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Muddy Waters - Complete Aristocrat & Chess Singles A's & B's 1947

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Format: CD
Catalog: 7072
Rel. Date: 05/06/2014
UPC: 824046707224

Complete Aristocrat & Chess Singles A's & B's 1947
Artist: Muddy Waters
Format: CD
New: Not in stock
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DISC: 1

1. I'm Aa Natural Born Lover
2. I Want To Be Loved
3. My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble
4. Manish Boy
5. Young Fashioned Ways
6. Trouble No More
7. Sugar Sweet
8. Forty Days And Forty Nights
9. All Aboard
10. Don't Go No Farther
11. Diamonds At Your Feet
12. I Got To Find My Baby
13. Just To Be With You
14. Got My Mojo Working
15. Rock Me
16. Good News
17. Come Home Baby
18. I Live The Life I Love
19. Evil
20. I Won't Go On
21. She's Got It
22. Close To You
23. She's Nineteen Years Old
24. Mean Mistreater
25. Appealing Blues

DISC: 2

1. Walkin' Thru The Park
2. Clouds In My Heart
3. Ooh Wee
4. Take The Bitter With The Sweet
5. She's Into Somethin'
6. Recipe For Love
7. Tell Me Baby
8. I Feel So Good
9. When I Get To Thinking
10. I'm Your Doctor
11. Read Way Back
12. Love Affair
13. Look What You've Done
14. Tiger In Your Tank
15. Meanest Woman
16. Got My Mojo Working, Pt. 1
17. Woman Wanted
18. Messin' With The Man
19. Lonesome Room Blues
20. Going Home
21. Tough Times
22. Muddy Waters Twist
23. You Shook Me
24. You Need Love
25. Little Brown Bird

More Info:

No other Muddy Waters anthology provides such a comprehensive collection of his singles for the Aristocrat and Chess labels from his first release releases for the Chess brothers in 1947 right through to 1962, making for an excellent value 98-track 4-CD set. In providing both A and B sides of every release, it gives an excellent, instructive and entertaining overview of his recordings aimed at the commercial market, especially in the context of an R&B scene which was changing rapidly during a decade and a half of musical evolution and revolution. It's a fabulous showcase for his talents as innovative guitarist singer and songwriter, tracing the development of his style from acoustic solo work through to his creation of the classic electric blues group line-up. It will find a market both with committed fans, and those wanting to discover the music and the unique style of one of the most influential and important figures in blues.
        
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