Jimi Hendrix, who Electric Mud had sought to imitate, was a fan-and it’s even hailed as an early influence on hip-hop. The show was directed by Joe Perota and first aired on MTV on May 28, 1996.
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It was recorded on Apat the Brooklyn Academy of Music 's Majestic Theatre for the television series MTV Unplugged.
Waters agreed he called it “dogshit,” complaining the album wasn’t proper blues and that his backing band lacked the equipment-large amplifiers, effects pedals, etc.-to play it live.īut other musicians picked up on it. The Return of Tanya Tucker, Featuring Brandi Carlile Review: A Reticent Country Veteran Meets a Whip-Cracking Celebrity. Unplugged is a live album and DVD by the American rock band Alice in Chains, released on Jby Columbia Records. They cut eight tracks, mostly psychedelic reworkings of Waters’ classic songs and a cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Let’s Spend The Night Together.” The result was Waters’ first album to hit the Billboard charts, but critics dismissed it as disingenuous. Perhaps the most prominent example of this is Electric Mud, on which producer Marshall Chess put Muddy Waters in the studio with Charles Stepney, mastermind of the Rotary Connection and later Earth, Wind & Fire, and Pete Cosey, a monster of a guitarist who would go on to play with Miles Davis. Without a doubt, it is the most detailed account of the awesome pleasures and perils of rock & roll stardom I have ever read. In the late 1960s, as white rock musicians were making a fortune off music that largely aped the sounds of American blues, some original bluesmen smartly recorded albums that courted this new audience.
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