Down On Stovall's Plantation

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Release Date: 2004

Label: Universe

Muddy Waters: Down On Stovall's Plantation
His First Recordings - The Historic 1941-1942 Library of Congress Field Recordings.

Tracks 1-3: Recorded Stovall, Mississippi, August 24-31, 1941
Tracks 4-8: Recorded Stovall, Mississippi, July 24, 1942 (Son Simms Four)
Tracks 9-13: Recorded Stovall, Mississippi, July 24, 1942
Tracks 14-18: Recorded probably Clarksdale, Mississippi, possibly July 20-24, 1942

Tracks 3, 4, 12, 17, and 18 are previously unissued.

"Joe Turner" and "Pearlie May Blues" from unknown writers.

The "Son Simms Four" are: Muddy Waters, Louis Ford, Percy Thomas, Henry "Son" Simms.