Howlin' Wolf
THE BACK DOOR WOLF
MCA Chess 1973 / 1995
Notes: "Wolf was titanic by several scales. Sam Phillips rermembered him "as about sis foot six, with the biggest feet i'd ever seen on a human being..." Phillips also considered Wolf the greatest talent among his many discoveries, Elvis included. Remembering the impression he made in the Delta in the 1930s, Johnny Shines likened Wolf to "some kind of beast or something," adding that his fearsome presence was a product not of his size but of the sound he was giving off."
The Back Door Wolf
You Turn Slick on Me
Can't stay here
Speak Now Woman
Cheers
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mksun,
Very impressive collection. The Best on Chess could be all the Blues a person needs. Except for us
Aficionados of course. :)
Cheers |
Howlin' Wolf THE CHESS BOX MCA Chess 3CD Box 1991 Wiki: The musician and critic Cub Koda noted, "no one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits." Producer Sam Phillips recalled, "When I heard Howlin' Wolf, I said, 'This is for me. This is where the soul of man never dies.'" Several of his songs, including " Smokestack Lightnin'", " Killing Floor" and " Spoonful", have become blues and blues rock standards. In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 54 on its list of the " 100 Greatest Artists of All Time".
Born June 10, 1910 White Station, Mississippi
Died January 10, 1976 (aged 65) Hines, Illinois
Many say Muddy Waters was the Boss of the Blues. Many could be wrong.
Howlin' For My Darling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paEv5A5Ir1c
Who's Been Talking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7jxaWMFhTg
Goin' Down Slow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KDAAx-PXGQ
I Asked For Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGoKbPR6kwYAnd 71 more! Cheers |
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Sonny Boy Williamson / Willie Love CLOWNIN’ WITH THE WORLD Alligator Records / Trumpet Records 1953-1954 Notes: "Since the earliest years of the century, Nelson Street has served the black community of Greenville, Mississippi as its social and commercial mainstream. Its many cafes, saloons, barbershops, juke joints and dives have played host to some of the best musicians in the Delta. It was here in 1942 that Aleck "Rice" Miller, one of the most extraordinary of all Blues artists, first met and gigged with Willie Love Jr., a Greenville resident whose rolling, swinging piano playing kept him steady demand on Nelson Street and beyond." In most Southern States there was always one place that was a little different from the rest of the state. In Mississippi, that place was Greenville / Washington County. In it’s heyday, the third largest city in the state. Sonny Boy Williamson: (Aleck ’Rice’ Miller) She’s Crazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR_G9HleBUk309 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVQNJTU1N7IClownin’ with the World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEQyZAK4SAgWillie Love: Take It Easy, Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eVgtr0tUwkNelson Street Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJSfv4X7f2E Worried Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB79aVOB7RkCheers |
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Joe Williams NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES Red Holloway(leader & tenor sax), Eddie Cleanhead Vinson(vocal & alto sax), Jack McDuff(organ & piano), Phil Upchurch(guitar), Ray brown(bass), Gerryck King(drums) Delos Records 1983 Notes: "Overseas, Jazz is looked on and respected as part of our classical presentation. So, recordings the first Jazz album on a prestigious American classical label like Delos is a giant step toward broadening our audience here in this country." The Blues with Jazz band backing. And, a guy who can sing.
Who She Do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2jOiIxnEDsJust a Dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne5_RVF9gMYGoing to Chicago Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcn3DsNTudA
Alright, Okay, You Win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEGOvLtkmX0
Sent For You Yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niE9YjJlVE4Cheers |
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David "Honeyboy" Edwards WHITE WINDOWS Evidence Records 1993 wiki:
Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi. He learned to play music from his father, a guitarist and violinist. At the age of 14, he left home to travel with the bluesman Big Joe Williams, beginning life as an itinerant musician, which he maintained through the 1930s and 1940s. He performed with the famed blues musician Robert Johnson, with whom he developed a close friendship. Edwards was present on the night Johnson drank the poisoned whiskey that killed him, and his story has become the definitive version of Johnson's demise. Edwards also knew and played with other leading bluesmen in the Mississippi Delta, including Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, and Johnny Shines."
West Helena Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjiLY6GbOecBuild Myself a Cave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucBKPwQ0E6k61 Highway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwtNBzKz-mc
Drop Down Mama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8aGBFMTe8gCheers |
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Snooks Eaglin COUNTRY BOY DOWN IN NEW ORLEANS Arhoolie 1955, 1967 / 1991 Notes: "Though Snook Eaglin's sources are diverse, spanning country Blues, spirituals and gospel songs, hillbilly, pop standards, rhythm & Blues, rock and roll, traditional and progressive Jazz, virtually every type of music he was exposed to in his native New Orleans, he transforms them all into something characteristically his own."
Rock Me Mama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLq0DDC0Pyw
This Train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Y1GQf381c
Country Boy Down in New Orleans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L80lxlXybc
Walking Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qlo_Vag_Bk
I've Had My Fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx_E8OPsZDU
Mardi Gras Mambo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ze5nB0AfkCheers |
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Willie Dixon THE BIG THREE TRIO CBS Records 1990 wiki:
Next to Muddy Waters, Dixon is recognized as the most influential person in shaping the post–World War II sound of the Chicago blues. A short list of his most famous compositions includes "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "Little Red Rooster", "My Babe", "Spoonful", and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover". These songs were written during the peak years of Chess Records, from 1950 to 1965, and were performed by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, and Bo Diddley; they influenced a generation of musicians worldwide. Dixon was an important link between the blues and rock and roll, working with Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley in the late 1950s. In the 1960s, his songs were adapted by numerous rock artists. He received a Grammy Award and was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. -- wiki
Born July 1, 1915 Vicksburg, Mississippi
Died January 29, 1992 (aged 76) Burbank, California
Hard Notch Boogie Beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXMThTIYpfI
Since My Baby Gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbDSvd_PYvw
You Don't Love Me No More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6k---0B4k4
Come Here Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sh9mt1BMaQ Tell That Woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm8E7wtypIs
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Junior Wells HOODOO MAN BLUES Delmark 1965 Notes: "I went to this pawnshop downtown and the man had a harmonica priced at $2.00. I got a job on a soda truck...played hookey from school...worked all week and on Saturday the man gave me a dollar and a half. A dollar and a half! For a week of work. I went to the pawnshop and the man said the price was two dollars. I told him I HAD to have that that harp. He walked away from the counter--left the harp there. So I laid my dollar-and-a-half on the counter and picked up the harp. When my trail came up, the judge asked me why I did it. I told him I HAD to have that harp. The judge asked me to play it and when I did he gave the man the 50 cents and hollered "case dismissed!" -- Chicago 1948 Wells' initial LP appearance, and maybe the first LP by any Blues band.
Early in the Morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EBd3bN9Z3Y
Snatch It Back And Hold It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6TwTmFbEd4
Hoodoo Man Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdKRWaIaZ14
Yonder Wall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy5DFOo6Ar8
Good Morning Schoolgirl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGIB1eBL9YCheers |
Junior Wells BLUES HIT BIG TOWN Delmark 1998 Notes: 'Blues Hit Big Town' contains the historic first recordings of Junior Wells. Junior was still a teenager at the time of the first session and had replaced Little Walter in the Muddy Waters band. In a Down Beat review Pete Welding said "In their power, directness, unerring taste and utter consistency of mood, these may well be the most perfectly distilled examples of Wells' music ever recorded, taking their place alongside of those of Waters, Walter, Wolf and other masters of the period. Five stars." 'Blues Hit Big Town' captures genius emerging from one of the greatest Blues personalities and harmonica players of all time." Blues Hit Big Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPsreuzjNro
Hoodoo Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fFLrKI-28
Lord Lord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jI6iKiwSxc
Junior's Wail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzdW7yxSv2oCheers |
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Little Walter BLUES WITH A FEELING: CHESS COLLECTIBLES VOL.3 MCA Chess 1995 2CD Set wiki:
Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968), known as Little Walter, was an American blues musician, singer, and songwriter, whose revolutionary approach to the harmonica had a strong impact on succeeding generations, earning him comparisons to such seminal artists as Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix. He was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, the first and, to date, only artist to be inducted specifically as a harmonica player.
Blue Midnight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atm8qZIjxRs
Juke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJEKQuuRpss
Fast Boogie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tqI0k1z5DM
Shake Dancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orvv1G4wCC0Cheers |
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T-Bone Walker THE COMPLETE IMPERIAL RECORDINGS, 1950-1954 Imperial / EMI Blues Series 1950-1954 / 1991 2CD Set wiki:
Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was an American blues musician, composer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues and electric blues sound.
Born May 28, 1910 Linden, Texas
Died March 16, 1975 (aged 64) Los Angeles, California
Notes: "The Blues was different before T-Bone came onto the scene and it hasn't been the same since." Disc One:
Glamour Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbLrRFsfRME
Life Is Too Short
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZDj0ehzKOM
Travelin' Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opG0LrX_CrU
Alimony Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0M4JSgZ04Iand 22 more! Cheers |
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