- Bad, Bad Whiskey Amos Milburn 2:59
- Little Joe's Boogie Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers 2:53
- Telephone Blues Floyd Dixon 3:17
- Rockin' With Red Piano Red 2:31
- Lemonade Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5 3:18
- I Will Wait Four Buddies 2:23
- Rockin' Blues Johnny Otis Orchestra 2:53
- Little Red Rooster Green Brothers Marimba Orchestra 3:06
- Black Night Charles Brown And Band 3:08
- I'm Waiting Just For You Lucky Millinder 2:40
- Rocket '88' Jackie Brenston 2:52
- Long Distance Call Muddy Waters 2:42
- Sixty Minute Man The Dominoes 2:32
- Tend To Your Business James Wayne 2:34
- Chains Of Love Joe Turner 3:24
- Chica Boo Lloyd Glenn 2:24
- Go! Go! Go! The Treniers 2:25
- The Glory Of Love The Five Keys 3:10
- I Got Loaded Maxwell Davis 2:30
- Castle Rock Al Sears 2:52
- Eyesight To The Blind The Larks 2:55
- Bloodshot Eyes Wynonie Harris 2:44
- 't' 99 Blues Jimmy Nelson 3:09
- Walkin' The Chalk Line Tiny Bradshaw 2:43
- I'm In The Mood John Lee Hooker 3:09
- Fool, Fool, Fool The Clovers 2:35
- Flamingo Earl Bostic & His Orchestra 2:43
- How Many More Years Howlin' Wolf 2:41
Notes
The Blowing the Fuse series from Germany's Bear Family imprint is one of the more welcome and seriously assembled collections ever to be issued on CD. With each volume dedicated to a year, they go deep into the ghost stories of R&B to find the tunes that connected, not necessarily with sales (though many of these tunes also accomplished that), but in a primary spot nonetheless: the long-gone centerpiece of American popular music in the '40s, '50s, and '60s: the jukebox. Each week, men with loads of 45 rpm slabs of vinyl would extract the dead dogs and fill the box with new tracks that could be played for pennies on the dollar to anyone entering a soda shop, a bar or a nightspot where alcohol was served and imbibed cheaply; a dimestore's lunch counter, or breakfast and lunch haunts all over the nation