Waters, Muddy: Complete Aristocrat & Chess Singles A's & B's 1947

Title: Complete Aristocrat & Chess Singles A's & B's 1947
Artist: Waters, Muddy
Label: Acrobat
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 824046707224
Genre: Blues

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.

Tracks:
1.1 Gypsy Woman
1.2 Little Anna Mae
1.3 I Can't Be Satisfied (Looking for My Baby)
1.4 I Feel Like Going Home
1.5 Train Fare Home (Train Fare Home Blues)
1.6 Sittin' Here and Drinkin' (Whiskey Blues)
1.7 You're Gonna' Miss Me (When I'm Dead and Gone)
1.8 Mean Red Spider
1.9 Streamline Woman
1.10 Muddy Jumps One [Instrumental]
1.11 Little Geneva
1.12 Canary Bird
1.13 Screaming and Crying
1.14 Where's My Woman Been
1.15 Rollin' and Tumblin', Pt. 1
1.16 Rollin' and Tumblin', Pt. 2
1.17 Rollin' Stone
1.18 Walkin' Blues
1.19 You're Gonna Need My Help I Said (Gonna Need My Help)
1.20 Sad Letter Blues
1.21 Louisiana Blues
1.22 Evan's Shuffle
1.23 Long Distance Call
1.24 Too Young to Know
1.25 Appealing Blues (Hello Little Girl)
2.1 Honey Bee
2.2 My Fault
2.3 Still a Fool
2.4 Early Morning Blues (Before Daybreak)
2.5 She Moves Me
2.6 All Night Long
2.7 Country Boy (All Night Long)
2.8 Please Have Mercy
2.9 Looking for My Baby
2.10 Standing Around Crying
2.11 Gone to Main Street
2.12 She's All Right
2.13 Sad Sad Day
2.14 Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man
2.15 Turn the Lamp Down Low (Baby Please Don't Go)
2.16 Mad Love (I Want You to Love Me)
2.17 Blow Wind Blow
2.18 I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
2.19 She's So Pretty
2.20 Just Make Love to Me (I Just Want to Make Love to You)
2.21 Oh Yeh! (Oh Yeah)
2.22 I'm Ready
2.23 I Don't Know Why
2.24 Lovin' Man
3.1 I'm a Natural Born Lover
3.2 I Want to Be Loved
3.3 My Eyes (Keep Me in Trouble)
3.4 Manish Boy
3.5 Young Fashioned Ways (Old-Fashioned Ways)
3.6 Trouble No More
3.7 Sugar Sweet (I Can't Call Her Sugar)
3.8 Forty Days and Forty Nights
3.9 All Aboard
3.10 Don't Go No Farther
3.11 Diamonds at Your Feet
3.12 I Got to Find My Baby
3.13 Just to Be with You
3.14 Got My Mojo Working
3.15 Rock Me
3.16 Good News
3.17 Come Home Baby, I Wish You Would
3.18 I Live the Life I Love (I Love the Life I Live)
3.19 Evil
3.20 I Won't Go on
3.21 She's Got It
3.22 Close to You
3.23 She's Nineteen Years Old
3.24 Mean Mistreater
4.1 Walkin' Thru the Park (Walking in the Park)
4.2 Clouds in My Heart
4.3 Ooh Wee
4.4 Take the Bitter with the Sweet
4.5 She's Into Somethin'
4.6 Recipe for Love
4.7 Tell Me Baby
4.8 I Feel So Good
4.9 When I Get to Thinking
4.10 I'm Your Doctor
4.11 Read Way Back
4.12 Love Affair
4.13 Look What You've Done
4.14 Tiger in Your Tank
4.15 Meanest Woman
4.16 Got My Mojo Working, Pt. 1 [Live]
4.17 Woman Wanted
4.18 Messin' with the Man
4.19 Lonesome Room Blues
4.20 Going Home
4.21 Tough Times
4.22 Muddy Waters Twist
4.23 You Shook Me
4.24 You Need Love
4.25 Little Brown Bird