Muddy Waters : The Best of Muddy Waters
Genre: Blues	Dates: 1948-1960

Muddy was Howlin' Wolf's rival in Chicago. We can be thankful they pushed each other to such heights. Unlike Wolf's music, Waters' did not set foot on the "new" land of rock and roll; it was planted firmly and deeply in Mississippi Delta soil, representing in many ways the sound of Robert Johnson (see above) brought into the Atomic Age. Few sounds in rock and roll are so simultaneously new and ancient as the electric voodoo of Muddy's slide guitar (especially on "Rollin' Stone," the song from which you-know-who got their name) and Little Walter's amplified harp, both of which seem to be escaping from the graveyard. As on the Wolf record above, Willie Dixon's the compositional star, contributing "I Just Want to Make Love to You," "Hoochie Coochie Man," and "I'm Ready."

Playlist:

1. I Just Want To Make Love To You
2. Long Distance Call
3. Louisiana Blues
4. Honey Bee
5. Rollin' Stone
6. I'm Ready
7. Hoochie Coochie
8. She Moves Me
9. I Want You To Love Me
10. Standing Around Crying
11. Still A Fool
12. I Can't Be Satisfied