NOW, WHEN I WAS
A YOUNG BOY
AT THE AGE OF FIVE
MY MOTHER SAID
I WAS GONNA BE
THE GREATEST MAN ALIVE ...
Hard Again
is a studio album
by American
blues singer
Released on
January 10, 1977,
it was the first
of his albums
produced by
Johnny Winter.
Hard Again
was Waters's
first album
on
Blue Sky Records
after leaving
Chess Records
and was
well received
by critics.
Background
In August 1975,
Chess Records
was sold to
All Platinum Records
and became a
reissue label only.
Waters left sometime
after this,
and did not record
any new
studio material
until he signed with
Johnny Winter's
Blue Sky label
in October 1976.
Recording
Hard Again
was recorded
in three days.
Producing the session
was
Johnny Winter
and engineering
the sessions was
Dave Still
who previously engineered
Johnny's brother Edgar,
Foghat,
and Alan Merrill.
Waters used his
touring band
of the time,
consisting of
guitarist
Bob Margolin,
pianist
Pinetop Perkins,
and drummer
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith.
Other backing members
during the sessions
were harmonicist
James Cotton
and bassist
Charles Calmese,
who performed with
both
Johnny Winter
and
James Cotton
in the past.
Songs
Three of the songs
on the album
"Mannish Boy",
"I Want to Be Loved",
and
"I Can't Be Satisfied"
were re-recordings
of songs that were
previously recorded for
Chess Records.
One song,
"The Blues Had a Baby
and They Named It
Rock and Roll, Pt. 2",
was co-written
with
Brownie McGhee
and another song,
"Bus Driver",
was co-written with
Terry Abrahamson.
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