Seriously.
Folk Singer is awful, and every song sounds the same, but at least it's acoustic, so it doesn't quite feel like Stevie Ray Vaughan and George Thorogood doing projectile vomit bukkake on yr soul - Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live is very possibly the worst album of non-white music I've heard that was released before the eighties. It's motherfucking blooze rock. I know I shouldn't blame Porter Wagoner for Trace Adkins or Genesis P-Orridge for Trent Reznor, but god I really think that even if Eric Clapton and Paul Mayall, etc, didn't exist, Chicago blues would be the opposite of everything I want in music. I'm listening to the Chess box now and it's just execrable. There's so fucking much GOOD blues out there, why do people gravitate to this?
I think I might actually (really) like Howlin' Wolf, though, 'cuz his music has spark and charisma and a little variety and he makes me think of of Captain Beefheart, instead of being hit on by John Belushi in sunglasses or whatever. He's proto-Bo Diddley instead of proto-pre-marimba+strings-Stones, s'whatI'msayin'. Good shit.
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