Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters 1951–1960

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  Moanin' at Midnight
  2:53
• 2
  How Many More Years (alternate)
  2:46
• 3
  How Many More Years
  2:40
• 4
  The Wolf Is at Your Door (Howlin' for My Baby)
  2:56
• 5
  California Boogie
  2:57
• 6
  Smile at Me
  2:04
• 7
  Howlin' Wolf Boogie
  2:37
• 8
  California Blues #1
  2:55
• 9
  Look-A-Here Baby
  2:08
• 10
  Worried All the Time
  3:06
• 11
  Gettin' Old and Grey
  2:36
• 12
  Mr. Highway Man
  2:46
• 13
  Everybody's in the Mood
  2:57
• 14
  Color and Kind
  3:09
• 15
  Bluebird
  2:48
• 16
  Saddle My Pony
  2:32
• 17
  Dorothy Mae (alternate take)
  2:42
• 18
  Dorothy Mae
  2:35
• 19
  Sweet Woman (a.k.a. I Got a Woman)
  3:23
• 20
  (Well) That's All Right
  3:00
• 21
  Decoration Day
  3:14
• 22
  Oh! Red
  2:35
• 23
  My Last Affair
  2:56
• 24
  I've Got a Woman
  2:52
• 25
  Just My Kind
  2:57
• 26
  Work for Your Money
  2:16
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  I'm Not Joking
  2:55
• 2
  Mama Died and Left Me
  3:11
• 3
  All Night Boogie (All Night long)
  2:11
  5.0 ★
• 4
  I Love My Baby
  2:55
• 5
  Highway My Friend
  2:15
• 6
  Hold Your Money
  2:19
• 7
  Streamline Woman
  2:43
• 8
  California Blues #2
  2:20
• 9
  Stay Here Til My Baby Comes Back
  2:37
• 10
  Crazy About You Baby
  2:19
• 11
  No Place to Go (You Gonna Wreck My Life)
  2:53
• 12
  You Gonna Wreck My Life (alternate take)
  2:34
• 13
  Neighbors
  2:43
• 14
  I'm the Wolf
  2:50
• 15
  Rockin' Daddy
  3:01
• 16
  Baby How Long
  2:54
  5.0 ★
• 17
  Evil (Is Going on)
  2:53
  5.0 ★
• 18
  I'll Be Around
  3:11
• 19
  Forty Four
  2:48
• 20
  Who Will Be Next
  2:32
• 21
  I Have a Little Girl
  2:33
• 22
  Come to Me Baby
  2:25
• 23
  Don't Mess With My Baby
  2:37
• 24
  Smokestack Lightnin'
  3:06
  5.0 ★
• 25
  You Can't Be Beat
  3:09
• 26
  I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
  2:49
• 27
  So Glad
  2:07
  2.0 ★
• Digital Media 3
• 1
  Break of Day
  2:44
• 2
  The Natchez Burnin'
  2:09
• 3
  Going Back Home
  2:39
• 4
  Bluebird
  3:31
• 5
  My Life
  3:01
• 6
  You Ought to Know
  3:20
• 7
  Who's Been Talking?
  2:21
• 8
  Tell Me
  2:56
• 9
  Somebody in My Home (alternate take)
  2:34
• 10
  Somebody in My Home
  2:25
• 11
  Nature (Takes 1/4/6)
  6:35
• 12
  Nature (alternate take)
  2:54
• 13
  Nature
  2:45
• 14
  Walk to Camp Hall
  2:49
• 15
  Poor Boy (alternate take)
  2:26
• 16
  Poor Boy
  2:33
• 17
  My Baby Told Me
  2:46
• 18
  Sitting on Top of the World
  2:32
• 19
  I Didn't Know
  2:26
• 20
  I Better Go Now (Howlin' Blues) [alternate]
  3:11
• 21
  Howlin' Blues
  2:44
• 22
  I Better Go Now (Multiple Takes)
  4:23
• 23
  I Didn't Know
  2:34
• 24
  Moaning for My Baby
  2:47
• 25
  Moaning for My Baby (Midnight Blues) [Takes 3 & 4]
  4:49
• Digital Media 4
• 1
  I'm Leaving You (alternate take)
  2:43
• 2
  I'm Leaving You (Takes 7-10)
  7:39
• 3
  I'm Leaving You
  2:57
• 4
  Can't Put Me Out (alternate 1)
  1:59
• 5
  Can't Put Me Out (alternate 2)
  2:57
• 6
  (You) Can't Put Me Out
  3:09
• 7
  Change My Way
  3:31
• 8
  Getting Late
  3:04
• 9
  I've Been Abused (Takes 4-12)
  5:01
• 10
  I've Been Abused
  2:15
• 11
  Howlin' for My Baby (Takes 1-7)
  5:39
• 12
  Howlin' for My Darling (Or Baby)
  2:30
• 13
  Wolf in the Mood (instrumental)
  5:48
• 14
  My People's Gone
  2:22
• 15
  Mr. Airplane Man (Takes 1 & 2)
  6:07
• 16
  Mr. Airplane Man
  2:43
• 17
  Wang Dang Doodle
  2:22
• 18
  Back Door Man
  2:48
  5.0 ★
• 19
  Spoonful
  2:42
  5.0 ★

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Release credits

• Abb Locke
  tenor saxophone [12]
• Abraham “Little Smokey” Smothers
  guitar [12]
• Adolph "Billy" Duncan
  tenor saxophone [9-10, 24]
• Albert Williams
  piano [4, 7]
• Alfred Elkins
  double bass [18]
• Charles Taylor
  tenor saxophone [23]
• Earl Phillips
  drums (drum set) [2.13-20, 2.23-26, 3.2, 3.7-10, 3.18, 3.24], membranophone [11-12]
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [4.17-19, 2.3, 2.7, 2.10]
• Freddie King
  guitar [17]
• Henry Gray
  piano [20, 23, 25]
• Hosea Lee Kennard
  piano [2.3, 2.7, 2.10, 2.24, 2.26, 3.2, 3.7-10, 3.18, 3.24, 4.3, 4.7, 4.12]
• Howlin’ Wolf
  harmonica [2.2-3, 2.7, 2.10-20, 2.23-26, 3.2, 3.7-10, 3.18, 3.24, 4.3, 4.7, 4.12, 4.17-18, 1.1, 1.3-4, 1.7, 1.12, 1.15-16, 1.20, 1.23, 1.25-26], lead vocals [1.3-4, 1.7, 1.12, 1.15-16, 1.20, 1.23, 1.25-26, 3.2, 3.7-10, 3.18, 3.24, 4.3, 4.7, 4.12, 4.17-19, 2.2-3, 2.7, 2.10-20, 2.23-26], vocal [4.17, 3.2, 3.16, 2.17, 1.1]
• Hubert Sumlin
  guitar [4.3, 4.7, 4.12, 4.17-19, 3.7-8, 3.18, 3.24, 2.3, 2.7, 2.10-20, 2.23-25]
• Ike Turner
  piano [3]
• James Cotton
  harmonica [23]
• Jody Williams
  guitar [3.18, 3.24, 2.3, 2.7, 2.10, 2.16-20, 2.23, 2.25]
• L.C. Hubert
  piano [12]
• L.D. McGhee
  guitar [3, 7]
• Lee Cooper
  guitar [11-15]
• Otis Spann
  piano [2.11-19, 4.17-19]
• Otis “Big Smokey” Smothers
  guitar [2.26, 3.2, 3.9-10]
• S.P. Leary
  drums (drum set) [3, 7, 12]
• Walter "Tang" Smith
  trombone [23]
• Willie Dixon
  double bass [4.3, 4.17-19, 2.11-20, 2.23-25, 3.2]
• Willie Johnson
  guitar [3.2, 3.7-10, 1.1, 1.3-4, 1.7, 1.12, 1.15-16, 1.20, 1.25-26, 2.2, 2.24, 2.26]
• Willie Steele
  drums (drum set) [1, 3-4, 7, 12, 15-16, 20, 23]
• [unknown]
  bass [4, 7, 15-16, 20]
• Show all credits (27)

Issues

• 

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  Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters 1951–1960

  4x CD
  24 October 2011
• 

  S
  Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters 1951–1960

  4x CD (Limited Edition)
  2011
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  Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters 1951-1960

  4x Digital Media (iTunes Version)
  31 January 2012