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| Some Cold Ones To Go With The Blues |
Recorded in Woodstock, New York, in 1975, this fine work shows you how good musical, literary or visual art is TIMELESS.
To Paraphrase Muddy (aka Mckinley Morganfield), don't be a cheapskate -- spend some money and get this great music. It is one of the best albums I have ever bought, and that includes Bob Dylan's first 11 albums (and plenty more since), about 19 CDs by Van Morrison, not to mention other works by such people as John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner.
I got my CD "cheap off amazon.com."
I think my www pen pal Bob Margolin, a longtime guitarist with Muddy and his band, first told me about "The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album." (Bob plays on the album.)
You might start with track six, Muddy's tune "Love, Deep As The Ocean."
In the song, Muddy is telling the woman he really loves her when he sings such lines as:
"I loves you honey, like a schoolboy loves his pie."
For all you guitarists out there, on this tune Muddy is showing you how to play slide guitar. He is backed on the work by such great musicians as Levon Helm on drums, Paul Butterfield on blues harp and Pinetop Perkins on piano.
Go out and get yourself some of this pie, brothers and sisters.
(I just checked -- www.amazon.com has the The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album priced at a buyer-friendly $6.17.)
Get it and open up your ears: You won't be disappointed.
(Here is a photo of 20 half liters of Lowenbrau Oktoberfest beers, purchased in Germany the month after they were created; you can have some cold ones vicariously to help you enjoy Music at its Best. Photograph (c) Copyright Paul Heidelberg.)
-- PH
