Paul Rodgers - Muddy Water Blues (93)

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01 - Muddy Water Blues (Acoustic Version)
02 - Louisiana Blues
03 - I Can't Be Satisfied
04 - Rollin' Stone
05 - Good Morning Little School Girl (Part 1)
06 - I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
07 - She's Alright
08 - Standing Around Crying
09 - The Hunter
10 - She Moves Me
11 - I'm Ready
12 - I Just Want To Make Love To You
13 - Born Under A Bad Sign
14 - Good Morning Little School Girl (Part 2)
15 - Muddy Water Blues (Electric Version)


Paul Rodgers' tribute to Muddy Waters is not a return to Waters' electric Chicago blues, but a continuation of the blues-rock of Rodgers' old bands, Free and Bad Company.

Taken on those terms, Muddy Water Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters works only when Rodgers is matched with a good blues-rock guitarist.

Jeff Beck, Buddy Guy, and Gary Moore all play well, while Richie Sambora, Neal Schon, and Trevor Rabin all sound a bit lost; the rest, including David Gilmour and Brian May, fall somewhere in between.

Buddy Guy - Treasure Untold (97)

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He's Chicago's blues king today, ruling his domain just as his idol and mentor Muddy Waters did before him.

Yet there was a time, and not all that long ago either, when Buddy Guy couldn't even negotiate a decent record deal.

Times sure have changed for the better — Guy's first three albums for Silvertone in the '90s all earned Grammys.

Eric Clapton unabashedly calls Buddy Guy his favorite blues axeman, and so do a great many adoring fans worldwide. High-energy guitar histrionics and boundless on-stage energy have always been Guy trademarks, along with a tortured vocal style that's nearly as distinctive as his incendiary rapid-fire fretwork.

He's come a long way from his beginnings on the 1950s Baton Rouge blues scene — at his first gigs with bandleader "Big Poppa" John Tilley, the young guitarist had to chug a stomach-jolting concoction of Dr. Tichenor's antiseptic and wine to ward off an advanced case of stage fright.

But by the time he joined harpist Raful Neal's band, Guy had conquered his nervousness.