Muddy Waters - Screamin' and Cryin' [Saga Jazz]

Title: Screamin' and Cryin' [Saga Jazz] Artist: Muddy Waters Release Date: 3/7/2005 Re-Released On: 8/23/2004 Label: Saga Blues Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 602498209325 Genre: Blues Styles: Electric Chicago Blues, Regional Blues Moods: Confident, Earthy, Exuberant, Passionate, Plaintive, Raucous, Rollicking, Rousing, Boisterous, Cathartic, Earnest, Energetic, Exciting, Greasy, Gritty, Rowdy, Amiable/Good-Natured, Fiery, Freewheeling, Melancholy, Organic, Playful, Autumnal, Brooding, Party/Celebratory, Quirky, Visceral, Wry Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Gypsy Woman
2. I Can't Be Satisfied [Looking for My Baby]
3. I Feel Like Going Home
4. Train Fare Home [Train Fare Blues]
5. You're Gonna Miss Me (When I'm Dead and Gone)
6. Mean Red Spider
7. Streamline Woman
8. Muddy Jumps One
9. Canary Bird
10. Walking Blues
11. Rollin' and Tumblin' & 2
12. Rollin' Stone
13. Screamin' and Cryin'
14. You're Gonna Need My Help I Said
15. Louisiana Blues
16. Evans Shuffle [Ebony Boogie]
17. Honey Bee
18. Still a Fool
19. Gone to Main Street
20. She's All Right
21. Sad, Sad Day
22. Turn Your Lamp Down Low [Baby Please Don't Go]
23. Blow Wind Blow
24. Mad Love [I Want You to Love Me]

Year Type Label Catalog # 2004 CD Saga Blues 09

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Saga Blues has been assembling fine blues and jump jazz collections and selling them at attractive prices since the early 2000s, and this early Muddy Waters set is no exception. Containing 24 tracks recorded between 1947 and 1953, it showcases McKinley Morganfield four years after his emigration north from Mississippi to Chicago and his earliest recordings for Aristocrat and Chess. The first half of the set details in full the early electric folk-blues he recorded either solo or with session players in the Chess studios such as Sunnyland Slim. The last half contains a dozen selections centering around the Chess brothers' hand-picked sidemen and then, later, Muddy's terrific first blues band that he assembled to pack a punch in clubs and at festivals as his reputation spread far and wide. That band included Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Elga Edmunds (aka Elgin Evans) on drums, Otis Spann on piano, and Waters on vocals and second guitar. The highlights here include "Gypsy Woman," "I Can't Be Satisfied," "Rollin' and Tumblin'," "Rollin' Stone," and "Mad Love." The sound quality is terrific and so is the price point. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

Name Credits Big Crawford Bass Big Walter Horton Harmonica Dorothea Lange Photography Ernest "Big" Crawford Bass Jean Buzelin Liner Notes, Selection Jimmy Rogers Guitar Junior Wells Harmonica Little Johnny Jones Piano Little Walter Guitar, Spoken Word, Harmonica Martin Davis English Translations Muddy Waters Spoken Word, Vocals, Guitar Otis Spann Piano Sebastian Danchin Cover Photo Sunnyland Slim Piano