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Jimmy Rogers - The Complete Chess Recordings (1959)

Track listing:
CD1
  1. That's All Right 2:45
  2. Luedella 2:49
  3. Goin' Away Baby 2:41
  4. Today, Today Blues 3:06
  5. I Used To Have A Woman 3:05
  6. The World's In A Tangle 2:54
  7. She Love Another Man 2:50
  8. Money, Marbles and Chalk 3:15
  9. Hard Working Man 3:16
  10. Chance To Love 3:17
  11. My Little Machine 3:07
  12. Back Door Friend 3:08
  13. Crying Shame 2:45
  14. Mistreated Baby 3:26
  15. The Last Time 2:41
  16. What's The Matter? 3:12
  17. Out On The Road 2:50
  18. Left Me With A Broken Heart 2:53
  19. Act Like You Love Me 2:58
  20. Blues All Day Long (Blues Leav 3:00
  21. Chicago Bound 3:01
  22. Sloppy Drunk 2:38
  23. You're The One (First Version) 2:32
  24. You're The One 2:28
  25. If It Ain't Me (Who Are You Th 2:02
CD2
  1. Walking By Myself 2:45
  2. I Can't Believe 2:42
  3. One Kiss 2:41
  4. What Have I Done 2:38
  5. My Baby Don't Love Me No More 2:17
  6. Trace Of You 2:28
  7. Don't You Know My Baby 2:28
  8. Don't Turn Me Down 2:13
  9. Looka Here 2:46
  10. This Has Never Been 4:26
  11. Rock This House 2:47
  12. My Last Meal 3:04
  13. You Don't Know 2:40
  14. Can't Keep From Worrying 2:27
  15. Luedella (Alternate) 2:40
  16. Act Like You Love Me (Alternat 2:55
  17. What Have I Done (Alternate) 2:21
  18. My Baby Don't Love Me No More 2:12
  19. Trace Of You (Alternate) 2:32
  20. Don't You Know My Baby (Altern 2:24
  21. Don't Turn Me Down (Alternate) 2:13
  22. This Has Never Been (Alternate 3:26
  23. Rock This House (Alternate) 2:50
  24. My Last Meal (Alternate) 2:21
  25. You don't Know (Alternate) 1:41
  26. Can't Keep From Worrying (Alte 2:28

Notes

While the 1976 issue of Chicago Bound, the first collection of Jimmy Rogers' Chess material has been rightly hailed as a definitive cornerstone in absorbing the history of early Chicago blues; sadly, that vinyl album has been out of print for a number of years with virtually nothing in the catalog to take its place. Until now. This two-CD (in a single-disc package) anthology collects up everything that appeared on Chicago Bound, a number of notable cuts from a two-vinyl-disc anthology that was barely released in the late 1970s, and no less than ten unreleased alternate takes from a variety of sessions with one of them, "Luedella," emanating from his first solo session in 1950. The singing, playing, and songwriting is virtually a textbook for the early Chicago style, as the players involved include Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Otis Spann, Willie Dixon, and Big Walter Horton, with all but Horton and Dixon regular mainstays of Muddy's original band, the blueprint of the early electric band sound. While some novices will find a two-disc set perhaps more than they want to pop for, this is as good as '50s Chicago blues gets, and no collection should really be without this one.