OCTOBER 3, 2005- Reelin’ In The Years Productions and Universal Music Group International are proud to announce the October 31, 2005 worldwide release of Muddy Waters Classic Concerts on DVD. Featuring three concerts (including the legendary 1960 Newport Jazz Festival) and spanning seventeen years, the DVD includes 23 songs for almost two hours of performances by Muddy Waters, the undisputed king of the blues. In 2003, Reelin’ In The Years Productions began releasing the GRAMMY-nominated The American Folk Blues Festival 1962 – 1969 DVD series, widely considered the greatest blues DVDs of all time. Muddy Waters Classic Concerts continues in that fine tradition, featuring truly amazing performances with great sound and video.
Muddy Waters Classic Concerts opens with Muddy’s performance at the legendary 1960 Newport Jazz Festival, the concert that spawned Muddy Waters At Newport, one of the greatest live albums of all time. Now available for the first time featuring pristine stereo sound synched up from that classic album, the five songs in the nearly half-hour set are the finest example of Muddy Waters’ greatness ever to be captured on film and include the definitive versions of “Got My Mojo Working”, “Rollin’ Stone” and “Mean Mistreater”.
The second classic concert is a rare, previously unseen, complete set from the 1968 Copenhagen Jazz Festival featuring Muddy’s amazing late-sixties band including blues great Otis Spann on piano. This show, buried in the Danish vaults for 37 years, is one of the few complete Muddy Waters concerts to be captured on film from the 1960s. The entire band plays with both fire and finesse on blistering versions of “(I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man”, “Long Distance call”, “Tiger In Your Tank” plus five more songs.
The third concert on the DVD is a complete set from the 1977 Molde Jazz Festival in Norway. Filmed 35 years after his first recordings, Muddy and his top-notch band tear through such classics as “Baby Please Don’t Go”, “Can’t Get No Grindin’”, “Prison-Bound Blues” and four more songs.
In addition to the three concerts, the DVD also includes a host of bonus features. From the Victoria Theatre in London is a performance of “The Blues Had A Baby And They Named It Rock & Roll” shot in 1977. Also included are two filmed interviews from Old Grey Whistle Test (1972) and the Molde Jazz Festival (1977). The 16-page booklet includes a foreword by Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones, and an insightful 5,000-word essay by Bob Margolin, Muddy’s lead-guitarist from 1973 to 1980.
Reelin’ In The Years Productions is the largest music footage library in the world, housing over 10,000 hours of performances from all genres of music covering the last 50 years. Most of the footage in their library has never been seen or heard by the world at large. Reelin’ In The Years Productions’ The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969 three volume DVD series has received critical acclaim, commercial success and numerous industry awards. Volume One was nominated for a GRAMMY award in the category of "Best Long Form Music Video" and Volume One and Two received The Blues Foundation's prestigious 2004 Keeping The Blues Alive (KBA) Award as well as Honorable Mention in Mojo Magazine's Honors List for best DVD of 2003. Other DVD releases include the legendary concert film Soul To Soul and Ike & Tina Turner – Live In ’71. In addition, Reelin’ In The Years Productions has provided footage for numerous DVDs including the platinum-selling Led Zeppelin, AC/DC – Family Jewels, The Police – Synchronicity Concert, and Elvis Costello – The Right Spectacle –The Videos.
David Peck of Reelin’ In The Years Productions is available for interviews.
Press contact: Phil Galloway, Reelin’ In The Years Productions at 619.281.6725.
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MUDDY WATERS CLASSIC CONCERTS DVD
(Track List)
Newport Jazz Festival, USA, July 3, 1960
(I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
Tiger In Your Tank
Rollin’ Stone
Got My Mojo Working
Mean Mistreater/ Going To Chicago Blues
Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Denmark, October 27, 1968
Back At The Chicken Shack
Train Fare Blues
(I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
Long Distance Call
Nobody Knows My Trouble
Cold Cold Feeling
Got My Mojo Working
Tiger In Your Tank
Molde Jazz Festival, Norway, August 1, 1977
Intro/ Evan’s Shuffle
Prison Bound Blues
Blow Wind Blow
(I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
Baby Please Don’t Go
Can’t Get No Grindin’
You Don’t Have To Go
Got My Mojo Working
Bonus Features
The Blues Had A Baby And They Named It Rock & Roll – Victoria Theatre, London, July 9, 1977
Interview – Old Grey Whistle Test, January 1, 1972
Interview – Molde Jazz Festival, August 1, 1977
