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Artist: WATERS,MUDDY
Title: AT NEWPORT 1960
Street Release Date: 02/27/2001
Domestic
Genre: BLUES TRADITIONAL | | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| February 27, 2001 | | Studio:
| Chess | | Number Of Discs:
| 1 | | Format:
| Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, Live | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 18 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | 1. | I Got My Brand on You | | 2. | (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man | | 3. | Baby, Please Don't Go | | 4. | Soon Forgotten | | 5. | Tiger in Your Tank | | 6. | I Feel So Good | | 7. | I've Got My Mojo Working | | 8. | I've Got My Mojo Working, Pt. 2 | | 9. | Goodbye Newport Blues | |
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 A must have - gigantic bluesSep 04, 2010
If you're blues fan, this is a no-brainer; one of the best blues singers of all times, caught live, at peak of his powers, well recorded, in great company (Otis Spann, James Cotton...).
And yes, he mostly sings and lets the playing to others;
there's also an Otis Spann vocal on the Farewell Newport Blues.
Energetic, rough but very tasty (although some would say macho) blues of Muddy in Newport will haunt you if you're not familiar with the artist; if you are, this is at the same time a fine performance and a best of album.
Also, I believe the rock fans might like it too (and I'm primarily a jazz fan and I also love the blues).
"Got my mojo workin'", sings Muddy, "but it don't work on you"... Well, it worked on me just fine!
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Stratospheric Blues in Stereo, Stereo, StereoMar 02, 2010
I was a kid when this record came out, in school at Bancroft Junior High in Lakewood California. Unlike the others in my all white neighborhood, my dad worked in the record business and was always bringing me stuff he thought I should hear. This one, Muddy Waters singing live, it was something, really something. I liked Billie Holiday and her brand of blues, but this was different. This one had me up and groovin' in my room. Pat Boone, Muddy Waters wasn't. You didn't have to tell me what a Mojo was and Lord above did I ever want to be a Hoochie Coochie man.
I'm a lot older now, have gone though several copies of this record. I've had it on four track, eight track, cassette and CD and now on iTunes. This record was my intro to Muddy Waters and what an intro is was. Otis Spann's piano playing seems to be pulling the band into the stratosphere. If this record doesn't get you out of your chair and dancing, nothing will and that's why it's on my list as one of the ten best records of 1960
One of THE Most Important Albums.....Oct 14, 2009
This 1960 recording came at an interesting crossroads in musical history. In the US, we were experiencing a big boom in folk music, which had obvious blues connections. A similar movement was taking place in England with the popularity of skiffle. Many of the older blues musicians of the thirties and forties, who had not performed much for several decades, or who had performed in obscurity, were 'rediscovered' and appeared at this concert. The young men in England who would later become famous as the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Kinks, the Yardbirds and the Beatles, were just coming of age. They would recognize the greatness of this music, immerse themselves in it, and, ironically, bring it back to the States in a recharged version, which made it more easily accessible to the vast US record-buying public. As they say, "the blues had a baby, and they named it Rock & Roll."
Muddy Waters, aka McKinley Morganfield, is, to many people, myself included, the greatest blues singer who ever lived. This is a good representation of what he could do at the time, what he had already been doing for ten years in Chicago, and what he continued to do for the next twenty years. Nothing fancy, just piano, drums, bass, harp, and a couple guitars, all wired up so you could hear them in the bars, over the sound of the talking, the broken glasses, the bodies in motion. And let's put to rest the notion that Muddy was one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Honestly, he only knew a few riffs, only played a couple chords. But what he knew, and what he communicated.....it's beyond words.
While we're at it let's not forget the contributions of that immortal songwriter, Willie Dixon, who penned most of the material Muddy made famous. Muddy's band changed in personnel over the years, but of course, his voice--that inimitable, deep, manly, resonant, powerful blues shouting voice--just kept getting better and better. The thing that makes this one special is that it is one of the first "live" electric blues shows ever recorded. You can also get the Muddy DVD which shows footage from it, which is also a must-own.
Let Muddy put his brand on youMar 16, 2009
This was the first Muddy Waters disc I purchased, and it remains one of my favorite blues albums by any artist. There is not a weakness in it to be found, including the excellent supporting cast, which includes Cotton on harmonica and Spann on piano. It's unfortunate that "Catfish Blues", which opened the set, was excluded from this disc for some reason. Sound is very good, which is not always a given when dealing with live performances, even today.
Brilliant live setMar 12, 2009
This is arguably one of the best Muddy Waters' cd's ever released. Muddy is confident, cocky, smooth, biting, and just downright the blues master that we love and miss. It's great to live in an age where one can listen to a clean copy of a concert from 50 years ago.
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