The Classic Early Recordings

Tracklist

• CD 1: Canton Crusade
• 1
  Dust My Broom
  2:47
• 2
  Please Find My Baby (version 1)
  3:04
• 3
  Hawaiian Boogie
  2:40
• 4
  Please Find My Baby (version 2)
  3:08
• 5
  Hand in Hand
  2:53
• 6
  Long Tall Woman
  2:56
• 7
  Rock My Baby Right
  2:51
• 8
  One More Drink (take 1)
  3:05
• 9
  My Baby’s Gone
  2:24
• 10
  One More Drink (take 2)
  3:16
• 11
  Lost Woman Blues (aka Please Find My Baby) (version 3)
  3:16
• 12
  I Believe
  3:17
• 13
  I Held My Baby Last Night
  3:31
• 14
  Baby What’s Wrong
  2:53
• 15
  Sinful Woman
  2:52
• 16
  Round House Boogie (aka Sax Symphonic Boogie)

  Bep Brown Orchestra
  2:47
• 17
  Dumb Woman Blues

  Bep Brown Orchestra
  3:12
• 18
  Sax‐Only Boogie
  2:36
• 19
  Kicking the Blues Around (aka Flaming Blues)
  2:56
• 20
  I May Be Wrong

  Little Johnny Jones
  2:51
• 21
  Sweet Little Woman

  Little Johnny Jones
  3:00
• CD 2: Broomdusting in Chicago
• 1
  Early in the Morning
  2:48
• 2
  Can’t Stop Lovin’
  2:26
• 3
  Hawaiian Boogie (version 2)
  2:20
• 4
  Make a Little Love
  2:51
• 5
  My Best Friend (take 1)
  2:48
• 6
  Make My Dreams Come True (take 2)
  2:46
• 7
  Make My Dreams Come True (take 3)
  0:56
• 8
  Make My Dreams Come True (take 4)
  2:47
• 9
  Make My Dreams Come True (take 7)
  2:43
• 10
  Strange Kinda Feeling (take 1)
  2:31
• 11
  Strange Kinda Feeling (take 2)
  2:39
• 12
  Strange Kinda Feeling (take 3)
  2:48
• 13
  Strange Kinda Feeling (take 4)
  0:57
• 14
  Strange Kinda Feeling (take 5)
  2:36
• 15
  Strange Kinda Feeling (take 6)
  2:43
• 16
  Dark and Dreary (take 1)
  0:27
• 17
  Dark and Dreary (take 2)
  3:30
• 18
  Dark and Dreary (take 4)
  2:48
• 19
  Quarter Past Nine
  3:31
• 20
  Where Can My Baby Be (take 1)
  0:20
• 21
  Where Can My Baby Be (take 8)
  2:59
• 22
  Where Can My Baby Be (take 9)
  2:57
• 23
  Please Come Back to Me (Sho’ Nuff I Do)
  3:00
• 24
  Sho’ Nuff I Do (session talk & false start)
  1:31
• 25
  Sho’ Nuff I Do (alternate take)
  2:46
• 26
  Sho’ Nuff I Do
  2:52
• 27
  1839 Blues
  3:17
• 28
  I Got a Strange Baby (false start & chat)
  1:02
• 29
  Canton Mississippi Breakdown
  2:41
• CD 3: Culver City to Crescent City
• 1
  Standing at the Crossroads
  2:49
• 2
  Late Hours at Midnight
  2:47
• 3
  Happy Home
  2:47
• 4
  Sunny Land
  3:19
• 5
  The Way You Treat Me (aka Mean and Evil)
  2:14
• 6
  No Love in My Heart
  2:25
• 7
  Dust My Blues
  3:11
• 8
  I Was a Fool
  2:52
• 9
  Blues Before Sunrise
  2:45
• 10
  Goodbye (Baby)
  3:00
• 11
  So Mean to Me (take 2)
  2:38
• 12
  So Mean to Me (take 3)
  2:37
• 13
  So Mean to Me (take 4)
  2:30
• 14
  Wild About You Baby (chat & false start)
  1:01
• 15
  Wild About You
  3:20
• 16
  Wild About You (Baby)
  2:42
• 17
  Elmo’s Shuffle (take 3)
  3:10
• 18
  Elmo’s Shuffle (take 4)
  2:56
• 19
  Elmo’s Shuffle (take 5)
  2:36
• 20
  Long Tall Woman
  3:41
• 21
  Long Tall Woman
  2:52

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Release credits

• Boyd Atkins
  alto saxophone [5-18], tenor saxophone [5-18]
• Earl Palmer
  drums (drum set) [7-10]
• Eddie Taylor
  guitar [11-21]
• Edward Frank
  piano [7-10]
• Elmore James
  guitar [1.1-10, 1.12-21, 2.1-12, 2.14-29, 3.1-21], instrument [11], lead vocals [1], slide guitar [1], vocal [1.1-15, 2.1-28, 3.1-16, 3.20-21]
• Frank Fields
  bass [7-10]
• Frock O'Dell
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Ike Turner
  guitar [20-29], piano [1.2-11, 2.19]
• J.T. Brown
  tenor saxophone [1.12-21, 2.1-18], vocal [17]
• James Parr
  trumpet [1-3, 5-6]
• Jesse Sailes
  drums (drum set) [1-6]
• Jewell Grant
  baritone saxophone [1-3, 5-6]
• Joe Bihari
  producer [1.2-6, 1.8-21, 2.1-18, 2.20-29, 3.1-21]
• Leonard Ware
  double bass [1]
• Lillian McMurry
  producer [1]
• Little Johnny Jones
  piano [2.1-18, 2.20-29, 3.11-21, 1.12-21], vocal [20-21]
• Maxwell Davis
  tenor saxophone [1-3, 5-6]
• Odie Payne
  drums (drum set) [1.12-21, 3.11-21, 2.1-29]
• Ralph Hamilton
  bass [1-6]
• Ransom Knowling
  bass [1.12-21, 2.1-18]
• Raymond Hill
  tenor saxophone [3.11-21, 2.20-29]
• Sonny Boy Williamson
  harmonica [1]
• Willard McDaniel
  piano [1-6]
• [unknown]
  alto saxophone [20-29], baritone saxophone [20-29], bass [3.11-21, 2.19-29, 1.6-11], choir vocals [10], drums (drum set) [2-11], tenor saxophone [3.11-21, 2.19, 1.2-4, 1.6-10]
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Issues

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  The Classic Early Recordings

  3x CD
  1993
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  T
  The Classic Early Recordings

  3x CD
  6 August 2007