WATERS, MUDDY - The Best Of Muddy Waters (Sealed) (LP)

His legendary 1950's band's epic Delta funk meets high South Side voltage approach was without peer, and Muddy's warm, self-possessed authority, together with the audacious, aggression of Little Walter's harmonica and Otis Spann's moving, expressive piano made for an irresistibly raw, insanely perfected unit, one that is captured here in all of its splendid, hard-driving grandeur