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Hoochie Coochie Man: Complete Chess Masters, Vol. 2: 1952-1958 |  | Artist: Waters Muddy
Label: Import Music Services
Category: Music
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 22758
Format: Box set, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 6.1 x 0.6
MPN: 275802
UPC: 602498626801
EAN: 0602498626801
ASIN: B000AO9CUK
Release Date: February 5, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Standing Around Crying | | • | Gone To Main Street | | • | Iodine In My Coffee | | • | Flood | | • | My Life Is Ruined (Landlady) | | • | She's All Right | | • | She's All Right | | • | Sad Sad Day | | • | Turn Your Lamp Down Low (Baby Please Don't Go) | | • | Baby Please Don't Go | | • | Loving Man | | • | Blow Wind Blow | | • | Mad Love (I Want You To Love Me) | | • | I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man | | • | I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man | | • | She's So Pretty | | • | I Just Want To Make Love To You | | • | Oh Yeah (Oh Yeah) | | • | I'm Ready | | • | Smokestack Lightning | | • | I Don't Know Why | | • | I'm A Natural Born Lover | | • | Ooh Wee | | • | This Pain | | • | Young Fashioned Ways |
Disc 2
| • | I Want To Be Loved | | • | My Eyes (Keep Me In Trouble) | | • | Mannish Boy | | • | I Got To Find My Baby | | • | Sugar Sweet | | • | Trouble No More | | • | Clouds In My Heart | | • | Forty Days And Forty Nights | | • | All Aboard | | • | Just To Be With You | | • | Don't Go No Farther | | • | Diamonds At Our Feet | | • | I Love The Life I Live (I Live The Life I Love) | | • | Rock Me | | • | Look What You've Done | | • | Got My Mojo Working | | • | Good News | | • | Evil | | • | Come Home Baby I Wish You Would | | • | Let Me Hang Around | | • | I Won't Go On | | • | She's Got It | | • | Born Lover | | • | She's Nineteen Years Old | | • | Close To You | | • | She's Got It |
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 Get it quick while it is still available. November 6, 2008
Mad Dave (Brummy and proud.)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Hip-O-Select are a specialist division of Universal Music. Unlike its parent company, it sells directly to customers from its website, but increasingly companies like Amazon have sold Hip-O-Select's releases from their own website. This has been good news for UK customers in particular, as we are one of the few countries that cannot order directly from the Hip-O-Select website. If you are interested in Soul/R&B and Blues from the 50's and 60's the company's cd's are going to be right up your street. The releases are usually rare and out of print LP's or double cd's full of unissued masters. The company has released a number of Lost and Found cd's for Motown (Four Tops, Supremes and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas) and also the comprehensive Complete Motown Singles Box sets. The liner notes, although maybe not up to the standard of Ace/Kent records, (but then again, no one else on the market gets even close) effectively paint a background to the music on the cd's and the sound quality is top notch.
The only problem with Hip-O-Select is that they always release their cd's as limited editions. Several cd's of the past now reach ridiculous prices on ebay- the worst offender being the David Ruffin Unreleased album which was only released in 2004. This particular cd is limited to 5000 copies, and although there are quite a few outlets selling the cd at the moment, they won't stay around forever.
Moving on the actual music, well it's Muddy Waters. The mannish boy in his prime, with his brutal delivery and signature sound. Playing with some of Chicago's best musicians, including artists who are still remembered for their own recording careers like Little Walter and Junior Wells. Even the legendary Willie Dixon turns up on bass on a number of these songs. And these songs still stand proudly in the Pantheon of Blues, Rock 'n' Roll and Soul music. Songs like Hoochie Coochie Man and Mannish Boy would be familiar to most casual music fans. There are also songs that will be familiar because of more well known cover versions; I Just Want to Make Love to You (Etta James, from THAT Coca Cola Commercial years back) Got My Mojo Working (the background to the song is very complicated, and even Waters himself made a more well known version) Baby Please Don't Go, which was transformed into a completely different sounding song by Them. Even Howlin' Wolf's signature song Smokestack Lightnin' appears here, with the liner notes claiming that this recording precedes Wolf's own recording of his own song by two years (these artists spent as much time touring as in the studio, many tracks were tested and refined on the road first.) There are songs like Rock Me (Jeff Beck Group), Evil (The Faces) which you might have come across before and his own hits like Close To you, I'm ready and Trouble No More. Maybe 51 tracks here are too much for the casual listener as it does get a bit samey, but for the current price you might as well get the complete recordings for this time period. This is the music that inspired the British invasion, and most of the British bands covered these songs at some point in their careers. Although they don't appear on these cd's. his 1950 song Rollin' Stone was used as the name of a quite famous band, and his 1962 track You need Love was first covered by the Small Faces, and then modified by Led Zeppelin into their hit Whole Lotta Love. During the 60's many of his songs were released in Britain for the first time. Songs like Hoochie Coochie man became staples of the Mod movement, adding another dimension to the mod club scene. It is a testament to the artist and the tracks here that his 50's recordings didn't sound dated when played alongside the Motown, Stax and Chess's own releases during this time period. Like James Brown (whose mid-60's records were recieved much less favourably than his early recordings) his 50's sound was to some extent ahead of its time. Admittedly they lack the production of some of the slicker 60's records and many are mid-tempo blues songs. But there is an undefinable quality about the delivery of this music- they just sound like they have come straight out of a Chicago night club. There is so much going on in these recordings that they still have a unique sound, which is why the mod's were so fond of Mr Waters. Highly recommended for blues fans, mods and anyone who is interested in music from this time peroid.
If you only own one Muddy Waters album... August 14, 2009
Ian Williams (Sunderland, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
you need more. At the very least you also need volume one of this series (or at least the tracks on it), plus a selection of mid to late 60's material and a compilation of the Johnny Winter sessions. However, if you're just starting then this is THE place to start.
It goes without saying that the music is brilliant. Here is Muddy at his best, laying down tracks that will become classics and hugely influence British Blues fans like Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and so many more and end up transforming the face of popular music. He is backed by some of his best sidemen ever -Little Walter (harp), Walter Horton (harp), Jimmy Rogers (guitar), the great Otis Spann (piano), Fred Below (drums), and the ever-present on Chess Blues recordings with a finger in every pie Willie Dixon (bass). You can read all about this in the booklet.
And what a booklet, though the word diminishes the actual artifact. This is one of the best presentations of Muddy's music I have ever seen. At first glance, crude and simplistic, it looks like a letterbox-format book, just a little larger than a DVD box, no picture just artist and title impressed onto thick grey card. The CDs themselves are in wallets stuck to the inside front and back of the card covers and are a little difficult to extract. Then we get a short but informed and informative essay by Mary Katherine Aldin, a veteran of Blues writing, which is followed by a selection of contemporary photographs (colour and monochrome) of Muddy, and finally detailed track listing.
51 tracks of Muddy Waters at his best, presented in an attractive and durable format. Sheer unmissable magic.
 Muddy Jumps One! August 30, 2007
jez
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
As said in the CD title, this limited edition 2CD set features Muddy Waters recordings for Chess during the years 1952-1958 when he was the `King Of Chicago Blues'.
This 2CD set comes in a posh `booklet' style CD case (unlike any other that I've seen before)! and is the next volume in Muddy's prolific spell at Chess Records (The first being a 2CD set: Rollin' Stone 1947-1952).
This is a great CD set for Muddy Waters fans and especially fans of `Electric blues' as it features all of the music from his `Electric' years at Chess rather than the slow, acoustic country blues that he recorded in the years leading up to 1952 as featured on the Rollin' Stone set.
Not as perfect as I expected - and incomplete. December 25, 2009
Keith Randall (Isle of Man, U.K.)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Strange things occur in the wonderful, yet sometimes wacky world of CD reissues. Chess music seems particularly prone to this, such as the Buddy Guy 2 CD set which has clipped (a sort of 'fade-in' effect) tracks at the start of each CD. In the case of this set, two major errors have occurred in the track selection. Considering that two Producers and two Product Managers were involved, one wonders where the attention to detail is.
What I am referring to is the inclusion of the alternate, and in my opinion, inferior takes of both 'Sad, Sad Day' and 'I Want to Be Loved'. These have been included instead of the single versions. This is not noted within the text, indeed the text states that they are the single versions. Therefore, this is not a 'complete' set, sadly.
Also, although the excellent essay informs us correctly that Junior Wells plays on 'Gone To Main Street' and the three slow blues from the same session, and Walter Horton plays on the 'Flood' session, the discography states Junior Wells OR Little Walter and Walter Horton OR Little Walter. There are other examples. Again, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
It is still a fantastic product which sounds amazing (with the exception of 'Blow, Wind Blow' which is somewhat erratic in terms of level) but better attention to detail would have made it perfect, and complete! And so, I have to give this 4 stars instead of the 5 I was anticipating. I confess disappointment with Universal - and not for the first time.
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