Poet of Rock ’n’ Roll

Tracklist

• CD 1: Rockin’ Rollin’ Blues Man
• 1
  Johnny B Goode
  2:41
  4.2 ★
• 2
  Maybellene
  2:22
  3.9 ★
• 3
  Roll Over Beethoven
  2:25
  4.2 ★
• 4
  Rock and Roll Music
  2:33
  4.4 ★
• 5
  School Day
  2:43
  4.2 ★
• 6
  Sweet Little Sixteen
  3:17
  2.5 ★
• 7
  Carol
  2:50
  3.8 ★
• 8
  Almost Grown
  2:23
  3.6 ★
• 9
  Back in the USA
  2:29
• 10
  Nadine
  2:37
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Too Much Monkey Business
  2:57
  3.4 ★
• 12
  Brown Eyed Handsome Man
  2:19
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Oh Baby Doll
  2:39
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Promised Land
  2:26
• 15
  Things I Used to Do
  2:44
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Worried Life Blues
  2:11
• 17
  Run Around
  2:35
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Childhood Sweetheart
  3:16
• 19
  In-Go
  2:27
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Drifting Blues
  2:22
• 21
  Confessin' the Blues
  2:10
• 22
  Sweet Sixteen
  2:46
  4.0 ★
• 23
  Deep Feelin'
  2:19
  4.5 ★
• 24
  Bio
  4:26
  5.0 ★
• 25
  Lucky So and So
  2:54
• 26
  Wee Wee Hours
  3:06
  3.0 ★
• 27
  After It's Over
  2:20
  4.0 ★
• CD 2: Still Rockin’
• 1
  No Particular Place to Go
  2:45
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Reelin' and Rockin'
  3:19
  3.5 ★
• 3
  You Never Can Tell
  2:43
  4.2 ★
• 4
  Thirty Days
  2:25
  3.5 ★
• 5
  No Money Down
  2:59
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Little Queenie
  2:42
  4.4 ★
• 7
  Memphis Tennessee
  2:13
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Sweet Little Rock and Roller
  2:23
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Let It Rock
  1:46
  3.6 ★
• 10
  Come On
  1:50
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Go Bobby Soxer
  3:00
• 12
  Go Go Go
  2:50
• 13
  Beautiful Delilah
  2:30
• 14
  Hello Little Girl Goodbye
  3:57
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Blue Feeling
  3:04
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Why Should We End This Way?
  2:57
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Welcome Back Pretty Baby
  2:37
  4.0 ★
• 18
  I've Changed
  3:08
• 19
  Blue on Blue
  2:59
• 20
  She Once Was Mine
  2:29
  4.0 ★
• 21
  Right Off Rampart Street
  2:24
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Mean Old World
  5:50
• 23
  Instrumental
  2:49
  4.0 ★
• 24
  I Got a Booking
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 25
  San Francisco Dues
  3:25
  4.0 ★
• 26
  I Want to Be Your Driver
  2:17
  4.0 ★
• 27
  Merry Christmas Baby
  3:13
  4.0 ★
• CD 3: Still Rollin’
• 1
  You Can't Catch Me
  2:47
  3.0 ★
• 2
  I Got to Find My Baby
  2:17
• 3
  Jo Jo Gunne
  2:48
• 4
  Betty Jean
  2:31
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Butterscotch
  2:45
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Rip It Up
  2:00
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Bye Bye Johnny
  2:07
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Don't You Lie to Me
  2:01
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Roly Poly
  2:53
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Jaguar and the Thunderbird
  1:53
• 11
  Down the Road Apiece
  2:28
• 12
  Ain't That Just Like a Woman
  2:14
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Around and Around
  2:41
  3.5 ★
• 14
  It Wasn't Me
  2:37
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Ramona Say Yes
  2:45
• 16
  My Mustang Ford
  2:53
• 17
  Orangutang
  2:20
• 18
  Sue Answer
  2:34
• 19
  Tulane
  2:38
  3.0 ★
• 20
  Have Mercy Judge
  2:41
  4.0 ★
• 21
  Gun
  2:48
  4.0 ★
• 22
  I Love You
  3:24
• 23
  I'm Talking About You
  1:52
• 24
  Oh Yeah
  2:30
• 25
  Liverpool Drive
  2:57
• 26
  Little Marie
  2:35
• CD 4: All American Boy
• 1
  Berry Pickin'
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Havana Moon
  3:10
  2.4 ★
• 3
  La Juanda
  3:12
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Vaya Con Dios
  2:40
  4.0 ★
• 5
  I'm Just a Name
  3:42
• 6
  Crazy Arms (Lonely All the Time)
  2:13
• 7
  You Two
  2:12
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Fraulein
  2:55
• 9
  Too Late
  2:50
• 10
  Bound to Lose
  3:07
• 11
  Lonely School Days
  3:04
• 12
  Bordeaux in My Pirogh
  2:37
• 13
  Oh Louisiana
  4:32
• 14
  Got It and Gone
  4:21
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Guitar Boogie
  2:20
  5.0 ★
• 16
  Downbound Train
  2:53
  3.4 ★
• 17
  Route 66
  2:54
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Rockin' at the Philharmonic
  3:25
  4.0 ★
• 19
  One for My Baby
  2:47
• 20
  Away From You
  2:42
  4.0 ★
• 21
  Do You Love Me
  2:22
• 22
  My Dream
  6:00
• 23
  Wee Hours Blues
  3:17
  4.0 ★
• 24
  Anthony Boy
  1:54
  2.6 ★
• 25
  Too Pooped to Pop
  2:33
  4.0 ★

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You Never Can Tell: His Complete Chess Recordings 1960–1966

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The Best

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Release credits

• Abb Locke
  tenor saxophone [10]
• Adam Ippolito
  piano [1.24, 2.14]
• Bill Bixler
  bass [26], bass guitar [11]
• Bill Metros
  drums (drum set) [4.10, 4.12-13, 2.25]
• Billy Peek
  guitar [3.18, 4.14]
• Bo Diddley
  guitar [8]
• Bob Baldori
  harmonica [2.23, 3.19-20], piano [2.23, 2.25, 4.10, 4.12-13]
• Bob Bushnell
  electric bass guitar [1.19, 3.13]
• Bob Scrivens
  piano [2.16, 2.24, 1.27]
• Brian David "Chick" Kattenhorn
  drums (drum set) [1.27, 2.16, 2.24]
• Bryce Roberson
  bass guitar [4.4, 4.23, 2.17, 2.21, 3.12, 3.14], guitar [15]
• Chester Simmons
  background vocals [8]
• Chuck Barksdale
  background vocals [8]
• Chuck Berry
  electric guitar [1.4, 1.13, 1.19, 2.2, 2.15, 4.3, 4.15, 4.18], guitar [1.1-3, 1.5-11, 1.11-16, 1.18, 1.20-22, 1.24, 1.26-27, 2.1, 2.3-9, 2.9-11, 2.13-14, 2.16-19, 2.21-27, 4.1-2, 4.4-5, 4.7-16, 4.20, 4.23-25, 3.1-4, 3.7, 3.9, 3.12-15, 3.19-20, 3.22-24, 3.26], lead vocals [2.2, 2.4-11, 2.13-14, 2.16-18, 2.21-22, 2.24-26, 3.1-3, 3.7, 3.12-15, 3.18-20, 3.22-24, 3.26, 1.1-14, 1.16-17, 1.20-22, 1.24, 1.26, 4.2-5, 4.8-14, 4.16, 4.20, 4.23-24], piano [4.14, 3.18], producer [1.10, 1.14-17, 1.20-22, 1.27, 4.4, 4.7-8, 4.10-13, 4.20, 4.23, 3.2, 3.7, 3.12, 3.14-15, 3.23, 3.26, 2.1, 2.3, 2.10-11, 2.16-17, 2.21, 2.24-25], steel guitar [17, 23], vocal [3.4, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.9, 2.27, 4.7, 4.24-25, 1.5, 1.8, 1.11, 1.15, 1.18]
• David Torretta
  bass [4.14, 3.18]
• Dean Bredwell
  engineer [25]
• Derek Griffiths
  guitar [2.22, 3.22]
• Earl Williams
  drums (drum set) [5, 9]
• Ebby Hardy
  drums (drum set) [1.26, 2.4-5, 2.10, 2.18, 3.1, 3.9, 4.1, 4.16]
• Elliott Randall
  steel guitar [5]
• Ernest Hayes
  piano [5, 9]
• Esmond Edwards
  producer [2.14, 2.22, 3.18, 3.22, 1.24, 4.5, 4.9, 4.14]
• Etta James
  background vocals [8-9]
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [4.21, 4.25, 2.7-9, 2.9, 2.15, 3.4, 1.4-5, 1.9, 1.11, 1.13, 1.18, 1.23]
• Gary Van Scyoc
  bass [2.14, 1.24]
• George Patterson
  tenor saxophone [1.10, 2.3, 4.8]
• Harvey Fuqua
  background vocals [8]
• Howard Jones
  drums (drum set) [4.11, 2.26]
• Hubert Sumlin
  guitar [5, 23]
• Ian McLagan
  piano [2.22, 3.22]
• Ingrid Berry
  vocal [5, 9]
• Jack Groendal
  bass [2.25, 4.10, 4.12-13]
• James Nolan
  background vocals [8]
• Jasper Thomas
  background vocals [24], drums (drum set) [2.2, 2.7, 2.19, 3.3, 3.13, 1.1, 1.6, 1.8, 1.19, 4.15, 4.18, 4.24], vocal [24]
• Jeff Baldori
  guitar [4.10, 4.12-13, 2.25]
• Jeff Krivet
  guitar [1.27, 2.16, 2.24]
• Jerome Green
  maracas [2.4, 1.2]
• Jimmy Rogers
  guitar [2]
• John Jackson
  tenor saxophone [10]
• Johnnie Johnson
  piano [3.1, 3.4, 3.9, 3.13, 4.1, 4.3, 4.8, 4.15, 4.18, 4.21, 4.25, 1.1-3, 1.5-6, 1.8-11, 1.11-12, 1.15, 1.18-19, 1.23, 1.26, 2.2-5, 2.8-9, 2.9, 2.15, 2.18-19]
• Jules Blattner
  guitar [4.11, 2.26]
• Kenney Jones
  drums (drum set) [3.22, 2.22]
• Lafayette Leake
  piano [1.4, 1.13-14, 1.16-17, 1.21-22, 4.20, 2.6, 2.10, 2.27, 3.2, 3.7, 3.19-20, 3.23]
• Leonard & Phil Chess
  producer [4.2, 4.4, 4.7-8, 4.11, 4.15-18, 4.20, 4.23-24, 2.1-11, 2.15-17, 2.19, 2.21, 2.24, 2.26-27, 3.1-3, 3.7, 3.9, 3.12-15, 3.23-24, 3.26, 1.1-5, 1.7-17, 1.19-23, 1.26-27]
• Leonard Chess
  maracas [2], producer [3]
• Leroy C. Davis
  tenor saxophone [1.3, 1.11, 1.20, 3.2, 4.20, 4.25]
• Louis Cennamo
  bass guitar [1.27, 2.16, 2.24]
• Louis Satterfield
  bass guitar [15], electric bass guitar [2.1, 2.3, 4.8, 1.10, 1.15]
• Malcolm Chisholm
  engineer [3.19-21, 2.23]
• Martha Berry
  background vocals [10], other vocals [10]
• Marvin Gaye
  background vocals [8]
• Matt Murphy
  guitar [3.2, 3.7, 1.16-17, 1.20-22], instrument [10]
• Maurice White
  drums (drum set) [15]
• Melvin Billups
  drums (drum set) [3, 11-12]
• Mike Bloomfield
  additional [14], guitar [14]
• Odie Payne
  drums (drum set) [3.2, 3.7, 3.24, 3.26, 4.7-8, 4.20, 1.7, 1.10, 1.14-17, 1.20-22, 2.1, 2.3, 2.6, 2.11, 2.13, 2.27]
• Otis Spann
  background vocals [24], piano [3.1, 3.9, 4.1, 4.24, 2.5, 2.18], vocal [24]
• Paul Butterfield
  additional [14], harmonica [14]
• Paul Gayten
  piano [2.13, 1.7, 3.24]
• Paul Williams
  piano [4.7, 2.1]
• Paul Williams
  piano [7]
• Pete Cosey
  guitar [15]
• Peter John Hogman
  harmonica [2.16, 2.24, 1.27]
• Phil Chess
  producer [3]
• Phil Thomas
  drums (drum set) [3.23, 2.10]
• Phil Upchurch
  bass [19-20]
• Reese Palmer
  background vocals [8]
• Reggie Boyd
  bass [18], double bass [20], electric bass guitar [4.20, 4.25, 2.9-10, 3.2, 3.23]
• Ric Grech
  bass [3.22, 2.22]
• Rick Carrell
  drums (drum set) [4.14, 3.18]
• Rick Frank
  drums (drum set) [2.14, 1.24]
• Ron Malo
  engineer [3.12, 3.14, 2.17, 2.21, 4.4, 4.23]
• Rubin Cooper
  tenor saxophone [1.10, 4.8, 2.3]
• Sonny Thompson
  keyboard [15], organ [15], piano [4.4, 4.23, 2.17, 2.21, 3.12, 3.14]
• Stan Bronstein
  tenor saxophone [14]
• The Marquees
  background vocals [8-9]
• The Moonglows
  background vocals [8]
• Vincent Pitts
  trumpet [3, 11]
• Walter Ben Ruffin
  drums (drum set) [2.17, 2.21, 3.12, 3.14, 4.4, 4.23]
• Wayne Gabriel
  guitar [2.14, 1.24]
• Wilbur “Bad” Bascomb
  bass [9]
• Willie Dixon
  background vocals [24], bass [3.4, 4.21, 1.8, 1.11, 1.13, 2.4, 2.8-9], double bass [2.2, 2.5-7, 2.13, 2.15, 2.19, 2.27, 4.1-2, 4.15-16, 4.18, 4.24, 1.1-4, 1.6-9, 1.11-14, 1.16-17, 1.22, 1.26, 3.1, 3.3, 3.7, 3.9, 3.24], producer [4.4, 4.7-8, 4.11, 4.20, 4.23, 1.10, 1.14-17, 1.20-22, 1.27, 3.2, 3.7, 3.12, 3.14-15, 3.23, 3.26, 2.1, 2.3, 2.10-11, 2.16-17, 2.21, 2.24], vocal [24]
• [unknown]
  bongos [3], maracas [1], percussion [7]
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Issues

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  P
  Poet of Rock ’n’ Roll

  4x CD
  1994
• P
  Poet of Rock 'n' Roll

  4x CD
  1995