Fathers And Sons

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Muddy Waters and Otis Spann are the former; Paul Butterfield and Michael Bloomfield the latter. With Duck Dunn and Sam Lay on board as the rhythm section. 

Hughesy's assessment: There's nothing new here, and everything receives a traditionalist treatment. That might attract criticism from some quarters but it's the very factor that, for mine, makes this studio/live double album, along with the Johnny Winter-collaboration (Hard Again) the two Muddy Waters albums that belong in any discerning collector's collection. Some of Muddy's best material, cut in an environment where everyone knows what they were doing. Essential.

Track listing: All AboardMean DispositionBlow Wind BlowCan't Lose What You Never HadWalkin' Thru the ParkForty Days and Forty NightsStanding Around Crying; I'm ReadyTwenty-Four HoursSugar SweetCountry BoyI Love the Life I Live (I Live the Life I Love); Oh Yeah; I Feel So GoodLong Distance CallBaby Please Don't GoHoney BeeThe Same ThingGot My Mojo Working, Pt. 1Got My Mojo Working, Pt. 2

Highlights: 

Worthwhile: All AboardMean DispositionBlow Wind BlowCan't Lose What You Never HadWalkin' Thru the ParkForty Days and Forty NightsStanding Around Crying; I'm ReadyTwenty-Four HoursSugar SweetCountry BoyI Love the Life I Live (I Live the Life I Love)Oh YeahI Feel So GoodLong Distance CallBaby Please Don't GoHoney BeeThe Same ThingGot My Mojo Working, Pt. 1Got My Mojo Working, Pt. 2

© Ian Hughes 2015