Waters didn't play any guitar: Instead, Phil Upchurch, Roland Faulkner and Pete Cosey created thick tangles of rhythm and lead to update longtime Waters warhorses like "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (audio) and "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man."
He also augmented the typically spare rhythm of Waters' live band with lots of organ, and on some songs an out-of-place saxophone. Chess encouraged the guitarists to play far-out stuff, adding what Waters termed "wow-wow" (wah-wah) and fuzztone. If you change my sound, then you gonna change the whole man." Several years before he died, Waters was more direct, calling the album "dog s-."Įlectric Mud did indeed change the man's basic sound.
"Every time I go into Chess," he complained, the label honchos "put some un-blues players with me. In a 1970 interview, Waters complained that the session - which had been arranged by Marshall Chess, son of label co-founder Leonard Chess and the man responsible for the company's day-to-day operation - wasn't his idea of blues. Reviled by purists, Muddy Waters' 1968 blues-meets-rock crossover attempt Electric Mud was dismissed by its creator several times over the years, until he'd essentially disowned it.
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