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Welcome to "Muddy's Picks" on Graveyard Blues! Each month, Jerry's dog Muddy... will pick an album that he highly recommends. The record could 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!

Suggest an album for Muddy to consider? Send an email to: muddyspick@graveyardblues.com



Muddy's Pick for JUly (2022) is: The rolling stones - "beggars banquet" released: 12/6/1968

Beggars Banquet marked a change in direction for the band following the psychedelic pop of their previous two albums, Between the Buttons and Their Satanic Majesties Request.

Styles such as roots rock and a return to the blues rock sound that had marked early Stones recordings dominate the record, and the album is among the most instrumentally experimental of the band's career, as they use Latin beats and instruments like the claves, alongside South Asian sounds from the tanpura, tabla and shehnai, and African music-influenced conga rhythms.

Beggars Banquet was a top-ten album in many markets, including a number 5 position in the US—where it has been certified platinum—and a number 3 position in the band's native UK. It received a highly favourable response from music critics, who deemed it a return to the band's best sound.

While the album lacked a "hit single" at the time of its release, songs such as "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Street Fighting Man" became rock radio staples for decades to come. One of their most acclaimed albums, it is considered the beginning of the band's enduring reputation as the "Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World".

The album has appeared on many lists of the greatest albums of all time, including by Rolling Stone, and it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.



Some previous Muddy's Pick's: (In no particular order)


B.B. King "Live at The Regal"

Kingfish Ingram "662"

Willie Dixon "I Am the Blues"

Albert Collins "Ice Pickin"

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"

Lowell Fulson "Lowell Fulson"