Muddy Waters - "Folk Singer"

Ce disque est un "must" absolu de blues acoustique. 1961. Buddy Guy à la guitare, Muddy Waters qui chante de toutes ses tripes. Certains trouvent le "reverb" un peu "too much". Mais ne boudons pas notre plaisir.

"Folk Singer' was one of the first 'unplugged' 'modern' blues recordings and it offers stellar presence and sound.
Leonard and Phil Chess were riding the new found acoustic folk popularity and offered Muddy an opportunity to record something different
from the more 'modern' electric blues sounds popular at the time.
A revisit to the Mississippi Delta acoustic slide guitar sound of the early days ... some pure acoustic blues ...

This sound is deep and pristine recorded with a clear direct path before recording technology started to use all the outboard studio processing.
Classics has the HDAD and 180 gram vinyl still in print but even the very inexpensive regular Chess CD reissue CHD12027 sounds phenomenal!

'Folk Singer' was also apparently the record that Keith Richards had in his hands when he met Mick Jagger in the early sixties.
Mick introduced himself after noticing Keith holding a copy of 'Folk Singer' while waiting for the train to arrive.
A brilliant album and superb recording by my favorite blues artist!

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"Soundstage"

Ah le fameux "soundstage". Les merveilles du stéréo. Les sculptures sonores tridimensionnelles, l'espace comme jeu sonore. À ce petit jeu, Peter Gabriel est passé maître et son dernier, Up, est tout à fait exceptionnel. Pour tripper dans l'espace et le son, passer outre la remarquable première piste (pour cause de compression armée) et aller directement à "Growing Up". Brillance mise en place.