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| 1. Gypsy Woman | |||
| 2. Good Looking Woman | |||
| 3. Mean Disposition | |||
| 4. I Can't Be Satisfied | |||
| 5. I Feel Like Going Home | |||
| 6. Train Fare Home Blues | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. I Just Want To Make Love To You | |||
| 2. I'm Ready | |||
| 3. Smokestack Lightnin' | |||
| 4. Young Fashioned Ways | |||
| 5. Mannish Boy | |||
| 6. Trouble No More | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. I Feel So Good (Live) | |||
| 2. You Shook Me | |||
| 3. You Need Love | |||
| 4. Twenty Four Hours | |||
| 5. Elevate Me Mama (Alt. Take) | |||
| 6. So Glad I'm Living | |||
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For the completist, this three-CD, 72-song box remains the definitive collection of one of the leading lights of Chicago blues. The collection spans 25 years, beginning with rare early recordings with pianist Sunnyland Slim and moving through Waters's peak '50s period, which offered the legendary support of Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and Otis Spann. Luminaries including Pat Hare, James Cotton, Earl Hooker, Buddy Guy, and Pinetop Perkins all make valuable contributions to his '60s work. Along with his original hits and his noteworthy Willie Dixon interpretations, Chess wisely includes his lesser-known covers of Big Bill Broonzy, Howlin' Wolf, Guitar Slim, Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, and Sonny Boy Williamson. --Marc Greilsamer
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1-Gypsy Woman 2-Good Looking Woman 3-Mean Disposition 4-I Can't Be Satisfied 5-I Feel Like Going Home 6-Train Fare Home Blues 7-Mean Red Spider 8-Streamline Woman 9-Little Geneva 10-Rollin' And Tumblin' Part 1 11-Rolling Stone 12-Walkin' Blues 13-Louisiana Blues 14-Evans Shuffle 15-Long Distance Call 16-Honey Bee 17-She Moves Me Still A Fool 18-Stuff You Gotta Watch 19-Standing Around Crying 20-Flood 21-Baby Please Don't Go 22-Blow Wind Blow 23-Hoochie Coochie Man 24-I Just Want To Make Love To You 25-I'm Ready 26-Smokestack Lightnin' 27-Young Fashioned Ways 28-Mannish Boy 29-Trouble No More 30-Forty Days And Forty Nights 31-Just To Be With You 32-Don't Go No Farther 33-Diamonds At Your Feet 34-I Love The Life I Live, I Live The Life I Lov 35-Rock Me 36-Look What You Done 37-Got My Mojo Working 38-Good News 39-Evil 40-She's Nineteen Years Old 41-Close To You 42-Walkin' Thru The Park 43-Blues Before Sunrise 44-Lonesome Road Blues 45-Take The Bitter With The Sweet 46-She's Into Something 47-Southbound Train 48-Double Trouble 49-I Feel So Good 50-You Shook Me 51-You Need Love 52-Twenty Four Hours 53-Elevate Me Mama 54-So Glad I'm Living 55-My Love Strikes Like Lightning 56-You Don't Have To Go 57-Things That I Used To Do 58-My Home Is In The Delta 59-Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 60-The Same Thing 61-You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had 62-Short Dress Woman 63-Making Friends 64-Black Night 65-Bird Nest On The Ground 66-Country Boy 67-Sugar Sweet 68-All Aboard 69-Going Down Slow 70-Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone 71-Can't Get No Grindin' (1947-72 'Chess')(216:01/72) Einige unveröffentlichte Aufnahmen in dieser exklusiven, LP-formatigen Box mit Booklet! / A few unreleased songs and takes, comes in LP-sized box w/ nice booklet.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Slightly more casual fans will probably be better served by MCA/Chess's much cheaper (but very good) two-disc compilation "The Anthology: 1947-1972". But if you're looking for the best and currently most thorough available overview of Muddy's recordings for Aristocrat and Chess, this is it.
It is not the final word on Muddy Waters - his excellent latter-day recordings with Johnny Winter as producer aren't here, and you'll need some of his live stuff as well - but these 72 tracks do include the vast majority of his best songs from 1947 and twenty-five years on.
Disc one spans 1947-1954, and most of the 24 tracks feature just Muddy Waters on slide guitar and bassist Ernest "Big" Crawford backing him, although the great Sunnyland Slim rolls the ivories on a few songs, like the delightful 1947 single "Gypsy Woman".
Muddy's arsenal of slide guitar riffs may seem limited, but his playing on the 1948 hit "I Can't Be Satisfied" and the mellow "Train Fare Home" is really great, demonstrating what a fine guitarist he actually was.
Percussion doesn't show up until two-thirds of the way through the disc, when the "classic" Muddy Waters band begins to take shape: Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on second guitar, drummer Elgin Evans, and Otis Spann playing the piano.
Along with the songs already mentioned, the lean, mean "I Feel Like Going Home" and "Rollin' And Tumblin'" are among the highlights on disc 1, which ends with the tough, swinging "Blow Wind Blow" and the classic "Hoochie Coochie Man". Big Walter Horton plays superb harmonica on "Blow Wind Blow".
Disc 2 includes the majority of Muddy's classic 50s singles, from "I'm Ready" and the thumping "I Just Want To Make Love To You" to "Got My Mojo Working", the Bo Diddley-ripoff "Mannish Boy", and the superbly swinging "I Love The Life I Live, I Live The Life I Love". Harpist James Cotton appears for the first time on "I Love The Life I Live", blowing a truly inspired harmonica riff.
And there are several lesser-known songs here as well, including previously unreleased takes and singles which make their LP/CD debut on this album. Most of them are good, although not quite great, with the exception of a very fine rendition of Jimmy Oden's "Take The Bitter With The Sweet".
Disc 3 covers 1960-1972, and includes a few live recordings, as well as two alternates from the sublime "Fathers And Sons" sessions. Opening with the great live "I Feel So Good" from the Newport album, it is highlighted by Muddy's version of Eddie Boyd's "Twenty-Four Hours", the mid-60s hit singles "The Same Thing" and "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had", and a hornless version of "Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone", one of the few good cuts from the otherwise forgettable "London Sessions" album.
There is nothing here from the misguided and completely superflous "Electric Mud", or from Muddy's last Chess-effort, "The Woodstock Album", but that detracts little or nothing from the greatness of this compilation, the finest overview of Muddy Waters' Chess sides available. This is essential Chicago blues.
It is not the final word on Muddy Waters - his excellent latter-day recordings with Johnny Winter as producer aren't here, and you'll need some of his live stuff as well - but these 72 tracks do include the vast majority of his best songs from 1947 and twenty-five years on.
Disc one spans 1947-1954, and most of the 24 tracks feature just Muddy Waters on slide guitar and bassist Ernest "Big" Crawford backing him, although the great Sunnyland Slim rolls the ivories on a few songs, like the delightful 1947 single "Gypsy Woman".
Muddy's arsenal of slide guitar riffs may seem limited, but his playing on the 1948 hit "I Can't Be Satisfied" and the mellow "Train Fare Home" is really great, demonstrating what a fine guitarist he actually was.
Percussion doesn't show up until two-thirds of the way through the disc, when the "classic" Muddy Waters band begins to take shape: Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on second guitar, drummer Elgin Evans, and Otis Spann playing the piano.
Along with the songs already mentioned, the lean, mean "I Feel Like Going Home" and "Rollin' And Tumblin'" are among the highlights on disc 1, which ends with the tough, swinging "Blow Wind Blow" and the classic "Hoochie Coochie Man". Big Walter Horton plays superb harmonica on "Blow Wind Blow".
Disc 2 includes the majority of Muddy's classic 50s singles, from "I'm Ready" and the thumping "I Just Want To Make Love To You" to "Got My Mojo Working", the Bo Diddley-ripoff "Mannish Boy", and the superbly swinging "I Love The Life I Live, I Live The Life I Love". Harpist James Cotton appears for the first time on "I Love The Life I Live", blowing a truly inspired harmonica riff.
And there are several lesser-known songs here as well, including previously unreleased takes and singles which make their LP/CD debut on this album. Most of them are good, although not quite great, with the exception of a very fine rendition of Jimmy Oden's "Take The Bitter With The Sweet".
Disc 3 covers 1960-1972, and includes a few live recordings, as well as two alternates from the sublime "Fathers And Sons" sessions. Opening with the great live "I Feel So Good" from the Newport album, it is highlighted by Muddy's version of Eddie Boyd's "Twenty-Four Hours", the mid-60s hit singles "The Same Thing" and "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had", and a hornless version of "Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone", one of the few good cuts from the otherwise forgettable "London Sessions" album.
There is nothing here from the misguided and completely superflous "Electric Mud", or from Muddy's last Chess-effort, "The Woodstock Album", but that detracts little or nothing from the greatness of this compilation, the finest overview of Muddy Waters' Chess sides available. This is essential Chicago blues.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
There is a plethora of CDs with titles along the lines of "The Essential ..." where the artist in question hasn't recorded anything essential in their entire career. McKinley Morganfield is a whole different kettle of fish. There's a reason The Rolling Stones named themselves after one of his songs, and a reason David Bowie named his first group (The Mannish Boys) after another. Muddy Waters is quite simply one of the most important figures in the history of the blues.
If you don't have any Muddy Waters in your collection, shame on you. Do your ears a favour and get yourself a copy of this superb chronological 3CD set. It's as good an introduction to some of the finest electric blues ever recorded as you could wish for: a mere glance down the track list would have any blues afficionado salivating in anticipation.
Essential? You bet!
[Note: if you already own the Proper 4CD set "King of Chicago Blues", all but one of the tracks on the first disc of "The Chess Box" is also included there.]
If you don't have any Muddy Waters in your collection, shame on you. Do your ears a favour and get yourself a copy of this superb chronological 3CD set. It's as good an introduction to some of the finest electric blues ever recorded as you could wish for: a mere glance down the track list would have any blues afficionado salivating in anticipation.
Essential? You bet!
[Note: if you already own the Proper 4CD set "King of Chicago Blues", all but one of the tracks on the first disc of "The Chess Box" is also included there.]
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I've been listening to Muddy Waters for many years, picking up albums and CDs here and there, but never really feeling I'd got the best selection, the best takes of particular songs. Having at last bought this Chess box set, it's just mesmerising to listen to these tracks. Still not completely comprehensive, but the sound quality's so clear, the musicianship often exquisite - it's as if you're in the studio with them. And then of course there's Muddy's voice - for me the total definition of the blues. A joy to listen to! No household should be without it.
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