Release date: 24-12-2005 (originally released in 1957)

2005 German speakers corner reissue 12-track LP pressed on high quality 180gram VINYL, Muddy's first for Chess, and aptly titled as the majority of these tracks have served as a major influence on countless bluesmen from The Stones to Van Morrison. Includes such all-time classics as 'I Just Want To Make Love To You', 'Hoochie Coochie' and 'Rollin' Stone', sealed picture sleeve

Tracks:
01. I Just Want To Make Love To You
02. Long Distance Call
03. Louisiana Blues
04. Honey Bee
05. Rollin' Stone
06. I'm Ready
07. Hoochie Coochie
08. She Moves Me
09. I Want You To Love Me
10. Standing Around Crying
11. Still A Fool
12. I Can't Be Satisfied

By the end of the Fifties Muddy Waters had become famous enough to release a record with his own name on the cover. But that it was to be a 'Best of' album was certainly a surprise because the ink had hardly dried on his recording contract with Chess. It was as though the producers had known that with such titles as 'Hoochie Coochie (Man)', 'Honey Bee' and 'I Want You To Love Me Muddy' had come up with blues music which would provide him and numerous cover bands with material for years to come. In those days Waters  blues did not bow to any particular fashion of the times. Dry and raw, he tells his tales to the crystal-clear, metallic sound of the electric guitar. A rhythm group builds the foundation, the melodic counterpart to the vocals is provided by the harp with cuttingly sharp intrusions or whimpering background. Nothing more is needed to experience a truly original blues feeling and one can be both sad and happy that such authentic blues music is available only on record. That s how it was in the Seventies, when Chess released a remake of this record. Now here is the 'original'!