jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) (05/03/85)
There are two albums out now of old and rare Muddy Waters music. On Chess there is "Muddy Waters: Rare and Unissued" (CH 9180), which includes his first Chicago session (which is to say, his first on electric). There is also "Down on Stovall's Plantation: The Historic 1941-42 Library of Congress Recordings" on Testament Records (T-2210). These are the earliest recordings of Waters available, and the strong influence of Son house and, through him, Robert Johnson is very apparent. Also for blues fans is "Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta" by Robert Palmer, of the New York Times. He begins with Robert Johnson and progresses through Muddy Waters, Robert "Junior" Lockwood, Sonny Boy Williamson and John Lee Hooker to B.B. King and many others. It is available in paperback from Penguin books and I have seen it remaindered recently for as little as $1. -- jcpatilla "'Get stuffed !', the Harlequin replied ..."