The Essence of Muddy Waters

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Mannish Boy
  2:56
  3.6 ★
• 2
  I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
  2:49
  3.8 ★
• 3
  Forty Days & Forty Nights
  2:51
  4.6 ★
• 4
  I Want to Be Loved
  2:29
• 5
  Honey Bee
  3:21
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Mad Love
  3:03
• 7
  Baby Please Don't Go
  3:15
  3.5 ★
• 8
  All Night Long
  3:09
• 9
  Howling Wolf
  2:41
• 10
  Sugar Sweet
  2:30
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Young Fashioned Ways
  3:00
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Please Have Mercy
  3:12
• 13
  She's All Right
  2:28
• 14
  Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man?
  3:04
• 15
  Loving Man
  2:28
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Gone to Main Street
  2:27
• 17
  Sad Sad Day
  3:43
• 18
  Sad Letter Blues
  3:01
• 19
  Too Young to Know
  3:11
• 20
  Stuff You Gotta Watch
  2:49
• 21
  Still a Fool
  3:17
  3.4 ★
• 22
  Blow Wind Blow
  3:10
  3.0 ★
• 23
  Last Time I Fool Around with You
  2:34
• 24
  They Call Me Muddy Waters
  3:22
• 25
  Rollin' Stone
  3:06
  4.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  I'm Ready
  3:03
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Trouble No More
  2:41
  3.0 ★
• 3
  I Just Want to Make Love to You
  2:51
  4.0 ★
• 4
  I Can't Be Satisfied
  2:43
  3.5 ★
• 5
  Long Distance Call
  2:40
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Rollin' & Tumblin', Part 1
  2:59
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Rollin' & Tumblin', Part 2
  2:32
• 8
  Hard Days
  2:33
• 9
  Mean Red Spider
  2:16
  1.0 ★
• 10
  Muddy Jumps One
  2:27
• 11
  Gypsy Woman
  2:33
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Mean Disposition
  2:34
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Good Lookin' Woman
  2:42
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Little Annie Mae
  2:32
• 15
  Screamin' & Cryin'
  3:05
• 16
  Stand Here Tremblin'
  2:23
• 17
  Where's My Woman Been?
  3:06
• 18
  Train Fare Home Blues
  2:47
  3.0 ★
• 19
  Streamline Woman
  3:18
  5.0 ★
• 20
  Walking Blues
  2:56
  3.0 ★
• 21
  Early Morning Blues
  3:09
• 22
  Louisiana Blues
  2:54
  3.0 ★
• 23
  Kindhearted Woman
  2:36
• 24
  You're Gonna Miss Me (When I'm Dead & Gone)
  2:37
• 25
  I Feel Like Going Home
  3:09
  3.0 ★

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Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981

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Anthology

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The Rough Guide to Jazz and Blues Legends: Muddy Waters: Country Blues

The Rough Guide to Jazz and Blues Legends: Muddy Waters: Country Blues 2010

Got My Mojo Working

Got My Mojo Working 2006

Blues & Rhythm Series: The Chronological Muddy Waters 1950-1952

Blues & Rhythm Series: The Chronological Muddy Waters 1950-1952 2004

Release credits

• Big Walter Horton
  harmonica [10, 22]
• Elgin Evans
  drums (drum set) [15, 22, 24], membranophone [15]
• Ernest "Big" Crawford
  double bass [1.5, 1.15, 2.4-6, 2.11, 2.18, 2.25]
• Francis Clay
  drums (drum set) [10], membranophone [2]
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Jimmy Rogers
  guitar [1.2, 1.10, 1.15, 1.21-22, 1.24, 2.2]
• Leonard & Phil Chess
  producer [11]
• Leonard Chess
  bass drum [21]
• Little Walter
  guitar [5], harmonica [1.2, 1.15, 1.21, 1.24, 2.2, 2.5]
• Muddy Waters
  guitar [1.2, 1.5, 1.15, 1.21-22, 1.24-25, 2.4-6, 2.11, 2.18, 2.25], lead vocals [2.25, 1.22], vocal [1.2, 1.5, 1.10, 1.15, 1.21, 1.24-25, 2.2, 2.4-6, 2.11, 2.18, 2.25]
• Otis Spann
  piano [1.2, 1.10, 1.22, 2.2]
• Sunnyland Slim
  piano [11]
• Willie Dixon
  bass [10], double bass [1.2, 2.2]
• [unknown]
  membranophone [11]

Issues

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  The Essence of Muddy Waters

  2x CD
  12 March 2007