OK, way too much typing for what was supposed to be a fun little poll! Muddy was said to be a little put off by the whole thing and it shows a little. This is especially obvious on his cover of Jagger/Richards, "Let's Spend The Night Together". But at times Muddy kinda seems like he's singing to a totally different backing track, he's not really in the groove. Personally, I actually like parts of it, the band is pretty skilled and ferocious, and I always enjoy "psychedelic" production values. It worked it was his biggest selling album in a decade. It says Muddy's fortunes were waning at the time African Americans, were no longer purchasing his records, only a few white blues geeks, and this was a desperate attempt to cross over to the white hippy audience that had embraced Hendrix. Liner notes are actually very uncharitable toward the disc you just bought. It's a much "heavier" sound than his other stuff, very amplified, very rock 'n roll, and yes, "electric". It has a lot of pretty cool "trippy" production effects, typical of the time, clearly an attempt to position Muddy as another Jimi Hendrix (even though he isn't playing guitar on this).
It's Muddy's "psychedelic" album from '68, Muddy's accompanied by hot young musicians, rather than his usual suspects. Picked this up on CD the other day after reading about it forever, this is the 1996 version on Chess mastered by Erick Labson (one of my personal favorites, he does a lot of the Chess stuff), and it sounds great as far as that goes anyway!įor the un-initiated, here's the background in a nutshell: Album DescriptionMasterpiece, misguided curio best forgotten, or an absolute abomination to the blues? See More Your browser does not support the audio element. It would be a few years before producers realized that the solution was to simply let Muddy be Muddy, not Jimi. Ironically, he was never able to play these songs on-stage, his own band being unable to replicate their sound, and he was never comfortable with the album. The most interesting of the "new" songs is his cover of "Let's Spend the Night Together" (barely recognizable as the Stones song), which opens with the band sounding like they're in the middle section of "Sunshine of Your Love." Waters pulls this and the rest off vocally, and the album did got him some gigs playing to college audiences that otherwise might not have heard him. The covers of the old songs are OK, if a little loud - "She's Alright" starts to resemble "Voodoo Chile" more than its original, "Catfish Blues," and that's fine if you're looking for Waters to sound like Hendrix (no one has ever explained the "My Girl" fragment with which the song closes, however). Recorded in May of 1968, Electric Mud features Waters in excellent vocal form, running through new versions of old songs such as "I Just Want to Make Love to You," "She's Alright," "Hoochie Coochie Man," "Mannish Boy," and "The Same Thing." But he isn't playing, and the band that is - Phil Upchurch, Roland Faulkner, and Pete Cosey on guitars, Gene Barge on sax, Charles Stepney on organ, Louis Satterfield on bass, and Morris Jennings on the drums - is trying awfully hard to sound like the Jimi Hendrix Experience-meets-Cream, playing really loud with lots of fuzztone and wah-wah pedal. King, and this time Leonard Chess' son Marshall conceived Electric Mud as a way for Waters to reach out to the Rolling Stones/Hendrix/Cream audience. Previously, in 1966, Chess Records had recorded Waters' Brass and the Blues, trying to make him sound like B.B. Meanwhile, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and Cream were selling millions of records each using licks and sometimes songs learned from Waters. By 1968, Waters was no longer reaching black audiences, who were mostly listening to soul music by that time, and he also wasn't selling records to more than a relatively small cult of white blues enthusiasts. This album marks what could probably be considered the nadir of Muddy Waters' career, although at the time it did sell somewhere between 200,000 and 250,000 copies, a lot for Waters in those days.
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