Stepping Stones [Bonus DVD]

by Muddy Waters

Overview

The U.K.'s Proper imprint usually gets it right when it comes to reissues. That said, the trio of Chicago blues collections they released in 2009: Rollin' Stone, Headhunters, and I'm Ready all revolve around Waters in some way. Headhunters includes 20 tracks by Waters' associates and those he influenced, Rollin' Stone features Waters covering and rewriting tunes by both his influences and contemporaries; each version is included in sequence, and I'm Ready (not to be confused with the set of the same title issued by Blue Sky/Sony Legacy) is all Waters, from his beginnings in Chicago in the '40s through his heyday in the '60s. This box set simply collects all three volumes in a handsome package and includes a 78-page book and a bonus DVD entitled Talkin' Muddy Waters, a documentary featuring numerous artists and critics being interviewed about Muddy. The DVD may be unnecessary, and it's hard to imagine justifying the purchase of this set when each volume is attractively priced on its own; but hardcore Muddy fans will more than likely be ordering this without reservation. ~ Thom Jurek

Product Details

Release Date:	05/12/2009
Label:	Proper Box
UPC:	0805520021524
Rank:	139159

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Walkin' Blues
2. Walkin' Blues
3. Black Spider Blues
4. Mean Red Spider
5. Got My Mojo Working
6. Got My Mojo Working
7. Roll & Tumble the Blues
8. Rollin' & Tumblin', Pt. 1
9. Train Fare Blues
10. Train Fare Home (Train Fare Blues)
11. I Can't Be Satisfied
12. I Can't Be Satisfied
13. Rockin' & Rollin'
14. Rock Me
15. Bumble Bee
16. Honey Bee
17. Baby Please Don't Go
18. Turn Your Lamp Down Low
19. I'm a Man
20. Mannish Boy
21. Someday Baby Blues
22. Trouble No More
23. Catfish Blues
24. Rollin' Stone

Disc 2

25. Gypsy Woman
26. Canary Bird
27. Louisiana Blues
28. She Moves Me
29. Sad, Sad Day
30. Evil
31. Long Distance Call
32. Gone to Main Street
33. Blow Wind Blow
34. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
35. Just Make Love to Me
36. I'm Ready
37. I'm a Natural Born Lover
38. Young Fashioned Ways
39. Sugar Sweet
40. Forty Days & Forty Nights
41. Live the Life I Love
42. She's Nineteen Years Old
43. Close to You
44. She's Got It

Disc 3

45. Juke
46. Mean Old World
47. My Babe
48. Just a Feeling
49. Sit & Cry (The Blues)
50. Try to Quit You Baby
51. Straighten Up Baby
52. Cotton Crop Blues
53. Hold Me in Your Arms
54. Hoodoo Man
55. Tomorrow Night
56. 'Bout the Break of Day
57. That's All Right
58. Ludella
59. Walking by Myself
60. I'm Gonna Dig Myself a Hole
61. Dust My Broom
62. Black Gal Blues
63. Have a Good Time
64. Need My Baby

Disc 4

65. Bonus Material

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Muddy Waters   Primary Artist
Bo Diddley   Primary Artist
Big Joe Williams   Primary Artist
Big Walter Horton   Primary Artist
Hambone Willie Newbern   Primary Artist
Son House   Primary Artist
Big Bill Broonzy   Primary Artist
Jimmy Rogers   Primary Artist
Little Walter   Primary Artist
Robert Lockwood, Jr.   Primary Artist
Buddy Guy   Primary Artist
Junior Wells   Primary Artist
Melvin "Lil' Son" Jackson   Primary Artist
Sleepy John Estes   Primary Artist
Sonny Boy Williamson II   Primary Artist
Baby Face Leroy   Primary Artist
James Cotton   Primary Artist
Robert Petway   Primary Artist
Memphis Minnie   Primary Artist
Ann Cole   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Guy Davis   Interviewee
Toscano   Composer
Sid Griffin   Interviewee
Big Bill Broonzy   Composer
Tony Russell   Interviewee
Dick Waterman   Interviewee
Nigel Williamson   Interviewee
Russell Beecher   Annotation
Cotton Bend   Composer
Tommy Willis   Mastering,Transfers
Charles Shaar Murray   Interviewee
Karin Ussher   Design
Traditional   Composer
Paul Oliver   Interviewee
Paul Swinton   Mastering,Transfers
Cotton   Composer
Lawrence Cohn   Interviewee
Ellas McDaniel   Composer
Charlie Musselwhite   Interviewee
Didier Lockwood   Arranger,Composer
Horton   Composer
Phil May   Interviewee
McKinley Morganfield   Composer
Williamson   Composer