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Vinyl Grade: VG+
Side A is slightly warped. Tracks 1 & 3 have crackles.
Track 2 has crackles and 1 pop.
Track 5 has rotating noise towards the end.
Side B track 2 has 1 pop.
Track 4 has 1 pop and noise at the end.
Jacket Grade: EX
Michael Fremer's 100 Recommended All-Analog LP Reissues Worth Owning - Rated 89/100!
Now at 33 1/3 RPM!
Mastered By Bernie Grundman From Original 1964 Chess Analog Masters!
200g Vinyl Pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
This item not eligible for any further discount offers!
There are a handful of landmark albums in any genre. In the blues, one of them is Muddy Waters' Folk Singer. It's been an audiophile staple for years. Originally released in 1964, Folk Singer was the only acoustic album Waters ever recorded, thus becoming the first and perhaps best blues concept album ever. Muddy of course started out playing acoustic blues in the Delta, and he's clearly very comfortable in this return to his roots, which was designed to appeal to the mid-1960s surge of interest in folk music.
This recording has enormous presence with ample room for Muddy's booming voice to resonate.
Folk Singer represents a departure from the electric 'urban' blues sound that Muddy Waters pioneered. This all-acoustic collection of recordings illustrates his deep-rooted rural blues influences, reminiscent of the sides he made nearly twenty-five years prior in Mississippi. This release features McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) on vocals and guitar, supported by a very young Buddy Guy on guitar, blues legend Willie Dixon on upright bass and Clifton James on occasional drums.
"Worried that the folk-music fad was luring listeners away from the blues, Chess Records directed Waters to record with acoustic instruments. These sessions by Waters, Willie Dixon and a young Buddy Guy went astonishingly well, and this pioneering "unplugged" set is beloved by blues and folk fans alike." - www.rollingstone.com
Praise for Analogue Productions' 45 RPM edition of Folk Singer:
"The Quality Record Pressing is drop-dead quiet-as silent as the best Japanese pressings from the late 1970s-and the amount of inner detail released is simply astonishing...the sound is sweet, liquid and free of harshness and edge. The dynamics are mind-boggling. When Muddy takes it up ten notches to emphasize a point it's positively explosive in a way the 33 1/3 version only suggests." Music = 9/10, Sound = 10/10! Michael Fremer, musicangle.com.
"How about a 45 RPM set from Analogue Productions' recently launched Quality Record Pressings Facility, mastered by Bernie Grundman, in a beautiful gatefold jacket with extra sessions shots? It's been ages since I've heard LP surfaces this quiet as in dead quiet. The expense and effort that Chad Kassem and company put into this venture are immediately obvious. ... Making music together bring this recording to life as never before. It's by far the best sounding and most engaging version yet... analog lovers will be in hog heaven." Wayne Garcia, The Absolute Sound, May/June, Issue 223
Features:
33 1/3 rpm 200g Vinyl
Double LP
Mastered by Bernie Grundman
Mastered from Original 1964 Chess Analog Masters
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
New Gatefold jacket with extra photos
Limited edition
Musicians:
Muddy Waters, vocals, guitar
Buddy Guy, guitar
Willie Dixon, bass
Clifton James, drums
Selections:
Side 1:
1. My Home Is in the Delta
2. Long Distance
3. My Captain
4. Good Morning School Girl
5. You Gonna Need My Help
Side 2:
6. Cold Weather Blues
7. Big Leg Woman
8. Country Boy
9. Feel Like Going Home
Recorded September 1963 at Ter Mar Recording Studios.
Vinyl Grade: VG+
Side A is slightly warped. Tracks 1 & 3 have crackles.
Track 2 has crackles and 1 pop.
Track 5 has rotating noise towards the end.
Side B track 2 has 1 pop.
Track 4 has 1 pop and noise at the end.
Jacket Grade: EX
Michael Fremer's 100 Recommended All-Analog LP Reissues Worth Owning - Rated 89/100!
Now at 33 1/3 RPM!
Mastered By Bernie Grundman From Original 1964 Chess Analog Masters!
200g Vinyl Pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
This item not eligible for any further discount offers!
There are a handful of landmark albums in any genre. In the blues, one of them is Muddy Waters' Folk Singer. It's been an audiophile staple for years. Originally released in 1964, Folk Singer was the only acoustic album Waters ever recorded, thus becoming the first and perhaps best blues concept album ever. Muddy of course started out playing acoustic blues in the Delta, and he's clearly very comfortable in this return to his roots, which was designed to appeal to the mid-1960s surge of interest in folk music.
This recording has enormous presence with ample room for Muddy's booming voice to resonate.
Folk Singer represents a departure from the electric 'urban' blues sound that Muddy Waters pioneered. This all-acoustic collection of recordings illustrates his deep-rooted rural blues influences, reminiscent of the sides he made nearly twenty-five years prior in Mississippi. This release features McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) on vocals and guitar, supported by a very young Buddy Guy on guitar, blues legend Willie Dixon on upright bass and Clifton James on occasional drums.
"Worried that the folk-music fad was luring listeners away from the blues, Chess Records directed Waters to record with acoustic instruments. These sessions by Waters, Willie Dixon and a young Buddy Guy went astonishingly well, and this pioneering "unplugged" set is beloved by blues and folk fans alike." - www.rollingstone.com
Praise for Analogue Productions' 45 RPM edition of Folk Singer:
"The Quality Record Pressing is drop-dead quiet-as silent as the best Japanese pressings from the late 1970s-and the amount of inner detail released is simply astonishing...the sound is sweet, liquid and free of harshness and edge. The dynamics are mind-boggling. When Muddy takes it up ten notches to emphasize a point it's positively explosive in a way the 33 1/3 version only suggests." Music = 9/10, Sound = 10/10! Michael Fremer, musicangle.com.
"How about a 45 RPM set from Analogue Productions' recently launched Quality Record Pressings Facility, mastered by Bernie Grundman, in a beautiful gatefold jacket with extra sessions shots? It's been ages since I've heard LP surfaces this quiet as in dead quiet. The expense and effort that Chad Kassem and company put into this venture are immediately obvious. ... Making music together bring this recording to life as never before. It's by far the best sounding and most engaging version yet... analog lovers will be in hog heaven." Wayne Garcia, The Absolute Sound, May/June, Issue 223
Features:
33 1/3 rpm 200g Vinyl
Double LP
Mastered by Bernie Grundman
Mastered from Original 1964 Chess Analog Masters
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
New Gatefold jacket with extra photos
Limited edition
Musicians:
Muddy Waters, vocals, guitar
Buddy Guy, guitar
Willie Dixon, bass
Clifton James, drums
Selections:
Side 1:
1. My Home Is in the Delta
2. Long Distance
3. My Captain
4. Good Morning School Girl
5. You Gonna Need My Help
Side 2:
6. Cold Weather Blues
7. Big Leg Woman
8. Country Boy
9. Feel Like Going Home
Recorded September 1963 at Ter Mar Recording Studios.
