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Thailand pressed music cassette on Golden Peacock Records. Black cassette with white Peacock label.

Once Chess discovered a white folk-blues audience ripe and ready to hear the real thing, they released a series of albums under the Real Folk Blues banner. This is one of the best entries in the series, a mixed bag of early Chess sides from 1949-1954, some of it hearkening back to Muddy’s first recordings for Aristocrat with only Big Crawford on strings in support, with some wonderful full band sides rounding out the package to give everyone the big picture. All of the tracks that appear here were absent on the earlier Best of Muddy Waters compilation, making this an ideal second purchase if one has listened to the first and is desiring more. The tracks on The Real Folk Blues consistently come close in quality to those on The Best of Muddy Waters, although many of them have a more urban feel to them. A couple of highlights to pay special attention to are the cha cha/shuffle strut of the band charging through Walkin Through The Park and the Im A Man-derived nastiness of Mannish Boy.

Track list:
1. Mannish Boy
2. Screaming And Crying
3. Just To Be With You
4. Walking In The Park
5. Walking Blues
6. Canary Bird
7. Same Thing
8. Gypsy Woman
9. Rollin And Tumblin
10. 40 Days And 40 Nights
11. Little Geneva
12. You Can’t Lose What You Never Had