The Vee‐Jay Years

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Unfriendly Woman
  2:53
• 2
  Wheel and Deal
  2:33
• 3
  Mambo Cillun
  2:47
• 4
  Time Is Marching
  3:02
  3.0 ★
• 5
  I’m So Worried Baby
  3:12
• 6
  Baby Lee
  3:00
• 7
  Dimples
  2:12
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Every Night
  3:00
• 9
  The Road Is So Rough
  3:03
• 10
  Trouble Blues
  2:46
• 11
  Stop Talking
  2:12
• 12
  Everybody Rockin’
  2:41
• 13
  I’m So Excited
  2:54
• 14
  I Can See You When You’re Weak
  2:54
• 15
  Crawlin’ Black Spider
  2:45
• 16
  Little Wheel
  2:39
• 17
  Little Fine Woman
  2:26
• 18
  Rosie Mae
  2:46
• 19
  You Can Lead Me Baby
  2:43
• CD 2
• 1
  I Love You Honey
  2:35
  4.0 ★
• 2
  You’ve Taken My Woman
  2:29
• 3
  Mama, You’ve Got a Daughter
  3:42
• 4
  Nightmare
  4:27
• 5
  House Rent Boogie
  4:03
• 6
  Trying to Find a Woman
  3:39
• 7
  Drive Me Away
  2:56
• 8
  I’m Goin’ Home
  3:58
• 9
  Love Me All the Time
  3:13
• 10
  Lou Della
  4:03
• 11
  Bundle Up and Go
  2:32
• 12
  Wrong Doin’ Woman
  3:41
• 13
  Maudie
  2:25
• 14
  Tennessee Blues
  2:26
• 15
  I’m in the Mood
  2:45
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Boogie Chillun’
  2:37
  1.0 ★
• 17
  Hobo Blues
  2:49
• 18
  Crawlin’ Kingsnake
  2:44
  1.0 ★
• CD 3
• 1
  I Wanna Walk
  2:14
• 2
  Canal Street Blues
  2:56
• 3
  I’ll Know Tonight
  2:40
• 4
  I Can’t Believe
  2:52
• 5
  Goin’ to California
  2:25
• 6
  Whiskey and Wimmen
  2:59
• 7
  Run On
  2:12
• 8
  Solid Sender
  2:36
• 9
  Sunny Land
  2:31
• 10
  Dusty Road
  2:21
• 11
  I’m a Stranger
  2:42
• 12
  No Shoes
  2:25
  1.0 ★
• 13
  Five Long Years
  3:38
• 14
  I Like to See You Walk
  2:55
• 15
  Wednesday Evening
  3:59
• 16
  Take Me as I Am
  3:02
• 17
  My First Wife Left Me
  3:34
• 18
  You’re Looking Good Tonight
  2:57
• 19
  You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone
  3:03
• 20
  Dirty Ground Hog
  3:32
• 21
  She Loves My Best Friend
  4:34
• 22
  Sally Mae
  4:02
• 23
  Moanin’ Blues
  3:14
• CD 4
• 1
  The Hobo
  3:06
• 2
  Maudie
  2:45
• 3
  Tupelo
  3:23
• 4
  Want Ad Blues
  2:17
• 5
  Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  2:35
  3.0 ★
• 6
  I’m Goin’ Upstairs
  2:57
  1.0 ★
• 7
  I Left My Baby
  4:27
• 8
  Hard Headed Woman
  2:32
• 9
  I’m Mad Again
  2:42
• 10
  Process
  3:39
  1.0 ★
• 11
  Thelma
  3:33
  1.0 ★
• 12
  What Do You Say
  2:31
• 13
  Boom Boom
  2:31
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Blues Before Sunrise
  3:51
  1.0 ★
• 15
  I Lost a Good Girl
  2:52
  1.0 ★
• 16
  She’s Mine
  2:24
• 17
  I Got a Letter This Morning
  2:44
  1.0 ★
• 18
  A New Leaf
  2:31
  1.0 ★
• 19
  Let’s Make It
  2:24
  1.0 ★
• 20
  Drug Store Woman
  2:44
  1.0 ★
• CD 5
• 1
  Old Time Shimmy
  2:22
• 2
  Onions
  2:11
• 3
  You Know I Love You
  1:57
• 4
  Send Me Your Pillow
  2:25
• 5
  Big Soul
  2:10
• 6
  Frisco Blues
  2:46
• 7
  She Shot Me Down
  2:52
• 8
  Take a Look at Yourself
  2:49
• 9
  Good Rocking Mama
  2:29
• 10
  I Love Her
  2:14
• 11
  No One Told Me
  2:12
• 12
  Don’t Look Back
  2:41
• 13
  One Way Ticket
  3:29
• 14
  Half a Stranger
  4:24
• 15
  Bottle Up and Go
  2:26
• 16
  My Grinding Mill
  3:13
• 17
  I Want to Ramble
  2:29
• 18
  Sadie Mae
  2:54
• 19
  This Is Hip
  2:30
• 20
  Poor Me
  3:12
• 21
  I Want to Shout
  2:26
• 22
  Love Is a Burning Thing
  2:42
• 23
  I Want to Hug You
  2:42
• 24
  I’m Leaving Baby
  2:13
• 25
  Birmingham Blues
  2:55
• 26
  Don’t Look Back
  2:55
• CD 6
• 1
  I Can’t Quit You Now Blues
  2:51
• 2
  Stop Baby, Don’t Hold Me
  1:44
• 3
  Tupelo
  5:16
• 4
  Bus Station Blues
  3:38
• 5
  Freight Train to My Friend
  3:25
• 6
  Boom, Boom, Boom
  2:30
  3.2 ★
• 7
  Talk That Talk Baby
  1:25
• 8
  Sometime Baby You Make Me Feel So Bad
  3:26
• 9
  You’ve Got to Walk Yourself
  4:51
• 10
  Let’s Make It
  2:23
• 11
  The Mighty Fire
  4:45
• 12
  Big Legs, Tight Skirt
  2:18
  2.0 ★
• 13
  Flowers on the Hour
  2:40
• 14
  It Serves Me Right to Suffer
  3:32
• 15
  It Ain’t No Big Thing Baby
  4:13
• 16
  She Left Me One Wednesday
  3:42
• 17
  You Can Run
  3:04
• 18
  New Sally Mae
  3:37
• 19
  Your Baby Ain’t Sweet Like Mine
  2:39
• 20
  She’s Long, She’s Tall
  2:29
• 21
  You’re Mellow
  4:08

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Release credits

• Andrew “Mike” Terry
  baritone saxophone [26]
• Benny Benjamin
  drums (drum set) [5.26, 6.6]
• Calvin Carter
  producer [6.6, 4.10-15, 4.17-20]
• Earl Phillips
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Eddie Burns
  guitar [15]
• Eddie Taylor
  guitar [3-4, 7]
• George Washington
  bass [7], bass guitar [3-4]
• Hank Crosby
  tenor saxophone [6]
• Henry Cosby
  tenor saxophone [26]
• James Jamerson
  bass [6], bass guitar [26]
• Jimmy Reed
  harmonica [3-4]
• Jimmy Turner
  drums (drum set) [12]
• Joe Hunter
  piano [6]
• John Lee Hooker
  arranger [5], guitar [4.6, 3.12, 6.6, 6.12, 2.15, 5.26, 1.3-4, 1.7], lead vocals [15], vocal [5.26, 1.3-4, 1.6-7, 3.12, 4.6, 6.6, 6.12]
• Larry Veeder
  guitar [26]
• Lefty Bates
  guitar [12]
• Marshall Chess
  executive [15]
• Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
  background vocals [26]
• Memphis Slim
  piano [26]
• Quinn Wilson
  bass guitar [6]
• Ralph Bass
  producer [15]
• Roebuck “Pops” Staples
  guitar [6]
• Ron Malo
  editor [15]
• Sylvester Hickman
  bass [12]
• Tom Whitehead
  drums (drum set) [3-4]
• [unknown]
  instrument [6.12, 2.15]
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Issues

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  (Combined release view)
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  T
  The Vee‐Jay Years

  6x CD
  1992
• T
  The Vee-Jay Box: The Complete Singles and Other Rarities

  6x CD
  23 March 1999