Description
At long last, Muddy's historic 1941-1942 Library of Congress field recordings are all collected in one place, with the best fidelity that's been heard thus far. Waters performs solo pieces (you can hear his slide rattling against the fretboard in spots) and band pieces with the Son Sims Four, "Rosalie" being a virtual blueprint for his later Chicago style. Of particular note are the inclusion of several interview segments with Muddy from that embryonic period and a photo of Muddy playing on the porch of his cabin, dressed up and looking sharper than any Mississippi sharecropper on Stovall's plantation you could possibly imagine. This much more than just an important historical document; this is some really fine music imbued with a sense of place, time and loads of ambience.
Product Details
- Artist
- Muddy Waters
- Recording Environment
- Studio
- Label / Studio
- UMA
- Run Time (minutes)
- 61
- Media Content Format
- Album
- Original year of release
- 1993
- Media Format
- Audio CD
- Year of release
- 1997
- Number of Discs
- 1
- SPARS Code
- AAD
- Cast & Crew
- Muddy Waters (Music Performer)
- John Work (Producer)
- Alan Lomax (Producer)
Press Reviews
Rating: A+ Entertainment Weekly (10/1/93, p.56)
...the interview segments [on THE COMPLETE PLANTATION RECORDINGS] are strange stuff, but the slide guitar could make angels cry....highly recommended... Musician (10/93, p.93)
...[Waters] made his first recordings in Mississippi, [but] only a smattering of those sides ever made it onto an album, and that's why [THE COMPLETE PLANTATION RECORDINGS] seems such a revelation... Rolling Stone (9/2/93, p.64)
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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Country Blues (Number One)
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Interview #1 (Previously Unissued)
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I Be's Troubled
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Interview #2 (Previously Unissued)
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Burr Clover Farm Blues (Previously Unissued)
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Interview #3 (Previously Unissued)
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Ramblin' Kid Blues (Partial. Previously Unissued)
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Ramblin' Kid Blues
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Rosalie
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Joe Turner (Vocal: Percy Thomas)
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Pearlie May Blues (Vocal: Percy Thomas)
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Take a Walk with Me (Second Guitar: Son Simms)
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Burr Clover Blues (Second Guitar: Son Simms)
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Interview #4 (Previously Unrelaeased)
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I Be Bound to Write to You
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I Be Bound to Write to You (Second Version, Second Guitar: Charles Berry, Previously Unissued)
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You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (Number One)
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You Got to Take Sick & Die Some of These Days
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Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You
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Country Blues
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You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
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32-20 Blues
