Muddy Waters: Classic Concerts
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Actor: Muddy WatersBrand: Universal Studios
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Hip-O Records
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- Various performances from throughout the career of legendary blueseman Muddy Waters are collected on this release. The earliest footage finds Waters playing at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960, followed by a few songs from the Copenhagen Jazz Festival in 1970, then finished with some tracks laid down at the 1977 Molde Jazz Festival in Norway. With 20 songs in total, this is a sublime visual and a
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Summary: 5 Stars
I am happy to contribute this review. This DVD was released two weeks ago in Australia and it is great. This set was put out by the "Reeling In The Years" people who have done the "Blues Legends" series (Albert King, Freddie King, Memphis Slim and Sonny Boy Williamson) over the last two years. This latest release has Muddy at three stages of his career with three different bands.
It begins with a re-release and an improved sound upgrade of his famous 1960 Newport Jazz Festival concert. It is in Black and White but the sound is now in stereo and song selection are excellent. The band features James Cotton on harp. I think "I'll Put A Tiger In Your Tank" and "Rolling Stone" are particularly good. It also has a great version of Mojo Working as usual with Jimmy Rushing and others contributing.
The DVD then moves to Europe. We see Muddy in the early 1968 at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Here the band has its famous matching Guild Guitars with the long telephone cord leads (I had one!). "Long Distance Call" is particularly good in this set. The band also features the great Otis Spann and footage of this gentleman is very rare. He even sings the T-Bone Walker number "Cold, Cold Feeling", just superb.
Muddy's final concert on this DVD is him at the end of his career in Norway. It is in 1977 at the Molde Jazz Festival. His band has the fabulous Pinetop Perkins and white bluesmen Bob Margolin and Jerry Portnoy. This set is also great and in colour. The crowd, as Europeans can be, is very subdued. The set has great versions of a number of tunes such as "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Blow Wind" and a great version of "Baby Please Don't Go".
This is an essential DVD to own if you are a Blues lover. I have all of Muddy Waters' released material and this is the best. It sounds great and has a comprehensive song selection.It also features very good digital sound and the concerts have over 90-minutes of music. The bonus material has interviews and a great version of "The Blues Had A Baby and They Named It Rock And Roll". It will be released on January 24 in the States. Get this as your New Year's present!
I would love, in the future, to see the release of the famous tribute concert done for Muddy in the late sixties with all the best players of the time such as Johnny Winter, Mike Bloomfield, Junior Wells, Nick Gravenities, Pinetop Perkins and many more. This has to be put out soon. Parts have been shown in Johnny Winter's Pieces and Bits DVD and the Chicago Blues Reunion DVD put out in 2005.
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