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Uploaded by on Jul 7, 2010

...Well if I feel tomorrow, like I feel today
I'm gonna pack my suitcase, and make my getaway

Same lyrics, different blues

Early Muddy Waters song recorded either with Chess recorded by Lomax in the 1940s

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  • This is actually from "Down on Stovall's Plantation" or "The Complete Plantation Recordings," recorded for the Library of Congress in Mississippi in the early 1940s by Alan Lomax before Muddy moved to Chicago. Supposedly Muddy's first recordings. First released in 1966 and re-released in various forms later with interviews.

  • @MDSonny See, I be's unsure about that, since I've got two versions and while they sound similiar this one's bit more refined as a recording so I assumed it was with Chess.

    But thanks for the knowlege - I'll update

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  • Oh, Muddy!

  • chicken fucker the devils rejects

  • @MDSonny this recording hapenedbecause Alan lomax was looking for ROBERT jOHNSON.. WHO HAD BEEN KILLED 3 years earlier....

    so he recorded this song,, and others fromMcKinley MOrgenfield( Muddy's real name)

  • soo nice rythm guitar work here by Muddy :))

  • @busessuck1 Thanks for posting this video. It is not my intention to gang up on you, but I believe MDSonny is correct. I'm sure the version of the song in this video is a second version which is on "The Plantation Recordings". There are two versions of this song on that CD. Both are treasures.

    Respect to you, peace...

  • I think it's "I'se Be Troubled"

    

  • @MDSonny Right about Lomax and the Complete Plantation recordings, but this was released in 1948 as "I Can't Be Satisfied"--and a big hit--couldn't keep it on the shelves.

  • MDSonny is correct about Lomax. He recorded this in 1941 and 4 months later sent it to Muddy along with the $20 he paid him to play. One side of the disk is "I Be's Troubled" the other was "Country Blues". By the time Aristocrat Records (later Chess) recorded this it was named "I Can't Be Satisfied". It was his first recording in 1948 and an instant hit. There's an NPR program from 2001 that includes an old interview with Muddy about how this originated.

    Google: npr +"I Can't Be Satisfied"

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