The Best of Muddy Waters

Greatest hits album by Muddy Waters

Released

April 1958^[1]

Recorded

April 1948 – September 1, 1954^[2] in Chicago, Illinois

Genre

Chicago blues

Length

35:40^[3]

Label

Chess LP 1427

Producer

Leonard Chess, Phil Chess

Muddy Waters chronology

The Best of Muddy Waters
(1958)

At Newport 1960
(1960)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]

The Best of Muddy Waters is a 1958 greatest hits album by Muddy Waters released by Chess Records in April 1958. With the increasing popularity of 33 1/3 rpm recordings (commonly called LPs), Chess Records started releasing its first LPs in 1958.^[4] The Best of Muddy Waters (released sometime in April 1958 according to Billboard magazine) was the third LP that Chess released.^[1] The album was re-released in CD format in 1997 by Chess and MCA Records.

Track listing

All tracks written by McKinley Morganfield, except where noted.

Side one
No.	Title	Original release^[5]	Length
1.	"I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Willie Dixon)	Chess #1571	2:49
2.	"Long Distance Call"	Chess #1452	2:38
3.	"Louisiana Blues"	Chess #1441	2:49
4.	"Honey Bee"	Chess #1468	3:20
5.	"Rollin' Stone"	Chess #1426	3:05
6.	"I'm Ready" (Dixon)	Chess #1579	3:01

Side two
No.	Title	Original release^[5]	Length
1.	"Hoochie Coochie" (Dixon)	Chess #1560	2:49
2.	"She Moves Me"	Chess #1490	2:54
3.	"I Want You to Love Me"	Chess #1550	3:01
4.	"Standing Around Crying"	Chess #1526	3:19
5.	"Still a Fool"	Chess #1480	3:14
6.	"I Can't Be Satisfied"	Aristocrat #1305^[6]	2:41

Personnel

Per Discogs^[2]

Muddy Waters – lead vocals, guitar
Ernest "Big" Crawford – bass on "Long Distance Call", "Louisiana Blues", "Honey Bee", "I Want You To Love Me", and "I Can't Be Satisfied"
Willie Dixon – bass on "I Just Want To Make Love To You", "I'm Ready", and "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man"
Little Walter – harmonica on tracks A-1, A-2, A-3, A-6, B-1, B-2, and B-4; guitar on B-5
Walter "Shakey" Horton – harmonica on B-3 (as credited on LP - Little Walter is the harmonica player on all tracks on this collection where harmonica is present.)
Jimmy Rogers – guitar on tracks A-1, A-4, A-6, B-1, B-3, and B-4
Otis Spann – piano on A-1, A-6, B-1, B-3, and B-4
Fred Below – drums on A-1, A-6, and B-1
Elgin Evans – washboard on A-3; drums on B-3 and B-4
Leonard Chess – bass drum on B-2 and B-5
Studs Terkel – liner notes

Release history

Region	Label	Format	Catalog
United States	Chess	LP	LP 1427
Worldwide reissue	Chess	LP	LP CH-9255
United States	Chess	Cassette	CHC-9255
United States	Chess/MCA	CD	CHD-31268
Japan	MCA	CD	UICY-3199

References

1 2 "Go under ''1983 Hall of Fame Inductees'' then click on ''The Best of Muddy Waters--Muddy Waters (Chess, 1958)'' to see the album review.". Blues.org. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
1 2 "Muddy Waters - The Best Of Muddy Waters (CD) at Discogs". Discogs.com. 1951-07-11. Retrieved 2012-01-04.
1 2 Chadbourne, Eugene. "The Best of Muddy Waters [Chess] - Muddy Waters : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
↑ Howard Mandel, ed. (2005). The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues. Billboard Books. pp. 176 & 182. ISBN 0-8230-8266-0.
1 2 "Label: Chess". Second Hand Songs. Retrieved 2012-01-04.
↑ "The Aristocrat Label". Hubcap.clemson.edu. Retrieved 2012-01-04.

Muddy Waters

Studio albums	1964 Folk Singer 1967 Super Blues 1968 Electric Mud 1969 After the Rain Fathers and Sons 1977 Hard Again 1978 I'm Ready 1981 King Bee

Live albums	1960 At Newport 1960 1969 Fathers and Sons 1979 Muddy "Mississippi" Waters – Live 2012 Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981

Compilations	1958 The Best of Muddy Waters 1967 The Real Folk Blues 1969 Sail On 2000 Rollin' Stone: The Golden Anniversary Collection 2001 The Anthology (1947–1972)

Noted singles	1950 "Rollin' and Tumblin'" "Rollin' Stone" "Walkin' Blues" 1951 "Long Distance Call" 1953 "Baby Please Don't Go" 1954 "Hoochie Coochie Man" "I Just Want to Make Love to You" "I'm Ready" 1955 "Mannish Boy" 1956 "Trouble No More" "Forty Days and Forty Nights" "Rock Me" "Got My Mojo Working" 1962 "You Shook Me"

Related articles	Discography Chicago blues Delta blues Willie Dixon Little Walter Jimmy Rogers Otis Spann Chess Records

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