Artist: Muddy Waters

Title: Complete Aristocrat & Chess Singles A's & B's 1947

Condition:

Format: CD

Release Date: 2014

Label: Acrobat

UPC: 824046707224

Genre: Blues

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. Gypsy Woman
2. Little Anna Mae
3. I Can't Be Satisfied (Looking for My Baby)
4. I Feel Like Going Home
5. Train Fare Home (Train Fare Home Blues)
6. Sittin' Here and Drinkin' (Whiskey Blues)
7. You're Gonna' Miss Me (When I'm Dead and Gone)
8. Mean Red Spider
9. Streamline Woman
10. Muddy Jumps One [Instrumental]
11. Little Geneva
12. Canary Bird
13. Screaming and Crying
14. Where's My Woman Been
15. Rollin' and Tumblin', Pt. 1
16. Rollin' and Tumblin', Pt. 2
17. Rollin' Stone
18. Walkin' Blues
19. You're Gonna Need My Help I Said (Gonna Need My Help)
20. Sad Letter Blues
21. Louisiana Blues
22. Evan's Shuffle
23. Long Distance Call
24. Too Young to Know
25. Appealing Blues (Hello Little Girl)

DISC 2:
1. Honey Bee
2. My Fault
3. Still a Fool
4. Early Morning Blues (Before Daybreak)
5. She Moves Me
6. All Night Long
7. Country Boy (All Night Long)
8. Please Have Mercy
9. Looking for My Baby
10. Standing Around Crying
11. Gone to Main Street
12. She's All Right
13. Sad Sad Day
14. Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man
15. Turn the Lamp Down Low (Baby Please Don't Go)
16. Mad Love (I Want You to Love Me)
17. Blow Wind Blow
18. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
19. She's So Pretty
20. Just Make Love to Me (I Just Want to Make Love to You)
21. Oh Yeh! (Oh Yeah)
22. I'm Ready
23. I Don't Know Why
24. Lovin' Man

DISC 3:
1. I'm a Natural Born Lover
2. I Want to Be Loved
3. My Eyes (Keep Me in Trouble)
4. Manish Boy
5. Young Fashioned Ways (Old-Fashioned Ways)
6. Trouble No More
7. Sugar Sweet (I Can't Call Her Sugar)
8. Forty Days and Forty Nights
9. All Aboard
10. Don't Go No Farther
11. Diamonds at Your Feet
12. I Got to Find My Baby
13. Just to Be with You
14. Got My Mojo Working
15. Rock Me
16. Good News
17. Come Home Baby, I Wish You Would
18. I Live the Life I Love (I Love the Life I Live)
19. Evil
20. I Won't Go on
21. She's Got It
22. Close to You
23. She's Nineteen Years Old
24. Mean Mistreater

DISC 4:
1. Walkin' Thru the Park (Walking in the Park)
2. Clouds in My Heart
3. Ooh Wee
4. Take the Bitter with the Sweet
5. She's Into Somethin'
6. Recipe for Love
7. Tell Me Baby
8. I Feel So Good
9. When I Get to Thinking
10. I'm Your Doctor
11. Read Way Back
12. Love Affair
13. Look What You've Done
14. Tiger in Your Tank
15. Meanest Woman
16. Got My Mojo Working, Pt. 1 [Live]
17. Woman Wanted
18. Messin' with the Man
19. Lonesome Room Blues
20. Going Home
21. Tough Times
22. Muddy Waters Twist
23. You Shook Me
24. You Need Love
25. Little Brown Bird

No other Muddy Waters anthology provides such a comprehensive collection of his singles for the Aristocrat and Chess labels from his first release releases for the Chess brothers in 1947 right through to 1962, making for an excellent value 98-track 4-CD set. In providing both A and B sides of every release, it gives an excellent, instructive and entertaining overview of his recordings aimed at the commercial market, especially in the context of an R&B scene which was changing rapidly during a decade and a half of musical evolution and revolution. It's a fabulous showcase for his talents as innovative guitarist singer and songwriter, tracing the development of his style from acoustic solo work through to his creation of the classic electric blues group line-up. It will find a market both with committed fans, and those wanting to discover the music and the unique style of one of the most influential and important figures in blues.