The Essential Collection (Muddy Waters album)


The Essential Collection is a 20-song compilation of the music of Muddy Waters, spanning work from 1950 through to 1972. The album, released in 2000 by Universal Music Group's Spectrum Records, complements much of his original work with many songs that went on to become classics of the British Invasion when used by other artists.

Track listing

  1. "Got My Mojo Working" - 2:53
  2. "Long Distance Call" - 2:41
  3. "Close to You" - 3:14
  4. "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" - 4:51
  5. "She Moves Me" - 2:59
  6. "Baby Please Don't Go" - 3:16
  7. "Mad Love " - 3:04
  8. "I'm Ready" - 3:03
  9. "I Just Want to Make Love to You" - 2:51
  10. "I Live the Life I Love, I Love the Life I Live" - 2:54
  11. "She's All Right" - 2:30
  12. "Mannish Boy" - 3:49
  13. "Young-Fashioned Ways" - 3:01
  14. "I Want to be Loved" - 2:32
  15. "Louisiana Blues" - 2:51
  16. "Forty Days and Forty Nights" - 2:53
  17. "Rollin' Stone" - 3:08
  18. "Stuff You Gotta Watch" - 2:50
  19. "Garbage Man" - 2:37
  20. "Can't Get No Grindin'" - 2:48