Welcome to "Muddy's Picks" on Graveyard Blues! Each month, Jerry's dog Muddy... will pick an album that he highly recommends. The record can be a classic, brand new or something in-between! We'll take a 'deep-dive' into the record and play a track, from it every week, during that month!



Muddy's Pick for June (2021) is: Albert Collins: "Ice Pickin"

Ice Pickin' is a studio album by Albert Collins, released in 1978. it was Collins' breakthrough album. Ice Pickin' was nominated for a 1979 Grammy Award.

The album was recorded at Curtom Studios, in Chicago and released on Alligator records.

The Guardian wrote of Collins' guitar technique: "Collins had developed a highly distinctive approach to the guitar, tuning it to a D minor chord and using a capo high up the neck to achieve a sharp, brilliant effect, his 'ice-cold, sheet-metal sound' that was mirrored in the name of his band, The Icebreakers."

Melody Maker deemed it the best blues album of 1978, as did the Montreaux Jazz Festival.



Some previous Muddy's Pick's:


B.B. King "Live at The Regal"

Willie Dixon "I Am the Blues"

Buddy Guy "Living Proof"

Albert King (w/ Stevie Ray Vaughan) "In Session"

The Allman Brothers Band "At the Fillmore"

Tedeschi-Trucks Band "Revelator"

Kenny Wayne Shepherd "Trouble Is"

Pinetop Perkins "Boogie Woogie King"

Eric Clapton "From the Cradle"

Rolling Stones "Some Girls" (bonus-tracks)

Johnny Winter "Roots"

Hubert Sumlin "About Them Shoes"

Joe Louis Walker "Hellfire"

Scrapomatic "Sidewalk Caesars"

Stevie Ray Vaughn "In Step"

Elmore James "The Sky is Crying"

Carolyn Wonderland "Peace Meal"

Damon Fowler "Sugar Shack"

Buddy Guy "Rhythm & Blues"

Mississippi John Hurt "Avalon Blues"

Southern Hospitality "Easy Living"

John Hammond "Timeless"

Eric Clapton "Me & Mr. Johnson"

Tommy Castro & The Painkillers "The Devil You Know"

Clarence Gatemouth Brown "American Music,Texas Style"

Tedeschi-Trucks Band "Made Up Mind"

Matt Andersen "Weightless"

Marcus King Band "Soul Insight"

Vaughan Brothers "Family Style"

B.B. King "His Best Electric"

Muddy Waters "The Woodstock Album"

Sean Chambers "Trouble & Whiskey"

Samantha Fish "Wild Heart"

Gregg Allman "Searching for Simplicity"

John Mayall "Find a Way to Care"

Gary Clark Jr. "This Land"

Peter Frampton "All Blues"

John Lee Hooker "The Healer"