The Way It Is

Tracklist

• 1
  Little Red Rooster
  7:58
• 2
  One Black Rat
  3:45
• 3
  Rock Me Baby
  5:10
• 4
  Wade in the Water
  5:33
• 5
  Sweet Little Angel
  6:42
• 6
  Baby Please / Mojo Workin’
  5:46
• 7
  Watermelon Man
  4:30
• 8
  Don’t Need No Doctor
  8:32

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Release credits

• Bee Houston
  guitar
• Big Mama Thornton
  arranger [4], harmonica, vocal
• Bill Halverson
  engineer
• George “Harmonica” Smith
  glass harmonica, harmonica
• J.D. Nicholson
  piano
• Jeff Willens
  re
• Mary Katherine Aldin
  liner notes
• Ritchie Yorke
  liner notes

Issues

• T
  The Way It Is

  12" Vinyl
  1970
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  T
  The Way It Is

  CD (remastered)
  1998