Thursday, June 10, 2021

Nine below zero (Muddy Waters) (LP 625)

Muddy Waters  Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live (Vinyl, Epic Records, 1979) ***** 

Genre: Blues 

Places I remember: Marbecks Records

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Mannish Boy (not the version on the Live album but pretty much any version of this by Muddy is fab)

Gear costume: She's Nineteen Years Old

Active compensatory factors: This live album was recorded during tours to promote Hard Again, and features musicians who contributed to this album - notably James Cotton, Pinetop Perkins and Johnny Winter.

This album is the pared down version (it was re-released on CDs in expanded formats) and is the more potent for it. These seven tracks are suitably raucous and loud!

Muddy died 4 years later aged 70 so these are some of the last recorded versions of some much loved songs including Mannish Boy, Baby Please Don't Go, She's Nineteen Years Old and Deep Down In Florida. Classics all!

Where do they all belong? More Muddy Waters to come on CD.

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