Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy (Electric Mud Album. Electric Mud is one of a kind and is a great CD for the electric blues collection. Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy (Electric Mud Album Version) MP3. Electric Mud was the first of several albums - Father and Son with Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield After the Rain The London Muddy Waters Sessions - targeted to "these so-called hippies" who were fast becoming Muddy's primary record-buying audience. The 53-year-old blues was sharing bookings with acid rock bands at venues with names evocative of the time: the Electric Circus, the Knitic Playground, and, of course, the Fillmore. An estimated 150,000 to 200,000 copies sold of Electric Mud "That was big in those days for blues album" shipping in the same year as Hendrix's Electric Ladyland, Muddy's career entered a new phase. Artist: Muddy Waters Title: Electric Mud Year Of Release: 1968 Label: Chess UICY-75952 Genre: Blues, Electric Blues, Chicago Blues Quality: FLAC (image +. It was an electric blues sound with hard and fast driving drum beats, whaling guitar and Muddy howlin' the blues with tunes like (I just want to make love to you, I'm your hoochie coochie man and the controversial Rolling Stone's tune Let's spend the night together). Chess Records decided it was time to join up in the "psychedelic revolution" and released "Electric Mud". It wasn't easy time to be a blues statesman producing hits on the record charts. Producer Marshall Chess suggested that Muddy Waters record experimental, psychedelic blues tracks with members of Rotary Connection in an attempt to revive the blues singer's career. Released in 1968, it is a concept album which imagines Muddy Waters as a psychedelic musician. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album reaching number one on the charts and Jimi Hendrix Experience had release "Are You Experienced" in 1967 and "Axis Bold As Love" climbing the charts in early 1968. ''Electric Mud'' is the third studio album by Muddy Waters. This was the era of psychedelic rock with The Beatle's "Sgt. McKinley Morganfield aka Muddy Waters who was in a slump in 1968 when Electric Mud was released and it had been a decade since Muddy had a top ten hit.