The Essential

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Good Evening Everybody
  2:35
• 2
  Don't Start Me to Talkin'
  2:34
  5.0 ★
• 3
  All My Love in Vain
  2:50
• 4
  You Killing Me
  3:30
• 5
  Let Me Explain
  2:55
• 6
  Your Imagination
  3:00
• 7
  Don't Lose Your Eye
  3:04
• 8
  Keep It to Yourself
  2:50
  5.0 ★
• 9
  The Key (To Your Door)
  2:33
• 10
  Have You Ever Been in Love
  2:55
• 11
  Fattening Frogs for Snakes
  2:22
• 12
  I Don't Know
  2:27
• 13
  Like Wolf
  2:52
• 14
  Cross My Heart
  3:23
• 15
  Ninety Nine
  2:39
• 16
  Born Blind
  2:34
• 17
  Little Village
  4:06
• 18
  Unseen Eye
  3:00
• 19
  Your Funeral and My Trial
  2:32
• 20
  Keep Your Hands Out of My Pocket
  2:50
• 21
  Unseeing Eye
  3:07
• 22
  Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide
  2:19
• 23
  The Goat
  2:44
• CD 2
• 1
  Cool Disposition
  2:43
• 2
  Santa Claus
  2:44
• 3
  Checkin' Up on My Baby
  1:58
• 4
  Temperature 110
  2:17
• 5
  Lonesome Cabin
  3:04
• 6
  Somebody Help Me
  2:19
• 7
  Down Child
  2:35
• 8
  Trust My Baby
  2:44
• 9
  Too Close Together
  2:14
• 10
  Too Young to Die
  3:01
• 11
  She's My Baby
  2:11
• 12
  Stop Right Now
  2:26
• 13
  Too Old to Think
  2:52
• 14
  One Way Out
  2:01
• 15
  Nine Below Zero
  3:44
• 16
  Help Me
  3:10
• 17
  Bye Bye Bird
  2:39
• 18
  Bring It on Home
  2:38
• 19
  Decoration Day
  3:25
• 20
  Trying to Get Back on My Feet
  2:08
• 21
  Close to Me
  3:07
• 22
  I Can't Be Alone
  3:15

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The Best of Sonny Boy Williamson

The Best of Sonny Boy Williamson 2000

Help Me

Help Me 1991

Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue 1989

One Way Out

One Way Out 1975

Down and Out Blues

Down and Out Blues 1959

Ten Songs for You

Ten Songs for You 2019

Release credits

• Al Duncan
  drums (drum set) [16-18]
• Angelo Badalamenti
  conductor [18]
• Billy “The Kid” Emerson
  organ [16-17]
• Buddy Guy
  guitar [19-22]
• Clifton James
  drums (drum set) [19-22]
• Donald Hankins
  baritone saxophone [19-20], saxophone [22]
• Eddie King
  guitar [4-6]
• Eugene Pierson
  guitar [19-20]
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [1.1-20, 1.23, 2.1-9, 2.13-15]
• Jack Myers
  bass [19-22]
• Jarett Gibson
  tenor saxophone [19-20]
• Jarrett Gibson
  saxophone [22]
• Jimmy Rogers
  guitar [1-4]
• John Neff
  mix [18], recording [18]
• Lafayette Leake
  organ [16-18], piano [1.19-20, 2.7-9, 2.19-22]
• Luther Tucker
  guitar [2.1-15, 1.5-18, 1.21-23]
• Marshall Chess
  producer [1.23, 2.3, 2.6-8, 2.10-13, 2.17-21]
• Matt Murphy
  guitar [16-18]
• Milton Rector
  bass guitar [16-18]
• Muddy Waters
  guitar [1-4]
• Odie Payne
  drums (drum set) [2.10-12, 1.21-22]
• Otis Spann
  piano [2.1-6, 2.10-15, 1.1-2, 1.5-7, 1.14-18, 1.21-23]
• Ralph Bass
  editor [1.23, 2.6, 2.11-12, 2.17, 2.19-21]
• Robert Lockwood, Jr.
  guitar [2.1-3, 2.7-15, 1.5-23]
• Ron Malo
  editor [3, 7-8, 10, 13, 18]
• Sonny Boy Williamson
  harmonica, vocal
• Willie Dixon
  double bass [2.1, 2.4-15, 1.1-23], vocal [10]
• [unknown]
  bass [2-3], organ [16, 18]
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Issues

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  The Essential

  2x CD
  8 June 1993
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  The Essential

  2x CD
  1993
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  The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson

  2x CD
  1993