The basic instrumentation on it includes a heavily distorted guitar often with the wahwah up to eleven, fuzztone electric bass, saxophone, synthesizer, and drums. Find album release information for electric mud muddy waters on allmusic. Features song lyrics for muddy waters s electric mud album. Muddy waters mannish boy from the electric mud youtube.
Electric mud was not meant to be a direct copy of the hendrix sound, but it was definitely influenced by it. Electric mud is named for a muddy waters blues album, but as a cook throws the rolling. So when i came across it on amazon i thought id buy it. We have 35 muddy waters mp3 music torrents for you. This is quite a stretch from the trademark muddy waters sound. For the better part of twenty years since his last big hit in 1956, im ready muddy was put on the back shelf by the chess label and recorded albums with various popular themes. Waters 1968 album electric mud differs a lot from his previous work with its highly psychedelic sound. Muddy waters, folk singer muddys unplugged album was cut in september of 1963 and still sounds fresh and vital today. Muddy waters mannish boy from the album electric mud. Corrina, corrina muddy waters, boogie woogie memphis memphis slim, highway 49 howlin wolf.
Which was undoubtedly the last thing muddy waters, a purist himself, wanted. Muddy waters electric mud 1968 us, electric acid blues masterpiece, 20 japan remaster muddy waters is obviously one of the most recognized and influential blues artists of this century. The resulting album, electric mud, stretched muddys sound to breaking point but, heard today, its opening salvo, a reworked version version of one of the best muddy waters songs. Muddy waters electric mud this album marks what could probably be considered the nadir of muddy waters career, although at the time it did sell somewhere between 200,000 and 250,000 copies, a lot for waters in those days. Muddy waters was the single most important artist to emerge in postwar american blues. Muddy was known to be a bit of a braggart, and these stories were never told the same way twice. The official video for muddy water by trace adkins. Nov 02, 2017 a hugely influential record from the father of modern chicago blues. Electric mud by muddy waters album, electric blues.
In 1973, muddys wife of many years, geneva, died of cancer. The best of muddy waters is a 1958 greatest hits album by muddy waters released by chess records in april 1958. Electric mud, certainly one of the most controversial records if not the most controversial of muddy waters career has been available on cd or in other digital format for quite awhile, but for some reason its followup, after the rain has not. It was also the best selling muddy waters record at chess ever, entering billboards top 200 chart. A relative hit for chess, it features the exalted bluesman bellowing over psychedelicised arrangements that owe more to steppenwolf than willie dixon. Download muddy waters discography torrent kickasstorrents. The muddy waters blues band mud in your ear coletanea 1989.
The giant of postwar blues, who eloquently defined chicagos swaggering, deltarooted sound with his declamatory vocals and piercing slide guitar. He is considered the father of modern chicago blues and was a major inspiration for the british blues explosion of the 1960s. One of the most important records in the development of electric blues, muddy waters 1968 album electric mud is getting a new vinyl reissue courtesy of jack whites third man records, universal music group and the estate of muddy waters. Released in 1968, it imagines muddy waters as a psychedelic musician.
It was muddy simply returning to his original style on a plain acoustic guitar in a welltuned room with willie dixon on string bass, clifton james on drums, and buddy guy on second acoustic guitar. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at. Listen to your favorite songs from electric mud by muddy waters now. The blues loving world wasnt satisfied with this album and its easy to understand. Muddy waters electric mud album 1968 part 1 youtube. Its so very easy to realize that electric mud was recorded because psychedelic rock was the dominating musical style in the world at the time.
Third man records reissue muddy waters seminal electric mud. Producer marshall chess suggested that muddy waters recorded it in an attempt to appeal to a rock audience. Blues rock, cadet concept records, electric mud, muddy waters. For the best experience please update your browser. When his name is mentioned phrases like slide guitar and electric chicago blues are associated with it, but what about wahwah and psychedelic. King, and this time leonard chess son marshall conceived electric mud as a way for waters to reach out to the rolling stoneshendrixcream audience. Electric mud is a wahwah pedal and fuzz box friendly feast for the ears. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. A peerless singer, a gifted songwriter, an able guitarist, and leader of one of the strongest bands in the genre which became a proving ground for a number of musicians who would become legends in their own right, waters absorbed the influences of rural blues from the deep south and moved them uptown. Muddy waters didnt invent the blues, but he did more than anyone else to popularize them beyond the american south. Listen free to muddy waters electric mud i just want to make love to you, hoochie coochie man and more. The same thing closes electric mud with a slow heavy blues feel to it and a stretched out, aching guitar on top. Mar 14, 2014 electric mud is to the blues what dylans electric set at newport was to folka kick in the pants to purists and a wakeup call in one.
When electric mud was released, it was a huge success, selling 150,000 in the first six weeks. He claims to have learned it by thirteen, and the guitar by seventeen, but these could be highly exaggerated. Muddy waters songs have been featured in longtime fan martin scorseses movies, including the color of money, goodfellas, and casino. This is why electric mud fails as a muddy waters album and as a blues album. This is the infamous somebodyputsomethinginthewaters lp from 1968. I just want to make love to you electric mud album version. Electric mud caused a storm when first released, but was muddy waters biggest selling album i believe. As a continuing collaboration with chess recordsuniversal records and the estate of muddy waters, third man records is proud to announce the reissue of muddy waters fifth studio album electric mud. The best of muddy waters released sometime in april 1958 according to billboard magazine read more. Mud morganfield i want you to love me by deepgospel. Muddy waters electric mud 1968 us, electric acid blues masterpiece, 20 japan remaster. Muddy waters electric mud on vinyl third man records. Further, tims assertion that it was a successful experiment and showed that waters music was adaptable to changing times and musical styles, ignores the fact that this and the followup cd after the rain which was half psychedelicized funk in the vein of. Electric mud by muddy waters on amazon music unlimited.
Chuck d heard the record electric mud and thought it brilliant and eventually met up with marshall chess who had produced it. It is a arrangement of and an answer song to bo diddleys im a man which in. In 1972 muddy returned to england to record the london muddy waters sessions which featured rory gallagher, steve winwood, rick grech and mitch mitchell. The basic instrumentation on this album includes a heavily distorted guitar often with wahwah pedal, fuzztone electric bass, saxophone, synthesizer, and drums. Download muddy waters mp3 songs and albums music downloads. Electric mud, which chess originally released in 1968 has not seen a legitimate domestic vinyl release since 2002, despite its enormous influence. Like robert johnson, muddy waters first instrument was the harmonica. Perguntas, avisos ou problemas no blog, serao atendidos somente atraves do email. Electric mud is the fifth studio album by muddy waters, with members of rotary connection serving as his backing band. Previously, in 1966, chess records had recorded waters brass and the blues, trying to make him sound like b. Muddy waters electric mud lyrics and tracklist genius. Features song lyrics for muddy waterss electric mud album. Latinautor peermusic, umpi, latinautor, cmrra, aresa, abramus digital, emi music publishing, bmg rights management, kobalt music.
Muddy waters licensed to youtube by umg on behalf of geffen. O disco foi lancado em 1968 e jimi hendrix fazia historia com sua guitarra distorcida neste ano. Muddy waters 1970s recording of his mid50s hit mannish boy was used in the films goodfellas, better off dead, risky business, and the rockumentary the last waltz. And muddy lucked out, because the blues are still the blues, for better or worse, while electric mud remains little more than an. Feb 27, 2014 muddy waters licensed to youtube by umg on behalf of geffen. Mannish boy is a blues standard first recorded by muddy waters in 1955. Electric mud is the infamous somebodyputsomethinginthe waters lp from 1968.
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