The Complete Plantation Recordings

by Muddy Waters

Overview

At long last, Muddy's historic 1941-1942 Library of Congress field recordings are all collected in one place, with the best fidelity that's been heard thus far. Waters performs solo pieces (you can hear his slide rattling against the fretboard in spots) and band pieces with the Son Sims Four, "Rosalie" being a virtual blueprint for his later Chicago style. Of particular note are the inclusion of several interview segments with Muddy from that embryonic period and a photo of Muddy playing on the porch of his cabin, dressed up and looking sharper than any Mississippi sharecropper on Stovall's plantation you could possibly imagine. This much more than just an important historical document; this is some really fine music imbued with a sense of place, time and loads of ambience. ~ Cub Koda

Product Details

Release Date:	06/08/1993
Label:	Chess / Geffen / Mca/Chess / Universal Island Records
UPC:	0076732934425

Tracks

1. Country Blues
2. Interview #1
3. I Be's Troubled
4. Interview #2
5. Burr Clover Farm Blues
6. Interview #3
7. Ramblin' Kid Blues
8. Ramblin' Kid Blues
9. Rosalie
10. Joe Turner
11. Pearlie May Blues
12. Take a Walk With Me
13. Burr Clover Blues
14. Interview #4
15. I Be Bound to Write You
16. I Be Bound to Write You
17. You're Gonna Miss Me
18. You Got to Take Sick and Die Some of These Days
19. Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You?
20. Country Blues
21. You're Gonna Miss Me
22. 32-20 Blues

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Muddy Waters   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Percy Thomas   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Louis Ford   Primary Artist,Vocals,Mandolin
Son Simms   Primary Artist,Guitar,Violin
Charles Berry   Primary Artist,Guitar
The Son Simms Four   Primary Artist
Alan Lomax   Primary Artist
John W. Work III   Primary Artist
John Work   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

John W. Work III   Producer,Performer
Andy McKaie   Producer
Erick Labson   Digital Remastering
Mary Katherine Aldin   Liner Notes
McKinley Morganfield   Composer
Alan Lomax   Producer,Performer
Muddy Waters   Composer
Robert Johnson   Composer
Junie Osaki   Photography