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One of the best recordings in Chess Records' 50th Anniverary series is the first of two bookend Muddy Waters collections, His Best 1947-55. Documenting Waters's most creatively and commercially successful years at Aristocrat/Chess, this collection begins with his formative years and ends with Waters at his peak. So you're in for a lot of terrific bottleneck slide guitar work as well as electric Chicago blues; what's to criticize? Superb remasterings of "I Can't Be Satisfied", "Rollin' and Tumblin'," "I'm Ready", and "Mannish Boy" are simply beyond reproach. With simple bass accompaniment from Ernest "Big" Crawford, Waters's bottleneck tracks are spare, haunting and, quite frankly, perfect country blues. And listening to Waters, Little Walter, Willie Dixon, and Jimmy Rogers piece together (and perfect very quickly) the classic Chicago sound is pure blues epiphany. At the very least, this collection shows you why Waters's rollicking stop-time classics like "Mannish Boy" and "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" have sparked endless imitations over the years--and why nobody has played them better since. --Ken Hohman
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1-I Can't Be Satisfied 2-I Feel Like Going Home 3-Train Fare Blues 4-Rollin' And Tumblin Pt.1 5-Rollin' Stone 6-Louisiana Blues 7-Long Distance Call 8-Honey Bee 9-She Moves Me# 10-Still A Fool 11-Standing Around Crying 12-Baby Please Don't Go 13-I Want You To Love Me 14-I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man 15-I Just Want To Make Love To You 16-I'm Ready 17-Young Fashioned Ways 18-Mannish Boy 19-Sugar Sweet 20-Trouble No More (1947-55 'Chess')(59:57/20) "The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection".
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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This collection of songs is a real must for anyone who's interested in learning more about the origins of popular music. When listening to these tacks you can't help but feel that this is where it all started. The Beatles, the Stones, Clapton - they'd all be nowhere if it wasn't for the likes of Muddy.
Every track is a gem. There really isn't a weakness on this record. You're taken on a journey from the softer, more primitive recordings from Muddy's career through to the much heavier, meatier tunes like 'Hoochie Coochie Man'. Songs like this just ooze this aura of coolness that you just can't find in today's music. Muddy is a much neglected artist. Get this record now.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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"Excellent compilation", eh? So why only four stars?
Well, let's make it 4 1/2, 'cause the track selection is really great. It brings together almost all the best of Muddy Waters' rough, muscular blues...or rather, the best of 1947-55, which is why this is "only" a four star-compilation: It's not a career spanning retrospective, and it doesn't quite cut it on its own.
But if you get this CD along with its companion volume, "His Best: 1956-1964", which also features 20 tracks, you'll have a really fine career overview, second only to the three-disc "Chess Box" set (and perhaps the 50-track "The Anthology: 1947-1972").
This CD only has one significant flaw: A production error means than a sloppy alternate take of "Hoochie Coochie Man" is included instead of the master. Muddy's vocals are fantastic, but the music is less so, and Little Walter's harmonica playing is, well, awful.
But apart from that minor glitch this is just about as fine a compilation as you could wish for. It includes Muddy's first single, the slashing acoustic slide guitar blues "I Can't Be Satisfied", and tough, electric Chicago classics like "I'm Ready", "Trouble No More", "I Just Want To Make Love To You", and the one-chord powerhouse "Mannish Boy".
Just remember that this isn't the definitive word on Muddy Waters - he made superb songs after 1955 as well, and if you're going to get two Muddy-discs anyway you might as well go for the double-disc "Anthology 1947-1972" right away
Well, let's make it 4 1/2, 'cause the track selection is really great. It brings together almost all the best of Muddy Waters' rough, muscular blues...or rather, the best of 1947-55, which is why this is "only" a four star-compilation: It's not a career spanning retrospective, and it doesn't quite cut it on its own.
But if you get this CD along with its companion volume, "His Best: 1956-1964", which also features 20 tracks, you'll have a really fine career overview, second only to the three-disc "Chess Box" set (and perhaps the 50-track "The Anthology: 1947-1972").
This CD only has one significant flaw: A production error means than a sloppy alternate take of "Hoochie Coochie Man" is included instead of the master. Muddy's vocals are fantastic, but the music is less so, and Little Walter's harmonica playing is, well, awful.
But apart from that minor glitch this is just about as fine a compilation as you could wish for. It includes Muddy's first single, the slashing acoustic slide guitar blues "I Can't Be Satisfied", and tough, electric Chicago classics like "I'm Ready", "Trouble No More", "I Just Want To Make Love To You", and the one-chord powerhouse "Mannish Boy".
Just remember that this isn't the definitive word on Muddy Waters - he made superb songs after 1955 as well, and if you're going to get two Muddy-discs anyway you might as well go for the double-disc "Anthology 1947-1972" right away
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This collection is absolutely essential for any lover of electric blues. On one album it presents a complete framework of what became British 60s blues in its original form. The numbers comprise a large proportion of the set lists of bands like The Stones, Pretty things, Yardbirds, Mayall etc. from that time. Muddy may have enjoyed different productions of some of his numbers later in his career e.g. the Johnny Winter produced "Hard Again" album, which is a real gem, but if you love Muddy, or remember Eel Pie Island in 63, you must have this.
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