After a first set devoted to the early life and career of Muddy Waters – alias McKinley Morganfield, a sharecropper on Stovall Plantation and a guitarist inspired by Son House and the Mississippi Sheiks – Gérard Herzhaft presents this anthology dedicated to Muddy Waters’ work from 1951 to ‘59. In that decade, his music – “carrying the murmur of the Delta, the ambiance of the Deep South, almost the aroma of barbecued catfish” – was preparing to revolutionize the European scene where Muddy Waters would be worshipped as a hero by the future Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. Patrick FRÉMEAUX