At Newport 1960
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| Live album by Muddy Waters | ||||
| Released | November 15, 1960 (US) | |||
| Recorded | July 3, 1960 | |||
| Genre | Chicago blues | |||
| Length | 32:38 | |||
| Label | MCA/Chess | |||
| Producer | Leonard Chess | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| All About Jazz | (favorable) |
| Allmusic |  |
| Blues Access | (favorable) |
| fRoots | (favorable) |
| Southwest Blues | (favorable) |
At Newport 1960 is a live album by Muddy Waters performed at Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, with his backing band, consisting of Otis Spann (piano, vocals), Pat Hare (guitar), James Cotton (harmonica), Andrew Stevens (bass) and Francis Clay (drums), on July 3. Waters's performances across Europe in the 1950s and at Newport helped popularize blues to a broader audience, especially to whites. The album is said to be one of the first live blues albums.
The album was released in the US on November 15 that year, featuring eight songs, including "I Got My Brand on You" to "Goodbye Newport Blues". In 2001, Chess Records released a remastered version, which includes three bonus tracks recorded in Chicago in June. At Newport 1960 never charted, but it received critical acclaim and was influential for future bands. It was ranked on several music lists, including at number 348 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of all Time" in 2003.
After releasing his debut album The Best of Muddy Waters (1958), a greatest hits collection, and Sings Big Bill Broonzy (1960), a collection of covers of songs by the blues musician Big Bill Broonzy, Waters performed at the Newport Jazz Festival. Waters had already been a well-known blues musician across Europe and the United States in the '50s. His successful performances with his electric blues band, consisting of his half-brother Otis Spann (piano, vocals), Pat Hare (guitar), James Cotton (harmonica), Andrew Stevens (bass) and Francis Clay (drums), increasingly popularized the blues in mainstream music in the United States and Europe, especially among white audiences.
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