The Best of Muddy Waters

The Best of Muddy Waters
Greatest hits album by Muddy Waters
Released	April 1958 (1958-04)
Recorded	April 1948 – September 1, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois
Genre	Chicago blues
Length	35:40
Label	Chess LP 1427
Producer	Leonard Chess, Phil Chess
Muddy Waters chronology
The Best of Muddy Waters (1958) At Newport 1960 (1960)At Newport 19601960

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The Best of Muddy Waters is a 1958 greatest hits album by Muddy Waters released by Chess Records in April 1958. With the increasing popularity of 33 1/3 rpm recordings (commonly called LPs), Chess Records started releasing its first LPs in 1958. The Best of Muddy Waters (released sometime in April 1958 according to Billboard magazine) was the third LP that Chess released. The album was re-released in CD format in 1997 by Chess and MCA Records.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by McKinley Morganfield, except where noted. 

Side one
No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Willie Dixon)	Chess #1571	2:49
2.	"Long Distance Call"	Chess #1452	2:38
3.	"Louisiana Blues"	Chess #1441	2:49
4.	"Honey Bee"	Chess #1468	3:20
5.	"Rollin' Stone"	Chess #1426	3:05
6.	"I'm Ready" (Dixon)	Chess #1579	3:01

Side two
No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Hoochie Coochie" (Dixon)	Chess #1560	2:49
2.	"She Moves Me"	Chess #1490	2:54
3.	"I Want You to Love Me"	Chess #1550	3:01
4.	"Standing Around Crying"	Chess #1526	3:19
5.	"Still a Fool"	Chess #1480	3:14
6.	"I Can't Be Satisfied"	Aristocrat #1305	2:41

Personnel

Per Discogs

• Muddy Waters – lead vocals, guitar
• Ernest "Big" Crawford – bass on "Long Distance Call", "Louisiana Blues", "Honey Bee", "I Want You To Love Me", and "I Can't Be Satisfied"
• Willie Dixon – bass on "I Just Want To Make Love To You", "I'm Ready", and "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man"
• Little Walter – harmonica on tracks A-1, A-2, A-3, A-6, B-1, B-2, and B-4; guitar on B-5
• Walter "Shakey" Horton – harmonica on B-3 (as credited on LP - Little Walter is the harmonica player on all tracks on this collection where harmonica is present.)
• Jimmy Rogers – guitar on tracks A-1, A-4, A-6, B-1, B-3, and B-4
• Otis Spann – piano on A-1, A-6, B-1, B-3, and B-4
• Fred Below – drums on A-1, A-6, and B-1
• Elgin Evans – washboard on A-3; drums on B-3 and B-4
• Leonard Chess – bass drum on B-2 and B-5
• Studs Terkel – liner notes

Release history

Region	Label	Format	Catalog
United States	Chess	LP	LP 1427
Worldwide reissue	Chess	LP	LP CH-9255
United States	Chess	Cassette	CHC-9255
United States	Chess/MCA	CD	CHD-31268
Japan	MCA	CD	UICY-3199