The Chess Box

Tracklist

• CD 1: 1951 - 1955
• 1
  Moanin' at Midnight
  2:56
• 2
  How Many More Years
  2:42
• 3
  Howlin' Wolf Boogie
  2:38
• 4
  The Wolf Is at Your Door
  2:58
• 5
  Mr. Highway Man
  2:48
• 6
  Howlin' Wolf Talks #1
  1:57
• 7
  Bluebird
  2:50
• 8
  Saddle My Pony
  2:34
• 9
  (Well) That's All Right
  3:03
• 10
  My Last Affair
  2:58
• 11
  Just My Kind
  3:02
• 12
  Work for Your Money
  2:20
• 13
  Mama Died and Left Me
  3:14
• 14
  All Night Boogie (All Night Long)
  2:14
  5.0 ★
• 15
  Streamline Woman
  2:45
• 16
  Crazy About You, Baby
  2:22
• 17
  You Gonna Wreck My Life (No Place to Go)
  2:35
• 18
  Neighbors
  2:46
• 19
  Howlin' Wolf Talks #2
  1:47
• 20
  I'm the Wolf
  2:52
• 21
  Rockin' Daddy
  3:03
• 22
  Baby, How Long
  2:54
  5.0 ★
• 23
  Evil
  2:55
  5.0 ★
• 24
  I'll Be Around
  3:13
• 25
  Forty Four
  2:50
• 26
  Who Will Be Next
  2:32
• CD 2: 1955 - 1962
• 1
  Don't Mess With My Baby
  2:39
• 2
  Smokestack Lightnin'
  3:08
  5.0 ★
• 3
  You Can't Be Beat
  3:06
• 4
  Howlin' Wolf Talks #3
  0:56
• 5
  I Asked for Water
  2:49
• 6
  The Natchez Burnin'
  2:09
• 7
  Who's Been Talking
  2:23
• 8
  Tell Me
  2:58
• 9
  Sittin' on Top of the World
  2:33
• 10
  I Didn't Know
  2:36
• 11
  Moaning for My Baby
  2:48
• 12
  Change My Way
  3:32
• 13
  I Better Go Now
  2:43
• 14
  Howlin' for My Darling
  2:32
• 15
  I've Been Abused
  2:38
• 16
  Mr. Airplane Man
  3:21
• 17
  Wang Dang Doodle
  2:23
• 18
  Back Door Man
  2:48
  5.0 ★
• 19
  Howlin' Wolf Talks #4
  0:26
• 20
  Spoonful
  2:44
  5.0 ★
• 21
  Down in the Bottom
  2:35
• 22
  Shake for Me
  2:15
• 23
  The Red Rooster
  2:27
  5.0 ★
• 24
  You'll Be Mine
  2:27
• 25
  Just Like I Treat You
  2:57
• 26
  I Ain't Superstitious
  2:53
  5.0 ★
• 27
  Goin' Down Slow
  4:02
  4.0 ★
• 28
  Tail Dragger
  2:57
  5.0 ★
• CD 3: 1963 - 1973
• 1
  Hidden Charms
  2:24
• 2
  Three Hundred Pounds of Joy
  3:08
• 3
  Built for Comfort
  2:41
• 4
  Love Me Darlin'
  2:54
• 5
  Killing Floor
  2:52
• 6
  My Country Sugar Mama
  2:39
• 7
  Louise
  2:46
• 8
  I Walked From Dallas
  3:17
• 9
  Tell Me What I've Done
  2:51
• 10
  Don't Laugh at Me
  3:17
• 11
  Ooh Baby (Hold Me)
  2:40
• 12
  New Crawlin' King Snake
  2:58
• 13
  My Mind Is Ramblin'
  2:55
• 14
  Commit a Crime
  3:09
• 15
  Dust My Broom
  2:58
• 16
  I'm the Wolf (acoustic solo)
  5:10
• 17
  Ain't Goin' Down That Dirt Road
  5:53
• 18
  Mary Sue
  3:06
• 19
  Hard Luck
  3:15
• 20
  The Red Rooster
  5:58
• 21
  Moving
  2:44

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Release credits

• Abb Locke
  tenor saxophone [10, 13-16]
• Abraham “Little Smokey” Smothers
  guitar [14-16]
• Adolph "Billy" Duncan
  tenor saxophone [11]
• Albert Williams
  piano [3-4]
• Alfred Elkins
  double bass [9]
• Andrew McMahon
  bass [5]
• Andrew Palmer
  electric bass guitar [4-7]
• Andy McKaie
  compiler, producer
• Arnold Rogers
  tenor saxophone [4-7]
• Bill Wyman
  bass guitar [20]
• Buddy Guy
  bass guitar [1, 3], guitar [2, 8-11], guitar family [5]
• Cassell Burrows
  drums (drum set) [15, 18-19]
• Charles Taylor
  tenor saxophone [10]
• Charlie Watts
  membranophone [20]
• Chris Morris
  compiler
• Detroit Junior
  piano [21]
• Dick Shurman
  compiler
• Donald Hankins
  baritone saxophone [1-3, 5], bass saxophone [1, 4-7]
• Earl Phillips
  drums (drum set) [1.18, 1.20-26, 2.1-3, 2.5-9, 2.11], membranophone [17]
• Eddie Shaw
  tenor saxophone [8-15]
• Eric Clapton
  guitar [20]
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [1.14-16, 2.17-18, 2.20]
• Freddie King
  guitar [17]
• Henry Gray
  piano [2.1, 2.3, 2.24-27, 1.26, 3.12-14]
• Hosea Lee Kennard
  piano [2.2, 2.5-16, 1.14-16]
• Howlin’ Wolf
  acoustic guitar [20], guitar [2.23-24, 2.26, 3.16-17], harmonica [3.1, 3.3-15, 3.18-19, 3.21, 1.1-5, 1.7-18, 1.20-26, 2.1-3, 2.5-18, 2.21, 2.25-28], lead vocals [2.1-3, 2.5-18, 2.20-28, 1.2-5, 1.7-18, 1.20-26, 3.1-2, 3.4-21], spoken vocals [2.4, 2.19, 1.6, 1.19], vocal [2.6, 2.17, 2.26, 3.1, 3.3, 3.5, 1.1, 1.23]
• Hubert Sumlin
  guitar [2.1-3, 2.7-18, 2.20-28, 3.1-15, 3.18-21, 1.14-18, 1.20-26], guitar family [5]
• Ike Turner
  piano [2]
• J.T. Brown
  tenor saxophone [2.28, 3.1-3]
• James Cotton
  harmonica [10]
• Jeff Carp
  harmonica [20]
• Jerome Arnold
  double bass [28]
• Jimmy Rogers
  guitar [21, 24-27]
• Jody Williams
  guitar [1.14-16, 1.22-26, 2.1, 2.3, 2.9, 2.11]
• Junior Blackman
  drums (drum set) [28]
• L.C. Hubert
  piano [5]
• L.D. McGhee
  guitar [12]
• Lafayette Leake
  piano [1-7, 18-20]
• Lee Cooper
  guitar [17-18, 20-21]
• Lee Eggleston
  piano [8-11]
• Little Johnny Jones
  piano [21-23, 28]
• Otis Spann
  piano [1.17-18, 1.20-25, 2.17-18, 2.20]
• Otis “Big Smokey” Smothers
  guitar [5-6]
• S.P. Leary
  drums (drum set) [10, 12-15], membranophone [2.16, 3.21]
• Sam Lay
  drums (drum set) [2.21-27, 3.1-14]
• Steve Winwood
  organ [20]
• Walter "Tang" Smith
  trombone [10]
• Willie Dixon
  double bass [2.1-3, 2.6, 2.10, 2.13, 2.17-18, 2.20-27, 3.4-7, 1.17-18, 1.20-26], spoken vocals [27]
• Willie Harris
  guitar [21]
• Willie Johnson
  guitar [1.1-5, 1.7-9, 1.11-13, 2.2, 2.5-8]
• Willie Steele
  drums (drum set) [1-5, 7-10]
• [unknown]
  bass [3.21, 1.3-4, 1.7-9], electric bass guitar [23]
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Issues

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  The Chess Box

  3x CD
  1991