Electric Mud Muddy Waters

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  • Release Date: 11/19/1996
  • Original Release: 1968
  • Sales Rank: 23,642
  • Label: CHESS
  • UPC: 076732936429

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Electric Mud

1LISTENI Just Want to Make Love to You 4:19
2LISTEN(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man 4:53
3LISTENLet's Spend the Night Together 3:12
4LISTENShe's Alright 6:36
5LISTENMannish Boy 3:50
6LISTENHerbert Harper's Free Press News 4:40
7LISTENTom Cat 3:42
8LISTENThe Same Thing 5:42

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In an attempt to make Muddy more sellable to his newly found white audience, Chess lumbered him with Hendrix-influenced psychedelic blues arrangements for Electric Mud. Commercially, actually, the results weren't bad; Marshall Chess claims it sold between 150,000 and 200,000 copies. Musically, it was as ill-advised as putting Dustin Hoffman into a Star Wars epic. Guitarists Pete Cosey and Phil Upchurch are very talented players, but Muddy's brand of down-home electric blues suffered greatly at the hands of extended fuzzy solos. Muddy and band overhaul classics like "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "Hoochie Coochie Man," and do a ludicrous cover of "Let's Spend the Night Together"; wah-wah guitars and occasional wailing soprano sax bounce around like loose basketballs. It's a classically wrongheaded, crass update of the blues for a modern audience. The 1996 CD reissue adds interesting historical liner notes. Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

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Muddy Waters shows the hippies how to do it rightby JohnQ

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May 02, 2009: The professional critic who reviewed this album doesn't like it much but when this collection of Muddy Waters songs (redone with a psychedelic electric band backing him up, complete with screaming electric guitars) first came out it was very well received and was a great reminder that the Blues were at the roots of Rock and Roll. Far from being embarrassed (as the professional critic claims) Muddy sounds like he's having a pretty good time with the effort. Certainly it is more of a 60's hippy album than a Blues album, but that was the whole point of making the album, and it's a point well taken.