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His Best 1947 To 1955 [Original recording remastered]

~ Muddy Waters
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  • Audio CD (20 Mar 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Chess/Universal
  • ASIN: B000005KQH
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 24,787 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Listen  1. I Can't Be Satisfied 2:43£0.69
Listen  2. I Feel Like Going Home 3:12£0.69
Listen  3. Train Fare Home 2:48£0.69
Listen  4. Rollin' And Tumblin' 3:00£0.69
Listen  5. Rollin' Stone 3:08£0.69
Listen  6. Louisiana Blues 2:55£0.69
Listen  7. Long Distance Call 2:41£0.69
Listen  8. Honey Bee 3:22£0.69
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Listen12. Baby, Please Don't Go 3:18£0.69
Listen13. Mad Love (I Want You To Love Me) 3:03£0.69
Listen14. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man 2:50£0.69
Listen15. I Just Want To Make Love To You 2:52£0.69
Listen16. I'm Ready 3:05£0.69
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Listen18. Mannish Boy 2:58£0.69
Listen19. Sugar Sweet 2:31£0.69
Listen20. Trouble No More 2:40£0.69

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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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Imagine what the world might have been like without Muddy Waters. It's not a pretty thought. His contributions to the electric blues-and, by extension, to the advent of rock & roll-are inestimable, and his beautifully soulful vocals and slashing slide guitar work are the stuff of which legend is made. This collection, which gathers together Waters' early, seminal work for Chess Records between 1947 and 1955, is almost to good to be true.
Improving on the wildly popular BEST OF MUDDY WATERS with eight more tracks (20 to BEST OF's 12) and superior, remastered sound, this set is simply IT. "His best" is no exaggeration; all the critical tracks are here: "Long Distance Call", "Baby Please Don't Go", "I'm Your Hootchie Cootchie Man", "I Just Want To Make Love To You"...the list goes on. Such incendiary, top-drawer bluesmen as harp player Little Walter, bassist Willie Dixon, and guitarist Jimmy Rogers add fuel to the fire. With the exception of themulti-disc Chess box set, one would be hard pressed to finda better collection by the legendary Waters under one seal.Essential.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Utter briliance., 30 Sep 2004
By Mr. A. Willmer "Mojo Pin" (London) - See all my reviews
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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.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent compilation. Prime 50s blues, 4 April 2009
By Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews
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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
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