Have you ever been lucky enough to be at one of those shows when (it seems) a rock star suddenly seems to show up and gets hauled up on stage.

Me neither.

Can you imagine the surprise when people came to a Chicago club to see Muddy Waters play a set and  the Rolling Stones suddenly walk in,  take a table and eventually take the stage to jam with the great blues legend.

These things are rarely spontaneous. Watch the video - the event is suspect. It’s not too often that the table right in front of the performer sits empty, that there are a bunch of cameras in the house and the lighting is just right to capture it all. In spite of this it turns out to be a spectacular night. When the Stones first started 50 years ago they were infatuated with American blues music and covered a lot of Muddy Waters’ songs. In the early days they made a pilgrimages to Chicago to seek out the roots of the music they loved so much.

This show finds them hanging with one of their heroes and it’s captured on a new dvd: MUDDY WATERS & THE ROLLING STONES: LIVE AT THE CHECKERBOARD LOUNGE – CHICAGO 1981. It comes out this week as a dvd and a dvd/cd package. A dvd/vinyl package will come out later in September.

TRACK LISTING:

DVD:

1) Sweet Little Angel  

2) Flip Flop And Fly  

3) Muddy Waters Introduction  

4) You Don't Have To Go 

5) Country Boy  

6) Baby Please Don't Go  

7) Hoochie Coochie Man  

8) Long Distance Call  

9) Mannish Boy  

10) Got My Mojo Working  

11) Next Time You See Me  

12) One Eyed Woman  

13) Baby Please Don't Go (Instrumental)  

14) Blow Wind Blow  

15) Champagne & Reefer 

CD:

1) Introduction Instrumental  

2) You Don't Have To Go  

3) Baby Please Don't' Go  

4) Hoochie Coochie Man 

5) Long Distance Call  

6) Mannish Boy  

7) Got My Mojo Working  

8) Next Time You See Me  

9) One Eyed Woman  

10) Blow Wind Blow  

11) Champagne & Reefer