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Released
  
April 1958 (1958-04)

The Best of Muddy Waters (1958)
  
At Newport 1960 (1960)

Release date
  
April 1958

Genre
  
Chicago blues

Length
  
35:40

Artist
  
Muddy Waters

Label
  
Chess Records

Producers
  
Leonard Chess, Phil Chess

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Recorded
  
April 1948 – September 1, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois

Similar
  
Muddy Waters albums, Chicago blues albums, Other albums

Muddy waters the best of muddy waters 1958 full album


The Best of Muddy Waters is a 1958 greatest hits album by Muddy Waters released by Chess Records in April 1958. With the increasing popularity of 33 1/3 rpm recordings (commonly called LPs), Chess Records started releasing its first LPs in 1958. The Best of Muddy Waters (released sometime in April 1958 according to Billboard magazine) was the third LP that Chess released. The album was re-released in CD format in 1997 by Chess and MCA Records.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by McKinley Morganfield, except where noted.

Personnel

Per Discogs

  • Muddy Waters – lead vocals, guitar
  • Ernest "Big" Crawford – bass on "Long Distance Call", "Louisiana Blues", "Honey Bee", "I Want You To Love Me", and "I Can't Be Satisfied"
  • Willie Dixon – bass on "I Just Want To Make Love To You", "I'm Ready", and "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man"
  • Little Walter – harmonica on tracks A-1, A-2, A-3, A-6, B-1, B-2, and B-4; guitar on B-5
  • Walter "Shakey" Horton – harmonica on B-3 (as credited on LP - Little Walter is the harmonica player on all tracks on this collection where harmonica is present.)
  • Jimmy Rogers – guitar on tracks A-1, A-4, A-6, B-1, B-3, and B-4
  • Otis Spann – piano on A-1, A-6, B-1, B-3, and B-4
  • Fred Below – drums on A-1, A-6, and B-1
  • Elgin Evans – washboard on A-3; drums on B-3 and B-4
  • Leonard Chess – bass drum on B-2 and B-5
  • Studs Terkel – liner notes

    • Songs

    1I Just Want to Make Love to You2:53
    2Long Distance Call2:41
    3Louisiana Blues2:53

    References

    The Best of Muddy Waters Wikipedia
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