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Folk Singer vinyl value

Folk Singer — Muddy Waters album cover
Prices for this album are still being collected: our eBay tracker quotes a pressing only after at least three live listings match it. The pressings and identification below are complete.

Muddy Waters — Folk Singer: pressings we track

PressingCatalogCountryNotes
1987 ChessCH-9261USReissue, Gloversville Pressing
1987 ChessCH-9261USReissue, Pinckneyville Pressing
1994 ChessHDR 1001UKReissue, Remastered
1994 Mobile Fidelity Sound LabMFSL 1-201USLimited Edition, Numbered, Reissue
2011 Analogue ProductionsAPB 1483-45USReissue, Remastered, 200 Gram, Gatefold
2013 DOLDOL978HGEuropeReissue, 180g Gatefold
2015 Analogue ProductionsAPB 1483USReissue, 200g, Gatefold
2016 Spellbound MusicSPELL4003LPEuropeReissue
2018 Wax LoveWLV82088EuropeReissue
2019 DOLDOL978HCNetherlandsLimited Edition, Numbered, Reissue
2020 Chess5370026EuropeReissue, Blue
2021 Analogue ProductionsAPB 1483USReissue, 180g, Gatefold
2021 Analogue ProductionsAPB 1483-45USReissue, Remastered, 180 Gram, Gatefold
2022 Mobile Fidelity Sound LabUD1S 2-023USReissue, Remastered, 180g, SuperVinyl
2023 ChessLPS-1483SpainReissue, 180
2026 ChessLP-1483WorldwideReissue, Remastered, Mono

21 pressings tracked, 16 shown · catalog of 974,753 releases, August 2026

What separates the pressings

Oldest we track, 1987First released 1964; our table starts at 1987 (Chess, US). A copy older than 1987 predates everything here. Treat it as the find.
Collector variants1994 US: Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue; 2020 Europe: Reissue, Blue; 2026 Worldwide: Reissue, Remastered, Mono. Scarce on purpose; collectors pay for that.
Reissues, 1994+10 pressings. Easy to find, priced as listening copies.

How to identify your copy

Three checks, in the order worth doing them.

  1. 1

    Match the catalog number. It is printed on the spine and the record label. Check it together with the country against the pressings table above: the same number can appear in more than one country.

  2. 2

    Read the runout. The code etched in the dead wax near the label names the exact pressing. On the 1987 US pressing it reads “MCA 6575” on side one and “MCA 6576” on side two. Trust the etching over the jacket: covers get traded around, dead wax stays put.

  3. 3

    Grade the condition. A clean copy and a worn one of the same pressing sit several grades, and several multiples, apart. Grade record and sleeve separately; see our grading guide.

Do not price the cover. A later disc in a 1964 jacket is a reissue, whatever the sleeve says: the pressing lives in the runout etching and on the label.

Questions

Which pressing of Folk Singer is worth the most?

Original 1964 pressings lead; they predate everything in our table, and that scarcity is the point. Among tracked copies, the 1987 pressings come first. Scarcer variants (the 1994 “Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue” and the 2020 “Reissue, Blue”) can beat an ordinary early copy. After that it is all condition: the gap between near mint and VG is usually larger than the gap between pressings.

How do I tell which pressing I have?

Match the catalog number on the spine and label against the table above, check the country, then read the etched code in the runout groove. On the 1987 US pressing the runout reads “MCA 6575”. A period jacket with a later disc inside is still a reissue.

How much is Folk Singer worth today?

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