Folk Singer is a 1964 album by Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters

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. Waters plays acoustic guitar, backed by Willie Dixon

Willie Dixon

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 on string bass, Clifton James

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 on drums, and Buddy Guy

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 on acoustic guitar. Current reissues of the album include bonus tracks from two subsequent sessions in April 1964 and October 1964.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 280 on Rolling Stone

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magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time

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.

Track listing

1. "My Home Is in the Delta" (Waters) – 3:58
2. "Long Distance" (Waters) – 3:30
3. "My Captain" (Willie Dixon
   Willie Dixon
   William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...
   
   ) – 5:10
4. "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" (Sonny Boy Williamson
   Sonny Boy Williamson
   Sonny Boy Williamson may refer to either of two 20th-century American blues harmonica players, who both recorded in Chicago:*Sonny Boy Williamson I , John Lee Curtis Williamson, "The Original Sonny Boy Williamson", born in Tennessee and associated with Bluebird Records *Sonny Boy Williamson II ,...
   
   ) – 3:12
5. "You Gonna Need My Help" (Waters) – 3:09
6. "Cold Weather Blues" (Waters) – 4:40
7. "Big Leg Woman" (John Temple
   Johnny Temple (musician)
   Johnny Temple was an American Chicago blues guitarist and singer, who operated in in the 1930s and 1940s. An acquaintance and near-contemporary of Skip James, Temple delivered sedate blues in the vein of Lonnie Johnson...
   
   ) – 3:25
8. "Country Boy" (Waters) – 3:26
9. "Feel Like Going Home" (Waters) – 3:52

Bonus tracks

1. "The Same Thing" (Dixon) – 2:57
2. "You Can't Lose What You Never Had" (Waters) – 2:46
3. "My John the Conqueror Root" (Dixon) – 2:22
4. "Short Dress Woman" (John T. Brown) – 2:49
5. "Put Me in Your Lay Away" (L.J. Welch) – 2:56