Muddy Waters discography

Muddy Waters discography
Waters's 1958 Fender Telecaster guitar
Studio albums	15
Live albums	7
Compilation albums	23+
Singles	61
Singles as accompanist	20
Albums as accompanist	14

Muddy Waters was an American blues artist widely considered to be one of the most important figures in post–World War II Chicago blues.^[1] As with most postwar blues musicians, his recordings were released as two-song singles until the 1960s, when his record company began focusing on long-playing albums.^[2][3] As a result, his most celebrated recordings from early in his career are issued on various collections and anthologies, often with significant overlap and duplication.^[4] Included here are the singles and albums released during Waters's lifetime and the more notable and current live and compilation albums.^[5]

Singles

Title A-side / B-side	Year	Label	Peak chart position US[6]
"Country Blues" / "I Be's Troubled"	1941	Library of Congress AAFS 18	—
"Gypsy Woman" / "Little Anna Mae"	1947	Aristocrat 1302	—
"(I Feel Like) Going Home" / "I Can't Be Satisfied"	1948	Aristocrat 1305	11
"Train Fare Home" / "Sittin' Here and Drinkin' (Whiskey Blues)"	1948	Aristocrat 1306	—
"You're Gonna Miss Me (When I'm Dead and Gone)" / "Mean Red Spider"	1948	Aristocrat 1307	—
"Streamline Woman" / "Muddy Jumps One" (instrumental)	1948	Aristocrat 1310	—
"Little Geneva" / "Canary Bird"	1948	Aristocrat 1311	—
"Screamin' and Cryin' / "Where's My Woman Been"	1949	Aristocrat 406	—
"Rollin' and Tumblin'" Part 1 / "Rollin' and Tumblin'" Part 2	1950	Aristocrat 412	—
"Rollin' Stone" / "Walkin' Blues"	1950	Chess 1426	—
"You're Gonna Need My Help I Said (Gonna Need My Help)" / "Sad Letter Blues"	1950	Chess 1434	—
"Louisiana Blues" / "Evan's Shuffle" (instrumental) ("Ebony Shuffle")	1950	Chess 1441	10
"Long Distance Call" / "Too Young Too Know"	1951	Chess 1452	8
"Honey Bee" / "Appealing Blues (Hello Little Girl)"	1951	Chess 1468	10
"Still a Fool" / "My Fault"	1951	Chess 1480	9
"She Moves Me" / "Early Morning Blues (Before Daybreak)"	1952	Chess 1490	10
"All Night Long" / "Country Boy"	1952	Chess 1509	—
"Please Have Mercy" " "I Can't Be Satisfied"	1952	Chess 1514	—
"Standing Around Crying" / "Gone to Main Street"	1952	Chess 1526	—
"She's All Right" / "Sad, Sad Day"	1952	Chess 1537	—
"Turn the Lamp Down Low (Baby Please Don't Go)" / "Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man"	1953	Chess 1542	—
"Mad Love (I Want You to Love Me)" / "Blow Wind Blow"	1953	Chess 1550	6
"I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" / "She's So Pretty"	1954	Chess 1560	3
"Just Make Love to Me (I Just Want to Make Love to You)" / "Oh Yeah"	1954	Chess 1571	4
"I'm Ready" / "I Don't Know Why"	1954	Chess 1579	4
"I'm a Natural Born Lover" / "Loving Man"	1954	Chess 1585	—
"I Want to Be Loved" / "My Eyes (Keep Me in Trouble)"	1955	Chess 1596	—
"Manish Boy (Mannish Boy)" / "Young Fashioned Ways (Old Fashioned Ways)"	1955	Chess 1602	5[lower-alpha 1]
"Sugar Sweet (I Can't Call Her Sugar)"	1955	Chess 1612	11
"Trouble No More"	1955	Chess 1612	7
"Forty Days and Forty Nights" / "All Aboard"	1956	Chess 1620	7
"Don't Go No Farther" / "Diamonds at Your Feet"	1956	Chess 1630	9
"Just to Be with You" / "I Got to Find My Baby"	1956	Chess 1644	—
"Got My Mojo Working" / "Rock Me"	1956	Chess 1652	—
"Good News" / "Come Home Baby (I Wish You Would)"	1957	Chess 1667	—
"I Live the Life I Love (I Love the Life I Live)" / "Evil"	1957	Chess 1680	—
"I Won't Go On" / "She's Got It"	1958	Chess 1692	—
"Close to You" / "She's Nineteen Years Old"	1958	Chess 1704	9
"Walking Thru the Park (Walking in the Park)" / "Mean Mistreater"	1958	Chess 1718	—
"Clouds in My Heart" / "Ooh Wee"	1958	Chess 1724	—
"Take the Bitter with the Sweet" / "She's Into Something"	1959	Chess 1733	—
"Recipe for Love" / "Tell Me Baby"	1959	Chess 1739	—
"I Feel So Good" / "When I Get to Thinking"	1959	Chess 1748	—
"Read Way Back" / "I'm Your Doctor"	1960	Chess 1752	—
"Look What You've Done" / "Love Affair"	1960	Chess 1758	—
"Tiger in Your Tank" / "Meanest Woman"	1960	Chess 1765	—
"Got My Mojo Working Part 1 (live)" / "Woman Wanted"	1960	Chess 1774	—
"Messin' with the Man" / "Lonesome Bedroom Blues"	1961	Chess 1796	—
"Going Home" / "Tough Times"	1962	Chess 1819	—
"You Shook Me" / "Muddy Waters Twist"	1962	Chess 1827	—
"You Need Love" / "Little Brown Bird"	1963	Chess 1839	—
"Five Long Years" / "Twenty Four Hours"	1963	Chess 1862	—
"The Same Thing" / "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had"	1964	Chess 1865	—
"My John the Conquer Root" / "Short Dress Woman"	1964	Chess 1914	—
"Put Me in Your Lay Away" / "Still a Fool"	1964	Chess 1921	—
"My Dog Can't Bark" / "I Got a Rich Man's Woman"	1965	Chess 1937	—
"Corine, Corina" / "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man"	1966	Chess 1973	—
"Birdnest on the Ground" / "When the Eagle Flies"	1967	Chess 2018	—
"Going Home" / "I Feel So Good" (remake)	1969	Chess 2085	—
"Making Friends" / "Two Steps Forward"	1971	Chess 2107	—
"The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll (No. 2)" / "Mannish Boy" (remake, 12" single)	1977	Blue Sky MUDT 1	—
"I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" (remake) / "Mannish Boy" (edited remake, 12" single)	1977	Blue Sky MUD 1	—
"—" denotes a release that did not chart

Studio albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart position US[8]
Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill	Released: January 1960 Label: Chess (LP-1444) Format: mono LP	—
Folk Singer	Released: April 1964 Label: Chess (LP-1483) Format: mono LP	—
Brass and the Blues	Released: December 1966 Label: Chess (LP/S-1507) Format: mono/stereo LP	—
Electric Mud	Released: October 5, 1968 Label: Cadet Concept (LPS-314) Format: stereo LP	127[lower-alpha 2]
After the Rain	Released: May 12, 1969 Label: Cadet Concept (LPS-320) Format: stereo LP	—
Fathers and Sons	Released: August 1969 Label: Chess (LPS-127) Format: stereo LP Note: Sides 1 and 2 are studio recordings	70
The London Muddy Waters Sessions	Released: May 1972 Label: Chess (CH 60013) Format: stereo LP	—
Can't Get No Grindin'	Released: September 1973 Label: Chess (CH 50023) Format: stereo LP	—
"Unk" in Funk	Released: May 1974 Label: Chess (CH 60031) Format: stereo LP	—
The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album	Released: 1975 Label: Chess (CH 60035) Format: stereo LP	—
Hard Again	Released: January 10, 1977 Label: Blue Sky (PZ34449) Format: stereo LP	143
I'm Ready	Released: January 1978 Label: Blue Sky (JZ34928) Format: stereo LP	157
King Bee	Released: 1981 Label: Blue Sky (PZ37064) Format: stereo LP	192
"—" denotes a release that did not chart

Live albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart position US[lower-alpha 3][8]
At Newport 1960	Released: December 1960 Label: Chess (LP-1449) Format: mono LP	—
Fathers and Sons	Released: August 1969 Label: Chess (LPS-127) Format: stereo LP Note: Sides 3 and 4 are live recordings	—
Live (At Mr. Kelly's)	Released: December 1971 Label: Chess (CH 50012) Format: stereo LP	—
Muddy "Mississippi" Waters – Live	Released: February 1979 Label: Blue Sky (JZ35712) Format: stereo LP	—
The Lost Tapes	Released: 2000 Label: Blind Pig Format: CD	—
Live at the Fillmore Auditorium – San Francisco Nov 04–06 1966	Released: March 31, 2009 Label: Geffen/Chess (B0012650-02) Format: CD	—
Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981	Released: July 10, 2012 Label: Eagle Vision Format: CD/DVD Note: Muddy Waters and the Rolling Stones	15
"—" denotes a release that did not chart

Compilation albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart position US[lower-alpha 3][8]
The Best of Muddy Waters	Released: 1958 Label: Chess (LP-1427) Format: mono LP Note: Repackaged and resequenced as Sail On (1969, Chess)	—
The Real Folk Blues	Released: January 1966 Label: Chess (LP-1501) Format: mono LP	—
More Real Folk Blues	Released: March 1967 Label: Chess (LP/S-1511) Format: mono/stereo LP	—
They Call Me Muddy Waters	Released: December 1970 Label: Chess (CH 1553) Format: LP	—
McKinley Morganfield A.K.A. Muddy Waters	Released: August 1971 Label: Chess (2CH 60006) Format: double LP	—
Rolling Stone	Released: 1982 Label: Chess (CH 8202) Format: LP	—
Rare and Unissued	Released: 1984 Label: Chess (CH 9180) Format: mono LP	—
Trouble No More: Singles 1955-1959	Released: 1989 Label: Chess (CH/C/D-9291) Format: LP/Cassette/CD	—
The Chess Box	Released: March 1990 Label: Chess (CH/D-80002) Format: LP/CD	—
Blues Sky	Released: June 16, 1992 Label: Columbia/Legacy (ZK/T-49172) Format: CD/Cassette	—
The Complete Plantation Recordings	Released: June 8, 1993 Label: Chess (CHD/C-9344) Format: CD/Cassette	—
One More Mile	Released: 1994 Label: Chess (CHD/C2-9348) Format: CD/Cassette	—
His Best: 1947 to 1955	Released: 1997 Label: Chess (CHD-9370) Format: CD	—
His Best: 1956 to 1964	Released: May 20, 1997 Label: Chess (CHD-9380) Format: CD	—
King of the Electric Blues	Released: October 7, 1997 Label: Epic/Legacy (65215) Format: CD	—
The Best of Muddy Waters: The Millennium Collection	Released: March 23, 1999 Label: Chess (CHD-11946) Format: CD	15
Rollin' Stone: The Golden Anniversary Collection	Released: June 27, 2000 Label: Chess (CHD-112301) Format: CD	—
The Anthology (1947–1972)	Released: August 28, 2001 Label: Chess (CHD-112649) Format: CD	—
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Muddy Waters	Released: September 9, 2003 Label: Universal (B000048202) Format: CD	4
Hoochie Coochie Man: The Complete Chess Masters, vol. 2, 1952–1958	Released: December 2004 Label: Hip-O Select Format: CD	—
The Definitive Collection	Released: May 23, 2006 Label: Geffen Format: CD	14
Playlist: The Very Best of Muddy Waters	Released: May 10, 2011 Label: Epic/Legacy Format: CD	—
You Shook Me: The Chess Masters, vol. 3, 1958 to 1963	Released: December 18, 2012 Label: Geffen Format: CD	—
"—" denotes a release that did not chart

As accompanist

Singles

Title A-side / B-side	Year	Notes	Label	Peak chart position US[10]
"Johnson Machine Gun" / "Fly Right, Little Girl"	1948	with Sunnyland Slim	Aristocrat 1301	—
"She Ain’t Nowhere" / "My Baby, My Baby"	1948	with Sunnyland Slim	Aristocrat 1304	—
"Florida Hurricane" / "So Nice and Kind"	1948	with St. Louis Jimmy	Aristocrat 7001	—
"Blue Baby" / "I Want My Baby"	1948	with Sunnyland Slim	Tempo Tone 1396	—
"Locked Out Boogie" / "Shady Grove Blues"	1948	with Leroy Foster	Aristocrat 1234	—
"Big Town Playboy" / "Shelby County Blues"	1949	with Little Johnny (Jones)	Aristocrat 405	—
"Bad Acting Woman" / "Muskadine Blues (Take a Walk with Me)"	1950	with Baby Face Leroy and Little Walter	Regal 3296	—
"I Just Keep Loving Her" / "Moonshine Blues"	1950	with Baby Face Leroy and Little Walter	Parkway 502	—
"Boll Weevil" / "Red Headed Woman"	1950	with Baby Face Leroy and Little Walter	Parkway 104	—
"Rollin' and Tumblin'" Part 1 / "Rollin' and Tumblin'" Part 2	1950	with Baby Face Leroy and Little Walter	Parkway 501	—
"Going Away Baby" / "Today, Today Blues"	1950	with Jimmy Rogers	Chess 1442	—
"Juke" / "Can’t Hold Out Much Longer"	1952	with Little Walter	Checker 758	—
"The Last Time" / "Out on the Road"	1952	with Jimmy Rogers	Chess 1519	—
"Left Me with a Broken Heart" / "Act Like You Love Me"	1953	with Jimmy Rogers	Chess 1543	—
"Chicago Bound" / "Sloppy Drunk"	1954	with Jimmy Rogers	Chess 1574	—
"'Bout the Break of Day (Early in the Morning)" / "Lord Lord (Lawdy Lawdy)"	1954	with Junior Wells	States 139	—
"So All Alone (Baby So Long)" (Prison Bars all Around Me) / [lower-alpha 4]	1954	with Junior Wells	States 143	—
"Blues All Day Long (Blues Leave Me Alone)" / [lower-alpha 4]	1955	with Jimmy Rogers	Chess 1616	—
"Don't Start Me to Talkin' / "All My Love in Vain"	1955	with Sonny Boy Williamson II	Checker 824	—
"Key to the Highway" / "Rock Bottom"	1958	with Little Walter	Checker 904	—
"—" denotes a release that did not chart

Albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart position US[lower-alpha 3][8]
Broken Soul Blues[lower-alpha 5]	with Memphis Slim Released: 1961 Label: United Artists (3137) Format: LP	—
The Blues of Otis Spann[lower-alpha 6]	with Otis Spann Released: 1964 Label:Decca (4615) Format: LP	—
The Blues Never Die!	with Otis Spann (credited as Dirty Rivers) Released: 1965 Label: Prestige (7391) Format: LP	—
Big Mama Thornton with the Muddy Waters Blues Band – 1966	with Big Mama Thornton Released: 1966 Label: Arhoolie (9043) Format: LP	—
Live at the Cafe au Go-Go	with John Lee Hooker Released: 1966 Label: Bluesway (BL/BLS 6002) Format: LP	—
Blues Is Where It's At	with Otis Spann Released: 1967 Label: Bluesway (BLS 6003) Format: LP	—
Super Blues	with Bo Diddley, Little Walter Released: June 1967 Label: Checker (LP/S 3008) Format: LP	—
The Super Super Blues Band	with Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf Released: 1968 Label: Checker (LP/S 3008) Format: LP	—
The Bottom of the Blues	with Otis Spann Released:1968 Label: Bluesway (BLS 6013) Format: LP	—
George Smith & the Chicago Blues Band: A Tribute to Little Walter[lower-alpha 7]	with George "Harmonica" Smith Released: 1968 Label: World Pacific (WPS–21887) Format: LP	—
Luther "Georgia Boy Snake" Johnson with the Muddy Waters Blues Band[lower-alpha 8]	with Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson Released: 1969 Label: Douglas (LP 781) Format: LP	—
Come On Home[lower-alpha 8]	with Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson Released: 1969 Label: Douglas (LP 789) Format: LP	—
Live the Life[lower-alpha 9]	with Otis Spann Released: 1997 Label: Testament (TCD 6001) Format: CD	—
Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down	with James Cotton and Johnny Winter Released: June 5, 2007 Label: Epic/Legacy (07283) Format: CD	3
"—" denotes a release that did not chart

Notes

Footnotes

1. In 1988, "Mannish Boy" reached number 51 on the UK Singles Chart^[7]
2. In 1968, Electric Mud reached number 47 on the RPM chart (Canada)^[9]
3. Billboard Top Blues Albums chart
4. Muddy Waters does not perform on B-side
5. Reissued as Chicago Blues Masters, Vol. 1: Muddy Waters and Memphis Slim (Capitol, 1995)
6. Reissued as Half Ain't Been Told (1980, Black Cat)
7. Reissued by Capitol in 1997
8. Some songs reissued on Mud in Your Ear (1973, Muse and others)
9. Reissued as I Wanna Come Home (2003, HighTone)

Citations

1. Deming, Mark. "Muddy Waters – Artist Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved April 6, 2016.
2. Wight & Rothwell 1991, pp. 26–53.
3. Palmer 1989, pp. 26–27.
4. "Muddy Waters: Discography – Compilations". AllMusic. Retrieved April 6, 2016.
5. Dahl 1996, pp. 269–271.
6. Whitburn 1988, p. 435.
7. "Muddy Waters – Singles". Official Charts. Retrieved April 6, 2016.
8. "Muddy Waters – Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved April 6, 2016.
9. "RPM Search Engine". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved April 6, 2016.
10. Whitburn 1998, pp. 19–461.

References

• Dahl, Bill (1996). Erlewine, Michael, ed. All Music Guide to the Blues. Miller Freeman Books. ISBN 0-87930-424-3.
• Gordon, Robert (2002). Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters. Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-32849-9.
• Palmer, Robert (1989). Muddy Waters: Chess Box (Box set booklet). Muddy Waters. Chess/MCA Records. OCLC 154264537. CHD3-80002.
• Whitburn, Joel (1988). Top R&B Singles 1942–1988. Record Research, Inc. ISBN 0-89820-068-7.
• Wight, Phil; Rothwell, Fred (1991). "The Complete Muddy Waters Discography". Blues & Rhythm (200).