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Chess Blues

Chess Blues

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Artist: Various Artists
Label: Chess
Category: Music

List Price: $59.98
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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 9 reviews
Sales Rank: 11213

Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Incl. 64 Pg. Book
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 12.3 x 6.3 x 1.6

MPN: 9340
UPC: 076732934029
EAN: 0076732934029
ASIN: B000002OBW

Release Date: February 2, 1993
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Tracks:

  Disc 1
  • Lollypop Mama - Samuels, Clarence
  • Bilbo Is Dead - Chess
  • Johnson Machine Gun - Luandrew, Albert
  • Fly Right, Little Girl - Luandrew, Albert
  • Little Anna Mae - Morganfield, McKinl
  • I Can't Be Satisfied - Morganfield, McKinl
  • My Sweet Lovin' Woman - McCollum, Robert
  • I Feel Like Going Home - Morganfield, McKinl
  • She Ain't Nowhere - Luandrew, Albert
  • Florida Hurricane
  • Memory of Sonny Boy - Pugh
  • Tonky Boogie - Sykes, Forrest
  • Cryin' the Blues
  • My Head Can't Rest Anymore
  • Big Town Playboy - Taylor, Eddie
  • Sweet Black Angel - Nighthawk, Robert
  • Rollin' Stone - Morganfield, McKinl
  • Luedella - Lane, James A.
  • Mother Earth - Memphis Slim
  • Dr. Ross' Boogie - Ross, Doctor
  • Joliet Blues - Shines, Johnny
  • Moanin' at Midnight - Howlin' Wolf
  • All Night Long - Morganfield, McKinl
  • Mr. Commissioner - Stidham, Arbee
  • Getting Old and Grey - Howlin' Wolf

  Disc 2
  • Walkin' the Boogie - Hooker, John Lee
  • Juke - Little Walter
  • Conjur Man
  • Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone - Morganfield, McKinl
  • Broken Heart
  • Truckin' Little Woman
  • Funeral Hearse at My Door
  • Hard Time Gettin' Started - Boyd, Eddie
  • Don't Need No Horse - Little Walter
  • Eight Ball
  • Fast Boogie - Little Walter
  • I'm Mad - Mabon, Willie
  • Ice Cream Man - Brim, John
  • Whose Muddy Shoes - James, Elmore
  • Got to Have It - Mabon, Willie
  • I Declare That Ain't Right
  • Remember
  • Blues With a Feeling - Little Walter
  • (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man - Dixon, Willie
  • Forty-Four - Howlin' Wolf
  • Got to Find My Baby - Dixon, Willie
  • Evil - Dixon, Willie
  • Reconsider Baby - Fulson, Lowell
  • Mama Talk to Your Daughter - Lenoir, J.B.

  Disc 3
  • Mellow Down Easy - Dixon, Willie
  • My Eyes (Keep Me in Trouble) - Walker, Hap
  • My Baby - Dixon, Willie
  • You Got to Love Me - Arnold, William
  • Walking the Blues - Dixon, Willie
  • Don't Start Me to Talkin' - Williamson, Sonny B
  • Smokestack Lightning - Howlin' Wolf
  • Twenty-Nine Ways to My Baby's Door - Dixon, Willie
  • Right to Love You - Shaw, James
  • Ain't Nobody's Business - Grainger, Porter
  • I'm Leaving You - Spann, Otis
  • Break of Day
  • Please Don't Go - Fulson, Lowell
  • Keep It to Yourself - Williamson, Sonny B
  • Walking by Myself - Lane, James A.
  • Got My Mojo Working - Foster, Preston
  • Fattening Frogs for Snakes - Williamson, Sonny B
  • Slow Leake - Leake, Lafayette
  • Sitting on Top of the World - Chatmon, Lonnie
  • She Don't Know - Lenoir, J.B.
  • Your Funeral and My Trial - Williamson, Sonny B
  • Key to the Highway - Broonzy, Big Bill
  • Double Trouble - Melka, Harriett
  • Come on Home - Boyd, Eddie
  • Goat - Williamson, Sonny B
  • So Many Roads, So Many Trains - Paul, Marshall

  Disc 4
  • First Time I Met the Blues - Montgomery, Eurreal
  • Too Poor - Williams, Emery Jr.
  • Blue Shadows - Glenn, Lloyd
  • The Shakedown - Glenn, Lloyd
  • Sun Is Shining - James, Elmore
  • Calling on My Darling - Howlin' Wolf
  • The Red Rooster - Dixon, Willie
  • Nine Below Zero - Williamson, Sonny B
  • Goin' Down Slow - Oden, James Burke
  • Satisfied - Campbell, Milton
  • Something's Got a Hold on Me - Woods, Pearl
  • Wrinkles - Leake, Lafayette
  • Bring It on Home - Dixon, Willie
  • Good Moanin' Blues - Dixon, Willie
  • Killing Floor - Burnett, Chester Ar
  • What Kind of Man Is That? - Taylor, Koko
  • We're Gonna Make It - Davis, Billy
  • Wang Dang Doodle - Dixon, Willie
  • Dirty Work Goin' On - Washington, Ferdina
  • One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - Hooker, John Lee
  • Jinglin' Baby - Burns, Eddie "Guita
  • That's Why I Don't Mind - Morganfield, McKinl
  • Keep It to Myself - Williamson, Sonny B
  • Sitting Here Alone - Taylor, Theodore
  • I'd Rather Go Blind - Foster, Bill

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Customer Reviews:   Read 4 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Of course 5 stars.   May 9, 2008
 1 out of 2 found this review helpful

How should I put this...?

subtle? historic? passionate? Let's just leave it at this.

IT'S A 4 CD BOX WITH BLUES FROM CHESS!! THAT'S MUDDY WATERS AND HOWLING WOLF!! DUH!!! OF COURSE 5 STARS!!



5 out of 5 stars Tonight we'll have a ball.   April 23, 2008
 0 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a collection of 101 blues recordings from the Chess Records vault. It features many of the best known blues singers, as well as some performers that history has forgotten. Most of Chess Records' biggest hit blues records are included, but there are also many obscurities here. In fact, almost half the tracks are rarities. But the obscurities are almost as good as the well known recordings. Everything here is good, with most of the tracks being better than good. If you want to learn about the blues, this is the perfect place to start.


5 out of 5 stars Blues 101!!!   November 2, 2003
 24 out of 26 found this review helpful

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   April 21, 2003
 9 out of 9 found this review helpful

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!   March 24, 2003
 4 out of 6 found this review helpful

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!

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