At Newport 1960

I haven't really listened to much blues before this album, but I really feel like I should listen to more. You can hear the sounds that influenced so many other bands, and it's a fun album all the way through, even the softer songs are just really rock solid. Muddy's voice rings loud and clear throughout all the songs but never seems to drown out the rest of the band, and he seems so cool throughout the entire performance. It's a very high quality recording as well for how old it is. I like this album a lot. Favorite Tracks: Tiger In Your Tank, I Feel So Good, Got My Mojo Working Pt. 2, Goodbye Newport Blues

great album; "I've Got My Mojo Working" really gets it going. Part of the lyrics in "Soon Forgotten" are "The 12th of April in 1951". That's a long, long time ago.

there haven't been many blues albums on this list, but that means the albums that do make the cut have something extra about them. well, this live album performed by muddy waters is something special. the audience in 1960 maybe wasn't as vocally loud as other live albums here, but their excitement in their clapping and call-and-response is evident. while waters' voice isn't as clear due to quality, his joy of singing is infectious. waters is a common influence among the most popular rock and roll musicians, so much so that he's frequently listed as an influence for those inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame in addition to be inducted himself as an early influence in 1987. listening to this album, when i hadn't listened to much of waters beforehand, made this clear to me. several of these songs written by waters have been covered and have become concert staples for other artists. the peppy riffs in "i'm your hoochie coochie man" are early rock if i've ever heard it!

Not my typical type of music but enjoyed it

1960?! Wow. And you tell me that was all live? Impressive. Really chill and jazzy composition.

This is a really pleasant listen

non me ne intendo di jazz, ma è ok

Great singing, great voice, nice tunes. Enjoyed every track. Music wasn't impactful to me like that, but was fun still.

The genuine article –  it doesn't get much simpler, direct or better than this. The voice is an instrument in itself – dark, deep and resonant – which he uses to great effect with the incantatory phrasings. One loves the big noise from the small combo, and the free bashing of the drummer. The hideously overused word icon certainly applies here, and to this landmark recording. The mojo was working and continues to work. Biggest issue is that it's not long enough but one is certainly not anxious to begrudge MW a relatively brief workday.

Blues in its truest electric form. The man who “invented electricity”. All of this sounds so basic now, but all these decades later, it still kicks with some passion and emotion.

Classic blues album, really enjoyed the listen. Lyrics were really good and top notch blues guitar

Imagine being in the audience, slowly warming up to Water’s charismatic performance until you’re out on the dance floor having the time of your life. As a jazz & blues newbie I can’t say whether this is a good intro point to Muddy Water’s music or to blues in general, but I enjoyed it so much that it’s on regular rotation since I got it last Friday.

Love blues

I like the jazz and vocals.

Muddy!

I was able to listen to most of the album. Really enjoyed this one.

chillen op de titanic

Ik moet echt eens alle live blues classics beluisteren. Deze was al top!

One of my favorite albums of all time

Great and bluesy

Great blues, great guitar.

7/10. I spent a while trying to figure out what a "taggle" was, and why you'd put it in someone's tank before I saw the name of the song.

Yeah that’s definitely the blues. 8/10

Not a mahusive blues fan but this really is very good. Full of filthy innuendo all the way with a top-notch live band. Everything is tight and concise with tons of blues personality from Muddy.

Sick set.

Straight blues. I liked the driving feel. Not too bad.

I like jazz so this was a good album!

Just a solid blues album. I always enjoy when you can hear the crowd, especially in blues recordings. Super fun. Favorite tracks: "Got My Mojo Working Part 1", "Baby, Please Don't Go"

Lovely

good album.

If it happened at Newport Jazz festival in the 50's/60's chances are it probably slap'd. 4.5/5

Classic blues.

That's a great performance - captured so well - and great musicianship

Had heard a couple tracks by him before but never dove deeper. Not really the sort of thing i would have normally sought out, but I'm quite pleased i took the time to listen. Good stuff.

ALBUM RATING: 3.6 ALBUM GRADE: B- TRACK RATINGS: 1. I Got My Brand on You - 3.5 2. I’m Your Hooch Koochie Man - 3.5 3. Baby, Please Don’t Go - 4.0 4. Soon Forgotten - 4.0 5. Tiger in Your Tank - 3.0 6. I Feel So Good - 3.5 7. Got My Mojo Working - 3.5 8. Got My Mojo Working, Pt. 2 - 3.5 9. Goodbye Newport Blues - 4.0

Traditional electric blues instrumentation. Was a big influence on many electric blues on rock players. Traditional yet super clean. I love how in blues tunes they talk about their problems, but they don’t usually ever get resolved. Makes for an easier tune to write for sure. Will listen to more Muddy Waters in the future for sure.

Initial thoughts: fun instrumentals, fantastic vocals, couldn’t care less about the lyrics. Feels raw and “alive” since it’s live, which I like. Final thoughts: pretty much exactly the same as the initial thoughts. Every song sounded really similar but I like the style they’re going for so I can’t complain too much.

Blues at its peak.

Love that sound.

I enjoyed this, felt very raw and real.

Nice blues.

Enjoyable.

Listened before: no Enjoyed: yes Listens: 5

Fantastic live energy on this one, you can hear the crowd reacting and dancing and it's no surprise. You can definitely hear a lot of later rock and metal sounds in their early stages on this record.

Essential blues with such assuredness, ruggedness and clarity to the soul and heart of quintessential American music.

I've heard of Muddy Waters, but I'm unsure if I could name some of his songs off the top of my head. I really enjoyed this recording and I definitely want to check out his other discography.

badass blues man. I mean... I wouldn't write a song about having my brand on a woman but you know... different times.

Such fun vibes of classic songs - great live album

Listened to on 8/9/22 4/5 Favorite song: I Feel So Good It started raining during this jazz album and I was SO here for it - easy to listen to and for someone who usually doesn’t like live music this was phenomenal

Great album to listen to if you love blues rock. Especially listening to one of the pioneers for it.

Muddy Waters is a classic, and this is an excellent recording of an excellent performance, that gives a real sense of what it was like in person.

Good

Not a lot of time on my side this week but I did give this a quick listen. Good renditions of Hoochie Koochie and others. Interesting story about the concert too. This album doesn't have a lot of his gems. I assume Muddy won't have any others on the 1001 and he deserves a 4 for his contribution to the Chicago blues scene.

There are some classic blues numbers here, well-delivered. I prefer the slower numbers that give Muddy and his musicians time to stretch out. Muddy's guitar is often less up front but the interplay with the piano and harp is very nice. With BB King at the Regal the insane club crowd stole the show, but here they are more laid back (maybe because 300+ had been arrested for drunkeness the day before). Many of the glowing reviews of this LP talk about the live performance and it's great part of the performance is on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLTCIqfsefc

very good blues album. Great sound and enjoyable.

so good and honest

Loving the variety in the albums that are suggested.

I don't consider myself a blues afficionado. Blues to me conjures up images of a weird high school teacher who would roam the campus with a harmonica or listening to the blues. So this is probably the first blues album I have ever listened to. And what an introduction. What an amazing voice and energy. The recording is clear and the musicality is evident. Really enjoyed this.

A glimpse of a master at work. This is the blues. Not at its most flashy but at its realest. Would have been great to be here. Not the most interesting thing I’ve ever heard so I’ll give it a 4.

I can see why he is so influential. As an album not sure I like having the songs repeated a few times, but they are all different.

Very early Blues, which I haven’t listened to much of. The band play perfectly together. ‘Goodbye Newport Blues’ is 100% my favourite. Very mellow and somber, jazzy. Although I did like ‘Soon Forgotten’ too.

Fantastic live blues album.

Yes

Soul food time machine

p53. 1960. 4.5 stars. Damn I love blues, and this is as pure as it gets. Half a point deducted for being a live album, but other than that it's perfect.

Appreciate the amazing guitar, but just not my kinda of music

I’ve actually never heard of Muddy Waters before this and damn, I enjoyed this album. It’s the blues at its finest. I don’t know much about the blues as some others probably do but this is a nice introduction to the genre. There isn’t really a miss on this album, and it’s an album I’ll probably save to go back to. Fav tracks: I’ve got my brand on you, goodbye Newport, meanest lady

Can't really judge blues, whether from the Chicago school or any other school. I understand that the way those sorts of songs are performed is pivotal for someone to dig them, but those nuances are simply not graspable to me. So I yes, I can't really judge, at least subjectively. One of the only blues records I have in my collection is the Complete Recordings of Robert Johnson. I guess that doesn't really make me an expert. But in this live album, Muddy Waters still sounds like the real thing to my admittedly ignorant ears. So I'm gonna trust the real experts when they're saying this particular record just changed the lives of thousands and thousands of youths at the time (including The Stones, Clapton, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and countless others), first in the States and then in the UK. This record was released in 1960, and it's one of the very first blues live album ever recorded. I've also noticed lots of Willie Dixon-penned tracks in there too, so I imagine he's worth checking out as well. And of course, I imagine you'd need to add "Mannish Boy" to all this (or Bo Diddley's "I'm A Man", which is basically the same song), to get a broader picture of the powers of that Chicago School. You gotta start somewhere, right? I can also understand the mystique around this album, given the circumstances in which it was recorded, i.e. during a festival that got almost cancelled because of the rioting that had occured there. There are lots of interesting anecdotes about all that online, but I won't delve into them right now, just do the research yourself if you're interested. The bottom line is that this gig (and recording) could have never existed, and popular music during the sixties and beyond would have been slightly different than what it turned out to be. So the words "culturally relevant" don't even do justice to how important this record is (and for once, this clearly goes beyond personal tastes). Those sorts of stakes are best exemplified through the last despondent track, "Goodbye Newport Blues", written right before the gig, with lyrics by none other than poet Langston Hughes--here sung by pianist Otis Spann (given that Muddy was too exhausted from his overall performance before, a performance which included classics such as "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Got My Brand On You", "Tiger In Your Tank" and two hectic renditions of "I've Got My Mojo Workin'"). Probably referring to the climate of violence around the festival (partly sparked by the police repression), pianist Spann mourns about what a "gloomy day" it is as he sings goodbye to Newport. And yet, as sad as it sounds, something poignant and truly magical is happening here, as magical as the sudden whisps of wind that can be heard in many parts of this quite "barebones" recording (The show occured in the open, by the way, hence those sounds of wind. This can be seen in the photograph for the cover, for example, even though Waters used a different guitar for the gig than the one he's holding for that picture--and there's even an interesting tidbit to learn about that semi-acoustic guitar on the cover, but that's for you to find out as well...). So, why am I focusing on this tiny moment of the recording? Why is it *magical*? The reason is this: during "Goodbye Newport Blues", Spann indeed laments: "What's gonna happen to my music? What's gonna happen to this song?". What's truly magical here is that the answer to that desperate query came in the many waves of great US and UK acts who would feel inspired by this record (and other ones like that) in the years that followed 1960. Those inspired youths all heard Spann's call, as if carried away by that wind which breezes through the speakers as you're spinning this very record. And they answered it, through the great divides of race, class and even an ocean sometimes. "What's gonna happen to my music? What's gonna happen to this song?" Well, what happened is that it changed the world. Number of albums left to review or just listen to:  more than 900, I've temporarily lost count here Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens:  approximately a half so far (including this one) Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: a quarter Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more important): the last quarter

This was a fun listen.

A great, laid back listen. Perfect blues to have on while working or reading.

I liked the part where he sang about his mojo for 20 minutes

went by fast

Really holds up

I haven’t gotten into blues but this might just do it. I really love the intro part to the first song.

Hop damn doodle

Really liked this one

One of my favorite works from mid century. Fun tracks front to back.

The first Muddy Waters album I got really introduced his style to me, and I found it pretty inspired and surprisingly engaging. This one (while admittedly released 17 years before the other one) is not as "inspired," so I can't put it at the level of that one, but I do love his command of the blues.

Gran rock de los 60

Pretty cool blues album.

Classic Muddy Waters.

Great waters

Great performance by a great bluesman with a great band. 4 stars.

Solid blues/rock n roll album. While I find it odd that this list leans into too many live albums, this is one of the great one. Heard live these tracks are more interesting to my ears as I find Blues can go a bit samey for me. No disrespect to the genre, just not completely my taste. No doubt a hardcore blues fan would think the same of some of the punk and pop I love. Muddy Waters is at the top of his game here and his backing band are tight. This is good stuff

Blues poderoso

forgot how much i loved the blues

4.0 - I love that by the end Muddy Waters turned a polite crowd into converts. Awesome.

Un dels grans directes editats en vinil, amb un Muddy Waters en plena efervescència presentant-se al públic blanc de Newport per primer cop. Referència ineludible de tot el blues rock que havia de venir en el futur i un dels millors directes de blues de la història

-Cool blues jamming. I particularly like "Tiger In Your Tank" and "I've Got My Mojo Working" -Nice guitar and harmonica jamming -Some of the lyrics were pretty repetitive lol

I don't know that I've ever listened to Muddy Waters. So, let's see how this goes...! Well, he's cited by pretty much every blues/rock singer/guitarist ever, and with good reason. This sounds like where it all would have come from. I'm not a connoisseur of the blues, but this was a great listen. Things that stood out to me were the quality of the recording, and how trashy (in a good way) the snare/hi-hats sound. And, I love the tinkling piano flourishes in all the right places. In addition to the guitar and harmonica chops. It's all good. And, I'll put this on again.

gött häng alltså

Svaka cast. Ja ne bi mogla odsvirat ovak nest.

Bilo kakav blues ima posebno mjesto u mom srcu, pogotovo na mamurne nedjelje.

Most enjoyable Chicago Blues album.

Live, in every sense

A great Blues standard, for a live album it sounds perfect like it could be a studio recording aside from the fact you can hear the crowd getting more and more excited throughout the performance, as well as the little audience interaction bits between songs. What's not to like?

first listen love chicago blues

I love blues, and I especially love it live. This did not disappoint. I could hear the energy and low boil burning in his voice. So soulful and intense without being cliché or generic. Loved it!

Great, stomping blues record. Wish the bass had been better recorded, but that's just me I guess. Watching the video footage from this show on YouTube really made the music come alive for me too.

If you wanted a glimpse into what a popular Blues concert was like, while the artist was still young and at their height of popularity look no further. Muddy Waters croons and sings with an energy and magnetism that make it easy to understand how the genre was so popular, and why his voice is such a big part of it and so timeless.

Loistava!

Great sound for a live album - you can hear everything you need to musically. Simple start with I Got my Brand on You (classic blues style). You get to hear a bit more instrument skill on Baby Please Don't Go (listen 1min in). Soon Forgotten shows even more of Muddy Water's guitar skill in particular. But for me, it's I've Got My Mojo Working (both parts) that really lights it up.

Muy agradable y muy bueno

Thoroughly enjoyed this one!

106. Live at Newport - Muddy Waters 13 tracks I'm not a huge blues fan, but this was great. Some Blues feels a little droney & monotonous to me, but this was punchy and kept me engaged. Really enjoyed it. 4/5

quite good, 4 for sure

Love it but I prefer Howling Wolf

Great composition and showmanship. Muddy Waters was incredible and you can feel the passion and energy from everyone involved.

This was pretty good wish the sound was better but the groove is definitely all there 4 🌟

Classic blues album, some great solos. "I'm Your Hoochie Coohie Man" my favourite song on the album.

It was really interesting to see one of the styles that influenced rock music. A few of the songs are great, although the lyrics mostly exist to accompany the music rather than have any interesting meaning.

Very interesting how raw things were 60 years ago.

There's a charisma to this recording that eases itself across time, space, even the setting for the recording (live albums always capture a different kind of energy, I think. There's an intimacy here that is neither a natural presence on the stage or even in the studio.).

Really good blues. Standout track for me was I've Got My Mojo Working Pt 2.

What an amazing talent. What really gets me is the passion that comes through in his use of coloratura and his voice.

Solid Blues album

Puro blues!

Ya he mencionado que el blues puro no es mi máximo, pero aquí hay una presentación impecable. Waters comienza con "I Got My Brand On You" absolutamente animado y simplemente va construyendo la presentación a partir de esa base. El álbum alcanza su punto máximo con "Tiger In Your Hand", "I Feel So Good" y "Got My Mojo Working". La batería, el piano que casi rebota, la armónica asombrosa y, por supuesto, la guitarra y la voz de Waters son probablemente en esta grabación una de las mejores interpretaciones en vivo que he escuchado. El público parece sentir lo mismo, la banda los lleva a gritos histéricos que generalmente se escucharían en esos públicos de niñas adolescentes viendo a los Beatles o a los Monkees y no de los asistentes a un festival de jazz. Dicho eso, la interpretación es impecable pero tampoco siento que el disco sea perfecto, la selección de canciones a veces es extraña y en particular, como habíamos visto en otros discos de la época, eso de grabar dos versiones de la misma canción no me cuadra del todo. Cerca de la grandeza, el hecho que el blues no sea lo mio quizá es lo que lo detiene de la quinta estrella para mí.

Gran disco en vivo. Es una presentación corta. La mejor es Goodbye Newport Blues. 3.5 que sube.

A very enjoyable listen

Solid blues music

Makes me wanna go to blues night

Carino e divertente

Pretty good blues album. In the most positive sense feels like the zenith of commercialized blues. It captures the essence of the genre without feeling like an over indulgence that you might see in other performances.

kind of hard to appreciate it without the historical context or the taste in blues music, but it's alright, it gets better closer to the end

Clearly impressive. Top of his game. Blues isn’t in my normal listening but easy to listen to and appreciate.

Blues de la vieja escuela.

Hoochie coochie

Finísimo blues

Indisputably hugely influential in its time, another building block for rock n roll and music for decades to come, 4 stars because I assume muddy’s music gets even better

yo that last one slaps

Full of soul. You can hear how crazy the crowd are for it.

Uitstekende blues!

Added!

I am familiar with Muddy Waters' name, but I couldn't tell you what his signature songs are or if I have heard them. The album was good enough. I've heard a version of "Got My Mojo Working", but I'm not sure if it was Waters or someone else. "Got My Mojo Working" and "I Feel So Good" were the highlights for me. I'd spin this record again.

Like Genie from Aladdin (the Robin Williams one, not the Will Smith nonsense) rocking an Everton shirt, eating blueberries and riding a blue whale into the deep blue ocean. All the blues.

Really solid blues live album. They had me at “Mojo”. Really awesome if you like Chicago style blues

Soft 4 stars. A clear inspiration to 90% of the music I listen to today. Also this sounds overtly sexual (put my brand on you? Tiger in your tank?!). He has a great voice.

more bluesy than jazzy but lovin it, 4 stas

The blues ate not my thing. This album does have more going for it than your typical blues guitar album. It's got the feel of a jazz album the piano seems as important as the guitar. But every instrument takes a back seat to Muddy Waters vocal performance. I may well have fou d my favorite blues album. 4.5 🌟

Ascoltare il live di Muddy Waters è stata un'esperienza molto piacevole. (C'è anche il video dello stesso concerto su YouTube e merita di essere visto). Allora, di base a me il blues piace, ma, come spesso accade in questi casi, dopo un po' mi scoccio. In questo caso però, c'è stato l'attenuante del live che gli ha dato quel qualcosa di magico in più: un 3.5 che va a 4. (Comunque non me la sarei sentita di dargli 3).

4

Lovely!

Great

Never listened to any Muddy Waters before (except maybe on the radio or something). I really enjoyed this album! Live blues. What's not to like?

When the blues weren’t sad

Wow. Brilliant from the first moment. Loved the vibes.

Essential blues source

In conclusione: Non ce vuole molto a fa' una carbonara decente, ma te la puoi magnà una volta ogni tanto. Quando arriva lo chef che te fa la carbonara non capisci, è bona sì ma alla fine sembra la tua o quella dell'osteria sotto casa. Però fatto sta che te la magneresti pure tutti i giorni. Il blues è la carbonara e Muddy Waters è lo chef.

Il primo pezzo con questo testo fortemente da maschio anni 50 devo ammettere che mi ha mal disposto e ci sono voluti due ascolti e mezzo per farmela passare. Per il resto è un bel album blues che ha molta energia e i musicisti a supporto mi sono piaciuti molto. E' un disco da 3.5, che stavo per punire con un 3 ma mentre scrivevo ho sentito "Got My mojo working pt2" e metto 4.

Classic Blues.

Já conhecia. Sempre agradável

przyjemniak

Классический блюзовый альбом, со всеми плюсами и минусами для прослушивания в 2021. При правильном настроении при прослушивании дает множество полезного для понимания жанра и его приемов. Но даже без этих умственных ухищрений прослушивание альбома приносит удовольствие.

Nice old blues. Class act.

Just really not into blues, soz :(

Basic bitch blues

"I've got my mojo working", gran canción, divertida, energética, percusiones fuertes y entretenido su in crescendo en 2 partes. De lo demás no sé que más comentar, más que fue disfrutable la escucha en general. Buena variedad entre lo movidito y lo melancólico. Mood: quiero romper una guitarra al final de Tiger in your Tank.

Great Blues album, amazing story. Rollin' Stone

me like the vibes

Blues de la vieja escuela.

Una vez más, no sé bien qué decir por el género, pero se oye que todos se la pasaban bomba. Y eso me parece lindo, cómo la gente conecta con la música que disfruta. O sea, también pienso que hay mucho talento, claro y si bien no se me hace distintiva la voz de Muddy Waters (quizá ya dije una tontería), me agrada en general. Creo que la canción que más disfruté fue "I've Got My Mojo Working". Y pues eso, qué legado dejaron los afroamericanos, sin duda. 8/10

chicago jazz sensation

Tres bon album blues. Un des meilleurs que j’ai entend7 dans cette liste. Probablement car c’est du son live. 4.75

Really solid classic blues record. I can forgive the audio quality since it is made up of live recordings from 1960... there’s no way that’ll sound great. Favorite track(s): “Baby Please Don’t Go,” “Feel So Good,” and “Ive Got My Mojo Working”

Really enjoyed this, also has "Baby, please don't go" which is a fantastic song (in Archer).

I had a good time with this. Just having that little bit of audience interaction makes a world of difference in how I receive this kind of music. “When it was all said and done, the water may have been muddy… but the good times were clear.” - Me writing a review of this show for my local newspaper.

damn, he's good. i still have only so much time for the blues, but that was a good album.

I liked this album, but I usually like the 60s albums so not really a surprise. I will admit that I got a little annoyed by the repeat of some songs, but that’s partially my whole not loving live concert albums.

can't believe I'm giving a live album this high of a rating

Great record

Enjoyed this. Effortless swing, the interplay between the harmonica, piano and bass is a joy. Muddy Waters ties it all together with his deep, rich voice. Will definitely be listening to this again.

Still good tunes, 60 years later.

Great

The roots of Chicago blues. Muddy Waters has a great classic sound with both his guitar and his vocals. He laid the foundation for years to come.

Very good classic blues. What else to say.

I enjoyed it

Amazing.

One of the best

Great blues

It's hard not to enjoy blues music

Мадди не зря классика, этот альбом уже слышал, о это не повод чтобы не переслушать еще раз:)

Blues med stort B, live

Solid electric blues. Great energy.

Good old fashioned blues!

Dude sounds like he was a totes a legend.

Classic, you can really see how and why this influenced so many people. Great stuff

Beautiful blues.

Dat sweet blues

Muddy! He's a great guitarist. Some nice blues on this album.

Smooth

Love a bit of the classic ol’ Blues! Easy to listen to/ have in background!

Brilliant

Very cool

Blues legend. Also have a soft spot for live albums, the energy is always unmatched

Great listen.

Musicality was present throughout. Sitting by the pool on a warm summer night in the dim light and enjoying some scotch atmosphere, but also reading a large book in the comfort of your living room atmosphere.

1/19 Love the energy this live album brings, like a glimpse through time. Certainly a classic. Standout Tracks: I Got My Brand On You, Baby Please Don’t Go, I Feel So Good, I’ve Got My Mojo Working

Great stuff - never heard this before.

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

that was kinda cool. relaxing blues music to work to

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

Good tunes but not my style thx

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

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

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

Nice early blues

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Decent but I only listened to like 2 songs

great!

Divertido

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

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

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

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

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

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

decent album

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

Leuk.

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

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

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

good

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

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

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

Tremendous voice

3,5

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

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

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

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

Better than I thought

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

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

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

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

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

aburrido m,e voi. ni auto ni nada

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

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

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

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

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

No se lo que dice pero buen instrumental.

Pretty fun

I like when he goes brrrbbbrrbbbppbbrrpb

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

Solid classic blues album.

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

Good memories

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

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

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

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

Cooool.

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

Lesson

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

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

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

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

Oochie coochie goochie moochie yay

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tress cool mais pas mon style

Groovy baby

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

🙂

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

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

Excellent album. Such good music.

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

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

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

so delightful to listen to. hell yeah

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

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

more interesting read than listen still very fun

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

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