Description: The first CD of this extensive two-disc set is an invaluable snapshot of Muddy Waters' pre-Chess career in Mississippi, with early country blues versions of songs like "Mean Red Spider" and "You Got to Take Sick and Die One of These Days...
Track Listing DISC 1: 1. Country Blues 2. I Be's Troubled 3. Ramblin' Kid Blues 4. Rosalie 5. Joe Turner Blues 6. Pearly Way Blues 7. Take a Walk With Me 8. Burr Clover Blues 9. I Be Bound to Write You 10. You Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone 11. You Got to Take Sick and Die Some of These Days 12. Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You 13. Country Blues (No. 2) 14. Mean Red Spider 15. I'm Gonna Cut Your Head 16. Atomic Bomb Blues 17. Tomorrow Will Be Too Late 18. Jitterbug Blues 19. Hard Day Blues 20. Buryin' Ground Blues
DISC 2: 1. Come to Me Baby 2. You Can't Make the Grade 3. Gypsy Woman 4. Little Anna Mae 5. Good Lookin' Woman 6. Mean Disposition 7. I Can't Be Satisfied 8. I Feel Like Going Home 9. Train Fare Home Blues 10. Down South Blues 11. Kind Hearted Woman 12. Sittin' Here and Drinkin' 13. You're Gonna Miss Me 14. Mean Red Spider 15. Stand Here Tremblin' 16. Streamline Woman 17. Hard Days 18. Muddy Jumps One 19. Little Geneva 20. Canary Bird 21. Burying Ground 22. Screamin' and Cryin' 23. Where's My Woman Been 24. Last Time I Fool Around With You 25. Rollin' and Tumblin' Pt. 1 26. Rollin' and Tumblin' Pt. 2 27. Rollin' Stone 28. Walking Blues 29. You're Gonna Need My Help I Said 30. Sad Letter Blues 31. Early Morning Blues 32. Appealing Blues (Hello Little Girl) 33. Louisiana Blues 34. Evans Shuffle 35. Long Distance Call 36. Too Young to Know 37. Honey Bee 38. Howling Wolf 39. Country Boy 40. She Moves Me 41. My Fault 42. Still a Fool 43. They Call Me Muddy Waters 44. All Night Long 45. Stuff You Gotta Watch 46. Lonesome Day 47. Please Have Mercy 48. Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man 49. Standing Around Crying 50. Gone to Main Street 51. Iodine in My Coffee 52. Flood 53. My Life Is Ruined 54. She's All Right 55. Sad, Sad Day 56. Turn the Lamp Down Low (Baby Please Don't Go) 57. Loving Man 58. Blow Wind Blow 59. Mad Love (I Want You to Love Me) 60. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man 61. She's So Pretty 62. Just Make Love to Me 63. Oh! Yeh 64. I'm Ready 65. Smokestack Lightning 66. I Don't Know Why 67. I'm a Natural Born Lover 68. Ooh Wee 69. This Pain 70. Young Fashioned Ways 71. I Want to Be Loved 72. My Eyes (Keep Me in Trouble) 73. Mannish Boy 74. I Got to Find My Baby 75. Sugar Sweet 76. Trouble No More 77. Clouds in My Heart
Details
Distributor:
MSI Music Distribution
Recording Type:
Studio
Recording Mode:
Stereo
SPAR Code:
n/a
Album Notes The first CD of this extensive two-disc set is an invaluable snapshot of Muddy Waters' pre-Chess career in Mississippi, with early country blues versions of songs like "Mean Red Spider" and "You Got to Take Sick and Die One of These Days," the latter re-recorded for Chess in the early 1950s as "Diamonds at Her Feet." The second CD concentrates on the master bluesman's Chicago career, with familiar versions of "Mannish Boy" and "Got My Mojo Working" featuring the urbanized sound of Little Walter's harmonica and Otis Spann's trilling piano runs.