Artist: MUDDY WATERS/ JOHNNY WINTER/ JAMES COTTON
Album: BREAKIN’ IT UP, BREAKIN’ IT DOWN (CD)

Release date: 2007
Media type: CD

Muddy Waters had his second coming 30 years ago, when longtime friend and disciple Johnny Winter and his Blue Sky label returned him--after a series of listless recordings aimed at the rock audience--to the raw, powerful authenticity of his timeless Chess material with a series of powerful albums. Beginning with 1977's acclaimed Hard Again, a subsequent tour produced Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live, recorded onstage in Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia with Muddy's band, Winter, and harmonica player/vocalist James Cotton. Enough live material remained for Legacy to release an expanded version with an entire second disc of unissued concert material. It seems even that wasn't the end. This collection returns again to those remarkable concerts, featuring Muddy on five tracks, among them a rousing "I Can't Be Satisfied," "Trouble No More," "Caldonia," and the closing "Got My Mojo Workin'." Winter and Cotton are no less powerful, Cotton redoing Jackie Brenston's hit "Rocket '88'" and Winter ripping up John Lee Hooker's "I Done Got Over It" and "Mama Talk to Your Daughter."

TRACKLIST:

1. Black Cat Bone/Dust My Broom (Previously Unreleased) Muddy Waters;James Cotton;Johnny Winter 5:55
2. Can't Be Satisfied (Previously Unreleased) Muddy Waters;Johnny Winter;James Cotton 3:47
3. Caledonia (Previously Unreleased) Muddy Waters;Johnny Winter;James Cotton 6:57
4. Dealin' With The Devil (Previously Unreleased) Muddy Waters;Johnny Winter;James Cotton 7:50
5. Rocket 88 (Previously Unreleased) Muddy Waters;Johnny Winter;James Cotton 2:09
6. I Done Got Over It (Previously Unreleased) Muddy Waters;Johnny Winter;James Cotton 5:59
7. How Long Can A Fool Go Wrong (Previously Unreleased) Muddy Waters;Johnny Winter;James Cotton 5:53
8. Mama Talk To Your Daughter (Previously Unreleased) Muddy Waters;Johnny Winter;James Cotton 5:53
9. Love Her With A Feeling (Previously Unreleased) Muddy Waters;Johnny Winter;James Cotton 5:47
10. Trouble No More Muddy Waters;Johnny Winter;James Cotton 4:09
11. Got My Mojo Workin' Muddy Waters;Johnny Winter;James Cotton 4:59