Muddy Waters
The Complete Plantation Recordings

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There was a time, between the thirties and forties, when the Delta Blues had not yet broken free from its land of origin: that southern region shrouded in legends and voodoo where this simple and captivating music was born.
When black musicians managed to scrape together enough money to move to the northern cities, then the genre began to evolve, and additional instruments that were previously unavailable were added to the simple "down home" singing: guitars were amplified, and the presence of drums became more prominent.

One of the protagonists of this musical revolution, which would become the womb of the nascent Rock'n Roll, was McKinley Morganfield a.k.a Muddy "Mississippi" Waters, a fundamental man according to countless artists such as the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and Eric Clapton, practically covering all modern bluesmen.
Muddy Waters learned from Robert Johnson and the numerous dance halls where this music was played for a pittance, and this record is a distant testament to that historical period: songs still anchored to tradition and only a short step away from the transformation that would occur just a few years later.

Songs like "32-20 Blues" are covers of the aforementioned and immortal Johnson, "Big Leg Woman" exudes sex and desire from every pore, with Muddy's classic guitar style, broken and nervous, sketching out two shapely legs to feast on.
The style is of high class, pure vintage blues, telling you about the swamp while making you soar high; it leaves you dumbfounded by how much passion a simple and arcane music like the blues can evoke, touching the oldest chords of our being human, all born from the same continent: black and animistic Africa.
Muddy Waters: a master. Seek out this record, you won't regret it.