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WATERS, MUDDY - MUDDY WATERS AT NEWPORT 1960
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Muddy Waters At Newport 1960
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DOL931HB
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Blues / Blues Rock /
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Vinyl record
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1960 Blues Classic Live Set From Neport Jazz/Pop festival Repressed on Heavyweight Blue Vinyl
The cover photograph of Muddy Waters holding John Lee Hooker's guitar gave the impression that he was at a folk festival rather than the prestigious Newport Jazz Festival. However, the record revealed the King of Chicago blues at his very best, shouting his music above the discordant wail of a band that included Otis Spann, James Cotton, Pat Hare, and Francis Clay. Film of the event shows a sharply dressed Waters shimmying and jiving around the stage with the energy of a man half his age. Some of that atmosphere is apparent on the record, in a program that includes "Hoochie Coochie Man," Big Bill Broonzy's "I Feel So Good," then-recent singles "I Got My Brand on You" and "Soon Forgotten," and a massive "Got My Mojo Working." The set ends in poignant mood with the announcement of the end of the festival and Otis Spann's improvised "Goodbye Newport Blues."
Classic Live Set From American blues musician. Cconsidered by many to be a founder of the modern Chicago Blues style. A powerful inspiration in the emergence of the electric blues oriented groups in the UK during the 60s.
McKinley Morganfield, better known the world over as Muddy Waters, is a bona fide blues legend. Very few artists cast a larger shadow on the course of 20th century music than this guy. He's seen by many as the Godfather of Chicago blues, a movement that took place in the US in the 1950s and bridged the gap between the acoustic Delta blues of the 1920s, '30s and '40s, and the British blues-rock explosion of the 1960s.
Indeed, much of the template for electric guitar based hard rock came from directly from Muddy Waters.** **He helped rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry secure a record deal. The Rolling Stones took their name from his breakthrough hit Rollin’ Stone, which Paul Rogers and Jeff Beck also paid tribute to on Rogers’ second solo record Muddy Waters Blues: A Tribute To Muddy Waters. Guitar hero - and self-confessed fan - Jimi Hendrix also evolved the song into his own seminal hit, Voodoo Child (Slight Return).
Eric Clapton also took significant influence from Muddy’s sound, reworking Rollin’ And Tumblin’ for Cream’s debut album Fresh Cream, whilst Led Zeppelin based the lyrics for Whole Lotta Love on Muddy’s You Need Love. Led Zeppelin also covered You Shook Me (another song written by Willie Dixon, who wrote many of Muddy’s best known hits) for their debut self-titled album, whilst the inspiration for the lyrics to AC/DC’s You Shook Me All Night Long also came from the aforementioned track.
Muddy was responsible for turning a whole generation onto blues based music, and nowhere is his sound better represented than on Live At Newport 1960. Recorded on July 3rd at the Newport Jazz Festival, it captures the artist at the absolute peak of his powers. As with any record from this series, to truly understand its impact you have to factor in the conditions of its creation and the period of its release – it was one of the first live blues albums ever released, and for the majority of audience members in attendance that day it would’ve been their first exposure to electric blues.
The album’s nine tracks are lean and mean, and the 2001 MCA reissue (the definitive version of this album) gives them a high resolution makeover, highlighting and improving the quality of the individual musicians, particularly that of bass player Andrew Stevens. Muddy’s tough baritone is also brought forward in the mix, recreating how these songs would’ve sounded live. The roaring set kicks off with I Got My Brand On You, a cocksure composition underscored by Otis Spann’s honky tonk piano, anchored by James Cotton’s howling harmonica. Next up’s stop-time stomper (I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man, followed by a rambunctious rendition of _Baby Please Don’t Go _(originally by Big Joe Williams), before the band take it down a notch with Soon Forgotten, allowing
The cover photograph of Muddy Waters holding John Lee Hooker's guitar gave the impression that he was at a folk festival rather than the prestigious Newport Jazz Festival. However, the record revealed the King of Chicago blues at his very best, shouting his music above the discordant wail of a band that included Otis Spann, James Cotton, Pat Hare, and Francis Clay. Film of the event shows a sharply dressed Waters shimmying and jiving around the stage with the energy of a man half his age. Some of that atmosphere is apparent on the record, in a program that includes "Hoochie Coochie Man," Big Bill Broonzy's "I Feel So Good," then-recent singles "I Got My Brand on You" and "Soon Forgotten," and a massive "Got My Mojo Working." The set ends in poignant mood with the announcement of the end of the festival and Otis Spann's improvised "Goodbye Newport Blues."
Classic Live Set From American blues musician. Cconsidered by many to be a founder of the modern Chicago Blues style. A powerful inspiration in the emergence of the electric blues oriented groups in the UK during the 60s.
McKinley Morganfield, better known the world over as Muddy Waters, is a bona fide blues legend. Very few artists cast a larger shadow on the course of 20th century music than this guy. He's seen by many as the Godfather of Chicago blues, a movement that took place in the US in the 1950s and bridged the gap between the acoustic Delta blues of the 1920s, '30s and '40s, and the British blues-rock explosion of the 1960s.
Indeed, much of the template for electric guitar based hard rock came from directly from Muddy Waters.** **He helped rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry secure a record deal. The Rolling Stones took their name from his breakthrough hit Rollin’ Stone, which Paul Rogers and Jeff Beck also paid tribute to on Rogers’ second solo record Muddy Waters Blues: A Tribute To Muddy Waters. Guitar hero - and self-confessed fan - Jimi Hendrix also evolved the song into his own seminal hit, Voodoo Child (Slight Return).
Eric Clapton also took significant influence from Muddy’s sound, reworking Rollin’ And Tumblin’ for Cream’s debut album Fresh Cream, whilst Led Zeppelin based the lyrics for Whole Lotta Love on Muddy’s You Need Love. Led Zeppelin also covered You Shook Me (another song written by Willie Dixon, who wrote many of Muddy’s best known hits) for their debut self-titled album, whilst the inspiration for the lyrics to AC/DC’s You Shook Me All Night Long also came from the aforementioned track.
Muddy was responsible for turning a whole generation onto blues based music, and nowhere is his sound better represented than on Live At Newport 1960. Recorded on July 3rd at the Newport Jazz Festival, it captures the artist at the absolute peak of his powers. As with any record from this series, to truly understand its impact you have to factor in the conditions of its creation and the period of its release – it was one of the first live blues albums ever released, and for the majority of audience members in attendance that day it would’ve been their first exposure to electric blues.
The album’s nine tracks are lean and mean, and the 2001 MCA reissue (the definitive version of this album) gives them a high resolution makeover, highlighting and improving the quality of the individual musicians, particularly that of bass player Andrew Stevens. Muddy’s tough baritone is also brought forward in the mix, recreating how these songs would’ve sounded live. The roaring set kicks off with I Got My Brand On You, a cocksure composition underscored by Otis Spann’s honky tonk piano, anchored by James Cotton’s howling harmonica. Next up’s stop-time stomper (I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man, followed by a rambunctious rendition of _Baby Please Don’t Go _(originally by Big Joe Williams), before the band take it down a notch with Soon Forgotten, allowing
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