The Sky Is Crying: The Legendary Fire / Enjoy Sessions

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  The Sky Is Crying
  2:47
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Baby Please Set a Date
  2:54
• 3
  Held My Baby Last Night
  2:52
• 4
  Bobby’s Rock
  2:12
• 5
  Dust My Broom
  2:52
• 6
  Rollin’ and Tumblin’
  2:30
• 7
  Done Somebody Wrong
  2:22
• 8
  I’m Worried
  2:53
• 9
  Fine Little Mama
  2:33
• 10
  I Need You
  2:56
• 11
  Early One Morning
  2:48
• 12
  I Can’t Stop Loving You
  2:38
• 13
  Strange Angels
  3:09
• 14
  She Done Moved
  1:50
• 15
  Something Inside of Me
  4:58
• 16
  Stranger Blues (alternate take)
  3:14
• CD 2
• 1
  Stranger Blues
  2:58
• 2
  Anna Lee
  2:51
• 3
  My Bleeding Heart
  3:03
• 4
  Standing at the Crossroad
  2:58
• 5
  One Way Out
  2:22
• 6
  Person to Person
  2:28
• 7
  My Kind of Woman
  2:55
• 8
  So Unkind
  2:32
• 9
  Got to Move
  2:47
• 10
  Look Over Yonder Wall
  2:30
• 11
  Shake Your Moneymaker
  2:30
• 12
  Mean Mistreatin’ Mama (take 1 & 2)
  4:30
• 13
  Mean Mistreatin’ Mama (take 3)
  2:44
• 14
  Sunnyland Train
  2:16
• 15
  My Baby’s Gone
  3:11
• 16
  Find My Kinda Woman
  2:47
• CD 3
• 1
  Hand in Hand (take 1)
  3:13
• 2
  I’ve Got a Right to Love My Baby
  3:09
• 3
  Everyday I Have the Blues
  3:27
• 4
  Dust My Broom
  3:39
• 5
  It Hurts Me Too
  3:24
• 6
  Talk to Me Baby
  3:00
• 7
  Can’t Stop Loving My Baby
  2:28
• 8
  She’s Got to Go
  4:04
• 9
  Hand in Hand (take 4)
  3:04
• 10
  Pickin’ the Blues
  3:34
• 11
  Twelve Year Old Boy
  4:11
• 12
  Up Jumped Elmore
  4:08
• 13
  I Believe
  3:40
• 14
  I Gotta Go Now
  4:14
• 15
  Make My Dreams Come True
  3:35
• 16
  Back in Mississippi (conversation)
  3:42
• 17
  Look on Yonder Wall (wrong lyrics)
  2:56
• 18
  You Know You Done Me Wrong
  3:37
• 19
  Black Snake Slide
  2:48

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Release credits

• Belton Evans
  membranophone [6-9]
• Danny Moore
  trumpet [1, 3-9]
• Elmore James
  guitar [1.1-3, 1.5-9, 1.14, 2.1, 2.3-9, 2.13-14, 2.16], lead vocals [1.1, 2.4, 2.11], slide guitar [1.6-9, 1.11, 1.13, 2.4, 2.11], vocal [1.2-3, 1.5-9, 1.11-14, 2.1, 2.3-9, 2.13-14, 2.16]
• Homesick James
  bass [3, 5-9, 12, 14], bass guitar [1, 6-9, 11, 13], guitar [2-3, 5]
• J.T. Brown
  tenor saxophone [1-3, 3, 5]
• Johnny "Big Moose" Walker
  piano [11, 13-14]
• Johnny Acey
  piano [1, 3-9]
• Johnny Williams
  drums (drum set) [1, 3, 5-9], membranophone [4]
• King Mose
  drums (drum set) [11, 13-14]
• Little Johnny Jones
  instrument [2, 5], piano [1, 3, 5]
• Odie Payne
  drums (drum set) [1], membranophone [3, 5]
• Paul Williams
  baritone saxophone [1.6-9, 1.11, 1.13, 2.1, 2.3-9]
• Riff Ruffin
  guitar [1, 3-9]
• Sam Myers
  drums (drum set) [1.2-3, 1.5-9, 1.11, 1.13, 2.11]
• Sammy Lee Bully
  bass [11], guitar [13-14]
• Wild Jimmy Spruill
  guitar [6-9, 11-14]
• [unknown]
  bass [1, 3-9], bass guitar [16], drums (drum set) [1.12, 1.14, 2.16], piano [12, 14], saxophone [2-3, 5-6, 6-7, 7-8, 8-9, 9, 11-14], tenor saxophone [2.1, 2.3-9, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5], trombone [1, 3, 5-9]
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Issues

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  The Sky Is Crying: The Legendary Fire / Enjoy Sessions

  3x CD
  25 November 1995