The Definitive Collection

Compilation by Muddy Waters

Released 23 May 2006

A.C. Reed
tenor saxophone [20]
Andrew Stephenson
bass [18-19]
Bob Margolin
guitar [24]
Bobby Little
membranophone [20]
Charles Calmese
bass guitar [24]
Donald “Duck” Dunn
bass guitar [23]
Earl Hooker
guitar [20]
Ernest "Big" Crawford
double bass [1-2, 6]
Francis Clay
drums (drum set) [16, 19], membranophone [13, 18]
Fred Below
drums (drum set) [9], membranophone [10]
James "Pee Wee" Madison
guitar [22-23]
James Cotton
harmonica [18-19, 24]
Jimmy Rogers
guitar [7, 9-10, 13]
Johnny "Big Moose" Walker
organ [20]
Johnny Winter
guitar [24], producer [24]
Lafayette Leake
piano [20]
Leonard Chess
bass drum [7]
Little Walter
harmonica [6-7, 9-10, 13, 16]
Luther Tucker
guitar [18]
Mike Bloomfield
guitar [23]
Muddy Waters
guitar [1-2, 4, 6-7, 9-10, 23-24], lead vocals [2], vocal [1-2, 4, 6-7, 9-10, 13, 16, 18-20, 22-24]
Otis Spann
piano [9-10, 13, 16, 18-19, 22-23]
Pat Hare
guitar [16, 18-19]
Pinetop Perkins
piano [24]
Ralph Bass
producer [22-23]
Ron Malo
engineer [22-23]
S.P. Leary
drums (drum set) [22-23]
Sam Lay
membranophone [23]
Willie Dixon
bass [16], double bass [9-10, 13, 20, 22-23], producer [22-23]
Willie “Big Eyes” Smith
membranophone [24]