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- Date Released: January 1, 1992
- Genre: Blues
- Style: Chicago Blues
- Label: Document Records / The Orchard
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The landmark sides which comprise Muddy Waters' First Recording Sessions trace the early evolution of one of the blues' most enduring greats, offering invaluable insight into the primal influences which helped shape his musical identity. The profound influence of Waters' idol Son House is most indelibly etched into these early sides, with the bottleneck guitar sound on the first cuts "Country Blues" and "I Be's Troubled" -- both recorded by Alan Lomax in 1941 -- a prime example of the Mississippi blues style of the period. When Lomax returned a year later, he recorded Waters in a string band also including violinist Son Simms, guitarist Percy Thomas and mandolinist Louis Ford; among the tracks they cut is "Take a Walk with Me," in all likelihood inspired by Robert Lockwood. By the final group of songs, dating from 1946, Waters was in Chicago, and here his guitar style began to move toward his future trademark sound, which is most in evidence on the classic closer, the two-part "Rollin' and Tumblin."
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| 01. |  |
Country Blues |
3:32 |
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| 02. | |
I Be's Troubled |
3:07 |
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| 03. | |
Ramblin' Kid Blues (Son Simms Four) |
3:18 |
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| 04. | |
Rosalie (Son Simms Four) |
3:03 |
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| 05. | |
Joe Turner Blues (Louis Ford, Vcl) |
2:47 |
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| 06. | |
Pearly May Blues (Percy Thomas, Vcl) |
3:25 |
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| 07. | |
Take A Walk With Me |
3:06 |
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| 08. | |
Burr Clover Blues |
3:13 |
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| 09. | |
I Be Bound To Write To You |
3:23 |
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| 10. | |
You Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone |
3:23 |
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| 11. | |
You Got To Take Sick And Die Some Of These Days |
2:10 |
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| 12. | |
Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You |
2:08 |
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| 13. | |
Country Blues (No. 2) |
3:33 |
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| 14. | |
Mean Red Spider |
2:23 |
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| 15. | |
I'm Gonna Cut Your Head (Homer Harris, Vcl) |
2:55 |
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| 16. | |
Atomic Bomb Blues (Homer Harris, Vcl) |
2:32 |
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| 17. | |
Tommorrow Will Be Too Late (Homer Harris, Vcl) |
3:03 |
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| 18. | |
Jitterbug Blues |
2:52 |
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| 19. | |
Hard Day Blues |
2:47 |
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| 20. | |
Buryin' Ground Blues |
2:45 |
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| 21. | |
Come To Me Baby (James Beale Street Clark, Vcl) |
2:51 |
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| 22. | |
You Can't Make The Grade James Beale Street Clark, Vcl |
2:55 |
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| 23. | |
Bonus Tracks: Baby Face Leroy & Muddy Waters (1950) Rollin' And Tumblin' Pt. 1 |
2:51 |
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| 24. | |
Rollin' And Tumblin' Pt. 2 |
3:27 |
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24 Total Tracks, 71:29 Total Length
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