At His Very Best

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Boogie Chillun
  2:38
  1.0 ★
• 2
  Dimples
  2:12
  3.0 ★
• 3
  I'm Mad Again
  2:40
• 4
  Hobo Blues
  2:49
• 5
  Crawlin' Kingsnake
  2:46
• 6
  My First Wife Left Me
  3:36
• 7
  Little Wheel
  2:38
• 8
  Baby Lee
  2:59
• 9
  Solid Sender
  2:36
• 10
  No Shoes
  2:26
  1.0 ★
• 11
  I'm Leaving Baby
  2:13
• 12
  Boom Boom
  2:31
  3.2 ★
• 13
  Whiskey and Wimmen
  2:59
• 14
  Bottle Up and Go
  2:26
• 15
  Tupelo
  3:24
• 16
  Drug Store Woman
  2:45
  1.0 ★
• 17
  Mama, You Got a Daughter
  3:42
• 18
  Stop Talking
  2:12
• 19
  Birmingham Blues
  2:55
• 20
  Everybody Rockin
  2:41
• 21
  Let's Make It
  2:23
  1.0 ★
• 22
  Mambo Chillun
  2:47
• 23
  Nightmare
  4:27
• 24
  Sugar Mama
  5:26
• 25
  One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
  4:02
• CD 2
• 1
  It Serves Me Right to Suffer
  3:34
• 2
  Crawlin' Black Spider
  2:45
• 3
  I'm in the Mood
  2:45
  3.0 ★
• 4
  This Is Hip
  2:30
• 5
  I Can't Quit You Now Blues
  2:49
• 6
  Stop Baby, Don't Hold Me That Way
  1:44
• 7
  Maudie
  2:22
• 8
  I Love You Honey
  2:36
• 9
  Five Long Years
  3:40
• 10
  Half a Stranger
  4:25
• 11
  New Sally Mae
  3:38
• 12
  House Rent Boogie
  4:04
• 13
  Canal Street Blues
  2:56
• 14
  Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  2:35
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Big Legs, Tight Skirt
  2:18
  2.0 ★
• 16
  Process
  3:38
• 17
  Dirty Ground Hog
  3:32
• 18
  One Way Ticket
  3:30
• 19
  Unfriendly Woman
  2:55
• 20
  Wheel and Deal
  2:33
• 21
  Louise
  5:02
• 22
  Goin' to California
  2:24
• 23
  Moanin' Blues
  3:17
• 24
  I Wanna Walk
  2:14
• 25
  Crawlin' Kingsnake
  4:39

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Release credits

• Benny Benjamin
  drums (drum set) [12]
• Calvin Carter
  producer [12, 16, 21]
• Eddie Burns
  guitar [3]
• Eddie Taylor
  guitar [2.8, 1.2, 1.22]
• Everett McCrary
  bass guitar [8]
• George Washington
  bass [2], bass guitar [22]
• Hank Crosby
  tenor saxophone [12]
• James Jamerson
  bass [12]
• Jimmy Reed
  harmonica [22]
• Jimmy Turner
  drums (drum set) [10]
• Joe Hunter
  piano [2.8, 1.12]
• John Lee Hooker
  arranger [14], guitar [2.3, 2.8, 2.15, 1.2, 1.10, 1.12, 1.22], lead vocals [3], vocal [1.2, 1.8, 1.10, 1.12, 1.22, 2.8, 2.15]
• Lefty Bates
  guitar [10]
• Marshall Chess
  executive [3]
• Ralph Bass
  producer [3]
• Richard Johnson
  drums (drum set) [8]
• Ron Malo
  editor [3]
• Sylvester Hickman
  bass [10]
• Tom Whitehead
  drums (drum set) [22]
• [unknown]
  instrument [3, 15]
• Show all credits (20)

Issues

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  At His Very Best

  2x CD
  15 February 2010