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Fathers and Sons | 
 enlarge | Artist: Muddy Waters
Label: Chess
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 23582
Format: Ep, Extra Tracks, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 112648
UPC: 008811264826
EAN: 0008811264826
ASIN: B00005R8GU
Release Date: October 30, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | All Aboard | | • | Mean Disposition | | • | Blow Wind Blow | | • | Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had | | • | Walking Thru The Park | | • | Forty Days And Forty Nights | | • | Standin' Round Cryin' | | • | I'm Ready | | • | Twenty Four Hours | | • | Sugar Sweet | | • | Country Boy | | • | I Love The Life I Live (I Live The Life I Love) | | • | Oh Yeah | | • | I Feel So Good | | • | Long Distance Call (live) | | • | Baby, Please Don't Go (live) | | • | Honey Bee (live) | | • | The Same Thing (live) | | • | Got My Mojo Working Part One (live) | | • | Got My Mojo Working Part Two (live) |
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"She's Been Gone Twenty-Four Hours...And That's Twenty-Three Hours Too Long..." January 3, 2009
Mark Barry at Revival Records, Berwick Street (London, UK)
If you were to pick one release that perfectly blended great blues with rock, then "Fathers And Sons" would be that album. And now that 16-track 1969 double LP set is further supplemented on this 2001 single CD reissue with 4 genuinely great bonuses (all from the same sessions). It's like being handed a virtual master class in blues-rock - truly blistering stuff.
Here's a detailed breakdown (77:38 minutes):
CD tracks 1 to 10 (studio recordings) and 15 to 20 (live recordings) make up the "Fathers And Sons" album issued August 1969 on Chess LPS-127 in the USA and issued October 1969 on Chess CRL 4556 in the UK (both 2LP vinyl sets).
CD tracks 11 to 14 are previously unreleased studio tracks (14 being unreleased in the USA on album, it's Chess 7" single 2085).
The studio tracks (1 to 14) were recorded 21, 22 and 23 April 1969 in Chicago, Illinois, while the live tracks were recorded on 24 April 1969 (with the same band) at the "Super Cosmic Joy-Scout Jamboree" also in Chicago, Illinois.
The band for the sessions were:
MUDDY WATERS - Vocals and Guitar
OTIS SPANN - Piano
MIKE BLOOMFIELD - Guitar
PAUL BUTTERFIELD - Harmonica
DONALD "DUCK" DUNN - Bass
SAM LAY - Drums
Guests were:
PHIL UPCHURCH - Bass on "All Aboard" only
JEFF CARP - Chromatic Harmonica on "All Aboard" only
PAUL ASBELL - Rhythm Guitar on "Walking Thru The Park", "Forty Days & Forty Nights" and "Sugar Sweet" only
BUDDY MILES - Drums on "Got My Mojo Working, Part Two" only
Digitally remastered by ERICK LABSON of Universal, the sound quality is typically fantastic (he has over 800 mastering credits to his name), the 12-page booklet informative with the contributors pictured and the artwork faithful to the original. Highlights would include Muddy's mournful yet fun cover of Eddie Boyd's "Twenty Four Hours" (title of this review is its lyrics), the live version of Willie Dixon's sex song "The Same Thing" and in your face rocking of "Blow Wind Blow". Then there's the accompaniment - Donald "Duck" Dunn of Booker T & The MG's providing tight-as-a-nun's-knickers bass playing, Mike Bloomfield blissed out and licking away on Guitar - while Paul Butterfield and his mean harmonica simply blast their way through the songs like a pair possessed!
This is a great Muddy Waters record - and this cool CD reissue does it proud. Highly recommended.
PS: this title is part of Universal's "Blues Classics - Remastered & Revisited" Series - I've listed all 10 titles in the series in a separate Listmania list
A Supreme Moment In Blues Time July 30, 2008
A. T. Smith (Aspen CO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are seminal moments in the arts when circumstances bring giants together in perfect alignment, and this album is one of them. The cast could never be better than the one contained herein, with the huge blues voice of Muddy Waters leading the way, half-brother Otis Spann pounding out some of his most brilliant piano ever, Paul Butterfield blowing his harp as if nations rise or fall by his effort, Mike Bloomfield (not long for this world after this 1969 recording) spinning out black blues guitar licks in a faithful but trailblazing fashion, plus a killer rhythm section of Stax/Volt's Donald "Duck" Dunn and Muddy's own Sam Lay on drums.
The songs are Muddy classics, from the thundering "40 Days And 40 Nights" to the braggadocio of "I'm Ready" to the oddly zen "Can't Lose What You Ain't Got" to the weary-but-wise "Standing Round Cryin." Great tracks that never made the original LP include "Love The Life I Live" and a live version of "Same Thing" that sets a new standard for simmering control under extreme pressure.
Long-short, Muddy never sang better, Spann and Butterfield are at the very top of their form, and if you can only have one blues album in your collection, this is hands-down the collection you need to have. It has worn well for nearly forty years; it will serve as the standard for hundreds more.
Great album, even better value! June 19, 2008
Humuhumunukunukuapua'a (Cincinnati, OH United States)
If you like blues or Muddy Waters in general, you owe it to yourself to buy this. It is really a wonderful work of blues and there is quite a lot of music here. You get your money's worth and then some.
 a blues legacy April 20, 2008
Frau Riccardo (sassari - italy)
Released for the first time in 1969 as a double LP album, this record was digitally remastered and published on CD in 2001, with some bonus tracks. Tracks 1-14 are recorded in studio, while 15-20 are performed live at the Super Cosmic Joy-Scout Jamboree, Chicago.
The project was conceived around the idea of a "passing of the torch" from fathers (Otis Spann, Muddy Waters) to sons (Michael Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield and more) of blues music. It turns around a classic review of Muddy's warhorses (Long Distance Call, Baby Please Don't Go, Honey Bee...) in addiction with other milestones of blues history (I'm Ready, by Willie Dixon, Got My Mojo Working, by Preston Foster and more), giving rise to a tight electric blues recording, in a perfect Chicago style.
The highlights are Muddy's deep black voice and Butterfield's brilliant harmonica lines, while Bloomfield's guitar seems to be a little obscured by such duets.
This record brings back to the listener the genuine atmosphere of the mature age of electric blues, with "vintage" sounds captured in the late 60's.
Riccardo Frau
Italy
Incredible Memories Brought Back to Life! December 23, 2007
Bookworm Plus (Redondo Beach, CA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
While a college student back in the winter of 1972 I attended an Urban Studies semester program in Chicago. One night I went with some of the other students to see Muddy Waters at a club called (if my memory is correct) Alice's Revisted. I did not know anything about Muddy Waters and little about the Blues. Muddy put on an incredible show that was one of the musical highlights of my life. I still get shivers down my spine thinking about the night. I particularly remember when he sang "Got my Mojo Working," and I was up on my feet chanting and dancing with the rest of the audience. At one point, a small fire started in some curtains on the stage and the Muddy the rest of the band calmly kept performing as it was quickly extinguished, perhaps preventing a panic situation. Later in the semester someone bought "Fathers and Sons," and after hearing the album I went out an bought it myself. For years I would periodically listen to that album and be transported back to that magical Chicago evening. With the switch from vinyl (and my turntable being broken by my two year old son in 1989), Fathers and Sons and the rest of my LP's went into retirement, but I never forgot Muddy Waters and the rest of the incredible musicians on the album. Recently something inspired me to search for it on Amazon and I purchased the CD. I am delighted to discover that everything on Fathers and Sons is as wonderful as I remembered. If you like the Blues, I strongly urge you to buy this CD now. It will make you life at least a little bit richer!
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