Name: Live At Rockpalast
Brand: Muddy Waters

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MIG90783

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Black

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-07-29

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885513907837

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Muddy Waters

Genre GB

Blues / Gospel

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American blues guitarist, singer and composer, Muddy Waters was born on April 4, 1913 in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. He is considered a founder of the modern Chicago Blues style and became the most prominent interpreter of the electric blues. His powerful influence inspired the emergence of electric blues-oriented groups in the UK during the '60s. Inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, his legacy continues to shape and define blues music.
Muddy Waters was a father figure to many influential musicians including [a4092559], [a1965346], and [a10232473]. Sadly, one of his children passed away on December 10, 2020 at the age of 56.
Despite some discrepancies regarding his birth year and place, Muddy Waters' impact on music remains undeniable. His talent and contributions have solidified him as an iconic figure in American blues history.

Muddy Waters had a good sense for talent and accordingly almost always an excellent band behind him, but his backing band from 1974 to 1980, which can be heard on these recordings, was one of his very best: The pianist Pinetop Perkins joined the band already in 1970 after the death of Otis Spann, with the drummer Willie "Big Eyes" Smith Muddy even worked together since 1964.

The bassist Calvin Jones joined in 1971, and in 1973 the two guitarists Luther "Guitar Jr" Johnson and Bob Margolin came into the band. The band was rounded out in 1974 by the excellent harmonica player Jerry Portnoy, who later became, among other things, the first blues harp choice for Eric Clapton. Permanent touring made this line-up a top-rehearsed band, which optimally supported the charismatic leader when they entered the stage of Dortmund's Westfalenhalle for the Rockpalast recording on December 10, 1978. Muddy Waters himself was still at the height of his career at this time, his powerful vocals and great stage charisma captivating the audience. 

Muddy's guitar playing came into its own especially during his typical slow blues slide guitar solos on the Fender Telecaster electric guitar played in normal tuning - and rarely did Muddy have such a hot sound as on these WDR television recordings. The evening's song selection consisted of some of his greatest hits, which probably belonged to the mandatory repertoire every evening ("Hoochie Coochie Man", "Walkin' Thru The Park", a terrific version of the macho anthem "Mannish Boy" and of course the immortal "Got My Mojo Workin'"), but also more rarely played tunes like "Soon Forgotten" by St. Louis Jimmy Oden or "Country Boy", both atmospheric slow blues with slide.

Live At Rockpalast

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