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Track Listing
DISC 1: 1947 TO 1954:
1. Gypsy Woman
2. Good Looking Woman - (previously unreleased)
3. Mean Disposition
4. I Can't Be Satisfied
5. I Feel Like Going Home
6. Train Fare Home Blues
7. Mean Red Spider
8. Streamline Woman
9. Little Geneva
10. Rollin' and Tumblin', Part 1
11. Rolling Stone
12. Walkin' Blues
13. Louisiana Blues
14. Evans Shuffle
15. Long Distance Call
16. Honey Bee
17. She Moves Me
18. Still a Fool
19. Stuff You Gotta Watch
20. Standing Around Crying
21. Flood
22. Baby Please Don't Go
23. Blow Wind Blow
24. Hoochie Coochie Man
DISC 2: 1954 TO 1959:
1. I Just Want to Make Love to You
2. I'm Ready
3. Smokestack Lightnin'
4. Young Fashioned Ways
5. Mannish Boy
6. Trouble No More
7. Forty Days and Forty Nights
8. Just to Be With You
9. Don't Go No Farther
10. Diamonds at You Feet
11. I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love
12. Rock Me
13. Look What You Done
14. Got My Mojo Working
15. Good News
16. Evil
17. She's Nineteen Years Old
18. Close to You
19. Walkin' Thru the Park
20. Blues Before Sunrise - (with false starts, dialogue)
21. Lonesome Road Blues
22. Take the Bitter With the Sweet - (previously unreleased, alternate take false start and alternate take, dialogue)
23. She's Into Something
24. Southbound Train
25. Double Trouble
DISC 3: 1960 TO 1972:
1. I Feel So Good
2. You Shook Me
3. You Need Love
4. Twenty Four Hours
5. Elevate Me Mama - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
6. So Glad I'm Living
7. My Love Strikes Like Lightning
8. You Don't Have to Go - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
9. Things That I Used to Do
10. My Home Is in the Delta
11. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
12. Same Thing, The
13. You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had
14. Short Dress Woman
15. Making Friends
16. Black Night - (alternate mix without horns, previously unreleased)
17. Bird Nest on the Ground
18. Country Boy - (previously unreleased)
19. Sugar Sweet - (previously unreleased, alternate take alternate "Fathers And Sons" take)
20. All Aboard - (previously unreleased, alternate take alternate "Fathers And Sons" take)
21. Going Down Slow - (previously unreleased)
22. Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone - (original London mix without horns, previously unreleased)
23. Can't Get No Grindin' (What's the Matter With the Meal)
Album Notes
HE CHESS BOX covers Muddy Waters' career from 1947 through 1972. It features some previously-unreleased tracks, and many others previously unreleased in the U.S. The box includes a 32-page book with a complete discography of Waters' Chess recordings, track-by-track recording information and black-and-white photos.
Personnel includes: Muddy Waters (vocals, guitar); Little Walter (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Jimmy Rogers (vocals, guitar); Leroy Foster, Auburn "Pat" Hare, Luther Tucker, Earl Hooker, Buddy Guy, Sammy Lawhorn, Pee Wee Madison, Michael Bloomfield, Paul Asbell, Rory Gallagher (guitar); Walter "Shakey" Horton, James Cotton, Paul Oscher, Paul Butterfield, Jeff Carp, Carey Bell Harrington (harmonica); Alex Atkins (alto saxophone); Marcus Johnson, A.C. Reed, Ernest Cotton (tenor saxophone); Pinetop Perkins (piano, harpsichord, organ); John "Big Moose" Walker (piano, organ); Sunnyland Slim, Otis Spann (piano) Willie Dixon, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Phil Upchurch, Ric Grech (bass); Fred Below, Francis Clay, Sam Lay, Mitch Mitchell (drums).
Producers include: Leonard Chess, Phil Chess, Ralph Bass, Gene Barge, Norman Dayron.
Compilation producer: Andy McKaie.
Principally recorded in Chicago, Illinois between 1947 and 1972. Includes liner notes by Mary Katherine Aldin and Robert Palmer.
During the '40s and '50s, Chicago's Chess Records recorded a legion of blues legends. But none were greater than McKinley Morganfield, professionally known as Muddy Waters. Though born and raised on the Mississippi delta, Waters came to personify the brash, confident blues that blossomed in Chicago and Memphis in the post-war era. Between 1947 and 1972, Waters cut an uninterrupted stream of brilliant sides for Chess, the best of which are included on the three-disc CHESS BOX.
To call these recordings indispensable is merely to state the obvious. Any one of the following would place these records among the most important in blues history--Waters' deft slide guitar playing and intense vocals; stellar instrumental support from the legendary Little Walter; Otis Spann, James Cotton, and Buddy Guy, to name but a few of the blues greats who first worked with Waters; and a repertoire of classics that includes "Hoochie Coochie Man," "Rolling Stone," and "I Just Want to Make Love to You." The length and cost of this set may intimidate some (the single-disc HIS BEST is a less overwhelming alternative), but true blues lovers should consider investing in THE CHESS BOX, the best career overview of this undisputed giant of the blues.
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