Muddy's final album, "King Bee" was also re-released and remasterd along with a live album recorded after "I'm Ready". A little more mellow, but still very worth-while.
"I'm Ready", again produced by Johnny Winter, recorded in the same studio a year later with many of the same musicians plus Jimmy Rogers on guitar and Big Walter Horton on harp, is almost as good. James Cotton on harp, Pinetop Perkins on keys, Willie Smith on drums and Johnny Winters on guitar. Damn, this is GREAT stuff! Sound quality and remastering is excellent, it was essentially recorded live no frills with individual instruments bleeding into the other microphones, a real "you are there feel" with lots of studio banter before and after takes. Holy cow, "Hard Again" is friggin' AWESOME! Mesmerizing stuff, indeed much "harder" than his older recordings, positively *ferocious* readings of some of his best songs. I received the 2004 remastered (Joseph Palmaccio) with bonus tracks versions of Muddy's "comeback" albums, "Hard Again" and "I'm Ready". OK, way too much typing for what was supposed to be a fun little poll! Muddy was said to be a little put off by the whole thing and it shows a little.
Free shipping Free shipping Free shipping. This is especially obvious on his cover of Jagger/Richards, "Let's Spend The Night Together". SEALED MUDDY WATERS ELECTRIC MUD RE LP 'HOOCHIE COOCHIE MAN' TMR-485 NEW VINYL. But at times Muddy kinda seems like he's singing to a totally different backing track, he's not really in the groove. Personally, I actually like parts of it, the band is pretty skilled and ferocious, and I always enjoy "psychedelic" production values. It worked it was his biggest selling album in a decade. It says Muddy's fortunes were waning at the time African Americans, were no longer purchasing his records, only a few white blues geeks, and this was a desperate attempt to cross over to the white hippy audience that had embraced Hendrix. Liner notes are actually very uncharitable toward the disc you just bought. It's a much "heavier" sound than his other stuff, very amplified, very rock 'n roll, and yes, "electric". The blues loving world wasnt satisfied with this album and its easy to understand. Its so very easy to realize that Electric Mud was recorded because psychedelic rock was the dominating musical style in the world at the time. It has a lot of pretty cool "trippy" production effects, typical of the time, clearly an attempt to position Muddy as another Jimi Hendrix (even though he isn't playing guitar on this). Waters 1968 album Electric Mud differs a lot from his previous work with its highly psychedelic sound. It's Muddy's "psychedelic" album from '68, Muddy's accompanied by hot young musicians, rather than his usual suspects. Picked this up on CD the other day after reading about it forever, this is the 1996 version on Chess mastered by Erick Labson (one of my personal favorites, he does a lot of the Chess stuff), and it sounds great as far as that goes anyway!įor the un-initiated, here's the background in a nutshell: Masterpiece, misguided curio best forgotten, or an absolute abomination to the blues?