Recorded on Stovall Plantation in Clarksdale, MS by Alan Lomax in 1941 and 1942, these 18 tracks represent the first recordings of a sharecropper named McKinley Morganfield a.k.a. Muddy Waters. And, yeah, there's an unreleased track, and four interviews, but really, for something this historic the less said the better. Just listen.
Tracks: 1.1 Country Blues (Number One) 1.2 Interview #1 (Previously Unissued) 1.3 I Be's Troubled 1.4 Interview #2 (Previously Unissued) 1.5 Burr Clover Farm Blues (Previously Unissued) 1.6 Interview #3 (Previously Unissued) 1.7 Ramblin' Kid Blues (Partial. Previously Unissued) 1.8 Ramblin' Kid Blues 1.9 Rosalie 1.10 Joe Turner (Vocal: Percy Thomas) 1.11 Pearlie May Blues (Vocal: Percy Thomas) 1.12 Take a Walk with Me (Second Guitar: Son Simms) 1.13 Burr Clover Blues (Second Guitar: Son Simms) 1.14 Interview #4 (Previously Unrelaeased) 1.15 I Be Bound to Write to You 1.16 I Be Bound to Write to You (Second Version, Second Guitar: Charles Berry, Previously Unissued) 1.17 You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (Number One) 1.18 You Got to Take Sick ; Die Some of These Days 1.19 Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You 1.20 Country Blues 1.21 You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone 1.22 32-20 Blues
