Folk Singer

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Folk Singer
Folk Singer cover
Studio album by Muddy Waters
Released April 1964
Recorded September 1963
Genre Blues
Length 40:05
Label MCA/Chess
Professional reviews
Muddy Waters chronology
Folk Festival of the Blues (1963) Folk Singer (1964) Muddy Waters (1964)

Folk Singer is an album by Muddy Waters. Waters plays acoustic guitar, backed by Willie Dixon on string bass, Clifton James on drums, and Buddy Guy on acoustic guitar. Current reissues of the album include bonus tracks from two subsequent sessions in April 1964 and October 1964.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 280 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "My Home Is in the Delta" (Waters) – 3:58
  2. "Long Distance" (Morganfield, Waters) – 3:30
  3. "My Captain" (Dixon) – 5:10
  4. "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" (Williamson) – 3:12
  5. "You Gonna Need My Help" (Morganfield, Waters) – 3:09
  6. "Cold Weather Blues" (Morganfield) – 4:40
  7. "Big Leg Woman" (Temple) – 3:25
  8. "Country Boy" (Waters) – 3:26
  9. "Feel Like Going Home" (Morganfield, Waters) – 3:52

[edit] Bonus tracks

  1. "The Same Thing" (Dixon) – 2:57
  2. "You Can't Lose What You Never Had" (Morganfield) – 2:46
  3. "My John the Conqueror Root" (Dixon) – 2:22
  4. "Short Dress Woman" (Brown) – 2:49
  5. "Put Me in Your Lay Away" (Welch) – 2:56
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