The Chess Years 1952-1963

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Juke
  2:40
• 2
  Can't Hold Out Much Longer
  2:55
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Blue Midnight
  3:00
• 4
  Boogie
  3:00
• 5
  Mean Old World
  2:51
• 6
  Sad Hours
  3:08
• 7
  Don't Have to Hurt No More
  3:00
• 8
  Crazy Legs
  3:21
• 9
  Tonight With a Fool
  2:50
• 10
  Off the Wall
  2:48
• 11
  Tell Me Mama
  2:43
• 12
  Quarter to Twelve
  3:11
• 13
  Blues With a Feeling
  3:02
• 14
  Last Boogie
  2:29
• 15
  Too Late
  2:34
• 16
  Fast Boogie
  2:49
• 17
  Light Out
  2:45
• 18
  Fast Large One
  2:46
• 19
  You're So Fine
  3:01
• 20
  Come Back Baby
  2:51
• 21
  Rocker
  3:06
• 22
  Oh Baby
  2:47
• 23
  I Got to Find My Baby
  2:43
• 24
  Big Leg Mama
  2:44
• CD 2
• 1
  Mercy Babe
  2:15
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Last Night
  2:55
• 3
  You'd Better Watch Yourself
  2:00
• 4
  Blue Eight
  3:10
• 5
  Last Night
  2:30
• 6
  Mollow Down Easy
  2:40
• 7
  Thunderbird
  2:30
• 8
  My Babe
  2:30
• 9
  Roller Coaster
  2:51
• 10
  I Got to Go
  2:45
• 11
  Little Girl
  3:02
• 12
  Crazy for Me Baby
  2:47
• 13
  Cant't Stop Loving You
  2:46
• 14
  Hate to See You Go
  2:16
• 15
  One More Chance With You
  2:47
• 16
  Who
  2:21
• 17
  Boom, Boom Out Goes the Lights
  1:35
• 18
  It Ain't Right
  2:20
• 19
  Flying Saucer
  1:50
• 20
  It's Too Late Brother
  2:35
• 21
  Teenage Beat
  2:45
• 22
  Take Me Back
  3:04
• 23
  Just a Feeling
  2:45
• CD 3
• 1
  Nobody but You
  2:02
• 2
  Temperature
  1:56
• 3
  Shake Dancer
  2:45
• 4
  Everybody Needs Somebody
  2:51
• 5
  Temperature
  2:45
• 6
  Ah'm Baby
  2:45
• 7
  I Had My Fun
  2:18
• 8
  The Toddle
  2:36
• 9
  Confessin' the Blues
  3:01
• 10
  Key to the Highway
  2:43
• 11
  Rock Bottom
  2:16
• 12
  You Gonna Be Sorry
  2:46
• 13
  Baby
  1:57
• 14
  My Baby Sweeter
  2:26
• 15
  Crazy Mixed Up World
  2:00
• 16
  Worried Life
  2:38
• 17
  Everything's Going to Be Alright
  2:48
• 18
  Mean Old Frisco
  2:30
• 19
  Back Track
  2:40
• 20
  One of These Mornings
  2:52
• 21
  Blue and Lonesome
  2:55
• 22
  Me and Piney Brown
  2:25
• 23
  Break It Up
  2:25
• 24
  Goin' Down Slow
  2:50
• CD 4
• 1
  I Don't Play
  2:15
• 2
  As Long as I Have You
  2:36
• 3
  You Don't Know
  2:29
• 4
  Just Your Fool
  2:15
• 5
  Up the Line
  2:09
• 6
  I'm a Business Man
  2:53
• 7
  Dead President
  2:43
• 8
  Southern Feeling
  2:56
• 9
  Juke (alternate take)
  3:03
• 10
  Blue Midnight (alternate take)
  2:56
• 11
  Off the Wall (alternate take)
  2:53
• 12
  My Kind of Baby
  3:05
• 13
  I Love You So
  2:29
• 14
  Instrumental
  2:50
• 15
  Temperature (take 30)
  3:26
• 16
  Temperature (take 35-36)
  3:30
• 17
  Ah'w Baby (alternate take)
  2:45
• 18
  Rock Bottom (alternate take)
  2:27
• 19
  Walkin' On (alternate take)
  2:37
• 20
  Everything's Gonna Be Alright (take 1)
  4:25
• 21
  Everything's Gonna Be Alright (alternate take)
  3:04
• 22
  Mean Old Frisco (take 1-2)
  3:10
• 23
  Blue and Lonesome (take 1)
  4:56
• 24
  My Babe
  2:34

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Release credits

• Dave Myers
  guitar [5-6, 10-11, 19]
• Elgin Evans
  membranophone [2]
• Fred Below
  membranophone [1.5-6, 1.10-11, 1.19, 2.8]
• Jimmy Rogers
  guitar [2]
• Leonard Caston
  guitar [8]
• Little Walter
  harmonica [2.8, 1.2, 1.5-6, 1.10-11, 1.19], vocal [2.8, 1.2, 1.5, 1.11, 1.19]
• Louis Myers
  guitar [5-6, 10-11, 19]
• Muddy Waters
  guitar [2]
• Robert Lockwood, Jr.
  guitar [8]
• Willie Dixon
  double bass [8]

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