Music : Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0696998655928
Format: Live, Original recording remastered
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: September 02, 2003
Sales Rank: 35870
Studio: Sony
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Album Description:
Digitally remixed and remastered 2 disc Legacy Edition of the Grammy Award winning album Muddy ''Mississippi'' Waters Live. The original recording was produced by legendary guitarist Johnny Winter, who also plays and performs on the album. All tracks on disc 2 - Muddy ''Mississippi'' Waters Live at Harry Hopes - are live recordings of Muddy and his band never before available, 'Medley-After Hours/Stormy Monday Blues', 'Trouble No More', 'Champagne & Reefer', 'Corrina, Corrina', 'Hoochie Coochie Man', 'She Moves Me', 'Kansas City', 'Pinetop's Boogie Woogie', 'Mad Love (I Want You To Love Me)', 'Everything's Gonna Be Alright' & 'Got My Mojo Working'. 2-CD deluxe digipak with customized slipcase features original artwork plus additional track information and rare photos. 18 tracks. Legacy. 2003.
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I am not leaving a long detailed review for this album. I just wanted say that this is an amazing set. Johnny and Bob compliment Muddy so well. I love this album. I played it nonstop for like six months. If you love Muddy Waters, or are just a lover of the blues, you will absolutely love this album. Plus the remastered quality of this recording make it a joy to listen too. I dare you to try and not move your head and stomp your feet when have this disc in.
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As I have become more fully aware of Muddy, and the incredible impact his music had on our generation, it took me awhile to get to this recording. (I think there are at least 19 other Muddy CDs on my shelf) I am so glad I did. The re-issue here is wonderful, and Bob Margolin, who played a big part in this re-issue gives us some great background history in the nicely designed CD booklet. The first CD is top-notch live material, but as other reviewers made aware, the second CD is gold. I happen to like Johnny Winter, and am thankful that he played an integral role in bringing Muddy into a "second-coming" of his career in the late 70's. I believe Johnny truly loved and admired Muddy, and contrary to what others have written, I like Winter's presence on the first CD. However, if you are one who doesn't, he's not on the second disc at all. At any rate, this is a set that I know I will keep coming back to for many years. I highly recommend spending the little bit extra to get this 2 CD version of Muddy Live.
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The original seven-track Muddy 'Mississippi' Waters Live" album was a nice, but ultimately inessential record.
However, this 2003 deluxe edition (similar in design to the deluxe edition of the Allman Brothers Band's "Live At Fillmore East") restores the truncated mixes of the originally released songs, it adds another disc of previously unreleased material, and both discs have been digitally remastered. The drums and the bass may have been left a little too much in the background at times, but the vocals, the guitars, the harmonica and the piano are superbly crisp and clear, notably better than on the original CD release.
Disc one has been fleshed out a little bit...the original mixes have been scrapped in favour of new and usually better ones, something which is particularly audible on the leadoff track, "Mannish Boy", which is two minutes longer than on the 1979 LP (and the original CD issue) due to the inclusion of a verse sung by Johnny Winter.
Other highlights include the slow groove of "Streamline Woman", and a swaggering nine-minute "Deep Down In Florida", and Muddy's take on Sonny Boy Williamson's "Nine Below Zero" is terrific; less tense and punchy than Sonny Boy's, but solidly swinging on harpist Jerry Portnoy's wonderful riffing and a swaggering backbeat by drummer Willie "Big Eyes" Smith.
The tight and muscular band includes Johnny Winter on several songs, but even with four guitarists the musicians manage not to step on each others ... Read More
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I guess I must have not read Muddys biography enough or didn't put two and two together. I thought with the Chess Box 3 CD set I have almost all of his recordings.
But I wasn't thinking.
Muddy got me into the Blues. Live in Newport was the first blues CD I bought.... I think probably around in 1989.
I bought this one just now, June 2004 and I am still in love with the blues. And with Muddy.
This album is great. I always prefered his live material... I love concerts and to feel the music as you can in this CD and to imagine to be there. Amazing. I do agree with the review of anders_pj... some arrangements and esp on the 2nd CD the obvious Champagne and Reefer influence make some of the songs not work quite as good as some other recordings.
But all in all a must for any Muddy fans. And some which want to discover THE father of Electric Blues.
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This is the best blues vocalist ever, and the 2nd disc with its more laid back atttiude is better. Excellent sound, excllent band.
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