Hard Again

Old school blues feel. I especially love the commentary before and after the songs from Muddy Waters as well as the rest of band. It makes it feel so much more *real*.

Yeahhhh this was great. V glad I got to listen to this Songs added to playlist: - Mannish Boy - Bus Driver - The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll

Brilliant !

Love the raw, roots, blues sound. Excellent guitar- such a talented player. I really feel the guitar solos. Deep powerful voice. I haven’t listened to much of this music before. Great to be introduced to his sound. Know the name of course. Sounds like music I would expect from the 1950’s. Surprised to hear it’s 1977.

Muddy Waters can play the blues. I can see him as being an inspiration for modern musicians. The guitar and harmonica feels a lot like BB KIng so I can see that influence. After I listened to the album I had to look him up and read about his very colorful life. I listen to all kinds of music but some of the songs all sounded alike to me.

Never in my wildest dream did I imagine I would enjoy this record so much. Feels like history and the present all at the same time.

This album was great. You can see how Elvis and Bob Dylan were influenced by Muddy Waters.

it was quite loud

Would be absolutely fine if I never heard a blues song again for the rest of my life.

I just don't think I'm a blues man.

Very bluesy. Definitely sounds like an electric blues album. I definitely like Muddy Waters. I think this is definitely a quintessential blues album.

Very good, but all the songs sounded the same

Great blues album. It all kinda sounds the same though, you can only do 12 bar blues for so long lol.

I was excited to see this come up. I've certainly listened to Muddy Waters, but mostly within playlists, not a full album. And I was right to be. It's a great album! Excellent blues riffs. Loved it.

Muddy is one of the best. Love some blues.

Soulful and considered

This was nice

might revisit someday

Beautiful

Not sure you even need another song besides Mannish Boy to make this a 5 but Muddy threw in 9 more for good measure.

I'm not one to judge an album by its cover, but when I saw this one I knew I was in for a doozy. Yeah so I didn't like anything about this piece. No part of this album made me nod my head in the slightest. There's so much filler too. This album could of been 30 minutes long if there wasn't as much razzle dazzle. I adore the guitar as an instrument, but not like this.

A-MAY-ZING!

I am officially a Hoochie Coochie Man, thank you Mr Waters

The blues sung with a smile. You can hear how much muddy enjoys the company and playing of Johnny Winter.

Back-to-blues. Isn't really my thing but I can appreciate the rhythms and electric sound

Não senti nada muito forte ouvindo este disco. Não sei exatamente o porquê, mas suponho que Blues não seja meu gênero favorito. A voz dele é potente, e as composições são cheias de energia, mas algumas canções acabam ficando repetitivas (é a natureza do gênero) e monótonas. Eu particularmente prefiro um som mais progressivo, mas consigo ver o apelo deste álbum, só não apela pra mim mesmo. 3/5

8/10 – Very Good

There should be more blues albums on this list.

Loved it. Historically not really that into blues, but this was really enjoyable.

Feels like eating a whole damn meal.

Utterly superb. The pure swag of Muddy Waters. The sound quality is unreal - could have been recorded yesterday. And the band's whoops and yells on Mannish Boy just capture so well the sweeping irreverence and pleasure of playing live when a bunch of musicians come together. Joy in the blues.

Sounded like one continuous track.

Mannish Boy is a monster of a song, always has been always will be.

A brief review today because I'm sleep deprived. This album kicks ass, has all of the raucous blues energy and more to spare. The production and engineering work by Johnny Winter, as well as the session musicians assembled to work with him, are all top notch, and you can tell Winter was determined to make Waters' first on his record label a gem. His street cat growl remains iconic even almost 50 years later. This doesn't get a 5 because it doesn't feel like it's pushing the boundary of the genre, but this album is a true classic. Favorite Track: "Mannish Boy" Least Favorite Track: N/A YEAAAAAH's from the backing band: All of 'em

Starting my morning with Mannish Boy was quite the pleasant surprise. As an Austinite who grew up hearing his fair share of Stevie Ray, this guitar style has always held a certain a appeal. It's been way too long since I listened to Muddy Waters album, and I'm now kicking myself for that fact. Everything about the music is just so evocative and raw. The hammered keys on Bus Driver, the whining guitars on Deep Down in Florida, Muddy's iconic voice... It's erratic, emotional, and heavy. And working with Johnny Winters to iron out some of the less desirable technical rawness of recording refines the sound in just the right ways.

Loose, confident, and completely in control, like he’s just having fun and reminding everyone where the blues really come from. The band rips, the guitars are dirty in the best way, and everything feels alive and current, not stuck in the past. It’s the kind of album you throw on and instantly get why he’s a legend. Easy five stars.

Not to be that asshole but...how many songs can I hear that are "Da, duhna da DA. Nuh nuh, nuh nuh"

Soft again.....

Базовый нормисняй блюз

Не потому, что плохо. Просто не нравится классический джаз.

Cholera… Bus Driver? Tea… szkoda tylko, że nic nie byłam w stanie później zrozumieć. Album przyjemny, fajna gitara. Problemem jest zrozumienie wokalisty? Gdyby to był album instrumentalny 4/5, a tak to 3/5 i to będąc łaskawą.

Reminds me of working at Record Town, my boss loved this album.

I'm just so glad this was a different genre than the last like 5 days. I also appreciated getting this album on MLK day - it felt more fitting. I've never thought of myself as much of a blues person but I think I really like the vibe of the genre. Is it something I'm going to reach for daily? No. But is it perfect for the summer evening porch vibes? Yes. I hope to get a few more albums like this in the mix - especially for it's influence over other genres. There are a number of musical phrases/hooks that I feel like I've heard in modern music.

I like some blues, and blues based rock songs - and I know Muddy Waters is considered one of the godfathers of the whole genre. So I was excited to be assigned this album and was looking forward to listening to it. Started off with Mannish Boy, which I was already familiar with and liked. About halfway through the album I kept thinking "Is this almost over?" Nope. It was just too endlessly repetitive to me. I lost track of when one song started and one ended. I often really like harmonica in songs - but here it was too much - just constant high pitched whining. Maybe they should consider using it more sparingly for better effect. The guitar was a little like that too. The production style just seems like a wall of noise with no breaks or room to breathe. The piano and the drums were the best part of the songs here. Liked songs on Spotify: 1/9 Rating: 1/5

Not my type.

Not my typical type, but worth the listen! I had one song that I recognized by him off this album, but can't speak much to the others.

Classic blues condensed down to its basics. It’s a great album to create a mood

I don't usually listen to blues, all i know are blues-like songs made by rock artists. Tho it will not become my favourite and most listened to genere of music this album was a grat inftoduction. The smooth vocals, sharp harmonica and glorious guitar made the whole experience very enjoyable. The rythm of the songs was very plesant too. Overall, it's a great album in it's genere and it's an amazing representation of it. Also, some of the songs being extra long are a nice treat in the age of fast and short songs.

Enjoyed more than expected but would be so much better in live!

i’ve been meaning to listen to some muddy waters for a long time and i’m glad i finally did, i rly liked this album

I'm generally not into albums that are tonally similar, which is why I think I'm not huge into the blues. But man this rawkus and raunchy album was freaking great. I enjoyed it much more than I thought it would, and I'll keep an eye out to buy a copy should I ever came across it.

The screaming on Mannish Boy almost put me off the whole thing, and I wasn't sure if this was just going to be one of those “important genre-defining but not necessarily for me” albums. That the album then goes and does something a bit more interesting than just playing the basic blues, really won me over, and I quite enjoyed my time overall. Highlights: Bus Driver, Jealous Hearted Man, and I Can’t Be Satisfied Muddy Waters has a proper set of pipes on him too.

Rock'n'roll! Yeeeaaaaaaah!

Spaziale

That was fine, repetitive but I get why it is here.

mannish boy is close to a top 10 song for me, of all time. he really is the goat

I love a man with working fingers

Sometimes the blues makes me crave barbecue so bad that I literally salivate. This does that

Great sound

Tried to find a reason to give this any less than a 5 and I couldn't

Mannish Boy is simply a blues classic and sets the album up perfectly. The live vibe of the track certainly gives it even more depth. Bus driver continues the good times with plenty of blues guitar and honking on the hobo. There’s a lot to like about this album, i especially enjoyed the good old blues of The Blues had a Baby and they Named it Rock and Roll. Overall i think this is a3.5/5 but there isn’t quite enough for a 4/5 so we are where we are

Whilst I can appreciate the talent, as well as the fact there would be no modern blues guitarist without Muddy Waters, it just wasn’t really for me. The best I can say is I thought “Walkin’ Thru the Park” was really interesting to listen to. Probably a 1.5* really, but not as bad as a 1*.

Lovely voice. Lots of 12 bar blues. The Levi's advert from the late 80s where the bloke takes his jeans out of the fridge. Harmonica solos. I Can't Be Satisfied was great. The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll, Pt. 2 is an amazing name for a song. I am feeling very bluesy. Maybe a bit too bluesy (I think this slightly outstayed it's welcome for me despite the obvious quality). 3/5

Great stuff here, amazing voice and some superb blues riffs

Sounds older than it is, but in a good way. Faves: Mannish Boy, I Can't Be Satisfied,The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll

It was a good album. Extremely talented blues musician and defined that scene when he was alive

I've never listened to Muddy Waters before in my life. I can't even begin to describe the utter JOY that this music gave me on my very first ever listening.

I was really thinking from track one, it would be just a bunch of riffs in the same vein of track one. But I never heard the riff again. Instead it was cool guitar work and muddy blues. And the more I want to enjoy the blues, I find it a bit samesy. There was one called Little Girl that went on for 7 minutes! Get out of here! 3 Stars.

This album is like sitting on your lunchbreak eating an uninspiring sandwich and complaining with your workmates about your broken down relationships. You are a construction worker, currently working in the height of summer to build a new house for some 20 year old Silicon Valley tech-bro who looks at you and the other workers as a lower form of life. You have to be polite and agreeable though, as you need this job. Your wife is a bitch. She doesn't appreciate you, instead she just waits for you to bring home your next paycheck so that she can go and blow it on handbags and scarves. You're pretty sure she is cheating on you, but by the time you get home from work each day you are too exhausted to bring it up. It all looks pretty bleak, but luckily your workmates are also in shit situations. While that knowledge doesn't improve your perspective too much, at least you all gain a sense of community as you face your respective struggles. Time to go back to work now, maybe you'll make up some bullshit about how the tiles this tech-douche have chosen aren't suitable, and he's gonna need to replace them at his own expense. Fuck that guy, it's all about finding little things that make you smile.

Started our strong. Nice guitar licks and a good howl. Some questionable lyrics though and after awhile all started to sound like the same song.

I find this tedious. So formulaic and predictable. I don't like blues music much anyway. And the lyrics are so literal and on the nose. His voice is cool though which just gets it a 2. It's the kind of thing that might be fun to watch live if your drunk in a bar in Louisiana, but I would need to be drunk and that says a lot.

9/10 13.01.2026

I Want To Be Loved #2, I Can't Be Satisfied, are some great songs. I thought I wouldn't like this album, and there are some songs I definitely don't like, but overall, it's a pretty good album!

I really like this blues album! Good beats and instrumentation, although a bit repetitive at times

Most of the songs feel like a diferent iteration of themselves, so it can get repetive, but since it’s a short album, that doesn’t bother me too much. Overall I liked it alot.

I hear a 5.

8/10 - very cool blues album, bangin

Fun fun fun

Норм, не то что я добавлю в любимые, но , включив на фоне, бесить не будет

Kind of a banger

Good

Hard to beat the M-A-N himself. I have listened to this album plenty of times and it is a foundation of not only blues guitar, but blues bass as well. Most of my bass playing on blues songs is just ripping off the incredible Charles Calmese.

The best I listened to yet. It was a great surprise and feel like the classic it is.

It's simultaneously angry and joyous, dirty yet clean. But it's unmistakably the blues. It'll remove you that rock came from blues, but this is the blues.

Very jazzy heard a few songs that I fw

Buen álbum, pero no se si volvería a escucharlo

7.5/10

I can get that Muddy Waters was super influential and stuff but this stuff is a snoozfest.

Craig: good, not great Courtney: excellent background music but blues melodies do get a little repetitive.

Surprisingly very into this. Makes me want to go to Kingston Mines

i do like a good bluesy album. 3.5

My what a forward young man you are. Can you try playing a different song, though? I think we've heard this one before.

Okay, but ended up being a bit samey.

I don’t have the vocabulary to properly appreciate the Blues, but I loved this! I recognized so many songs! Fave tracks: Mannish Boy, I Want to Be Loved #2, I Can’t Be Satisfied

kenns glaub von papa

En tykkää bluesista, mutta ihan hyvä.

We owe everything to records like this.

Blues hasn't grabbed me like some other genres but I can really appreciate the musicianship on display in this album. It could probably be better appreciated with a trip to the town(s) were the music was concocted, to truly soak up and imbibe the vibe. Throughout the album, the grooves are swampy, muddy even, and every song is filled with superb displays of playing, from each melody instrument - lead guitar, rhythm and harmonica. From playing the main riffs as a unit to the individual trills at the end of a bar, this comes across as a prime example of blues, if not the finest in existence. But I'm not the best person to judge that last point. The opening song has a familiar blues hook that has had countless copycats over the ages and thanks to the musicians and the sound engineering, this album sounds timeless. If this was released today, in my opinion it would still be a big hit. The songs that caught my attention the most on this listen were: Jealous Hearted Man - fantastic groove - as can be said about the whole album, but this one has a Can't be satisfied - guitar work through your is intricate and superbly well played. I could return to this again one day, who knows. Best for 📻👨🏻‍🍳🍸🥃🍻

Sadly not really my thing. The songs are overlong and blend all together.

Definitely would listen to again! Great find!

Disco de Blues, me gustan algunas canciones. Tiene algunas un poco largas. Me flipan las bases.

I learned that "bad to the bone" was plagiarized from the first song in this album "Mannish Boy". I really do like the Blues Rhythm from this album.

Bra blues, men blues är ju ändå en lustig genre. Simpla låtar samma tre ackord, fyllda med klyschor på klyschor och största skillnaden är hur mycket ”in the pocket” man spelar. Det här gänget är ju dock galet mycket i den fickan. Stark trea. 5a från pappa. ”Detta känns ju som grunden till så mycket. Så skönt gung som man blir glad av. Dessutom passar det bra att lyssna på när man spacklar en vägg.”

Amazing voice and guitar work, you can really sink into the rhythm and just close your eyes and stomp your foot in time to the beat. Mannish Boy is an all time classic. Even though I didn't know the rest of the album before hand, I enjoyed it.

Favorite Tracks: Mannish Boy / Bus Driver / The Blues Had a Baby / Walkin' Thru the Park Rating: 4.2 I dig a good blues album, and I've listened to this before along with some other Muddy Waters' albums like the Chess Box, the London Sessions, and even Electric Mud. Overall this is just a rock-solid, classic, blues album that leans a bit into rock, and Muddy's voice and guitar playing shines throughout. The harmonica parts, courtesy of James Cotton, are great throughout as well.

I respect the rawness and "realness" of this album. It has soul and identity. I just don't like the blues.

Phenomenal record

I love the blues so much. The guitar is stunning, it is so soulful and you listen and can't help but be drawn into the music. There is so much feel put into how the instruments are played. In Deep down in Florida, the harmonica feels like it's singing to you. 10/10 no notes.

love love love

Mannish boy: Dirty blues love the crowd sound Walking thru the park: nice swing groove, vibey.

Folk, blues, black, 70s rock. Not quite my tempo…

I like the tune of most songs Not something I specifically would go out of my way to listen to but I enjoyed this album Not my usual music taste (I love pop lol) Added a couple to my playlist

not for me

Beautiful sound, very soulful. Exactly what blues should be.

Classic blues from the master.

I don't know how you can not love this album. The energy is fabulous, the band is tight and the results are just gold.

My friend heard I was about to listen to Muddy Waters’ Hard Again and immediately asked, “What year is it from?” I said 1977. He told me he actually had one of Muddy’s earlier albums and suggested I listen to that first—kind of as a way to trace Muddy’s path and background—before jumping into Hard Again. So we started with Folk Singer, and I loved it. Acoustic guitar is already my comfort zone, and on top of that, I really enjoy Muddy’s voice—there’s something rough but warm about it that settles me down right away. We listened on December 31 while waiting for the New Year. By the time we got to Hard Again, I was already getting sleepy. After one song, I basically lost consciousness—my cat was lying on my stomach and we fell asleep together, completely unaware of the outside world. I have to say, this album has a kind of magical ability to relax me. The next day (January 1, 2026), I listened again while reading. Honestly, I still couldn’t tell you exactly what he was singing about, but my body knew what was happening—I kept swaying and moving to the beat without even trying. I couldn’t stop. I enjoyed it—very much.

Starting off with the quintessential Blues song, this album contains many greats, especially the opening track and, for me personally, “The Blues Had A Baby And Named It Rock”, and “Crosseyed Cat.” It also contains a couple of oddballs that prevent me from giving it a full five. But this is the Chicago Blues at its very finest!

some passionate blues

Mannish Boy!

Ok blues

Album felt very repetitive. Most of it blended together. A lot of the songs dragged and were hard to understand on the first listen. Tracks 3 and 5 were high point of the album for me. The rest blended together

I really liked the first song. They all had a fun swag to them. Had me dancing like Elvis with the hip thing. It’s ultimately charming in a way and just fun.

Absolutely classic blues sound. Excellent harmonica use and guitar is so good so clean.

blues ist nicht so meins aber ich mochte das album trotzdem. würde aber nicht nochmal hören bzw mir songs davon anhören

There are no bad tracks on this album…but not much that stands out to me either. I don’t think I’m much of a Blies fan. Most of the songs sounded very similar to me. While I wouldn’t mind it as background music, I don’t think it’s something I would actively choose to listen to again.

It's everything blues, which I really like! Almost has a 'live in a dive'-vibe, that comes through.

Astounding blues album. One of my favourite albums I've never heard that this 1001 albums list has given me. Each track is terrific. THIS is what the blues can and should sound like. Buddy was in his 60s when this was released, and he absolutely owns it. Can't say much more other than absolutely great.

Damn I love the blues! I've always wanted to listen to Muddy Waters, just hadn't gotten around to it fully. I've loved what I've heard though, and this record is certainly no exception. Having been playing and recording the blues for decades at this point, Waters exudes comfort and absolute confidence in what he's doing. His presence is highly charismatic; the music itself feels almost more like a backdrop to him than anything else. That's not dismissing the other musicians on here, especially the absolutely fantastic James Cotton on harmonica, who even steals the show from Muddy Waters in a few stunning showcases of skill. Overall there's a good mix of more laid back storytelling and driving, raffish, blues mastery.

Just didn’t hit the spot for me like BB King does.

I’m sure this is a fine album for people who really like this type of music. I don’t hate it but it’s not something I would go out of my way to hear.

In the wise words of the 2020s trend: “Smash, next question”

Kinda my first time listening to blues and I don’t hate it, I prefer listening to more like slow jazz or alternative jazz but this is good, the guitar is really what stands out to me, Also my first time listening to this artist so this is a plus

Ніколи раніше не слухала блюз. Вайбік рок-н-ролу. Цікаво. До середини першої пісні повторюваний патерн гітари починає набридати. Занадто монотонно. 2 пісня вже кантрі нагадує. 3 досить непогана. 4 теж. 5 таке собі, зовсім шось странне, десь посередині кантрі між і блюзом. 6 вже більше рок-н-рол, ця досить гарна. 7 шось задовга якась. 8 гарна. 9 задовга.

I feel like a drunk man in a far west town's saloon.

Great blues — guitar riffs really good.

Geweldig blues album. Als ie eenmaal "the blues got soul" zingt, raakt dat me diep. Heerlijk hoe dit album de blues, soul en rock 'n' roll compleet omarmt en niet pretendeert wat anders te zijn dan wat het is. Simpel, uit het hart, prachtig 8

The blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll easily best song name and song

An album I WANT to like a hell of a lot more than I actually do. Guess I'm really not a blues fan...

Straight up and down Blues, with the world's most harmonica tone

wonderful album, so fun and out of my comfort zone. i really enjoyed it.

Bluesy and fun but wouldn’t probably listen to again

Need to relisten mostly for how good the melodies are- incredibly upbeat. A very pleasant listen.

Not my kind of vibe, but I know he’s a legend

Not normally a big blues fan but this album rocked. 7.5/10 would listen again

Was not a fan… lowkey didnt get through more than like two songs liked his voice though

Hard Again is a reminder that the blues doesn’t have to be polite, tasteful, or preserved under glass. It’s visceral and muscular, the opposite of the vanilla, overly reverent blues records that drain the life out of the form. This sounds alive. Loud, physical, and unapologetic. Muddy Waters owns every second of this album. The songs may be built from familiar blues shapes, but he bends them completely to his will. His voice carries authority without strain, and the band knows exactly when to push and when to clear space. Nothing feels ornamental. Everything serves momentum and presence. What really sets this apart is how direct it feels. There’s no sense of late-career nostalgia or cleanup. It’s raw in a way that adds power rather than sloppiness, and it proves that personality and conviction matter far more than novelty. Muddy doesn’t reinvent the blues here. He reclaims it. This is an easy five for me. A late-career album that sounds urgent, confident, and fully inhabited. Blues as a living force, not a genre exercise.

The Blue’s King Muddy Waters!

Good casual listen

good but meehhhh

Yeah I am unfortunately not a fan of blues. I tried to like it, I really tried. This music needs a specific mood, I need to get into my long black dress, smoke a cigarette and have a glass of wine, go to a nice bar and listen to this type of music. I liked some songs, Crosseyed cat and I can't be satisfied are good, but overall not my genre

Outstanding hard rocking Chicago blues. "I Want To Be Loved" is in my top songs playlist.

Really enjoyed. Loved the mixture of an old sound with a bigger, more modern production. Will listen again!

The musical embodiment of "I THINK I GOT MY SWAGGER BACK" (7/10, 4/5 on this scale) (Update: 3/5 on this scale)

A really solid example of this type of blues. Really enjoyed it, great energy.

I really liked the guitars and the up eat nature of the album. it made me want to go to a jazz club and go dancing and shit

Ca 3mal glosst willi nie s review abgeh han. Und glaub je meh ichs glisst han desto besser. We feelin good today. 4 xmax lights and muddy tannebaum

Great record, but can’t touch the Chess sides or the Newport album. Seems odd that this one made the list.

I think I may have become a Hoochie Coochie Man just through listening to this.

One of, if not the, best to ever do it. This album was great.

SLAPS! And the last song (Walkin' Thru the Park) is the cherry on top

All the songs sounded fairly similar.

good vibes

bom, lembra led zeppelin

Morceau légèrement trop similaire malgré des moments de génies, bon dans l’ensemble

Ohhh so when people talk about the blues they mean this

Love the sound of this album, amazing blues. Great instrumentation, voice is incredible. Songs are just VERY long for how one dimensional some of them are. First song is one riff repeated for over 5 minutes. Great riff... Way too long Bus Driver, felt like it was building for the entire song... all 7 minutes of it. No release.

banger to start the album can't lie

Hard not to enjoy Muddy

Another album where I thought it was cool, but wouldn’t necessarily listen again. The production was great, and I can see how this helped usher blues into the 70s

Classic bluesy-blues. Muddy Waters is iconic & always a great listen. These are familiar songs, I enjoy his style & voice.

traditional blues lyrics used women, the devil, trains, etc. as allegories so they could complain about slavery, racism, and oppression without saying the quiet part out loud. Not that I think women should be used as a metaphor for slavery, but it was a different time! It does make modern white dudes covering/stealing the songs even more sus though. I don't have the receipts, but there are some really good essays out there that take a deep dive on the subject if you want to get your nerd on. That being said I enjoy some good horny blues.

It's a good, if standard, blues album - there's no denying Waters' place in history, but I don't find Hard Again to be unique among his catalog... with only space for 1001 albums, I may have picked an earlier work.

Pretty cool

Zuhause, Gerstetten, Deutschland. Sehr geile Scheibe!

I would have never thought this would be something I would listen to but I'm glad I did 8.5/10

Too american for me. Состарившийся (и избитый) звук, мне кажется с этим даже спорить смысла нет... Короче мне скучно и неинтересно. До конца не дослушала

Mannish Boy: 5/5 Bus Driver: 3/5 too long I want to be loved #2: 2/5 Jealous Hearted Man: 3/5 I Can't Be Satisfied: 3/5 The Blues Had a Baby...: 3/5 Deep Down in Florida: 4/5 Crosseyed Cat: 3/5 Little Girl: 1/5 Walkin' through the past: 2/5 While enjoyed it for the most part, the same blues groove over and over again gets tiresome. same goes for the repetitive sound of the harmonica, particularly in the later tracks.

Not bad

The riffs are great but the songs are two to three times too long. Didn't fall in love with this one.

Blues are not my groove. This was ok. ★★★

I think Muddy Waters should be on the list. Electric blues is essential listening. There is a good amount of variation in each of the songs as well so it doesn't get too samey. My young kids were on board even for the first two tracks before they wanted me to play something else which is as great of praise as I could try to turn into words here.

Despues de la primera cancion del album, es un cantante para escuchar en una tarde de un fin de semana con una bebida en las rocas y un buen ambiente de luces. Es un muy buen cantante, se quedara para esas tardes para contemplar la nada.

Wow, I have no words. Mind blown... Incredible album

Pure blue

Nearly only gave it a 4, but yeah, it's too good so it's a 5.

Just ok.

Classic Chicago Blues! Can’t go wrong! However I think Muddy’s earlier stuff is better.

Day 3 of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die with @marmeu. This is pretty good, but to me, it's boring, like painfully boring. The tracks averaged out to a 70 but I'm giving it a 61 because like this is so just average, and I don't know why? It sounds like something that I would really like, but I guess not. It's a solid record. 61/100

Johnny Winter's muscular production showcases Muddy Water's talents and enthusiasm for the material and the collaboration. This is pure Chicago Blues at it's finest.

Classic blues , fun listen

Hard Again was the name of Houmous & Chutneys famous viagra sponsored album. Commercially it just didn’t work. Music shouldn’t be written purposely towards the promotion of the product. 3.4 2/10 Bus Driver

This is what I'm talking about! Muddy on guitar, Joe Cotton on harp, Johnny Winter runnin' the knobs. This is top tier, nitty gritty, gettin' down and dirty blues and I loved every minute of this record. I will be back to this one.

This kinda slaps. The Instrumentalization is really good, especially the Harmonica. The vocals feel honest, and the whole package ends up being entertaining - you almost wanna start dancing to it, lots of energy in it. Standout tracks are probably I Want To Be Loved, Crosseyed Cat and Little Girl, but it's consistently good throughout.

Great groove.

Favourite Songs: I Want To Be Loved #2

Blues just scratches an itch in my brain every time I listen to it. what’s not to love about this album

Discazo de blues 5/5

This is great

I don’t mind the Blues but this one just didn’t smack me in the face. Maybe there’s better Muddy Waters albums?

“Mannish Boy” is the source of cliché blues music and it is great

Not a huge blues guy, sounds cool but not really my thing. 5/10

It doesn't get much more classic blues than this. What kind of guitar is that at the end of Jealous Hearted Man? It reminds me of the one in Train Kept Rollin by Aerosmith.

not into blues at all. not for me.

A banger right from the opening track.

Correcto

Some interesting lyrics

First track is a classic and sounds great here. Gets a bit samey eventually.

Bluesy goodness.

I'm not impressed by the vocals nor the instrumental. The tracks have a similar sound to them that gets tiring halfway through the album.

3rd album with group. Good Songs - Mannish Boy, Bus Driver, I Want to be Loved, Jealous Hearted Man, I Can't be Satisfied, The Blues Had a Baby and they Named it Rock and Roll, Deep Down in Florida, Crosseyed Cat, Little Girl, and Walkin' thru the Park. Bad Songs - Nothing. Unlike some other people I can appreciate a rock classic. Muddy Waters probably isn't as good as Little Richard but songs like Mannish Boy were very influential and are classics.

Honestly, I have not really listened to all that many albums all the way through, and this was one of my first. On top of that, it was a classic blues album, which I have never really sat down to listen. This may be one of my new favorite cooking music genres, especially starting with this album, it was absolutely amazing. From the grungy vocals to the phenomenal harmonica, I found myself wanting more even after the 49 minute time of the album. If someone was looking for an album to start with in the blues genre, this is what I would recommend. Just blown away.

Muddy Waters is a legend!

At Newport 1960 was one of the first 25 albums I had to listen to for this challenge and I can’t say it was a favorite – there wasn’t a whole lot of variety on show and I didn’t find its “live” aspect to be particularly compelling. That said, I want to like Muddy Waters and the experience certainly wasn’t awful last time around, so I was happy to get a proper studio album from him as today’s assignment! Unfortunately, I think I’m going to have to throw in the towel and take the L because Hard Again still isn’t really doing it for me. I hate to be the guy who doesn’t “get” an artist as beloved and influential as Muddy Waters, but I can’t make myself love an artist whose entire output I’ve heard is the same 3-4 formulas reused over and over. There are nine tracks on Hard Again and seven of them are twelve-bar blues. These songs are fine (perhaps even great) in a vacuum, but hearing one after another in an album format gets old fast. “Bus Driver” felt like a highlight until I heard the nearly-identical “Jealous Hearted Man” two tracks later and I couldn’t really connect with the rest of the twelve-bar tracks after that point. I truly mean no disrespect to Muddy and his influence on popular music, but legacy only elevates my enjoyment so much and I have to judge Hard Again by the same metrics as any other album. Any LP where 75% of the material is the same genre/structure/progression is probably not going to be one I’m eager to jump back into, even if listening through it was generally a positive experience. Highlights: Mannish Boy, I Can’t Be Satisfied

Not my favorite Muddy record, but it’s still him.

Love this album! Song great fundamental blues songs.

Great comeback

Classic blues, in fact if I were to recommend a quintessential blues album I'd probably go for this one.

An excellent album with some 5 star songs!

meu mano águas lamacentas mandava muito puta merda

blues de ótima qualidade, hein. chei de energia, gaitinhas e guitarrinhas. divertidaço!!

Шикарно. Настоящий блюз, но при этом качественно записанный, с жирным звуком. Особенно впечатляет работа губной гармошки. Между 4 и 5. Половина треков прям мощнейшие

Well, it was a fun listen, and I probably wouldn't mind listen to it again once enough time has passed. The production is great and the performances are great (though sometimes too many things are vying for attention at the same time). But let's be real, how much can you listen to the same riff on repeat? You can walk away from this album for 5 minutes and come back and pretty much have missed nothing.

Playful joy

Pretty fire

Chock full of classic muddy waters songs, harmonica goes a bit too hard but that just the blues

Great Songs: Mannish Boy, Bus Driver, Jealous Hearted Man, Good Songs: I Want To Be Loved #2, The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Rock, Crosseyed Cat, Little Girl Mid Songs: I Can't Be Satisfied, Deep Down In Florida, Walkin' Thru The Park Bad Songs:

Using all stellar artists for a backup band, it was hard to tell who was in control of this album. Most cuts were messy instrumentalists vs intramentalists vying for attention. In one song, it sounded like 3 guitar solos going on at once while pitted against the harmonica. A bit of a mess. I don't think this is the Muddy Waters that I want to be associated with.

Love muddy waters. Not as good as his live album

At first I was just happy to hear blues from an actual bluesman rather than classic rockers. Album starts out fine but really won me over in the second half. A good time with good music.

I don’t know if I love this because yesterday was Scum by Napalm Death or because it’s an amazing album (it’s option 2)

Classic blues. Lively and true.

The songs sound similar (awesome) and I can see so much of his influence in the music to follow.

Blues doesn't get much better than this. I've never been able to fully get into the blues because the repetitive nature of the songs gets to be a little too much for me, and that was part of my experience with this album. But Muddy Waters is obviously at the top of the mountain for the Blues and it was great to experience his music this way. The energy and conviction are incredible. The album is also mixed extremely well - perfectly balanced, every instrument comes through clearly, the whole album sounds amazing.

Yes!

Blues again! Killer album by another esteemed blues man. Reading the Keith Richard's book got me digging into these blues cats. Really the essential blueprint of Rock and Roll. Chicago Blues at its finest

Iconic.

Good blues

This is my first time listening to this Muddy Waters album. I feel like this is a really good recording of Muddy's style of blues. If you enjoy that, you'll really like this album. I'd listen to this album again.

Definitely a blues album...... can't deny that

Brilliant and wide ranging blues. The blues has a baby and named it rock & roll!

Hard to bat against a legendary name such as muddy waters but this album is essentially 9 retreads of mannish boy (which is still excellent)

A good blues album. And that can't go over 3/5 for me, unfortunately. It gets a little boring after a while.

I didn’t think he was still around that late. What a masterpiece. Nice to see a blues album

Vill också ha sån energi vid 64! Är ju också svag för evigt gitarrunk :)

I wasn't sure if this was considered one of the essential blues releases out there, but public opinion seems to suggest so. I'm really only familiar with Muddy Waters by name, but that Chicago blues sound is always unmistakable and comfy to hear. "Mannish Boy" has pretty much all of the blues standards that you & I have heard. A pretty easy listen honestly, if not only for the fact that it's basically Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter & co. just jamming out.

Damn, this would be fun in a pool hall with a few beers. Plus, Mannish Boy!!

Hard hitting blues by one of the masters.

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not bad, all songs sound similar

Not too much to say on it, but fairy enjoyable album

Smooth blues, harmonica sounds reminds me of Roseanne at times

Enformigt och ljuvligt. Vilken badass gubbjävel.

It's one hell of a sample of Chicago blues. From a modern perspective it's easy to hear pentatonic jams over a 12 bar blues and think it sounds cliched, but it would be silly to listen to one of the founders of the genre and complain that he fits too neatly into the genre conventions. This probably won't go in the usual rotation but I'm sure I'll pull up some Muddy Waters again if I find myself in the right mood.

Fun times. I don't know that I'd listen to it again, I'm not a huge blues person, but Mannish Boy nearly had me shouting along with the Yeahs in the background. It's really getting a four more for appreciation of the craftsmanship and the artist than how much I personally, subjectively liked it, but I can live with that. (Also didn't know about the Johnny Winter connection and late career revival. Neat!) probably not adding to collection but might listen to it down the road

Pretty samey.

Muddy is a gift to the world. Johnny is a gift to the world. When they are together... Whooh! Easy five. Music to live to.

Classic blues - love it.

Classic blues, so great. Not something I see myself revisiting often.

Very good blues album, good bits of rock can be heard in here that’s clearly been inspiration for many to come. 4/5

Damn good 2nd wave blues rock. I made my bones in my early teens with Muddy and I'll continue to appreciate him until I'm dead and cold. A particular standout on this is the track is Mannish Boy. I don't know how many versions of this track that I have listen to over the years but it never gets old. This particular version sounds like the one on Muddy's greatest hits album, although the vocal delivery in the intro and first verse sounds different. But alas. Timeless electrocharged blues rock. Cutting edge for '77 and still relevant in the big '25. As I used to say "bump this til your grandkids are sick of it".

Mannish Boy and the rest!

Great blues album!

I really enjoyed this.

Pretty consistent album and nice rock with blues. Honestly basic blues 1970s album.

Not for me. Good for its genre. I just don’t enjoy that genre. It didn’t help that I had a headache while I listened to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-bZSTLHJm4

Tänd en mental cigarett, häll upp ett dricksglas bourbon och ropa "HEY!". Detta är något annat än bluesbaren på Hornsgatan. Vif. Tunga musiker, tung gubbe. Härligt med hyfsat modern produktion. Nåja 1977 men det är inte inspelat via burktelefon som den mesta bluesen man hört. Sen känns det åtminstone som att allt är en tagning. Det gör detta till den bästa bluesen jag hört. Alla kör fullt blås hela tiden.

I never really liked "Mannish Boy" that much, which became a top-ten hit in The Netherlands in 1988, due to, by all means, a televised Levi's commercial. But listening closer to this album, I can really hear where the Stones, Faces, Led Zeppelin and other blues rock bands of the late sixties got their inspiration from, especially on "Bus Driver" or "I Can't Be Satisfied". "Hard Again" is in particular interesting because it's from 1977, not the '60s and it was Muddy's comeback album produced by Johnny Winter. So he was basically reclaiming his sound after watching white British and American bands make millions playing his style of blues. The raw energy on it is incredible. This is not bad - in fact, this is at times even better than the aforementioned bands. If you like them, you can't deny this album. I do, so 4/5.

Now this is some hard blues. It's good, with an impressive flow, but the further you get into the album the less each song stands out.

The opening track, Mannish Blues, uses THE iconic blues riff. Blues done on the electric guitar is new to me and something that I welcome. It's more raw and transcends time. Blues isn't really my thing with how samey it can sound and this album suffers from it. I feel like there's only a couple ways to play a harmonica, but my god do they play it well.

nothing for me

Very fun oldies

I hope the title doesn't mean what I think it means. Saved a song: N RYM: N

A blues- album full of energy and great harmonica- play. And "Mannish Boy" rocks ("Hard Again)"! Not my every day choice. Nonetheless strong three stars! 3,5

very nice blues album nothing extraordinary

solid

Masterpiece. Full of “from the soul” blues. From beginning to end, Muddy Waters gave his all on this album. 5/5 recommend to anyone, regardless of whatever your favorite genre is.

Old school blues will good sounds, but most of the tracks were too repetitive to me.

Classic

Klasyczny blues to nie jest do końca moja bajka. Mogę posłuchać, będzie to nawet fajne doświadczenie, ale sam po to raczej nie sięgnę. Mimo to kawał dobrej płyty, zasługuje na dobrą ocenę.

Good, have LP

Super

On it's own, this is a very good album. However compared to the records Muddy recorded earlier it's just missing something. Listen to the sides he recorded for Chess & before.

Nasty good mix on the first track I can't be satisfied guitar is awesome - this is my favorite track The blues had a baby named rock 'n' roll and I definitely have an easier time listening to said baby due to the twelve bars of it all

Classic blues, what's not to like

A bit repetitive, can only take some much simple 12 bar blues without some cranking solos.

Enjoyable but some of the songs sounded a bit similar by the end. Nice change of pace, slower album

thoroughly enjoyed

I truly hate this. 1.5/5 just because the first song is semi-good.

some of this is really very nice. especially CrossEyed Cat but it's so samey it all sort of bleeds together.

Pretty generic blues, really didn’t blow me away

Um album maravilhoso de se ouvir

Great vibes

The man knew what he was doing

Important but not incredible as an album 60 years on

Is there such a think as a perfect album? This comes close. One of the greatest musicians of the 20th century playing the apotheosis of the blues/rock he co-invented--it doesn't get better than this. The version of Mannish Boy on here is fire, as are like 4 or 5 other songs. The whole thing sounds like it was recorded live, and like your listening to it in a little concert hall, absolute gold.

Subtract a star from this impeccable artist, on this album, only because the richer instrumentation IMO obfuscates the raw energy of Waters. Dare I say it MUDDIES THE WATERS, but seriously folks. It feels indelibly marked in the post-Last-Waltz period; indeed his guitarist joined The Band with Muddy during that magical show. I was hoping that the harp player was Paul Butterfield, but no, he was gone by ‘77. My favourite track on this record is I Can’t Be Satisfied; it feels like half the band went on a beer run late at night, someone picked up a slide, and they just went for it. Raw, swung and funky. Makes me think of a gold-plated CD of his glorious second album on which he mostly plays solo. Many hours spent with Adam listening to that one.

Holy 1-4-5 Batman! Ya that's definitely a bluesy album. That first one was pretty repetitive. I think the rest weren't too bad.

Great blues.