Muddy Waters – Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down CD

From Muddy Waters comes Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down, a blues album on Sony. This is the CD edition. This edition was released on June 12, 2007.

BREAKIN' IT UP, BREAKIN' IT DOWN captures his 1977 concert tour at the height of tis intensity and features aome of the greatest live material ever recorded from Muddy Waters' legendary career. Highlight tracks include "Can't Be Satisfied," "Caledonia," "Dealin' with the Devil," "I Done Got Over It," and many more. Beginning with 1977's acclaimed Hard Again, a subsequent tour produced Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live, recorded onstage in Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia with Muddy's band, Winter, and harmonica player/vocalist James Cotton. Enough live material remained for Legacy to release an expanded version with an entire second disc of unissued concert material. It seems even that wasn't the end. This collection returns again to those remarkable concerts, featuring Muddy on five tracks, among them a rousing "I Can't Be Satisfied," "Trouble No More," "Caldonia," and the closing "Got My Mojo Workin'." Winter and Cotton are no less powerful, Cotton redoing Jackie Brenston's hit "Rocket '88'" and Winter ripping up John Lee Hooker's "I Done Got Over It" and "Mama Talk to Your Daughter." --Rich Kienzle