“Discovered” by Alan Lomax and his legendary tape recorder while still living in on a Mississippi plantation, Muddy Waters did not become a star until he moved north to Chicago in the early forties, where his flamboyant style and slide-guitar playing would eventually become synonymous with the Chicago blues scene. Waters' first nationwide R&B hit did not come until 1948 with, “I Feel Like Going Home,” but from there on out he charted regularly with songs like “Honey Bee”, “Louisiana Blues”, “She Moves Me”, and later “Hoochie Coochie Man” and “Just Make Love to Me”. His band soon became the most respected (and feared) in the city –especially by local musicians who would inevitably get blown off the stage by Waters and his musical henchmen, who included the legendary harmonica player Little Walter and Willie “Hoochie Coochie Man” Dixon (both stars in their own right). These 25 tracks, all made for Chess from 1947-1954, are the ones that made Waters a star and are essential listening by any standard.