He’s Ready: Chess and Universal to Release New Muddy Waters Collection
Universal Music Catalogue will issue a new collection celebrating the work of the bluesman born McKinley Morganfield but known the world over as Muddy Waters.
Can’t Be Satisfied: The Very Best of Muddy Waters 1948-1975 presents 40 classic tracks from across the singer/guitarist’s tenure on the Chess label. Waters recorded for Chess for most of his life, after being discovered by Alan Lomax in the early 1940s for his Library of Congress-sanctioned sojourn to discover and record local country and blues musicians. From his birthplace of Mississippi, Waters relocated to Chicago, where, alongside Big Bill Broonzy, Howlin’ Wolf and Willie Dixon (writer of many of Waters’ most acclaimed recordings), he turned the Windy City into a hotbed of electric blues activity. Cuts like “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man,” “Mannish Boy” and “I Got My Mojo Workin'” all had a profound effect on a new generation of musicians in both England and America, from The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix to Rory Gallagher and Johnny Winter (who produced several well-received albums for Waters on the Blue Sky label in the late ’70s).
Featuring both studio highlights and excerpts from live performances including a seminal set at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival, Can’t Be Satisfied also promises authoritative liner notes (the writer of which has not been announced) and never-before-published photos from the Chess Records archive. It’s out on March 16 and can be preordered below!
Can’t Be Satisfied: The Very Best of Muddy Waters 1948-1975 (Chess/UMC (U.K.), 2018)
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Disc 1
- Gypsy Woman
- I Can’t Be Satisfied
- Train Fare Home
- Rollin’ and Tumblin’ (Part 1)
- Rollin’ Stone
- Walkin’ Blues
- Louisiana Blues
- Honey Bee
- Turn the Lamp Down Low
- I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man
- Just Make Love to Me
- I’m Ready
- Mannish Boy
- Sugar Sweet (I Can’t Call Her Sugar)
- Trouble No More
- Close to You (Live at Newport Jazz Festival, 1960)
- I Feel So Good (Live at Newport Jazz Festival, 1960)
- I Got My Brand on You
- You Shook Me
- You Need Love
Disc 2
- Five Long Years
- She’s Nineteen Years Old
- I Got My Mojo Working
- The Same Thing
- My Home is In the Delta
- Big Leg Woman
- Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had
- My John the Conquer Root
- Short Dress Woman
- Corine, Corina
- Birdnest on the Ground
- Mannish Boy (Electric Mud version)
- Herbert Harper’s Free Press News
- Screamin’ and Cryin’
- Long Distance Call (Live, 1969, Super Cosmic Jamboree)
- Country Boy (Live at Mr Kelly’s, 1971)
- Blow Wind Blow (Live at Mr Kelly’s, 1971)
- Young Fashioned Ways
- Can’t Get No Grindin’
- Let the Good Times Roll
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Hm… no shortage of Muddy Waters collections out there. I need to see how this stacks up to others.
Really, the big question is this yet another collection/reissue of a great artist’s work that’s been “newly remastered” (Read: “brickwalled”) to death?
Hopefully his estate or heirs will get something out of yet another collection. So far it does not appear that there is anything that is not available elsewhere.