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EU-only digitally re-mastered two CD collection. Above all others, it was the great Muddy Waters who linked the country blues of his native Mississippi Delta with the urban blues that were born in Chicago. Waters bought his first electric guitar in 1944 and revolutionized the idiom with the recordings he began making in 1947. The Muddy Waters Blues Band bore all the earmarks - in terms of size , volume and attitude - of the great Rock 'N' Roll groups that would follow in it's wake. This quintessential collector's edition contains 55 re-mastered studio tracks, including all of the fabulous early singles - both A- & B-sides (except for "Sugar Sweet") - Muddy Waters made (accompanied by such masters as Little Walter, Junior Wells, Jimmy Rogers, Willie Dixon, and Otis Spann) for the Aristocrat and Chess Records labels, between 1947 and 1955. Waters' early repertoire, much of which is presented on this indispensable double-set, marks one of the most important building blocks of the Chicago Electric Blues style.