The Chess Years

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  • Recording date: 1955-64
  • Release date: 1991
  • Label: Charly Records
  • Catalogue #: CD Red Box 1
  • Length: 260 minutes
  • Available: No

TRACK LIST

DISC 1

  1. Work With Me
  2. Don't Start Me Talkin'
  3. All My Love In Vain
  4. Good Evening Everybody
  5. You Killing Me (On My Feet)
  6. Let Me Explain
  7. I Know What Love Is All About
  8. I Wonder Why
  9. Your Imagination
  10. Don't Lose Your Eye
  11. Keep It To Yourself
  12. Please Forgive
  13. The Key (To Your Door)
  14. Have You Ever Been in Love
  15. Hurts Me So Much
  16. Fattening Frogs For Snakes
  17. I Don't Know
  18. Like Wolf
  19. This Is My Apartment
  20. Cross My Heart
  21. Born Blind
  22. Ninety Nine
  23. Dissatisfied
  24. Unseen Eye

DISC 2

  1. Your Funeral And My Trial
  2. She Got Next To Me
  3. Wake Up Baby
  4. Keep Your Hand Out Of My Pocket
  5. Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide
  6. Unseeing Eye
  7. The Goat
  8. Cool Disposition
  9. I Never Do Wrong
  10. It's Sad To Be Alone
  11. Open Road
  12. Santa Claus
  13. I Can't Do Without You
  14. Checkin' Up On My Baby
  15. Temperature 110
  16. Peach Tree
  17. Lonesome Cabin
  18. Somebody Help Me
  19. Down Child
  20. Trust My Baby
  21. This Old Life
  22. Too Close Together
  23. Too Young To Die
  24. She's My Baby
 

DISC 3

  1. Stop Right Now
  2. The Hunt
  3. Too Old To Think
  4. That's All I Want
  5. One Way Out
  6. Nine Below Zero
  7. Got To Move
  8. Bye Bye Bird
  9. Help Me
  10. Bring It On Home
  11. One Way Out *
  12. My Younger Days
  13. Tryin' To Get Back On My Feet
  14. Decoration Day
  15. Stop Cryin'
  16. (I Want You) Close To Me
  17. One Way Out
  18. I Can't Be Alone
  19. Don't Make A Mistake
  20. Understand My Life
  21. Find Another Woman
  22. My Name Is Sonny Boy

DISC 4

  1. The Key (To Your Door) *
  2. Hurts Me So Much
  3. Cool Disposition *
  4. Dissatisfied *
  5. Cross My Heart *
  6. "99"
  7. She Got Next To Me
  8. Fattening Frogs For Snakes
  9. Nine Below Zero *
  10. Your Funeral And My Trial *
  11. Cool Disposition *
  12. The Goat
  13. Ninety Nine
  14. Cross My Heart
  15. Hurts Me So Much
  16. Nine Below Zero
  17. Your Funeral And My Trial
  18. Checkin' Up On My Baby *
  19. Little Village

* Previously unreleased takes.

NOTES

The most extensive compilation of Sonny Boy's work to date, this boxed set of CDs includes all of the songs he recorded for Chess, in chronological order (discs 1-3), plus many alternative takes (disc 4). The package includes an illustrated booklet, with biographical notes and a critical appraisal of his recordings.

Many thanks to William E. Donoghue, a.k.a. "'Fessor Mojo", of Seattle, Washington, for providing the above information and album cover.

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