The Essential Collection

by Muddy Waters

The Essential Collection cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1 January 2000
  • Label: Spectrum
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.77/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A twenty-track Spectrum collection of Muddy Waters' Chess recordings from 1950 to 1972, the Chicago electric blues canon in single-disc form. The program includes the defining Willie Dixon songs and the band performances with Little Walter and Jimmy Rogers that set the music's template.

Genres

Descriptors: guitars, male-vocals, rhythmic, bluesy, piano

Tracklist

  1. Got My Mojo Working
  2. Long Distance Call
  3. Close To You
  4. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
  5. She Moves Me
  6. Baby Please Don't Go
  7. Mad Love (I Want You To Love Me)
  8. I'm Ready
  9. I Just Wanna Make Love To You
  10. I Love The Life I Live, I Live The Life I Love
  11. She's All Right
  12. Mannish Boy
  13. Young Fashioned Ways
  14. I Want To Be Loved
  15. Louisiana Blues
  16. Forty Days And Forty Nights
  17. Rollin' Stone
  18. Stuff You Gotta Watch
  19. Garbage Man
  20. Can't Get No Grindin'

Credits

  • Muddy Waters - primary artist, written-by
  • Whole Hog Design - design
  • Willie Dixon - written-by
  • Preston Foster - written-by
  • Ellas McDaniel - written-by
  • Mel London - written-by
  • Bernie Roth - written-by
  • Will Hammond - written-by

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