Muddy Waters - The Best of Muddy Waters: 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: X (X)

I'd feel like a cad giving this anything other than 10 (A+), so I'll employ my usual dodge and leave it ungraded. I like to use that grade only for things I play obsessively, for a long period of time. In fact, that's pretty much what the grade means to me. I would never do that with this. But I do love it. Why when we want to listen to blues/oldies/etc. do we always have to take them in massive doses? I don't want to always hear an hour plus of Muddy. If fact, I almost never do, and when I do, it's more of an exercise in scholarship than a pure listening pleasure. I feel like that with most of the albums in the genres I noted earlier. On the other hand, this one's perfect: 11 songs, 32 minutes of some of the most core blues there is. I had this in the sell pile until I realized this one day looking at it. Now it's back on the shelves and is what I would most likely play when I just want to hear some Muddy. I also love this 20th Century Masters series.