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Lowell Fulson - The Complete Chess Masters (50th Anniversary Collection)

Track listing:
Volume 1
  1. Reconsider Baby 3:12
  2. I Believe I'll Give It Up 3:03
  3. Lonely Hours 2:51
  4. Check Yourself 3:04
  5. Loving You 3:02
  6. Do Me Right 2:56
  7. Lonely Hours 2:52
  8. Check Yourself 3:08
  9. Trouble, Trouble 2:55
  10. I Still Love You Baby 2:35
  11. It's A Long Time 2:48
  12. Rollin' Blues (Instrumental) 2:51
  13. It's All Your Fault Baby (It's Your Own Fault) 2:40
  14. Tollin' Bells 3:09
  15. Smokey Room 2:34
  16. It Took A Long Time 2:38
  17. Blues Rhumba 2:08
  18. Be On Your Merry Way 2:38
  19. Please Don't Go 2:38
  20. Don't Drive Me Baby 2:42
  21. You're Gonna Miss Me 3:07
  22. Rock 'em Dead 2:27
Volume 2
  1. I Wanna Make Love To You 3:17
  2. You Better Rock This Moring 1:49
  3. That's All Right 2:40
  4. Worry, Worry 3:09
  5. Coming Home 2:25
  6. Have You Changed Your Mind 3:08
  7. K.C. Bound 2:20
  8. I'm Glad You Reconsidered 2:50
  9. Low Society 2:34
  10. Blue Shadows 2:29
  11. I Want To Know, Parts 1&2 4:32
  12. So Many Tears 2:29
  13. Why Don't You Write Me 2:35
  14. Hung Down Head 2:59
  15. Pay Day Blues 2:56
  16. Shed No Tears 2:15
  17. Can She (Do It) 1:50
  18. Trouble With The Blues 2:43
  19. Love Grows Cold 2:03
  20. Blue Soul 3:01
  21. Love N Things 2:13
  22. Father Time 3:04
  23. Swinging Party 2:48

Notes

Sep 27, 1954 - Nov 1963

Two-CD, 45-song compilation covers Fulson's Chess years, which spanned 1954 to 1963. Fulson didn't have a great deal of commercial success at Chess (the big exception being "Reconsider Baby," which leads off this set), and his jazzy West Coast form of R&B/blues was considerably more polished than the electrified Delta blues for which Chess is most renowned. Most of this, in fact, was recorded not in Chicago, but in Los Angeles, where Fulson could work with combos more sympathetic to his style. You'd have to consider this Fulson's peak, however, and the two discs' worth of material is not excessive, due to the consistency of his material and vocal confidence throughout the decade. It's not without its weird moments of rawness, either, as in "Blues Rhumba," the Bo Diddleyesque guitar that opens "Please Don't Go," Willie Dixon's classic dirge moaning blues "Tollin' Bells," and the (deliberately?) out of tune guitar licks that open "K.C. Bound" with a bang. "Smokey Room" and "Be on Your Merry Way" were previously unreleased in the U.S.; "Father Time" and the alternate takes of "Lonely Hours" and "Check Yourself" were previously unreleased anywhere.