That’s only weeks after the album was released. I saw Muddy Waters live, 30th November 1968. Michael Bane: White Boy Singing The Blues, 1982ģ0 November 1968: from Hull alumni website Muddy Waters became the high priest of electrified blues … Waters popularized the idea of the electric blues band, playing loud and hard with all the energy it was possible to summon up, while sticking as close as possible to the old blues formulas. He bought his first electric guitar in 1944, and met the Chess brothers in 1947. Muddy Waters was a pioneer of electric blues. Quoted in Robert Gordon: Can’t Be Satisfied, The Life & Times of Muddy Waters i(2002) They said, “This can’t be Muddy Waters with all this shit going on – all this wow-wow and fuzztone. But when it first came out, it started selling like wild, and then they started sending them back. Muddy Waters: T hat Electric Mud record I did, that one was dogshit. On to the 1992 incarnation, retitled The Rolling Stone Album Guide and it’s missing, but the same one square ire is poured on Muddy Brass & Blues from 1966 which is totally obscure. Yet the same guide rates Muddy Waters with an electric British band on The London Sessions as 4 stars. The New Record Guide (1983) gives it one square … not even one star. The Rolling Stone Album Guide simply skips Muddy Waters. Waters’ Electric Mud turned out to be an abomination.Ĭharles Shaar Murray: Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the post war rock ‘n’ roll revolution. The album marks what could probably be considered the nadir of Muddy Waters’ career.Ĭhess executives … had sent Wolf and Waters into the studio to record what they fondly imagined to be ‘psychedelic versions’ of their greatest hits. Rich Cohen: Machers & Rockers: Chess Records and The Business of Rock ‘n’ Roll. It’s considered by purists the worst blues record ever made. In the long run it was a fiasco, the artefact most mentioned to suggest the demise of a great label, a classic example of the artist twisted to the monetary fancy of the businessman. It’s as if Marshall Chess locked Muddy in a studio with a wah-wah pedal and said, ‘Don’t come out until you’ve made a record.’ Muddy grumbled, but went along, willing to compromise for a shot at the big time. Pete Welding, Rolling Stone, 9 November 1968 It is nothing more than a parody of both Waters’ music and contemporary instrumental practices … it does a great disservice to one of the blues’ most important innovators, and prostitutes the contemporary styles to which his pioneering efforts have led. What did Muddy say about being dressed up as a choirboy? Or is it a guru? We’ll do the same, then we’ll sell as many.” It may be preferable to the Habitat Psyche of the British one. Did they think, ‘The Beatles and The Stones had plain white sleeves.
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Sidney Barnes who co-wrote Herbert Harper’s Free Press was a member of Rotary Connection too.Ĭheck the US original sleeve design. The band were drawn largely from Rotary Connection, who also played on The Howlin’ Wolf Album in 1969- following the same idea. Discogs date both black and white sleeves to 5th October 1968Įither the black one is earlier, or they released two versions for impactĮarly copies (both shades) had an 8 page insert … mine (white US copy) doesn’t have it.Įlectric Mud: Muddy Waters, Chess Concept LP, 1968Ĭharles Stepney – organ, arranger, producer Music From Big Pink: The Band: 50th Anniversary editionĮarly copies came in black.
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