The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson

Album cover   CDNOW
  • The Best Chess/Checker Compilation CD Value.
  • Recording date: 1955-64
  • Release date: 1993
  • Label: Chess/MCA
  • Catalogue #: CHD2-9343
  • Length: 125 minutes
  • Available: CD

TRACK LIST

DISC 1

  1. Good Evening Everybody (2:35)
  2. Don't Start Me To Talkin' (2:35)
  3. All My Love In Vain (2:50)
  4. You Killing Me (3:31)
  5. Let Me Explain (2:55)
  6. Your Imagination (3:00)
  7. Don't Lose Your Eye (3:04)
  8. Keep It To Yourself (2:51)
  9. The Key (To Your Door) (2:33)
  10. Have You Ever Been In Love (2:56)
  11. Fattening Frogs For Snakes (2:22)
  12. I Don't Know (2:27)
  13. Like Wolf (2:53)
  14. Cross My Heart (3:23)
  15. Ninety Nine (2:40)
  16. Born Blind (2:34)
  17. Little Village (with false start and dialogue) (4:07) **
  18. Unseen Eye (3:00)
  19. Your Funeral And My Trial (2:32)
  20. Keep Your Hands Out Of My Pocket (2:51)
  21. Unseeing Eye (3:07) ***
  22. Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide (2:20)
  23. The Goat (2:44)

DISC 2

  1. Cool Disposition (2:43)
  2. Santa Claus (2:45)
  3. Checkin' Up On My Baby (1:58)
  4. Temperature 110 (2:18)
  5. Lonesome Cabin (3:05)
  6. Somebody Help Me (2:19)
  7. Down Child (2:36)
  8. Trust My Baby (2:44)
  9. Too Close Together (2:15)
  10. Too Young To Die (3:01)
  11. She's My Baby (2:11)
  12. Stop Right Now (2:27)
  13. Too Old To Think (2:53)
  14. One Way Out (2:02)
  15. Nine Below Zero (3:45)
  16. Help Me (3:10)
  17. Bye Bye Bird (2:40)
  18. Bring It On Home (2:39)
  19. Decoration Day (3:25)
  20. Trying To Get Back On My Feet (2:09)
  21. Close To Me (3:07)
  22. I Can't Be Alone (3:16)

* Previously unreleased alternative take.
** Not the full 12-minute version that appears on Bummer Road.
*** Previously unreleased on US LP.

 

MUSICIANS

  • Fred Below (drums)
  • Willie Dixon (bass)
  • Al Duncan (drums)
  • Jarett Gibson (saxophone)
  • Buddy Guy (guitar)
  • Donald Hankins (saxophone)
  • Clifton James (drums)
  • Eddie King (guitar)
  • Lafayette Leake (piano)
  • Lafayette Leake or Billy Emerson (organ)
  • Robert Jr. Lockwood (guitar)
  • Jack Meyers (bass)
  • Matt Murphy (guitar)
  • Odie Payne (drums)
  • Eugene Pierson (guitar)
  • Milton Rector (bass)
  • Jimmy Rogers (guitar)
  • Otis Spann (piano)
  • Luther Tucker (guitar)
  • Muddy Waters (guitar)

NOTES

These 45 songs were chosen from nearly 70 recorded for Chess between 1955 and 1964. Some tracks have been remixed in stereo. The booklet includes interesting liner notes by Mark Humphrey and thorough recording details. An excellent compilation.

Rule

[ HOME | HARP | LINKS | PHOTOS | RECORDS | SONGS ]

© 1998 Sonny Boy's Lonesome Cabin