Muddy Waters – Folk Singer (LP Vinyl) artist-the-national reverb-soaked sound that owed as

reverb-soaked sound that owed as much to Neil Young and gothic Americana as anything on the radio

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Muddy Waters – Folk Singer (LP Vinyl) artist-the-national reverb-soaked sound that owed asRecorded in 1963 with an intimate small group setting that stripped Muddy back to acoustic guitar alongside Willie Dixon on bass and harmonica players Clifton James and Buddy Guy, Folk Singer stands apart from nearly everything else in the Chess catalog. It was a deliberate artistic statement, not a commercial calculation, capturing the raw Delta soul that had traveled north from Mississippi and seeded an entire generation of electric rock and blues.