Folk Singer by Muddy Waters

This album is Muddy Waters as you’ve rarely heard him: intimate, vulnerable and devastatingly powerful. It’s the sound of a man returning to his roots — not out of nostalgia, but with full awareness of how far he’s come since first recording with Aristocrat Records in 1947, the label that would soon become Chess Records. Folk Singer creates space — literal and emotional — for his voice to echo, growl, and howl. It’s one of the most evocative recordings in blues history, a tour de force in res...