Muddy Waters - The Best of Muddy Waters

Cat. no: 291023
Format: LP
Barcode: 8436563186196
Release Date: 18 Apr 2025
Genre: Blues

The complete album + 4 bonus tracks pressed on limited edition 180g vinyl

Chicago was the centre for electric blues from 1948 when guitarist/singer-songwriter Muddy Waters had his frst rhythm & blues chart hits, 'I Can't Be Satisfed' and 'I feel Like Going Home'. Waters, born McKinley Morganfeld was more than a pioneer in the Chicago electric blues scene though; he was a great singer of American vernacular music - a vocal artist of astonishing power, range, depth, and subtlety.

Presented here is his complete LP The Best of Muddy Waters, a greatest hits compilation released by Chess Records in April 1958. The twelve songs were originally issued as singles between 1948 and 1954, and most appeared within the top ten of Billboard's rhythm & blues chart.

"My hero? It's got to be Muddy Waters. Because I know him as an all-round gent and his music is sublime. I've never forgotten what a gentleman he was, and it made me think, you didn't have to be a loudmouth." - Keith Richards

Tracks: I Just Want To Make Love To You / Long Distance Call / Louisiana Blues / Honey Bee / Rollin' Stone / I'm Ready / Evans Shufe / Too Young To Know / (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man / She Moves Me / I Want You To Love Me [aka Mad Love] / Standing Around Crying / Still A Fool / I Can't Be Satisfed / She's So Pretty / I Feel Like Going Home