Martin
449 posts
Aug 05, 2013
4:42 PM
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This is the last of the great singles -- or for that matter, songs -- from Muddy Waters. It was mainly downhill after that; some good stuff (the Woodstock album) but only occasional. And some really bad stuff ("Electric Mud", yeah yeah).
The loose dynamics here, the atmosphere, the easy, backward- leaning handling of rhythm -- he never approached that again.
This is a kind of blues you very seldom hear played -- I guess because it´s quite hard to pull off. But if you know any bands that dare to keep the shuffling/rocking/boogie-ing demons in reins, I´d be very interested to know about them.
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Kingley
2977 posts
Aug 05, 2013
4:50 PM
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Superb! The whole album "Folk Singer" is simply wonderful and is one of my all time favourite blues albums .
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Harp2swing
103 posts
Aug 05, 2013
5:48 PM
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Speaking of superb here's another rendition by Muddy of the same song done at snails pace with Butterfield laying it down just right.
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tmf714
1868 posts
Aug 05, 2013
7:26 PM
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"This is the last of the great singles -- or for that matter, songs -- from Muddy Waters. It was mainly downhill after that; some good stuff (the Woodstock album) but only occasional. And some really bad stuff ("Electric Mud", yeah yeah).
Hardly-you must not be familiar with the "Blue Sky" recordings-let me whet your appetite-
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tmf714
1869 posts
Aug 05, 2013
7:30 PM
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Martin
450 posts
Aug 06, 2013
4:54 AM
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@tmf114: I´m very familiar with the Blue Sky records. I have owned all of them and at one point -- when I bought them and was still in my early days when it comes to listening to the blues -- I thought they were just great.
They did not age gracefully, however. They are rowdy, un-subtle and repetitive and full of that "energy" that entered into the blues idiom in the 60´s. Frankly, I actively dislike their sound these days.
They meant some money and fame for Muddy W and that was a good thing, but not concerned with the musical quality.
We may diverge on this, but such things happens and it´s no bigger drama. (I´m 56 and have been listening to blues for more than 40 years; I´m much more critical today than in the 70´s, and nothing very original in that.)
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