Johnny Winter Sessions 1976-1981

Muddy Waters | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 5, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Raven [Australia]
• ASIN: B001YV50DG
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,530 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2009 collection from the Blues great. Muddy is one of the undisputed giants of the post-war Chicago electric blues scene. By the mid-1970s after a period of steady worldwide touring but little quality recording activity, his studio fortunes were resuscitated by one of his legion of disciples, guitarist Johnny Winter. Backed by Winter and the likes of Pinetop Perkins, James Cotton, Jimmy Rogers, Big Walter Horton and Jerry Portnoy, Muddy just roars like a lion from go to whoa! This essential collection culls the best tracks from Hard Again, I'm Ready, King Bee and Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live on one scintillating, 77-minute CD. Fresh and incredibly powerful, these high energy recordings still kick ass 30 years on! With superb quality audio, color booklet and detailed notes.

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Terrific music for sure, but why would anyone buy this...?, May 6, 2009

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Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Johnny Winter Sessions 1976-1981 (Audio CD)

Muddy Waters enjoyed something of a renaissance in the late 70s and early 80s with his three Blue Sky-albums produced by guitarist Johnny Winter. And deservedly so; all three of them are absolutely wonderful. They feature the core of the Muddy Waters Blues Band as well as artists like Jimmy Rogers, Big Walter Horton, and Johnny Winter himself, and they belong in every Muddy-fan's collection.

And now there's a compilation as well. It draws from all three, obviously; the sessions produced about 35 songs, and you get just over half of them here. Great sound, great booklet. All fine and good. The only "problem", if you will, is that the approximately fifteen songs which didn't make it onto this compilation are frequently as good as many of the ones that did. And it's three CD's, I mean...come on! You can get two of them for the price of this one compilation.

To me, there is absolutely no reason to buy this. None whatsoever. The music is great, so I can't really bury it rating-wise, but seriously, this album is pointless. There is no new material here, obviously, the sound on the remastered 2004 issues of these albums is equally stellar, and the liner notes by Bob Margolin are, too.
Get the 2004 editions of "Hard Again", "I'm Ready", and "King Bee" instead of this odd, pointless compilation. I can't imagine anyone who wouldn't be better served. Oh, and get the live "Breakin' It Up & Breakin' It Down", too, by the way!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars SOME of the great songs from the Johnny Winter Sessions, November 1, 2009

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Buddha Khan (Ann Arbor, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Johnny Winter Sessions 1976-1981 (Audio CD)

Don't let the title fool you into thinking this is a complete set of tracks from the great Johnny Winter sessions (it only contains a PARTIAL selection). I was also unable to play this disc in a computer drive or back it up to iTunes for iPod playback.