At Newport 1960

Great stuff - never heard this before.

Really great blues album, probably Muddy Waters' best from what I've read. 9/10

Gg

just jazz - nothing more to say

It was okay, but I am probably too young for this genre of music. It was an okay listen throughout.

It was alright. It is just not the kind of music that get me going. Not something I would want to actively listen to on a regular basis.

Blues. Det har der ikke været så meget af. Ok liveplade.

Great Blues album, probably one of my favorites I’ve heard from the genre, just not something I’d typically choose to listen to.

Good blues

I like blues-influenced music. Nice to listen to one of the original post-war blues artists who were the main inspiration for bands like the Rolling Stones. Historically very important, but I don't know enough of the Muddy Waters discography if this is the best choice, but I liked it. But must also say I will probably not put this up regularly, but good to have heard it a few times to understand this little piece of music history. "Baby, Please Don't Go" is a song I recognized from the great version by Them featuring a young Van Morrison.

The thing that will always frustrate me with blues is how similar it all sounds. This is clearly great music by incredible musicians but it ends up being some predictable and generically ‘bluesy’. The piano is killer, but when I listen to other artists like Nina Simone and Cream it makes me think how varied and exciting blues can be. Eh

Creo que no hay mucho más que comentar que: Es un disco de blues 2,75/5.

There were a couple of fun songs in this. Tiger in your tank...loved the lyrics to this, such a funny, almost surreal song. Got my mojo working (part 1 and 2) were also dancey, feet stomping tunes. Generally though, I can't really say this album is for me. The slower songs (most of the songs on the album) were quite forgettable. This isn't an album I'd feel inclined to listen to again. Given its influence, the strong vocals and obvious talent of Muddy Waters, it probably deserves at least 3 stars.

Repetitive and more blues than I need for a single sitting but would be good in smaller doses.

Call me uncultured, it does sound good, but so repetitive I can appreciate the culture and influence

5/10]

I feel the same about this album as I did on my previous listen. By nature, Blues music is very repetitive and centred around similar structures and playing styles, so when you've heard 3-4 tracks, you've heard them all! The first 2 tracks as well as 'I Feel So Good' are very entertaining and much more engaging than weaker tracks like 'Soon Forgotten' and the last 2 track. Also - did we really need 'Got My Mojo Working' twice!?

Not his best stuff, but never a bad time listening to Muddy Waters.

Hard not to tap your Hard not to tap your toes to, and Mr. Muddy Waters clearly puts an enormous amount of himself into the performance. I was feeling exhaustion-sympathy just listening to him. That said, the 'LIVE' part of the album weakens it a bit, and there wasn't really any standout hits except that two-parter towards the end. I'm a big fan of his blues work but this is the weaker parts of his discography IMHO. Sucks too as the list definitely needs more representation of this era and this style. Fav tracks: Got My Mojo Workingtoes to.

Not the Muddy Waters album I was hoping we’d get. It’s great, but pretty standard compared to his later work.

Lol, why did they bother with the studio recordings? This is time travel.

There wasn’t anything I didn’t like with this album but I also didn’t love anything about it 2.5 or 3/5 Favorites: got my mojo working, I got my brand on you

I can’t drink this!

always struggle a bit with the blues but this guy is just cool as hell and awesome

I'm not a blues guy but this sound pretty good.

Some good stuff in here.

I like blues rock a lot. Straight blues is more of a challenge for me. It's very classic here, and a live album to boot - certainly skilled, the sound quality is surprisingly good. No real issues with it, but it just didn't grab me as much as it could have.

Più storia che musica.

Highly influential for sure, but the blues has always been too repetitive for my taste.

3/5

Ça vas mais je suis pas le plus grand fan thé blues

Notable Textzeile: What gonna happen to my music? What gonna happen to my song? It’s still a hard hard World to live in And it be here all all along Schöne Energie in der Stimme. Gerade gelernt dass es Chicago Blues (also elektrifizierter Delta Blues) ist. Hier werden Standards gesetzt, bzw. Standarts, die er vor 15 Jahren gesetzt hat, wieder gespielt. Das Wechselspiel und die Wiederholungen sitzen. Textlich nicht die riesige Lyric, und erzählt mir auch emotional nicht ganz so viel. Schön das gehört zu haben. Bin nicht krass begeistert.

Gutes Soul Album, gute Wahl für die Liste, gutes Live Album, gute Band, gute Stimme, guter Groove. Aber: irgendwie auch nur maximal kompetent und für mich ein bisschen daher gespielt. Daher auch nicht mehr als

Impeccable vibes.

Enjoyed

Really excellent recording and a great performer but quite repetitive. It was fun to hear people going wild in the background though!

Хитовый альбом, но как-то в этот раз Вотерс не зашёл. Не смотря на всю могучесть.

Muddy Waters is another big blind spot for me but this was a great place to start. Really great little live set, even though the blues aren’t typically my thing.

Rate: 7.5/10.

The album that inspired a generation of white British musicians to sound like poor versions of this album. 3.5⭐️

Ikke så verst. Litt ensformig sjanger.

got his mojo working double on this album (literally). it's groovy. about as solid as a blues album can get. very influential.

That said, it is clearly much greater than my appreciation for it.

It's good. I like that somebody wrote a fuck song called "Tiger in Your Tank" within a year of the ad slogan becoming popular.

Ik heb eerlijk gezegd momenteel gwn ni het geduld om dit hele album te luisteren. Het klinkt nu te veel hetzelfde tbh maar ik zal waarschijnlijk wel nog andere albums van hem horen dus ik geef het nu gwn een gemiddelde rating omdat de interesse er ni is en misschien is het wel gwn top maar misschien ook niet.

Passable

I don’t have too much context for Muddy Waters, but I did distinctly like the other one more. I think he was quite a bit older on that one. Fun stuff to hear, either way.

Good

Nice :-)

Sorprendente que una grabación en vivo de 1960 se haya guardado con tan buena calidad de sonido, realmente Muddy Waters hace una tremenda presentación y llena de energía el festival de Newport, me hizo descubrir varios temas de blues buenos y adentrarme en este género poco explorado por mí.

First Listen; 3.5; Seems like one of those artists that is so formative and important to subsequent music, that it can be hard to appreciate how good it is. Driving, fun, blues. Favorite Track: Goodbye Newport Blues

Hoochie coochie smoochie woochie

Interesting album to start with. Feels like watching the first Superbowl to catch up with the 2026 season. The only song I know by Muddy is Mannish Boy. I can see why people liked the blues genre, it would've definitely got me going back in the day, but a lot of songs drag on and have the same repeating lyrics

A nice, but maybe typical live album.

Very solid live blues album. There's no doubt about Muddy's status as a bona-fide legend of the game, but I couldn't help feeling that most of the songs here sound the same after a while. Probably doesn't help that there are literal repeats to bulk up the runtime. Still, I enjoyed myself and had a real bluesy time.

Solid blues album but at times felt similar sounding

Influential and iconic.

Not the first live album recorded from the Newport Jazz Festival on this list oddly enough. Although it seems that this was one the first popular live blues albums. It starts off slow and similar, with some conventional blues numbers. Around the halfway point however, you can start to sense the energy and pace heating up, as Waters and co. get into more of a groove and really get the crowd going. All to end with another slow blues jam in "Goodbye Newport Blues" It was enjoyable, sure. But I feel like I've heard all of the "greatest" live albums from this era at this point, and thus didn't feel that this one in particular did that much different. I do recall enjoying the other studio album from Muddy Waters on this list quite a bit, though.

Solid blues live album, but nothing really stood out to me to differentiate this from any of the others I’ve heard.

For a 66 year old live recording this sounded pretty great. It was good but didn't blow me away like the live BB King album earlier on this list.

Sure

not bad at all, but jazz still isn't really my thing

08/10/26 Catchy

The way you can hear the timid audience loosen up and start giving into the music by the time Muddy plays Got My Mojo Working is amazing but does not outweigh my disinterest in the blues.

I find this one tricky to judge. We had it on in the car and I liked it at first, but it felt very samey as it went on to the point I didn't really enjoy it. I wanted to try it again and I found a video of the concert on YouTube and out that one. This was better, certainly towards the 2nd half the concert really kicked on and the energy levels rose, but it was still pretty samey, and in fact jumping around I often couldn't tell what song I was on and even some of the phrasing and tunes were very similar. I wanted to like it and I like it a little bit, but I wanted more variation, not in terms of the style necessarily, but if a song is essentially boogie boogie and the vocals come in at the same point on the one of the chorus and have the same number of syllables, well, I can't stay with it too much.

"I Got My Brand on You" is an absolutely alarming allegory. Good blues tho.

a whole buncha meh

Ok

It's fine. I understand it is a classic of its genre, but not for me.

3.5/5. I think this is the first blues record I’ve listened to!

Good live album. I like Muddy Walters and his brand of blues. Probably will listen to it again.

Quite enjoyed this album it was something different.

Me gustó pero no es tan to mi estilo

7/10 idk if its function music

Mojo workin is a great track, I appreciate Muddy’s contribution to blues and rock. Some songs are a bit rudimentary which I understand is because of the time period, but I ding it for that

Respect to Muddy Waters, he has an inimitable voice and influenced some of the great 60’s and 70’s guitarists but listening to an album like this in 2026 it just doesn’t offer much in the way of musical interest, it’s basic, repetitive 4 bar blues with little melody. I think it’s an age thing, my taste really only gets satisfied from tbe mid / late 60’s onward and even then it really hits in 80’s and 90’s so it’s hard to objective judge this. It’s probably essential to some people, was possibly groundbreaking at the time, certainly I imagine it was exciting but that’s an era beyond my pallette 2.8

Decent. But there's only so much blues I can take.

Lekkere energie

I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man - Live

Sweet blues, tasteful *moans, idk it was a pleasant listening experience, made me feel like drinking a coffee while listening to it, overall pretty good but not like LIFE CHANGING

Not much of a blues dude, but this was fun. He has a great voice, and I wish the guitars were a little more loud but otherwise pleasant listen.

nice. just not my usual stuff but it was good

Like the sound overall but nothing really stuck

Obviously a great album, it’s immediately clear a bunch of artists wanted to emulate him. Great voice, especially loved the keys, but I was a bit unenthused and wasn’t excited enough to listen more than once. Lotta the songs feel very similar. I bet it was fun as fuck to be at that live show though.

that was kinda cool. relaxing blues music to work to

Maybe it's the recording equipment of the time, but you can't really capture the spirit of the sound that Muddy Waters seemed to bring. It's got so much heart.

Solid blues

Good tunes but not my style thx

Got my brand on you is nice but a bit slow Got my mojo worming is good 3 star album. It was nice but a but slow for my liking. I liked the live album aspect.

Started off strong, just got to Tiger In Your Tank and the songs are starting to drag on a bit and feel repetitive. I Feel So Good immediately pulled me back in. Some of the songs felt very similar and didn't keep me engaged the whole time. Having the studio versions of some of the same songs at the end felt kinda weird to me too as I just listened to the same songs. Overall a good intro to blues for me, solid 7/10.

Was there a thunderstorm going on while this album was recorded? Strange ominous warble every few minutes I thought there was an earthquake. He's got a great voice and it's a pretty clean performance, but it's also 1960 so live wasn't too exciting yet. Lyrics are pretty funny too.

Overall: 6/10 It's okay, it's old school blues so it's kind of repetitive. Add in the live album aspect and it's something I can enjoy, but not really love. Fav Song: I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man

Nice early blues

At under 35 mins long this is a good fun listen to a blues great. Yes it is a little samey. Then again some people have tracks that last nearly as long as this album

honestly super good. Only 3 stars cause I wouldn’t listen to it on a day to day

Classic but very clear blues guitar and vocals. Great cadence to the record overall. 3.5/5.0

Very solid classic blues. Love Newport folk so fun to hear something from Newport jazz

I like his voice, although I'm now haunted at night by the phrase "I want to put a tiger in your tank"

Objective great. Well recorded and very historical important. Unfortunately I'm brain rooted so to me it's a bit boring. I just feel like it it's missing some rock.

3.0

Although blues isn’t a genre I drift towards often, I’ll always love an album that makes you feel like you were there for the recording. That’s what Muddy Waters did here for me.

Decent but I only listened to like 2 songs

great!

Divertido

Very cool-sounding bluesy jazz. Jazz isn't my usual choice of music but I can appreciate it more when it's done like this. A great live album.

3 stars for Muddy Waters as an icon, but I just don’t like live albums much

Incidentally just after listening to this album, I watched the Portlandia episode where they go to Jackpot Records and Fred asks if he should get a new Muddy Waters album. Carrie responds "Yeah, just get a best of, it doesn't really matter." I felt like I understood that on a deep level, as a lot of songs on this album sounded similar to one another. Still an enjoyable listen.

Ein 60er Jahre Jazz-Album. Blues-artig, nett zu hören. 3/5

Catchy, easy listening. But won't stick with me. Feels like something that was very important at the time, but now doesn't seem as interesting because of how early and influential it is.

Es un álbum que recomendaría para comenzar con el blues. Buen álbum en donde con justa razón, el tema más conocido es Got My Mojo Working, una canción divertida y muy disfrutable.

Like Clapton’s MTV Unplugged 30 years before it happened!! Can see how it influenced what was to come. Enjoyed it more than I expected tbh. 3

decent album

Feel like I would have enjoyed a Muddy Waters show. Surprisingly excellent sound quality.

Leuk.

Blues is still a style that's too old timey for my taste, but some of the upbeat songs on here won me over and the recording actually sounds really good

Yes . Very good. Very bluesy. Very different to what I normally listen to but liked it alot. I would gove it 3 1/2 if I could

Strong 6 I know mfers were going CRAZY for this. And you say Elvis invented rock and roll?? Right…right…

good

Obviously very good blues music...but not my cup of tea.

Somewhat entertaining, probably won’t be back to it Did enjoy got my mojo back 3

This is the first version of blues and rock n roll.

Tremendous voice

3,5

This probably would have been a rager in 1960. And apparently this was highly influential. But to me it’s just a solid blues album.

Listened to this during the heatwave and made me feel like I was in the deep south so mission accomplished I guess.

Very jazzy it’s interesting to listen to. Very vibey.

It was a good introduction to Muddy Waters and made me want to listen to more of his discography.

Better than I thought

This album reenforces my live album bias. There really isn't any real reason that this should be live, from what I can tell so far. The solos might have a hair more character, but there's no obvious crowd influence on the sound. It also has the blues problem for me of a lot of the songs end up sounding really similar to one another, and I just can't differentiate them enough as I'm listening. And my bias is a little confirmed here with the recordings at the end. They just sound better to me. It's a good album, but I don't really think it's all that great. I don't mind it being listed as a top 1,001 album, but I can't guarantee it would make my own personal list of that many albums. Favorite Song(s): Meanest Woman

Muddy waters is a very good blues player and sounds amazing live, overall a good listen

Tough following bb

Favorite songs: (I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man, Baby, Please Don’t Go, Got My Mojo Working Part 1, Goodbye Newport Blues

музыкант он конечно же великолепный, но мне такая музыка не нравится, в том же десятилетии дальше будет намного интереснее, из уважения поставлю 3

not the kind of genre i’d listen to voluntarily, but it’s honestly great, i don’t have much to say because i’m really not into this and don’t know what is good and bad. but overall sounds great to me.

If there’s any blues rock that I’d say is like worth it to listen to - it prob would be this. It’s just got soul in it that most other stuff on the list doesn’t.

aburrido m,e voi. ni auto ni nada

This kind of reminds me of the Sinners soundtrack like perhaps Ryan Coogler took inspo from Muddy Waters? Also, I looked up the Newport Jazz Festival to see how it is now and wow, times have changed because it's not really jazz focused anymore but maybe r&b focused. At least, it's still kind of black centric. The line up seems way more condensed nowadays as well, i.e. meaning less time with each artist maybe.

I find this album surprisingly accessible, which I hadn’t expected :-) So I’m giving it 3 stars...

I wish I could listen to this with fresh ears, untainted by decades of advertising and general modernity, but as it is this isn't for me. Perfectly enjoyable to have on though, you forget it's live after a while.

The Good: Fucking Muddy Waters! The Bad: That it’s a live album… The Ugly: … I don’t know… this list? It was a nice listen. However, listening to the blues is something one does while drinking a drink, maybe smoking a smoke, or having a little entrez-nous with a special someone. I was doing neither of the above while listening to this album, and though I have great appreciation for the OG blues men… this album just didn’t do it for me. 3*

this was really cool ! gonna listen to it more and it’s probably gonna grow on me

No se lo que dice pero buen instrumental.

Pretty fun

I like when he goes brrrbbbrrbbbppbbrrpb

Not typically a blues guy but this was more enjoyable than most albums I’ve heard. Muddy Waters had a fun time on this recording.

Solid classic blues album.

It's great but not something I'd listen to often

Good memories

뭐라 쓰지

Not my vibe in jazz, although I like the Sunday music.

I liked it but it seems some of the horns sounded out of tune or not recorded well. Also some of the lyrics seems overly repetitive.

Está bien, no sé en que circunstancias pondría este disco, pero me gustó la onda.

i liked this. love that he feels good and has got his mojo working > AI Overview The phrase "tiger in your tank" means having an abundance of energy, power, and enthusiasm. It originated as an iconic, pop-culture-defining advertising slogan for Esso (now known as Exxon) gasoline in the 1960s, promising that their premium fuel would give vehicles the fierce power of a tiger.

Cooool.

Review - a decent blues album but not as good as others I've had so far on this list Score - 5.5/10 Need to listen? NO

Lesson

sin este señor no existirían los Rolling stone .que más se puede decir

i might just not be a blues girl! i do love a live album though

Nice and jazzy but I was too tired when I listened to it so I can’t really rate it properly

Good but there’s nothing outstanding at all other than being a live album that didn’t hate

Oochie coochie goochie moochie yay

Best Song: I Feel So Good. Probably my favourite vocal performance on the album, which a catchy and endearing set of lyrics. Worst Song: Soon Forgotten. Sometimes a song's rhythm can be so slow it almost feels like it's moving backwards. Overall: A bit of a mixed album. Some songs feel like dated blues standards, whereas others (like "I've Got My Mojo Working") have this lively silliness that feels fresh and modern. Obviously intensely talented and influential, although for genre reasons alone i'm not sure how often I will return to listening to this.

So this is what blues is.. Not too bad!

Not a blues fan, but damn if this wasn’t great.

Considering when this was recorded, that it was live and that it had never been done before, this was seriously impressive. It is more or less pretty standard blues but sounded great, was fun to listen to and I would go back if there was a blues theme to music I had to play.

that was interesting - my first ever blues album. the songs sounds a little the same but it's cool

nice! lovely! can't lie i dont think this is my thang but i was not opposed to it, really love thinking about how culturally relevant blues music is but actually listening to it is just alright, like i know this is good but not my cup of tea so solid 6/10

I feel like this would be amazing live and I can understand why it was a game changer at the time. It's just so difficult to transport myself mentally back to 66 years ago and forget everything I now know about rock'n'roll and blues, in order to appreciate this in its 'fresh' state. It's still very enjoyable but it starts to feel a bit formulaic and predictable when he's done basically the same riff and structure ten times.

Tress cool mais pas mon style

Groovy baby

This wasn't a bad record by any means, but I found it pretty repetitive (which is kind of the nature of blues), and I didn't find it nearly as interesting as Hard Again, which I felt was much more layered and intricate.

That's muddy waters live alright. Apparently it's arguably the first lice blues album? That has merit I suppose. Sounds great for 1960, well recorded. The songs are the songs, good voice but fairly by the number stuff. Listened to the extended version it turns out with some studio recordings of some of the live tracks, which softens my initial annoyance of all the repeats. 3.

I preferred the final tracks that weren't live, but overall, a decent listen. Sounds excellent, considering its age.

Very good, think I preferred the non live tracks at the end of the album though. Although I suppose the agreed recordings do give it some charm. I've moaned about live albums being live in the past so going with 3.5

This really captures a time huh. There's an original Langston Hughes poem here, a bluesman supergroup, and an utterly compelling Muddy Waters leading the way. Looking into this performance, it seems like it barely happened at all. And this really does archive a kind of "let's go where the wind takes us" energy. Like a lot of live recordings from around this time, I find this more compelling as a document of an incredible performance than I do as a collection of songs, although the songs *are* good. There's a formidable collection of blues standards here, that Muddy Waters rips though with charisma and power. Although, from a listening perspective, I do prefer the other Muddy Waters album on the list. But this definitely does justify it's place. (Quick side note: it's worth mentioning that there is a compelling argument that this is one of the most influential albums, *EVER*, this was one of the most vital bridges from blues to the next wave of rock music)

enjoyed this but it's not necessarily something I would seek out

Tuesday May 19th, 2026. This album felt pretty generic country to me, but also had some unique flare in the topics of songs and motifs. Some of it reminded me of Duke Ellington music, so it was likely somewhat inspired by Duke Ellington if that wasn't a coincidence. I did enjoy Muddy Waters' voice, and its always great to hear an album that was recorded live. My favorite song of the album was Tiger in Your Tank because it was funny. Overall, I didn't love it and didn't hate it. 6.5/10

It’s a good mix of folk-blues by one of the best to ever do it. There’s a lot I like, but there’s nothing I really love, and while I understand Muddy Water’s influence and might love something he’s done eventually, I don’t really have strong feelings toward this recording.

🙂

Great album ... 12 bar blues can get tiring, however.

Made me wanna go out to work on a construction site.

Excellent album. Such good music.

12-bar blues has been so co-opted by dad bands playing the blooze that it is hard to separate. Can see why this would blow folks' minds in the early 60s, there's a raw urgency that was novel and exciting. But between the English blues reinterpretations of the 60s and 70s, and then then weight of later and poorer copycats, it's hard to listen to this with fresh ears.

I think that the music of Muddy Waters works far better in a live setting, but nothing here really sticks with me.

Usually I am not a fan of live albums but this is quite good! 3/5

so delightful to listen to. hell yeah

All the songs sound like an exact copy of the last one but atleast its short. Kinda shit my grandpa would listen to while giving a speech abouth how much he hate the current governement. Goes hard in an elevator/5

Jazz will always be jazz, but as an album, it sounded a bit like the same song over and over.

more interesting read than listen still very fun

Yeah, Muddy Waters is cool and all, but his way of repeating lines or words in the chorus gets on my nerves. Also, it's just a little too old for me. I appreciate for what it was at the time and the grounds it layed, but it's too far back to enjoy it for more than academical reasons.

Original hoochie coochie man on this album, but I think Jeff Healy did that song the best!

nice jazz album

really cool. listened to it tired & hungry at the airport which was probably not ideal. still liked it!

Really didn't grip me. So many similar sounding songs.

Some good live blues I generally really like this genre but it just kind of felt more like background music here 6/10 Favourite: Hoochie Coochie Man Least Favourite: I Feel So Good

A natureza do Blues reside nos detalhes e assinaturas de cada timbre sobre uma base constante e firme onde a música opera como forma de expressão. Eu ouvi a mesma progressão por pelo menos 30 minutos e tudo que pude interpretar foram menções que fugiram da mesma frequência sendo exibida durante a duração do álbum e suplicavam por uma escuta mais minuciosa. Escuta essa que não possuo

Taking off one star for the live recording and one for I Got My Brand On You. Women are not livestock, sir.

The reign of 3s continues. Maybe not something I would listen to a lot on my own timing, but I couldn't possibly call this bad music. Gets ya going you know?

cool wenn man blues mag schätze ich

This is a fine live album but don't have that strong an opinion on it. The songs are a little muted and kind of blend together, so it manages to be really good but kind of forgettable.

It's _fine_ It sounds like any generic blues album or blues song, which is probably to it's credit. Muddy is a good singer, but the songs aren't good.

muy buen blues pero muy denso para mi, me suena todo igual 6/10

3.3/5

Medio repetitivo en las melodías pero muy bueno

nice lil blues album. not really my speed but i can appreciate why its important.

6.0/10 Pretty good..

This is cool!

Zanimljivo funky sinners

Didn’t do a heck of a lot for me if i’m honest but i can’t deny it’s well made and well performed music and he has a heck of a voice. Standouts are Tiger in your Tank and I Feel so good.

6/10

cute

eh, nothing got me excited but it wasn't bad

A bit dated but an influential work.

stvarno solidan bluz

It was good - Old timey stuff. I'd get the vinyl and play it every once in a while. Not a classic.

Good 3, very cool

another blues album so i thought i was going to just give it the same review as i did the others, but something about this one was a just a tiny bit dull in comparison to the others. still the same score as all the others though fave track: i've got my mojo working

Nice to hear some just raw straight blues from time to time. It has nice bitter-sweet vocals with slow parts mixed-in frantic parts. I wish the guitar was a bit higher in the mix, I feel I like would've liked this one a bit more had that happened. Overall when it's added all together, it's quite a bland one. It's a fine album, but I wouldn't go seeking this again. Highlight Song/: "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" and "Baby, Please Don't Go"

Yeah. Ok. Deserves to be on the list.

Muddy Waters is great, his tracks are great. The Album is not. Why is 'Tiger In Your Tank' included twice.

yeah vibe out lowkey

Such an odd choice - not on Tidal so I went to YouTube. Clearly some record of the 50s boues guys NEEDS to be on this list, and you can see the influence Muddy Waters had - but it felt like it lacked energy compared to a Little Richard or a Jerry Lee Lewis. A decent 3 for historical reasons, but I can't see myself going back to this specific recording.

Not my style of music but I can respect the talent.

Twas okay at best

Normally I hate live albums, but I think the Blues as a genre actually is pretty good via a live album medium. Congratulations, you've slightly changed my mind about something. But that doesn't excuse ALL love albums! 3.5 stars because it's still a live album.

Me gusta conocer un poquito de la cultura de blues. Me pasa un poco como el Jazz, lindo disco para escuchar de fondo. Me parece que es agradable a los oidos. Nada sobresaliente. 7/10

Album#2 ----------- 1) 2.5/5 2) 2.5/5 3) 3.5/5 4) 3/5 5) 3.5/5 6) 4/5 7) 4/5 8) 3.5/5 9) 3/5 ----------- While this album has slower songs in the first half, which I'm not a huge fan of, the second half picks up in speed and I really start to enjoy it. I wish there were half ratings on the website so I could give it a 3.5.

This is probably near the peak of Muddy Waters' power. Killer band, and the undisputed heavyweight of Chicago postwar blues... But... I can't help but wonder how much more juice would be evident if this was recorded in a smoke-filled club on the wrong side of town. I have been a touring sound engineer, and have worked with hundreds of acts of all types of music, and it is absolutely true that the performance is elevated by a sympathetic and enthusiastic audience. While the (white) crowd at the Newport Jazz festival is polite and appreciative, they are not dancing, shouting, drinking, and exhorting the band to new levels. What if?

This album should be enjoyed on a back porch with a glass of tea.

Very cool recommendation. Odd waves of bass but it’s fine. After album finished, Spotify sent me down a rabbit hole of old rock blues: Bo Diddley, Howlin’ Wolf, Junior Wells, Elmore James, Champion Jack Dupree, etc. Woo! Beautiful.

It’s bluesy

REAL baby making music ⭐⭐⭐/5 Highlights: "I'm Your Hoochie Coohie Man"

Not much to say about this one. Very cool blues and distinct voice but also very run of the mill for the time period. Highlights: Feel So Good, Soon Forgotten

A really energetic live performance. The songs seem overplayed, but they are the originals that too many people have covered, often way worse. It doesn't excite me very much, but I appreciate its importance.

Muddy Waters js clearly a blues master, but the simple format of the blues holds it back from ever being something I can really put on and jam out to.

great album for someone who doesn't really go for blues. favs definitely were I've got my mojo working, and baby please dont go (stuck in my head no matter what)

Good but not my particular flavor

It was pretty good. Nice jazz vibe

7 / 10

you like jazz?

Obviously, there's some watershed moment shit going on in this record: the king of smoky Chicago blues bringing the funk to the white college types of New England's most gilded age yachting town. Some cool renditions of blues standards in here, but this probably isn't the best Muddy Waters album.

#912. Not bad, but honestly sounds like a middle of the day performance at a festival when you know the crowd really came to see the guys playing after dark. 3/5: pretty good.

Mad aura to play "Got my Mojo Working" and then just go "lets do it again" and play the whole song a second time immediately after.

267/1089 okayy Baby, Please Don’t Go is a bop this is the type of music that i don’t feel it’s fair for me to critique or rate, so even though i’ll give it star and number ratings, i’m focused more on just letting it play i can’t complain about a good blues album, idk how much i care to go back to it etc but i enjoyed listening this time faves: Baby, Please Don’t Go, Goodbye Newport Blues 63/100

First things first this is recorded really well and the vocals sound great compared to the James Brown live album. I feel like a black man singing “I’ve got my brand on you” is so strange, like does he get the irony? But it’s better than a white guy. Some of these songs are dragging a little but they’re very thematically consistent. I’m intrigued by these extremely low bass noises that occasionally occur.

I don’t fell anything about it, but as live it good performing

Ik heb respect voor de artiest en het zit heel erg goed in elkaar. De stem is goed en het is een goede performence. Niks op aan te merken behalve dat het nogal mondharmonicaheavy is. Het prikkelt mij niet echt. Ik vind de nummers hoochy coochy en mojo working het leukst. Respect voor wat hij heeft betekend voor de muziek.

Belangrijke artiest als voorloper van de latere rock n roll, waar Beatles en rolling Stones en vele andere artiesten het ook van hebben afgekeken. Muzikaal gezien is het minder hoogstaand of complex dan bijvoorbeeld jazz maar t klinkt wel lekker. Voor die tijd was het al best voorruit strevend dat hij elektrisch speelt. Al met al goede plaat, goede artiest maar zal het niet vaker opzetten.

Good

nog een perfecte bbq album

3,5 leuke blues, maar wel gewoon echt de classic blues…

Blues (delta blues?) Some decent upbeat tracks here. Classic sound. Best track - Baby Please Dont Go, Tiger in your Tank, I've Got My Mojo Working 3 stars

I don't know if time has been particularly kind to the blues. Sure, Muddy Waters is an apex predator, but for most of this album I was appreciating what the White Boys Who Copied This Kind Of Thing brought to the table. As it stood, it was pretty limited, recycling the bars and lyrics and sounding like standards. But about halfway through Tiger In the Tank, the album came alive. Muddy and his band started sounding looser but still in command, it felt like the live album was actually the right format. The crowd reacted, the band reacted, and we got somethin'! But that was about halfway through and it ended on a slower note that probably worked better live. Absolutely an artifact, absolutely something worth listening to, but not really all that memorable.

Rarely listen to jazz/blues so this was a good album to expose me to the genre, and I did find it a little hard to get into- track mentions; I feel so good Meanest Woman

Soothing

It was muddy

Solid blues album, hadn't really heard Muddy Waters before but liked his sound

Landmark album, classic blues, solid 3

really good music just something i have to be in the mood to listen to

I respect the blues. If I were walking through a park and saw a free concert of blues I would definitely stop and listen. Listening to this album I can recognize that what I think of as classic blues was popularized by muddy Waters. However, after a couple tunes I was no longer interested. A real blues fan probably goes bonkers over this album, but to me it’s “just the blues“.

muy ingenioso el waso, pero no me lleno, no estoy en etapa de blues

10

Was good. But not for me.

FAVS (top 3): i got my brand on you, tiger in your tank, goodbye newport blues mençoes honrosas: soon forgotten, ive got my mojo working, meanest woman é um album ao vivo é dahorinha parece q o povo q tava la tavam se divertindo mas nada dms sinceramente, mas é bom nota final: 3.5/5

This was pleasant enough

I think this album is a great start to this 1001 album journey that I have going on. I love jazz or soul whatever you might call this genre because I don't know where to check on Spotify for genre, (tomorrow I will search up the album genre into a search engine) I think albums like this are time capsules that aren't opened as much as they need to be. It feels like you are actually there and watching Muddy Waters perform (I would clap along with the audience when songs ended). All in all I give this album a low six out of ten I would say, (side note but I think I am gonna try to make a rating system that I can just use for the rest of the albums but for now I'm going to be doing something in a similar fashion to Anthony Fantano). While being a nice album to listen to you can tell with songs like this that are very old they would be repetitive, lots of lyrics being said over and over again, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy that type of music. all in all, a good album that I most likely will be relistening to (whether it be to look back on day one or just listening through my 1001 albums playlist on spotify).

I forget how much I actually really like this style of proper classic blues music. As much as I do enjoy the more modern adaptation of blues rock, going back to something like this which is where it all started is always an experience I gain something from. I don't think that this being a live album really does it any favours, it's just a small collection of songs that happens to be a live album, and for some reason this performance was deemed worthy of that despite feeling pretty average to my ears. I still really liked this but I do much prefer what Muddy Waters has achieved in the studio as opposed to some random live album like this one is.

You cant beat a blues harmonica and this delivers from the first track. This is just good old fashioned blues with tracks like ‘Baby Please Don’t Go’ showing the art off to its finest. The mix of instrumentation is just a joy. ‘Tiger In Your Tank’ is an upbeat burst of energy. Yes a lot of the lyrics are Muddy repeating the title over and over, but it is still fun. ‘I’ve Got My Mojo Working’ is a great track that definitely gets your feet tapping. Not sure we really need it reprised though. Overall i dont think this is a great album, but it’s still highly enjoyable and a good example of the music that went on to influence so many thst came after it.

Good

yeah was good enough, maybe i’m crazy but some tracks could have deffo been inspo for some of the doors stuff

Pas mon style

I liked listening to this album, but I don't have much to say about it. Apart from the few song that were played more than once, I have no qualms with this album. And I thought it was fun to hear him introduce every song before playing it. Overall I most likely will not be listening to this again, but it was pretty good. Three stars. (Favorite track: I Got My Brand On You.)

Blues som blues

Muddy F’n Waters baby I wish we got a studio album, but I’ll take what I can. Not my favorite project I’ve heard so far, mainly because it’s live, but I can still admire the absolute powerhouse of influence here.

I love the blues, and the songs are slow enough to actually catch the lyrics, and the stories are so much fun. Give this man a pencil and paper, please! Also the first live blues record I really like how this list is very open to live records. I liked this Blues is awesome. I got my fill I do not leave wanting to explore more but I love this vibe and I could give this a spin anytime. I love hearing an audience and getting the energy even from a recording.

A weak 3, nothing id jump to come back to but was enjoyable.

One live album that definitely merits its inclusion. My favorite of his is however, Electric Mud which I feel is one of the most important records of the genre. 8/10 [KEEP]

Of its time, decent.

Classic Blues. Really nice, not my usual listen. Song highlights: I got my brand on you, Tiger in your tank, Feel so good. Strong infuences on UK Rock and Blues of the 1960's. 7/10.

I'm not a straight blues guy, generally. The live setting adds a lot to it, and it's a pleasure to listen to in the background, but I don't know that I'd actively seek it out.

Solid blues.

Interessante, nessa época do início dos ROCK a galera usava a mesma fórmula, mesma progressão de acordes, era muito esperado o que ia vir. Dependia mais da letra da música e da potência vocal talvez, é interessante pensar sobre isso. As músicas são muito boas, a voz é boa, mas parece que já cansou esse estilo, foda. 3*

Dear sweet Muddy. That sounds like I am writing as his betrothed from my death bed on the plains of Abraham. I suppose after his last effort "Hard Again" I did experience some of Muddy's "love." As shudder-inducing as the thought of your humble reviewer making sweet tender love to the long dead bluesman, Muddy Waters, the looming spectre of ELEVEN (11) records to review until I catch up is somehow worse. Let's make this snappy. The tiger tank sung blew fat chunks, and blues should almost never have anything but a guitar and the wails of the blues experiencer. The piano? MOST unwelcome. The harmonica went pretty hard in places, so we can let that slide. This has to be the last review for the day. They're getting shorter and worse. This was probably the best thing I heard today though. Great job, Muddy. Mojo=Working 3.5 HIGHLIGHTS: Pants Pissington

A great blues man, very much in his prime here. There is no way of estimating this man’s influence

Blues is for the weekend, very rich, it felt like I was watching a show. With that being said, and knowing it's a hot take, all the songs sound just the same.6/10

fine.

6 / 10 - Solider, authentischer Blues - Instrumente oft ziemlich verstimmt, aber das ist irgendwie auch Teil des Charmes, es unterstreicht Trauer und Elend in den Texten Favs: - Got My Mojo Working Pt. 2 - Soon Forgotten

Blu

Its alright

The slang from back then was wild lol

Solid album. Enjoyed it.

Pretty whelmed on this one. Not over nor under. It just plays through nicely without any hiccups. I figured I would like this more because I have liked muddys studio records in the past. Not sure if it was the song selection or the recording or the playing. It all was just what I expected and nothing more.

Eh

Good blues, but a bit stripped down for my tastes.

Mooi raampje naar een andere tijd, fijn om de zondagochtend mee op te starten

I was bored, sorry

My mojo is fully back

I enjoy classic blues, and this was a good one to put on while I was drinking--but alas, a lot of it sounds the same after a while, nothing that blew me away. Muddy Waters is great, but I'd probably rather listen to Freddie King

3/5

Fun, soulful, happy.. The master