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Forty Days and Forty Nights
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Wikipedia article
"'Forty Days and Forty Nights'" is a blues song recorded by Muddy Waters in 1956. Called "a big, bold record",
it spent six weeks in the 'Billboard' R&B chart, where it reached number seven.
"Forty Days and Forty Nights" has been interpreted and recorded by a variety of artists.
Composition and recording
"Forty Days and Forty Nights" is a midtempo blues song with an irregular number of bars written by Bernard Roth (who also wrote Muddy Waters' "Just to Be with You").
An early review called it "a dramatic piece of material with effective lyrics".
Backing Muddy Waters (vocals) are Little Walter (harmonica), Willie Dixon (bass), possibly Fred Below or Francis Clay (drums), Pat Hare (guitar), and Jimmy Rogers or Hubert Sumlin (second guitar).
The song was recorded for Chess Records in Chicago during Pat Hare's first recording session with Waters; "Hare's crunching power chords rippled with distortion that was well suited for blues in the rock and roll explosion".
Releases
The song was one of Waters' last charting singles and appears on several of his compilation albums, including the 1965 album 'The Real Folk Blues'. He later recorded "Forty Days and Forty Nights" for the 1969 'Fathers and Sons' album and the 'Authorized Bootleg: Live at the Fillmore Auditorium November 4–6, 1966' album released in 2009.
References
Category:Blues songs
Category:1956 singles
Category:Chess Records singles
Category:Muddy Waters songs
Category:1956 songs
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