The Chess Years - Sonny Boy Williamson

The Chess Years

Compilation by Sonny Boy Williamson

Released 1991

Tracklist

CD 1
1
Work With Me
2:53
2
Don’t Start Me Talking
2:35
5.0 ★
3
All My Love in Vain
2:50
4
Good Evening Everybody
2:35
5
You Killing Me (On My Feet)
3:24
6
Let Me Explain
2:55
7
I Know What Love Is All About
2:40
8
I Wonder Why
1:32
9
Your Imagination
3:01
10
Don’t Lose Your Eye
3:03
11
Keep It to Yourself
2:50
5.0 ★
12
Please Forgive
2:51
13
The Key (To Your Door)
3:16
14
Have You Ever Been in Love
2:54
15
Hurts Me So Much
2:38
16
Fattening Frogs for Snakes
2:22
17
I Don’t Know
2:26
18
Like Wolf
2:50
19
This Is My Apartment
2:38
20
Cross My Heart
3:23
21
Born Blind
2:33
22
Ninety Nine
2:39
23
Dissatisfied
2:43
24
Unseen Eye
2:57
CD 2
1
Your Funeral and My Trial
2:30
2
She Got Next to Me
2:34
3
Wake Up Baby
2:57
4
Keep Your Hand Out of My Pocket
2:49
5
Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide
2:19
6
Unseeing Eye
3:07
7
The Goat
2:45
8
Cool Disposition
2:43
9
I Never Do Wrong
2:55
10
It’s Sad to Be Alone
2:55
11
Open Road
2:54
12
Santa Claus
2:44
13
I Can’t Do Without You
2:48
14
Checkin’ Up on My Baby
1:56
15
Temperature 110
2:17
16
Peach Tree
2:32
17
Lonesome Cabin
3:04
18
Somebody Help Me
2:19
19
Down Child
2:33
20
Trust Me Baby
2:44
21
This Old Life
2:36
22
Too Close Together
2:13
23
Too Young to Die
2:54
24
She’s My Baby
2:08
CD 3
1
Stop Right Now
2:26
2
The Hunt
2:46
3
Too Old to Think
2:50
4
That’s All I Want
2:16
5
One Way Out
2:01
6
Nine Below Zero
3:29
7
Got to Move
2:27
8
Bye Bye Bird
2:37
9
Help Me
3:10
10
Bring It on Home
2:35
11
One Way Out 2
2:27
12
My Younger Days
3:20
13
Tryin’ to Get Back on My Feet
2:06
14
Decoration Day
3:25
15
Stop Cryin’
2:32
16
I Want You Close to Me
2:59
17
One Way Out 3
2:45
18
I Can’t Be Alone
3:17
19
Don’t Make a Mistake
3:32
20
Understand My Life
2:25
21
Find Another Woman
4:34
22
My Name Is Sonny Boy
4:48
CD 4
1
The Key (To Your Door) 2
2:35
2
Hurts Me So Much
2:50
3
Cool Disposition 2
2:51
4
Dissatsified
2:59
5
Cross My Heart
2:57
6
99
4:08
7
She Got Next to Me
2:32
8
Fattening Frogs for Snakes 2
2:59
9
Nine Below Zero 2 or 3?
4:16
10
Your Funeral and My Trial 2
2:17
11
Cool Disposition 2
3:13
12
The Goat 2
2:44
13
Ninety Nine 2
3:01
14
Cross My Heart 2
2:21
15
Hurts Me So Much
2:43
16
Nine Below Zero 4
3:31
17
Your Funeral and My Trial 3
2:07
18
Checkin’ Up on My Baby 2
2:35
19
Little Village
12:01

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Release credits

Al Duncan
drums (drum set) [8-10], membranophone [7]
Angelo Badalamenti
conductor [10]
Billy “The Kid” Emerson
organ [7-9]
Buddy Guy
guitar [12-14, 18]
Clifton James
drums (drum set) [12-14, 18]
Donald Hankins
baritone saxophone [12-14], saxophone [18]
Eddie King
guitar [15-18]
Eugene Pierson
guitar [1, 3-4]
Fred Below
drums (drum set) [3.3, 3.5-6, 2.1, 2.4, 2.7-8, 2.12, 2.14-15, 2.17-20, 2.22, 1.2-4, 1.6, 1.9-11, 1.14, 1.17-18, 1.20-24], membranophone [2.16, 3.4]
Jack Myers
bass [12-14, 18]
Jarett Gibson
tenor saxophone [12-14]
Jarrett Gibson
saxophone [18]
Jimmy Rogers
guitar [2-4]
John Neff
mix [10], recording [10]
Lafayette Leake
organ [7-10], piano [2.1, 2.3-4, 2.19-20, 2.22, 3.4, 3.6, 3.12-14, 3.18]
Luther Tucker
guitar [1.6, 1.9-11, 1.14, 1.17-18, 1.20-24, 2.5-8, 2.12, 2.14-20, 2.22-24, 3.1-6]
Marshall Chess
producer [1.23, 2.7, 2.14, 2.16, 2.18-20, 2.23-24, 3.1-4, 3.6-8, 3.10, 3.12-14]
Matt Murphy
guitar [7-10]
Milton Rector
bass [7], bass guitar [8-10]
Muddy Waters
guitar [2-4]
Odie Payne
drums (drum set) [2.5-6, 2.23-24, 3.1-2]
Otis Spann
piano [2.5-8, 2.12, 2.14-18, 2.23-24, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.9-10, 1.20-24, 3.1-3, 3.5-6]
Ralph Bass
editor [3.1-2, 3.6, 3.8, 3.12-14, 2.7, 2.18, 2.24]
Robert Lockwood, Jr.
guitar [3.1-6, 1.6, 1.9-11, 1.14, 1.17-18, 1.20-24, 2.1, 2.4-8, 2.12, 2.14, 2.19-20, 2.22-24]
Ron Malo
editor [1.23, 3.3-4, 3.7, 3.10, 2.14, 2.16, 2.19-20, 2.23]
Sonny Boy Williamson
harmonica [3.1-10, 3.12-14, 3.18, 1.2-4, 1.6, 1.9-11, 1.14, 1.17-18, 1.20-24, 2.1, 2.4-8, 2.12, 2.14-20, 2.22-24], vocal [2.1, 2.4-8, 2.12, 2.14-20, 2.22-24, 3.1-10, 3.12-14, 3.18, 1.2-4, 1.6, 1.9-11, 1.14, 1.17-18, 1.20-24]
Willie Dixon
bass [1.23, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6], double bass [3.1, 3.3, 3.5, 1.2-4, 1.6, 1.9-11, 1.14, 1.17-18, 1.20-22, 1.24, 2.1, 2.4-8, 2.15, 2.17-20, 2.22-24], vocal [3.2, 2.23]
[unknown]
bass [12, 14], organ [9-10]

Issues

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The Chess Years
4x CD
1991