The twenty-ninth album: #29 Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters at Newport
Another live album, a blues album, and Muddy Waters is a single artist, not a band as (for some reason) I first thought. It sounds better than most live albums so far, as techniques obviously developed, It sounds good from the start - jazzy but drawing me in further, at a nice speed.
Lyrically, and stylistically, while this is (it says) classified as Chicago blues, it's interesting how there are several references to gypsies and voodoo magic and the like - it's difficult not to try to hear some assocation with New Orleans in this. It's an interesting thing to see in here, showing that at least some of them are linked. Got My Mojo Working for example has these references, while also placing a lot of it in a more normal context. This is also the song where it's clear it's live, in the loud crowd reaction as well as the energy that is present in this performance.