At Newport 1960

now this is blues. clapton can fuck off.

I prefer the Muddy Waters

This album is credited with introducing Chicago-style blues to a white audience and influencing the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Angus Young, and more. Its footprint is so massive that it can't be overstated, and it's easy to see why. Waters starts with some blues standards and slowly turns up the heat until the crowd is going nuts. He plays his penultimate song twice, reportedly exhausting himself to the point that Otis Spann had to sing the final number. It's an expert balance of frenetic energy and casual blues musicianship. Just incredible. Best track: I've Got My Mojo Working - Pt. 2

This may be more a criticism of early blues (or blues in general), but a lot of these tunes sound so similar. I know that's just me being uneducated and unfamiliar with the nuance of solos and lyrical stylings, but I can't quite get into it.

The album that inspired a generation of white British musicians to sound like poor versions of this album.

Live albums that end with "At Newport" are guaranteed to be an artist's best. Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and now Muddy Waters. Waters is obviously a mainstay of blues, and I'd say there isn't nearly enough blues on this list, but I'm glad they chose this one. Blues is a pretty simple genre, so you need to bring as much personality in order to make it shine. Waters had personality in spades. He has full command over the audience, with his naturally compelling voice and excellent guitar skills. The whole set is great, but "Got My Mojo Working" is the clear highlight, followed by part 2 and then the excellent closer "Goodbye Newport Blues". This one is a bonafide classic.

Fun fast and influential Blues delivered with plenty of mojo. Stellar drums guitar and harp throughout. Got my brand in you, I feel so good, got my mojo working

A legend who many of my favorite bands cite as one of their influences. I think I would enjoy a studio album more than a live one.

A lot of history in this dude. Sounds good for being live and really starts cookin' after a few songs. The last Newport blues festival, so important in multiple ways. Pretty classic. 3.5

It’s not what I would usually choose to listen to, but was nice background music for work. He walked so Stevie Ray Vaughan could run!

Brilliant, despite it being a series of fairly straight blues performances this sounds fantastic. Blues being so formulaic at times, often it's a case of not what one plays, but how one does it; and Waters oozes charisma. Big boy music, played with authority and panache. Makes a lot of what we listen to sound quite juvenile, don't it?

This album is the culmination and the reason music exists. It’s so raw and pure. We all owe much credit to Muddy Waters and his contemporaries for this earliest version of rock and roll.

Loved this collection of classic blues performed live. I was personally surprised at how good the recording was for it being from 1960. Stellar guitar, great harmonica, the twiddling of a piano, Muddy's distinctive howl, it all works wonderfully.

Love to see Muddy Waters on the list, a true blues legend. Very obviously the progenitor of the blues-rock style that launched copycat acts like the Stones, Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin to their early success. To quote Chance the Rapper: "I got the Chicago blues. We invented rock before the Stones got through." The "we" in that lyric refers to Muddy Waters. I'm not too bothered by this being a live album, considering that a lot of Muddy's best work preceded the album format entirely. I do wish we had certain hits on here like "Rolling Stone" and "Mannish Boy," but these are still great selections. He's got such a fantastic voice for this kind of music, and all the musicians kill it, especially the harmonica, shout out to James Cotton. Really dug this one. Favorite tracks: I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man, Meanest Woman, Soon Forgotten, Goodbye Newport Blues. Album art: A simple picture of Muddy Waters, likely taken at the show. It's a great shot though, great color contrast. You can tell he means business. 4/5

Enjoyed listening to this, although mainly as a historical document. Love the Them cover of "Baby Please Don't Go", of course

This is good. I would be interested in hearing a version that wasn't live.

hoochie coochie, meanie-bo-beanie

I just find the blues so depressing

Man, this album is pure fire! Muddy Waters and his band absolutely tear it up at Newport. The energy is electric, the guitar riffs are scorching, and Muddy's vocals are raw and powerful. From the blues classics like "Hoochie Coochie Man" to the newer hits like "Got My Mojo Working," every track is a masterpiece. It's like being transported back in time to witness a legendary performance. This is a must-listen for any blues fan, or really anyone who appreciates good music.

The audience watching this at the Newport Folk Festival must have been like, WTF.

Ahh, that was a fun listen. Certainly understand why it's made the list! Love a bit of funky harmonica. These songs are really jams, at the end of the day. Relaxing, fun, bluesy. All among my favorite moods. What I love about this album is that it meets you where you are. If you're in a good mood it's toe-tapping, and if you're not, it's mellow. Somehow, amazingly, it occupies both spaces at once very effectively. The sound is so polished it's hard to believe it's even a live album. Amazing. Fave track: I Feel So Good.

As a guitarist who discovered the blues early on, I recognize this album;s role in bringing the blues to a wider US and UK audience in the early '60s. Muddy Water's influence on artists such as the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton and countless others cannot be overstated. His was the definitive statement of the Chicago Blues (by way of Mississippi). His music is buoyant, joyous, and super accessible.

A rip roaring album that showcases how damn good Muddy Waters was. It’s got grit, it’s got amazing solos hell it even boogies and I don’t know what else you’d want from a blues album.

Uptempo blues muziek. Hier kan ik niet blijven op stilzitten!

fav tracks: Hoochie Coochie Man, Soon Forgotten, Goodbye Newport Blues Thoughts: My first time listening to Muddy Waters, and an introduction to music under the umbrella of American Blues. The performances are close to flawless, if not perfect. I really like the piano playing; some of the melodic runs played on the piano sound like something Hendrix would play on the guitar. I guess little stuff like that highlight the influence that early to mid 19th century blues has on rock. Would like to hear more from Muddy Waters and other contemporaries. Very Nice.

before listening i had never thought of the harmonica as a sexual instrument . now however....

Surprisingly, a live album where we didn't mind that it was live and the elements that made it so were to its credit. The blues is just a very reliable genre, and one that always gets us dancing.

Good, but not THAT good

When I get blues albums on this list, I always find that I tend to enjoy them, despite the fact that I don't think of myself as much of a blues guy. This sounds like it would have been a really fun concert, and reading about the historical context was interesting as well 4/5

Classic blues. Fun voice and sound effects.

Live albums really don’t do it for me. I would rather be there. And a lot of these sound so similar. I get it but I don’t at the same time

I accidentally listened to almost all of this album on shuffle and I was thinking to myself, “this is a really stilted live performance, the edits are terrible…and why are there studio versions of the songs interspersed with the live versions?” Turns out I’m just not very smart.

Live. Very talented. Foundation of blues in America? I knew a couple of the songs.

Imagining this record in its original context didn’t happen for me: I’ve heard these moves copied across too many antecedents, which is understandable as it’s a perfect example of what it is. My inability to raise anything specific to this record is a measure of the extent that what made it fresh became wallpaper to my musical childhood.

Muddy waters is obviously an icon. That album was not my cup of tea though.

Picture this, it's 2001 and your mom just took you to Famous Dave's. You sit down and stare at the tires, license plates and gas pumps surrounding you. The waitress brings you your fourth refill of mountain dew: code red. You pray over your Chicken Tenders and Wilbur Beans and then dig in. Muddy Waters fills your ears, playing the same song 400 times in a row. Two stars.

Dat water do be muddy do Best Song's: I've Got My Mojo Working & Got My Mojo Working - Pt. 2 Worst Song: Everything else was meh

Clearly a milestone but too old for me

blues.

3/10 Giro di Blues, Virtuosismi su armonica e ritmicità verbali usati ad nauseam. Insopportabile.

So boring. Every song sounds the same. No build or variety. Not a single song that was enjoyable. I can understand that this may have significance and was an influence for better music, but it is really boring when listened to 60+ years later.

Not my kind of music sorry

Great Blues music. Classic, fun, and still great today. Sit back and enjoy.

I am very partial to the blues, and Muddy Waters is one of the OG!! There is a reason so many early rockers were influenced by Waters. I enjoyed listening to this album.

Muddy Waters is so effortlessly cool. This album rocks.

Blues is a genre that influenced almost every type of music under the sun, and Muddy Waters and his band are simply just some of the best ever to play it, if not before, then certainly with this absolute Beast of a live album. 5.5 if it were available.

I was at a 4. Then, “I’ve Got My Mojo Working” happened and I jumped right up to a 5. I won’t discount the other tracks on this album, because they all act as a grand buildup to that moment, but like… what a show-stopper of a number that is. I can’t even complain that he played it twice. Muddy let out every ounce of energy he had left for that, with himself, his band, and that crowd hitting an absolute fever pitch. It’s one of the most stunning live performances I think I’ve ever heard. I do have to rewind – this album does sort of start slowly, and you can feel everyone involved with this recording getting more comfortable, more confident, and more energetic as the set goes along. For the first two tracks, everything feels sort of modest and slow, and while it all technically sounded nice, the energy felt flat. My immediate suspicion was that this was a white crowd, and… yeah, this was a white crowd. Well, OK, an integrated crowd, but it sure looks like there were a lot more white people. By tracks 3 & 4, the band’s energy starts to pick up, as does Muddy’s vocals. Track 5 is when they really let loose – Tiger in Your Tank is just catchy and fun, and that energy carries into “I Feel So Good”. Those opening piano notes, his deeper vocal twang, the crowd screaming… all of it is a buildup to Got My Mojo Working. I cannot stress enough how good this performance is; I can’t capture it in words. It’s worth sitting through both parts, because it’s that damn good. Hell, I looked up the video of the performance just to see how in the zone he was – he was deeply in the zone. How that crowd didn’t just stand up and dance their heart out is beyond me. There is a great shot of a guy doing the Charleston, though. All this praise towards Got My Mojo Working aside, the album ends on a Langston Hughes-written track. Like, Harlem Renaissance poet, black icon Langston Hughes. The story goes that there was a big riot over a lack of tickets, so the city just shut down the whole festival. Apparently, he wrote the track soon after he learned it, and asked Muddy to perform it. The irony is, that’s not even him on the last track – it’s his pianist Otis Spann. When I said Muddy left every ounce of energy on Got My Mojo Working, I meant that shit. It’s Langston Hughes himself who gets the final words on this album, and that piece of history being so well captured here is kind of amazing. So, yeah, this gets a big jump up right to a 5. Muddy Waters is indeed as good live as he is in-studio, and his consistency in quality, even up to the 1970s, when we got his album “Hard Again”, is kind of incredible. It makes me kind of mad that blues musicians like him feel sort of lost to time, understated in the modern music canon. This was a real delight, though.

This album smacks

Dosta fina brijačina, baš mi odgovara na nedjelju navečer! 😊 Da mi je biti na tom koncu ufff. Baš dosta, dosta jebeno. Što ide dalje lajv, to više otkidam, pogotovo Got My Mojo Working pt.2, i I Got My Brand On You mi je vrh. Ma nema se šta dodati, ovo je peticu ko kuća! 5/5, 9/10.

me encantan los álbumes en vivo

Immediately drawn in by his rich, commanding voice, and Otis Span’s piano work.

Great album, wouldn’t have normally listened to this but it’s very good. Great voice and guitar style.

10/25/24. This has to be one of the albums that defines what blues music is, I don't know if there's many better examples that showcases what the genre is in its purest form.

Man, if you can't get into some good, old-fashioned blues, I really don't know how to help you.

Figura esencial de la música popular, su influencia en el Rock, Rhythm & Blues, y todo lo que vino después es fundamental. Sin Muddy no habría Rolling Stones, Clapton, Hendrix, AC/DC, Led Zeppellin pero tampoco Beatles, ni Animals ni otras tantas bandas. Este disco es de escucha obligatoria, como conocer la historia de esa edición del Festival de Newport (la guitarra de la portada es de John Lee Hooker) o la del propio sello Chess. Aquí el vídeo de su actuación: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLTCIqfsefc I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man, Baby, Please Don't Go, Got My Mojo Working, Tiger in your tank... imprescindibles. Otros discos de 1960: Elvis Is Back! de Elvis Presley, Giant Steps de John Coltrane, At Last! de Etta James, A Date with the Everly Brothers de The Everly Brothers, The Genius Hits the Road de Ray Charles, Have Guitar Will Travel de Bo Diddley, Sketches of Spain de Miles Davis, Twist with Chubby Checker, Rockin' at the Hops de Chuck Berry, debuts de Joan Baez o Miriam Makeba...

Unbelievable live album, great musicianship, talent and charisma

I don’t really know enough about the blues to talk about it intelligently. I know that I like some of it and this one is one I like a lot.

absolutely fire. smooth easy listening. nothing jumped out at me as a must listen on repeat but was quite good.

Best blues album we've had so far. Best use of Mojo in a song. Was lucky enough to be turned onto muddy Waters by some old friends of mine that had a late night radio show in my home town. Thank you funk and flash for turning me on to muddy Waters!

Great!

Music sure is something.

Outstanding

Muddy Waters is the biggest name in Blues. A gifted, singer, songwriter, guitar player, and band leader, Muddy's is the most recognizable, influential voice in the blues. His early recorded work, in the 40s and 50s, were singles. He started releasing albums in 1960, the same year he recorded and released At Newport. This is one of the first live blues albums, and influenced generations of blues and rock performers. Muddy has a rich, rough voice that became the sound of American blues. His band, with slide guitar, harmonica solos, and bass-driven rhythms was filled with practiced, exciting performers. Muddy and his band put on fantastic performances, and this album captured one of them.

Never considered myself a jazz/blues fan but I enjoyed every minute of this. Gonna go against my usual studio is better than live and say that the live is definitely better than the studio tracks. Gonna consider getting this in a vinyl format next time I see it. Also album cover’s colour contrast is noiicee

A great experience all around. I didn't come into this expecting to like it but I happily listened to it multiple times over.

Got my mojo working pt 2 got MY mojo working! Hot damn! Listening to this at my office job and I want to hop up and clap my hands and dance! Classic blues album. Muddy waters is the man. And ima put a tiger on yo tank.

One of the core blues albums of all time.

A classic and staple!

Enjoyed this album

Love Muddy. This was my first listen mind. Stunning performances from start to end. Got My Mojo Working is a stand out.

I’m glad this album came across my plate. This is my second time listening to Muddy Waters, and I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve heard so far. This live album has a raw, authentic, and soulful vibe throughout. The piano provides a great rhythmic and melodic foundation, but it’s the harmonica that really stands out, adding a lot of raw energy to the performance. Muddy Waters’ vocals are commanding and filled with grit, while still bringing out a deep, soulful emotion that really drives the music.

I own this. It's excellent. Fantastic version of Baby, Plesse Don't Go.

The definition of OG blues. Insane album. Not one bad song, flows like wine in the village of santo poco. When I think of blues thisbis what comes to mind.

If this had been recorded in a barn, it would've burned right on down. Album cover: B. That is a photo of Muddy Waters, and they use to words to tell you that it is indeed him. Very informative.

I knew right away I'd love this album. The live albums are the best part of this experience so far, and this one absolutely did not miss. I love this era of blues. I'd never listened to Muddy Waters before but I certainly will in the future. I loved the whole album and added it to my saved albums. 9/10

At Newport 1960 is a live album by Muddy Waters recorded during his performance at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 3, 1960. If you want an album that would set the tone of the 1960s, this is it. This is the one that would influence artists like the Stones, Hendrix, Zeppelin, and way way more. This is REAL blues, not that heroin-fueled wanker shit (ahem, Clapton). Blues had been going on a long time up until this point, but this record and performance is credited with bringing the genre, specifically Chicago Blues, to a broader white audience. You gotta remember the US was still at the height of the Jim Crow era at this time, so white boys weren't listening to this. In the wake of this album you all of a sudden had a bunch of brits trying to sound like it, and becoming MORE popular! What type of shite is that? Muddy is truly your favorite musician's favorite musician.

Indeed. 5

Spitze!

I had been meaning to listen to Muddy Waters for awhile, I'm glad this got recommended it was great.

I just love This album. The feeling in these Songs. The guitar playing is fantastic.

8 / 10 Blues en vivo, parece increíble que sea del año 1960, se escuchan claramente sonidos que influirán en todo lo que estaba por venir en esos años. Muy al estilo del directo de B.B.King.

great

Classic blues album. Absolutely slaps

Tem coisas que só são possíveis em álbuns ao vivo. Muddy Waters toca duas vezes a mesma música a pedido do público e conseguimos ter duas experiências diferentes, sendo a segunda mais curta e com a plateia já aquecida. Álbum de blues primordial. Bem cru e direto, com ótimas musicas e bem performado.

Hell yeah!

Incredible

God I fucking love the blues

Classic Blues album with authentic live feeling.

Great live blues from a master.

5/5. Excellent concert would have loved to be there.

Clear waters

Wanna listen again

What a show this must've been. The band is great. 1960! Album is fantastic. Had me moving sided to side and smiling.

Instant classic. Can't believe I never heard this before today. The band starts out a little tentative and quiet but they get their mojo working soon enough and you can practically hear the Newport crowd's minds melt.

love love love I am so unworthy of Muddy Waters.

really enjoyed this :D

Jeg lå på en 4'er det meste af albummet, for jeg synes energien var god, hans stemme er fantastisk, optagelsen var virkelig god i forhold til hvor gammel den er, og sangene var helt fine. Men så kom Got My Mojo Working, kæmpe banger, og den kom over målstregen til en 5'er. Solidt sommeralbum

This really filled in a blind spot in my cultural knowledge, and it was a joy to listen to.

For this review, I'm sticking to the original track listing and not counting the bonus tracks from the 2001 remastered version. I'm already familiar with Muddy Waters as a blues legend, with this being a hallmark performance of his at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960. This is peak Chicago-style blues for those who are into the classics, complete with an upbeat performance by Muddy and his live band. There's a reason why this album has been cited for developing the hard rock sound. Check it out.

Loved it! 5/5