Volume 3: The War and Postwar Years 1940-1951

Tracklist

• CD 1: Disc A (1940-41)
• 1
  Medicine Man Blues
  3:00
• 2
  Looking Up At Down
  3:00
• 3
  Midnight Steppers
  2:43
• 4
  Lone Wolf Blues
  2:58
• 5
  Hit The Right Lick
  2:40
• 6
  You Better Cut That Out
  3:00
• 7
  I Wonder What's Wrong With Me
  2:31
• 8
  Bed Time Blues
  2:48
• 9
  Merry Go Round Blues
  2:49
• 10
  Serenade Blues
  2:53
• 11
  Lonesome Road Blues
  2:56
• 12
  Getting Older Every Day: Take 1
  2:39
• 13
  Getting Older Every Day: Take 2
  3:18
• 14
  That Number Of Mine
  2:43
• 15
  My Gal Is Gone
  2:54
• 16
  I'll Never Dream Again
  2:49
• 17
  Rockin' Chair Blues
  2:49
• 18
  Shine On, Shine On
  3:00
• 19
  Green Grass Blues
  3:01
• 20
  My Little Flower
  2:50
• 21
  Sweet Honey Bee
  3:01
• 22
  When I Been Drinking
  2:53
• 23
  Key To The Highway
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• 24
  Double Trouble
  2:48
• 25
  Going Back To My Plow
  2:57
• CD 2: Disc B (1941-45)
• 1
  I'm Having So Much Trouble
  2:50
• 2
  Wee Wee Hours
  2:59
• 3
  Conversation With The Blues
  2:36
• 4
  All By Myself
  2:29
• 5
  Keep Your Hand On Your Heart
  2:56
• 6
  Why Should I Spend My Money
  2:52
• 7
  What's Wrong With Me
  2:37
• 8
  I Feel So Good
  2:47
• 9
  In The Army Now
  2:44
• 10
  Bad Acting Woman
  2:48
• 11
  Night Watchman Blues
  2:51
• 12
  She's Gone With The Wind
  2:43
• 13
  I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town

  Big Bill and His Chicago Five
  2:54
• 14
  Tell Me Baby

  Big Bill and His Chicago Five
  2:59
• 15
  Hard Hearted Woman

  Big Bill and His Chicago Five
  3:04
• 16
  I'm Woke Up Now

  Big Bill and His Chicago Five
  3:01
• 17
  Please Believe Me

  Don Byas Quartet
  2:47
• 18
  Why Did You Do That To Me

  Don Byas Quartet
  3:03
• 19
  You Got To Play Your Hand

  Don Byas Quartet
  3:13
• 20
  Just A Dream

  Don Byas Quartet
  3:03
• 21
  Doing The Best I Can
  2:54
• 22
  Partnership Woman
  2:38
• 23
  Where The Blues Began
  2:57
• 24
  Humble Blues
  2:54
• 25
  Oh Baby
  2:47
• CD 3: Disc C (1945-49)
• 1
  Cell No. 13 Blues
  2:55
• 2
  When I Get To Thinkin'
  2:54
• 3
  Roll Dem Bones
  2:46
• 4
  You Got The Best Go
  2:48
• 5
  I Can Fix It

  Big Bill and His Rhythm Band
  2:57
• 6
  Old Man Blues

  Big Bill and His Rhythm Band
  3:18
• 7
  I Can't Write

  Big Bill and His Rhythm Band
  2:45
• 8
  What Can I Do

  Big Bill and His Rhythm Band
  3:08
• 9
  San Antonio Blues
  3:06
• 10
  Saturday Evening Blues
  3:10
• 11
  Martha Blues
  3:14
• 12
  Texas Tornado Blues
  3:11
• 13
  Big Bill's Boogie
  3:08
• 14
  Just Rocking
  2:42
• 15
  Shoo Blues
  3:01
• 16
  I Feel Like Crying
  3:05
• 17
  Stop Lying Woman
  2:49
• 18
  Rambling Bill
  2:52
• 19
  Summertime Blues
  3:14
• 20
  Bad Luck Man
  3:19
• 21
  (I'm A) Wonderin' Man

  Big Bill Broonzy & His Fat Four
  3:08
• 22
  I Love My Whiskey

  Big Bill Broonzy & His Fat Four
  3:01
• 23
  You've Been Mistreating Me

  Big Bill Broonzy & His Fat Four
  2:55
• 24
  I Stay Blue All The Time

  Big Bill Broonzy & His Fat Four
  2:26
• 25
  Water Coast Blues

  Big Bill Broonzy & His Fat Four
  2:46
• CD 4: Disc D (1949-51)
• 1
  Five Feet Seven
  3:23
• 2
  I Wonder
  2:53
• 3
  Keep Your Hands Off Her
  2:56
• 4
  Mindin' My Own Business
  3:09
• 5
  Hey Hey
  2:55
• 6
  Stump Blues
  3:00
• 7
  Get Back
  3:03
• 8
  Willie Mae Blues
  2:50
• 9
  Walkin' The Lonesome Road
  3:19
• 10
  Mopper's Blues
  2:39
• 11
  I Know She Will
  3:14
• 12
  Hollerin' The Blues
  3:07
• 13
  Leavin' Day
  3:02
• 14
  South Bound Train
  3:01
• 15
  Tomorrow
  2:52
• 16
  You Changed
  2:54
• 17
  John Henry
  3:19
• 18
  Crawdad
  2:51
• 19
  Bill Bailey
  3:24
• 20
  Make My Get Away
  3:19
• 21
  Blue Tail Fly
  3:03
• 22
  Backwater Blues
  3:20
• 23
  In The Evenin'
  3:27
• 24
  Trouble In Mind
  2:37

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Release credits

• Big Bill Broonzy
  guitar [4.3, 3.1-9, 3.13-15, 3.17-18, 3.20, 2.1-7, 2.10-16, 2.19-22, 2.24-25, 1.1, 1.3-10, 1.12-13, 1.15, 1.19-21, 1.23-25], vocal [1.1, 1.3-10, 1.12-13, 1.15, 1.19-21, 1.23-25, 2.1-7, 2.10-16, 2.19-22, 2.24-25, 3.1-9, 3.13-15, 3.17-18, 3.20, 4.3]
• Big Maceo
  piano [2.21-22, 2.24-25, 3.1]
• Bill Casimir
  tenor saxophone [5-8, 13-15]
• Blind John Davis
  piano [5-10]
• Bob Call
  piano [13-15, 17-18, 20]
• Buster Bennett
  alto saxophone [3.1-4, 2.13-16, 2.21-22, 2.24-25]
• Charles Belcher
  piano [5-8]
• Don Byas
  tenor saxophone [17-20]
• Fred Williams
  membranophone [5-10]
• Horace Malcolm
  piano [19-21]
• Irving Ashby
  guitar [16]
• Jack Costanzo
  bongos [16], congas [16]
• Jazz Gillum
  harmonica [23]
• Joe Comfort
  bass [16]
• John Levy
  double bass [19-20]
• John Morton
  trumpet [5-8, 17-18, 20]
• Joshua Altheimer
  piano [1, 3-4]
• Kenny Watts
  piano [19-20]
• Lawrence "Judge" Riley
  drums (drum set) [3.5-8, 3.13-15, 3.17-18, 3.20, 2.13], membranophone [14-16]
• Lee Young
  membranophone [16]
• Memphis Slim
  piano [1.12-13, 1.15, 1.24-25, 3.9, 2.1-4, 2.13-16], spoken vocals [2]
• Nat King Cole
  lead vocals [16], piano [16]
• Punch Miller
  trumpet [13-16]
• Ransom Knowling
  bass [3.5-9, 3.17-18, 3.20, 1.12-13, 1.15], double bass [4]
• Sax Mallard
  alto saxophone [5-8, 13-15, 17-18, 20]
• Slick Jones
  drums (drum set) [19-20]
• The Starlighters
  vocal [16]
• Tyrell Dixon
  drums (drum set) [3.1-3, 3.9, 2.21-22, 2.24-25]
• Washboard Sam
  washboard [1.1, 1.3-4, 1.19-21, 1.23-25, 2.1-7, 2.10-12, 4.3]
• [unknown]
  bass [13-15]
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Issues

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  Volume 3: The War and Postwar Years 1940-1951

  4x CD
  2007