Product details
- Label Third Man Records
- Artist Muddy Waters
- Format 1LP
- Country United States
- Released Date 2019
- Genre Blues
- Sealed No
- Media Condition Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Sleeve Condition Very Good Plus (VG+)
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Condition: Used
Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Condition Notes:
Top copy. Very clean. Conservatively graded as VG+.
Electric Mud by Muddy Waters.
Few blues records carry a legend quite like this one. Recorded at Ter Mar Studios in Chicago in May 1968, it was Marshall Chess's audacious attempt to drag Chicago blues headlong into the psychedelic era, reworking Muddy Waters classics for a rock audience raised on fuzz and feedback. Muddy himself famously dismissed it as "dogshit," yet the gamble paid off in the long run: the album introduced his voice to a new generation and has since been reclaimed as a bold, forward-looking experiment. It remains one of the most controversial blues albums ever pressed.
What makes it sing is the collision of Muddy's granite-solid vocals with the arrangements of Charles Stepney, who also produced alongside Gene Barge and Chess. Backed by players drawn from Rotary Connection, the record drenches familiar material like "Mannish Boy" (listed here as "I'm A Man") and "I Just Want to Make Love to You" in swirling, distorted guitar and heavy grooves. It's blues, but refracted through the wildest impulses of late-'60s rock.
This Third Man reissue (TMR-485) is a repress of the 2017 edition, presented in a gatefold jacket with a rounded-corner white paper inner sleeve and hand-etched runouts. For collectors, it's a handsomely produced way to own a genuine curio of blues history — strange, loud, and finally getting the respect it deserves.
Pressing Details:
Track Listing:
A1. I Just Want To Make Love To You
A2. Hoochie Coochie Man
A3. Let's Spend The Night Together
A4. She's All Right
B1. I'm A Man (Mannish Boy)
B2. Herbert Harpers Free Press
B3. Tom Cat
B4. Same Thing
Credits:
Charles Stepney - Arranged By, Producer
Bill Sharpe (3) - Design
Howard Blume - Design
Stu Black - Engineer
Wes Garland - Lacquer Cut By
Ron Borowski - Photography By
Gene Barge - Producer
Marshall Chess - Producer
Notes:
Recorded at Ter Mar Studios, Chicago, May, 1968
Black round sticker on shrink wrap:
"One of the most controversial blues album of all time, with "psychedelic" reworkings of Muddy classics like Mannish Boy and I Just to Make Love to You - [TMR logo] TMR-485"
B1 listed as "I'm A Man" on rear sleeve and "I'm A Man (Mannish Boy)" on label.
Gatefold jacket with white paper inner sleeve (with rounded corners).
Runouts are hand etched.
Repress of 2017 [r=11183534] but without poster.
Artist: Muddy Waters
Format: 1LP
Genre: Blues
Label: Third Man Records
Catalog Number: TMR-485
Release Year: 2019
Country: United States
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