The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings

Compilation by Elmore James

Released 1995

chicago blues

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
Make My Dreams Come True
2:41
2
Bobby's Rock
2:13
3
The Sky Is Crying
2:48
4.5 ★
4
Held My Baby Last Night
2:53
5
Dust My Broom
2:56
6
Baby Please Set a Date
2:54
7
Rollin' and Tumblin
2:34
8
I'm Worried
2:48
9
Done Somebody Wrong
2:24
10
Fine Little Mama
2:35
11
I Can't Stop Lovin' You
2:39
12
Early One Morning
2:49
13
I Need You Baby
3:33
14
Strange Angels
3:11
15
She Done Moved (instrumental)
1:50
16
Something Inside Me
5:03
17
You Don't Have to Go (vocal: Sam Myers)
2:32
18
Stranger Blues
3:01
19
Stranger Blues (alternate version)
3:17
20
My Bleeding Heart
3:05
21
Standing at the Crossroads
3:02
22
One Way Out
2:25
CD 2
1
Got to Move
2:47
2
Person to Person
2:28
3
So Unkind
2:36
4
My Kind of Woman
2:56
5
Woke Up Screamin' & Cryin' (unknown vocalist)
2:45
6
Do It If You Wanna (unknown vocalist)
2:31
7
Shake Your Money Maker
2:49
8
Look on Yonder Wall
2:30
9
Poor Little Angel Child (vocal: Sam Myers)
2:33
10
Mean Mistreatin' Mama (take 1 - incomplete)
1:38
11
Mean Mistreatin' Mama (take 2 - alternate)
2:46
12
Mean Mistreatin' Mama
2:42
13
Sunnyland Train
2:24
14
You Know You're Wrong (take 1 - incomplete)
1:32
15
You Know You're Wrong (take 2 - alternate)
3:08
16
You Know You're Wrong (take 3 - master)
3:36
17
Going Back Home Again
2:15
18
Look Up on the Wall
2:57
19
Find My Kind of Woman (take 1)
3:06
20
Find My Kind of Woman (take 3)
2:50
21
Dust My Broom (alternate take)
2:46
22
My Baby's Gone
3:04
CD 3
1
Hand in Hand (take 1)
3:08
2
Hand in Hand (take 3)
3:12
3
Hand in Hand (take 4)
3:04
4
I've Got a Right to Love My Baby
2:41
5
Everyday I Have the Blues
3:22
6
Dust My Broom (alternate take)
2:52
7
It Hurts Me Too
3:20
8
Talk to Me Baby
2:55
9
Can't Stop Loving My Baby
2:17
10
She's Got to Go
4:01
11
Pickin' the Blues
2:53
12
Twelve Year Old Boy
3:37
13
Up Jumped Elmore (false start)
0:53
14
Up Jumped Elmore
3:08
15
Up Jumped Elmore (Black Snake Slide)
2:48
16
I Believe
3:28
17
I Gotta Go Now
3:40
18
Make My Dreams Come True (alternate take)
3:23
19
Back in Mississippi (studio conversation)
3:39

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Release credits

Belton Evans
membranophone [7-8, 10]
Danny Moore
trumpet [2.1-4, 1.20-21]
Elmore James
guitar [3.1, 3.3-5, 3.10, 3.14, 3.16-17, 1.3-4, 1.6-8, 1.10, 1.20-21, 2.1-4, 2.7-8], lead vocals [3, 9, 16, 21], slide guitar [7-10, 12-14, 16, 21], vocal [1.4, 1.6-8, 1.10-14, 1.20-21, 3.1, 3.3-5, 3.10, 3.14, 3.16-17, 2.1-4, 2.7-8]
Homesick James
bass [4, 7-8, 10-11], bass guitar [3, 7-10, 12-14, 16], guitar [4, 6]
J.T. Brown
tenor saxophone [3-4, 4, 6]
Johnny "Big Moose" Walker
piano [2.7-8, 3.1, 3.3-5, 3.10, 3.14, 3.16-17]
Johnny Acey
piano [2.1-4, 1.20-21]
Johnny Williams
drums (drum set) [2.1-4, 1.20], membranophone [21]
King Mose
drums (drum set) [7-8], membranophone [8]
Little Johnny Jones
instrument [6], piano [3-4]
Odie Payne
drums (drum set) [3], membranophone [4]
Paul Williams
baritone saxophone [1.7-8, 1.10, 1.12-14, 1.20-21, 2.1-4]
Riff Ruffin
guitar [2.1-4, 1.20-21]
Sam Myers
drums (drum set) [4, 6-8, 10, 12-14], harmonica [8]
Sammy Lee Bully
bass [8], guitar [7-8]
Wild Jimmy Spruill
guitar [7-8, 10-14]
[unknown]
bass [1.20-21, 2.1-4, 3.1, 3.3-5, 3.10, 3.14, 3.16-17], drums (drum set) [1.11, 3.1, 3.3-5, 3.10, 3.14, 3.16-17], piano [11], saxophone [4, 6-7, 7-8, 8, 10, 10-14], tenor saxophone [2.1-4, 1.3-4, 1.20-21], trombone [2.1-4, 1.20]

Issues

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The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings
3x CD
1995