Recorded on Stovall Plantation in Clarksdale, MS by Alan Lomax in 1941 and 1942, these 18 tracks represent the first recordings of a sharecropper named McKinley Morganfield a.k.a. Muddy Waters. And, yeah, there's an unreleased track, and four interviews, but really, for something this historic the less said the better. Just listen.
7 Ramblin' Kid Blues (Partial. Previously Unissued)
8 Ramblin' Kid Blues
9 Rosalie
10 Joe Turner (Vocal: Percy Thomas)
11 Pearlie May Blues (Vocal: Percy Thomas)
12 Take a Walk with Me (Second Guitar: Son Simms)
13 Burr Clover Blues (Second Guitar: Son Simms)
14 Interview #4 (Previously Unrelaeased)
15 I Be Bound to Write to You
16 I Be Bound to Write to You (Second Version, Second Guitar: Charles Berry, Previously Unissued)
17 You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (Number One)
18 You Got to Take Sick & Die Some of These Days
19 Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You
20 Country Blues
21 You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
22 32-20 Blues
Recorded on Stovall Plantation in Clarksdale, MS by Alan Lomax in 1941 and 1942, these 18 tracks represent the first recordings of a sharecropper named McKinley Morganfield a.k.a. Muddy Waters. And, yeah, there's an unreleased track, and four interviews, but really, for something this historic the less said the better. Just listen.
