Before Nov 2020, grades range from 5 stars to 3.5 stars. After that, grade range is: 10 (A+), 9.5 (high A), 9 (A), 8.5 (high A-), 8 (A-), 7.5 (high B+), 7 (B+). Ungraded albums are honorable mention :-), neutral :-|, negative :-(. At least 3 listens per album. Search "Grade Post" for more info. [I shelved/sold 10,000-12,000 albums before starting this blog and will add entries for some of those as they come up. If you don't see an album, it doesn't mean I don't know it.]
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Muddy Waters - His Best, 1947 to 1955: X stars
This will end up being the only Muddy compilation I will retain. It contains all the tracks from The Best of Muddy Waters. I could supplement it with the 1956-1964 companion, or replace it with The Anthology, which amounts to the same thing, but the latter day singles just aren't as essential. I know it's sacrilegious to say this, but with the second set, or The Anthology, do I really need 2:30 of Muddy? I could also keep Trouble No More, but the only essential songs on that I would be missing are "Got My Mojo Working" and "Forty Days" ("Sugar Sweet" and "Trouble No More" are on this). Likewise, I will lose the 20th Century Masters compilation. The only songs that would give me are the ones I note for Trouble No More, with the rest overlapping with this. I'm also selling Real Folk Blues, which is not a 5 star album on Allmusic and Hull gives a B+. [Update, decided to keep Trouble No More, because it's a properly shorter disc of his later period (35 minutes vs. His Best's 60), I should have at least this small amount of that, Tom Hull gives it an A+ (his only one for Muddy), Rolling Stone gave it 5 stars, and Christgau put it in his 80s library.]
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