The Chess Box

Tracklist

• CD 1: 1947 to 1954
• 1
  Gypsy Woman
  2:35
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Good Looking Woman
  2:43
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Mean Disposition
  2:35
  5.0 ★
• 4
  I Can’t Be Satisfied
  2:42
  5.0 ★
• 5
  I Feel Like Going Home
  3:10
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Train Fare Home Blues
  2:49
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Mean Red Spider
  2:17
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Streamline Woman
  3:18
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Little Geneva
  2:47
  5.0 ★
• 10
  Rollin’ and Tumblin’, Part 1
  3:00
  5.0 ★
• 11
  Rolling Stone
  3:08
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Walkin’ Blues
  2:58
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Louisiana Blues
  2:54
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Evans Shuffle
  2:12
  5.0 ★
• 15
  Long Distance Call
  2:41
  5.0 ★
• 16
  Honey Bee
  3:22
  5.0 ★
• 17
  She Moves Me
  2:58
  5.0 ★
• 18
  Still a Fool
  3:20
  4.5 ★
• 19
  Stuff You Gotta Watch
  2:49
  5.0 ★
• 20
  Standing Around Crying
  3:23
  4.5 ★
• 21
  Flood
  2:40
  5.0 ★
• 22
  Baby Please Don’t Go
  3:17
  5.0 ★
• 23
  Blow Wind Blow
  3:11
  5.0 ★
• 24
  Hoochie Coochie Man
  2:47
  3.9 ★
• CD 2: 1954 to 1959
• 1
  I Just Want to Make Love to You
  2:52
  4.5 ★
• 2
  I’m Ready
  3:04
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Smokestack Lightnin’
  3:08
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Young Fashioned Ways
  3:01
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Mannish Boy
  2:56
  4.2 ★
• 6
  Trouble No More
  2:42
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Forty Days and Forty Nights
  2:52
  4.5 ★
• 8
  Just to Be With You
  3:15
  4.5 ★
• 9
  Don’t Go No Farther
  2:56
  5.0 ★
• 10
  Diamonds at Your Feet
  2:25
  5.0 ★
• 11
  I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love
  2:51
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Rock Me
  3:11
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Look What You Done
  2:22
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Got My Mojo Working
  2:52
  4.5 ★
• 15
  Good News
  2:48
  5.0 ★
• 16
  Evil
  2:19
  5.0 ★
• 17
  She’s Nineteen Years Old
  3:18
  5.0 ★
• 18
  Close to You
  3:05
  5.0 ★
• 19
  Walkin’ Thru the Park
  2:47
  5.0 ★
• 20
  Blues Before Sunrise (with false starts, dialogue)
  3:53
  5.0 ★
• 21
  Lonesome Road Blues (1959)
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Take the Bitter With the Sweet (dialogue, false start, alt. take)
  3:52
  5.0 ★
• 23
  She’s Into Something
  2:46
  5.0 ★
• 24
  Southbound Train
  2:54
  4.0 ★
• 25
  Double Trouble
  2:49
  4.5 ★
• CD 3: 1960 to 1972
• 1
  I Feel So Good (live)
  2:57
  4.0 ★
• 2
  You Shook Me
  2:46
  5.0 ★
• 3
  You Need Love
  2:45
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Twenty Four Hours
  2:31
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Elevate Me Mama (alternate take)
  3:04
  5.0 ★
• 6
  So Glad I’m Living
  2:53
  5.0 ★
• 7
  My Love Strikes Like Lightning
  2:44
  5.0 ★
• 8
  You Don’t Have to Go (alternate take)
  2:51
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Things That I Used to Do
  3:14
  5.0 ★
• 10
  My Home Is in the Delta
  3:59
  5.0 ★
• 11
  Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
  3:14
  5.0 ★
• 12
  The Same Thing
  2:42
  5.0 ★
• 13
  You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had
  2:56
  4.4 ★
• 14
  Short Dress Woman
  2:47
  5.0 ★
• 15
  Making Friends
  2:37
  5.0 ★
• 16
  Black Night (Hornless alternate mix)
  3:18
  5.0 ★
• 17
  Bird Nest on the Ground
  2:53
  5.0 ★
• 18
  Country Boy (live)
  4:42
  5.0 ★
• 19
  Sugar Sweet (alternate “Fathers and Sons” take)
  2:17
  5.0 ★
• 20
  All Aboard (alternate “Fathers and Sons” take)
  2:40
  5.0 ★
• 21
  Going Down Slow (live)
  4:08
  5.0 ★
• 22
  Who’s Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I’m Gone (original hornless London mix)
  5:06
  5.0 ★
• 23
  Can’t Get No Grindin’ (What’s the Matter With the Meal)
  2:49
  5.0 ★

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Release credits

• A.C. Reed
  tenor saxophone [2]
• Andrew Stephenson
  bass [19, 23], bass guitar [21, 24-25]
• Big Walter Horton
  harmonica [23]
• Bobby Little
  membranophone [2]
• Buddy Guy
  guitar [10-11]
• Clifton James
  drums (drum set) [10-11]
• Earl Hooker
  guitar [2]
• Elgin Evans
  drums (drum set) [19-20, 23]
• Ernest "Big" Crawford
  double bass [1, 4-7, 10, 15-16]
• Francis Clay
  drums (drum set) [14, 18, 23], instrument [11], membranophone [6, 19, 21, 24-25]
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [24], membranophone [1]
• J.T. Brown
  tenor saxophone [18]
• James "Pee Wee" Madison
  guitar [12-13]
• James Cotton
  harmonica [11, 19, 21, 23-25]
• Jimmy Rogers
  guitar [1.18-20, 1.23-24, 2.1, 2.6], vocal [19]
• Johnny "Big Moose" Walker
  organ [2]
• Junior Wells
  harmonica [20]
• Lafayette Leake
  piano [2]
• Leonard & Phil Chess
  producer [1]
• Leonard Chess
  bass drum [17-18]
• Little Walter
  guitar [16], harmonica [1.15, 1.17-19, 1.24, 2.1, 2.6, 2.14, 2.18], vocal [19]
• Luther Tucker
  guitar [19]
• Muddy Waters
  guitar [2.1, 2.21, 2.24-25, 3.10-11, 1.1, 1.4-7, 1.10-11, 1.15-20, 1.23-24], lead vocals [5, 20, 23], vocal [1.1, 1.4-7, 1.10-11, 1.15-19, 1.24, 3.2, 3.10-13, 2.1, 2.6, 2.11, 2.14, 2.18-19, 2.21, 2.23-25]
• Otis Spann
  piano [3.12-13, 1.23-24, 2.1, 2.6, 2.11, 2.14, 2.18-19, 2.21, 2.23-25]
• Pat Hare
  guitar [11, 14, 18-19, 21, 23-25]
• Ralph Bass
  producer [10-13]
• Ron Malo
  engineer [10-13]
• S.P. Leary
  drums (drum set) [12-13]
• Sunnyland Slim
  piano [1]
• Willie Dixon
  bass [11, 14], double bass [2.1, 2.6, 1.24, 3.2, 3.10-13], producer [10-13]
• Willie “Big Eyes” Smith
  membranophone [21, 24-25]
• [unknown]
  bass [18], membranophone [1]
• “Baby Face” Leroy Foster
  guitar [7]
• Show all credits (33)

Issues

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  The Chess Box

  3x CD
  7 November 1989