The Essential Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Boom Boom
  2:33
  3.2 ★
• 2
  Dimples
  2:14
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Big Legs, Tight Skirt
  2:19
  2.0 ★
• 4
  Boogie Chillun
  2:39
  1.0 ★
• 5
  My First Wife Left Me
  3:37
• 6
  I'm Mad Again
  2:42
• 7
  Baby Lee
  3:01
• 8
  Crawlin' Kingsnake
  2:46
• 9
  Hobo Blues
  2:50
• 10
  No Shoes
  2:27
  1.0 ★
• 11
  Whiskey and Wimmen
  2:59
• 12
  One Way Ticket
  3:30
• 13
  Bottle Up and Go
  2:27
• 14
  Birmingham Blues
  2:56
• 15
  Stop Talking
  2:12
• 16
  I'm Leaving Baby
  2:13
• 17
  Blues Before Sunrise
  3:51
  1.0 ★
• 18
  Little Wheel
  2:39
• 19
  Sugar Mama (live)
  5:26
• 20
  One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (live)
  4:03
• CD 2
• 1
  I Love You Honey
  2:37
• 2
  Rosie Mae
  2:48
• 3
  Dirty Ground Hog
  3:32
• 4
  Nightmare
  4:27
• 5
  I'm in the Mood
  2:45
  3.0 ★
• 6
  I Can't Quit You Now Blues (live)
  2:50
• 7
  Stop Baby, Don't Hold Me That Way (live)
  1:45
• 8
  House Rent Boogie
  4:04
• 9
  Flowers on the Hour
  2:39
• 10
  Drug Store Woman
  2:47
  1.0 ★
• 11
  Let's Make It
  2:24
  1.0 ★
• 12
  Maudie
  2:23
• 13
  Time Is Marching
  3:03
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Trouble Blues
  2:46
• 15
  Dusty Road
  2:21
• 16
  Five Long Years
  3:40
• 17
  It Serves Me Right to Suffer
  3:33
• 18
  I Can See You When You're Weak
  2:53
• 19
  When My First Wife Left Me (live)
  8:02
• 20
  Louise (live)
  4:57
• CD 3
• 1
  She's Long, She's Tall
  2:29
• 2
  Goin' to California
  2:24
• 3
  Half a Stranger
  4:24
• 4
  Unfriendly Woman
  2:55
• 5
  Want Ad Blues
  2:15
• 6
  I Wanna Walk
  2:14
• 7
  Lou Della
  4:02
• 8
  Mama, You Got a Daughter
  3:42
• 9
  Moanin' Blues
  3:17
• 10
  Process
  3:38
• 11
  New Sally Mae
  3:39
• 12
  The Hobo (live)
  3:05
• 13
  Tupelo (Black Water Blues) (live)
  3:24
• 14
  Tennessee Blues
  2:25
• 15
  The Road Is Rough
  3:04
• 16
  This Is Hip
  2:30
• 17
  Wheel and Deal
  2:33
• 18
  Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  2:34
  3.0 ★
• 19
  Feel Good
  9:05
• 20
  Crawlin' Kingsnake (live)
  4:39

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Release credits

• Benny Benjamin
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Calvin Carter
  producer [2.10-11, 1.1, 1.17]
• Eddie Burns
  guitar [5]
• Eddie Taylor
  guitar [1.2, 2.1, 2.13]
• Everett McCrary
  bass guitar [1]
• George Washington
  bass [2], bass guitar [13]
• Hank Crosby
  tenor saxophone [1]
• James Jamerson
  bass [1]
• Jimmy Reed
  harmonica [13]
• Jimmy Turner
  drums (drum set) [10]
• Joe Hunter
  piano [2.1, 1.1]
• John Lee Hooker
  arranger [18], guitar [1.1-3, 1.10, 2.1, 2.5, 2.13], lead vocals [5], vocal [2.1, 2.13, 1.1-3, 1.7, 1.10]
• Lefty Bates
  guitar [10]
• Marshall Chess
  executive [5]
• Ralph Bass
  producer [5]
• Richard Johnson
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Ron Malo
  editor [5]
• Sylvester Hickman
  bass [10]
• Tom Whitehead
  drums (drum set) [13]
• [unknown]
  instrument [2.5, 1.3]
• Show all credits (20)

Issues

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  The Essential Collection

  3x CD
  21 June 2010