Editing Rotary Connection (section)

===''Electric Mud'' and ''The Howlin' Wolf Album''===
As a result of the success of ''The Rotary Connection'', Chess felt that he could revive the career of bluesmen Muddy Waters and [[Howlin' Wolf]], by recording two albums of experimental, psychedelic [[blues]] with members of Rotary Connection as the backing band for the singers, producing the albums ''[[Electric Mud]]'' (1968) and ''[[The Howlin' Wolf Album]]'' (1969).<ref name="Murray">{{cite book |last1=Murray |first1=Charles Shaar |title=Crosstown traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the post-war rock'n'roll revolution |year=1991 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=0-312-06324-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/crosstowntraffic00murr/page/134 134] |chapter=Blue are the Life-giving Waters |chapter-url-access=registration |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/crosstowntraffic00murr/page/134 }}</ref>  Chess hoped the new albums would sell well among fans of [[psychedelic rock]] bands influenced by Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf.<ref name="Humphrey">{{cite book |last1=Humphrey |first1=Mark |title=Electric Mud |type=liner notes |year=1996 |publisher=[[Chess Records|Chess]]/[[MCA Records|MCA]] |id=UPC: 076732936429|oclc=779181053}}</ref> In place of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf's regular musicians were Gene Barge, [[Pete Cosey]], Roland Faulkner, [[Morris Jennings]], [[Louis Satterfield]], [[Charles Stepney]] and [[Phil Upchurch]].<ref name="Cohodas-289">{{cite book |last1=Cohodas |first1=Nadine |title=Spinning Blues Into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records |url=https://archive.org/details/spinningbluesint00coho |url-access=registration |year=2001 |page=[https://archive.org/details/spinningbluesint00coho/page/289 289] |chapter=Final Tracks |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0-312-28494-7 }}</ref> Cosey, Upchurch and Jennings joked about calling the group "The Electric Niggers".<ref name="Cohodas-289"/> Marshall Chess liked the suggestion, but [[Leonard Chess]] refused to allow the name.<ref name="Cohodas-289"/> Ultimately, blues purists criticized the psychedelic sound of ''Electric Mud'' and ''The Howlin' Wolf Album''.<ref name="Humphrey"/>