Mississippi born singer-guitarist Muddy Waters was much more than an influential blues man, he was an artistic epicenter, a rare, luminous astral body around whom it seemed, at certain points, the entire post-war blues galaxy was centered. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Muddy represented the celestial pole of the blues very center, a point of connection between the music's symbolic heaven and earth, one through which flowed a surging force so powerful it not only affected how musicians performed, it reached into the very social-cultural fabric of the nation, and eventually the world. Bound together by a rare symmetry of creative elements, he also ultimately represents a uniting force that, through his pervasive influence on rock & roll's practitioners, brought black and white together at time of profound division. Muddy Waters changed everything. He proposed a modern blues reality so tangibly potent and loaded with soul deep appeal that it was like a portal to an undreamed of realm, and all who entered therein were made a gift of Muddy's singular philosophical rhythms and truth. As a ringmaster for rock & roll - a Godfather who not only facilitated but also participated by leading Chuck Berry to the recording studio, inspiring and touring with the Rolling Stones - he is completely unique all over again.
1 My Love Strikes Like Lightning 02:45
2 Five Long Years 02:45
3 Elevate Me Mama 02:52
4 You Shook Me 02:44
5 Messin' With the Man 02:16
6 I Got My Brand on You 02:18
7 Read Way Back 02:37
8 When I Get to Thinking 03:07
9 Baby I Done Got Wise 02:58
10 Recipe for Love 02:57
11 She's Into Something 02:44
12 Born Lover 02:55
13 Diamonds Are At Your Feet 02:26
14 She's All Right 02:35
15 I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love 02:52
16 All Abord 02:57
17 Forty Days and Dorty Nights 02:53
18 Don't Go No Farther 02:56
19 Rock Me 03:11
20 Good News 02:48
21 Mean Mistreater 02:47
22 Close to You 03:07
23 She's Nineteen Years old03:19
24 Walkin' Thru the Park 02:47
25 I Feel So Good 02:55
26 Got My Mojo Working, Pt. 1 04:27 |
