Mud in Your Ear

Muddy Waters / Muddy Waters Blues Band

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Mud in Your Ear Review

by Steve Leggett

In a perhaps misguided attempt to hook Muddy Waters up with the young audience that was into the psychedelic blues rock of Jimi Hendrix, Cream, and others at the time, Chess Records released Electric Mud in 1968. Electric Mud, which was either great or a complete disaster, depending on your tolerance for certain things, didn't fare that well commercially, but it did toss Waters' name out there into the rock world. Waters cut two albums the next year for Alan Douglas, who had produced both Last Poets and Hendrix, and was known to have an edgy approach to things in the studio. Waters was under contract to Chess, however, and he wasn't allowed to sing at the sessions, so he played guitar, and in case anyone forgot, he was a pretty fair slide player. The LPs were eventually released and attributed to the Muddy Waters Band (which, at the time, featured Mojo Buford on harmonica and Otis Spann on piano), with guitarist Luther Johnson fronting things and handling the vocals quite soulfully.In spite of the freaky psychedelic cover art, it's a rather straightforward set of well-done Chicago blues, free of fuzz and fuss.

Track Listing

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time	Stream
1	Digging My Potatoes	Muddy Waters Blues Band / Muddy Waters	03:07	Spotify Amazon
2	Long Distance Call	Muddy Waters Blues Band / Muddy Waters	03:53	Spotify Amazon
3	Mud in Your Ear	Muddy Waters Blues Band / Muddy Waters	03:19	Spotify Amazon
4	Sad Day Uptown	Muddy Waters Blues Band / Muddy Waters	03:50	Spotify Amazon
5	I'm So Glad	Muddy Waters Blues Band / Muddy Waters	03:14	Spotify Amazon
6	Chicken Shack	Muddy Waters Blues Band / Muddy Waters	03:16	Spotify Amazon
7	Excuse Me Baby	Muddy Waters Blues Band / Muddy Waters	02:05	Spotify Amazon
8	Remember Me	Muddy Waters Blues Band / Muddy Waters	05:51	Spotify Amazon
9	Evil	Muddy Waters Blues Band / Muddy Waters	02:38	Spotify Amazon
10	Watch Dog	Muddy Waters Blues Band / Muddy Waters	02:59	Spotify Amazon
11	Why'd You Do Me	Muddy Waters Blues Band / Muddy Waters	03:50	Spotify Amazon
12	Love N' Trouble	Muddy Waters Blues Band / Muddy Waters	03:21	Spotify Amazon
13	Looking for My Baby	Muddy Waters Blues Band / Muddy Waters	03:55	Spotify Amazon
14	Coming Home Baby Ben Tucker	Muddy Waters Blues Band / Muddy Waters	02:42	Spotify Amazon
15	Mud in Your Ear [Reprise]	Muddy Waters Blues Band / Muddy Waters	00:40	Spotify Amazon

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Mud in Your Ear Review

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