1970–1987

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  Alimony
  2:55
• 2
  France Chance
  2:48
• 3
  One Meat Ball
  2:29
• 4
  Do Re Mi
  3:03
• 5
  My Old Kentucky Home
  1:48
• 6
  How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
  2:46
• 7
  Available Space
  2:14
• 8
  Pigmeat
  3:08
• 9
  Police Dog Blues
  2:46
• 10
  Goin’ to Brownsville
  3:24
• 11
  Dark Is the Night
  2:47
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  How Can You Keep Moving (Unless You Migrate Too)
  2:28
• 2
  Billy the Kid
  3:48
• 3
  Money Honey
  3:29
• 4
  F.D.R. in Trinidad
  3:05
• 5
  Teardrops Will Fall
  3:05
• 6
  Denomination Blues
  4:00
• 7
  On a Monday
  2:57
• 8
  Hey Porter
  4:42
• 9
  Great Dream From Heaven
  1:55
• 10
  Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All
  3:56
• 11
  Vigilante Man
  4:15
• Digital Media 3
• 1
  Boomer’s Story
  4:15
• 2
  Cherry Ball Blues
  4:13
• 3
  Crow Black Chicken
  2:20
• 4
  Ax Sweet Mama
  4:27
• 5
  Maria Elena
  4:32
• 6
  Dark End of the Street
  3:27
• 7
  Rally ’Round the Flag
  3:39
• 8
  Comin’ In on a Wing and a Prayer
  3:03
• 9
  President Kennedy
  4:38
• 10
  Good Morning Mr. Railroad Man
  4:31
• Digital Media 4
• 1
  Tamp ’Em Up Solid
  3:22
• 2
  Tattler
  4:19
• 3
  Married Man’s a Fool
  3:14
• 4
  Jesus on the Mainline
  4:10
• 5
  It’s All Over Now
  4:53
• 6
  Medley: Fool for a Cigarette / Feelin Good
  4:28
• 7
  If Walls Could Talk
  3:15
• 8
  Mexican Divorce
  3:57
• 9
  Ditty Wah Ditty
  5:42
• Digital Media 5
• 1
  The Bourgeois Blues
  3:24
• 2
  I Got Mine
  4:28
• 3
  Always Lift Him Up / Kanaka Wai Wai
  6:03
• 4
  He’ll Have to Go
  5:09
• 5
  Smack Dab in the Middle
  3:19
• 6
  Stand by Me
  3:43
• 7
  Yellow Roses
  6:12
• 8
  Chloe
  3:04
• 9
  Goodnight Irene
  4:32
• Digital Media 6
• 1
  School Is Out
  2:41
• 2
  Alimony
  4:51
• 3
  Jesus on the Mainline
  5:19
• 4
  The Dark End of the Street
  6:31
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Viva Seguin / Do Re Mi
  5:27
• 6
  Volver, Volver
  3:59
• 7
  How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live
  6:33
• 8
  Smack Dab in the Middle
  8:01
• Digital Media 7
• 1
  Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now
  3:36
• 2
  Face to Face That I Shall Meet Him
  3:21
• 3
  The Pearls / Tia Juana
  4:21
• 4
  The Dream
  5:06
• 5
  Happy Meeting in Glory
  3:16
• 6
  In a Mist
  2:09
• 7
  Flashes
  2:19
• 8
  Davenport Blues
  2:05
• 9
  Shine
  3:45
• 10
  Nobody
  5:12
• 11
  We Shall Be Happy
  3:13
• Digital Media 8
• 1
  Little Sister
  3:52
• 2
  Go Home, Girl
  5:14
• 3
  The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)
  5:32
• 4
  I Think It’s Going to Work Out Fine
  4:44
• 5
  Down in Hollywood
  4:19
• 6
  Look at Granny Run Run
  3:12
• 7
  Trouble, You Can’t Fool Me
  4:57
• 8
  Don’t Mess Up a Good Thing
  4:06
• 9
  I Can’t Win
  4:14
• Digital Media 9
• 1
  634-5789
  3:01
• 2
  Speedo
  3:23
• 3
  Why Don’t You Try Me
  4:58
• 4
  Down in the Boondocks
  3:24
• 5
  Johnny Porter
  5:22
• 6
  The Way We Make a Broken Heart
  4:32
• 7
  Crazy ’Bout an Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
  5:07
• 8
  The Girls From Texas
  4:44
• 9
  Borderline
  3:23
• 10
  Never Make Your Move Too Soon
  6:08
• Digital Media 10
• 1
  UFO Has Landed in the Ghetto
  5:02
• 2
  I Need a Woman
  4:37
• 3
  Gypsy Woman
  4:04
• 4
  Blue Suede Shoes
  5:21
• 5
  Mama, Don’t Treat Your Daughter Mean
  5:59
• 6
  I’m Drinking Again
  4:38
• 7
  Which Came First
  3:46
• 8
  That’s the Way Love Turned Out for Me
  5:47
• Digital Media 11
• 1
  Get Rhythm
  3:17
• 2
  Low–Commotion
  3:09
• 3
  Going Back to Okinawa
  4:42
• 4
  13 Question Method
  3:39
• 5
  Women Will Rule the World
  5:51
• 6
  All Shook Up
  3:30
  5.0 ★
• 7
  I Can Tell by the Way You Smell
  4:33
• 8
  Across the Borderline
  6:17
• 9
  Let’s Have a Ball
  5:50

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Release credits

• Barbara Starkey
  reed organ [2, 5, 11]
• Benny Powell
  trombone [2]
• Bill Hood
  bass saxophone [1]
• Bill Johnson
  arranger [9-10], background vocals [9-10]
• Bobby King
  background vocals [2, 6-7], vocal [8.5, 8.9, 5.3-6]
• Buell Neidlinger
  bass guitar [2, 6, 8]
• Chaka Khan
  vocal [5, 8]
• Chris Ethridge
  bass [2-3, 5-6]
• Chuck Domanico
  bass [4]
• Cliff Givens
  background vocals [9-10], vocal [5]
• David Lindley
  banjolin [2], guitar [2, 4-8], mandolin [5, 11]
• David Sherr
  bass clarinet [6, 8-9], clarinet [9]
• Earl Hines
  piano [7.4, 4.9]
• Flaco Jiménez
  accordion [4, 6, 9]
• Frank Villarreal
  alto saxophone [9]
• Fred Jackson Jr.
  tenor saxophone [2]
• Gabby Pahinui
  steel guitar [7-8], vocal [7]
• George Bohanon
  baritone horn [7.2, 5.2], horn [2], trombone [5, 11]
• George McFadden
  background vocals [7]
• Harry Dean Stanton
  guest [8]
• Harvey Pittel
  alto saxophone [1, 6, 8-9], clarinet [9]
• Henry "Big Red" Ojeda
  bass [9]
• Herman Johnson
  background vocals [9], vocal [3, 6]
• Hugo Gonzales
  bass guitar [9]
• Isaac Garcia
  drums (drum set) [9]
• Jerry Masters
  engineer [1-10]
• Jim Dickinson
  producer [2.1-11, 3.1-10]
• Jim Keltner
  drums (drum set) [8.2, 8.4-9, 5.2-5]
• Jimmy Adams
  background vocals [7.9-10, 8.7]
• John Fry
  engineer [1-10]
• John Rodby
  piano [1, 9]
• Joseph Byrd
  arranger [1-11], co [1-11], conductor [1-11]
• Larry Blackmon
  guest [6]
• Lee Herschberg
  engineer [1-10], mix [9.2, 9.4-6, 9.8-10, 7.1-11, 5.1-9], recording [2, 4-6, 8-10]
• Leland “Atta” Isaacs
  Hawaiian guitar [7], acoustic guitar [8]
• Lenny Waronker
  producer [2.1-11, 3.1-10]
• Mario Guarneri
  cornet [1]
• Mark Stevens
  membranophone [1-2, 4-5, 9, 11]
• Milt Holland
  drums (drum set) [7-8], percussion [8.2, 8.4-5, 8.7-8, 5.2-6]
• Oscar Brashear
  cornet [5.2, 7.2, 7.5, 7.11]
• Pat Rizzo
  alto saxophone [1]
• Randy Aldcroft
  trombone [1]
• Randy Lorenzo
  background vocals [2]
• Randy Newman
  piano [7]
• Red Callender
  double bass [4, 7-8], tuba [2, 5, 11]
• Rev. Patrick Henderson
  organ [2]
• Richard Roseborough
  engineer [1-10]
• Ronnie Barron
  guitar [8], organ [5, 9]
• Russ Titelman
  bajo sexto [6]
• Ry Cooder
  Hawaiian guitar [3, 7-8], accordion [1], arranger [1-9], background vocals [9], bass guitar [1, 4], co [1-11], electric guitar [2-6], guitar [5.1, 5.5, 8.2, 8.4-9, 7.1-11], mandola [1-2], mandolin [8.6, 5.5, 5.8, 7.3], producer [11.6, 9.2, 9.4-6, 9.8-10, 5.1-9], tiple [5.3, 5.7, 7.3], vocal [5.1-4, 5.6, 8.2, 8.5-8, 7.1, 7.9-10]
• Simon Pico Payne
  background vocals [9-10]
• Sleepy John Estes
  guitar [9], vocal [9]
• Stuart Brotman
  cimbalom [2, 5, 11]
• Terry Evans
  vocal [3, 5-6]
• Tim Drummond
  bass [2, 4-9]
• Tom Collier
  marimba [4], vibraphone [6, 8-9]
• Tom Pedrini
  bass [6, 8]
• Wilbur Schwartz
  clarinet [9]
• Show all credits (58)

Issues

• 

  1
  (Combined release view)
• 

  1
  1970–1987

  11x Digital Media
  9 December 2013
• 

  1
  1970–1987

  11x CD
  2013