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Track Listing
1. What Is That She Got
2. You Don't Have to Go
3. Strange Woman
4. Blow Wind Blow
5. Country Boy
6. Nine Below Zero
7. Stormy Monday Blues
8. Mudcat
9. Boom, Boom
10. She's Nineteen Years Old - (previously unreleased)
11. C.C. Woman
12. Long Distance Call - (previously unreleased)
Album Notes
Personnel: Muddy Waters (vocals, guitar); Pee Wee Madison, Sam Lawhorn (guitar); Paul Oscher, James Cotton (harmonica); Pinetop Perkins (piano); Calvin Jones (bass); Willie Smith (drums).
Recorded live at Mr Kelly's, Chicago, Illinois on June 11-12, 1971. Originally released on Chess (50012). Includes liner notes by Chris Morris.
Digitally remastered from original Chess masters by Paul Elmore (MCA Studios, North Hollywood, California).
Recorded at one of the most legendary nightclubs of Chicago's South Side on June 11th and 12th, 1971, LIVE AT MR. KELLY'S shows Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) at the height of his considerable powers.
Possibly the best of the Chicago-style blues performers, Waters resisted the late-'60s/early-'70s fashion for blues rock, exemplified by John Lee Hooker's recordings with Canned Heat around this time. Instead, LIVE AT MR. KELLY'S finds Waters and his exemplary band (featuring pianist Pinetop Perkins and the stellar rhythm section of drummer Willie Smith and bassist Calvin Jones) performing classic Chicago blues. Tracks include a storming rendition of Jimmy Reed's "You Don't Have to Go," Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller)'s "Nine Below Zero," Hooker's "Boom Boom," and eight of Waters' own classics like "Country Boy" and "What Is That She Got." This is live blues at its finest.
Industry Reviews
...full of stinging slide and commanding vocals...
Musician (04/01/1993)
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