Muddy Waters Best

Muddy Waters - The Best Of Muddy Waters (1958) [Reissue 1987]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Feb. 23, 2025
Muddy Waters - The Best Of Muddy Waters (1958) [Reissue 1987]

Muddy Waters - The Best Of Muddy Waters (1958) [Reissue 1987]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 148 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 85 MB | Covers - 10 MB
Genre: Blues, Chicago Blues, Delta Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: MCA Records (CHD-31268)

Less a "best of" than an early full album that brings together some of Muddy Waters' earliest recordings for Chess - a great collection of early singles recorded in Chicago between 1950 and 1954! The work's relatively spare and rootsy overall - a great example of Chicago blues in its formative years, with some traces of a more southern style still in the mix.

Muddy Waters - Blue Skies: The Best Of... (2002) {Epic Netherlands}  Music

Posted by TestTickles at April 16, 2020
Muddy Waters - Blue Skies: The Best Of... (2002) {Epic Netherlands}

Muddy Waters - Blue Skies: The Best Of… (2002) {Epic Netherlands}
EAC Rip | FLAC (no log) | scans | 386 mb
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 140 mb
Genre: blues

Blue Skies: The Best Of Muddy Waters is a 2002 compilation CD by American blues artist McKinley Morganfield, who was better known as Muddy Waters. This was released in the Netherlands by Epic Records, focusing on Waters' Blue Sky Records' discography.

John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters (2000)  Music

Posted by Designol at June 18, 2024
John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters (2000)

John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 226 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 87 Mb | Scans ~ 139 Mb
Americana, Folk, Blues | Label: Vanguard | # 79576-2 | 00:38:01

Crossing Muddy Waters was singer-songwriter John Hiatt's fifteenth album, released in 2000. A raw album recorded with no drummer, it was a purely acoustic album that brought elements of bluegrass music into his Americana sound. (The title of the album is a pun, referencing blues legend Muddy Waters.) It was nominated for a Grammy award in 2001 for Best Contemporary Folk Album.

Muddy Waters - The Best Of Muddy Waters (1958) [Reissue 1987]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Feb. 23, 2025
Muddy Waters - The Best Of Muddy Waters (1958) [Reissue 1987]

Muddy Waters - The Best Of Muddy Waters (1958) [Reissue 1987]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 148 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 85 MB | Covers - 10 MB
Genre: Blues, Chicago Blues, Delta Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: MCA Records (CHD-31268)

Less a "best of" than an early full album that brings together some of Muddy Waters' earliest recordings for Chess - a great collection of early singles recorded in Chicago between 1950 and 1954! The work's relatively spare and rootsy overall - a great example of Chicago blues in its formative years, with some traces of a more southern style still in the mix.

Muddy Waters - Blue Skies: Best of Muddy Waters  Music

Posted by valkne at Sept. 13, 2009
Muddy Waters - Blue Skies: Best of Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters - Blue Skies: Best of Muddy Waters
EAC RIP | FLAC (tracks) + LOG + CUE | 369 MB
Blues | Label: Sony | Release: 2003 | Catalog: 509315 | RS&HF

One could definitely argue that this 16-track album doesn't in fact contain the best of Muddy Waters since it lacks any of his template-setting and explosive 1950s sides from Chess Records, being compiled instead from Waters' late-'70s and early-'80s output on the Blue Sky label with Johnny Winter in the producer's chair. No, the Chess tracks are the ones to get first, but the Blue Sky material makes for a nice addendum, featuring a slightly more refined sound that allows each song to develop easily and naturally. Highlights include a wonderfully ragged and loose acoustic do-over of "I Can't Be Satisfied," a sturdy "Good Morning Little School Girl," and a copycat but still fun version of Slim Harpo's "I'm a King Bee."
Steve Leggett - All Music

Muddy Waters - The Johnny Winter Sessions 1976-1981 (2009)  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 8, 2025
Muddy Waters - The Johnny Winter Sessions 1976-1981 (2009)

Muddy Waters - The Johnny Winter Sessions 1976-1981 (2009)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 476 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 184 MB | Covers - 4 MB
Genre: Blues, Chicago Blues, Electric Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Raven Records (RVCD-296)

Muddy Waters left Chess only when the label folded upon its sale in the mid-'70s, but by that point he was in need of the kind of career revival that only comes with a new label and new set of collaborators. That's precisely what Muddy received in 1976, when he signed with Blue Sky Records and teamed up with the hotshot blues-rock guitarist Johnny Winter, who produced Waters' acclaimed 1977 comeback, Hard Again, and its sequels, 1978's I'm Ready and 1981's King Bee, along with supporting Muddy for the 1979 concert set Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live. All four albums are cherry-picked for Raven's 2009 compilation The Johnny Winter Sessions 1976-1981, which also adds a cut from the 2003 deluxe edition of Live and Muddy's duet "Walking Thru the Park" from Winter's 1977 album, Nothin' But the Blues…
Muddy Waters - Can’t Be Satisfied: The Very Best Of Muddy Waters 1947 – 1975 (2018)

Muddy Waters - Can’t Be Satisfied: The Very Best Of Muddy Waters 1947 – 1975 (2018)
Blues | WEB FLAC (tracks) & front cover | 726 MB
Label: Universal Music | Tracks: 40 | Time: 134:54 min

Muddy Waters was the single most important artist to emerge in post-war American blues. A peerless singer, a gifted songwriter, an able guitarist, and leader of one of the strongest bands in the genre (which became a proving ground for a number of musicians who would become legends in their own right), Waters absorbed the influences of rural blues from the Deep South and moved them uptown, injecting his music with a fierce, electric energy and helping pioneer the Chicago Blues style that would come to dominate the music through the 1950s, ‘60s, and '70s.

Muddy Waters - The Johnny Winter Sessions 1976-1981 (2009)  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 8, 2025
Muddy Waters - The Johnny Winter Sessions 1976-1981 (2009)

Muddy Waters - The Johnny Winter Sessions 1976-1981 (2009)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 476 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 184 MB | Covers - 4 MB
Genre: Blues, Chicago Blues, Electric Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Raven Records (RVCD-296)

Muddy Waters left Chess only when the label folded upon its sale in the mid-'70s, but by that point he was in need of the kind of career revival that only comes with a new label and new set of collaborators. That's precisely what Muddy received in 1976, when he signed with Blue Sky Records and teamed up with the hotshot blues-rock guitarist Johnny Winter, who produced Waters' acclaimed 1977 comeback, Hard Again, and its sequels, 1978's I'm Ready and 1981's King Bee, along with supporting Muddy for the 1979 concert set Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live. All four albums are cherry-picked for Raven's 2009 compilation The Johnny Winter Sessions 1976-1981, which also adds a cut from the 2003 deluxe edition of Live and Muddy's duet "Walking Thru the Park" from Winter's 1977 album, Nothin' But the Blues…
Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter, & James Cotton - Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down (2007) Recorded 1977

Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter, & James Cotton - Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down (2007)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 438 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 147 Mb | Scans included
Electric Blues, Chicago Blues | Label: Epic, Legacy | # 88697 07283 2 | 00:59:22

Muddy Waters had his second coming 30 years ago, when longtime friend and disciple Johnny Winter and his Blue Sky label returned him–after a series of listless recordings aimed at the rock audience–to the raw, powerful authenticity of his timeless Chess material with a series of powerful albums. Beginning with 1977's acclaimed Hard Again, a subsequent tour produced Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live, recorded onstage in Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia with Muddy's band, Winter, and harmonica player/vocalist James Cotton. Enough live material remained for Legacy to release an expanded version with an entire second disc of unissued concert material. It seems even that wasn't the end. This collection returns again to those remarkable concerts, featuring Muddy on five tracks, among them a rousing "I Can't Be Satisfied," "Trouble No More," "Caldonia," and the closing "Got My Mojo Workin'." Winter and Cotton are no less powerful, Cotton redoing Jackie Brenston's hit "Rocket '88'" and Winter ripping up John Lee Hooker's "I Done Got Over It" and "Mama Talk to Your Daughter."
Muddy Waters - Folk Singer (SACD) (1964/2011)  [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Muddy Waters - Folk Singer (SACD) (1964/2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192.0 kHz | Time - 40:28 | 1.7 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

At the time of his very first recordings in 1941, Muddy Waters was not yet called Muddy Waters, and he played acoustic guitar. It wasn't his guitar since he didn't own one, but one that was lent to him by Alan Lomax, the man who discovered him deep in Mississippi when he was a farmer and an amateur musician.