Hard Again

I coulda used maybe two songs less, good stuff though.

Graded on a curve, this 2 stars is basically 7 stars because I would be hard pressed to find the words to describe how much I do not enjoy blues music.

Álbum de fato histórico de um dos maiores bluesistas da história da música, com músicas realmente icônicas. Por ser o blues raiz, as vezes me soa meio repetitivo, mas nunca perder toda sua estrutura sonora icônica

- not really my genre but definitely brings back memories of singing 12 bar blues in theater - i appreciate the impact and the sound but i would never choose to listen to this on my own

7.5/10

Quality Chicago blues. Not really my thing but it totally respect his playing.

yuh

Sometimes I wish I had more context for albums like this. I have absolutely no idea how this fits into the genre. I enjoyed it though. Deep Down in Florida was my favorite.

it's fun, got some nice swagger to it. i think i'm coming around to *blues as ambience*, even if i probably don't appreciate the finer points. favorite song is definitely Crosseyed Cat, that one guitar riff alone is gold. soft 3

Rating: 7/10 I appreciate this list sometimes, getting me to listen to Muddy Waters is one of those times. I really enjoy this guy's music. A good rockin' blues album that sounds classic but has the modern touch of the band playing electric instrumentation. Mannish Boy is a great opening track and probably my favorite, but the tracklist is all solid even though it isn't really spectacular.

Really like the rough voice and the big blues sound. Great band.

Good album, the jazzy instrumentals where good but it was not ground breaking.

really solid first half

I wish I could be hard again

It sound alike. muddy waters. I was surprised with how clean some of the recordings sounded. Enjoyable record.

This was ok. Not really my thing, but good for what it is. Became very repetitive after three or four songs.

I am noticing that I really like blues, but I am having trouble gauging what is really good blues and what is just okay. I really liked my listen, however nothing stood out to me as very good or better than what I have already listened to.

Definitely good blues. But there weren't any standouts for me, so I have to give it a 3.

I’m lumping both thoughts of the two Muddy albums into this review. Muddy is the quintessential “your favorite artist’s favorite artist.” He’s one of the keystones of American music. He’s like Mozart. His energy in this music is the closest we’ll get to having time travel as his music touches past, present and future.

Well this just hit all the right notes for me. Guitars and other instruments had the right sound quality and rhythmic groove to get lost in. Lyrics were a bit nonsense, but sure my baby has a cross eyed cat or whatever. That’s all the blues, man! Will be exploring more of Muddy Waters repertoire.

Now, we’re talking 😎

There's something cacophonous about the blues akin to jazz, sure, but also reminds me of heavy metal? Like, that Metallica album from last week has a lot in common with this...the deep repetitive riffs, the unwavering loudness, the almost-not-melodic vocals. I know the blues led to rock led to metal...but there needn't have been two degrees of separation, ya dig? This theory is evolving...stay tuned... Title as double entendre: intentional or...? Either way, Muddy didn't lie.

I def lost patience for even good blues like this one

Pure blues bliss. There's been so little genuine blues in the list, which is unforgivable. I had to check back - the only other one we've had was another Muddy Waters album, 600 albums ago, which is crazy - no Howlin' Wolf or Robert Johnson or BB King so far.

Muddy Waters - Hard Again (1977) The mind boggles over the possible meaning of this album title. Muddy was 71 at the time! This is a juggernaut of an album. Yeah sure a lot of it is the same song with different harmonica and vocals on top but that’s the blues. Standout tracks: Mannish Boy ( obviously) Bus Driver I can’t be satisfied Cross eyed cat Little girl ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Second Muddy Waters. Not really a blues fan, but I am now a Muddy Waters fan.

Not something that I would have sought out hr pretty good.

Damn, the blues are good huh?

The only thought that goes through my head when Johnny Winter improvises on guitar, or when John Cotton shrills his loud-ass harmonica, is simply "this fucks"

Great, classic!

Very Enjoyable and nice to listen to.

Fun southern blues album. Songs started to blend together for me since I'm not that familiar with the genre

Personally, as a person who is not very familiar with the blues, I find it rather boring. It's OK, but i wouldn't want to listen to it one more time.

Great blues album

If you love the blues, this is great. If not, then give it a miss. I liked it, particularly songs like Jealous Hearted and The Blues Had a Baby.

Good old blues.

Great album.

the album is totally fun and all and i guess i would enjoy listening to it live. but somehow it never really clicked...

Easy listenin’

Muito bom, mas blues acaba me soando repetitivo

First listen. Solid, polished, and at some times, boring album by one of the best blues men ever.

Muddy Waters is alright. Oh man, what a name.. 🌊🩵

My God that was rollicking good fun. This is something that I will add to my favourite listens. I was already familiar with a few of the songs, but I Wanna be Loved, Bus Driver and especially Crosseyed Cat were new to me. I will add this to my regular listens.

Great blues but maybe I was not in the mood.

Muddy is the quintessential Windy City style blues man. Hard to believe this was 1977. Crisp and clean. Nothing sad about these blues.

Я все про своих роллингов, у них аж 2 кавера на песни с этого альбома, для меня это самый говорящий знак качества

Не совсем мое, но красиво

mannish boy канешн глыба, как и мадди, но мимо меня - 3

Muddy is the man. I could listen to him play those heavy blues riffs and sing the blues in between all day. And I did!

It's interesting being able to hear the influences of many rock legends in a blues album. This is likely the best blues album I've ever heard. I usually knock points off for repetitiveness, and blues is repetitive by its nature. Yet there is absolutely nothing negative I can say about this album. Incredible from start to finish.

In the words of Aristotle, "Dis shit slaps." I don't always choose to play the blues, but when I fo Muddy waters is included.

The opposite of some of the pop that has been recommended recently. All heart and feeling, no concern about polish or popularity - I love it

Blues is good, would revisit

Mukavan letkeää kuunneltavaa. Muddy on Tulkitsija isolla T:llä. Hyviä biisejä ja tykkäsin James Cottonin huuliharpun soitosta.

Not bad, not great

*cisza intensifies* TUDUDUDU i tak przez całe jebane 49 minut

I had heard the name Muddy Waters many times and knew he was known for the Blues, yet I had never listened to an entire album or paid much attention. After listening to this album I realized that I had heard a couple of his songs before. Even through Blues is not my style of music, I found this album to be entertaining and worth the listen and can see why he has influenced many other artists.

This guys cool. So is the music, it gets a little too chaotic at moments

JL : 3, Bus Driver

GET IT MUDDY!!!

I feel I'm being overly harsh but this started off okay but became a chore to listen to. The songs are interchangeable. It's the same I-IV-V blues riff, at roughly the same tempo, for 46 minutes straight. Walkin' Thru The Park, the one song on the second half I thought was kind of interesting, isn't even a proper album track.

Ma ei saanud aru, millal see album läbi sai ja mis hetkel Spotify mulle sarnaseid lugusid soovitas. Kuulatav blues, aga klišeesid täis (samas äkki on need klišeed on sellest plaadist tingitud, aga 1977.a väljalase puhul pigem mitte). 2.4/5, sest mitte ükski lugu ei jäänud siit meelde ega ärgitanud minus huvi vaadata loo pealkirja.

Vaca catch up

Some great songs on here, but it's rare when I can enjoy listening to an entire studio blues album. The genre is just too repetitive for me, and a lot of these songs, by the end, started to all sound the same. Best taken in small doses (2 or 3 songs). 2-1/2 stars

Yeah. Sometimes an album just hits exactly right. I’d go 5, but it’s just not that album for me. Doesn’t mean I didn’t thoroughly enjoy listening to it. 4 Boolean: True

Good blues.

Musica

It’s Muddy f’n Waters!!!!!

Favorite songs: I Want to Be Loved, I Can’t Be Satisfied, Deep Down in Florida, Crosseyed Cat

A great album from a master nlues performer.

I AM a Blues man, but I'm not really a Chicago Blues man. I like me some delta, some swamp, some dirty. But the Chicago "let's get in the groove and groove" style wasn't for me. It's made for the dancehall, and I ain't made for the dancehall. But, I do enjoy it. Just, not all that much.

Man, Muddy and his musicians know how to play the blues... rocked harder than I expected as well. I love that there's a lot happening, different instruments soloing at the same time, etc. What it's lacking of course is variety. For 45 minutes of 12 chord blues, the variety is surprisingly high, but still, after side A, I have the feeling I heard it all. 3.5/5 - very good

Pub blues but with Muddy Waters voice. I didn't think that he could be that influential sounding like this, so went and listened to the originals of the rerecorded tracks on here. Those original versions are tight and great. Everything on here is flabby and interminable. I did not enjoy this.

Showstopper.

Good blues. Not necessarily super memorable or unusual or anything, just straight-up blues. I thought about giving it three stars because I'm not like super into it, but we're going with four due to cultural and historical importance.

Favourite Tracks: Mannish Boy

I love the Blues.. I went on a decade long binge of everything Blues and listened to everything I could find. I understand why there's not a lot of Blues representation on the list. A lot of the best output really happened before 'albums' were common in the music business and Muddy is no exception. When all these old bluesmen from the 40s and 50s were 'resurrected' in the 60s and 70s it was clear their best days were behind them. They *lived* those hard lives they sang about. Some of his contemporaries' late work is strangled, old, and weary. Muddy? Nope. This is a certified banger and the stellar production helps to throw a bandage over any of his weaknesses. The opener "Mannish Boy" really harkens back to his early work and i can only imagine that's what some smoky juke joints sounded like when he was playing them. Every other track is just jam packed with potent licks and all the double entendres you can stuff in a song. While many of the old bluesmen didn't get a solid late-career ('resurrection') album that showcases their potency, we're all lucky that Muddy did. This is a time capsule of the best the Blues had, back in its heyday. Essential listening and a new one to add to my rotation. (5/5).

Not familiar with this "comeback" album, but wow does it bring the energy! Love the sound of a bunch of established musicians familiar with one another's tendencies having a good time and just melting your face in turns. The live sound without the distraction of an audience hits hard, and their occasional hoots and hollers of encouragement when someone does something cool was super endearing, and reading that this one was recorded in three days was no surprise at all. I can honestly say that when this one was over, I was so sorry to see it go that I hit play again. No hesitation giving this one the coveted blind 5/5, and am really happy to have been introduced to it.

183. Hard Again - Muddy Waters (1977) 8.24.26 Variety: 4 Adequacy: 5 Listenability: 5 Uniqueness: 4 Emotionality: 5 = 4.6 rounded down to a 5 "Well this is a story, a story never been told/ Well you know the blues got pregnant/ And they named the baby Rock & Roll" Muddy Waters is one of those dudes who I've heard a lot, and who ranks very high in my limited assessment of bluesmen. I definitely like his stuff more so than any of the "three kings" ( we've had the one B.B. King album so far and I liked it fine enough to give it a 3), and he's probably an overall more interesting and diverse career, and was recorded more than Howlin' Wolf ( no albums on the list), so he's got an edge there. I'm honestly not sure there's much more competition when it comes to the biggest names. Buddy Guy ( no albums on the list) I'm not as familiar with, Elmore James ( no albums on the list) and John Lee Hooker ( has one album on the list) I might actually like more but, both seem more niche. Gonna call it early and say Muddy Waters might be the best bluesman on the list ( slim pickings) with B.B. King maybe beating him out in mainstream appeal. I know it's not necessarily the purview of the list to focus on blues, but at least a handful more names would have been cool to see, as these guys were so heavily influential on the 60's British blues-rock guys. Clapton, Beck, and Hendrix all owe a HUGE debt to them. I have not heard this particular album, as my experience with most blues stuff comes from box sets and compilation albums, but if his other stuff is any indication, we should be in very good hands here. THE TRACKS Side one "Mannish Boy" - An absolute classic to start with. Used in countless tv shows, movies, and probably commercials, this one is likely THE Muddy Waters song that everyone knows, even if they can't name the artist. So iconic that it was ripped off wholesale for George Thorogood's hit "Bad to the Bone" which is arguably not that much more famous. At least maybe nowadays when Thorogood's reputation has long since waned, while Waters is still aa legend. The call and response yelps on this along with the man's own masterful delivery, and the ending chatter go a long ways towards giving this thing the live in the studio feel that was most definitely intended, despite whatever sweetening or standard studio production techniques were used. "Bus Driver" - Simultaneously hilarious, and full of the pained emotion, as few could have pulled off. We get a bit more focus on the instruments here and everyone is killing it. My favorite part might be Pinetop Perkins with his piano touches, but it's hard to pick when there's so much to like. "I Want to Be Loved" - What a damned interesting and hypnotic instrumental melody and rhythm this thing opens with. It adds some uniqueness to the album and puts down the idea that all this stuff can be is just endless variations on the same 12 bar blues structure. And muddy gets to show his more sensitive side. "Jealous Hearted Man" - What's a little untrustworthiness between the sexes? The blues would be a lot poorer I guess if we didn't have these kind of tropes to fall back on, and this is a fine example. "I Can't Be Satisfied" - We get a bit of the twangy Delta sound from the Chicago blues master, and he doesn't seem out of his element by any means. The loose and clattery drum beat on this is awesome, the guitar sings, and most of all the bass carries this bouncy number along. Side two "The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll, Pt. 2" - What a great metaphor. Waters has fun with it, and it's infectious. The guitar solo on this one is maybe my favorite so far. This has that raucous live feel to it that's been present throughout, but maybe even more pronounced. It begs the question though - who's the father? "Deep Down in Florida" LOVE the beat on this one. Looking it up, I don't see that he covered it but this one sounds tailor made for a Tom Waits cover. KP Soars did do a cover of this though, and maybe that's what I was thinking of, as he has a very gravelly Waits-esque voice. Though not sure where I would have heard that version... Anyway, Waters gets to indulge in a little bit of a retirement fantasy here, with some fantastic harmonica accompaniment, and some big fat bass. "Crosseyed Cat" - Surprisingly this one is not a dirty one, but instead a pretty literal straight ahead funny little one about his girlfriend's pet, who is possibly a better judge of character than said girlfriend. This one was pretty basic, but cool nonetheless. We even get a fun "talking guitar" line which I can't help think is meant to be that damn cat, telling on poor Muddy. Pinetop Perkins gets to start the piano on fire for a bit as well. But it's James Cotton's harmonica which rules here providing the main throughline. "Little Girl" - We end slow with Muddy once again trying his game out on the ladies. Well, lady. It's largely a very basic structure for everyone involved to all do their thing one more time, and do it well. The walking bass lie on this is pretty cool, ad the drums get the fuck beaten out of them. HIGHLIGHTS - All of it MIDLIGHTS - LOWLIGHTS - FINAL THOUGHTS My biggest problem with any blues stuff, as great as any individual song is, is that there are so many universally used basic blue riffs and structures that it can't help but sound like a LOT of other blues. Muddy Waters easily transcends this through his gigantic personality, voice, and delivery, which suffuse this thing and make it sound like few others. I think he probably has the best voice of all those old blues guys. He's instantly recognizable, and really pulls off a lot of the humor in his songs very well. It's easy to imagine him winking at you when he delivers a line like "He used to give her rides in the daytime/ Now she gives him rides at night". The title of the album alone his pretty damned hilarious. The blues is full of dirty references, but Waters seems to revel in that stuff, to great effect. His playing is raw and organic and .., dirty. And this is an awesome example of how this sort of energy can be bottled and presented. The production on this album was great, and I really appreciated the attempt ( because with all of the names involved I'm sure it was picked over and sweetened a hell of a lot) to at last give the impression of a live in studio recording, with none of the instruments sounding ( to my ears) like they were recorded in some isolated booth away from Waters, days or weeks after the fact. This might just be the ideal presentation for a dude like this. It's clean enough for mass consumption without losing any of the grit that Waters brings, and it's all bright enough to easily make out all the moving pieces, so it vastly improves upon some of these beloved live albums where you can barely hear some of the players. There's no distracting audience noise, and ( like it or not) no real banter. It's tight, and zipped up, and yet full of life. I find it crazy that Johnny Winters was not more sought after as a producer after this, though looks like Muddy Waters apparently liked the results enough to keep working with him on a few more albums. As nearly perfect an example as this is of the form, captured and gussied up for the masses in perhaps the optimal format, it exists in a genre that is so deep and mysterious to me still as to be almost ghostly. I like a lot of blues stuff, but I find it very hard to get a handle on it's scope, and end up appreciating a lot more of it in the moment than revisiting it. Even my favorite blues records ( my all time favorite being the two Complete Early Recordings releases of Skip James's stuff) I rarely make it back to. So while I can admit this one is top tier, I'm not sure when I'll give it another spin. I'm sure I'll enjoy it just as much though when that happens/ PLAYLIST ALTERATIONS - FURTHER LISTENING - The Complete Early Recordings - 1930 by Skip James - Complete 1931 Recordings In Chronological Order by Skip James - The Definitive Collection by Howlin' Wolf (2007) - The Best of B.B. King by B.B. King (1990) - The Very Best Of John Lee Hooker by John Lee Hooker (1995) - The Sky Is Crying: The History of Elmore James by Elmore James (1993) - Buddy's Baddest: The Best of Buddy Guy by BUddy Guy (1999)

But the blues has always been American As American as apple pie As American as the blues As American as apple pie The question is why? Why should the blues be so at home here? Well, America provided the atmosphere. -Bicentennial Blues by Gil Scott-Heron The blues is in the foundation of all the music I tend to love. Listening to this album how could I not love it? That strumming! Muddy Waters slays it like it’s Saturday night and the bar owner told him to make sure everyone spends their money for the week tonight! You know how astronomers are essentially looking back in time because the light from the distant stars and galaxies takes thousands to millions of years to reach us. That is like what listening to this album is audibly like. It’s as though this music has spent all the decades traveling from its point of origin to commingle with our earbuds. It’s a glimpse, as brief as it is, back to where rock came from. If the man has lost a step due to the wear of the years then anyone who got to hear him in his heyday was lucky. 5/5

This was solid. Surprised how communal this felt.

I had an absolute blast listening to this.

some songs are really catchy but overall i think it just not my style

Yes maam

Very repetitive, especially with the same high pitched harmonica or horn note. Pretty aight

4.0

81

Blues baby

Influential in the bands and guitarists that followed

Lowkey good

Classic blues. I love it. Liked Songs Added: Manish Boy Bus Driver I Wanna Be Loved #2 I Can't Be Satisfied

I'M A MAAAAAAAAAN

Fun listen, not exceptional

Finally some Blues on the list! Ok I'm 100% in the bag for this album. I had an uncle growing up that when you went to visit and there was always some music playing. Blues was his favorite genre so we got to listen to a ton of it. Muddy Waters is one of the best. When you think of blues as a stereotype it's this. Especially for Chicago Blues. This album has to be one of the best examples of a Blues album. The band is killing it, Waters is killing it, the harmonica is putting in the work, this is just a perfect example of an entire genre. Well I know what I'm listening to the rest of the day if not week, all of Muddy Waters work. On a side note if you ever have a chance to see Buddy Guy live go. He's ancient but it's a good time. If you find yourself in Chicago make time to go to his club All Stars. I've never had a bad night listening to music there.

I already knew two songs from this, "Mannish Boy" and "I Can't Be Satisfied", but both in the earlier and, in my opinion, superior versions. I'm not a blues guy, I honestly think it all sounds pretty similar from a composition point of view, but I get how influential it was on a lot of music I actually like. But not this album. This came out in the 70's. No more new blues influence at that point.

Soooo blues. Not my favorite genre but have to love this album (4/5)

So groovy, so bluesy

Great blues album, I can see why it's a classic. This might be something I buy on vinyl. Not quite 5 stars, but that's just personal opinion.

Great great blues music. The voice and the guitar is perfect and the people yelling adds a lot of ambiance. The album flew by in the best of ways. Definitely some songs I will come back to even if its not music I listen to often.

I know there’s still way over 900 albums to go, including no doubt a lot of classics but I think you might struggle to better this one.

Holly. Great blues album. 7/10

molto blueseggiante

Neat

3.5. Love hos talent. Need to listen more frequently.

I really enjoyed it. 4

Classic Jazzy/rock n roll style! I’ve played lots of music like this, it is really fun, free form, and led to amazing new styles afterwards

Some occasional poorly-aged lyrics (and the name of the album itself) are made up for with energetic, buttery-smooth, pristinely produced blues.

Gubbeblues > Gubberock

Vad ska man säga. Old school blues. Kvalitet förstås, men det känns old. En trea

Classic sound and riffs. Really enjoyed this, even though it's so synonymous with modern rock that it sounds a little cliche.

Not one I've actively listened to - although I am aware of Muddy being a pivotal part of the blues greats. --------------------- This really makes me want to install railroad tycoon. It's kinda nostalgic even though I've never listened to this specific album before. It's guitar and harmonica driven blues that is fun to listen to. Muddy has a decent spoken word vocal but the highlight is his guitar playing - that's where the real emotions come in. The rhythm section doesn't particularly stand out and the lyrics I did pick up were what I'd expect of the genre. Some tracks have a lovely piano section that gives a rhythmic hook - [walkin' in the park] being a highlight. It does get a little bit similar over time, and I'm not sure if that's me being unfamiliar with the genre or an accurate feeling. At times the harmonica is a little too much to the point of putting me on edge. I'd definitely stick this on again. 3*

I go through fits with the blues, and while I am not always in the mood for it, when a good album is found, I can listen multiple times easily. This Muddy Waters album is one of those albums. Its amazing that this was produced in 77, because this feels like a modern recording. There isn't much I can say about each song, since I do not listen to much Muddy stuff, but this one is definitely one of the best blues albums I have heard from start to finish. Biggest Hit - Mannish Boy Biggest Miss (if I had to chose ) - Little Girl Hidden Gem - Jealous Hearted Man

This was an interesting choice. My favorite part was the Moodymann samples from the start of the album. Great sounding modern (for it's time) recordings for an otherwise normal blues album. Love the start though

Most unserious album title and cover combo in history. That being said, this thing rips and roars and dives and gyrates. Sounds like you're in the room with the band feeling this thing out. Smells like cigarettes. Good hangover record.

I like blues but this didn’t really hit for me

I had forgotten just how hard Mannish Boy slaps. It sounds like a band recorded in a lively room with few microphones. They go hard. This album is full of hooting and hollerings and you get the feeling they had a blast making it. From old Memphis style resonator slide blues to full on blues rock, it's a great study of the genre

5/10 A fun listen

My dad once bought Muddy Waters a beer, and my dad kept complimenting his music, and he would just respond, "Thank you, my friend, thank you"

Enjoyed. Felt instantly familiar. Started strong and tapered off a bit - clearly very influential.

If you are into blues, this is a must listen to. If you are not into blues, then too....

Sure. The original stank face. Loved this.

HOLY SHIT!!! If you want to feel alive turn on muddy waters and turn up the volume. The guitar, the voice, the feeling. Thank you album pickers for adding this gem.

Blues isn’t always my thing (more of a funk guy myself), but this album is a blast. The energy is off the charts. Enjoyed this, though it gets a bit samey by the end. It all kind of blends together… 7/10 Quite Likeable

It’s nice, after hearing so many rock albums where the blues influence is incredibly obvious, to finally get an actual blues legend on this list. Muddy Waters is the real deal, and *Hard Again* gives you a pretty clear picture of where so much of that later rock sound came from. And musically, there’s really nothing I can complain about. Muddy Waters sounds great, the guitar playing is fantastic, the harmonica is all over the place, and the whole thing has that raw, authentic blues energy. These guys clearly know exactly what they’re doing. The problem is simply that I’m not much of a pure blues person. After about four songs, I kinda felt like, “Yep, I’ve gotten my blues fix.” Then I looked and realized there were still five tracks left. At 45 minutes, a lot of the songs started blending together for me, and there just wasn’t enough variety to keep me completely engaged. That’s not really a knock against Muddy Waters or the musicians here. It’s more that blues works better for me in smaller doses. Give me a couple great blues tracks and I’m happy. Give me nine in a row, and eventually my ears start asking what else is on. Still, I’m very glad *Hard Again* is represented on this list. After hearing the blues filtered through so many other artists, it was cool to finally spend some time with one of the legends who helped create the sound in the first place.

Ok…I am surprised how much I LOVE this!!! How can you not bop your head and want to dance and sway your hips to this music? What a gem!! It sounds like a human genuinely enjoying what he is doing. Love love love!!!

rym 3.74 Chicago Blues/Blues Rock 金属琴弦振动，短促柔和却又挥之不去的忧郁，不喝点真不合适了。口琴，钢琴，吉他，最经典的三重协奏。一种正向的摇摇欲坠，自顾不暇。 pick: Bus Driver, Deep Down In Florida

No está mal, pero después de dos tres canciones me parece que todas suenan igual y me harto.

Great vibe

I’m not a blues person at all, but respect where respect is due. This is about as good as blues gets.

Not my type, still cool tho.

It was easy to listen to but probably not something I'd seek out. Was surprised to recognize the one song.

It's fine, as far as blues go. I am not a big blues fan, so I didn't find the need to really get invested in it. Maybe someday I'll get into it, but for now, it's just fine.

amaze

If I wanted to listen to blues I would definitely give this another spin.

Nach Jahren kommerzieller Flaute und dem Ende bei Chess Records fand der US-amerikanische Bluesmusiker Muddy Waters 1976 in Johnny Winter einen glühenden Verehrer und Produzenten, der ihn zum neu gegründeten Label Blue Sky Records holte. Aufgenommen wurde das Album innerhalb von nur drei Tagen im Schoolhouse-Studio in Westport, Connecticut – abgemischt später im Hit Factory in New York –, und genau diese Kompromisslosigkeit ist zu hören: roh, laut, fast mono-artig verzerrt, als hätte man eine Chess-Session aus den fünfziger Jahren direkt ins Wohnzimmer geholt. Die Besetzung liest sich wie ein Who-is-Who des klassischen Chicago Blues: James Cotton an der Mundharmonika, Pinetop Perkins am Klavier, Willie „Big Eyes" Smith am Schlagzeug, dazu Winter selbst an der Gitarre. Die Neuaufnahme von „Mannish Boy" wird zur Essenz des Albums – Waters, mittlerweile über sechzig, singt mit einer Autorität, die keine Zweifel an seinem Status als Urvater des elektrischen Blues lässt. Auch „The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll" und „I Want to Be Loved" zeigen, wie mühelos er zwischen Demut und Selbstbewusstsein wechselt. Was das Album besonders macht, ist seine Unmittelbarkeit: Studiogespräche und Zurufe zwischen den Musikern bleiben hörbar, nichts wirkt glattgeschliffen. Man spürt förmlich, wie sehr diese Musiker einander zuhören. Hard Again ist kein nostalgisches Comeback, sondern ein Beweis, dass der Blues nie an Kraft verloren hatte – man musste ihm nur wieder zuhören.

Shivers up the spine. Makes me want to smoke a cigar and walk around an empty town in the rain

i don't love the blues, sadly. some neat songs

Classic blues, but repetitive lyrics and composition. I learned that I cannot listen to a full album of harmonica.

I like a little blues - this is pretty raw.

This is one of those ones where I recognise great musicianship and all but it doesn’t particularly grab me. There’s not a lot of variety or nuance. I guess that’s the nature of the genre

All blues sounds the same... this is not dispeoving my point

I actually liked this album. For the first blues album I listened to it was so fun and the songs were unique and musically written very well. I would re-listen to most of the songs, but blues are still a genre I wouldn’t listen to generally

Blues from a legend in the genre, Muddy Waters delivers an album about how he just wants to be loved and other topics of this genre. It’s very well done, but gets repetitive after a short time into the album. Not to say it’s bad, but the formula bored me after a bit.

Textbook Chicago blues album. I love this genre but I agree it is a little repetitive. 7/10

Standouts Mannish Boy I Can't Be Satisfied The Blues Had a Baby and They Named it Rock and Roll

Great blues! I wasn't really a fan of the first two songs, but I liked the rest of it.

nice enough

Profund, sentit i alegre. D’una alegria que se sap alegre, però que porta amb ella un riu soterrani de saviesa i una tristor amarga. A vegades davant el dolor l’unic que podem fer es ballar i cantar les nostres penes. Escoltant-lo m’ha semblat un àlbum catàrtic.

one of the most effective comeback albums, surely. when it rocks it rocks harder than its blues rock contemporaries, and when it keeps to the simpler bluesy stuff it stands out too. had a great time with this one. deserves to be one of the 1001? well, compilations aren't allowed so this has a decent shot at being the Definitive Pick for this list. kinda funny considering it's a comeback album. but as i said, it's a hell of a comeback. yes.

Blues has always been a favorite of mine. When I started listening to Blues, back in my younger years, my liking started out slow and then took off as many of the rock groups were playing the Blues. I then started listening more to Muddy Waters, BB King, Howlin' Wolf, and others and fell in love with the old and the new mix of the Blues. Muddy Waters was always one at the top of my listening line up. Ŵhen I would go to the Army Rec center and check out a turntable, headphones, and albums, Muddy Waters was usually in my album lineup.

If this is what heaven is like, sign me up.

I honestly expected to like this more. Was almost too rock focused for a blues album. Still good, but this is a low 4.

He's the best. Such a fun listen.

6.5/10 - A Blue Pill Album.

I'm not a huge blues guy, 5/10

Super, bien qu’un peu répétitif.

Sure, it's a classic. Sure, got some great tunes. Sure, I'll not bother with it again.

He completely defined an entire genre of music.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Albumet är coolt, gritty och absolut ett album jag kommer återvända till. Inledningen är perfekt mad coola Mannish boy. Hade behövt något stand out track mer men det blir ändå en 4a. Bäst är Mannish boy, Bus driver, The blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll, Crosseyed cat

A classic I've heard many times, but never nearly so memorably as when my new next door neighbor introduced himself with an impossibly loud broadcast at perhaps 2 o'clock Sunday night/Monday morning. It was so loud my windows were shaking. It was like Johnny Winter was literally doing his backup screaming "I'M A MAN!!!" next to me in my bed screaming directly into my ear hole. What kind of a maniac would do this? Surely confronting him (had to be a him) could be dangerous - Tennessee had pretty liberal gun laws. But it was completely beyond, to where not doing something would condemn me to a lifetime of being an acquiescent loser. As much as I didn't want to confront him, my ego would never recover from not doing something about this. I don't remember why I ruled out calling the cops, maybe I didn't realize this was something they could help with. Or maybe I was in too deep with the idea that I had to prove myself. Ray's doormat said something appropriately welcoming like DON'T MESS WITH MY MESS. And of course the motherfucker didn't answer. I'm sure he couldn't hear the bell or my knocking, or even my eventual pounding on his door. How could he? I couldn't hear it myself! Fuck! But it went on forever, to where getting shot was more acceptable than abiding this madness and suffering the implications to my manhood, so I came to peace with the idea this might be my last living act and, having noticed before that his front door was unlocked, I opened the door and walked into his place. Incredibly, no one was there! Was I being tested by God? I don't think Job had it so hard. Hard Again, indeed. Harder Again, the album should be called. At least for me that night. Eventually, and I do mean eventually because at this point everything felt completely surreal and I was moving very slowly and cautiously, in part for fear of running into a deviously placed tripwire to a bomb (though truth be told the place looked like the bomb already detonated, it was so strewn with random stuff). I found him in the basement, of all places, two flights down from his stereo. It was still pretty loud, even down there. He couldn't hear me coming over the music and thank God he was holding a roache clip instead of a pistol because you can only imagine how startled he was to be surprised by a total stranger in his basement in the middle of the night. He had no idea the place next door wasn't vacant anymore and was very sorry. He was actually a very sweet man, Ray Suncatcher. A still shattered Viet Nam vet with a noticeable limp who spent his disability money on weed and camera supplies for his landscape photography obsession. As an apology he gave me a gigantic print of a (unfortunately nondescript if I'm honest) southwestern hillside. It's on our guest room wall, now thirty years later. My wife hates it but it's one of my most prized possessions. Proof I survived my trial by Muddy Waters and Johnny Winter. Anyway. Great record. Everything you want in a Chicago blues record and more. And on reflection, the perfect soundtrack to the night I decided I'd rather die than not be a man. I'M A MAN!

Such an impressive "comeback" album in every respect--production quality, band quality and Muddy Waters' performance. "Mannish boy" starts it off with a driving bang, and the ensemble never really eases up the whole way through; my favorites were probably the opening track, "I want to be lived #2" and the one-two punch of "Deep down in Florida" and "Crosseyed cat". Apparently we have Johnny Winters to thank for the fantastic and live-sounding recording and production, so thank you Mr. Winters! (I'm also glad for The Gun Club that this album came *after* their "Fire of Love"; even though I largely enjoyed the latter album, I suspect it would have gotten a two star rating after hearing some *real* blues....)

The Chicago Blues had a father and they named him Muddy Waters! This is a great album though I could have used some more jams. I first heard Muddy Waters my first week of college which wasn't far from the Checkerboard Lounge, Buddy Guy's club where Muddy recorded with the Rolling Stones. I went there the night Muddy Waters died to pay homage and I remember being disappointed to hear "only" Magic Slim and Junior Wells. Finally, if you don't care for the blues, that's okay, the blues still cares for you. As the great Albert Collins spake in the classic "Adventures in Babysitting," 'No one gets out without singing the blues.'

It was nice for sure but didn’t completely pull my attention.

Great classic blues 4/5

Eventually you had Johnny Winters staging the comeback of Muddy Waters. The story goes that critics had begun to call his latest work over produced and here came Winters demanding his chance to produce it. Alas, someone could stop getting in his way, give him a full band backup and let him stage a comeback that would win awards. I enjoy the live version from 1960s over this simply because I favor any live music, but you can feel a producer who believes that the artist can get there in this album.

GODDAMN! Now we’re talking! This is fucking incredible, absolute GOLD standard of a record. Man’s voice is fire, the band are tight, the tunes are tremendous. It’s fucking awesome in every way!

Nicht mein Stil. War aber auch halb beim einschlafen Okay, nochmal angehört und fand den schon geil.

Man I love the blues. Super cool album, great listening. Mannish Boy was my fav song of the album. Bus Driver (my fav first listen) and Deep Down In Florida were my other highlights

Solid Blues album. No stand out songs for me.

Waters is doing his thing and everyone in the band is as good as we would expect, but Johnny Winters first production effort excludes all nuance from the maximalist feel of the ensemble. I’m no expert, but from what I have heard so far, by the time of the last of their 3 albums together (and sadly Waters’ last all told) Winters had discovered a little breathing room in the arrangements which to my ears is a notable improvement. Here, though it might be perfect for some ears, to mine it just sounds like a big blues argument which no one wins.

This guy is so horny and he will not shut up about it. 10/10.

Memphis yeah

4,5 Zieht sich am Ende aber Blues ist schon geil

We've heard something like this album a thousand times by now, but very few people can match the energy of Muddy Waters. Even for someone who's certainly not into blues, this album is a rather easy listen. I'd say the lyrics can sound a bit confusing and even disturbing at first, but doing some digging about the meaning of certain phrases makes them shine much brighter.

Muddy Waters is really cool. You can really hear his passion, which to me should be the point of the blues. I don't know how much I would listen to this but I liked it and it's clear why it's here.

234) Muddy Waters, Hard Again - 5 Opens with the very familiar “Mannish Boy,” with Johnny Winter on guitar (as well as the producer and “miscellaneous screams”). But then the intensity of that song - the guitar, piano, singing, and mesmerizing repetition of it - repeats throughout this whole album. The way he syncopates the vocals with the rest of the music is what makes this so exceptional. I don’t think of myself as a fan of the blues; in fact I think a lot of more recent blues albums are a little boring. But THIS album is a strong exception; will definitely listen to this one again. The whole thing is good.

I love the blues. Muddy Waters influenced so many musicians.

Banger songs.

After listing to this I've realised that cowboy influence was there in music of the 50-70's. This whole album took me to Texas and I thought I was just listing to that kind of music No specific song that I liked, just know which album to pick up if I want soul cowboy music. Review - 7/10

Muddy Waters, what a legend. This is one of the finest blues albums to ever capture his raw power as a musician, front man, and individual. Mississippi Delta meets Chicago = basically, America in a blender. This album transports you this time, and yet, he was already a much older man at the time of this recording. As timeless as it gets - get in the groove, or get out! It's not my favorite Waters album however - to date, that would be Folk Singer. But it's still great. 4.5 stars.

Just look at this album cover - how can you not love Muddy Waters? What a legend. Five all day.

Like my some blues.

Everything is good. But I guess I’m not a blues guy, because most of this album sounded exactly the same to me. A swing rhythm with an electric guitar goofing off and some piano accents. It got so repetitive and stale by the end. At least with other repetitive albums I do enjoy, there’s songs that change things up in between. There’s not really anything here.

2026.07.24.

This felt like one of those too-long scenes in a David Lynch film - you’re very appreciative of what is happening, and out of principal you would say you enjoyed it, but the whole time you were wondering when someone was going to yell "Cut!".

if u are at all skeptical about either the worth of the blues or your personal enjoyment of it, this opening recording of Mannish Boy is necessary homework. it ratchets up every quality of the blues from its desperation to its simplicity into a face-pounding single chord wonder...so little composition in it that it makes hoochie coochie man look like a prog epic, and yet its just clearly one of the most exciting recordings you could ever hear. the whole album is ofc raucous and noisy and a brilliant semi-"comeback" for a legendary artist, but as always muddy himself, one of the greatest performers of any kind of music, has such a vast personality that he never disappears in the din. there's no other human being in the world who created the same Kind of impression muddy waters made...he was a big thunderous bluesman with a lot of confidence and sex in him but idk just seeing those adjectives gives the wrong impression i feel like. he often feels at the Mercy of his body, yet also maintaining a steady control...filling the entire room while somehow always managing to give the impression that somehow he's holding something back. its trembling, tense performing that brings so much pathos to the carnal showmanship, a tenth of the ego of the british white guys who bit his style yet also ten times as commanding and memorable. idk, i dont think anything i write could explain him, he's just so far beyond cliches while also feeling like an expression of something eternal...and this singularly electric late 70s record shows just how long he captured his magic

unreal. so fun. thoroughly enjoyed this one today. i love this guy

Elvis wishes he was this guy Crosseyed cat what a banger

I like two of them and I loved all the instruments he uses

I like the blues so am biased, loved it

Good music to listen to at work. The blues isn't one of my go-to genres, but the instrumentals and the soulful singing definitely amped my productivity!

Distrorted harmonica rocks balls! Love the blend of the guitar and the harmonica. The sound of the energetic screaming is fantastic After a while it feels repetetive and I start to zoon out. Its a nice vibe though

A triumphant return for one of the great Blues legends of the 20th Century.

The blues had a baby named it rock and roll

I liked listening to this album. It was very... classic.

Fantastic. I love this album

Honestly, i didn't like this album that much. I didn't like half of the songs, they're not my style, it's too masculine vintage style. My favorite song was 'The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock & Roll', overall, to me is a 4.8/10.

Could not finish, reminds me of jail blues but bad

Just another blues album for me. Was not reallt interesting or distinct in any way than most other blues albums in my opinion.

oh yeah !

aw

I still understand this music, but I appreciate the cartoonish overcommitment on songs like “Mannish Boy”—“I’m a man, I’m a man, I’m a full-grown man, I spell ‘him’ H-I-eng” (??). I love the hilarious smart stupidity of lines like “Well my lady roll up with the bus driver / And you know that don’t seem right” (and all the fun lines get repeated over and over again, because all the lines get repeated over and over again). You can see the outlines of a mythic character, a superhuman jukejoint warrior capturing the spirit of e.g. the Garth Ennis Wolverine (getting shot and stabbed and flamethrowered and derangedly repeating “the ol’ canucklehead, the ol’ canucklehead”) or the titular dude in Sonic Youth “Kool Thing” (“uh huh,” “tell it like it is,” as Kim is roasting him), or Prince in “If I Was Your Girlfriend” (if I was your girlfriend I wouldn’t be a sex pest). I guess what I mean is I’m finally sort of getting the blues as a libidinal eruption. Helps that there’s no songs here about like I’m cranky at my woman cuz she overcooked my eggs because she cooked his eggs just right. (Actually that’s a phenomenal line? Am I on the verge of turning into a white blues man?)

Сара није слушала, класика Марко 2

Je krijgt zin om te dansen 💃

This is a very good album. While listening I felt calm, relaxed, and deeply satisfied. It’s groovy and soulful in that classic Muddy Waters way — warm, laid-back, and full of feeling. The grooves are perfect throughout. The band is tight and swinging, with that rich, rolling Chicago blues sound that just flows so naturally. Muddy’s vocals are as powerful and expressive as ever — gritty, emotional, and full of life even at this stage of his career. Hard Again feels like a proper return to form. It’s not flashy or overly produced, just straight-up good blues that makes you nod your head and tap your foot. Highly enjoyable from start to finish.

Some good old classics!!

Okay

Very good album no bad songs

Wasn’t super into this but I appreciate the Blues. 6.5/10 Hopefully i get something else that isn’t from 1977

Kinda just felt like 1 long song

I really don't care much for straight blues, which I do understand is kind of heretical for a rock fan. But I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Hot take: Muddy Waters is a good bluesman.

Good music but not really my style thx though

재즈의 분위기가 좋았지만 뭔가 엄청 좋다는 느낌이 없어서 아쉬웠다. I liked the jazz atmosphere, but it was a bit disappointing because nothing about it really stood out as amazing.

Wow! Good stuff!

Really not my thing but it ain’t bad

It's da blues baby

Bababababaaa

album #94 i do enjoy blues music it has to be said. ꩜ favourite track(s): mannish boy ꩜ album rating: ★★★⯪☆ ꩜ number of albums left to review: 995 ꩜ number of albums from the list that i agree with being on the list: 45 (+1 Hard Again) ꩜ albums from the list that I would consider on my list: 20 ꩜ albums from the list I won't include on my list: 74

I feel like I should’ve been more interested in this but I just wasn’t. Muddy’s great and it’s not a bad album, but it just didnt intrigue me.

Blue

Tip top

Great album from the master

Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues. - The great Albert Collins Love the blues and love Muddy Waters. Fives all around.

Lively classical blues

Harmonica pops off

J’aime pas trop le blues honnêtement

Cómo me gusta el blues

I can't even ask "why was it so common for artists in the 70s to write songs about wanting to have sex with young girls?" because I know the answer. I'd give this album 5 stars if there wasn't a song literally titled Little Girl at the end. Ignoring the legally questionable elephant in the room, some absolutely nasty harmonica playing with a very of-its-time Blues sound and decent enough lyrics make it a great album. I've always loved how simple Blues is as a genre. I feel like I've told everyone around me about the average Blues song structure. "I have a problem," I'm gonna SHOUT ABOUT THE PROBLEM I HAVE," "here's what I'm gonna do about it." Throw in some solos and repeat 13 times and you have a Blues record. That's besides the point, though. It's all good stuff other than the song about wanting to date a young girl.

hearing the rural south influence here. after reading his bio, i could only be more impressed by the talent and the effort put in to pivot his career. a pioneer for sure. as for the sounds, definitely not my cup of tea. theres lots of emotions provoked and imageries, but im just not particularly into blues can see other people enjoying it

Oh, yeah... Oh, yeah... Everything gonna be alright this mornin'!

Started off strong but then just seemed to blend together as we got further. I was never a fan of the blues though this was one of the better blues albums I got

Fabulous.

Super cool album. I really enjoyed this. So much energy in this one.

Midwest Blues really fell off here. the passion for creativity and playing has evaporated with over production and a lost of identity and ego 3/10 the opener is still Unfortunately pretty solid in terms of "classic" but it's definitely aged poorly

I like that people like it; it should be liked. I don’t like it.

An exemplar of electric/ Chicago Blues. My only beef is it sounds a little too clean. Needs to be a little dirtier with some vinyl crackle for the real experience.

1.7/5 While the blues sound is solid, it all just blends into one after awhile

I was unfamiliar with “Hard Again” by Muddy Waters when I saw it pop up on the website, and I don’t normally listen to the blues, so I was pretty excited to listen to my first album of this kind for the challenge. Also, interesting title. However…this was a challenging listen. It started okay, with “Mannish Boy,” but then got increasingly worse, and I found myself restless toward the end, even writing in my notebook during “Little Girl,” “Oh no no no not 7 minutes of the same thing over and over again.” You can probably tell where my review is going with this, but I’ll sum it up in the wise words of another listener: “Listening to this album is like eating 6-day-old leftover food for the 4th time in the same week. The first night, it was delicious, but in the end, we eat it out of principle so as not to waste.” Building off of the quote, I now realize why “Mannish Boy” is the most popular track of the album: they listen to it once, like me, and then go down the tracks, beginning to realize that each track is basically the same thing as all of the above, with the same electric guitar, with the same type of Muddy Waters vocals and spontaneous shrieks that get old after hearing them fifty times. Don’t get me wrong, I think Muddy Waters’ vocals are great and completely different from what I’ve heard, but after the first three songs on this album, everything else becomes genuinely unbearable because it's quite literally 49 minutes and 28 seconds of the same stuff. I pretty much zoned out after 12 minutes, though—and the lyrics might have helped if they hadn’t been sung to the same tune every single time (I’m really sorry, I can’t stop stressing this). Maybe this album would be better if it were released as 10 separate singles, 10 years apart. I hope “At Newport 1960” will help me maybe see what I’m not yet seeing, but in the meantime, I don’t think I’ll listen to any more of Muddy Waters’ music. I hope tomorrow’s album won’t make me crash out. 2/5

Como não gostar de um blues sólido?

Groovy and timeless sound. Not my cup of tea, but I enjoyed it.

The opener, “Mannish Boy”, is the most overplayed song in the history of Blues. Other than that distraction, this is a solid collection of Muddy Waters’ distinct, rollicking Chicago Blues numbers. 4.5 stars

Clearly a massive influence on bands like Led Zeppelin

Damn. This is how it's done. Pure and simple rocking blues. Blues-rock at it's minimal/bare-boned basics. Joy to listen to this, first lick to the last. Hard again? If you ain't dancing, you're dead. 5 "head-bobbing and dancing" stars.

Ja bih uvela da na ovoj listi unutar jednog izvođača mora dati albume hronološkim redom. Ovdje mi se sviđa što čujem da je muzika zrelija nego ono iz '60 ali mislim da u bluesu preferiram improvizaciju i zafrkancije. Compare and contrast što daje hronologija>>>>>>>>>>

It’s the 4th of July. It’s like this album was made for today. So good. America!

Really good fun. Great performances from Muddy in a great place. Feels almost like a best of, but still feels connected enough to flow like an album.

Geil

Yea its good but lil bit boring

Classic Blues. Loved Johnny Winter appearing on it. Great guitar playing.

Good vibes

a bit repetitive although that's part of its charm

Manish boy is classic, the rest is a little one note. Like the back end of bus driver, pretty sure if 7 minutes is too long though. Little girl should've ended 5 times. Fun to hear rock ish sound at the end of crosseyed cat. Walkin' thru the park is a good end to the album with a little bit of a different sound.

Not for me

Cool and jazzy? Is that the genre? Unsure I am, a good vibe but yet again, not something I would go out of my way to listen to.

I have major respect for Muddy Waters as a forerunner of American blues, as he is an incredibly talented songwriter and guitarist. However, classic blues like this isn't the style of music I tend to enjoy on a regular basis, as it gets a little repetitive for my taste. Favorite tracks: Mannish Boy, I Can't Be Satisfied

Blues at its best.

Awesome. One of the greatest Blues Performers of all time. Outstanding.

A pure blues album, most songs on it sound the same. It's not a genre I strongly gravitate to but I had a good time listening to this.

I'm not a bluegrass fan, nor am I familiar with the history of this album but from my perspective, it sounds average. The chords are painfully stagnant, the guitar and piano lines seem dull, and the vocals are alright. Its not bad music by any standard but the repetitiveness is what kills the whole album for me. Check out a few tracks but the full album listen might become boring. 58/100 aoty

Good, but I’m not a straight Blues guy. Typically with this stuff, the older the recording the better.

Man I just don’t like blues. Every other song has the same few rhythm and chord progressions. A few exceptions aside, it’s really all the same

Det er ordentlig trykk i musikken, noe som redder lytteropplevelsen. Men det er grenser på hvor høyt man kan nå med Chicago Blues.

Det smeller hardt og låter slik jeg tenker blues skal låte, men det bare er ikke helt for meg.

Not for me, but I can hear how we got a lot of influence from this album.

One of my top five blues albums of all time. After my first listen.

If you feel down and out, put on this album, embrace the feeling, and push through anything. A must-listen for anyone. Great introduction to the Chicago Blues

Love Muddy Waters. This was an excellent album.

A five for most of his work, but not this album. Why this album, and not many of the earlier Chess albums, was chosen as representative of the great man and his band is a mystery. If anyone reads this, listen to the At Newport 1960 album.

Definitely good blues, this came out much later than most blues music, even by Muddy Waters himself but yeah there's some filler here

It’s Muddy Waters

i'm ngl i'm just listening to this so i can get this off my main page. i've built myself a backlog to say the least. kinda helpful in a way. i have choice again. anyways it's muddy waters. one note but a very good note. 3.5-4.5.

Brilliant 5/5

It’s a yes from the get go.

Mannish boy

Made me feel like I was in prison. I mean that in the absolute best way possible.

Guy is looking forward to the women after the show.

Muy buen disco, melódico, da la impresión de estar en New Orleans en una noche en el Bagyou, o acá en una laguna Tampiqueña. Las mejores: Little Girl, Bus Driver y Jealous Hearted Man.

I don't care for the blues. This album, however, pretty good...

All I can think about is the Family Guy bit of Muddy Waters passing a kidney stone. "You okay Muddy?" *mannish boy riff* "AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH"

wuddy maters

This album was a vibe from the first song. This is the Blues as I remember it and it was fantastic!

I enjoyed

An album of blues rock, a genre which is less about individual songs and more about losing yourself to the music. This is a very good record to lose yourself to, and although my appetite for blues is finite, I'm struggling to find anything bad to say about it

"Hard Again" is one of those albums that are easier to appreciate than to enjoy or love. I'm not a blues guy so 50 minutes is quite a lot.

All songs sound exactly the same… hated this tbh

Very good

I understand the appeal, it definitely inspires emotion. One can take this genre and improvise in a million different ways, but it still sounds intentional. They did it very well.

An undying classic.

just not my kind of music - bluesy, etc.

Listen, I know this stuff is important but electric blues I just find so same-y. But the opener is great and distorted harmonica is always fun.

Everyone involved with this record sounds like they're having the best time. That joy is infectious.

Unfortunately I think bad/lame blues rock has kind of ruined good blues music for me. My brain recognizes that this is ‘good’ blues rock but it just doesn’t do that much for me. Part of it - and I know this is like criticizing water for being wet - is that like 2/3 of the songs on the album use the same standard blues chord progression, and over the course of a 45 minute album, it just gets super old IMO.

music is love

This one cooked.

To be honest, I didn’t listen to the entire I listen to like two songs, but this is not my type of music. I don’t like Chicago blues I mean, like I like the blues Brothers, but I don’t like this.

Drips with hot sweat. Really good. Not a daily play though. Needs the right environment.

The Blues! In Chicago!

A fun reminder of the swingsy Blues rhythms that underpin a lot ofbthe modern music I listen to.

Classic blues. I knew the first song but not the others. Its fun to know where the song will go even though they are new to me and to also listen to a full album. There's of "noise" that is different from my typical music so that is a fun difference.

Hot damn this was good. The guitar playing is on point. The timing is fantastic. The lyrics are classic. I loved all of it.