Super Blues

{{For|the 1994 Pete York album|Superblues}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Super Blues | type = studio | artist = Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Little Walter | cover = Super Blues (album) cover art.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1967|06}}<ref name="Billboard">{{cite magazine | date = June 17, 1967 | title = New Album Releases | magazine = Billboard | page = 34 | accessdate = December 18, 2010 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=1icEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Checker+LPS3008&pg=PA34 }}</ref> | recorded = January 1967 | venue = | studio = Tel Mar Studios (Chicago)<ref name="notes">{{cite AV media notes |title=Super Blues |others=Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Little Walter |year=1992 |orig-year=1967 |type=CD liner |publisher=Chess Records/MCA Records |id=CHD-9168 |location=United States}}</ref> | genre = Chicago blues | length = {{Duration|m=47|s=28}} | label = Checker <small>LP/S 3008</small> | producer = Ralph Bass, Andy McKaie<ref name="notes" /> | chronology = Bo Diddley | prev_title = Road Runner | prev_year = 1967 | next_title = The Super Super Blues Band | next_year = 1968 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = Muddy Waters | type = studio | prev_title = More Real Folk Blues | prev_year = 1967 | title = Super Blues | year = 1967 | next_title = The Super Super Blues Band | next_year = 1968 }} {{Extra chronology | artist = Little Walter | type = studio | prev_title = Little Walter | prev_year = 1964 | title = Super Blues | year = 1967 | next_title = Windy City Blues | next_year = 1986 }} }}

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'''''Super Blues''''' is a 1967 studio album by a blues supergroup consisting of Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, and Little Walter. The album was released in both mono and stereo formats by Checker Records in June 1967.<ref name="Billboard" /> A follow-up album ''The Super Super Blues Band'' was released later that year and featured Howlin' Wolf replacing Little Walter.

==Background== The album was produced by Ralph Bass for Chess Records, although Marshall and Phil Chess were present at the sessions and were credited with supervision. The album's recording engineers were Doug Brand and Ron Malo.<ref name="notes" />

The song featured on the album were several of the musicians most famous songs includes Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man", Muddy Waters' "I Just Want to Make Love to You", and Little Walter's "My Babe".

''Forced Exposure'' describes the recording as an informal jam session and wrote: "Critics remain divided over the merits of ''Super Blues'' as an album, but most agree it occupies a remarkable place in history both as an experiment and as a shape of things to come. Recorded at a time when electric blues' influence on the mainstream was at its height, shades of Waters & Bo's future proto-funk experimentation can be heard throughout ''Super Blues''{{'}} rough-at-the-seams, yet still loose and relaxed tracks."<ref>{{cite web |title=Super Blues |url=https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/diddley-muddy-waters-little-walter-bo-super-blues-cd/GET.54061CD.html |website=Forced Exposure |access-date=13 August 2025 |date=2013}}</ref>

==Track listings==

===Original album=== ;Side one #"Long Distance Call" (McKinley Morganfield) – 5:15 #"Who Do You Love?" (Ellas McDaniel) – 4:10 #"I'm a Man" (Elias McDaniel) – 5:40 #"Bo Diddley" (Elias McDaniel) – 4:35

;Side two #"You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover" (Willie Dixon) – 4:25 #"I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Willie Dixon) – 6:07 #"My Babe" (Willie Dixon) – 3:52 #"You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)" (Elias McDaniel) – 4:05

===1992 bonus tracks=== #<li value="9">"Studio Chatter" (Elias McDaniel) – 1:27 #"Sad Hours" (Walter Jacobs) – 5:09 #"Juke" (Walter Jacobs) – 3:31

==Personnel== ''Per liner notes''<ref name="notes" /> *Bo Diddley – vocals, guitar *Muddy Waters – vocals, guitar *Little Walter – vocals, harmonica *Sonny Wimberley – bass guitar *Frank Kirkland – drums *Buddy Guy – guitar *Otis Spann – piano *Cookie Vee – tambourine, vocals ;Technical *Ralph Bass – producer *Ron Malo – engineer *Doug Brand – engineer *Don Bronstein – cover design *Leslie Sims – cover art *Vartan – reissue art direction

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Category:Checker Records albums Category:1967 collaborative albums Category:Muddy Waters albums Category:Bo Diddley albums Category:Little Walter albums Category:Albums produced by Ralph Bass Category:Jam sessions