Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter & James Cotton - King Biscuit Flower Hour 1977 (Live) (2022) [FLAC]

Steve Paul of Blue Sky Records, appeared as a saviour to both Johnny Winter and blues giant Muddy Waters, at a time when both musicians were facing hard times.

The result of his investment soon paid off, with the Hard Again tour combining the respected powerhouse of Waters and Winter joined by James Cotton, culminating in a further four albums being produced. Although this particular collaboration was short-lived, it has provided blues fans a rare opportunity to indulge in the work of two hugely important musical figures whose respect for each other is evidently unflinching.

Two live albums, Muddy Mississippi Waters Live and the more recent Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down have allowed a glimpse of the concerts from 1977-1978.

Keyhole proudly presents the entire King Biscuit Flower Hour broadcast of Waters, Winter and Cotton, live from New York's Palladium on March 4th 1977 fully remastered with in-depth liners and rare photos.

 

Muddy Waters - Muddy "Mississippi" Waters – Live (Legacy 2 CD, 2003/FLAC)

 Muddy "Mississippi" Waters – Live is a live album by Muddy Waters. It was recorded during the tour to support Muddy Waters' album Hard Again and it features the same musicians, including James Cotton and Johnny Winter, who had produced the album.

•     Muddy Waters - slide guitar, vocals
•     Johnny Winter - guitar (songs 1, 5, 7), additional vocals (song 1)
•     Bob Margolin - guitar
•     Luther “Guitar Jr.” Johnson - guitar (songs 1, 2, 4, 6)
•     Calvin "Fuzz" Jones - bass (songs 1, 2, 4-6)
•     Willie "Big Eyes" Smith - drums
•     Pinetop Perkins - piano
•     Jerry Portnoy - harp (songs 1, 2, 4, 6)
•     James Cotton - harp (songs 3, 5)
•     Charles Calmese - bass (songs 3, 7)

Muddy Waters - Original Album Classics (3 CD, 2011/FLAC)

 

1977 - Hard Again

1978 - I'm Ready

1981 - King Bee

Muddy Waters - Early Morning Blues (2 CD, 2015)

 This quintessential 2-CD collector’s edition contains 55 remastered studio tracks, including all of the fabulous early singles – both A- & B-sides (except for “Sugar Sweet”) – Muddy Waters made (accompanied by such masters as Little Walter, Junior Wells, Jimmy Rogers, Willie Dixon, and Otis Spann) for the Aristocrat and Chess Records labels, between 1947 and 1955. Waters’ early repertoire, much of which is presented on this indispensable double-set, marks one of the most important building blocks of the Chicago electric blues style.

Muddy Waters - The Complete Aristocrat & Chess Singles As & Bs 1947-62 [4 CD, 2014]

 

Muddy Waters brought a Son House-like Delta country-blues style north with him from Mississippi to Chicago in 1943, intent on making a living from music. Switching from acoustic to electric guitar in order to be better heard in the Chicago clubs and bars, Waters gradually assembled one of the greatest ongoing bands in the history of blues, and in the process, Waters and his band assembled the very template for classic Chicago blues. Waters first cut a track for the Chess Brothers in 1947, who released it on their Aristocrat Records imprint, and for the next two decades or so, Waters turned out the basic iconic catalog of electric Chicago blues for various Chess imprints, and those singles, both A- and B-sides, are collected here in this four-disc, 98-track set. Waters was an astute bandleader, and musicians like Little Walter, Junior Wells, James Cotton, Willie Dixon, and Otis Spann all contributed heavily to these sides, which sit at the very heart of Chicago blues, and signal the very point where the blues became modern and urban.


CD 1
1. Gypsy Woman
2. Little Anna Mae
3. I Can't Be Satisfied
4. I Feel Like Going Home
5. Train Fare Home
6. Sittin' Here And Drinkin'
7. You're Gonna' Miss Me When I'm Dead And Gone
8. Mean Red Spider
9. Streamline Woman
10. Muddy Jumps One
11. Little Geneva
12. Canary Bird
13. Screaming And Crying
14. Where's My Woman Been
15. Rollin' And Tumblin' Part 1
16. Rollin' And Tumblin' Part 2
17. Rollin' Stone
18. Walkin' Blues
19. You're Gonna Need My Help
20. Sad Letter Blues
21. Louisiana Blues
22. Evans Shuffle
23. Long Distance Call
24. Too Young To Know
25. Appealing Blues

CD 2
1. Honey Bee
2. My Fault
3. Still A Fool
4. Early Morning Blues
5. She Moves Me
6. All Night Long
7. Country Boy
8. Please Have Mercy
9. Looking For My Baby
10. Standing Around Crying
11. Gone To Main Street
12. She's All Right
13. Sad Sad Day
14. Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man
15. Turn The Lamp Down Low
16. Mad Love
17. Blow Wind Blow
18. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
19. She's So Pretty
20. Just Make Love To Me
21. Oh Yeh!
22. I'm Ready
23. I Don't Know Why
24. Lovin' Man

CD 3
1. I'm A Natural Born Lover
2. I Want To Be Loved
3. My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble
4. Manish Boy
5. Young Fashioned Ways
6. Trouble No More
7. Sugar Sweet
8. Forty Days And Forty Nights
9. All Aboard
10. Don't Go No Farther
11. Diamonds At Your Feet
12. I Got To Find My Baby
13. Just To Be With You
14. Got My Mojo Working
15. Rock Me
16. Good News
17. Come Home Baby
18. I Live The Life I Love
19. Evil
20. I Won't Go On
21. She's Got It
22. Close To You
23. She's Nineteen Years Old
24. Mean Mistreater

CD 4
1. Walkin' Thru The Park
2. Clouds In My Heart
3. Ooh Wee
4. Take The Bitter With The Sweet
5. She's Into Somethin'
6. Recipe For Love
7. Tell Me Baby
8. I Feel So Good
9. When I Get To Thinking
10. I'm Your Doctor
11. Read Way Back
12. Love Affair
13. Look What You've Done
14. Tiger In Your Tank
15. Meanest Woman
16. Got My Mojo Working Part 1 Live
17. Woman Wanted
18. Messin' With The Man
19. Lonesome Room Blues
20. Going Home
21. Tough Times
22. Muddy Waters Twist
23. You Shook Me
24. You Need Love
25. Little Brown Bird

Muddy Waters- Complete Muddy Waters 1947-1967 [9 CD, 1992]

 

The 205 tracks in this box celebrate 20 years of Muddy Waters on Chess. It contains Muddy's complete output for the Chess label from 1947 to 1967, with the exception of the "Super Blues" sessions from January and September 1967.

A tribute to the King of the Blues, whose legacy will live forever.




1-1 Gypsy Woman
1-2 Little Anna Mae
1-3 Good Looking Woman
1-4 Mean Disposition
1-5 I Can't Be Satisfied
1-6 I Feel Like Going Home
1-7 Train Fare Home Blues
1-8 Down South Blues
1-9 Kind Hearted Woman
1-10 Sittin' Here And Drinkin' (Whiskey Blues)
1-11 You're Gonna Miss Me
1-12 Mean Red Spider
1-13 Stand Here Tremblin'
1-14 Streamline Woman
1-15 Hard Days
1-16 Muddy Jumps One
1-17 Little Geneva
1-18 Canary Bird
1-19 Burying Groudn
1-20 Screamin' And Cryin'
1-21 Where's My Woman Been
1-22 Last Time I Fool Around With You
1-23 Rollin' And Tumblin' Pt. 1
1-24 Rollin' And Tumblin' Pt. 2

2-1 Rollin' Stone
2-2 Walking Blues
2-3 You're Gonna Need My Help I Said
2-4 Sad Letter Blues
2-5 Early Morning Blues
2-6 Appealing Blues
2-7 Louisiana Blues
2-8 Evans Shuffle
2-9 Long Distance Call
2-10 Too Young To Know
2-11 Honey Bee
2-12 Howling Wolf
2-13 Country Boy
2-14 She Moves
2-15 My Fault
2-16 Still A Fool
2-17 They Call Me Muddy Waters
2-18 All Night Long
2-19 Stuff You Gotta Watch
2-20 Lonesome Day
2-21 Please Have Mercy
2-22 Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man
2-23 Standing Around Crying
2-24 Gone To Main Street
2-25 Iodine In My Coffee

3-1 Flood
3-2 My Life Is Ruined
3-3 She's All Right
3-4 Sad Sad Day
3-5 Turn The Lamp Down Low (Baby Please Don't Go)
3-6 Loving Man
3-7 Blow Wind Blow
3-8 Mad Love (I Want You To Love Me)
3-9 I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
3-10 She's So Pretty
3-11 I Just Want To Make Love To You
3-12 Oh Yeh
3-13 I'm Ready
3-14 Smokestack Lightning
3-15 I Don't Know Why
3-16 I'm A Natural Born Lover
3-17 Ooh Wee
3-18 This Pain
3-19 Young Fashioned Ways
3-20 I Want To Be Loved
3-21 My Eyes (Keep Me In Trouble)
3-22 Mannish Boy
3-23 I Got To Find My Baby
3-24 Sugar Sweet
3-25 Trouble No More
3-26 Clouds In My Heart

4-1 Forty Days And Forty Nights
4-2 All Aboard
4-3 Just To Be With You
4-4 Don't Go No Further
4-5 Diamonds At Your Feet
4-6 I Live The Life I Love, I Love The Life I Live
4-7 Rock Me
4-8 Look What You Done
4-9 Got My Mojo Working
4-10 Good News
4-11 Evil
4-12 Come Home Baby, I Wish You Would
4-13 Let Me Hang Around
4-14 I Won't Go On
4-15 She's Got It
4-16 Born Lover
4-17 She's 19 Years Old
4-18 Close To You
4-19 Walkin' Thru The Park
4-20 Blues Before Sunrise
4-21 Mean Mistreater
4-22 Crawlin' Kingsnake

5-1 Lonesome Road Blues
5-2 Moppers Blues
5-3 Take The Bitter With The Sweet
5-4 She's Into Something
5-5 Southbound Train
5-6 Just A Dream
5-7 I Feel So Good
5-8 Hey Hey
5-9 Love Affair
5-10 Recipe For Love
5-11 Baby I Done Got Wise
5-12 Tell Me Baby
5-13 When I Get To Thinking
5-14 Double Trouble
5-15 Woman Wanted
5-16 Read Way Back
5-17 I'm Your Doctor
5-18 Deep Down In My Heart
5-19 Tiger In Your Tank
5-20 Soon Forgotten
5-21 Meanest Woman
5-22 I Got My Brand On You

6-1 I Got My Brand On You
6-2 I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
6-3 Baby, Please Don't Go
6-4 Soon Forgotten
6-5 Tiger In Your Tank
6-6 I Feel So Good
6-7 Got My Mojo Working
6-8 Got My Mojo Working Pt. 2
6-9 Goodbye Newport Blues
6-10 Real Love
6-11 Lonesome Room Blues
6-12 Messin' With The Man
6-13 Going Home
6-14 Down By The Deep Blue Sea
6-15 Muddy Waters Twist
6-16 Tough Times
6-17 You Shook Me
6-18 You Need Love
6-19 Little Brown Bird
6-20 Five Long Years
6-21 Brown Skin Woman
6-22 Twenty Four Hours
6-23 Coming Roung The Mountain
6-24 Le Me Hang Around

7-1 Elevate Me Mama
7-2 So Glad I'm Living
7-3 My Love Strikes Like Lightning
7-4 Early In The Morning
7-5 One More Mile
7-6 13 Highway
7-7 You Don't Have To Go
7-8 Things I Used To Do
7-9 Wee Wee Baby
7-10 Sitting And Thinking
7-11 Clouds In My Heart
7-12 Got My Mojo Working
7-13 She's 19 Years Old
7-14 My Home Is In The Delta
7-15 Long Distance
7-16 My Captain
7-17 Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
7-18 You Gonna Need My Help
7-19 Cold Weather Blues
7-20 Big Leg Woman
7-21 Country Boy
7-22 Feel Like Going Home

8-1 The Same Thing
8-2 You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had
8-3 My John The Conquer Root
8-4 Short Dress Woman
8-5 Put Me In Your Lay Away
8-6 My Dog Can't Bark
8-7 I Got A Rich Man's Woman
8-8 Making Friends
8-9 Betty And Dupree
8-10 Trouble
8-11 Black Night
8-12 Trouble In Mind
8-13 Take My Advice
8-14 Hard Loser
8-15 Going Back To Memphis
8-16 Piney Brown Blues
8-17 Sweet Little Angel
8-18 Corine, Corina
8-19 It's All Over
8-20 County Jail
8-21 Two Steps Forward
8-22 Blind Man
8-23 Find Yourself Another Fool
8-24 Kinfolk's Blues
8-25 Birdnest On The Ground
8-26 When The Eagle Flies

Alternate Takes
9-1 Rollin' Stone
9-2 All Night Long
9-3 She's All Right
9-4 Baby Pleaes Don't Go
9-5 I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
9-6 Take The Bitter With The Sweet
9-7 Take The Bitter With The Sweet
9-8 She's Into Something
9-9 Recipe For Love
9-10 Woman Wanted (8 Takes)
9-11 Read Way Back (9 Takes, Including Backing Track)
9-12 You Shook Me
9-13 Elevate Me Mama
9-14 You Don't Have To Go

VA - The Road To Robert Johnson And Beyond [4 CD, 2007]

 

During the last quarter of the 20th century, and thanks largely to Eric Clapton's remarkable devotion to his memory, Robert Leroy Johnson posthumously became the most celebrated Delta blues musician of the pre-WWII era. Among numerous editions of his complete works and various anthologies that combine his recordings with those of his contemporaries and followers, J.S.P.'s The Road to Robert Johnson and Beyond combines many of his essential performances with those by dozens of other blues artists from Blind Lemon Jefferson and Henry Thomas to Muddy Waters and Elmore James. 105 tracks fill four CDs with several decades' worth of strongly steeped blues that trace the African American migration from the deep south on up into Chicago. This is a fine way to savor the recorded evidence, as primary examples from Blind Blake, Charley Patton, Son House, Charlie McCoy, Walter Vincson, Skip James, Ma Rainey, Tampa Red, Kokomo Arnold, Scrapper Blackwell, Leroy Carr, Lonnie Johnson, and Peetie Wheatstraw lead directly to early modern masters like Big Joe Williams, Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Bill Broonzy, Johnny Temple, Leroy Foster, Johnny Shines, Homesick James Williamson, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Snooky Pryor, Little Walter, and David Honeyboy Edwards, among many others. This collection would be greatly enhanced by Edward Komara's The Road to Robert Johnson: The Genesis and Evolution of Blues in the Delta from the Late 1800s Through 1938, a highly regarded work of musicological scholarship published at the same time as J.S.P. released their similarly titled box set in 2007. Careful remastering and affordable pricing make this hefty stash of classic blues an excellent option for anyone who cares at all about where the music came from and how it evolved.



CD A

01. Son House - Walkin' Blues (2:57)
02. Leroy Carr - Mean Mistreater Mama (2:56)
03. Johnny Temple - Lead Pencil Blues (3:07)
04. Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (3:00)
05. Blind Blake - Georgia Bound (3:23)
06. Lonnie Johnson - Blue Ghost Blues (3:11)
07. Carl Rafferty - Mr. Carl's Blues (3:06)
08. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Change My Luck Blues (2:24)
09. Tampa Red - Things 'Bout Coming My Way (3:15)
10. Peetie Wheatstraw - Police Station Blues (3:05)
11. Kokomo Arnold - Old Original Kokomo Blues (2:54)
12. Hambone Willie Newbern - Roll And Tumble Blues (3:03)
13. Ramblin' Thomas - No Job Blues (3:12)
14. Bid Bill Broonzy - Shelby County Blues (3:20)
15. Ma Rainey - Booze And Blues (3:10)
16. Charley Patton - You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die (2:51)
17. Skip James - 20-20 Blues (2:51)
18. Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues (3:09)
19. Son House - Preachin' The Blues (Pt. 1) (3:05)
20. Lonnie Johnson - Life Saver Blues (3:05)
21. Johnny Temple - The Evil Devil Blues (3:13)
22. Leroy Carr - When The Sun Goes Down (2:57)
23. Henry Thomas - Red River Blues (3:08)
24. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Dry Southern Blues (2:51)
25. Mississippi Sheiks - Show Me What You Got (3:10)


CD B

01. Robert Johnson - Kind Hearted Woman Blues (2:53)
02. Robert Johnson - I Believe I'll Dust My Broom (3:00)
03. Robert Johnson - Sweet Home Chicago (2:59)
04. Robert Johnson - Ramblin' On My Mind (2:53)
05. Robert Johnson - When You Got A Good Friend (2:53)
06. Robert Johnson - Come On In My Kitchen (2:45)
07. Robert Johnson - Terraplane Blues (3:01)
08. Robert Johnson - Phonograph Blues (2:40)
09. Robert Johnson - 32-20 Blues (2:50)
10. Robert Johnson - They're Red Hot (2:59)
11. Robert Johnson - Dead Shrimp Blues (2:32)
12. Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues (2:41)
13. Robert Johnson - Walkin' Blues (2:31)
14. Robert Johnson - Last Fair Deal Gone Down (2:40)
15. Robert Johnson - Preachin' Blues (2:51)
16. Robert Johnson - If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day (2:36)
17. Robert Johnson - Stones In My Passway (2:29)
18. Robert Johnson - I'm A Steady Rollin' Man (2:37)
19. Robert Johnson - From Four Until Late (2:25)
20. Robert Johnson - Hell Hound On My Trail (2:37)
21. Robert Johnson - Little Queen Of Spades (2:19)
22. Robert Johnson - Malted Milk (2:23)
23. Robert Johnson - Drunken Hearted Man (2:28)
24. Robert Johnson - Me And The Devil Blues (2:35)
25. Robert Johnson - Stop Breakin' Down Blues (2:24)
26. Robert Johnson - Travelin' Riverside Blues (2:47)
27. Robert Johnson - Honeymoon Blues (2:19)
28. Robert Johnson - Love In Vain (2:18)
29. Robert Johnson - Milkcow's Calf Blues (2:22)


CD C

01. Muddy Waters - Country Blues (No.1) (3:27)
02. Muddy Waters - I Be's Troubled (3:06)
03. Muddy Waters - Burr Clover Farm Blues (2:56)
04. Muddy Waters - Ramblin' Kid Blues (3:19)
05. Muddy Waters - Rosalie (3:04)
06. Muddy Waters - Take A Walk With Me (3:03)
07. Muddy Waters - Burr Clover Blues (3:13)
08. Muddy Waters - I Be Bound To Write To You (No.1) (3:24)
09. Muddy Waters - I Be Bound To Write To You (No.2) (2:54)
10. Muddy Waters - You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (No.1) (3:23)
11. Muddy Waters - You Got To Take Sick And Die Some Of These Days (2:09)
12. Muddy Waters - Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You (2:09)
13. Muddy Waters - Country Blues (No.2) (3:36)
14. Muddy Waters - You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (No.2) (3:41)
15. Muddy Waters - 32-20 Blues (3:24)
16. Robert Lockwood - Little Boy Blue (3:05)
17. Calvin Frazier - She's A Double-Crossin' Woman (2:50)
18. Robert Lee McCoy - Friar's Point Blues (2:51)
19. Big Joe Williams - I'm A Highway Man (2:53)
20. Johnny Shines - Evil Hearted Woman Blues (2:49)
21. Calvin Frazier - Lilly Mae (No.1) (4:00)
22. Johnny Shines - Ramblin' (2:32)
23. Honeyboy Edwards - Sweet Home Chicago (3:00)
24. Johnny Shines - Fishtail (2:30)
25. Little Walter - Muskadine Blues (3:12)


CD D

01. Elmore James - Dust My Broom (2:48)
02. Homesick James - Long Lonesome Day (2:26)
03. 'Baby Face' Leroy Foster - Rollin' & Tumblin' (Parts 1&2) (5:28)
04. Homesick James - Johnnie Mae (2:47)
05. Baby Boy Warren - Stop Breaking My Heart (2:36)
06. Elmore James - Standing At The Crossroads (2:48)
07. Homesick James - Lonesome Blues (2:21)
08. Homesick James - Homesick (3:07)
09. Elmore James - I Believe (3:17)
10. Johnny Shines - Rambling Blues (2:34)
11. Johnny Shines - Maggie Lee Blues (6:27)
12. Johnny Shines - You're The One That I Love (3:52)
13. Johnny Shines - Sweet Home Chicago (3:30)
14. Johnny Shines - Shake 'Em On Down (3:39)
15. Johnny Shines - Moanin' & Groanin' The Blues (5:24)
16. Blind Will Dukes - Terraplane Blues (3:04)
17. Blind Will Dukes - Dead Shrimp Blues (2:32)
18. Blind Will Dukes - Steady Rollin' Man (2:22)
19. Blind Will Dukes - Me And The Devil (2:20)
20. Blind Will Dukes - Mean Hearted Woman (2:29)
21. Blind Will Dukes - Ramblin' Blues (1:32)
22. Blind Will Dukes - Hobo Blues (1:42)
23. Blind Will Dukes - Milk Cow Blues (2:02)
24. Blind Will Dukes - Mistreated So Long (1:44)
25. Blind Will Dukes - Sail On Little Woman (2:06)
26. Blind Will Dukes - Hoodoo Man (2:08)