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Label:
   Chess
Serial:
   112940
Title:
   Muddy Waters: Folk Singer
Description:
   "Folk Singer"

Muddy Waters
Details:
   1. My Home Is In The Delta
2. Long Distance
3. My Captain
4. Good Morning School Girl
5. You Gonna Need My Help
6. Cold Weather Blues
7. Big Leg Woman
8. Country Boy
9. Feel Like Going Home
10. The Same Thing
11. You Can't Lose What You Never Had
12. My John The Conqueror Root
13. Short Dress Woman
14. Put Me In Your Lay Away
Genre:
   Blues
Content:
   Stereo
Media:
   Single Layer
Recording type:
   Analogue
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Review by FivePointOne September 15, 2004
Performance:  Sonics:
This sure sounds nice. Stereo sound. It's not as clean as the Analogue Productions' John Lee Hooker disc, but it's pretty damn good. Great balance between the vocals and the instruments (esp. the bass). And it is Muddy Waters playing with Buddy Guy and Willie Dixon. What are you waiting for?

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Review by rsbeck February 13, 2004
Performance:  Sonics:
This is acoustic Muddy. Performance and recording are flat out great. Goosebumps. Just to correct a little history from an earlier review. The Blues began in the Mississippi Delta. Muddy Waters came to Chicago from Mississippi and it was there and then that the blues "went electric." So, it would be incorrect to say that Waters "adopted" an acoustic guitar for this or any other performance. In "unplugging" Muddy, you are stripping off the more modern electrical affectation and getting blues that are closer to the bone, so to speak. Certainly, closer to the Delta, if only they'd had this kind of recording capability in Mississippi. The Blues were often called the Devil's Music and on this disc, Muddy sounds almost menacing, a sound which I love. Muddy seems to be conjuring the devil himself. The sonics are so good you feel Waters move in his chair, pick move across the strings, you feel Waters' breath. IMO, these are some of the best performances of these songs I've heard and I have a large collection of Waters' music. That and the great sonics make this a must purchase for any fan of Waters, the Blues, music history, or SACD.

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Review by mikek October 14, 2003
Performance:  Sonics:
I'm sorry. I absolutely love this disc. One of the greatest blues performances ever recorded as far as I am concerned. However this SACD as far as I am concerned is sonically dull. I don't know if another master was used or if it was remixed, but the Mo Fi gold disc and the Chess remaster have more openness and clarity than this. My first great disappointment on sound quality of an SACD (and at this moment I can't think of any other).

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