Folk Singer is the fourth album by Muddy Waters, released in April 1964 by Chess Records. The album features Waters on acoustic guitar, Willie Dixon on string bass, Clifton James on drums, and Buddy Guy on acoustic. It's Waters's only all-acoustic album.
The concert featured a who's who of great rock stars from Joni Mitchell, The Staples Sisters & Neil Young to Eric Clapton, Emmylou Harris, Muddy Waters, and many more, joining The Band onstage in one of the most musical Thanksgiving celebrations ever.
On his sole album as a leader, bassist Melvin Jackson - a veteran of the Eddie Harris band- plays with a bow, plucks and plugs his upright bass into a Maestro G-2 filter box, a Boomerang, an Echoplex, and an Ampeg amp.
Written in 2010, released in 2011, the Front Bottoms first label-released album and a video for the song "Maps" helped establish their underground popularity.
Previously long out-of-print, this classic sophomore album by one of the greatest ska bands ever was given a proper treatment for its 20th anniversary.