Hoochie Coochie Man [Live]

Muddy Waters | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 17, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Delta
• ASIN: B000001VZE
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #293,433 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Country Boy

2. Baby Please Don't Go

3. Hoochie Coochie Man

4. Sittin' and Thinkin'

5. 19 Years Old

6. County Jail

7. Long Distance Call

8. Rock Me Baby

9. Sweet Little Angel

10. Rosalie

11. All Night Long

12. Early Morning Blues

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Hoochie Coochie Man has his mojo working, June 9, 2003

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Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hoochie Coochie Man (Audio CD)

I'll be the first one to admit that I don't know much at all about the blues, but Muddy Waters is arguably the best blues great with which to begin one's education in the subject. This revolutionary talent has influenced countless singers and songwriters ever since the day he first came to Chicago in the 1940s. It was Jimi Hendrix's electrifying performance of the song Hoochie Coochie Man that led me to Muddy Waters, an artist I had frankly never heard of before. After enjoying his music and reading a little bit about him, I was pretty surprised to know just how influential he was, is, and always will be. By way of an example or two, Led Zeppelin's song Whole Lotta Love is a reworking of a 1962 Muddy Waters number called You Need Love written by the great Willie Dixon, and the Rolling Stones actually named their band after Waters' 1950 recording Rollin' Stone. Suffice it to say that far more than merely blues artists have been influenced by this legendary performer. Waters was born McKinley Morganfield, the son of a sharecropper, in the Mississippi delta. His discovery is a terrific story in and of itself, but the real story of Muddy Waters played out in Chicago, where he revolutionized Chicago blues with his revolutionary slide guitar playing and impassioned vocals.

This particular album is a live recording of Muddy Waters made in 1964. As another reviewer has pointed out, there are an unbelievable total of four mistakes on the track listing; the fact that such an important album from 1964 can still be released with one-third of its tracks listed incorrectly frankly boggles my mind. If you're keeping score, replace Sittin' and Thinkin', Sweet Little Angel, All Night Long, and Early Mornin' Blues with Tiger in Your Tank, Trouble No More, Rollin' and Tumblin', and I Feel Like Going Home, respectively. When you are talking about Muddy Waters, though, individual song titles aren't that important - that's how impressive all of the music on this CD really is. Backing him up are the remarkable Otis Spann on piano, George Smith on saxophone, Sammy Lawhorn on guitar, Luther Johnson on bass, and Frances Clay on drums. The songs, all written by Muddy Waters, range from "woe is me" slow blues such as Country Boy to hard-driving, rocking numbers such as Hoochie Coochie Man and Tiger in Your Tank. If you want to know what a slide guitar sounds like, just listen to Rosalie or County Jail in particular; it's quite a distinctive sound. Blues piano is exemplified by Spann's performance on songs such as 19 Years Old and Baby Please Don't Go.

The advent of rock and roll overshadowed Waters to some degree, and his career endured some ups and downs during the 1960s, but he proves he still had it in spades in this 1964 performance (although I should add that the sound quality here is far from pristine in places). When he is really cooking on tracks such as Tiger In Your Tank, County Jail, and Long Distance Call, and the crowd is going wild, you know you are hearing the blues the way it was meant to be sung.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Muddy Waters Live 1964!, February 7, 2000

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John W. Heath "Elvis fan" (Arkansas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hoochie Coochie Man (Audio CD)

This is probably one of my favorite live CD's of Muddy Waters. The band and muddy sounded like the Chicago Blues giants they were. Definatley would've liked to have been there when this was recorded. The track list on the back has a few errors though: #4 is listed as "Sittin' and Thinkin'" and is actually "Tiger in Your Tank" #9 is listed as "Sweet Little Angel" but is actually "Trouble No More" #11 "All Night Long" is actually "Rollin' and Tumblin" and #12 "Early Morning Blues" is really "I Feel like Going Home" This is a definate must have for any Muddy Waters/Blues Fan.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A LIVE laid back musical experience!, April 24, 2004

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Einstien (Santa Cruz, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hoochie Coochie Man (Audio CD)

After years of listening to Muddy's blues classics,countless recordings,with raw blues energy,(which Muddy is the master),I must say this is one "LIVE" cd I keep coming back to for it's pure laid back feeling. Outstanding recording quality adds to the enjoyment of this "live" small setting. A great,-late night- audio listening experience. A -must have- for Muddy fans and all real blues fans alike! Get this cd!