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Sonny Boy Williamson II - The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson

Track listing:
Volume 1
  1. Good Evening Everybody 2:35
  2. Don't Start Me To Talkin' 2:34
  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
  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 2:31
  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
Volume 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 2:36
  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 2:02
  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

Notes

Two-disc compilation offering 45 of the wizened harmonica genius' best efforts for the Chess brothers, this is the best domestic Williamson package you'll find. Not everything you might want, but pretty close to it: "Don't Start Me to Talkin'," "Let Me Explain," "The Key (To Your Door)" (an alternate take), "Bring It on Home," "Help Me," "One Way Out," "Your Funeral and My Trial," and plenty more. With Robert Jr. Lockwood and Luther Tucker peeling off sizzling guitar riffs behind him, Williamson always had a trick or two up his sleeve until the end.