Muddy Waters Sings "Big Bill"

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Muddy Waters Sings "Big Bill"
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 1960
RecordedJune – August 1959
StudioChicago, IL
Genre Blues
Length27:47
Label Chess
LP 1444
Muddy Waters chronology
The Best of Muddy Waters
(1958)
Muddy Waters Sings "Big Bill"
(1960)
At Newport 1960
(1960)

Muddy Waters Sings "Big Bill" is the first studio album, but second overall album by blues musician Muddy Waters, featuring songs by Big Bill Broonzy, released by the Chess label in 1960. [1] [2] [3]

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AllMusic reviewer Cub Koda stated "Waters's tribute album to the man who gave him his start on the Chicago circuit, this stuff doesn't sound much like Broonzy so much as a virtual recasting of his songs into Muddy's electric Chicago style. Evidently the first time Waters and his band were recorded in stereo ... with some really great harp from James Cotton as an added bonus." [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Big Bill Broonzy except where noted

  1. "Tell Me Baby" – 2:15
  2. "Southbound Train" – 2:51
  3. "When I Get to Thinking" (Harriett Melka) – 3:05
  4. "Just a Dream (On My Mind)" – 2:30
  5. "Double Trouble" (Melka) – 2:44
  6. "I Feel So Good" – 2:53
  7. "I Done Got Wise" (McKinley Morganfield) – 2:56
  8. "Mopper's Blues" – 2:51
  9. "Lonesome Road Blues" – 3:01
  10. "Hey, Hey" – 2:41

Personnel

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References

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  2. Wirz' American Music: Muddy Waters Discography, Wirz.de, accessed August 27, 2019
  3. Wight, P. & Rothwell, F. The Complete Muddy Waters Discography, Bluesandrhythm.co.uk, accessed August 27, 2019
  4. 1 2 Koda, Cub. Muddy Waters: Sings Big Bill Broonzy – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved August 28, 2019.