I Feel Like Going Home

Cut during the exact same April 1948 session as "I Can't Be Satisfied," this track served as the B-side but was just as revolutionary. While Leonard Chess watched nervously from the control room, Muddy Waters and bassist Big Crawford slowed the tempo to a deep, agonizing crawl. Muddy moaned the lyrics with the intense, aching emotionality of a traditional acoustic Delta lament, but amplified through his electric guitar. The resulting track proved that rural blues could not only survive the transition to the electrified city, but could hit with even heavier emotional force.