The Real Folk Blues

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  • Recording date: 1957-64
  • Release date: 1965
  • Label: Chess Records
  • Catalogue #: LP-1503, CHD/CHC-9272
  • Length: 32 minutes
  • Available: CD, cassette

TRACK LIST

  1. One Way Out (2:44)
  2. Too Young To Die (2:52) *
  3. Trust My Baby (2:41)
  4. Checkin' Up On My Baby (1:53) *
  5. Sad To Be Alone (2:54)
  6. Got To Move (2:24)
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  7. Bring It On Home (2:33)
  8. Down Child (2:30)
  9. Peach Tree (2:32) *
  10. Dissatisfied (2:41)
  11. That's All I Want (2:13) *
  12. Too Old To Think (2:47) *

* Previously unreleased.

 

MUSICIANS

  • Fred Below (drums)
  • Willie Dixon (bass)
  • Al Duncan (drums)
  • Lafayette Leake (piano)
  • Lafayette Leake or Billy Emerson (organ)
  • Robert Jr. Lockwood (guitar)
  • Eddie King Milton (guitar)
  • Matt Murphy (guitar)
  • Odie Payne (drums)
  • Milton Rector (bass)
  • Otis Spann (piano)
  • Luther Tucker (guitar)

NOTES

Produced by Marshall Chess. Originally released in January 1966 as Chess LP-1503. Reissued in 1987 in MCA's Original Chess Masters series (CHD/CHC-9272). The original (second-hand and often inaccurate) liner notes by Willie Dixon include an interview with pianist Sunnyland Slim and Robert Jr. Lockwood, who had known Sonny Boy for 30 years.

These liner notes demonstrate how little these three men who worked closely with Sonny Boy really knew about his biography and how little Chess cared about the accuracy of their original liner notes. MCA has done a much better job of hiring blues reseachers.

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