Blues for Aficionados

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