Muddy Waters Hated This Album. It Sold a Million. - Chess Records 1968

🎵 Chess Records — Muddy Waters Goes Psychedelic, 1968 | Songs of History April 1968. Chess Records, Chicago. Muddy Waters — 55 years old, the king of Chicago blues for two decades — is told by his label that the kids want psychedelic rock now. They hand him a guitar with a wah-wah pedal. They surround him with hippie session musicians. They make him re-record his classics with feedback and distortion. He will publicly disown the album. It will sell a million copies. It will inspire Jimi Hendrix. ► SUBSCRIBE for new Songs of History every Tuesday & Friday at 6 PM EST #ChessRecords #MuddyWaters #ElectricMud #PsychedelicBlues #SongsOfHistory