Muddy Waters - Live At Mister Kelly's - Canada Issue - Blues LP
LP

Muddy Waters – Live At Mister Kelly's


Label: Chess / Quality
Cat#: CH 50012
Format: Vinyl, LP
Record: VG+ VG++
Cover: VG VG+ ringwear, cornerwear, back cover 2 inch pen mark, 2 inch stickermark bottom right
Country: Canada
Released: 1977
Issue: 1981
Genre: Blues
Style:


Tracklist


A1 What Is That She Got 4:30
A2 You Don't Have To Go 3:25
A3 Strange Woman 5:00
A4 Blow Mind Blow 4:30
A5 Country Boy 4:58


B1 Nine Below Zero 4:45
B2 Stormy Monday Blues 4:38
B3 Mudcat 3:37
B4 Boom, Boom 4:38
B5 C.C. Woman 3:45


Cut in the summer of 1971 at Mr. Kelly's, a Chicago club on the Near North Side, "Muddy Waters Live (at Mr. Kelly's)" finds Muddy in fine form, working with his excellent early-70s band which included Joe "Pinetop" Perkins (piano), drummer Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, bassist Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, and guitarists Samuel Lawhorn and James "Pee Wee" Madison.
The masterful James Cotton appears under a pseudonym, as he was under contract with another label, blowing the harp on three songs. On the remaining nine songs it is 21-year-old Paul Oscher playing fine, muscular harmonica parts.

The album opens with a predictable but quite enjoyable "Country Boy"-knockoff called "What Is That She Got" and a rendition of Jimmy Reed's "You Don't Have To Go" (which doesn't sound _quite_ right without Reed's drawling vocals). The slow blues "Strange Woman" is a bit monotonous, but then comes a swinging "Blow Wind Blow" with some great playing by Pinetop Perkins and Paul Oscher, a good "Country Boy" (the real one this time), the excellent instrumental "Mudcat", and a gritty "She's Nineteen Years Old". Also, this version of "Stormy Monday Blues" is significantly better than other Muddy Waters-renditions I've heard.

It is the only live Muddy Waters album to feature Paul Oscher (who is a great harpist, even though he mostly plays the guitar these days), and these renditions of "Mudcat", "C.C. Woman", "Blow Wind Blow", T-Bone Walker's "Stormy Monday Blues", and John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom" deserve to be heard.


MUDDY WATERS - Strange woman

[1971] / Live (At Mr. Kelly's)

Muddy was the king of the Chicago Blues scene.




Muddy Waters -- Strange Woman Evening At The Ash Grove, L.A. CA 7/29/71