Muddy Waters - 'Long Distance Call' live 1975

The brilliant Muddy Waters in a short clip from the rare 'Who's That Comin..'' an episode from the 'All You Need Is Love' documentary filmed at the Wise Fools club, Chicago, September 3, 1975.

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The lyrics tell the story of a man asking his female lover, to say something kind to him. When a call comes, long-distance, it's only to tell him that "another mule [is] kickin' in your stall".

In a 1969 interview, Muddy Waters himself said it was his favorite song out of all the songs he had recorded.

"Long Distance Call" was first released as a single in 1951 by Chess Records (#1452) with "Too Young To Know" on the B-side. The single reached #8 on the US R&B chart. It was later released on the greatest hits album The Best of Muddy Waters (1958), and is hailed as a classic modern blues song; Waters's singing is cited as an excellent example of blue notes.

"Long Distance Call" originates in the song "Long Distance Moan", recorded in September 1929 by Blind Lemon Jefferson (Paramount #12852). In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Muddy Waters was recording the type of music that helped the blues survive as a commercially viable type of music. "Long Distance Call" was recorded on 23 January 1951, with Little Walter on harmonica and Ernest "Big" Crawford on bass, in a session that also produced "Too Young To Know", "Honey Bee", and "Howlin' Wolf".

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