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Muddy Waters
Released 1968

(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
04:53
2,864 plays

I Just Want To Make Love To You
04:19
2,825 plays

Mannish Boy
03:50
2,561 plays

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- 1
- I Just Want To Make Love To You
- 04:19
- 2,825 plays

- 2
- (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
- 04:53
- 2,864 plays

- 3
- Let's Spend The Night Together
- 03:12
- 1,800 plays

- 4
- She's Alright
- 06:36
- 1,788 plays

- 5
- Mannish Boy
- 03:50
- 2,561 plays

- 6
- Herbert Harper's Free Press News
- 04:40
- 1,491 plays

- 7
- Tom Cat
- 03:37
- 1,659 plays

- 8
- The Same Thing
- 05:50
- 1,329 plays

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album review

In an attempt to make Muddy more sellable to his newly found white audience, Chess lumbered him with Hendrix-influenced psychedelic blues arrangements for Electric Mud. Commercially, actually, the results weren't bad; Marshall Chess claims it sold between 150,000 and 200,000 copies. Musically, it was as ill-advised as putting Dustin Hoffman into a Star Wars epic. Guitarists Pete Cosey and Phil Upchurch are very talented players, but Muddy's brand of down-home electric blues suffered greatly at the hands of extended fuzzy solos. Muddy and band overhaul classics like "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "Hoochie Coochie Man," and do a ludicrous cover of "Let's Spend the Night Together"; wah-wah guitars and occasional wailing soprano sax bounce around like loose basketballs. It's a classically wrongheaded, crass update of the blues for a modern audience. The 1996 CD reissue adds interesting historical liner notes. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide