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MUDDY WATERS  BUDDY GUY HOWLIN' WOLF SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON WILLIE DIXON Folk Festival of the Blues  1964 orig. ARGO 12648
VINYL: VG+ (play graded) mostly plays very clean but there are some factory  bubbles on it 2 of which caused some popping .  COVER: VG+
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ALL MUSIC GUIDE Review by Cub Koda  [-]

This is a compilation album that isn't, a live album that isn't

(at least in a couple of spots), and a Muddy Waters album that

 isn't, if one counts the appearances by four other artists on it.

 But for all things it isn't, it is also just happens to be one of the

greatest and certainly most underrated live blues album of all time,

unbelievably crude, raw, and as real as it gets. Originally issued

on Chess' Argo label during the height of the folk music blues

 revival (hence the goofy title), this was a record that was aimed

 at a white market who responded in kind. But anybody purchasing

 it thinking they were getting some nice acoustic coffeehouse blues

 were in for the reality-check shock of their lives. Recorded on

July 26, 1963 at a WPOA live radio broadcast emceed by local

 Chicago disc jockey Big Bill Hill emanating from the Copacabana

 Club (hence when this was reissued in 1967, it was retitled Blues

 From Big Bill's Copacabana), this features Buddy Guy's band as

the backup band for everybody, augmented by Muddy's right hand

 man, pianist Otis Spann. Although Big Bill announces the presence

of Little Walter and Sonny Boy Williamson on the album's intro,

they're no-shows; the studio version of Williamson's "Bring It On

Home" appears here with dubbed on applause (along with the studi

o version of Guy's "Worried Blues," one of the two bits of audio

chicanery here). Everything else is just amazingly raw, crude and

 blistering, with some of the most electrifying Buddy Guy guitar ever

 committed to tape, droning saxes, thundering drums, and Otis Spann

 anchoring everything with consummate elegance, as nobody's bothered

 to check their tuning in the last half dozen drinks or more. The combination

 of performances of Guy, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, and Sonny Boy in

 tandem with Waters would certainly checklist this one into 'various artists'

category, but with half of the 10 tracks here being fronted by Waters, it's

clearly Muddy's show all the way. His performances of "I Got My Mojo

 Working," "She's 19 Years Old," "Clouds In My Heart," "Sitting And Thinking,"

 and the vocal trio effort with Guy and Dixon on the show opening "Wee Wee

Baby" are nothing less than exemplary. No matter how you slice it or end up

 filing it, one would be very hard pressed indeed to find a live blues album

 that captures the spirit and a moment in time the way this one does.

 Unavailable on compact disc as of press time, but worth tracking down in

its vinyl incarnations at any cost.

VG++: A hair under near mint may have  only a couple of very insignificant surface only lines.

Cover out of shrink otherwise close to perfect.

VG+:  Used but not abused. Some surface lines. WIll likely have some relatively slight audible 

imperfections. Some normal cover wear.

VG:  There will be visual imperfections and some audible ones . May be a number of surface only lines or there might be a 

small scratch but not one that  repeats, Cover will be worn or have some kind of defect. In this condition flaws will be pictured 

or noted.

VG-: Usually the lowest rating I will list an LP at. Same as VG but defects are more pronounced.  May have more than 1 scratch

but still not one that repeats. This record will still be enjoyable but there will almost definitely be background sound. I have 

sold many rare 78s and older acetates at this grade and buyers have almost always been pleased. In this condition flaws will

be pictured or noted.

G+: There may be skips or some other major defect or the background sound is so loud that listening might be a chore. 

Covers will have major defects that need to be stated.