Breakin' It up, Breakin' It Down
Muddy Waters
Producer: Steve Berkowitz, Al Quaglieri, Bob Margolin
Legacy Recordings, 2007
1 CD
Catalogue #: 88697072832
EAN: 0886970728324
UPC: 886970728324
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Personnel: Muddy Waters (guitar); Johnny Winter (guitar); James Cotton (harp).
Additional personnel: Bob Margolin (guitar); Pinetop Perkins (piano); Charles Calmese (bass guitar); Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith (drums).
Muddy Waters's career was revitalized in the 1970s when he fell in with Johnny Winter, recording the classic HARD AGAIN and a good deal of live material with Winter and singer/harmonica player James Cotton. BREAKIN' IT UP, BREAKIN' IT DOWN culls from these same live recordings, and features material that wasn't included on MUDDY 'MISSISSIPPI' WATERS LIVE or the subsequent expanded version of that album.
Fans of Waters's music (and his '70s work in particular) will find much of the old magic here. Waters lets loose on several numbers, including his classics "I Can't Be Satisfied" and "Got My Mojo Workin'," while Winter and Cotton offer takes on other blues gems (Winter turns in a smoking version of John Lee Hooker's "I Done Got Over It," for example). The recordings feature chops galore, but never at the expense of that vintage South Chicago sound.
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Muddy Waters
Originally a Delta bluesman in the vein of Son House, Muddy Waters moved north in the 1940s and became the leader of the first--and greatest--electric Chicago blues band. Waters' abrasive guitar, impassioned singing, and commanding stage presence inspired generations of disciples, and hits like "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "I've Got My Mojo Workin'" are now indisputable classics.
