Delta Tapes [Import]

Delta Tapes [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Australian Exclusive Release. Features a Collaboration with Bernard Sumner (Of New Order), and Tricky

Tracks:

Honey Bee
Hoochie Coochie Man
Walking Thru the Park
Trouble No More
Just to Be with You
Intro to "19 Years Old"
She's 19 Years Old
Long Distance Call
Mannish Boy
Crawlin' Kingsnake
Got My Mojo Working

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Recorded on the road in 1971--right in the middle of a creative dearth in Muddy Waters's recording career--this live album shows that the seminal bluesman never lost his spark. Out of the studio and onstage, with partners in crime that included Pinetop Perkins and George "Harmonica" Smith, Waters performs with all of the fire and finesse one would expect from a topnotch artist. The recording is obviously incomplete--there are several breaks in the crowd noise between tracks--but what's present on this CD is pure gold. Favorites like "Hoochie Coochie Man," "She's 19 Years Old" (complete with humorous introduction), "Mannish Boy," and "Got My Mojo Working" are as tight and energetic as one could wish for. There are plenty of special moments, including the slide work on "Honey Bee," Smith's harmonica on "She's 19 Years Old," and the sheer evocativeness of "Walking Thru the Park." Like many of Waters's better recordings, it's hard to describe this one without using superlatives. Sure, the material's all familiar and can be found elsewhere, but that's not the point. The point is, if anyone needs further proof that Waters was The Man, they need look no further than this. --Genevieve Williams

Customer Reviews:

WITH GEORGE "HARMONICA" SMITH.......2004-11-23

EXELENT ALL I CAN SAY IS BUY IT YOU WONT BE SORRY EXELENT SOUND QUALITY.

****1/2- great early-70s recordings, superb sound.......2004-06-03

Muddy Waters' numerous live albums range from "pretty good" to "magnificent", with "Take A Walk With Me" and "The Muddy Waters Blues Band Featuring Dizzy Gillespie" at one end of the scale, and the magnificent "Muddy Waters At Newport", "Chicago 1979", "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "Mojo: The Live Collection" at the other end. This one is at the almost-five-stars end of the scale, featuring a top-notch combo, excellent production, and some of the best sound you're ever likely to hear.

All of these ten songs have been available in official live versions for a long time, and most of them are on virtually every live Muddy album from the 70s. "The Lost Tapes" may not be a revelation, excactly, but it is top-notch electric blues from one of the genre's greatest, and compared with similar albums this one is perhaps the very best from this particular period.

Recorded at the universities of Washington and Oregon, "The Lost Tapes" features Muddy's stellar early-70s band, Sammy Lawhorn and James "Pee Wee" Madison on guitars, the great George "Harmonica" Smith, bassist Calvin Jones, Joe "Pinetop" Perkins on the piano, and veteran drummer Willie "Big Eyes Smith. George Smith and Pinetop Perkins are particularly delightful to hear, and of course Muddy Waters himself, his big, confident voice possesing both power and nuance.

It doesn't really make sense to talk about highlights here...everything is great, from the rather slow but very gritty renditions of "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "Mannish Boy" to the superbly swinging "Crawlin' Kingsnake" and "Walking Thru The Park". And the band delivers a cracking performance all the way through.
If your collection is lacking a little in the "live Muddy Waters from the early 70's" department, this is the CD for you.
And if it isn't, pick it up anyway. It's great.

Sends shivers down my spine!!!.......2001-06-01

The opening riff of "Honey Bee" when I first heard this cd sent a chill and shivers down my spine and my eyes got swollen with tears while listening to this true master of the Blues in such a marvelous live setting with an incredibly talented Raw and Gritty band! Every track is a Muddy Waters masterpiece! The man's voice and playing add a surreal feeling of times gone by that can be relived over and over with the same feelings being felt. The people that handled this at Blind Pig Records did a great job of restoring and mastering these gems! Play him over and over on The Crazy Coyote Blues Power Show AT 1490 KOTY AM Yakima Nation Reservation Radio in south central Washington state.

Awesome visit with the master!!!.......1999-07-27

Muddy Waters helped create the dynamic postwar Chicago blues. His talent and personality influenced many performers to play their best and to stretch themselves, seeking the limits of their instruments and souls. It is so nice to listen to these sessions, recorded in 1971, at Washington and Oregon Universities, because they capture some of the essence of what truly made Muddy Waters so terrific; his live performances and kinship with his audience and fellow performers. Joined by greats George "Harmonica" Smith, Pinetop Perkins on piano, Sammy Lawhorn and Pee Wee Madison on guitar, Calvin "Fuzz" Jones on bass, and Willie "Big Eyes" Smith on drums, Waters and co. rock the house on standards like "Crawling Kingsnake" "Hoochie Coochie Man," and "Got My Mojo Working," through a bunch of his own tunes like "Honey Bee," "Walking Thru The Park," "Trouble No More," and "She's 19 Years Old." My favorite cut has got to be "Long Distance Call." On this song, Muddy attacks his guitar neck with his slide, making it scream out hard and soulful blues. This is an enhanced CD as well, and contains a video interview with Waters as well as a video performance of "Long Distance Call," which brings the greatness of this performer through to the viewer even stronger. All in all, this is a great CD, and I'd recommend it to anybody.

Lost Blues Tapes/More American Folk Blues Festival

Average customer rating:

Real precious lost tapes
Many excellent performances

Lost Blues Tapes/More American Folk Blues Festival
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Highnote
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Chicago Blues | Blues | Styles | Music

Delta Blues | Blues | Styles | Music

General | Blues | Styles | Music

General | Compilations | Blues | Styles | Music

Acoustic Blues | Blues | Styles | Music

Piano | Blues | Styles | Music

Slide Guitar | Blues | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0002T2QNS
Release Date: 2004-08-31

Tracks:

Blues Everywhere - Memphis Slim
John Henry - Willie Dixon, Memphis Slim
Captain Captain - Muddy Waters
Catfish Blues - Muddy Waters
In the City - Muddy Waters
I Feel Like Cryin' - Muddy Waters
Your Love for Me Is True - Sonny Boy Williamson [II]
Don't Misuse Me - Sonny Boy Williamson [II]
I'm Gettin' Tired - Sonny Boy Williamson [II]
Goin' Down Slow - Otis Spann
Careless Love - Lonnie Johnson
C.C. Rider - Lonnie Johnson
T.B. Blues - Victoria Spivey
Big Roll Blues - Big Joe Williams
Back in the Bottom - Big Joe Williams
Baby Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams

Tracks:

Della Mae [Alternate Take] - John Lee Hooker
Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton
Captain Captain - Muddy Waters
I Got to Cut Out - Sonny Boy Williamson [II]
Blues Harp Shuffle - Big Walter Horton,
Strong Brain - Broad Mind - Willie Dixon
Big Leg Women - Willie Dixon
You Got Me Running - Sugar Pie DeSanto
South Side Jump - Buddy Guy
If I Get Lucky - J.B. Lenoir
Got a Letter This Morning - Mississippi Fred McDowell
Sail On - Roosevelt Sykes
Memphis Boogie - Memphis Slim
Your Best Friend's Gone - Sleepy John Estes, Hammie Nixon
Farewell Baby - Doctor Ross
Della Mae [Outtake] - John Lee Hooker

Customer Reviews:

Real precious lost tapes.......2006-10-26

Here we find the real lost b lues tracks that fit to the other available AFB-Festivals from 1962 - 1965. The Box from Evidence contains all these records together, so if you own allready the single concerts you could purchase this to get your collection complete.

Many excellent performances.......2004-09-26

Already got the two "American Folk Blues Festival" CDs and the three DVDs? Well, this two-disc two-hour set offers more of the same, and many of these performances are as great as any of the better-known tracks on the "Folk Blues Festival" discs.

Bringing together 32 live performances from 1963, 1964 and 1965, the "Lost Blues Tapes" (the title is a bit of an overstatement) include songs by Muddy Waters, Memphis Slim, John Lee Hooker, Rice Miller (Sonny Boy Williamson II) and several others.
The sound is excellent, even intimate. Muddy Waters performs rare solo versions of "Captain Captain" and "Catfish Blues" before being joined by a full combo for a slow, swinging "Blow Wind Blow" (inexplicably introduced by Muddy himself as "In The City") and an equally laid-back "My Home Is In The Delta" (titled "I Feel Like Cryin'").
John "Memphis Slim" Chatman is said to have been an occationally arrogant, even disdainful performer, but he was also a tremendously elegant and stylish musician, and his supremely smooth, "urban" rendition of "John Henry" is one of the highlights of disc one, alongside three great performances by Sonny Boy Williamson, two by Lonnie Johnson, and Big Joe Williams doing a ragged but interesting version of his own endlessly covered "Baby Please Don't Go".

Disc two includes a great, slower-than-usual and supremely tough "Hound Dog" by Big Mama Thornton (not the same take which can found on "The American Folk Blues Festivals 1962-1969"), a rocking, band-backed "Della Mae" by John Lee Hooker, and J.B. Hutto's acoustic rendition of "If I Get Lucky". Also, Sonny Boy Williamson does a great, rarely heard "I Got To Cut Out", and fellow harmonica ace Big Walter Horton blows his heart out on the sizzling, up-tempo instrumental "Blues Harp Shuffle".
"Got A Letter This Morning" is Mississippi Fred McDowell's (very different) version of Son House's "Death Letter", and "Your Best Friend's Gone" is a delightful, swinging acoustic country blues by Tennessee great "Sleepy" John Estes, who has his old playing partner from the 20s and 30s for company, underrated harpist Hammie Nixon.

This music is perhaps not quite as accessible to the casual or "mid-level" blues fan as the better-known "Folk Blues Festival" recordings, but there are plenty of gems here, and the serious blues fan will most certainly want a listen.