Muddy Waters - Live Fillmore Auditorium - San Francisco, CA Nov 04-06 1966 (2009) [FLAC]

Part of Universal's Authorized Bootleg series, this disc combines 15 highlights from Muddy Waters' multi-night stint at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium in November 1966. These shows may have been held at a famous rock venue but these recordings have more in common with the performances Muddy gave on the blues and folk festival circuit in the mid-'60s. Muddy and the band are tight and professional, running through numbers they've played many times - of the 15 tracks, "Forty Days and Forty Nights," "Hoochie Coochie Man," "Rock Me," "Baby Please Don't Go" are all repeated - and they don't push, they're so relaxed they even let the tempo almost drag at times. This means there's not much kinetic energy here, but it's not bland either: Muddy is always a powerful, compelling center and there's some prickly ice-pick thin guitar popping up in unexpected places. The professionalism keeps the two sets here enjoyable but it's those slight surprises that make this worthwhile. - Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com

Muddy Waters: Live / Fillmore Auditorium - San Francisco, CA Nov 04-06/1966
Authorized Bootleg Series
Label: Chess - B00112650-02
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2009
Genre: Blues
Style: Chicago Blues


Tracklist:

11/05/1966
1 Forty Days And Forty Nights 4:16
2 (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man 2:56
3 Rock Me 5:02
4 Baby Please Don't Go 2:30
5 She Moves Me 8:00
6 Got My Mojo Working 4:59

11/06/1966
7 You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had 4:27
8 Forty Days And Forty Nights 4:15
9 Baby Please Don't Go 2:53
10 Thirteen Highway 11:17
11 Rock Me 6:20

11/04/1966
12 Honey Bee (A/K/A Sail On) 4:32
13 Trouble No More 2:44
14 (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man 3:02
15 Long Distance Call 7:00


Lineup:

Muddy Waters - Guitar, Vocals
Mac Arnold - Bass
Francis Clay - Drums
Luther Johnson - Guitar
Sammy Lawhorn - Guitar
George "Harmonica" Smith - Harmonica