality Record Pressings
Label : Analogue Productions
Original Label : Chess
Recorded at Ter Mar Studios in September, 1963
Engineered by Ron Malo
Produced by Ralph Bass, Willie Dixon
Remastered by Bernie Grundman
Cover by Don Bronstein
Originally released in 1964
Reissued in 2021
Tracks :
Side 1
- My Home Is In The Delta
- Long Distance
- My Captain
- Good Morning School Girl
- You Gonna Need My Help
Side 2
- Cold Weather Blues
- Big Leg Woman
- Country Boy
- Feel Like Going Home
Awards:
Michael Fremer's 100 Recommended All-Analog LP Reissues Worth Owning - Rated 89/100
TAS Award
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
"The Quality Record Pressing is drop-dead quiet-as silent as the best Japanese pressings from the late 1970s-and the amount of inner detail released is simply astonishing...the sound is sweet, liquid and free of harshness and edge. The dynamics are mind-boggling. When Muddy takes it up ten notches to emphasize a point it's positively explosive in a way the 33 1/3 version only suggests." Michael Fremer
Ratings :
AllMusic 4.5/5 , Discogs 4.66/5 , Michael Fremer : Music = 9/10, Sound = 10/10