Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Country Blues
2. I Be's Troubled
3. Ramblin' Kid Blues
4. Rosalie
5. Joe Turner Blues
6. Pearly May Blues
7. Take a Walk with Me
8. Burr Clover Blues
9. I Be Bound to Write to You
10. You Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
11. You Got Take Sick and Die Some of These Days
12. Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You
13. Copuntry Blues (No. 2)
14. Mean Red Spider
15. I'm Gonna Cut Your Head
16. Atmoic Bomb Blues
17. Tomorrow Will Be Too Late
18. Jitterbug Blues
19. Hard Day Blues
20. Buryin' Ground Blues
21. Come to Me Baby
22. You Can't Make the Grade

Disc 2:

1. Gypsy Woman
2. Little Anne Mae
3. Good Lookin' Woman
4. Mean Disposition
5. I Can't Be Satisfied
6. I Feel Like Going Home
7. Train Fare Home Blues
8. Down South Blues
9. Kind Hearted Woman
10. Sittin' Here and Drinkin' (Whiskey Blues)
11. You're Gonna Miss Me
12. Mean Red Spider
13. Stand Here Tremblin'
14. Streamline Woman
15. Hard Days
16. Muddy Jumps One
17. Little Geneva
18. Canary Bird
19. Burying Ground
20. Screamin' and Cryin'
21. Where's My Woman Been
22. Last Time I Fool Around with You
23. Rollin' and Tumblin Pt. 1
24. Rollin' and Tumblin' Pt. 2

Disc 3:

1. Rollin' Stone
2. Walking Blues
3. You're Gonna Need My Help I Said
4. Sad Letter Blues
5. Early Morning Blues
6. Appealing Blues (Hello Little Girl)
7. Louisiana Blues
8. Evans Shuffle
9. Long Distance Call
10. Too Young to Know
11. Honey Bee
12. Howling Wolf
13. Country Boy
14. She Moves Me
15. My Fault
16. Still a Fool
17. They Call Me Muddy Waters
18. All Night Long
19. Stuff You Gotta Watch
20. Lonesome Day
21. Please Have Mercy
22. Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man
23. Standing Around Crying
24. Gone to Main Street
25. Iodine in My Coffee

Disc 4:

1. Flood
2. My Life Is Ruined
3. She's All Right
4. Sad, Sad Day
5. Turn the Lamp Down Low (Baby Please Don't Go)
6. Loving Man
7. Blow Wind Blow
8. Mad Love (I Want You to Love Me)
9. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
10. She's So Pretty
11. Just Make Love to Me (I Just Want to Make Love to You)
12. Oh! Yeh
13. I'm Ready
14. Smokestack Lightning
15. I Don't Know Why
16. I'm a Natural Born Lover
17. Ooh Wee
18. This Pain
19. Young Fashioned Way
20. I Want to Be Loved
21. My Eyes (Keep Me in Trouble)
22. Mannish Boy
23. I Got to Find My Baby
24. Sugar Sweet
25. Trouble No More
26. Clouds in My Heart

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #106050 in Music
• Released on: 2006-03-13
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Import

Customer Reviews

As good as it gets
I loved the "Proper Introduction to Muddy Waters" but this is even better. Four disks worth from the 1941 recordings through "Trouble No More" in excellent sound. Best takes, too. It's basically like the Chess anniversary set (1947-52) that came out a few years ago, only now including the great recordings from 1953-55. Discs 3 and 4 are just one masterpiece after the next, right up there with Armstrong or Monroe or name-your-greatest 20th century set. The songs you haven't heard are as good as the more typically anthologized. And it's cheap!

AWESOME , SIMPLY AWESOME
If you're a fan of Muddy's muic then this box set is a must . A truly great selection of songs , great sound and a very nice booklet . Best of all is the price. Where can you get a packed 4 cd box set for so little ?

Outstanding (complete) collection, and surprisingly clear.
Couldn't be happier with this 4-disc set. After losing the Disc 1 of Muddy's early work from the Chess box set, I was pleased to find this to replace it... and it's just been growing on me since. This is as much an historical record as a musical one, it seems to me I can hear developing style track-by-track.
I'm listening to it now with good headphones, on a baking hot and still day... if I shut my eyes I could be in the recording room.