The Essentials

Tracklist

• 1
  Opening: I Can’t Turn You Loose
  1:47
• 2
  Rubber Biscuit
  2:48
  3.9 ★
• 3
  Soul Man
  3:00
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Soul Finger Funky Broadway
  1:45
• 5
  Do You Love Me / Mother Popcorn (You Got to Have a Mother for Me)
  2:56
• 6
  Riot in Cell Block Number Nine
  3:25
• 7
  Messin’ With the Kid
  3:35
  3.9 ★
• 8
  (I Got Everything I Need) Almost
  2:43
• 9
  Who’s Making Love
  3:32
  4.4 ★
• 10
  Gimme Some Lovin’
  3:07
  3.8 ★
• 11
  Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
  3:20
  4.3 ★
• 12
  Going Back to Miami
  4:02
  3.9 ★

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Release credits

• Al Rubin
  trumpet [3, 10-12]
• Belinda Tischler
  assistant [2-3]
• Bob Tischler
  engineer [10], mix [2-3], producer [2-3, 9-12]
• Donald “Duck” Dunn
  bass guitar [3, 10-12]
• Eddie Garcia
  assistant [10]
• Elwood J. Blues
  harmonica [3, 10, 12], lead vocals [2], vocal [11]
• Jake E. “Joliet” Blues
  lead vocals [2-3], vocal [10-12]
• Jay Krugman
  additional [10], assistant [2-3]
• Jim Scheffler
  additional [10]
• Lou Marini
  saxophone [10-11]
• Matt Murphy
  guitar [3, 10-12]
• Murphy Dunne
  keyboard [10-11]
• Paul Shaffer
  background vocals [11], producer [9, 12]
• Steve Cropper
  guitar [3, 10-12]
• Steve Marcantonio
  assistant [10]
• Tom Miller
  assistant [10]
• Tom Scott
  horn [3, 10, 12]
• Tom “Bones” Malone
  saxophone [10-11], trombone [3, 10, 12]
• Warren Dewey
  recording [2-3]
• Willie "Too Big" Hall
  drums (drum set) [10-11]
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Issues

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  The Essentials

  CD
  25 March 2003