Track Listing

1. Liverpool Drive
2. Chuck's Beat
3. When The Saints Go Marching In
4. Bo's Beat
5. Long Distance Call
6. Medley
7. Sweet Little Angel
8. Spoonful
9. Diddley Daddy
10. Little Red Rooster
11. Going Down Slow

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #198282 in Music
• Released on: 1997-02-02
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Super, super blues? - A Must, To Avoid!

This is the second of two albums featuring Chess artists brought together in the studio to perform informal jams. Here, Howlin' Wolf replaces Little Walter in the line-up, while Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley keep sitting in.

As can be guessed by looking at the "psychedelic" cover, this album was - at the time - a pure marketing ploy to catch the attention of a younger, white audience. Moreover, is it purely coincidental to see Bo Diddley having a go at the wah-wah pedal? You bet!

I am a great fan of, among others, blues music and psychedelic rock. As such, I will say that - in my humble opinion - this album is a complete mess. One really senses that the stars feel ill at ease in this project. Despite the presence of first-rate blues accompanists, the music is untogether; the playing is sloppy with the beat wandering here and there. To cap it all, one Cookie Vee adds inopportune, haphazard vocal shrieks to the proceedings. This is a sad parody of earlier, formidable interpretations of the same material by these blues/r&b giants.
In these artists' catalogue, only "Electric Mud" (1968), "The Howlin' Wolf Album" and "After the Rain" (both 1969) would sound worse still.

If you want to hear good blues from these artists, you can choose from a wealth of killer albums. In addition, if you want psychedelic rock, then listen to Quicksilver Messenger Service or to Jefferson Airplane instead!

This the Real Deal
This is the result of a collaborative session between Bo Diddley, Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters in 1967 with Otis Spann and Hubert Sumlin

Not highly thought of at the time, like Waters' own "Folk Singer" it now seems a lot better in retrospect

Some good natured insults with both Wolf and Waters playing slide, it's got some excellent singing and playing

I'm sorry but IMHO the previous review is just plain wrong - listen to the samples or compare the tracks with Les Fancourt's Chess Blues discography to check the validity of my statement

Homage to two great bluesmen
Althought it's unclear from the title, this isn't the result of a singlecollaborative session, but a selection from the album Fathers and Sons,and the London Howling Wolf Sessions, and real enthusiasts would beadvised to buy these two albums.
The largely British cast of blues-Rocklegends playing with Howlin' Wolf add a genuine edge to his great regularband which includes the great Hubert Sumlin, while the US neo-bluesmenMike Bloomfield, Al Kooper and Paul Butterfield give some energeticbacking to Muddy.
This album casts a spotlight on a genuine debt ofallegiance - the new guys for the inspiration for their superstar careers,and the two great bluesmen for these young ambassadors who helped to bringthe blues from the sidelines to a more universal audience.