Show 35: The Psychedelic Blues Tradition

For today's 35th episode of the CC Blues Show, we will continue on our theme of every seven episodes playing songs by the immaculate Muddy Waters, the hero of the blues. If you remember our last two episodes, we covered the blues artists who participated at the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals during the late 1950s and most of the '60s. For today's episode, we will be covering the beginning of the end for classic blues, where Muddy led the charge into experimental and psychedelic music. This next song was released by Waters in 1968 and is a truly experimental song on an overall experimental album. Here's his "Hoochie Coochie Man," psychedelified.