Muddy Waters - Folk Singer [Analogue Productions APB 1483] (1964)

Dynamic Range Released: 1964
Country: US
Label: Analogue Productions
Catalog: APB 1483
Genre: Blues

Pressing: Quality Record Pressings

Note: 2015 Analogue Productions Reissue


T R A C K L I S T:
01 My Home Is In The Delta
02 Long Distance
03 My Captain
04 Good Morning School Girl
05 You Gonna Need My Help
06 Cold Weather Blues
07 Big Leg Woman
08 Country Boy
09 Feel Like Going Home




Folk Singer
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Album Review

Cub Koda [allmusic.com]

Muddy's ''unplugged'' album was cut in September of 1963 and still sounds fresh and vital today. It was Muddy simply returning to his original style on a plain acoustic guitar in a well-tuned room with Willie Dixon on string bass, Clifton James on drums, and Buddy Guy on second acoustic guitar. The nine tracks are divvied up between full rhythm section treatments with Buddy and Muddy as a duo and the final track, ''Feel Like Going Home,'' which Waters approaches solo. What makes this version of the album a worthwhile buy is the inclusion of five bonus tracks from his next two sessions: An April 1964 session brings us Willie Dixon's ''The Same Thing'' and Muddy's ''You Can't Lose What You Never Had,'' while the October 1964 session features J.T. Brown on sax and clarinet on ''Short Dress Woman'' and ''My John the Conqueror Root,'' as well as ''Put Me in Your Lay Away,'' another strong side. Folk Singer offers both sides of Muddy from the early '60s.