The Complete Chess Masters (1950–1967)

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Evans Shuffle
  2:14
• 2
  Juke (single version)
  2:45
• 3
  Juke (alternate take)
  2:57
• 4
  Can’t Hold Out Much Longer
  3:01
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Can’t Hold Out Much Longer (alternate)
  2:51
• 6
  Blue Midnight (alternate take)
  3:02
• 7
  Blue Midnight
  2:59
• 8
  Boogie
  3:01
• 9
  Mean Old World
  2:55
• 10
  Sad Hours
  3:12
• 11
  Fast Boogie
  2:48
• 12
  Fast Boogie (alternate 1)
  3:13
• 13
  Fast Boogie (alternate 2)
  2:57
• 14
  Fast Boogie (alternate 3)
  3:00
• 15
  Don’t Need No Horse
  3:15
• 16
  Driftin’
  3:12
• 17
  Driftin’ (alternate)
  3:08
• 18
  Don’t Have to Hunt No More
  3:01
• 19
  Crazy Legs
  3:23
• 20
  Tonight With a Fool
  2:53
• 21
  Off the Wall (alternate version)
  2:55
• 22
  Off the Wall
  2:50
• 23
  Tell Me Mama
  2:45
• 24
  Quarter to Twelve
  3:13
• 25
  That’s It
  3:10
• CD 2
• 1
  Blues With a Feeling (alternate take)
  2:56
• 2
  Blues With a Feeling
  3:07
• 3
  Last Boogie
  2:32
• 4
  Too Late
  2:41
• 5
  Fast Boogie
  2:52
• 6
  Lights Out
  2:46
• 7
  Fast Large One
  2:50
• 8
  You’re So Fine
  3:04
• 9
  My Kind of Baby
  3:08
• 10
  Come Back Baby
  2:54
• 11
  Rocker
  3:07
• 12
  I Love You So (Oh Baby)
  2:33
• 13
  Oh Baby
  2:46
• 14
  I Got to Find My Baby (alternate take)
  3:07
• 15
  I Got to Find My Baby
  2:48
• 16
  Big Leg Mama
  2:47
• 17
  Mercy Babe (My Babe)
  3:18
• 18
  Last Night
  2:54
• 19
  You Better Watch Yourself
  3:04
• 20
  Blue Light
  3:14
• 21
  Instrumental
  2:55
• 22
  Last Night
  2:44
• 23
  Mellow Down Easy
  2:43
• 24
  My Babe
  2:42
• 25
  My Babe (overdubbed version)
  2:30
• CD 3
• 1
  Thunderbird
  2:48
• 2
  Roller Coaster
  2:53
• 3
  I Got to Go
  2:41
• 4
  Hate to See You Go
  3:04
• 5
  Little Girl
  3:06
• 6
  Crazy for My Baby
  3:01
• 7
  Can’t Stop Lovin’ You
  2:48
• 8
  One More Chance With You
  2:55
• 9
  Who
  2:24
• 10
  Boom, Boom Out Goes the Light
  2:51
• 11
  It Ain’t Right
  2:54
• 12
  Flying Saucer
  3:03
• 13
  It’s to Late Brother
  2:43
• 14
  Teenage Beat
  3:02
• 15
  Take Me Back
  3:06
• 16
  Just a Feeling
  2:54
• 17
  Nobody but You
  2:07
• 18
  Temperature (version 1)
  1:59
• 19
  Shake Dancer
  2:44
• 20
  Everybody Needs Somebody
  2:53
• 21
  Temperature (alternate 1)
  2:15
• 22
  Temperature (alternate 2)
  2:16
• 23
  Temperature (take 30)
  3:28
• 24
  Temperature (take 35–38)
  4:54
• 25
  Temperature (version 2)
  2:40
• 26
  Ah’w Baby (alternate)
  2:50
• CD 4
• 1
  Ah’w Baby
  2:54
• 2
  I’ve Had My Fun (alternate)
  2:13
• 3
  I’ve Had My Fun (alternate 2)
  2:26
• 4
  I’ve Had My Fun
  2:02
• 5
  The Toddle
  2:38
• 6
  Confessin’ the Blues
  3:04
• 7
  Key to the Highway
  2:46
• 8
  Rock Bottom
  2:31
• 9
  Rock Bottom
  2:18
• 10
  Walkin’ On
  2:36
• 11
  You Gonna Be Sorry (Someday Baby) (take 5)
  2:43
• 12
  You Gonna Be Sorry (Someday Baby) (alternate)
  3:08
• 13
  You Gonna Be Sorry (Someday Baby)
  2:49
• 14
  One of These Mornings (instrumental)
  3:13
• 15
  Baby
  2:00
• 16
  My Baby Is Sweeter (alternate)
  2:51
• 17
  My Baby Is Sweeter
  2:29
• 18
  Crazy Mixed Up World (alternate)
  2:01
• 19
  Crazy Mixed Up World
  2:00
• 20
  Worried Life (alternate)
  2:18
• 21
  Worried Life
  2:40
• 22
  Everything’s Gonna Be Alright (take 1)
  4:29
• 23
  Everything’s Gonna Be Alright (alternate 1)
  2:15
• 24
  Everything’s Gonna Be Alright (alternate 2)
  3:02
• 25
  Everything’s Gonna Be Alright
  2:50
• 26
  Mean Old Frisco (alternate)
  3:06
• 27
  Mean Old Frisco
  2:25
• CD 5
• 1
  Back Track
  2:49
• 2
  One of These Mornings
  2:56
• 3
  Blue and Lonesome (alternate)
  4:51
• 4
  Blue and Lonesome
  2:55
• 5
  Me and Piney Brown
  2:32
• 6
  Break It Up
  2:27
• 7
  Going Down Slow
  2:56
• 8
  You’re Sweet
  2:59
• 9
  I Don’t Play
  2:19
• 10
  As Long as I Have You
  2:39
• 11
  You Don’t Know
  2:25
• 12
  Just Your Fool
  2:24
• 13
  Up the Line
  2:07
• 14
  I’m a Business Man
  2:55
• 15
  Dead Presidents
  2:53
• 16
  Southern Feeling
  2:59
• 17
  Back in the Alley
  3:07
• 18
  I Feel So Bad (take 1)
  2:43
• 19
  I Feel So Bad (take 2)
  4:15
• 20
  Chicken Shack
  2:47
• 21
  Feel So Bad
  2:57
• 22
  Make It Alright
  3:23
• 23
  Juke
  3:27

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Release credits

• Billy Stepney
  drums (drum set) [25]
• Dave Myers
  guitar [2.2, 2.8, 2.19, 1.9-10, 1.22-23]
• Elgin Evans
  membranophone [4]
• Fred Below
  membranophone [1.9-10, 1.22-23, 2.2, 2.8, 2.19, 2.24]
• Jimmy Rogers
  guitar [4]
• Leonard Caston
  guitar [24]
• Little Walter
  harmonica [1.4, 1.9-10, 1.22-23, 2.2, 2.8, 2.19, 2.24, 4.25], lead vocals [25], vocal [2.8, 2.19, 2.24, 1.4, 1.9, 1.23]
• Louis Myers
  guitar [1.9-10, 1.22-23, 2.2, 2.8]
• Luther Tucker
  guitar [25]
• Muddy Waters
  guitar [4]
• Otis Spann
  piano [25]
• Robert Lockwood, Jr.
  guitar [4.25, 2.19, 2.24]
• Willie Dixon
  bass [25], double bass [19, 24]

Issues

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  The Complete Chess Masters (1950–1967)

  5x CD
  10 March 2009