706 Muddy Waters - At Newport 1960 (1960)

 706 Muddy Waters - At Newport 1960 (1960)

Live album - Blues



About the Act:

Muddy Waters was "The father of modern Chicago blues". That was not his given name, which was the much more prosaic McKinley Morganfield. He was born in Mississippi, and died in Illinois, after a career of 41 years starting in 1941. He sang blues and played blues guitar and was responsible for writing blues classics like I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man and Got My Mojo Working.

About the Album:

Apparently this was one of the first live blues albums to be recorded and released, and was a huge influence on up-and-coming young bluesmen in the US and UK, opening the way for Blues Rock: The Rolling Stones, and so on.

My History with this Album:

None

Review:

This will be quite a short review, because I don't have much to say. This is classic blues, seminal and archetypal, with predictable chords and guitar and harmonica and Blues Bravado that hints at Voodoo magic at times, and is just a little bit macho. It's live, and that's cool, and the playing is good. I knew some of the songs because they are classics, but they were mostly written by Muddy. The last song on the album was spontaneously written for the gig, the implication is during the gig.

I liked it, quite a lot. I like blues, and this is as pure an expression of Chicago Blues as you will get. If you like the music from The Blues Brothers movie, you will probably like this.

8/10


Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7gTcPv1bE0THbjuvDbK1gq

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL-NbN8uTOigFHBgVdxu_b73LWBEuvvZn

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Newport_1960



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