Filmed live concert by Muddy Waters at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague on 15 July 1979. A founding father of electric Chicago blues, Muddy Waters delivers a landmark set with his Blues Band at the height of his stage maturity. Deep voice, incandescent slide and unstoppable groove: the capture conveys the quiet authority of a master who shaped all the rock to come. Between shuffles, slow blues and timeless standards, this historic performance documents the blues at its source, played by the man who gave it its electricity. An essential full concert for lovers of blues and of American popular-music history. Keywords: Muddy Waters live, North Sea Jazz 1979, Chicago blues, filmed live concert, full concert, electric blues.
Setlist
- I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man (reprise de Willie Dixon)
- Baby, Please Don't Go (reprise de Joe Williams)
- Mean Mistreater
- Blow Wind Blow
- They Call Me Muddy Waters
- Mad Love (I Want You to Love Me)
- Kansas City (reprise de Little Willie Littlefield)
- I'm a Man (reprise de Bo Diddley)
- Got My Mojo Working (reprise d'Ann Cole)
Personnel & credits
- Muddy Waters — guitar, vocals
- Luther Johnson — guitar
- Bob Margolin — guitar
- Brian Bisesi — guitar
- Willie “Pinetop” Perkins — piano
- Jerry Portnoy — harmonica
- Calvin Jones — bass
- Willie Lee Smith — drums
