I Can't Be Satisfied

Leonard Chess didn't fully understand the raw, unpolished sound Muddy Waters brought into the studio, but he agreed to record him anyway. Backed only by Big Crawford slapping an upright bass, Waters laid down a heavily amplified, electric update of his old acoustic Delta tune 'I Be's Troubled.' The resulting track sold out its entire initial pressing in Chicago over a single weekend; it was so popular that Muddy himself famously had trouble buying a copy on Maxwell Street. It was the A major turning point of Chicago electric blues, establishing the sonic template that birthed rock and roll.