At Newport 1960

Not really a Blues fan but found this quite sooything strangely. must have been the mood I was in.

Not the best Muddy Waters performance. Seems he's in too much of a hurry and so loses some of the emotion of his songs. Still, it's a good listen. 3.5/5

Beautiful. Live sessions rule.

great artist prefer recent recording

Good blues. I've never really gotten into the genre so I don't listen to it too much but this is decent.

This album has a great sound. Very good. 1001 album worthy: Yes - 53/101

I loved listening to the crowd reactions. Imagining that same delight would have been manifest in listeners at the time too, like Brian Jones, MickJagger, Keith Richard.. And you can kinda see why too.

Quite repetitive, not much of a story to the songs, like the live effect don’t think I would revisit some songs did tickle my fancy

Bueno, ya he escuchado albumes de esta epoca y estilo, me gusta la mezcla, su voz, la primera canción "I Got My Brand On You" me parece un gran tema. Un lindo album en vivo.

Fine but repetitive.

Great stuff. A classic album. Shame it's so short

One of the holy grails of blues. Muddy ran deep. He also could be mischievous and light. So many clueless white boys have lionised this without really understanding. But if you’re prepared to go deep this is great. I’d probably recommend B B King live at cook county prison or live at the regal first. But that’s not a quality comparison. B B is a bit more accessible. 5 stars.

OMG, a genuinely great blues album (not just a bunch of young white Englishmen playing their copies thereof). This is the real deal, and massively influential (on said English whiteboys). Muddy Water sis probably more important for the series of sides he released starting in 1948, but Dimery will not include compilations, so we have this live 'best of' instead. Can't complain too much, though. Perfect, no notes. Fun fact: Muddy posed with John Lee Hooker's guitar for the cover photo. He _actually_ played a Telecaster. for the gig. You can always trust a man with a Tele.

Good but a bit repetitive

Another live album?! I love blues, and I’ve always enjoyed some Muddy Waters. I just don’t do live albums. He sounds good, but quality just isn’t great. The set list is pretty good, I might see how many studio versions I can put into a playlist and run with that.

Goddamn I love the blues.

I like it unusually for a live album. It's blues done right, just enough variation and good energy too.

Muito bom blues 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

sorry but blues rock is bit better 2/5

Muddy waters has another album in this list, hard again. That album is electric fire dynamite. I was hoping this would be similar but it's pretty disappointing

Great performance

I just can't with the blues

Cool sounding, classic blues album, straight from the mind of Muddy Waters. Historically, possibly pretty important, otherwise sound generic and just plain. Not really my kind of music.

I'm not typically a big fan of live albums, they always feel like "best of" albums - something that's great for the people who were there, but whatever for the at-home listener. Because of that, I felt surprised there was a live album on this list - considering he has so many other studio albums. However, this was one steller at-home listen. (And since listening to his studio album "Hard Again," I actually prefer this.) This album was apparently considered the FIRST live blues album - so that's great, and worthy of making the list. This album sounds way ahead of it's time, I can't believe this was 1960. Way more rockin' than what you'd think when you're hear "blues music," but became its own iconic sound. Harmonica like I've never heard it before. * Edit: Coming back to this album to change my rating from a 4 to a 5, especially considering what I said about live albums before. This album is excellent, and the fact that it was recorded live makes it that much cooler. THIS is the blues I want to listen to. It's raw, soulful, and pretty damn perfect.

The fact that it's recorded at Newport gives it some kind of magnitude, but it's in fact another set of good ol' Chicago Blues that doesn't really set itself apart from his other sets.

Good Blues, as much as Blues can be good.

Always in for a good ole blues made in the golden years of the genre!

blues magic from one of the masters

I love listening to Muddy Waters, only heard 1 album before. Music is very tight compared to the huge music of today and has a great beat and his awesome vocal style. I read that this concert almost didn't happen because of riots the day before at this blues festival, only thing that saved it was filming the day for a documentary on American culture

Enjoyable even if I won't listen to it often.

After yesterday's "Sabres of Paradise" I am glad to finally have real music here. The mojo works perfectly on this and I don't want to forget to mention the harmonica. But as always I rate it down one star just because it's a live album. 2,5

Very nice

Never been a big fan of blues, and this isn't the album to get me into it. I get that its influential, but its still not that interesting.

Liked it a lot more than I thought I would.

I have always been drawn to solid guitar work and emotive singing that has some grit. And I can't not consider how influential this album was to the generation of blues influenced rock bands that were just a few years from stepping into the spotlight.

Surprising a jazz‑oriented crowd with pure Chicago blues, James Cotton ripping on harmonica, and the first major live blues album—this one earns its landmark status.

Killer live album. Opening track, "I Got My Brand On You" is particularly good. Not a lot of crowd banter for Muddy - all business.

Yeah, excellent live blues. 4/5.

Great album, although the Chicago blues style isn't my favorite

enjoyable listen

Live blues is always better than studio.

Aight

Never heard him play live before. I really enjoyed this album.

Foundational! That was a treat.

I don’t really care for the blues but I understand the importance.

Nice washing-music!

classic blues

3/5

The whole album is just a build up to “I’ve Got My Mojo Working” and he hits that song and just goes off. Then he plays it again and you still aren’t tired of it. Blues can be formulaic and samey but I’m glad this performance was captured on tape because it was something special. In fact, listening to this live album makes me wonder if I - and obviously all of you cause you’re a bunch of idiots - have been wrong about the blues all along. Maybe it’s not formulaic and samey, maybe we’re just experiencing it the wrong way. The songs don’t have variety because they are all parts of a whole, which is the performance. We are no more meant to listen to a single blues song on tape at our work desk than we’re meant to read Shakespeare in a classroom. These things are meant to be experienced live. We are meant to attend a performance by this artist where he builds and builds and builds from song to song and lures us into a sense of regularity and then explodes and blows everyone away. Also, hearing Muddy Waters sing about mojo the way it’s meant to be sung makes me want to slap Jim Morrison in his stupid hippie face.

Well performed but I really don't care super much.

Decent but unremarkable blues

Lovely. Just lovely

Great voice. Bluesy and every song is catchy.

Amazing live album! I normally don’t love live performances because of the awkward breaks and crowd noise, but this is a tasteful recording. Great set of classic blues tunes. No real complaints. Standout track is “I’ve Got my Mojo Working”.

Great album. Didn’t realize it’s one of the first live blues albums and could be the best one. So basically a single take of a whole album! Can I give more than 5 stars?!?

Heavy nostalgia with this one. Spent many a Sunday night enjoying scrumptious spirits and listening to blues music with my Pops. The frenzied TIGER IN YOUR TANK and I'VE GOT MY MOJO WORKING are like bourbon soaked triple espresso's.

Fine but not worth adding to the ole library

solid jazz

Just not my shtyle of tune.

This is essential listening to understand how so much of the popular music to come after was shaped. I'm glad to finally familiarize myself with Muddy Waters. Love when songs are so good they have to play them twice - Got My Mojo Working and GMMW Pt. 2 were my favorites. He has so much character in his voice, and you can feel the electricity in the band and audience both.

Interesting to hear some blues from before Hendrix (and the original I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man), but I think I just prefer Jimi Hendrix. I realise that if this is the first blues live album, it’s fairly important, so for that reason I’m glad I listened - I might try some other Muddy Waters, but I don’t think I’ll listen to this again.

Live blues album. Just not very good. Not very interesting

It's the blues, sounds like the blues

too jazzy for me plus i hate live albums YNN

Pretty good, 3.5

Classic blues. Muddy is great and he especially gets the crowd rolling on "Got My Mojo Workin'", so much so the crowd tells him to play it again. Awesome Couple lull spots keep it from a 5 but still cool album, must have beeb even cooler in person

Esperaba mucho más al ser jazz, un poco decepcionante Rating:5

Decent.

Solid

I mean how can you argue with this? Yes, the progressions pretty much all sound the same, the vocal structures are all the same, tempos are pretty similar throughout, all in 4/4 time (I think, wasn't exactly counting...). But there's so much history in this album. Without this pretty much none of the rock or popular music that followed would exist. It's such great music. Imagine being in the audience watching this - it would have been amazing to see this performed live. Is it the best music ever created? No, but it was the foundation of almost all popular music to come after. Just the structure of the guitar parts in particular, it's fantastic and any guitar player since has been influenced by this whether they know it or not. I suppose the downside to this album is that, listening to it 65 years later, it is simple and predicable. I'm not sure you can really fault it for that, and it's not that it didn't age well, but it is dated sounding. I don't think this is something that a lot of people who are not interested in music history would really appreciate. As for a rating, it's certainly a 5/5 for historical value but maybe only 4/5 for me personally as far as how much I enjoyed it and would want to play it multiple times.

Pretty good. Not a big blues guy but I enjoyed this

Really enjoyed listening to a young Muddy Waters. This is where a big chunk of of Rock & Roll came from from.

I like Muddy Waters, but this particular recording didn't quite grab me. The quality felt off and....muddy. It could also have been that I was listening to it in the car on a busy highway as opposed to my usual quiet office and headphones. In fact, I don't know why I'm leaving this review instead of re-listening to it.

One of my favorite aspects of going through this list is listening to albums or artists I know by reputation, but never took the time to really sit down and give them the time they deserve. Muddy Waters is one of those artists. I thoroughly enjoyed this one. I also feel that the live format added to the experience (though I typically prefer live albums in general), the whooping and hollering in "Feel so Good" made me feel so good.

Super fun, energising, captivating blues, excellent live performances, great vocals and instrumentation. Doesn’t overstay it’s welcome and definitely a great album to get on a Friday! 4/5

The best part about Blues music is that it sounds unpolished and off the cuff when in reality the bands have perfected these songs, but allow the music to speak them while playing. Perhaps this is similar to jazz, the jamming or the improvisations lead listeners to believe that these musicians are winging it with simple blues chords. The truth is that these guys, Muddy Waters specifically, are masters of the blues. They have constructed songs of heartbreak and despair and paired with a bare bones backing track, and then they have added the right mix of harmonicas, keys, and soft drums to make it catchy. This is true art. Chicago blues spicing it up with some electric instruments is just the natural progression and there is no wonder it inspired so many mainstream rockers to borrow and borderline steal elements. This was a benefit for society in all facets. This album is not fully fleshed out, but it possesses some historic progressions in heartland rock n roll. The foundation it laid is worth its weight in gold.

Definitely some time there, but not something I just put on to listen to

Today, I learned that Muddy Waters' real name was McKinley Morganfield. Anyway, he's a legend and this was a dope live blues recording. I think blues is a genre that benefits greatly from the live experience and the charisma of the band leader, Muddy's giving it here.

Very upbeat instrumentals. Particular standout: Got My Mojo Working

Listened to the whole album while looking after a cat this morning, may be the most at peace I’ve ever been. Huge fan.

Now this is some no frills Blues. Gotta respect Muddy playing “got my mojo working” a second time. Energy really amps up on this album as it goes. Safe to say Muddy Waters has found himself a new fan

Good

Didn't get all the way through this one. It was solid, but I gotta be in the mood for a straightforward old blues album like this.

Went feral for this, and it didn't even have mannish boy

Fascinerend dat een ogenschijnlijk zo simpel en voorspelbaar genre als de blues blijft boeien. Helemaal met zo'n grootheid als Muddy Waters, en dan ook nog live. Als je maar 100 platen uit de20e eeuw zou mogen meenemen, zou iets als dit er zeker bij moeten zitten.

Onvervalste stereotype blues. Het is de man op het lijf geschreven. Het is gewoon goed, maar prikkelt naar de huidige standaarden nog niet bijzonder veel. Ik zet gelijk maar even Hard Again opnieuw op. Het album dat we eerder van hem kregen. Nog steeds overduidelijk blues, maar wat een power zit daarin. Dat is toch het verschil. tussen 5 en 4 sterren.

Een live album is altijd een beetje valsspelen. Maar ik zit natuurlijk even de wiki door te spitten. Nu blijkt dat hij begonnen is met een greatest hits album, omdat hij daarvoor alleen maar singles uitbracht (of uit mocht brengen?). Dit live album is net als die greatest hits eigenlijk meer een soort compilatie van alles wat hij daarvoor had gedaan. En de man was live een fenomeen natuurlijk, dus de keuze is begrijpelijk en gerechtvaardigd. Deze zure broeder heeft zijn zegen gegeven wat dat betreft. Vervolgens krijgen we precies wat we van Muddy verwachten, een half uurtje hele dikke prima blues. Hij wordt ondersteund door oa een zenuwachtig pianootje en een mondharmonica, oftewel precies die instrumenten die je verwacht bij een pot blues en een pot bier. En dat is gewoon lekker om te luisteren.

Very pleasant listen but probably wouldn't go back

Definitely the type of music that is made to be enjoyed live. Enjoyable album. I’m sure at the right venue he really let loose - this felt a little restrained. Blues at its best.

I had definitely heard a couple of these songs before. I was impressed with both the talent of Muddy Waters, and how good the audio sounded sespitw it being a live album from 1960. I can see how Muddy Waters was hugely ingluential to Blues and early Rock music. Overall- really good album

30/1001 An entire album consisting of pretty much only classic Chicago blues standards is a wonderful idea. The standouts are the obvious songs like I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man and I’ve Got My Mojo Working, while Goodbye Newport Blues is a surprisingly fitting bookend to the record. I also think Waters is brilliant with his interaction with the audience, before heading back for a part two of Got My Mojo Working. 4/5

Very enjoyable and energetic, Muddy Waters is a legend.

Just amazing. Every track is an incredible performance.

Classic blues.

The right song for the wrong day.

Dirty.

Not much to say about this one other than it's pretty damn great. Respect.

10/10 Banger

Pre Listen: Going into this I've never really listened to much Muddy Waters but his reputation does precede him so I was expecting classic blues but beyond that no expectations. Post: It's funny how when something becomes so classic it is hard to fully comprehend it. So much of this sounds almost like parody from 65 years of music after. I think with releases like this it is impossible to judge something like this. It seems a lie to say I went in blind because this brought nothing new to the table for me musically because everyone has stolen so much from his work since. I can see this becoming another favourite live album for me. So much of his and the bands energy comes through well here. The mixing is excellent too with exactly as much audience needed to breath a bit of life into the record, but I've no idea how the remaster changes the original release so I am curious about that. As an aside it's interesting that Newport is only notable to me because of the Jazz festival so I thought that the festival would be newer, not that this would be Muddy performing at the same festival. Also finding out Nina Simone released a set from 1960 meant I checked the lineup and it was a hell of a year for the festival (without going into crowd behaviour) Highlight: Feels so Good (hard to choose this one cause it maintains a quality throughout)

Great Album! A real journey through a legend‘s catalogue and his skills as a blues man!

solid blues from a true master. Four stars.

Meilenstein! Zeitdokument! Back to the roots!

Foundational, you can definitely hear the influence this had on later music. Just not really my vibe, I guess? It was good, but I wasn’t blown away, I suppose.

good ol blues music!!!! so musically impressive. go off

If you like the blues, you like Muddy.

Baby Please Don't Go, I Feel So Good Great Voice

Nice

One of those foundational albums that are basic requirements to get into a certain kind of music. Early onset Blues in a time period that needed it. So many acts we know and love were directly influenced by Muddy Waters and this performance. That being said, not the best Blues to ever be released and drags at parts. 5/10

Great album, I jammed to pretty much every song in it and there were a lot of familiar ones as well. I know that people were jamming to this tons back in the 60s.

The entire genre is not something that I would spin up to listen to for fun, but this recording is somewhat melodic and, undeniably, foundational.

Enjoyed

Great chilled stuff.

Great jazz album for a cold day chilling or nighttime relaxation. Has the 60’s vibes and overall Americana which makes classic jazz so great.

I guess if you like blues, you'd get more out of this. For me, it just felt like one idea repeated over and over again, with the only highlight being Got My Mojo Working. Although not bad by any means, most of the music here wasn't particularly fun or interesting and felt outdated. It was an easy listen, though, so I can't say I disliked it.

Very impressive musician; great live album. Classic blues. 8/10

Blues 5/10

Got the idea why this album is on this list, but anyway it's no good. At first, I was like “yes, this is going to be great,” but then I ended up being disappointed. Repititive and a bit boring. That Mojo did not work for me...

I was expecting to hear blues on this list, but not really a live album, apparently one of the first commercially succesful live albums too. Muddy Waters is a familiar name and I've heard his and other's versions of his tracks. I was familiar with just a few songs on this record, so it was mostly new stuff to me. Blues in it's purest form, it's not something I often listen, but on occasion it is fine.

Not really my usual thing. But an easy listen and it’s very historically important.

Just so cool, the band comes in swinging and grooving, and Muddy Waters voice and playing are on top form

No es mi estilo no puedo opinar

Mad how the rolling stones are just a covers band.

Solid middle of the road blues live album, Muddy is a legend but has better stuff that I hope to see on this list at some point

Not the biggest fan of live albums, but it's blues so it's still good.

good fun despite being a bit one-note, a product of its time. Can see the influence on the beatles/stones/hendrix etc the four bonus tracks stop the album dead, prefer to think of it as just the live tracks originally included

blues record so i can't say i was particularly drawn in. that said the live audience being so into what they were listening to definitely elevated these performances for me, & it's rly clear the ppl on stage were having a good time. that gives it the nudge into 3 start territory for me

Standard blues. Kind of good and kind of repetitive. You get what you sign up for when you choose to listen to a live 50s blues album.

This was pretty good but wasn't my favorite. Muddy Waters has a great voice but I wasn't the biggest fan of the tracks. He's got a great a great style but it didn't connect with me in the same way as some of his contemporaries.

Well, it's a blues album and it's live. It's definitely well recorded but the blues is one of those genres, especially older recordings of it, where everything sounds really similar to everything else unless there is a big solo in the middle of it. Unfortunately there aren't really enough variations or breaks in the songs on this to differentiate the songs from one another. Nothing is bad, it's just all very similar. I know that Muddy Waters is an excellent guitarist, but it's not really shining through on this album. I suspect part of it is to appeal to a majority white crowd at a ritzy festival, and the fact that it's recorded live and missing a lot of that bass tone that would come through on a studio session. The studio versions of some of the songs on the remaster prove that second point, in my opinion. I think "Soon Forgotten" and the "I've got my mojo working" set are the best on here, largely because the tempos (one slow and one deliberately quick) allows the instrumental and vocal range work to come to the front. I honestly hope we get another Muddy Waters album on here because this doesn't showcase how good he is.

This is exactly the type of blues I could do without, but I have to recognize that he's many people's favorite musician's favorite musician

Solid live album from a legend. The songs can be a bit repetitive but the run time doesn't drag.

Again, very solid stuff. Not as great as Sam Cooke at the Harlem Square Club but still not bad at all. It was pretty forgettable but generally enjoyable to listen to. Definitely a legend.

Dated. Songs very similar. I was hanging in there until Muddy started repeating every song. At Newport 1960 comes in at (1.7*s)

I'm pretty sick of live albums on the list and this one did nothing to differentiate itself. It started out as run of the mill, squeaky blues from the 60's and ended up being repetitive and completely missable. I couldn't tell one song from the next, all were "Soon Forgotten." 1.15.

I'd like to again state that I don't think recordings of live shows should be on the list. If I see a greatest hits album show up I'm contacting the writer. Anyways...some good ol upbeat? blues from Muddy. I prefer it to the slow, sad, boozin' in a rocking chair on the porch blues but I'm not yet aged enough to truly appreciate it. Muddy Waters is a great bluesy name and sure is known in the genre. Not bad but I need to simmer...1.9.

I don't have much to say about Muddy Waters or At Newport 1960. It's obviously a very forgettable album as I just finished listening to it and can't tell you anything about it. It was passive background music that didn't strike or chord and stand out in any way (good or bad). I'm sure there's some historical significance but none of it translated or remained relevant 65 years later. At least it was relatively short I guess. 1.02 stars

85% Best: I Got My Brand On You; I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man; Tiger In Your Tank; Got My Mojo Workin' Must-Hear? Sure

That's some blues. They just don't do it for me. Every song sounds the same. I can appreciate the talent, but this isn't fun for me.

Whenever I hear Muddy Waters it’s a revelation. History and influence heard in every song. Music wouldn’t be what it is today without Muddy Waters. Legendary.

Live albums are never great, but this is amongst the better end of the spectrum. Muddy Waters is a great and this collection has some real high points, but it inevitably gets let down by poor sound quality and the unpleasant wooshing of the wind on the mic.

Great energy

Enjoyable bluesey music

fine, but samey.

a solid soul album but again not quite meshing with my mood, very good to walk to but not really connecting with it

he was killing it

Not a single unpleasant moment it despite my blues intolerance. Not bad, but still wouldn't listen to it again voluntarily

Nowadays, I really dislike blues Every song sounds the same and I fucking hate the harmonica

yup

3.5*

3 star

Not a huge Blues guy, but you can tell that Muddy Waters (and this album) were a huge hit due to his electric and eccentric take on Blues, something that would lay the foundation for Rock and Roll. For that, I have to give him the highest credit, but at the same time none of the songs from the album truly jump out at me and demand to saved, sung along to, or replayed, save maybe "Got my Mojo Working".

Loved this album. Less individual songs and more the sound of the album as a whole. Really can hear the ripple effect of influence this had on so many others. I wonder if I would have maybe enjoyed a studio album instead more since the crowd didn't feel as engaging as some of the other live albums on this list. Maybe puts it at a 4.5 but I am certainly going to round up rather than down.

Blues

The blues is not my thing, but this was great.

More boring live music. This is actually kind of atrocious though.

Some great live music that I'm sure was groundbreaking at the time. I'm not sure there's anything here to keep me coming back to it, but I'm glad I listened and I'm glad it's on this list. 6.25/10 (3.125/5)

This is just good ol’ fashioned, old school blues…good stuff, but for me, I think it would be improved by leaving out the repeated selections. Still, 4 solid stars.

Blues so slow and moody I had no choice but to start smoking a cigarette in the rain

Don't fuck with a lot of old school blues, but Muddy is a straight up fuckin' G.

It's Muddy Waters.

decent

4 - Just great blues

Big yawn from me 2/5

Needs to be played loud!! Glad I finally listened to it.

Great live blues show. Something I really wish I could have experienced in person. Such good energy, sound, crowd participation. Classic blues/soul sound.

Excellent band - Muddy’s incredible voice, Otis Spann on piano, James Cotton’s harp - with a great setlist. This live album, and the concert at which it was recorded, effectively introduced Waters’s brand of electrified country blues hollers to entire America, and inspired a who’s who of British artists to play this music - the Rolling Stones, John Mayall, and the guitarists who developed in his band - Clapton, Green, Taylor - and so many more. Essential stuff.

Excellent, very enjoyable listen. Will put into my rotation for sure. Authentic and honest...

Some nice blues songs. Was a nice tight experience and not longer than it needed to be.

Yeah this hasn’t aged well

Outstanding!

The bluesy roots of so much of what was to come. A great album.

Live blues from 1960. Soulful but upbeat

Not much to say. It's simple and straightforward blues, performed well. It's very repetitive though and it suffers from being a live album. Not really my cup of tea. I'm not well-versed enough in the blues to understand if this is really worthy of being on the list or not, but personally it's average at best.

Wasn’t for me, but I appreciate it.

Performing at the Newport Festival, especially in its heyday, was a rite of passage. For Muddy Waters, however, it was just another stop on the road. In this 1960 document of his live set, Muddy and his band wasted little to no time and made the most out of their movements, bringing out definitive renditions of soon-to-be staples of the Blues genre, especially Got My Mojo Workin'. Short, quick and worth the time.

Very, very bluesy. Love to see where the inspiration for rock came from originally. I don't listen to live albums too often. This record is pushing me towards live albums now.

Reminds me of when I was in Memphis

Enjoyable jazz

Enjoyed it. Great sound for a 1960 live album.

Kao nis spec, malo jazz country, nije me ocaro ako cemo isk

I'm sure this is important somehow but I don't care for the blues.

Rockin and rollin

👍🏼

Decent, but very old-timey live album.

Nja, Muddy Waters is wel ziek goed natuurlijk, maar ik weet niet of dit album hier hoort. Goed blues live album natuurlijk, maar als je alle degelijke live blues albums in een lijst zet, kom je al met die alleen aan 1001. 2.9

Had some good energy. Not too big on old blues personally Will I listen to again: 1%

solid blues album. anything that ends with “live from newport” is top notch

i got my brand on you- 6 im your hoochie coochie man- 6 baby please dont go- 7 soon forgotten- 5 tiger in your tank- 6 i feel so good- 6 ive got my mojo working- 5 got my mojo workin pt 2- 6 goodbye newport blues- 5 meanest woman- 5

Album 615 of 1001 Muddy Waters - At Newport 1960 (1960) Rating : 4 / 5 I enjoy Muddy Waters and this one only reinforces that opinion. Good stuff. A quick album of a live performance from the legendary Newport Jazz Festival. Good stuff.

Great Blues album

Live blues/jazz at its best. Ok the recording/production could be better but the strength and feel of the groove is still felt all the way through; weren't they ever so polite in those days! Just good old-fashioned blues played and sang well.

Not as good as I originally remember. The ending track two parter is great

Not overly shit. Just boring. Like half the albums I've had on this list already.

Made me uncomfortable in the most delightful way. This is also the name of a local coffee shop that I frequented for at least a decade, so it makes me a little nostalgic.

When you think of blues, it probably sounds a lot like this. Soulful singing, harmonica, repeating lyrics on the hardships of life, and classic blues licks. I enjoyed this a lot despite never heard of Muddy Waters before. Looking at his wikipedia page, he was tremendously influential to a ton of artists. I liked I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man the most here. The only issue is that a lot of this Chicago style blues is fairly similar sounding.

нормал, но не впечатлило. мотив одной песни был знаком, даже добавил. а в целом джаз такой мелодичный, голос не навязчивый, легкий.

It was chill and had a good range of songs.

I have a special affection for Muddy Waters because one of his other albums was the first one I ever got from this generator. That being said, I still enjoy his ultra bluesy sound

Man I just don’t likes blues music. I think it’s boring. This album was boring.

After not enjoying the previous Muddy Waters album I had, this was much more what I hope for from Blues. Rough yet sounds great.

A fine album. Fun and catchy, nothing outside the box though. 5/10

Fav song: Hoochie Coochie Man Fantastic recording quality and production value for an absolute LEGEND of blues music. Incredible performances from the entire band and just a joy to listen to from start to finish. Muddy Waters is one of the GOATs for sure.

Perfektion mit Freude und der Liebe für Musik. So was von toll.

3.5 rounded down groovy as hell but i don’t think blues will ever click for me tbh ….. i like these live takes a lot tho! highlights: baby please don’t go, i’m your hoochie coochie man, i’ve got my mojo working (dec 19 2024)

This isn’t the first time I’ve listened to Muddy Waters, as I quite enjoyed his album Hard Again. I find his voice really quite lovely, and his bluesy music is generally a delight. Today’s album is a live one, and it does give a bit more character than the studio versions but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t start losing concentration as this went on. I did enjoy it, but it didn’t grab me quite as much as Hard Again.

Good album

Nice rootsy original sound. A different world that you can almost taste through listening to this.

Buddy Waters is a legend. Period. What I love about live albums like this is it shows you the energy that is produced on the recorded album is the same energy that you would’ve seen live. A lot of these older blues guys didn’t cut their teeth inside of a studio but instead from live performance hundreds and thousands of times in the Chitlin Circuit gets back in the 50s, 60s and even into the 70s. It’d be interesting to see some of the modern artists try to do what they did trying to maintain the same energy, and trying to produce a show that was absolutely perfect before they went into a studio. Key tracks on this one for me is Tiger in your Tank, mostly because it’s got such a great energy and it’s kind of a weird concept. You also can’t go wrong with I’ve Got My Mojo Working, which was hugely influential into the bands like the Doors. Overall, this album is definite must for blues enthusiast.

Blues music and classical music kind of feel the same to me. They both are pleasant to listen to but rarely does anything stand out. I listened to this and it was lovely but I can only recall 2 songs off the top of my head. Maybe those were the 2 best songs: Got My Mojo Working and I got My Brand on You. I can appreciate this but this will never be 5-star listening for me.

Nao curto jazz

If you're in the mood for Muddy Waters, this is a great album. Classic blues, can't go wrong. My only issue is, that mood only hits sometimes. Is this an album I'd rush out to buy? No. Did I enjoy it? Yes.

I mean, it's Muddy Waters. Why wouldn't it be good?

rather good don't usually listen to blues but this serves as a good sign for the genre 4/5

Excellent. So much feeling. So much talent.

Good performances of these songs but I’m not sure why this live album was selected for this list. A Muddy Waters studio album would’ve been better. 3/5

Old soulful blues(?). Whan I think about when people talk about the genre from the 50s or 60s. Nice rhythms but nothing I would listen to daily.

Jazz halt

Bueno

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

4 stars

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.

"I put a tiger in your tank" what in the stupidest goddamn shit is this? "Got my moBRPPPRPPRPPRHRPRRHjo working!" - good on you, bud, just shut the fuck up now, please. Stupid repetitive garbage, not surprising this "jazz" thing went out of style.

Muddy Waters is so effortlessly cool. This album rocks.

un classic pero too old vibes

It's hard not to appreciate this album -- classic and pure blues! Amazing! The only reason I can't give this a 5 is I don't tend to want to listen to blues; it's not really my thing. But this was still a great album.

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I really wanted to like this more than I did. Like, in my mind, this is **the** blues album, y'know? Not even just Chicago blues; blues in general. It inspired everyone from Led Zeppelin to Jimi Hendrix. It's an important album, and from everything I've heard, maybe Muddy's best. Only his first greatest hits album might pass it. And to be clear: I don't **have** to like it just for those reasons. After all, I'm sure I've disliked plenty of albums that're just as important to their genres as this one is. That's to say nothing about common critic consensus. And of course, I recognize as well: it's high expectations. I shouldn't be coming into any album with expectations that high, but, hey, it's not like I can easily stop having them once I get them, so... Y'know, if there's a short answer to why I feel the way I do, it's just that I expect a different kind of energy from blues than this album provides. I'll admit: maybe I was spoiled by having my first Muddy Waters album be HARD AGAIN. The blues on that album is loud and hard as hell; the kind that'd blow up your speakers without even needing to turn it up too high. Meanwhile, this album's a lot more, y'know, laid back. It's quieter, the tempos are lower... Neither really picks up 'til they play "I've Got My Mojo Workin'" twice in a row. That's when the album peaks for me, and the energy carries after that, but it's so late in the album by that point that it hardly matters. Of course, I realize that there's probably a lot of nuances I'm missing, from how they're playing to Muddy's charisma and personality. And I wanna emphasize, I hardly think this is bad at all. It's still Muddy Waters, and he does a damn fine blues tune. On top of that, its context as part of the Newport festival, where I believe this was the last show played before the other two days got canceled, does add a narrative weight to the whole thing that I rather enjoy. Ultimately, however... Eh, it's largely just not what I really look for in the blues, y'know? Still, I wouldn't feel right to give it less than a 4. I suppose you could chalk it up just to how much I liked "I've Got My Mojo Workin'" and that otherwise it'd be a 3 — Muddy didn't work his mojo to the point of complete exhaustion, after all — but I'unno. I still think it's worthy of a 4, even if it's not exactly what I want from the blues. I still had a good time with it, and that's what matters.

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.

2+ Stars (6/15)

This album smacks

Wasn't bad, just wasn't for me. 2.5

Fun, old, blues. Good album if cooking.

Mm yes very blues

Enjoyable. Guess I haven't moved as much in the blues direction as the jazz direction

Normally I'm against love albums on here, but with this one I get it. The blues have so much more soul to it live, which is really captured here. Don't think I would have enjoyed a studio album version anywhere near as much.

Easy listening but still good blues music

Hard not to like Muddy Waters. Classic blues sound.

Not my style

Muddy Waters more like Crappy Waters

Finally a historic recording and a recognition of the blues and black artists in music history. While, personally, I like the blues (the mysogenistic stuff I can do without) this album from a legend was a good listen.

This is great, I enjoy some good blues.

Only album so far that had a song so good they included it twice

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.

Pa ovako, vrlo rado bih sjedio u toj prostoriji, natezao viski i ljuljao se kao list na vjetru, ali kad slušam u svojoj kuhinji dok pijem kavu mi ne radi nešto previše. Daleko od toga da je gospodin blatna voda legenda i da je ovo super bluz i dalje mi je samo bluz A bluz volim samo kad sam pijan, kad ga slušam live ili kad ga sviram Što je dosta često zapravo 😁 Naginje na trojku, ali bit će četvorka

8/10 Legenda bluesa koji je komercijalizirao zanr ponajvise zahvaljujuci ovom live albumu, veliki utjecaj na mnoge glazbenike i bendove poput Claptona, Zeppelina, AC/DC i jos mnogo njih. I've Got My Mojo Working uvijek volim cuti a ostale stvari ne moram posebno naglasavati jer eto, sve zvuci slicno ali na najbolji moguci nacin. Ovakav nekakav koncert bi zbilja volio cuti negdje, ali nisam bas upoznat previse sa danasnjom blues scenom, i isto tako, jedan je Muddy Waters. Zelim jos blues albuma cuti na ovoj listi, bas pase na ovu hladnu jesen vani!

I enjoyed this more than I expected to. Sounds surprisingly good for a live album in 1960. I had a preconceived idea that this was going to be quite slow so I was pleasantly surprised by the energy, like on I've Got My Mojo Working. It maybe does blend together a little bit but that's probably down to me having little exposure to this sort of blues Highlights: Tiger In Your Tank

This OG Blues and what came before it rules, relatively speaking, even for me, but what I really needed to hear, today and before I die, was The Cure's new album that came out this morning. I went through this here without a problem, but I have no plans of ever putting it on again.

Some classic blues from the master of them. Brilliant album, a great live album but I still prefer the studio format.

me encantan los álbumes en vivo

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

Solid bluesy album with some heart. Worth a listen.

Good

A fundamental influence on blues music, if I understand the history correctly. While listening through I heard small snippets that echoed music I listened to growing up from The Tea Party and Big Sugar. I doubt the influence is direct, but just by listening to this album I could hear its echoes in my memories. That's pretty special.

Something charming in those bues-singing men, still not my thing

3.3 nice but wouldn't want a full album again

You can trace so much music of the 60s and 70s back to Muddy Waters. It’s all here - the good kind of RnB.

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

Classic blues and you could be forgiven for thinking the guy invented the genre. But ultimately it's just way too samey from song to song to go higher than 3

A quality performance from Muddy.

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.

This was an incredible listen from start to finish, and you can hear the influence this left on blues and rock artists for generations after. A very very solid 4/5 for me

Já tinha ouvido. Muddy Waters é muito legal!

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...

First time listening. Highlights: I don’t think I like the blues.

Some pretty nice blues music to enjoy in the background.

Unbelievable live album, great musicianship, talent and charisma

Mood setting music Down in the dumps, sun shining, Core blues performance

That's not my taste in music. But ok.

Now here's some blues!

Just not my genre. Maybe the live performance was cool, but don’t need to listen to it now.

Muddy Waters is classic - this live album is ok.

Bluesy I liked it

Times like these remind me that deep down, we’re all just hoochie coochie men

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.

This guy is good. 4/5

If you love blues you love repetition. This has it in spades.

Yep that’s a Blues album. Sounds exactly like every other one we’ve gotten on this list

Nice blues, would listen again

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

Live albums generally have a mid level ceiling with me. They’re not a necessity when exploring an artist’s discography because they’re often not an actual project that has a theme, or concept, or true coherency. The quality lives and dies by the setlist and your interest will be truly subjective depending on how big of a fan you are of the particular artist. For me? I’m not a fan of blues as a sole genre. I need other flavours mixed in, otherwise I’m zoning out. I find it lacks punch, energy, and true character; and there just isn’t enough variety to really evolve it beyond the few tracks you might hear from time to time. This is really the best way I can describe this album. The only time I found it engaging was the double feature of ‘I’ve Got My Mojo Working’. Outside of that, though? Everything felt like it all blending in together far too much. It’s not egregiously bad or anything. If you’re a hardcore fan of blues then this should be right up your alley. It’s just not up my alley at all. It’s so not up my alley that’s a whole other continent away. It left almost no impression on me by the time the album was over; and outside of two tracks that perked me up due to more prominent jazz elements I genuinely disliked it. I’ll still give it an appreciative 2/5, though.

Not super into Blues, every song just sounds identical to every other Blues song out there. The album is super clean for a live performance though, great recording. Fav Track: Tiger In Your Tank

Only listened to part of it

Always loved muddy Waters. But you can hardly tell there’s an audience and this is a live recording. Maybe it’s because it’s 1960 and Newport, but it just doesn’t seem like the crowds into it at all. Some great singing and some great guitar plan, but I think there’s better muddy water out there

If you ever played guitar as a kid growing up, you would have heard about the blues and how they are the basis for rock n' roll. Muddy Waters tends to sit at the top of this inspiration list. The dude is a legend and his music is so highly influential. This album was really good. I think it's interesting to lead with one of his live albums, but overall I enjoyed it. It was an easy listen and I think it's interesting to hear these early roots of rock music. Also, is 'Tiger in your Tank' a euphonism for sex? Is his wiener the tiger? Makes a guy wonder.

This felt pretty unoriginal to me, even by 1960 standards. By this time, Ray Charles was off doing his thing, making songs that seem inventive even looking through a modern day lens, so it seems kinda weird to me that this just seems like such basic blues/jazz songs that don’t really move the needle at all. But this could be just classic white guy trying to analyze jazz so idk if I’m right.

I enjoyed it. Great voice and great music history. A really nice live album.

I’ve heard of Muddy Waters and I’ve heard about how legendary and influential this jazz festival was, so it was cool to get to listen to a piece of history. Great blues riffs and an enjoyable album overall, made for some great driving music on the way home from a trip. Nothing here blew me away, nice middle of the road start to the week.

I'm not really a blues guy. I can appreciate the influence Muddy Waters has, but it's really not for me.

So I have heard of Muddy Waters but not listened to him. I don't particularly love live albums however, I quite enjoyed this one. Will potentially try out some non live recordings! 3 Deb - okay as background music,some of it is a bit samey. Wouldn't necessarily chose it! 3

Really struggled with this one. Sounds beautiful, great live album but just not my thing

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!

I don’t the the blues are supposed to make you feel happy, but this album always does.

Gotta love a good Blues album. It's well done classic 12 bar blues. It struggles with the same problem most classic blues albums have: basically every song on the album sounds the same. Same forumla, similar instrumentation, it really just starts to get a bit stale by the end.

Blues and bluegrass, sounds like. Enjoyable in the background.

I enjoyed this! Again, feels unnecessary to be a live album

This made me want to eat ribs in a dingy smoke filled bbq joint.

Great!

Music sure is something.