Tell Mama

Tracklist

• 1
  Tell Mama
  2:23
  4.0 ★
• 2
  I'd Rather Go Blind
  2:38
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Watch Dog
  2:09
• 4
  The Love of My Man
  2:43
• 5
  I'm Gonna Take What He's Got
  2:36
• 6
  The Same Rope
  2:42
• 7
  Security
  2:49
• 8
  Steal Away
  2:22
• 9
  My Mother-in-Law
  2:24
• 10
  Don't Lose Your Good Thing
  2:29
• 11
  It Hurts Me So Much
  2:38
• 12
  Just a Little Bit
  2:13

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Blues to the Bone

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Let's Roll 2003

Release credits

• Aaron Varnell
  saxophone [1-6, 8-12]
• Albert Lowe Jr.
  guitar [1-6, 8-12]
• Barry Beckett
  organ [6, 9]
• Carl Banks
  organ [1-6, 8-12]
• Charles Chalmers
  saxophone [1-6, 8-12]
• David Hood
  electric bass guitar [1-6, 8-12]
• Etta James
  lead vocals [1-6, 8-12]
• Floyd Newman
  saxophone [1-6, 8-12]
• Gene “Bowlegs” Miller
  trumpet [1-6, 8-12]
• George Davis
  piano [6, 9]
• James Mitchell
  saxophone [6, 9]
• Jimmy Johnson
  guitar [1-6, 8-12]
• Marvell Thomas
  piano [6, 9]
• Rick Hall
  arranger [1-6, 8-12], producer [1-6, 8-12], recording [1-6, 8-12]
• Roger Hawkins
  drums (drum set) [1-6, 8-12]
• Spooner Oldham
  organ [1-5, 8, 10-12], piano [1-5, 8, 10-12]
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Issues

• T
  (Combined release view)
• T
  Tell Mama

  12" Vinyl
  January 1968
• 

  T
  Tell Mama

  12" Vinyl
  21 August 1968
• T
  Tell Mama

  CD
  1987
• T
  Tell Mama

  CD
  1987
• 

  T
  Tell Mama

  Digital Media
  27 April 2018
• T
  Tell Mama

  12" Vinyl (remastered in mono)
  17 April 2026