Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
From 1950 to 1958, Chess issued 15 singles that reached the top 10 of Billboard magazine's R&B chart. [10] Among the many albums the label released are the influential early compilation The Best of Muddy Waters (1958) and the live At Newport 1960 .
The Best of Muddy Waters is a greatest hits album by Muddy Waters released by Chess Records in April 1958. The twelve songs were originally issued as singles between 1948 and 1954 and most appeared in Billboard magazine's top 10 Rhythm & Blues Records charts. The album is the first by Waters and the third by Chess on the long playing (or LP ...
Muddy Waters was married to his first wife, Mabel Berry, from 1932 to 1935. [56] Muddy Waters' second wife, whom he married in the 1940s, Geneva Wade, died of cancer on March 15, 1973. Gaining custody of three of his children, Joseph, Renee, and Rosalind, he moved them into his home, eventually buying a new house in Westmont, Illinois.
The Anthology: 1947–1972 is a double compilation album by Chicago blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. It contains many of his best-known songs, including his R&B single chart hits "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man", "Just Make Love to Me (I Just Want to Make Love to You)", and "I'm Ready". Chess and MCA Records released the set on August 28 ...
In the United States, the album debuted at number 12 on the Billboard 200 on the week of December 28, 1996 and stayed on the chart for 17 weeks. On the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, Muddy Waters repeated the success of his predecessor, Dare Iz a Darkside, also debuting at number-one. A little more than 2 months later, on February 12 ...
Hard Again is a studio album by American blues singer Muddy Waters.Released on January 10, 1977, it was the first of his albums produced by Johnny Winter. [1] Hard Again was Waters's first album on Blue Sky Records after leaving Chess Records and was well received by critics.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Muddy Waters was recording the type of music that helped the blues survive as a commercially viable type of music. "Long Distance Call" was recorded on 23 January 1951, with Little Walter on harmonica and Ernest "Big" Crawford on bass, in a session that also produced "Too Young To Know", "Honey Bee", and ...
The Essential Collection is a 20-song compilation of the music of Muddy Waters, spanning work from 1950 through to 1972.The album, released in 2000 by Universal Music Group's Spectrum Records, complements much of his original work with many songs that went on to become classics of the British Invasion when used by other artists.