This the first time I heard this version.  This is way better than that ho-hum Foghat rendition!

that's some dirty water flowin'

Muddy is my all time favorite!!

 sirdroseph wrote: 
There's no doubt - it's blasphemous.

Everything Muddy does is a 10.... It is what it is....

Great song and I know this might be blasphemous, but I actually prefer Foghat's rockin version.

I got to get this for my vinyl collection.. just perfect to hear on a turn table.

F*@#$ Awesome

 lemmoth wrote: 
Also guffaw, as if Eric doesn't know the blues. Look up his life sometime; if it weren't for Pete Townshend driving his car through the front of Eric's house and kidnapping him to the emergency room, he'd have died of an overdose from the depression he suffered after his wife left him. And we won't even get into losing his young son.

Classic Blues on Radio Paridise!!! The album was one of the first blues albums I bought back in the 80's. Yea haw!!!

You mean, I don't have to work!?  

Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how cool I am

 Papernapkin wrote: 
I don't like this song in any incarnation, but grudgingly, I have to agree with Papernapkin - Foghat's version is the one that sticks in my head. And I do like Muddy Waters' version much better. The song itself makes me want to rip off my own head... Yeah, I know it's old blues and history and allathat stuff, but I just can't embrace it as something I'd want to put in my CD player and listen to while traveling from northern Nevada to Oregon...

 ziakut wrote: 

Please look up the word "homage." 

Eric and other British blues artists understood their debt to these genuine American troubadors.  They (mostly) take great pains to acknowlege their debt.  Furthermore, they are responsible for introducing white America to these geniusus in our midst and in our history.  For that alone, the Brit Bluesmen should be lauded.

And dammit.. Their interpretations were usually inspired and fun an really good stuff etc.

Didn't think anyone could do it better than Etta James.  I stand corrected.

Quite erotic song
 

This is the real thing!!! Love it! Clapton does the blues an injustice. Wealthy and British doesn't cut it for me. Love Muddy though...

 Papernapkin wrote: 
Yeah, they do a pretty good version—-and you can sing their vocals with this version.

Ah, here's the whole cloth.

Damn, I saw him in concert when I was still in High School, hard to believe that concert was 41 years ago! eeeek!

Wooooo Yeah, Muddy Baby!

 HarrO wrote: 
Yeah, I wish he'd played Freddie King instead. Can't hack this guy...after this last set it's time to switch for a bit.

 toterola wrote: 
Don't forget Freddie King!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man I love Delta blues.. too bad so many great, unrecognized (usually because they were black) blues artists were plagiarized and ripped off completely...

At age 14 or so I saw the Rolling Stones play this tune on Ed Sullivan I believe around 1964 or 65. I was shocked—-but survived.

 That_SOB wrote: 
Yeah, Clapton emulated Robert Johnson, and Buddy Guy,and Muddy, and B.B. King, and Howlin' Wolf, and Elmore James, and "Sonny Boy" Williamson, and so many others. But thank God Clapton and all the others did copy and learn from them!

I have always loved the Delta blues, but I "lived" for the electric blues! And I still do!

"This is the man Mick Jagger most wanted to sound like/be." ——Wrote Toterola

 Indeed,  and another 1000 Brit invaders. Does Clapton come to mind ?