Muddy Waters grew up on a Mississippi cotton plantation and sold his family’s last horse to buy a guitar. He mastered the sound of the delta while playing in illegal juke joints, then travelled north to electrify his sound and invent an entirely new genre: Chicago blues. But is “The Anthology: 1947-1972” the best way to experience his oeuvre? Rolling Stone magazine seems to think so, naming this the 483rd Greatest Album of All Time. Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail spent an entire week immersing themselves in the Mud’s career, and the hot-takes are as spicy as ever. Christopher quizzes Liam on his knowledge of pre-war blues, and the pair get into it about the Rolling Stones, Alan Lomax, Leonard Chess and the documentary-making acumen of East Aurora High School. All this and more on Episode 18 of Enjoy An Album!

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