Talk:Electric Mud

Reception
I love how this article strongly subscribes to a NPOV. And the source citations are indeed bountiful as well.

Could someone please clean up this article to be a little less critical in tone or at least add some sources for the claims? I mean, when you're throwing around words like "travesty", "debacle". and "commercial sell-out", it really does merit at least a single source, right?

" In an attempt to capitalize on this new popularity, producer Marshall Chess (son of label founder and owner Leonard Chess) convinced Waters to move away from the traditional acoustic and blues styles" This article makes this album seem far too much of a sell-out to the mood of the times. Muddy Waters' "traditional blues" hadnt been doing well at this point in his career and, I think, this album was crucial in getting him some success and recognition at the time. The article is far too critical of the album. Could someone with some more knowledge than me correct it and provide a more balanced opinion? SIGURD42 11:58, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

This article is historically rather inaccurate. Although Electric Mud was criterzed by "blues purists" it had high aclaim from many critics. Many considered it ahead of its time and it recieved a rather unique and diverse following. However, in terms of albums sold the album was only moderately successfull.


 * Cleaned up the article. Added production information from stronger sources. (Sugar Bear (talk) 14:21, 16 March 2009 (UTC))