Electric Mud

Artist: Muddy Waters
Label: Chess
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 076732936429
EAN: 0076732936429
ASIN: B000002OCP

Release Date: 1996-11-19

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Tracks:

I Just Want To Make Love To You
I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
Let's Spend The Night Together
She's Alright
Mannish Boy
Herbert Harper's Free Press News
Tom Cat
The Same Thing

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Customer Reviews:

Unimaginably Dreadful.......2007-02-12

My opinion of this album has nothing to do with being a "blues purist" as other reviewers have posited. It's a simple matter of good music vs. horrible music. Electric Mud is horrible music. It was intended as a fusion of Chicago blues and late 60s psychedelia, but it manages to mangle both genres equally. It doesn't help that Muddy's vocals sound disinterested and at times confused (as if he's subconsciously asking "How the hell did I get myself into THIS?"), or that the mix makes him sound like he's being recorded from a phone booth three miles away.

If Electric Mud has any value, it's as an object lesson in just how embarrassingly horrid a great artist and great songs can be made to sound. Not only would I never recommend that anyone spend their money on it, but if someone tries to give you a free copy, tell them no thanks.

If you like Electric Mud, watch the film!.......2006-07-03

It's funny how when it comes to the products that Amazon sells, company reviewers just happen to always write glowing reviews -except in this case. Here, Steven Stolder really picked the wrong recording to knock. "Electric Mud" isn't for everybody, but it's great for what it is. It sounds like the spirit of Jimi Hendrix possessed Muddy Waters for a session at Chess Records. This important album turned new generations of listeners onto the Blues. If you dig this album, then you must watch "Godfathers and Sons," a film which is the fifth disc in Martin Scorsese's "The Blues: A Musical Journey." In this documentary, Marshall Chess (the producer for "Electric Mud") explains the history of the project to none other than Chuck D. Furthermore, the film captures the reunion of the Electric Mud band with the addition of a DJ and rapper. If you've been able to put aside the negative reviews and find a place in your heart for "Electric Mud," the film is essential. As for me, I picked the disc up after watching the film. I am happy that the film turned me onto such a unique recording.

Dylan Blew Off the Folk Purists, Muddy Blew Off the Blues Purists.......2006-01-18

I bought this LP a year or two after it came out, and to my Hendrix/Cream/Page 'energized' ears, Muddy Waters never sounded better!

Either you accept the electric guitar - and all the possible sounds which it can provide - as a valid blues instrument... or you don't.

If you don't then perhaps a lifelong stay on a desert island with only the Robert Johnson double CD is the equivalent of heaven.

A few years ago I put together a CD for myself that I called "Blues." Of the 18 tracks, 7 were from "Electric Mud." None were by Hendrix, but only because he had created his own place on Mt. Olympus. Two were by Robert Johnson: "Hellhounds on My Trail" and "Crossroads." Two were by Howling Wolf "Back Door Man" and "Smokestack Lightning." Butterfield Blues Band "One Last Mile."

Personally, the blues purists should consider a more sedate life, perhaps they could rent space from some Amish sect: before electricity GOOD, after electricity BAD.

Or, even better: why not actively seek the repeal of ALL civil rights legislation so that the black artists who play the blues are much more likely to actually FEEL BLUE!!! A whole race mired in poverty and ignorance, treated like commodities... but, hey, what's a little pain when it creates REAL BLUES!!!???

So, having determined the place of the purists: desert island with Robert Johnson; boarding with the Amish; sitting in the Bush family museum of southern politics... I hereby declare "Electric Mud" to be one great album, maybe the best combination of blues vocals and spare but high energy, driving electric blues guitar.

So, make your choice: Amish blues or one of the truly great blues albums of all time?

WHERE IS THE CAT?.......2005-10-28

I bought this lp in 1968,(for $1.77) It was in the bargain bins at JC PENNY. I was 14, and this was my introduction to muddy. OK I am very happy they released this on cd. It brings back a lot of fond memories. A lot of people slammed this album but I think it rocks. The sound quality of the cd is very good, but they edited out the cat screaming at the start of "tom cat" Anyway dont expect a traditional muddy waters album, but this is a lot of fun with the fuzz guitar, and driving drums. Now maybe they will release "after the rain" marshall chess's other cadet concept muddy waters album.

for sonic exploreres.......2005-10-17

well, this is the kind of album that drives blues purist nuts, but, since i'm not in that bunch i can freely suggest to give it a listen. yeah, at the time it was a sort of quickie, but in some strange way it passed the test of time. With a superb band Muddy delivers a vocally strong performace but it's the ensemble playing that is really mouthwatering, expecially the fine work of pete cosey, later of miles davis agartha period fame, that delivers stunning solos all over an almost ferocius rhythm patterns. This album also resurfaced as the core of the scorsese blues story dvd, namely on "goodfathers & sons". This is a great introduction to this strange album, and public enemy chuck d clealy explains its impact of the music to come.

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