Epiphanist’s Top Albums – Choice 9

Muddy Waters – They Call Me Muddy Waters.

The other question they ask everyone on Rockwiz is – what was the first concert you went to?

My recollection is Muddy Waters at Melbourne University’s Wilson Hall. I went with my little sister. I just had a look at Google, it was May 1973, so I had been to see plenty of bands before that. The live music scene was huge in Melbourne back then.

I remember Muddy playing a pastel pink guitar and Pinetop Perkins singing Kansas City.

I had bought They  Call Me Muddy Waters a year or two earlier at the music shop in Whitehorse Road Box Hill. I was excited and wasn’t let down, this record is a great compilation. The last track on each side with Little Walter and Jimmy Rogers are both standouts. They call me Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf.

I haven’t been able to find this record anywhere on CD. I have another really good compilation on CD called Rollin’ Stone which I play instead.