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1977 studio album past Muddy Waters

Difficult Again
Hard Again LP, Muddy Waters.jpg
Studio album by

Muddied Waters
Released Jan 10, 1977 (1977-01-x) [1]
Recorded October 1976[ii]
Genre Electric blues
Length 49:39
Label Blue Heaven
Producer Johnny Wintertime[2]
Dirty Waters chronology
The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album
(1975) 		Difficult Over again
(1977) 		I'yard Ready
(1978)

Difficult Once again is a studio anthology by American blues vocaliser Muddy Waters. Released on January x, 1977, information technology was the first of his albums produced by Johnny Winter.[1] Hard Again was Waters's first album on Blue Sky Records after leaving Chess Records and was well received by critics.

Background [edit]

In Baronial 1975, Chess Records was sold to All Platinum Records and became a reissue label only. Waters left sometime after this, and did not record any new studio cloth until he signed with Johnny Winter's Blue Sky label in Oct 1976.

Recording [edit]

Difficult Once again was recorded in three days. Producing the session was Johnny Winter and applied science the sessions was Dave Even so – who previously engineered Johnny's brother Edgar, Foghat, and Alan Merrill. Waters used his touring ring of the time, consisting of guitarist Bob Margolin, pianist Pinetop Perkins, and drummer Willie "Big Eyes" Smith. Other backing members during the sessions were harmonicist James Cotton fiber and bassist Charles Calmese, who performed with both Johnny Winter and James Cotton fiber in the past.[two]

Songs [edit]

Three of the songs on the album – "Mannish Boy", "I Want to Be Loved", and "I Can't Exist Satisfied" – were re-recordings of songs that were previously recorded for Chess Records. One vocal, "The Blues Had a Babe and They Named Information technology Rock and Curlicue, Pt. 2", was co-written with Brownie McGhee and another vocal, "Motorbus Driver", was co-written with Terry Abrahamson.

An outtake from the recording sessions, "Walking Through the Park", appeared on the 2004 Legacy Recordings reissue CD, while several more than unused tracks appeared on King Bee in 1981.

Reception [edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [3]
Blender [4]
Christgau's Tape Guide A–[5]
Downwardly Shell [half dozen]
Q [vi]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide [7]
The Village Voice A[viii]
The Penguin Guide to Dejection Recordings [9]

The album was well received past music critics. John Quaintance of Yahoo! Music chosen information technology "a remarkable album" and a "return to form" for Muddy Waters, commenting that "Johnny Winter, ... James Cotton fiber, Pinetop Perkins, Bob Margolin, Charles Calmese and Willie "Big Eyes" Smith are all thrilled to exist in the aforementioned room with Muddy, and it shows, as they lay downwards a serious foundation for the erstwhile principal who struts and brags similar it's 1950 over again."[x] Q called it "a guaranteed delight" for "students of the post-war dejection", while Down Vanquish stated, "Singing, [Muddy is] playful and proud, brawny and insistent, his free-flow of inspiration spreading to his superlative road band".[half-dozen] Dan Oppenheimer of Rolling Rock magazine said that "Mannish Boy" sounded like it was recorded live,[xi] while both Oppenheimer and Daniel Gioffre of Allmusic state how powerful Willie "Big Eyes" Smith's drumming is.[3] [11] Oppenheimer and Gioffre both share the opinion that Hard Again is Muddy Waters comeback album.[3] [11] In The New Rolling Stone Anthology Guide (2004), Rolling Stone journalist Dave Marsh said "Johnny Wintertime provided the sensitive production bear on otherwise defective on some of [Muddy'due south] early on '70s recordings."[7]

In his consumer guide for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau attributed the record's intense quality to "the natural enthusiasm of an inspired collaboration", and remarked on its standing in Chicago dejection, "except perchance for B.B. King's Live at the Regal and Otis Spann's Walking the Blues (oh, there must be others, but let me go on) I can't recall a better dejection album than this."[eight] In a later review for Blender, the critic found Dingy Waters to be in "virile vocalization" and commented that "all-star musicians and fresh prospects stimulate the excitement promised in the title."[4]

Charts and awards [edit]

Hard Once again peaked at #143 on the Billboard 200, which was his first appearance on the chart since Fathers and Sons in 1969.[12] The anthology won the Grammy Accolade for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording the year of its release.[13]

Track listing [edit]

All tracks are equanimous by Dingy Waters (listed as McKinley Morganfield), except where noted.

Side one
No. Championship Writer(south) Length
1. "Mannish Boy" Morganfield, Ellas McDaniel, Mel London v:23
ii. "Bus Commuter" Morganfield, Terry Abrahamson 7:44
three. "I Want to Be Loved" Willie Dixon 2:20
4. "Jealous Hearted Human" 4:23
5. "I Tin can't Be Satisfied" 3:28
Side ii
No. Championship Writer(due south) Length
1. "The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll, Pt. 2" Morganfield, Brownie McGhee 3:35
2. "Deep Down in Florida" 5:25
three. "Crosseyed Cat" v:59
4. "Fiddling Daughter" 7:06
2004 Ballsy CD reissue extra track
No. Title Length
ten. "Walking Through the Park" 3:55

Personnel [edit]

The post-obit contributed to Hard Again:[2]

Musicians

  • Muddy Waters – vocals, guitar
  • Bob Margolin – guitar
  • Pinetop Perkins – piano
  • James Cotton – harmonica
  • Willie "Large Eyes" Smith – drums
  • Charles Calmese – bass guitar
  • Johnny Winter – guitar, producer, miscellaneous screams

Technical

  • Dave Still – engineer
  • Andy Manganello – banana engineer
  • Joseph K. Palmaccio – mastering
  • Al Quaglieri – reissue producer
  • Chris Theis – mix engineer

Release history [edit]

Region Date Label Format Catalog
U.Due south. Jan 10, 1977 Blue Heaven LP PZ 34449
U.K. 1977 Blue Sky LP SKY 32357
Europe 1977 Blue Sky LP Heaven 81853
Australia 1977 CBS LP SBP 234953
U.S. 1987 Blue Sky CD ZK 34449
Cassette PZT 34449
U.S. 2004 Ballsy/Legacy CD EK 86817
Europe 2004 Ballsy/Legacy CD EPC 515161 2

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b Williams, Jean (Jan 22, 1977). "Soul Sauce". Billboard. p. 62G. Retrieved February six, 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d Hard Again (Aggrandize Reissue) (CD liner). Muddy Waters. U.S.: Ballsy Records/Legacy Recordings. 2004 [1977]. 86817. {{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ^ a b c Gioffre, Daniel. Review: Difficult Again by Muddy Waters at AllMusic. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
  4. ^ a b Christgau, Robert (June–July 2004). "Dirty Waters: "Difficult Again"; "I'one thousand Set up"; "King Bee"". Blender. Alpha Media Group. Retrieved Baronial 7, 2012.
  5. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: W". Christgau's Tape Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN089919026X . Retrieved March 22, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  6. ^ a b c "Muddy Waters - Hard Again CD Album". CD Universe. Muze. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
  7. ^ a b Marsh, Dave; et al. (November 2, 2004). Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Anthology Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 860–4. ISBN0743201698.
  8. ^ a b Christgau, Robert (March 21, 1977). "Consumer Guide". The Village Vox. New York. Archived from the original on April 22, 2013. Retrieved August 7, 2012 – via robertchristgau.com.
  9. ^ Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. Penguin. p. 484. ISBN978-0-140-51384-iv.
  10. ^ Quaintance, John. "Muddy Waters Reviews". Yahoo! Music. Yahoo!. Archived from the original on Baronial 7, 2012. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
  11. ^ a b c Oppenheimer, Dan (March 24, 1977). "Album Review: Hard Again by Muddied Waters". Rolling Rock . Retrieved Feb six, 2011.
  12. ^ "Charts & Awards: Muddy Waters – Billboard Albums". Allmusic. United States: Rovi Corporation. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
  13. ^ Grammy Award Winners Search Engine Archived 2010-08-26 at the Wayback Machine. Blazon in "Muddy Waters" nether Creative person to see results.

External links [edit]

  • musicbox-online Hard Again album review
  • Hard Again at Discogs (list of releases)

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Again

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