Product Description

It's hard to overestimate the impact of McKinley Morganfield on the Chicago post-war blues scene, and by extension on rock'n'roll itself. Having come from the heart of the Mississippi Delta (Rolling Fork), he spent the first 28 years of his life close to his birthplace, leaving for the Windy City in 1943. With this set of recordings, which covers the years 1952-1958, we continue the survey of the complete recorded works of Muddy Waters in chronological order. The first fifty tracks of his Aristocrat/Chess career appear on Muddy Waters, Rollin' Stone: The Golden Anniversary Collection (MCA/Chess 2301-2); the present set continues to follow his musical development, and showcases the second fifty sides, picking up where the previous collection ended and spanning an important seven year period in his career. Packaged in a bound booklet, replete with rare photographs and extensive liner notes, this set captures Muddy Waters at the height of his commercial success, and includes literally dozens of songs that influenced rock and blues performers right up to the present day.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Standing Around Crying
2. Gone to Main Street
3. Iodine in My Coffee
4. Flood
5. My Life Is Ruined (Landlady)
6. She's All Right
7. She's All Right [Alternate Take]
8. Sad, Sad Day
9. Turn Your Lamp Down Low (Baby Please Don't Go)
10. Baby Please Don't Go [Alternate Take]
11. Loving Man
12. Blow Wind Blow
13. Mad Love (I Want You to Love Me)
14. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man [Alternate Take]
15. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
16. She's So Pretty
17. I Just Want to Make Love to You
18. Oh Yeh (Oh Yeah)
19. I'm Ready
20. Smokestack Lightning
21. I Don't Know Why
22. I'm a Natural Born Lover [#]
23. Ooh Wee
24. This Pain
25. Young Fashioned Ways

Disc 2:

1. Want to Be Loved
2. My Eyes (Keep Me in Trouble)
3. Mannish Boy
4. I Got to Find My Baby
5. Sugar Sweet
6. Trouble No More
7. Clouds in My Heart [#]
8. Forty Days and Forty Nights
9. All Aboard
10. Just to Be with You
11. Don't Go No Farther
12. Diamonds at Your Feet
13. I Love the Life I Live (I Live the Life I Love)
14. Rock Me
15. Look What You've Done
16. Got My Mojo Working
17. Good News
18. Evil
19. Come Home Baby, I Wish You Would
20. Let Me Hang Around
21. I Won't Go On
22. She's Got It
23. Born Lover
24. She's Nineteen Years Old
25. Close to You

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #174156 in Music
• Published on: 2006-09-26
• Released on: 2006-09-26
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Limited Edition
• Dimensions: .54 pounds
• Running time: 145 minutes