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Blues Sky

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The best of Muddy Waters' sessions with Johnny Winter. The liner notes give a pretty complete history of Muddy's career, and include lots of comments from the sessions that produced the music. It's funny to see Johnny Winter credited with guitar/screaming.

As for the music, it's great! Very energetic. Sounds like the guys were just having fun playing. Great slide from Muddy and Winter, piano from Pinetop Perkins, and some searing harmonica from James Cotton. Jealous-Hearted Man, Crosseyed Cat, and a ten-minute live Deep Down In Florida are my favorites.

If you like this music, Muddy's King of the Electric Blues collects most of the rest of the Johnny Winter sessions.

A must for any blues listener. The best examople of why Muddy was the man, the hoochi coochi man.

This album not only allows you to hear some of the best Muddy Waters songs ever, but also gives you the oppertunity to hear Johnny Winters -- a great guitarist. Muddy swerved from his usual one guitar, one bass, one harmonica setup to adopt a more conventional band: two or three guitars, a bass, drums, a harmonica and other instruments. This album recreates classics such as "I Feel Like Going Home," and "Mamie," which, before, lacked a modern tone. Johnny Winters' speedy, no reverb style of playing allows Muddy's sound to remain dominant, all the while helping the music to achieve a fuller level. This album serves as a reminder of the one great blues legend: Muddy Waters. It is a classic, and I recommend it to any blues fan.

Great collection of Muddy's later works. Thumbs up to Winter for his back to basics production and his help on guitar.

When I first heard this collection a few years back, I was blown away. It makes me wish I was "really" listening to the blues back in the late 60's and early 70's. Muddy was the king. Sure there are other greats, but one listen to "Deep down in Florida" will make one a real fan. "Cross Eyed Cat" is another prime example of great music. Muddy's style has been imitated, and never, ever duplicated.

This is the disc to start with. Trust me, you'll be a fan.

Do yourself a favor, instead of plunking your money down on this solid "best of" get the four discs these cuts come from; Hard Again, King Bee, I'm Ready and Muddy "Mississipi" Waters Live. They are all blues classics. Then proceed to Howlin' Wolf's London Sessions, Sonny Terry's Whoopin', Buddy Guy and Junior Wells' Smokin' Dynamite and Drinkin' TNT, Willie Dixon's I Am The Blues and Johnny Winter's Nothin' But The Blues and you've got some of the greatest recordings of the blues' modern era. You can't go wrong...Simon