More Real Folk Blues

Muddy Waters | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B000002OAD
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #507,053 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sad Letter

2. Gonna Need My Help

3. Whiskey Blues

4. Down South Blues

5. Train Fare Blues

6. Kind Hearted Woman

7. Hello Little Girl

8. Early Morning Blues

9. Too Young To Know

10. She's Alright

11. Landlady

12. Honeybee

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars All right, my boy, give me the blues!, April 5, 2006

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: More Real Folk Blues (Audio CD)

This album was released in 1967. It is obviously a "sequel" to the album The Real Folk Blues. It was released to cash in on the folk and blues revivals of the 1960s. It features a collection of songs recorded between 1948 and 1952 that had not previously been on an album. Most of the songs are very good, but the sound quality leaves something to be desired. The recordings are scratchy and primitive. But it's still an enjoyable album for fans of the blues.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great music, and a couple of rarities as well, August 14, 2004

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Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews

This review is from: More Real Folk Blues (Audio CD)

Muddy Waters' "The Real Folk Blues" album compiled a number of early recordings and some electric mid-50s numbers and presented them as a "folk blues" record in order to cater to the whims of the record buying public at the time, and this companion volume does pretty much the same thing.

Most of the songs are more down-home, though, and there are a few rarities here which don't usually show up on Muddy Waters-compilations (a couple of them aren't even on the otherwise magnificent "Chess Box").

Recorded between 1948 and 1952, these 12 songs include numerous highlights: Drummer Elgin Evans plays a supremely tough cut-and-shuffle rhythm on "She's Alright" (one of only two songs to feature a full band, including a drummer), and Little Walter's chromatic harp smoulders on "You're Gonna Need My Help" and burns a hole right through "Landlady".

Muddy shamelessly credits a really good rendition of Robert Johnson's "Kindhearted Woman" to himself, his electric slide guitar is howling on the great slow "Sad Letter Blues", and "Train Fare Home", "Sittin' Here Drinking'", "Too Young To Know", and "Honey Bee" are among his best early country blues. Just remember not to trust the credits too much...one or two songs feature a harmonica player who has mysteriously disappered from the credits (it must be either Little Walter or Jimmy Rogers, who started out as a harpist in the first Muddy Waters Band), and the liner notes are not the greatest ever. But the music is top-notch.

This is a great collection of early Muddy, and while there are CDs available which document that period much more thoroughly, "More Real Folk Blues" (which is now only available as a twofer-CD, paired with its sister volume), is certainly not a bad place to start. The newcomer is advised to pick up "Muddy Waters At Newport" and the excellent double-disc "Anthology 1947-1972" for starters, though.

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb compilation of Muddy Waters!, April 25, 2008

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Johnny Boy "The Record Collector" (Hockessin, DE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: More Real Folk Blues (Audio CD)

Muddy Waters (real name: McKinley Morganfield) is a guitar god. He is a real talent. I've always been a big fan of his, and I always will be. And this set documents 12 of his finest moments.

'Honey Bee,' 'Sad Letter Blues' (my personal favorite), and 'Landlady' all appear on this set. And those are my three favorite songs of his. So this set works like a charm.

Overall, if you like the blues like I do, and you like Muddy Waters even a little bit, than you'll need this compilation. It's one of his finest moments.

Highly recommended for any blues lover or Muddy Waters fan. And, MCA did a great job remastering this. The sound quality is incredible!

ENJOY!!!