Love Joe Turner, @rok2id! I was fortunate to see/hear him live in the mid-80's, back by The Blasters. I consider Joe the first Rock 'n' Roll singer, one of the Jump Blues practioners the Southern white Hillbillies like Elvis and Jerry Lee were listening to before they started recording.
Blues for Aficionados
I have found that postings music is a good way to listen to all the music in your collection. I have neglected the ultimate source of much of the music I post. This tread corrects that oversight. All Blues post are welcome. I will concentrate on the Delta.
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Various Artists A VISION SHARED: A TRIBUTE TO WOODY GUTHRIE AND LEADBELLY Columbia / Folkways 1988 Notes: "They left home as teenagers. They traveled around the country during hard times, learned from other performers, and forged styles of their own which influenced thousands of younger musicians. Huddie Ledbetter (1885-1949), a Louisiana-born black man with the nickname "Leadbelly", and Woody Guthrie (1912-1967), an Oklahoma-born white man, shared a love of music, a keen appreciation of their fellow human begins, a political consciousness, and an ability to turn their experiences into songs that fired the imaginations of audiences around the country." Sylvie -- Sweet Honey in the Rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKvY9Yg2k-c I Ain't Got No Home -- Bruce Springsteen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeSrR1X65EA Rock Island Line -- Little Richard & Fishbone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aPmGqcafKw The Bourgeois Blues -- Taj Mahal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VvfAfwS9k8 Gray Goose -- Sweet Honey in the Rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ffJoYCjPi8 This Land is Your Land -- Peter Seeger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnoQAjt775g with Sweet Honey in the Rock, Doc watson & The Little Red School House Chorus Cheers |
Various Artists BEST OF THE BLUES: "A SUMMIT MEETING" Pairs Record / Buddah Records 1988 Notes: "The Blues is the backbone of America’s music. Jazz, rock, country and western, swing, pop, --- none of these would be what it is without the Blues. The Blues is a deceptively simple musical form capable of infinite variety. On this splendid collection you’ll hear old Blues and new Blues, happy and mean Blues, country Blues and city Blues, vocal Blues and instrumental Blues--all of it real, honest and direct." Recorded in NYC!!! Blasphemy ! Kidney Stew -- Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGv-1DfRgcc Ball and Chain -- Big Mama Thornton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKZivvODnV8 They Called Me Mr. Cleanhead -- Eddie Vinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVgzmQ4EdWs That’s Alright Now Mama -- Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1LWCbPfeHk Got my Mojo Workin’ -- Muddy Waters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc_0frQkG_4 Confessin’ the Blues -- Jay McShann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SWMivXDp14 The Drifter -- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w4it8guF3c Cheers |
Albert Collins - Robert Cray - Johnny Copeland SHOWDOWN! Alligator 1985 Notes require a microscope. T-Bone Shuffle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V88a0iBy9B4 Lion's Den https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoCSB0jNgqM Black Cat Bone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okYn4h35W5c Bring Your Fine Self Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSHtO0SdOL4 Cheers |
James Cotton - Junior Wells - Carey Bell - Billy Branch HARP ATTACK! Alligator 1990 Notes: "If there is one sound that says "Chicago Blues" to the world, it’s the sound of a harmonica blown through a hand-held microphone blasting through an amplifier. The pressurized, distorted sound of the electrified Blues harp was there from the earliest days of post-World War ll Windy City Blues, and Chicago’s harp players have always been the standard against which all others are judged." Down Home Blues (vocals- Cotton 1st, Branch 2nd, Wells 3rd Bell 4th) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0-GSMUY5GE Somebody Changed the Locks (junior wells vocal) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FE2SQ7BSJY Who (billy branch vocal) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlRrH2QVAzI Keep Your Hands out of my Pockets (junior wells vocals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9fhGxeWXdg&t=205s Cheers |
Various Artists LEGENDS OF THE BLUES: VOLUME ONE CBS Records 1990 Nice informative booklet. St. Louis Blues (Bessie Smith) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxw09D8co_c Nothing in Ramblin' (Memphis Minnie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5OWVi3H1dk Match Box Blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aq0xcqLHJs Hard Day Blues (Muddy Waters) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGgJtCccbHE Stop Breakin' Down Blues (Robert Johnson) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz_R96Bmq-k Cheers |
Various Artists THE SLIDE GUITAR: BOTTLES, KNIVES & STEEL CBS Records 1990 Excellent Booklet with pictures and a synopsis of each song. Pearline (Son House) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOL3O4Cl7_U Bukka's Jitterbug Swing (Bukka White) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjqYy3YT4rc Packin' Trunk Blues (Leadbelly) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GECJsp2kGQE You Can't Get That Stuff No More (Tampa Red) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2jIR9J2inU Homesick & Lonesome Blues (Blind Boy Fuller) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Baw3OEXw3oM Cheers |
Various Artists SOUTHERN JOURNEY VOL 3: 61 HIGHWAY MISSISSIPPI The Alan Lomax Collection Rounder 1997 Excellent Booklet with Pictures and Lyrics. Viola James & Congregration - Tryin' To Make Heaven My Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTMBG6luO3Y 61 Highway (Remastered) Fred McDowell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o4xTErsKio God's Unchanging Hand - A. Burton & Congregation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA6F-2_hxSc Mississippi Fred McDowell - Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqrBhyvpBII Fred McDowell - Soon One Morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU7utSwjyIg Cheers |
Percy Mayfield: I listen to this several times a day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuMvj56bNSg Perfect pace. Cheers |
Various Artists SOUTHERN JOURNEY VOL.1: VOICES FROM THE AMERICAN SOUTH The Alan Lomax Collection Rounder 1997 Excellent Booklet Included. Bright Light Quartet - Po' Lazarus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esDe-Qz1ru4 Bessie Jones - It Just Suits Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZTLZg4suOA Almeda Riddle - Poor Wayfaring Stranger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_pbnHXjbGc Sidney Carter - Pharaoh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqppEveiQvo&t=14s Cheers |
Various Artists THE BEST OF THE CHICAGO BLUES Twofer 2 Albums in one Vanguard 1973 / 1987 No notes, just a list of every CD Vanguard has ever issued. Homesick James - Somebody Been Talkin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDU_4MKezw8 Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet - Rocket 88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eWmTYr2jhM Junior Wells - When My Baby Left Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc4A7yhKS64 Junior Wells - Tobacco Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai97X82DIYo Otis Spann's South Side Piano -- S. P. Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a39fw817EQc Buddy Guy - Sweet Little Angel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR96a7tokYM Cheers |
The Muddy Waters Tribute Band YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME (When I'm Dead and Gone) Telarc Blues 1996 Notes: "Muddy Waters, hallowed be thy name. As the prime architect of Chicago Blues, this blessed son of Mississippi Delta sharecroppers belongs to to the celestial hierarchy of American originals. With a manner of musical expression rivaling the break of day for simplicity and rightness, Waters let his deep, rumbling voice and deft bottleneck playing resonate in now-classic songs that vented the hopes, dreams, joy, heartbreak, and pain of disenfranchised blacks living in the industrial North after World War ll. In doing so, Waters cut the cornerstone for rock'n'roll and marked popular culture for all time." Honey Bee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsxVXft2cow You Can't Lose What You Never Had https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4lPcFJvgIU Going Down Slow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRkp_QYaIBg Trouble no More https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij349CGRXe4 Cheers |
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson KIDNEY STEW IS FINE Delmark 1993 Notes: "The occasion here is the only time that Vinson, McShann and T-Bone Walker appear together on record. Would that it could have happened more frequently! Another southwesterner , Oklahoma-born Hal Singer is on tenor, but he is given relatively little to do. Vinson did not like what he called "a lot of music" behind his vocals." Recorded in France by the Black and Blue Label. Just a Dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cChwWIPAGQ Somebody Sure Has Got to Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTYat1FAs7w Old Kidney Stew Is Fine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1gKMs7Ttn0 Wait a Minute Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geD4B9MsRm4 Things Ain't What They Used to Be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQZuMDpiTwo Cheers |
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson MEAT'S TOO HIGH Eddie Vinson(alto sax / vocals), Stan Greig(piano), Les Davidson(guitar) Paul Sealey(bass), Martin Guy(drums) JSP Records 1982 Home Boy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLrf9xVcp7A Meat's Too High https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XU0ZwEKp2Q Investigation Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgPKHpAyJ8Y Old Maid Boogie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5vsXCH_vqM Travelin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqBASHEyuHo Cheers |
Joe Louis Walker BLUES OF THE MONTH CLUB Verve / Gitanes 1995 wiki: Joe Louis Walker, also known as JLW is an American musician, best known as an electric blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. His knowledge of blues history is revealed by his use of older material and playing styles. Blues Of The Month Club https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_k-Jwmmw3Y You've Got To Lose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ4KO_Tl_Ic Bluesifyin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVcNJzA9MK4 Your Lyin' Eyes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaNQR2YbB_E Cheers |
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=_0M4JSgZ04I and 22 more! Cheers |
T-Bone Walker THE COMPLETE IMPERIAL RECORDINGS, 1950-1954 Imperial / EMI Blues Series 1950-1954 / 1991 2CD Set Notes: "While rightly considered the true father of modern blues, Walker's career as a Blues performer was far more broadly comprehensive than just that--as if that alone were not enough--encompassing virtually every major development in black folk-based popular music of the 20th century." Disc 2: Blues Is A Woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0DYFhbB7f8 I Got The Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xauGfdsVM28 When The Sun Goes Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj2e1p2BY4A Strugglin' Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeOwFHyyiKY Here In The Dark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S45253xcU_c Cheers |
T-Bone Walker T-BONE BLUES Atlantic Jazz 1972 / 1989 Notes: "That the Blues are the wellspring of Jazz has never been better illustrated than in recent years when almost to a man the ranks of Jazz turned again to the Blues for inspiration. Not today's rock 'n roll, but the deeper Rhythm & Blues and country Blues singing of such men as Champion Jack Dupree, Muddy Waters and Lighting Hopkins, is a direct and living link to the Blues-singing wanderers who first spread this music throughout the South." T-Bone Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxCzMAFrTJ8 Papa Ain't Salty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QjhOhROP58 Call It Stormy Monday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xifoTGRBhg0 How Long Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqST78K5C8c Cheers |
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=orvv1G4wCC0 Cheers |
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THE ESSENTIAL LITTLE WALTER MCA Chess 1993 2CD Set Notes: "Little Walter was a singular figure among the Chess artist roster by virtue of the fact that he was the only one whose popular appeal rested principally on his skill as an instrumental virtuoso." Very true. His singing is not so such a much. Quarter To Twelve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KawB0vDHjxc Walkin' On https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE-SV-dp0-Y Sad Hours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgTu_CzBZ3k Mean Old World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao0pQaQZfpQ and 42 more!! Cheers |
Little Walter THE BLUES WORLD OF LITTLE WALTER Delmark 1993 Notes: "In 1950-51 there was a new generation of Bluesmen whose evolving music synthesized the raw power of the Delta Blues, and amplified energy of electric instruments and the bold tempo of the ghetto streets. Little Walter was just 19 years old, Baby Face was 26 and Muddy Waters was 34. The Parkway session presented here failed to produce any chart records, but did generate a wild romping collection of down-home Blues that has achieved legendary status through various issues and reissues." I Just Keep Loving Her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkbo5zR60qc Rollin' and Tumblin' (Part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jr-S4MRHSc Rollin' and Tumblin' (Part 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB_lMPLkY1Q Muskadine Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XibPh7ndzr4 Cheers |
Billy Ward & his Dominoes SIXTY MINUTE MEN: THE BEST OF BILLY WARD & HIS DOMINOES Rhino Records 1993 Notes: "One of the most popular groups of the early 1950s, Billy Ward & His Dominoes owed their phenomenal success to three men: Clyde McPhatter with his atmospheric, gospel-tinged tenor, Jackie Wilson and his room filling second tenor, and Billy Ward. During World War ll, Ward was a commissioned Officer and led the Coast Artillery Choir at Fort Eustis in Virginia. After the war he resumed his studies at the Chicago Art Institute and The Juilliard School in New York City. While pursuing a career at as a vocal coach and part-time arranger on Broadway, he met talent agent Rose Marks, and the decided to form a vocal group from the ranks of his students." Sixty Minute Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJbDHw_qsFs Harbor Lights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muWw_fUe89I Have Mercy Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu9uE9yHx34 The Bells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRRriFFr8y4 Weeping Willow Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF2j-NbF1ew Cheers |
Robert Ward HOT STUFF Relic Records 1995 wiki: Robert June Ward, Sr. was an American blues and soul guitarist. He was known for founding the Ohio Untouchables, the band that later would become the Ohio Players. He played the guitar with a unique tone soaked in vibrato coming from a Magnatone amplifier. Born: October 15, 1938, Luthersville, GA Died: December 25, 2008, Dry Branch, GA I'm Tired https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzIfxPp07dg Forgive Me, Darling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdI_yAd8p4c Your Love Is Amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0FACH8UTvo Your Love Is Real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDeTbn7_YsU I'm Gonna Cry a River https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgS2yRXSg2w Cheers |
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"Skin Tight"; that was my cue to find that gal in them skin tight white britches, and git on the dance floor; "The Bump" was the only dance I mastered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBG3qpYj5DU&t=66s |
Muddy Waters BLUES SKY Muddy waters(vocal/guitar), Johnny Winter(guitar/screaming), James Cotton(harp), Pinetop Perkins(piano), Bob Margolin(guitar), Charles Calmese(bass), Willie "Big Eyes" Smith(drums) Epic / Sony 1992 Excellent Booklet! Jealous Hearted Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE3tjmJuQwk Who do You Trust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQpgI6pvASI Mamie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4C2-JqUYZ8 Too young to know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E-Y3378riI Cheers |
Muddy Waters THE COMPLETE PLANTATION RECORDINGS MCA Chess 1993 Excellent Booklet accounting the history of the Library of Congress Field Recordings. A Long way from the electric Muddy of Chicago. Country Blues (No. 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRAXrVt3Ass Joe Turner Louis Ford(vocal) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRz55odXdo0 Pearlie May Blues Percy Thomas(vocal) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKI-25wN64s You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (No. 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlx5jjqAbwc Ramblin' Kid Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4r9lyfMQfg Cheers |
Muddy Waters 35 years later. Muddy Waters / Clark Terry: Stormy Monday Blues (1977) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY4YB_6P4qk Cheers |
Muddy Waters FOLK SINGER James Cotton(harmonica), Otis Spann(piano), Willie Dixon(bass), Buddy Guy(guitar) MCA Chess 1963-64 / 1999 The title is a misnomer if ever there was one. As the notes point out, this was an attempt to cash in on the 'Folk Music' craze of the times. The Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary type music. This CD is really just Muddy playing the Blues. My Home Is In The Delta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_TJoSf6_z0 My Captain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UpL_ewXIhw My John The Conqueror Root https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLVo8zkBy1w Good Morning Little School Girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOCgOX2dtPQ You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcjowO17SyA Cheers |
Muddy Waters: His Best, 1947 to 1955 THE CHESS 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION MCA Chess 1997 Excellent Booklet with a historical bent. "When Muddy Waters began his recording career for the Aristocrat Records Label in 1947, the world was enjoying a post-war buzz of activity. India gained Independence, Maria Callas debuted, Dead sea Scrolls discovered, Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Al Capone and Henry Ford died." A lifetime ago. Sugar Sweet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrrx5YdFsQ8 Young Fashioned Ways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQBEsSas-w0 I Feel Like Going Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M0kkmCbdQY Hoochie Coochie Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSnxwnPkgas She Moves Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX5TX7Y1jCY Cheers |
Muddy Waters: His Best, 1956 to 1964 THE CHESS 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION MCA Chess 1997 Notes: "Muddy Waters might have been the most magnificent of all the Bluesmen to come out of Mississippi...Muddy became a father figure to generations of musicians, black and white. Muddy became an institution. Back in Indianola, we knew that he'd gone to Chicago, where he established a whole school that he'd rule for five decades. Some went to the South Side before Muddy and some went after...but no one had Muddy's authority. He was the boss of Chicago and the reason some call Chicago the sure-enough home of the Blues." -- B.B. King All Aboard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0snu8RLorQ Forty Days And Forty Nights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SiqyQbtEIk The Same Thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ancHn85FGrQ I Love The Life I Live (I Live The Life I Love) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2PUAa0MKc Got My Mojo Working https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frs6IRCmJeY Cheers |
Muddy Waters ONE MORE MILE: Chess Collectibles, Vol. 1 Chess 1994 2CD Set Notes: "It's long been thought that all the existing Muddy Waters Chess studio recordings had already been issued; those that were still missing were presumed to be lost forever. Therefore, this surprise-package set of rarities and recent discoveries will delight even long-time Muddy Waters collectors and fans. The first thirty tracks on this set closely parallel the growth and development of Muddy's career at Chess Records. From the earliest tracks, which feature just a single guitar and bass, the growth of his musical development moves steadily along. Band members come and go, with the resulting changes in the group's sound, and we can actually hear the refining process at work." Hard Days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN-mzePSs-s Burying Ground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgMGlWJ-tSA Crawlin' Kingsnake (Alternate Take) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH4M6wcyJ58 Rollin' Stone (Alternate Take) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBhTC0y9EVA Trouble In Mind (Hornless Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STMbi3AYhlY Hoochie Coochie Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb23nVUgBFk And 35 more!! Cheers |
Muddy Waters THE CHESS BOX MCA Chess 1989 3CD Set Notes: "72 classic performances by perhaps the greatest Bluesman ever, Muddy Waters. Covering a quarter century on Chess Records, the recordings are sequenced as recorded and are digitally remastered from the original masters or original Chess 78 r.p.m. singles. Twenty-Four of the tracks are rare, including 10 previously unreleased. Included is a 32-page booklet, featuring two sets of liner notes (one focusing on Muddy's life, the other on his music), song-by-song credits, a complete album by album Chess discography, historic photos and related memorabilia." Package and booklet are the size of a LP set. They don't make them like this anymore. Great photos and info. Disc one: 1947 to 1954 Gypsy Woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiX1t5rzN5A&list=OLAK5uy_nUUub8pT1q3NQ8DStmIaGsIbBcC1uCxpE&i... Rollin' And Tumblin' (Pt. 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLy2zPZV0s0&list=OLAK5uy_nUUub8pT1q3NQ8DStmIaGsIbBcC1uCxpE&i... Honey Bee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJf5XkGko9k&list=OLAK5uy_nUUub8pT1q3NQ8DStmIaGsIbBcC1uCxpE&i... Walkin' Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOHurLHs2g8&list=OLAK5uy_nUUub8pT1q3NQ8DStmIaGsIbBcC1uCxpE&i... Cheers |
Muddy Waters THE CHESS BOX MCA Chess 1989 3CD Set Disc Two: 1954 to 1959 Mannish Boy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBz5vCDxyE0&list=OLAK5uy_nUUub8pT1q3NQ8DStmIaGsIbBcC1uCxpE&i... Got My Mojo Working https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThD9xswxxtk&list=OLAK5uy_nUUub8pT1q3NQ8DStmIaGsIbBcC1uCxpE&i... Smokestack Lightnin’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AOPkijFgpk&list=OLAK5uy_nUUub8pT1q3NQ8DStmIaGsIbBcC1uCxpE&i... I Just Want To Make Love To You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4j9OtAlzvA&list=OLAK5uy_nUUub8pT1q3NQ8DStmIaGsIbBcC1uCxpE&i... Cheers |
Muddy Waters THE CHESS BOX MCA Chess 1989 3CD Set Disc Three: 1960 to 1972 I Feel So Good (Live At Newport Jazz Festival/1960) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MhcrGcca0I&list=OLAK5uy_nUUub8pT1q3NQ8DStmIaGsIbBcC1uCxpE&i... Elevate Me Mama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUYTP5QXxm4&list=OLAK5uy_nUUub8pT1q3NQ8DStmIaGsIbBcC1uCxpE&i... Things That I Used To Do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg78YRPtOOU&list=OLAK5uy_nUUub8pT1q3NQ8DStmIaGsIbBcC1uCxpE&i... Going Down Slow (Live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxCGQ3wr_-A&list=OLAK5uy_nUUub8pT1q3NQ8DStmIaGsIbBcC1uCxpE&i... Cheers |
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=nzdW7yxSv2o Cheers |
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=xrGIB1eBL9Y Cheers |
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 Hard Notch Boogie Beat
Since My Baby Gone
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 Cheers |
Junior Wells MESSIN' WITH THE KID Paula Records 1957 to 1963 No notes. It Hurts Me Too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQE0IY4uSIY Come on in this House https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv5r6f83TG4 Messin' With The Kid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLz82AfE-R0 Little By Little https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEibNV4YA-E So Tired https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqMQfgsnQz0 Calling All Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPE98v23kTY Cheers |
Willie Dixon THE ORIGINAL WANG DANG DOODLE MCA Chess 1995 Excellent informative booklet. Notes: "By the time Willie Dixon died in Glendale, California, on January 29, 1992, his music had won him widespread recognition, numerous awards including a 1988 Grammy Award, and a certain measure of comfort in his later years. His last wish was fulfilled early in 1993 by his wife Marie and daughter Shirli when the family purchased the historic Chess records building in Chicago to be the new home of Willie's long-cherished dream, the Blues Heaven Foundation." Wang Dang Doodle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCWC4tTSPSA So Long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqtiYZGHQV0 Tail Dragger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZr5BYflkcQ Walking The Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8oKiX5q3rI Crazy For My Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAfR7AEzojs Cheers |
Junior Wells ON TAP Delmark 1991 Notes: "Junior Wells held court at Theresa's Tavern at 4801 South Indiana on Chicago's south side. If Junior was in town he was at Theresa's, a surprisingly small tavern several steps below street level with no bandstand, no ticket window, unreliable plumbing, an assortment of beer and liquor signs for brands the house never or no longer carried, and Christmas lights all year round." Welcome to the world of the Blues. What my Mama told Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoeKw76K6e0 The Train I Ride https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r9n9sfPDiM Goin' Down Slow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIb0_-klFg4 Key To The Highway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_2-wcGqWAs So Long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I_Z0OtX6W4 Cheers |
Harry Belafonte BELAFONTE SINGS THE BLUES RCA / Sony 1958 / 2016 Notes: "I've always had a feeling for the basic blues, but it took several years of removing myself from that predominantly modern Jazz environment and finding myself and my own set of values before I had the courage to attempt an album like this. Here I can just step out and sing wholly the way I feel." This man can really sing, and this must be The Blues, because it says so in the title. With Eldridge and Webster, what could go wrong? Losing Hand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tHgLXfHBv8 One for my Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObPlEtkLJ_Q In the Evening Mama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd1wZN8jg0w Hallelujah I Love Her So https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyRurphPtqU God Bless the Child https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFOq4aNAEs0 Cheers |
Willie Dixon THE CHESS BOX MCA Chess 2CD set 1988 CD 1 18 tracks. All songs are written by Dixon, but 14 are performed by other artists. Little Walter - My Babe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3cKJ42HAd0 Jimmy Witherspoon - When The Lights Go Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUrP-E61ohg Willie Dixon - Crazy For My Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DG9lWD8S5w Willie Dixon - 29 Ways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVqb97x-ysI Willie Dixon - Walking The Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6RavtCBdDk Willie Dixon - This Pain In My Heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS3X8jmADaY Cheers |
Bukka White THE COMPLETE BUKKA WHITE Columbia Legacy / Sony 1994 Booker T. Washington "Bukka" White was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer. Bukka is a phonetic spelling of White's first name; he was named after the African-American educator and civil rights activist Booker T. Washington. Wikipedia Born: November 12, 1906, Aberdeen, MS Died: February 26, 1977, Memphis, TN Nice informative booklet about White and each song on this disc. Parchman Farm Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4m3z0NmL_s Shake 'Em On Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOW3OjQm1Hw Aberdeen Mississippi Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOahtuxo5sc Fixin' to Die Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjBVQjTfrM Bukka's Jitterbug Swing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnaVP-xlbqc Cheers |
Willie Dixon THE CHESS BOX MCA Chess 2CD set 1988 CD 2 18 Tracks, one performance by Dixon, all songs composed by Dixon. You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover -- Bo Diddley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkw6iZtvyV0 Weak Brain, Narrow Mind -- Willie Dixon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25O4cNDYUcE Bring it on Home -- Sonny Boy Williamson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YF1qYXiN0s The Same Thing -- Muddy Waters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ancHn85FGrQ Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy -- Howlin' Wolf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UorxEdBEZX8 I can't quit you baby -- Little Milton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFs1XuCyTrI Cheers |
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=R5ze5nB0Afk Cheers |
Big Joe Williams BLUES ON HIGHWAY 49 Delmark 1992 Wiki: Born in Oktibbeha County,[5] a few miles west of Crawford, Mississippi,[6] Williams as a youth began wandering across the United States busking and playing in stores, bars, alleys and work camps. In the early 1920s he worked in the Rabbit Foot Minstrels revue. He recorded with the Birmingham Jug Band in 1930 for Okeh Records. During the early 1930s, Williams was accompanied on his travels through the Mississippi Delta by a young Muddy Waters. Williams recounted to Blewett Thomas, "I picked Muddy up in Rolling Fork when he was about 15. He went all 'round the Delta playin' harmonica behind me. But I had to put him down after awhile. All these women were comin' up to me and sayin', 'Oh. your young son is so nice!' See, I had to put Muddy down because he was takin' away my women." Highway 49 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-qSfOZtkS4 Blues Left Texas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idvU2gM7Gp4 Down In The Bottoms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Su-ZLxWqUw Four Corners Of The World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYaewqzoBEQ Tiajuana Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKMBo2jh8Fk Cheers |
Snooks Eaglin SOUL'S EDGE Black Top Records 1995 No notes. Very good band! Josephine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oiaYznZdoM Thrill On The Hill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5TgDV7Ik3w Answer Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8x-QZl5Xfg Skinny Minnie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqi9dUJWnNc Ling Ting Tong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyVUn5h6WM8 and 9 more! Cheers |