Muddy Waters discography

Muddy Waters discography
Releases
↙Studio albums 15
↙Live albums 7
↙Compilation albums 23+
↙Singles 61
↙Singles as accompanist 20
↙Albums as accompanist 14

Muddy Waters was an American blues artist, generally considered to be the most important figure in post-World War II Chicago blues.[1] As with most postwar blues musicians, his recordings were released as two-song record singles until the 1960s, when his record company began focusing on long-playing albums. As a result, Waters' most celebrated recordings from earlier in his career appear on various "Best of" collections and anthologies, often with significant overlap and duplication (AllMusic shows nearly 300 entries under "compilations"[2]). Included here are the singles and albums released during Muddy Waters' lifetime, as well as the more notable and current live and compilation albums.

Singles

Title A-side / B-side Year Peak chart positions Label & Cat. no.
U.S. R&B[3] UK[4]
"Country Blues" / "I Be's Troubled" 1941 — — Library of Congress AAFS 18
"Gypsy Woman" / "Little Anna Mae" 1947 — — Aristocrat 1302
"(I Feel Like) Going Home" / "I Can't Be Satisfied" 1948 11 — Aristocrat 1305
"Train Fare Home" / "Sittin' Here and Drinkin' (Whiskey Blues)" 1948 — — Aristocrat 1396
"You're Gonna Miss Me (When I'm Dead and Gone)" /
"Mean Red Spider"		 1948 — — Aristocrat 1307
"Streamline Woman" / "Muddy Jumps One (inst.)" 1948 — — Aristocrat 1310
"Little Geneva" / "Canary Bird" 1948 — — Aristocrat 1311
"Screamin' and Cryin' / "Where's My Woman Been" 1949 — — Aristocrat 406
"Rollin' and Tumblin'" Part 1 / "Rollin' and Tumblin'" Part 2 1950 — — Aristocrat 412
"Rollin' Stone" / "Walkin' Blues" 1950 — — Chess 1426
"You're Gonna Need My Help I Said (Gonna Need My Help)" /
"Sad Letter Blues"		 1950 — — Chess 1434
"Louisiana Blues" / "Evan's Shuffle (Inst.) (Ebony Shuffle)" 1950 10 — Chess 1441
"Long Distance Call" / "Too Young Too Know" 1951 8 — Chess 1452
"Honey Bee" / "Appealing Blues (Hello Little Girl)" 1951 10 — Chess 1468
"Still a Fool" / "My Fault" 1951 9 — Chess 1480
"She Moves Me" / "Early Morning Blues (Before Daybreak)" 1952 10 — Chess 1490
"All Night Long" / "Country Boy" 1952 — — Chess 1509
"Please Have Mercy" " "I Can't Be Satisfied" 1952 — — Chess 1514
"Standing Around Crying" / "Gone to Main Street" 1952 — — Chess 1526
"She's All Right" / "Sad, Sad Day" 1952 — — Chess 1537
"Turn the Lamp Down Low (Baby Please Don't Go)" /
"Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man"		 1953 — — Chess 1542
"Mad Love (I Want You to Love Me)" / "Blow Wind Blow" 1953 6 — Chess 1550
"I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" / "She's So Pretty" 1954 3 — Chess 1560
"Just Make Love to Me (I Just Want to Make Love to You)" /
"Oh Yeah"		 1954 4 — Chess 1571
"I'm Ready" / "I Don't Know Why" 1954 4 — Chess 1579
"I'm a Natural Born Lover" / "Loving Man" 1954 — — Chess 1585
"I Want to Be Loved" / "My Eyes (Keep Me in Trouble)" 1955 — — Chess 1596
"Manish Boy (Mannish Boy)" /
"Young Fashioned Ways (Old Fashioned Ways)"		 1955 5 51[note 1] Chess 1602
"Sugar Sweet (I Can't Call Her Sugar)" 1955 11 — Chess 1612
"Trouble No More" 1955 7 — Chess 1612
"Forty Days and Forty Nights" / "All Aboard" 1956 7 — Chess 1620
"Don't Go No Farther" / "Diamonds at Your Feet" 1956 9 — Chess 1630
"Just to Be with You" / "I Got to Find My Baby" 1956 — — Chess 1644
"Got My Mojo Working" / "Rock Me" 1956 — — Chess 1652
"Good News" / "Come Home Baby (I Wish You Would)" 1957 — — Chess 1667
"I Live the Life I Love (I Love the Life I Live)" / "Evil" 1957 — — Chess 1680
"I Won't Go On" / "She's Got It" 1958 — — Chess 1692
"Close to You" / "She's Nineteen Years Old" 1958 9 — Chess 1704
"Walking Thru the Park (Walking in the Park)" /
"Mean Mistreater"		 1958 — — Chess 1718
"Clouds in My Heart" / "Ooh Wee" 1958 — — Chess 1724
"Take the Bitter with the Sweet" / "She's Into Something" 1959 — — Chess 1733
"Recipe for Love" / "Tell Me Baby" 1959 — — Chess 1739
"I Feel So Good" / "When I Get to Thinking" 1959 — — Chess 1748
"Read Way Back" / "I'm Your Doctor" 1960 — — Chess 1752
"Look What You've Done" / "Love Affair" 1960 — — Chess 1758
"Tiger in Your Tank" / "Meanest Woman" 1960 — — Chess 1765
"Got My Mojo Working Part 1 (live)" / "Woman Wanted" 1960 — — Chess 1774
"Messin' with the Man" / "Lonesome Bedroom Blues" 1961 — — Chess 1796
"Going Home" / "Tough Times" 1962 — — Chess 1819
"You Shook Me" / "Muddy Waters Twist" 1962 — — Chess 1827
"You Need Love" / "Little Brown Bird" 1963 — — Chess 1839
"Five Long Years" / "Twenty Four Hours" 1963 — — Chess 1862
"The Same Thing" / "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had" 1964 — — Chess 1865
"My John the Conquer Root" / "Short Dress Woman" 1964 — — Chess 1914
"Put Me in Your Lay Away" / "Still a Fool" 1964 — — Chess 1921
"My Dog Can't Bark" / "I Got a Rich Man's Woman" 1965 — — Chess 1937
"Corine, Corina" / "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" 1966 — — Chess 1973
"Birdnest on the Ground" / "When the Eagle Flies" 1967 — — Chess 2018
"Going Home" / "I Feel So Good" (remake) 1969 — — Chess 2085
"Making Friends" / "Two Steps Forward" 1971 — — Chess 2107
"The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll (No. 2)" /
"Mannish Boy" (remake) (12" single)		 1977 — — Blue Sky MUDT 1
"I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" (remake) /
"Mannish Boy (edited)" (remake) (12" single)		 1977 — — Blue Sky MUD 1
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
U.S.[5] Can[6]
Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill
  • Released: January 1960
  • Label: Chess (LP-1444)
  • Format: mono LP
 — —
Folk Singer
  • Released: April 1964
  • Label: Chess (LP-1483)
  • Format: mono LP
 — —
Brass and the Blues
  • Released: December 1966
  • Label: Chess (LP/S-1507)
  • Format: mono/stereo LP
 — —
Electric Mud
  • Released: October 5, 1968
  • Label: Cadet Concept (LPS-314)
  • Format: stereo LP
 127 47
After the Rain
  • Released: May 12, 1969
  • Label: Cadet Concept (LPS-320)
  • Format: stereo LP
 — —
Fathers and Sons[note 2]
  • Released: August 1969
  • Label: Chess (LPS-127)
  • Format: stereo LP
 70 —
The London Muddy Waters Sessions
  • Released: May 1972
  • Label: Chess (CH 60013)
  • Format: stereo LP
 — —
Can't Get No Grindin'
  • Released: September 1973
  • Label: Chess (CH 50023)
  • Format: stereo LP
 — —
"Unk" in Funk
  • Released: May 1974
  • Label: Chess (CH 60031)
  • Format: stereo LP
 — —
The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: Chess (CH 60035)
  • Format: stereo LP
 — —
Hard Again
  • Released: January 10, 1977
  • Label: Blue Sky (PZ34449)
  • Format: stereo LP
 143 —
I'm Ready
  • Released: January 1978
  • Label: Blue Sky (JZ34928)
  • Format: stereo LP
 157 —
King Bee
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Blue Sky (PZ37064)
  • Format: stereo LP
 192 —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
U.S. Blues[5][7]
At Newport 1960
  • Released: December 1960
  • Label: Chess (LP-1449)
  • Format: mono LP
 —
Fathers and Sons[note 3]
  • Released: August 1969
  • Label: Chess (LPS-127)
  • Format: stereo LP
 —
Muddy Waters Live (At Mr. Kelly's)
  • Released: December 1971
  • Label: Chess (CH 50012)
  • Format: stereo LP
 —
Muddy "Mississippi" Waters – Live
  • Released: February 1979
  • Label: Blue Sky (JZ35712)
  • Format: stereo LP
 —
The Lost Tapes —
Authorized Bootleg: Live at the Fillmore Auditorium –
San Francisco Nov 04–06 1966
  • Released: March 31, 2009
  • Label: Geffen/Chess (B0012650-02)
  • Format: CD
 —
Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981
Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones		 15
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
U.S. Blues [5][7]
The Best of Muddy Waters[note 4]
  • Released: 1958
  • Label: Chess (LP-1427)
  • Format: mono LP
 —
The Real Folk Blues
  • Released: January 1966
  • Label: Chess (LP-1501)
  • Format: mono LP
 —
More Real Folk Blues
  • Released: March 1967
  • Label: Chess (LP/S-1511)
  • Format: mono/stereo LP
 —
They Call Me Muddy Waters
  • Released: December 1970
  • Label: Chess (CH 1553)
  • Format: LP
 —
McKinley Morganfield a.k.a. Muddy Waters
  • Released: August 1971
  • Label: Chess (2CH 60006)
  • Format: double LP
 —
Rolling Stone
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Chess (CH 8202)
  • Format: LP
 —
Rare and Unissued
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Chess (CH 9180)
  • Format: mono LP
 —
Trouble No More: Singles 1955-1959
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Chess (CH/C/D-9291)
  • Format: LP/Cassette/CD
 —
The Chess Box
  • Released: March 1990
  • Label: Chess (CH/D-80002)
  • Format: LP/CD
 —
Blue Sky
  • Released: June 16, 1992
  • Label: Columbia/Legacy (ZK/T-49172)
  • Format: CD/Cassette
 —
The Complete Plantation Recordings
  • Released: June 8, 1993
  • Label: Chess (CHD/C-9344)
  • Format: CD/Cassette
 —
One More Mile
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Chess (CHD/C2-9348)
  • Format: CD/Cassette
 —
His Best: 1947 to 1955
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Chess (CHD-9370)
  • Format: CD
 —
His Best: 1956 to 1964
  • Released: May 20, 1997
  • Label: Chess (CHD-9380)
  • Format: CD
 —
King of the Electric Blues
  • Released: October 7, 1997
  • Label: Epic/Legacy (65215)
  • Format: CD
 —
The Best of Muddy Waters – The Millennium Collection
  • Released: March 23, 1999
  • Label: Chess (CHD-11946)
  • Format: CD
 15
Rollin' Stone: The Golden Anniversary Collection
  • Released: June 27, 2000
  • Label: Chess (CHD-112301)
  • Format: CD
 —
The Anthology (1947–1972)
  • Released: August 28, 2001
  • Label: Chess (CHD-112649)
  • Format: CD
 —
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Muddy Waters
  • Released: September 9, 2003
  • Label: Universal (B000048202)
  • Format: CD
 4
Hoochie Coochie Man: The Complete Chess Masters,

Vol. 2: 1952–1958

 —
The Definitive Collection
  • Released: May 23, 2006
  • Label: Geffen
  • Format: CD
Playlist: The Very Best of Muddy Waters
  • Released: May 10, 2011
  • Label: Epic/Legacy
  • Format: CD
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You Shook Me: The Chess Masters, Vol. 3: 1958 to 1963
  • Released: December 18, 2012
  • Label: Geffen
  • Format: CD
 —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Muddy Waters as an accompanist

Singles

Title A-side / B-side Year Peak chart positions Label & Cat. no.
U.S.[3] UK[4]
"Johnson Machine Gun" / "Fly Right, Little Girl"
with Sunnyland Slim		 1948 — — Aristocrat 1301
"She Ain’t Nowhere" / "My Baby, My Baby"
with Sunnyland Slim		 1948 — — Aristocrat1304
"Florida Hurricane" / "So Nice and Kind"
with St. Louis Jimmy		 1948 — — Aristocrat 7001
"Blue Baby" / "I Want My Baby"
with Sunnyland Slim		 1948 — — Tempo Tone 1396
"Locked Out Boogie" / "Shady Grove Blues"
with Leroy Foster		 1948 — — Aristocrat 1234
"Big Town Playboy" / "Shelby County Blues"
with Little Johnny (Jones)		 1949 — — Aristocrat 405
"Bad Acting Woman" / "Muskadine Blues (Take a Walk with Me)"
with Baby Face Leroy and Little Walter		 1950 — — Regal 3296
"I Just Keep Loving Her" / "Moonshine Blues"
with Baby Face Leroy and Little Walter		 1950 — — Parkway 502
"Boll Weevil" / "Red Headed Woman"
with Baby Face Leroy and Little Walter		 1950 — — Parkway 104
"Rollin' and Tumblin'" Part 1 / "Rollin' and Tumblin'" Part 2
with Baby Face Leroy and Little Walter		 1950 — — Parkway 501
"Going Away Baby" / "Today, Today Blues"
with Jimmy Rogers		 1950 — — Chess 1442
"Juke" / "Can’t Hold Out Much Longer"
with Little Walter		 1952 — — Checker 758
"The Last Time" / "Out on the Road"
with Jimmy Rogers		 1952 — — Chess 1519
"Left Me with a Broken Heart" / "Act Like You Love Me"
with Jimmy Rogers		 1953 — — Chess 1543
"Chicago Bound" / "Sloppy Drunk"
with Jimmy Rogers		 1954 — — Chess 1574
"'Bout the Break of Day (Early in the Morning)" /
"Lord Lord (Lawdy Lawdy)"
with Junior Wells		 1954 — — States 139
"So All Alone (Baby So Long)" (Prison Bars all Around Me) / [note 5]
with Junior Wells		 1954 — — States 143
"Blues All Day Long (Blues Leave Me Alone)" / [note 6]
with Jimmy Rogers		 1955 — — Chess 1616
"Don't Start Me to Talkin' / "All My Love in Vain"
with Sonny Boy Williamson II		 1955 — — Checker 824
"Key to the Highway" / "Rock Bottom"
with Little Walter		 1958 — — Checker 904
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Albums

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
U.S. Blues [5][7]
Broken Soul Blues[note 7]
with Memphis Slim		 —
The Blues of Otis Spann[note 8]
with Otis Spann
  • Released: 1964
  • Label:Decca (4615)
  • Format: LP
 —
The Blues Never Die!
with Otis Spann
  • Released: 1965
  • Label: Prestige (7391)
  • Format: LP
 —
Big Mama Thornton with the Muddy Waters
Blues Band – 1966
with Big Mama Thornton
  • Released: 1966
  • Label: Arhoolie (9043)
  • Format: LP
 —
Live at the Cafe au Go-Go
with John Lee Hooker
  • Released: 1966
  • Label: Bluesway (BL/BLS 6002)
  • Format: LP
 —
Blues Is Where It's At
with Otis Spann
  • Released: 1967
  • Label: Bluesway (BLS 6003)
  • Format: LP
 —
Super Blues
with Bo Diddley, Little Walter
  • Released: June 1967
  • Label: Checker (LP/S 3008)
  • Format: LP
 —
The Super Super Blues Band
with Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf
  • Released: 1968
  • Label: Checker (LP/S 3008)
  • Format: LP
 —
The Bottom of the Blues
with Otis Spann
  • Released:1968
  • Label: Bluesway (BLS 6013)
  • Format: LP
 —
George Smith & the Chicago Blues Band — A

Tribute to Little Walter[note 9]
with George "Harmonica" Smith
  • Released: 1968
  • Label: World Pacific (WPS–21887)
  • Format: LP
 —
Luther "Georgia Boy Snake" Johnson with the
Muddy Waters Blues Band[note 10]
with Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson
  • Released: 1969
  • Label: Douglas (LP 781)
  • Format: LP
 —
Come On Home[note 11]
with Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson
  • Released: 1969
  • Label: Douglas (LP 789)
  • Format: LP
 —
Live the Life[note 12]
with Otis Spann		 —
Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down
with James Cotton and Johnny Winter
  • Released: June 5, 2007
  • Label: Epic/Legacy (07283)
  • Format: CD
 3
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Notes

  1. ↑ Charted in 1988.
  2. ↑ Sides A and B are studio recordings.
  3. ↑ Sides C and D are live recordings.
  4. ↑ Repackaged and resequenced as Sail On (1969, Chess).
  5. ↑ B-side is without Muddy Waters.
  6. ↑ B-side is without Muddy Waters.
  7. ↑ Reissued as Chicago Blues Masters, Vol. 1: Muddy Waters and Memphis Slim (1995, Capitol).
  8. ↑ Reissued as Half Ain't Been Told (1980, Black Cat)
  9. ↑ Reissued by Capitol in 1997.
  10. ↑ Some songs reissued on Mud in Your Ear (1973, Muse and others).
  11. ↑ Some songs reissued on Mud in Your Ear (1973, Muse and others).
  12. ↑ Reissued as I Wanna Come Home (2003, HighTone).

References

  1. ↑ Deming, Mark. "Muddy Waters biography". Allmusic. Retrieved May 3, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Muddy Waters discography — compilations". Allmusic. Retrieved May 3, 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Whitburn, Joel (1988). Top R&B Singles 1942–1988. Record Research. p. 435. ISBN 0-89820-068-7.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Muddy Waters". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 5, 2011.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Charts & Awards: Muddy Waters – Billboard Albums". AllMusic. United States: Rovi Corporation. Retrieved February 5, 2011.
  6. ↑ "RPM Search Engine". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved February 5, 2011.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Billboard Top Blues Albums chart.
Gordon, Robert (2002). Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-32849-9.
Wight, Phil; Rothwell, Fred. "The Complete Muddy Waters Discography" (PDF). Retrieved May 3, 2013.
"Muddy Waters Singles & EPs". Discogs. Retrieved May 3, 2013.
"A Complete Song List of Titles Written by McKinley Morganfield". The Official Muddy Waters Website. Retrieved May 3, 2013.