Chess Blues Classics: 1957-1967

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  • Release Date: 03/25/1997
  • Sales Rank: 42,575
  • Label: CHESS
  • UPC: 076732936825

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Chess Blues Classics: 1957-1967

1LISTENSitting on Top of the World / Howlin' Wolf 2:34
2LISTENFattening Frogs for Snakes / Sonny Boy Williamson [II] 2:22
3LISTENKey to the Highway / Little Walter 2:47
4LISTENTake the Bitter with the Sweet / Muddy Waters 3:08
5LISTENSpoonful / Howlin' Wolf 2:46
6LISTENSo Many Roads, So Many Trains / Otis Rush 3:12
7LISTENMadison Blues / Elmore James 2:25
8LISTENThe Red Rooster / Howlin' Wolf 2:29
9LISTENYou Shook Me / Muddy Waters 2:45
10LISTENHelp Me / Sonny Boy Williamson [II] 3:09
11LISTENBaby, What You Want Me to Do / Etta James Live 4:20
12LISTENMy Time After Awhile / Buddy Guy 3:01
13LISTENWe're Gonna Make It / Little Milton 2:43
14LISTENI Got What It Takes / Koko Taylor 3:08
15LISTENOne Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer / John Lee Hooker 3:04
16LISTENI'd Rather Go Blind / Etta James 2:33

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This second volume of a two-volume entry in MCA's Chess 50th Anniversary reissue series chronicles the second decade of blues classics produced by the landmark company. Although Chess' big four (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, and Sonny Boy Williamson) are all finely represented, influential sides by Elmore James ("Madison Blues"), Otis Rush ("So Many Roads, So Many Trains"), and John Lee Hooker (his monochord boogie treatment of Amos Milburn's "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer") pepper the mix as well. As Chess moved into the soul market, so it was that latter-day blues sides by Little Milton, Koko Taylor, and Etta James took on a more pronounced R&B edge, and it is these sides that close this compilation in a near perfect bookend fashion. Extra special highlight: Etta James' nitro reading of Jimmy Reed's "Baby, What You Want Me to Do," recorded live in 1964. Cub Koda, All Music Guide

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