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Various Artists - by artist (1992)

Track listing:
  1. Calling On My Darling Albert King 3:07
  2. Remember Alberta Adams 2:55
  3. Bilbo Is Dead Andrew Tibbs 2:58
  4. Mr. Commissioner (alternate) Arbee Stidham 3:15
  5. My Head Can't Rest Anymore Baby Face Leroy 3:14
  6. You Got to Love Me Billy Boy Arnold 3:06
  7. First Time I Met The Blues Buddy Guy 2:23
  8. Keep It To Myself Buddy Guy 2:34
  9. Lollypop Mama Clarence Samuels 2:50
  10. Too Poor Detroit Jr. 2:18
  11. Dr. Ross' Boogie Dr. Isaiah Ross 2:40
  12. Come on Home Eddie Boyd 2:40
  13. Hard Time Gettin' Started Eddie Boyd 2:33
  14. Jinglin' Baby Eddie Burns 2:09
  15. 24 hours eddit boyd and his chessmen 3:30
  16. The Sun Is Shining (Alternate) Elmore James 2:45
  17. Whose Muddy Shoes Elmore James 3:21
  18. I'd Rather Go Blind Etta James 2:36
  19. Something's Got A Hold On Me Etta James 2:51
  20. Please Don't Go Floyd Dixon 3:32
  21. Memory of Sonny Boy Forest City Joe 3:19
  22. Tonky Boogie Forrest Sykes 3:11
  23. Eight Ball Gus Jenkins 3:14
  24. Untitled Instrumental Henry Gray & Morris Pejoe 2:23
  25. I Declare That Ain't Right Henry Gray 3:09
  26. Sitting Here Alone Hound Dog Taylor 3:48
  27. Break of Day Howlin' Wolf 2:48
  28. Evil Howlin' Wolf 2:57
  29. Forty Four Howlin' Wolf 2:51
  30. Gettin' Old and Grey Howlin' Wolf 2:40
  31. Goin' Down Slow Howlin' Wolf 4:09
  32. Killing Floor Howlin' Wolf 2:53
  33. Moanin' at Midnight Howlin' Wolf 2:58
  34. Sitting on Top of the World Howlin' Wolf 2:35
  35. Smokestack Lightning Howlin' Wolf 2:27
  36. The Red Rooster Howlin' Wolf 2:29
  37. eisenhower blues j b lenoir 2:22
  38. Mama Talk to Your Daughter J. B. Lenoir 2:22
  39. She Don't Know J. B. Lenoir 2:23
  40. Walking by Myself Jimmy Rogers 2:50
  41. Luedella Jimmy Rogers 2:55
  42. Ain't Nobody's Business Jimmy Witherspoon 2:44
  43. Ice Cream Man John Brim 2:49
  44. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer John Lee Hooker 3:03
  45. Walkin' the Boogie (alternate) John Lee Hooker 2:37
  46. Joliet Blues Johnny Shines 2:42
  47. Wang Dang Doodle Koko Taylor 3:05
  48. What Kind Of Man Is That? Koko Taylor 3:08
  49. Slow Leake Lafayette Leake 3:04
  50. Cryin' the Blues Laura Rucker 2:43
  51. Dirty Work Goin' On Little Joe Blue 2:50
  52. Big Town Playboy Little Johnny Jones 2:57
  53. Satisfied Little Milton 2:19
  54. stormy monday little milton 4:27
  55. We're Gonna Make It Little Milton 2:43
  56. Mellow Down Easy Little Walter 2:45
  57. My Babe Little Walter 2:42
  58. Blues with a Feeling Little Walter 3:09
  59. boom boom (out go the lights) little walter 2:52
  60. Don't Need No Horse Little Walter 3:18
  61. Fast Boogie Little Walter 2:49
  62. Got to Find My Baby (alternate) Little Walter 3:10
  63. Juke Little Walter 2:49
  64. Key to the Highway Little Walter 2:50
  65. The Shakedown Lloyd Glenn 2:31
  66. Blue Shadows Lowell Fulson 2:29
  67. Reconsider Baby Lowell Fulson 3:13
  68. Broken Heart (alternate) Memphis Minnie 3:00
  69. Conjur Man Memphis Minnie 3:01
  70. Mother Earth Memphis Slim 2:46
  71. Double Trouble [alternate take] Muddy Waters 3:33
  72. All Night Long (alternate) Muddy Waters 3:52
  73. Got My Mojo Working Muddy Waters 2:53
  74. Hoochie Coochie Man Muddy Waters 2:54
  75. I Can't Be Satisfied Muddy Waters 2:45
  76. I Feel Like Going Home Muddy Waters 3:12
  77. Little Anna Mae Muddy Waters 2:35
  78. My Eyes (Keep Me in Trouble) Muddy Waters 3:13
  79. Rollin' Stone Muddy Waters 3:09
  80. That's Why I Don't Mind Muddy Waters 3:01
  81. Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone Muddy Waters 3:06
  82. So Many Roads, So Many Trains Otis Rush 3:15
  83. I'm Leaving You Otis Spann 2:43
  84. Right to Love You Paul Gayten & Myrtle Jones 2:40
  85. My Sweet Lovin' Woman Robert Nighthawk 2:51
  86. Sweet Black Angel Robert Nighthawk 3:06
  87. Funeral Hearse at My Door Rocky Fuller 3:18
  88. Keep It to Yourself Sonny Boy Williamson 2:52
  89. Bring It On Home Sonny Boy Williamson 2:38
  90. Don't Start Me to Talkin' Sonny Boy Williamson 3:09
  91. Fattening Frogs for Snakes [alternate take] Sonny Boy Williamson 2:43
  92. Goat [Band Track] Sonny Boy Williamson 2:23
  93. Nine Below Zero Sonny Boy Williamson 3:32
  94. Your Funeral and My Trial Sonny Boy Williamson 2:32
  95. Florida Hurricane St. Louis Jimmy 2:57
  96. Fly Right, Little Girl Sunnyland Slim 2:38
  97. Johnson Machine Gun Sunnyland Slim 2:54
  98. She Ain't Nowhere Sunnyland Slim 2:48
  99. Wrinkles The Big Three Trio 2:39
  100. Good Moanin' Blues Walter Horton 4:18
  101. 29 Ways Willie Dixon 2:11
  102. Walking the Blues Willie DIxon 2:37
  103. Got to Have It Willie Mabon 3:08
  104. I'm Mad Willie Mabon 2:40
  105. Truckin' Little Woman Willie Nix 2:41

Notes

Superlative 4 CD box set, featuring important tracks by all the main stars of the label (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson), as well as much previously unreleased material. A well-done retrospective of Chicago blues in its heyday, as recorded by America's greatest blues label, Chess. — Cub Koda

Superlative 4 CD box set, featuring important tracks by all the main stars of the label (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson), as well as much previously unreleased material. A well-done retrospective of Chicago blues in its heyday, as recorded by America's greatest blues label, Chess.