Fathers And Sons

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review by: date: 2009-01-03 rating:
"She's Been Gone Twenty-Four Hours...And That's Twenty-Three Hours Too Long..."
If you were to pick one release that perfectly blended great blues with rock, then 1969's "Fathers And Sons" would be that album. And now that 16-track sweet-as-a-nut double album is further supplemented on this 2001 reissue with 4 great bonuses. It's like being handed a virtual master class in blues-rock - truly blistering stuff. br / br /Here's a detailed breakdown (77:38 minutes): br /CD tracks 1 to 10 (studio recordings) and 15 to 20 (live recordings) make up the "Fathers And Sons" album issued August 1969 on Chess LPS-127 in the USA and issued October 1969 on Chess CRL 4556 in the UK (both 2LP vinyl sets). br / br /CD tracks 11 to 14 are previously unreleased studio tracks (14 being unreleased in the USA on album, it's Chess 7" single 2085). br / br /The studio tracks (1 to 14) were recorded 21, 22 and 23 April 1969 in Chicago, Illinois, while the live tracks were recorded on 24 April 1969 (with the same band) at the "Super Cosmic Joy-Scout Jamboree" also in Chicago, Illinois. br / br /The band for the sessions were: br /MUDDY WATERS - Vocals and Guitar br /OTIS SPANN - Piano br /MIKE BLOOMFIELD - Guitar br /PAUL BUTTERFIELD - Harmonica br /DONALD "DUCK" DUNN - Bass br /SAM LAY - Drums br / br /Guests were: br /PHIL UPCHURCH - Bass on "All Aboard" only br /JEFF CARP - Chromatic Harmonica on "All Aboard" only br /PAUL ASBELL - Rhythm Guitar on "Walking Thru The Park", "Forty Days Forty Nights" and "Sugar Sweet" only) br /BUDDY MILES - Drums on "Got My Mojo Working, Part Two" only br / br /Digitally remastered by ERICK LABSON of Universal, the sound quality is typically fantastic (he has over 800 mastering credits to his name), the 12-page booklet informative with the contributors pictured and the artwork faithful to the original. Highlights would include Muddy's mournful yet fun cover of Eddie Boyd's "Twenty Four Hours" (title of this review is its lyrics), the live version of Willie Dixon's sex song "The Same Thing" and in your face rocking of "Blow Wind Blow". Then there's the accompaniment - Donald "Duck" Dunn of Booker T The MG's providing tight-as-a-nun's-knickers bass playing, Mike Bloomfield blissed out and licking away on Guitar - while Paul Butterfield and his mean harmonica simply blast their way through the songs like a pair possessed! br / br /This is a great Muddy Waters record - and this cool CD reissue does it proud. Highly recommended. br / br /PS: this title is part of Universal's "Blues Classics - Remastered Revisited" Series - I've listed all 10 titles in the series in a separate Listmania list


review by: date: 2003-08-24 rating:
Great re-issue of a magnificent blues album
This is probably the best of the "senior musician meets and plays with eager young fan"-projects of the sixties and seventies blues revival.pBlues legend Muddy Waters and his piano player Otis Spann, with veteran Sam Lay behind the drum kit, teamed up with three young white musicians to record this 1969 album: Guitarist Michael Bloomfield, bassist Donald 'Duck' Dunn (of Booker T the Memphis Group), and harpist Paul Butterfield.brAnd the results are magnificent. 26-year old Paul Butterfield shows off some truly excellent harmonic playing, Dunn is rock-solid and funky, and the combined forces of Bloomfield and Muddy Waters himself produces some terrific guitar playing.pThe sound is great, too, and Otis Spann (who is supposedly one of the "Fathers" of the album's title, even though he was only in his late 30s at the time) plays some of the best blues piano you'll ever hear.pHighlights include the tough, swinging "Blow Wind Blow" and "I'm Ready", the supremely groovy slow blues "Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had", the catchy "Forty Days And Forty Nights", Eddie Boyd's "Twenty-Four Hours", and the up-tempo rendition of "Sugar Sweet", which really shows off Otis Spann's masterful boogie piano playing.pThen comes four previously unreleased cuts, which aren't rejects by any means, although they didn't make the original double-LP, and six live tracks recorded on April 24th 1969 with the same band which had cut the studio tracks during the previous three days. brMuddy Waters' vocals on the slow slide-guitar workout "Long Distance Call" are sublime, and Butterfield's playing on the classic "Baby Please Don't Go" is pure Little Walter.brOut comes the bottleneck again for a grand rendition of "Honey Bee", followed by Willie Dixon's "The Same Thing" and an eight-minute take on "Got My Mojo Working", much to the delight of the crowd. pNot all attempts to "update" a blues artists sound where succesful, but this one is not only a succes, it is an excellent album which genuine adds to the legacy of Muddy Waters.

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