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~ Muddy Waters
3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (7 Aug 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Spectrum
  • ASIN: B00004U672
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,924 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars almost perfect, 19 May 2005
By S. Clarke "anon" - See all my reviews
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This is a good record of a very great artist and it contains some of the most seminal and hard-hitting blues in the catalogue. However, there are a few essential recordings not represented here and these versions of Mannish Boy and Hootchie Cootchie Man are not the originals and a long way from being the best. Although HCM is a more than acceptable, this version of MB is frankly pants. All the same at this price, it's a good value cd as are the sister volumes by Wolf and Sonny Boy Williamson. For serious Muddy fans however, the two cd 'Collection, though more expensive, is a better deal in the long run.
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5.0 out of 5 stars perfect, 27 Aug 2004
By sam155 (Wales) - See all my reviews
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Absolutely perfect: raw vocals, blues in its purest form. The Grandfather of just about every type of music to follow. Can't pick one favourite, but if I had to, Hoochie Coochie Man, Mojo working, I Just Want to Make Love to You...buy it. You'll play it to death.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Lots of great music. Flawed compilation, 4 April 2009
By Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews
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The British Spectrum label has issued a number of compilations featuring the big blues stars of the 50s and 60s, including Buddy Guy, Howlin' Wolf, and Muddy Waters, and while they completely lack the excellent liner notes of the various MCA/Chess compilations, the quality is otherwise quite high.
But the lack of decent liner notes and recording information is a shame...there is nothing here but a short (and flawed) essay, which teams up with a not-quite-perfect track selection to make sure that this collection doesn't reach the level of the MCA discs.

The sound is superb, however. The latest and best quality mastering has been utilized, and most of Muddy Waters' best songs are indeed here, as well as a few odd but (sometimes) quite interesting choices.
Unfortunately the compilers have also chosen the midguided psychedelic ersion of "Hoochie Coochie Man" recorded for the hideous "Electric Mud" album, and the "Mud" version of "Mannish Boy" is here as well. Fortunately almost all the rest of Muddy Waters' classic singles are present in their original versions: "I'm Ready", "Got My Mojo Working", the swinging "Baby Please Don't Go", the wonderful harp-driven "Forty Days And Forty Nights", the tough swagger of "I Want To Be Loved" and "I Just Wanna Make Love To You", and the superbly melodic "I Love The Life I Live, I Live The Life I Love".

But it is a shame that none of Waters' late-40s singles are here. The closest we get it 1950's "Rollin' Stone", and songs like "I Can't Be Satisfied", "Rollin' And Tumblin'" and "Gypsy Woman" really belongs on a disc which has the audacity to call itself "Essential".
MCA's "Chess Box" remains the definitive overview of Muddy's Chess career, and the superb double-disc "The Anthology 1947-1972" is right behind it. And maybe someday the MCA label will combine the best from "His Best 1947-1955" and "His Best 1956-1964" on one disc to create the ultimate single-disc Muddy compilation. Because this one doesn't quite cut it, and while the music is generally very good, there are just too many misses.
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