King of the Slide Guitar: The Complete Chess, Chief & Fire Sessions

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  I Believe My Time Ain't Long (Dust My Broom)
  2:47
• 2
  Country Boogie
  2:41
• 3
  I See My Baby
  3:05
• 4
  She Just Won't Do Right
  3:04
• 5
  My Best Friend
  3:22
• 6
  Whose Muddy Shoes
  3:16
• 7
  The Twelve Year Old Boy
  3:07
• 8
  Coming Home
  2:26
• 9
  It Hurts Me Too
  3:05
• 10
  Knocking at Your Door
  2:38
• 11
  Elmore's Contribution to Jazz
  2:20
• 12
  Cry for Me Baby
  2:46
• 13
  Take Me Where You Go
  2:21
• 14
  Bobby's Back
  2:12
• 15
  The Sky Is Crying
  2:46
  4.5 ★
• 16
  Baby Please Set a Date
  2:54
• 17
  Held My Baby Last Night
  2:55
• 18
  Dust My Broom
  2:52
• CD 2
• 1
  The Sun Is Shining
  2:46
• 2
  I Can't Hold Out
  2:18
• 3
  Stormy Monday Blues
  2:30
• 4
  Madison Blues
  2:25
• 5
  The Sun Is Shining (alternate)
  2:45
• 6
  Strange Angels
  3:08
• 7
  Rollin' and Tumblin'
  2:32
• 8
  Done Somebody Wrong
  2:21
• 9
  Something Inside Me
  4:53
• 10
  I'm Worried
  2:52
• 11
  Fine Little Mama
  2:36
• 12
  I Need You
  2:49
• 13
  She Done Moved
  1:54
• 14
  I Can't Stop Loving You
  2:42
• 15
  Early One Morning
  2:49
• 16
  Stranger Blues
  2:55
• CD 3
• 1
  Stranger Blues
  3:15
• 2
  Anna Lee
  3:01
• 3
  Standing at the Crossroads
  3:01
• 4
  My Bleedin Heart
  3:05
• 5
  My Kind of Woman
  2:55
• 6
  Got to Move
  2:45
• 7
  So Unkind
  2:32
• 8
  Person to Person
  2:28
• 9
  One Way Out
  2:27
• 10
  Go Back Home Again
  2:13
• 11
  Look on Yonder Wall
  2:28
• 12
  Shake Your Moneymaker (take 1/2)
  2:50
• 13
  Mean Mistreatin' Mama (take 1)
  1:43
• 14
  Mean Mistreatin' Mama (take 2)
  2:47
• 15
  Sunnyland Train
  2:16
• 16
  You Know You're Wrong
  3:07
• 17
  Mean Mistreatin' Mama (take 3)
  2:44
• 18
  You Know You Done Me Wrong
  3:37
• 19
  My Baby's Gone
  2:58
• 20
  My Kind of Woman
  3:04
• 21
  Lool on Yonder Wall
  2:56
• 22
  Find My Kinda Woman
  2:47
• CD 4
• 1
  It Hurts Me Too
  3:19
• 2
  Dust My Broom
  2:58
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Pickin' the Blues
  3:17
• 4
  Everyday I Have the Blues
  3:21
• 5
  I've Got a Right to Love My Baby
  2:44
• 6
  The Twelve Year Old Boy
  3:30
• 7
  She's Got to Go
  4:01
• 8
  I Gotta Go Now
  3:39
• 9
  Talk to Me Baby
  2:50
• 10
  Make My Dreams Come True
  2:52
• 11
  Hand in Hand (take 1)
  3:08
• 12
  Hand in Hand (take 3)
  3:10
• 13
  Conversation (Back in Mississippii)
  3:42
• 14
  Hand in Hand (take 4)
  3:04
• 15
  I Can't Stop Loving My Baby
  2:23
• 16
  Up Jumped Elmore
  3:08
• 17
  I Believe
  3:27

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Release credits

• Belton Evans
  membranophone [7-8, 10-11]
• Danny Moore
  trumpet [2.16, 3.1-9]
• Eddie Taylor
  guitar [7-13]
• Elmore James
  guitar [1.1-6, 1.14-18, 2.1-5, 2.7-8, 2.10-13, 2.16, 3.1-22, 4.1-12, 4.14-17], lead vocals [1.7, 1.15, 3.3, 2.2], slide guitar [1.7-13, 3.3, 2.2, 2.6-11, 2.15], spoken vocals [13], vocal [3.1-22, 1.1-6, 1.8-14, 1.16-18, 2.1-16, 4.1-12, 4.14-17]
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [12-13]
• Frock O'Dell
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Henry "Sneaky Joe" Harris
  drums (drum set) [1, 3-5], membranophone [2]
• Homesick James
  bass [1.17-18, 2.7-8, 2.10-14], bass guitar [1.7-11, 1.15, 2.2, 2.6-11, 2.15], guitar [1.14, 1.16-18, 2.1-5]
• J.T. Brown
  saxophone [2], tenor saxophone [1.2-17, 1.17-18, 1.18, 2.1-5]
• Johnny "Big Moose" Walker
  piano [4.1-12, 4.14-17, 3.10-18], spoken vocals [13]
• Johnny Acey
  piano [2.16, 3.1-9]
• Johnny Williams
  drums (drum set) [3.1-2, 3.4-9, 2.16], membranophone [2-3]
• King Mose
  drums (drum set) [10-18], membranophone [11]
• Little Johnny Jones
  instrument [6, 16, 18], piano [2.1-2, 2.2-5, 1.2-5, 1.7-11, 1.14-15, 1.17-18]
• Odie Johnson
  bass [1]
• Odie Payne
  drums (drum set) [2-6, 8-11, 15], membranophone [7, 17-18]
• Paul Williams
  baritone saxophone [2.6-11, 2.15-16, 3.1-9]
• Ransom Knowling
  bass [2-6]
• Riff Ruffin
  guitar [2.16, 3.1-9]
• Sam Myers
  drums (drum set) [1.14, 1.16-18, 2.6-11, 2.15], harmonica [10-11]
• Sammy Lee Bully
  bass [11], guitar [10-18]
• Sonny Boy Williamson
  harmonica [1]
• Syl Johnson
  guitar [12-13]
• Wayne Bennett
  guitar [7-11]
• Wild Jimmy Spruill
  guitar [6-15]
• Willie Dixon
  double bass [12-13]
• [unknown]
  bass [3.1-9, 2.16, 4.1-12, 4.14-17], bass guitar [19-22], drums (drum set) [4.1-12, 4.14-17, 2.12-14, 3.19-22], piano [12-14], saxophone [2.1-7, 2.7-8, 2.8-10, 2.10-11, 2.11-15, 1.14, 1.16-18], spoken vocals [13], tenor saxophone [2.16, 3.1-9, 1.15, 1.17-18], trombone [2.16, 3.1-2, 3.4-9]
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Issues

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  King of the Slide Guitar: The Complete Chess, Chief & Fire Sessions

  4x CD
  1992