Chess Blues

Chess Blues Artist: Various Artists
Label: Chess
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 4


UPC: 076732934029
EAN: 0076732934029
ASIN: B000002OBW


Release Date: 1993-02-02

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Tracks:

  1. Lollypop Mama - Clarence Samuels
  2. Bilbo Is Dead - Andrew Tibbs
  3. Johnson Machine Gun - Sunnyland Slim
  4. Fly Right, Little Girl - Sunnyland Slim
  5. Little Anna Mae - Muddy Waters
  6. I Can't Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters
  7. My Sweet Lovin' Woman - Robert Nighthawk
  8. I Feel Like Going Home - Muddy Waters
  9. She Ain't Nowhere - Sunnyland Slim
  10. Florida Hurricane - St. Louis Jimmy
  11. Memory Of Sonny Boy - Forest City Joe
  12. Tonky Boogie - Forrest Sykes
  13. Cryin' The Blues - Laura Rucker
  14. My Head Can't Rest Anymore - Baby Face Leroy
  15. Big Town Playboy - Little Johnny Jones
  16. Sweet Black Angel - Robert Nighthawk
  17. Rollin' Stone - Muddy Waters
  18. Luedella - Jimmy Rogers
  19. Mother Earth - Memphis Slim
  20. Dr. Ross' Boogie - Dr. Isaiah Ross
  21. Joliet Blues - John Shines
  22. Moanin' At Midnight - Howlin' Wolf
  23. All Night Long (Alternate) - Muddy Waters
  24. Mr. Commissioner (Alternate) - Arbee Stidham
  25. Gettin' Old And Grey - Howlin' Wolf

Tracks:

  1. Walkin' The Boogie (Alternate) - John Lee Hooker
  2. Juke - Little Walter
  3. Conjur Man - Memphis Minnie
  4. Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone - Muddy Waters
  5. Broken Heart (Alternate) - Memphis Minnie
  6. Truckin' Little Woman - Willie Nix
  7. Funeral Hearse At My Door - Rocky Fuller
  8. Hard Time Gettin' Started - Eddie Boyd
  9. Don't Need No Horse - Little Walter
  10. Eight Ball - Gus Jenkins
  11. Fast Boogie - Little Walter
  12. I'm Mad - Willie Mabon
  13. Ice Cream Man - John Brim
  14. Whose Muddy Shoes - Elmore James
  15. Got To Have It - Willie Mabon
  16. I Declare That Ain't Right - Henry Gray
  17. Remember - Alberta Adams
  18. Untitled Instrumental - Henry Gray & Morris Pejoe
  19. Blues With A Feeling - Little Walter
  20. Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters
  21. Forty Four - Howlin' Wolf
  22. Got To Find My Baby (Alternate) - Little Walter
  23. Evil - Howlin' Wolf
  24. Reconsider Baby - Lowell Fulson
  25. Mama Talk To Your Daughter - J.B. Lenoir

Tracks:

  1. Mellow Down Easy - Little Walter
  2. My Eyes (Keep Me In Trouble) - Muddy Waters
  3. My Babe - Little Walter
  4. You Got To Love Me - Billy Boy Arnold
  5. Walking The Blues - Willie Dixon
  6. Don't Start Me To Talkin' - Sonny Boy Williamson
  7. Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf
  8. 29 Ways - Willie Dixon
  9. Right To Love You - Paul Gayten & Myrtle Jones
  10. Ain't Noboby's Business - Jimmy Witherspoon
  11. I'm Leaving You - Otis Spann
  12. Break Of Day - Howlin' Wolf
  13. Please Don't Go - Floyd Dixon
  14. Keep It To Yourself - Sonny Boy Williamson
  15. Walking By Myself - Jimmy Rogers
  16. Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters
  17. Fattening Frogs For Snakes (alternate) - Sonny Boy Williamson
  18. Slow Leake - Lafayette Leake
  19. Sitting On Top Of The World - Howlin' Wolf
  20. She Don't Know - J.B. Lenoir
  21. Your Funeral And My Trail - Sonny Boy Williamson
  22. Key To The Highway - Little Walter
  23. Double Trouble (Alternate) - Muddy Waters
  24. Come On Home - Eddie Boyd
  25. The Goat (Band Track) - Sonny Boy Williamson
  26. So Many Roads, So Many Trains - Otis Rush

Tracks:

  1. First Time I Met The Blues - Buddy Guy
  2. Too Poor - Detroit Jr.
  3. Blue Shadows - Lowell Fulson
  4. The Shakedown - Lloyd Glenn
  5. The Sun Is Shining (Alternate) - Elmore James
  6. Calling On My Darling - Albert King
  7. The Red Rooster - Howlin' Wolf
  8. Nine Below Zero - Sonny Boy Williamson
  9. Goin' Down Slow - Howlin' Wolf
  10. Satisfied - Little Milton
  11. Something's Got A Hold On Me - Etta James
  12. Wrinkles - The Big Three Trio
  13. Bring It On Home - Sonny Boy Williamson
  14. Good Moanin' Blues - Walter Horton
  15. Killing Floor - Howlin' Wolf
  16. What Kind Of Man Is That? - Koko Taylor
  17. We're Gonna Make It - Little Milton
  18. Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor
  19. Dirty Work Goin' On - Little Joe Blue
  20. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - John Lee Hooker
  21. Jinglin' Baby - Eddie Burns
  22. That's Why I Don't Mind - Muddy Waters
  23. Keep It To Myself - Buddy Guy
  24. Sitting Here Alone - Hound Dog Taylor
  25. I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Blues 101!!!.......2003-11-02

All right, students, now pay attention! Put down that racing form and pay attention right now! This here Chess Blues box set contains exactly 101 tracks. How appropriate! That makes this collection a sort of unofficial college course entitled Blues 101, and Professors Wolf, Waters, James, and Jacobs (Little Walter), etc., etc., will be your blues instructors. You will learn the Fundamentals of Blues Harp, with Little Walter ("Juke") and Sonny Boy Williamson II ("Don't Start Me to Talkin'") as your master teachers. Over here, we have a course entitled Mellow Blues, with Willie Dixon ("Walkin' the Blues") and Jimmy Witherspoon ("Ain't Nobody's Business") showing you how it's done. Then, we have instruction in Blues and the Female Voice, with Koko Taylor ("What Kind of Man Is That," "Wang Dang Doodle") and Etta James ("Somethings Got A Hold Of Me," "I'd Rather Go Blind") as your teachers. Finally, what great university would be complete without Master Classes and the best professors in the business Muddy Waters ("Got My Mojo Workin'," "I Can't Be Satisfied," "My Eyes (Keep Me in Trouble"), Howlin Wolf ("Killin' Floor," "Evil," "Going Down Slow"), and John Lee Hooker ("Walkin' the Boogie," "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer") holding court for your edification. No, there is no blues university, but if there was one, the above masters would surely be the instructors and Chess Blues would certainly be the required text. As I said, it's packed with an amazing 101 songs, many of the best blues tracks ever recorded. There are a few clunkers, but very few. You will spend many enjoyable hours listening to this collection. (Trust me, it takes a few hours to listen to 101 songs once!) Get it today, and enroll in the best blues education money can buy!

5 out of 5 stars A terriffic addition to your blues collection.......2003-04-21

This handsome boxset, complete with a large booklet, is a superb addition to your blues collection, even if you already have the best of the major Chess artists such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Sonny Boy Williamson II.

There are bound to be some tracks, especially by Waters and the Wolf, that overlap with what most blues lovers already own, but the "Chess Blues" compilers have done a very fine job assembling dozens of rarer tracks by artists like Robert Nighthawk, Sunnyland Slim, Otis Rush, Memphis Minnie McCoy, Lowell Fulson, Willie Mabon, Elmore James, Jimmy Oden and many others. And these high quality tracks, which make up the vast majority of the 101 cuts, make "Chess Blues" a very welcome supplement to the many available compilations featuring Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson II and Little Walter Jacobs.

5 out of 5 stars This is it!.......2003-03-24

The Delta gave birth to the Delta Blues and Chicago gave birth to the Chicago Blues but it would not have happened without Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter and, of course, the Chess Brothers. This is their legacy - no true blues fan would be without this set as part of their collection -enough said!

5 out of 5 stars Box set arrives like nucular bum.......2001-08-11

Wow, this box set arrives in my discs with the force of a nuclear bomb...I bought it for [amt.] at a local record store; get the box set any way you can. You'll survive cataclysmic disaster for sure. The artists are badasses and geniuses all.

5 out of 5 stars Worth 10 Stars!.......2000-05-16

Where would the music of today be without the music on this set? Every song is a classic. Phil and Leonard Chess had an ear for talent and it shows on this set. Not only do you get classics by Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf, there is also Etta James, Ko Ko Taylor, Sonny Boy Williamson, Sunnyland Slim, Robert Nighthawk, Willie Dixon (the MAN behind many of the Waters/Wolf classics) and many, many more. The booklet is fantastic and the sound quality is very good. Simply a set you can't do without.

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