Muddy Waters – Muddy Waters at Newport 1960 (Chess Acoustic Sounds Series)

Recorded live at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 3, 1960, 'At Newport 1960' captures Muddy Waters in electrifying form. Backed by Otis Spann (piano), Pat Hare (guitar), Andrew Stevens (bass), Francis Clay (drums), and James Cotton (harmonica), Waters performs music both rooted in tradition and the modern. It's a landmark recording that helped bring the blues to a wider audience, cementing Waters' reputation as a father of the electric blues. Highlights include I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man, Baby, Please Don't Go, Got My Mojo Working, and Langston Hughes' own Goodbye Newport Blues. Bring home the sound of America's greatest blues label in high fidelity with the Chess Records Acoustic Sounds Series. These audiophile reissues of classic albums and compilations from the Chess discography are remastered from the original analog tapes and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings (QRP). Each disc is packaged in tip-on gatefold sleeves printed on high-grade board.