Muddy Waters: Electric Mud-1968 Cadet Concept 1st Edition Gatefold Stereo LP
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Used 1968 Cadet Concept Gatefold Stereo Release of Bandleader/Composer/Guitarist/pioneering Blues Vocalist McKinley Morganfield AKA Muddy Waters Entitled Electric Mud, Produced by Marshall Chess, Charles Stepney and Gene Barge, Recording Engineer Is Stu Black, Arrangements by Charles Stepney, Album Originally Recorded at Ter Mar Studios in Chicago in May of 1968 - "In an attempt to make Muddy more sellable to his newly found white audience, Chess lumbered him with Hendrix-influenced psychedelic blues arrangements for Electric Mud. Commercially, actually, the results weren't bad; Marshall Chess claims it sold between 150,000 and 200,000 copies. Musically, it was as ill-advised as putting Dustin Hoffman into a Star Wars epic. Guitarists Pete Cosey and Phil Upchurch are very talented players, but Muddy's brand of down-home electric blues suffered greatly at the hands of extended fuzzy solos. Muddy and band overhaul classics like "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "Hoochie Coochie Man," and do a ludicrous cover of "Let's Spend the Night Together"; wah-wah guitars and occasional wailing soprano sax bounce around like loose basketballs. It's a classically wrongheaded, crass update of the blues for a modern audience." - Stunning Personnel for the Large Group Includes Legendary Composer Muddy Waters on Guitar and Vocals, the Brilliant Gene Barge on Tenor Sax, Pete Cosey, Roland Faulkner & the Amazing Phil Upchurch on Additional Guitars, the Talented Charles Stepney on Organ, Luois Satterfield on Bass and Morris Jennings on Drums! - Selections on Side 1 Are Original Willie Dixon Compositions I Just Want to Make Love to You, I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man, the Mick Jagger/Keith Richards Standard Let's Spend the Night Together & the Muddy Waters Penned She's All Right - Tracks for Side 2 Consist of Original Muddy Waters Composition I'm a Man(Mannish Boy), the Sidney Barnes/Robert Thurston Song Herbert Harper's Free Press, the Charles Williams Classic Tom Cat and Willie Dixon's Same Thing - Used Copy, Cover Is Slightly Faded and Splotchy, Record has some Light Surface Wear & a Few Light Scuffs - Gatefold Sleeve, Stereo Recording, Product Code LPS 314 - California Residents Add 9.75% Sales Tax - International S & H Extra -
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