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Chess Blues Collection Box Set (CD)

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Overview

An amazing addition to any blues collector's CD rack!

The Chess Blues Collection box is a superlative 4-CD set, featuring important tracks by all the main stars of the label (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson), as well as previously unreleased material.
Track Listing
Disc 1
1.Lolly Pop Mama - 2:49 (Samuels, Clarence)
2.Bilbo Is Dead - 2:57 (Tibbs, Andrew)
3.Johnson Machine Gun - 2:52 (Sunnyland Slim)
4.Fly Right, Little Girl - 2:36 (Sunnyland Slim)
5.Little Anna Mae - 2:33 (Waters, Muddy)
6.I Can't Be Satisfied - 2:43 (Waters, Muddy)
7.My Sweet Lovin' Woman - 2:52 (Nighthawk, Robert)
8.I Feel Like Going Home - 3:11 (Waters, Muddy)
9.She Ain't Nowhere - 2:47 (Sunnyland Slim)
10.Florida Hurrican - 2:56 (Saint Louis Jimmy)
11.Memory of Sonny Boy - 3:17 (Forest City Joe)
12.Tonky Boogie - 3:10 (Sykes, Forrest)
13.Cryin' the Blues - 2:42 (Rucker, Laura)
14.My Head Can't Rest Anymore - 3:12 (Baby Face Leroy)
15.Big Town Playboy - 2:57 (Jones, Johnny)
16.Sweet Black Angel - 3:04 (Nighthawk, Robert)
17.Rollin' Stone - 3:08 (Waters, Muddy)
18.Luedella - 2:53 (Rogers, Jimmy)
19.Mother Earth - 2:43 (Memphis Slim)
20.Dr. Ross' Boogie - 2:38 (Ross, Doctor)
21.Joliet Blues - 2:41 (Shines, Johnny)
22.Moanin' at Midnight - 2:57 (Howlin' Wolf)
23.All Night Long [Alternate Take] - 3:49 (Waters, Muddy)
24.Mr. Commissioner [Alternate Take] - 3:14 (Stidham, Arbee)
25.Getting Old and Grey - 2:37 (Howlin' Wolf)
Disc 2
1.Walkin' the Boogie [Alternate Take] - 2:34 (Hooker, John Lee)
2.Juke - 2:48 (Little Walter)
3.Conjur Man - 2:59 (Memphis Minnie)
4.Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone - 3:05 (Waters, Muddy)
5.Broken Heart [Alternate Take] - 2:59 (Memphis Minnie)
6.Truckin' Little Woman - 2:40 (Nix, Willie)
7.Funeral Hearse at My Door - 3:16 (Fuller, Rocky)
8.Hard Time Gettin' Started - 2:32 (Boyd, Eddie)
9.Don't Need No Horse - 3:19 (Little Walter)
10.Eight Ball - 3:13 (Jenkins, Gus)
11.Fast Boogie - 2:49 (Little Walter)
12.I'm Mad - 2:39 (Mabon, Willie)
13.Ice Cream Man - 2:48 (Brim, John)
14.Whose Muddy Shoes - 3:19 (James, Elmore)
15.Got to Have It - 3:07 (Mabon, Willie)
16.I Declare That Ain't Right - 3:07 (Gray, Henry)
17.Remember - 2:54 (Adams, Alberta)
18.(Untitled Instrumental) - 2:22 (Gray, Henry / Pejoe, Morris)
19.Blues With a Feeling - 3:08 (Little Walter)
20.(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man - 2:53 (Waters, Muddy)
21.Forty-Four - 2:50 (Howlin' Wolf)
22.Got to Find My Baby [Alternate Take] - 3:08 (Little Walter)
23.Evil - 2:56 (Howlin' Wolf)
24.Reconsider Baby - 3:11 (Fulson, Lowell)
25.Mama Talk to Your Daughter - 2:19 (Lenoir, J.B.)
Disc 3
1.Mellow Down Easy - 2:44 (Little Walter)
2.My Eyes (Keep Me in Trouble) - 3:13 (Waters, Muddy)
3.My Babe - 2:43 (Little Walter)
4.You Got to Love Me - 2:27 (Arnold, Billy Boy)
5.Walking the Blues - 3:05 (Dixon, Willie)
6.Don't Start Me to Talkin' - 2:36 (Williamson, Sonny Boy)
7.Smokestack Lightning - 3:09 (Howlin' Wolf)
8.Twenty-Nine Ways to My Baby's Door - 2:11 (Dixon, Willie)
9.Right to Love You - 2:39 (Jones, Myrtle / Gayton, Paul)
10.Ain't Nobody's Business - 2:43 (Witherspoon, Jimmy)
11.I'm Leaving You - 2:42 (Spann, Otis)
12.Break of Day - 2:47 (Howlin' Wolf)
13.Please Don't Go - 3:33 (Dixon, Floyd)
14.Keep It to Yourself - 2:51 (Williamson, Sonny Boy)
15.Walking by Myself - 2:49 (Rogers, Jimmy)
16.Got My Mojo Working - 2:53 (Waters, Muddy)
17.Fattening Frogs for Snakes [Alternate Take] - 2:42 (Williamson, Sonny Boy)
18.Slow Leake - 3:04 (Leake, Lafayette)
19.Sitting on Top of the World - 2:35 (Howlin' Wolf)
20.She Don't Know - 2:24 (Lenoir, J.B.)
21.Your Funeral and My Trial - 2:30 (Williamson, Sonny Boy)
22.Key to the Highway - 2:49 (Little Walter)
23.Double Trouble [Alternate Take] - 3:31 (Waters, Muddy)
24.Come on Home - 2:39 (Boyd, Eddie)
25.Goat [Band Track] - 2:23 (Williamson, Sonny Boy)
26.So Many Roads, So Many Trains - 3:10 (Rush, Otis)
Disc 4
1.First Time I Met the Blues - 2:20 (Guy, Buddy)
2.Too Poor - 2:17 (Detroit Junior)
3.Blue Shadows - 2:27 (Fulson, Lowell)
4.The Shakedown - 2:28 (Glenn, Lloyd)
5.Sun Is Shining [Alternate Take] - 2:42 (James, Elmore)
6.Calling on My Darling - 3:06 (King, Albert)
7.The Red Rooster - 2:28 (Howlin' Wolf)
8.Nine Below Zero - 3:29 (Williamson, Sonny Boy)
9.Goin' Down Slow - 4:04 (Howlin' Wolf)
10.Satisfied - 2:18 (Little Milton)
11.Something's Got a Hold on Me - 2:49 (James, Etta)
12.Wrinkles - 2:38 (Big Three Trio)
13.Bring It on Home - 2:37 (Williamson, Sonny Boy)
14.Good Moanin' Blues - 4:14 (Horton, Big Walter)
15.Killing Floor - 2:51 (Howlin' Wolf)
16.What Kind of Man Is That? - 3:05 (Taylor, Koko)
17.We're Gonna Make It - 2:41 (Little Milton)
18.Wang Dang Doodle - 3:02 (Taylor, Koko)
19.Dirty Work Goin' On - 2:47 (Blue, Little Joe)
20.One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - 3:00 (Hooker, John Lee)
21.Jinglin' Baby - 2:06 (Burns, Eddie "Guitar")
22.That's Why I Don't Mind - 2:58 (Waters, Muddy)
23.Keep It to Myself - 2:31 (Guy, Buddy)
24.Sitting Here Alone - 3:45 (Taylor, Hound Dog & the Houserockers)
25.I'd Rather Go Blind - 2:34 (James, Etta)
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