Tracks The Chess Box
- Bluebird
- Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy
- Spoonful
- Howlin' Wolf Talks #2
- Wolf Is At Your Door
- I Ain't Superstitious
- Mr. Airplane Man
- Moanin' At Midnight
- Mama Died And Left Me
- My Last Affair
- Sittin' On Top Of The World
- Love Me Darlin'
- Howlin' Wolf Talks #3
- Back Door Man
- Hard Luck
- How Many More Years
- You'll Be Mine
- My Mind Is Ramblin'
- My Country Sugar Mama
- Neighbors
- Change My Way
- You Can't Be Beat
- Just My Kind
- New Crawlin' King Snake
- Mary Sue
- I've Been Abused
- I Better Go Now
- Howlin' Wolf Boogie
- Don't Mess With My Baby
- Howlin' Wolf Talks #1
- Moaning For My Baby
- I'm The Wolf
- Evil
- Hidden Charms
- Who's Been Talkin'
- Who Will Be Next
- Louise
- Work For Your Money
- Howlin' Wolf Talks #4
- I'll Be Around
- Baby How Long
- Crazy About You Baby
- Red Rooster
- Ain't Goin' Down That Dirt Road
- Mr. Highway Man
- Shake For Me
- Tell Me
- I Asked For Water
- Killing Floor
- That's All Right (Well)
- Rockin' Daddy
- Moving
- Ooh Baby (Hold Me)
- I Didn't Know
- Smokestack Lightnin'
- Forty Four
- Just Like I Treat You
- Built For Comfort
- Commit A Crime
- Saddle My Pony
- Natchez Burnin'
- I Walked From Dallas
- Dust My Broom
- Tell Me What I've Done
- Don't Laugh At Me
- Wang Dang Doodle
- Howlin' For My Darling
- You Gonna Wreck My Life
- Red Rooster
- Goin' Down Slow
- Streamline Woman
- All Night Boogie (All Night Long)
- I'm The Wolf
- Tail Dragger
- Down In The Bottom
Release date: 2002-12-01
RRP: £40.99
Price: £19.03
Review The Chess Box / Howlin' Wolf:This is probably the best Wolf compilation there is in terms of comprehensiveness and digestibility. The problem with collecting the works of prolific artists is that there's so much material; fortunately, Chess made some good selections. Chronicling Howlin' Wolf's career from Memphis, through Chicago, and on into his later years. There are snippets of interviews, as well as the classic tracks you'd expect: "All Night Boogie", "Howlin' For My Darling", "Evil", "Forty Four", "Spoonful", and "I'd Better Go Now. " This box set is a bit much to swallow if you're not already a fan of the Wolf, but if you are, this is a great way to get his best work in one place. -Genevieve Williams.
Tracks Masters of Modern Blues Series
- Merry Christmas Baby - Nighthawk, Robert
- Maggie Campbell - Nighthawk, Robert
- Mean Ol' World - Nighthawk, Robert & Houston Stackhouse
- Crowning Rooster Blues - Nighthawk, Robert
- Cool Water Blues - Nighthawk, Robert & Houston Stackhouse
- Black Angel Blues - Nighthawk, Robert
- Take A Little Walk With Me - Nighthawk, Robert & Houston Stackhouse
- Kidman Blues - Nighthawk, Robert & Johnny Young
- Bye Bye Blues - Nighthawk, Robert & Houston Stackhouse
- Kansas City - Nighthawk, Robert
- Big Road Blues - Nighthawk, Robert & Houston Stackhouse
- I'm Getting Tired - Nighthawk, Robert
- Kansas City Blues - Nighthawk, Robert & Houston Stackhouse
- Big Fat Mama Blues - Nighthawk, Robert & Houston Stackhouse
- Crying Won't Help You - Nighthawk, Robert
- Bricks In My Pillow - Nighthawk, Robert
- Wrong Man - Nighthawk, Robert & Houston Stackhouse
- Bricks In My Pillow (2) - Nighthawk, Robert
Release date: 1999-10-01
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.27
Review Masters of Modern Blues Series / Robert Nighthawk:
Tracks The Collection
- Ten Years Ago
- I Got My Eyes On You
- Worried Mind
- Stone Crazy
- My Time After Awhile
- Hard But It's Fair
- Let Me Love You Baby
- Keep It To Myself
- She Suits Me To A Tee
- When My Left Eye Jumps
- Every Girl I See
- I Suffer With The Blues
- Too Many Ways
- Crazy Love
- Mother-In-Law Blues
- Broken Hearted Blues
- Leave My Girl Alone
- First Time I Met The Blues
Release date: 2000-08-07
Run time: 56 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.90
Review The Collection / Buddy Guy:
Tracks The Original Guitar Wizard
- Get Yourself Together
- Bulldog Moan
- Misty Mornin
- In Love Again
- Blue Room Blues
- Tomorrow Night
- You Only Want Me When Youre Lonely
- Blue Guitars
- The Loveless Blues
- Sundown Blues
- Im Guilty
- Another Woman Booked Out And Bound To Go
- Lazy Woman Blues
- Falling Rain Blues
- Love Is The Answer
- Bulldog Moan
- Two Tone Stomp
- The New Fallin Rain Blues
- Broken Levee Blues
- Deep Blue Sea Blues
- Jet Black Blues
- Guitar Blues
- You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now Pts 1 & 2
- Racketeers Blues
- No More Women Blues
- Little Rocking Chair
- Why Women Go Wrong
- The New Fallin Rain Blues
- Beautiful But Dumb
- I Got The Best Jelly Roll In Town, Pts 1 & 2
- It Feels So Good, Pts 1 & 2
- Another Woman Booked Out And Bound To Go
- Jet Black Blues
- Working Mans Blues
- Jersey Belle Blues
- Two Tone Stomp
- Me And My Crazy Self
- You Cant Buy Love
- Broken Levee Blues
- Dont Wear It Out
- Watch Shorty
- Nothing But Trouble
- Thats Love
- I Have To Do My Time
- Crowing Rooster Blues
- When You Feel Low Down
- Blue Guitars
- Misty Mornin
- What A Real Woman
- Got The Blues For Murder Only
- Tootache Blues, Pts 1 & 2
- Cant Sleep Any More
- Guitar Blues
- Im So Tired Of Living All Alone
- Deep Blue Sea Blues
- Shes Making Whoopee In Hell Tonight
- Tootache Blues, Pts 1 & 2
- Crowing Rooster Blues
- Crowning Rooster Blues
- Have To Change Keys To Play These Blues
- Youre Getting Old On Your Job
- Im So Tired Of Living All Alone
- Hot Fingers
- Have To Change Keys To Play These Blues
- Careless Love
- Shes Making Whoopee In Hell Tonight
- Long Black Train
- The Dirty Dozen
- Deep Sea Blues
- Sleepy Water Blues
- It Was All In Vain
- Hes A Jelly-Roll Baker
- Let All Married Women Alone
- No More Women Blues
- Im Nuts About That Gal
- The Victim Of Love
- Uncle Ned, Dont Use Your Head
- Hot Fingers
- You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now Pts 1 & 2
- Swing Out Rhythm
- It Feels So Good, Pts 1 & 2
- Careless Love
- No More Troubles Now
- Keep What You Got
- I Just Cant Stand These Blues
- Trouble Aint Nothing But The Blues
- Blues Stay Away From Me
- Why Should I Cry
- Blue Room Blues
- Sundown Blues
- Playing Around
- Im Just Dumb
- Just Another Day
Release date: 2005-01-24
RRP: £16.99
Price: £11.88
Review The Original Guitar Wizard / Lonnie Johnson:
Tracks Hawk Squat
- Send Her Home To Me
- Too Much Pride
- Speak My Mind
- Hawk Squat
- If You Change Your Mind
- Notoriety Woman
- 20% Alcohol
- Same Mistake Twice
- Hip-Shakin'
- Too Late
- Feeling Is Gone
- What Can You Get Outside That You Can't Get At Home
Release date: 1999-10-01
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.95
Review Hawk Squat / J.B. Hutto:
Tracks Chess Pieces: The Very Best Of Chess Records
- Wade In The Water - Ramsey Lewis Trio
- Sugar Mama - John Lee Hooker
- Ten Commandments Of Love - Harvey & The Moonglows
- Sitting In The Park - Billy Stewart
- Summertime - Billy Stewart
- Maybellene - Chuck Berry
- The Walk - Jimmy McCracklin
- We're Gonna Make It - Little Milton
- I Just Want To Make Love To You - Etta James
- Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf
- I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun - Rotary Connection, Minnie Riperton
- No Particular Place To Go - Chuck Berry
- You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover - Bo Diddley
- Here Comes The Judge - Pigmeat Markham
- Dirty Man - Laura Lee
- Say Man - Bo Diddley
- Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
- Sally Go Round The Roses - Jaynetts
- Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters
- When The Lights Go Out - Jimmy Witherspoon
- The Entertainer - Tony Clarke
- Ain't Got No Home - Clarence "Frogman" Henry
- Rescue Me - Fontella Bass
- You Left The Water Running - Maurice & Mac
- Dust My Broom - Elmore James
- Something's Got A Hold On Me - Etta James
- Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor
- (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters
- Let Me Wrap My Arms Around You - Solomon Burke
- Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats
- Rinky Dink - Dave Baby Cortez, Dave Cortez
- Reconsider Baby - Lowell Fulson
- My Babe - Little Walter
- Soulful Dress - Sugar Pie DeSanto
- Searching For My Love - Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces
- Don't Mess Up A Good Thing - Fontella Bass, Bobby McClure
- Juke - Little Walter
- High Heel Sneakers - Tommy Tucker
- Susie-Q - Dale Hawkins
- Don't Start Me To Talkin' - Sonny Boy Williamson
- Walking By Myself - Jimmy Rogers
- Give Your Baby A Standing Ovation - The Dells
- Selfish One - Jackie Ross
- How Many More Years - Howlin' Wolf
- I Had A Talk With My Man Last Night - Mitty Collier
- Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
- Mama Didn't Lie - Jan Bradley
- Woman Of The Ghetto - Marlena Shaw
Release date: 2005-11-07
Run time: 148 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.35
Review Chess Pieces: The Very Best Of Chess Records / Various Artists:
Tracks The Best of King Albert
- I'll Play The Blues For You
- Killing Floor
- Blues Power
- Cold Sweat
- Got To Be Some Changes Made
- Cross Cut Saw Blues
- Pinch Paid Off
- Born Under A Bad Sign
- Breaking Up Somebody's Home
- Phone Booth
- Drivin' Wheel
- Flat Tire
- Left Hand Woman (Get Right With Me)
- For The Love Of A Woman
- I Get Evil (Don't You Lie To Me)
Release date: 1998-11-02
RRP: £6.99
Price: £6.99
Review The Best of King Albert / Albert King:
Tracks Ultimate Collection
- Going Down
- Palace of the King
- Sugar Sweet
- Ain't Nobody's Business [Live]
- Someday After Awhile (You'll Be Sorry)
- Hide Away
- San-Ho-Zay
- Key to the Highway
- My Feeling for the Blues
- Dust My Broom (Solo Acoustic)
- I'm Tore Down
- Lonesome Whistle Blues
- Pack It Up
- Woman Across the River
- Big Leg Woman (With a Short Short Mini Skirt)
- You've Got to Love Her With a Feeling
- Stumble
- Have You Ever Loved a Woman
RRP: £18.99
Price: £6.37
Review Ultimate Collection / Freddie King:
Tracks The Sky Is Crying: The History of Elmore James
- Sun Is Shining
- Sho' Nuff I Do
- Look on Yonder Wall
- Shake Your Moneymaker
- Cry for Me Baby
- Sunnyland
- Rollin' and Tumblin'
- Please Find My Baby
- 12 Year Old Boy
- Hawaiian Boogie
- Sky Is Crying
- I Need You
- It Hurts Me Too
- Madison Blues
- Done Somebody Wrong
- Something Inside Me
- TV Mama - James Elmore, Elmore James, Big Joe Turner
- Dust My Broom
- My Best Friend
- I Can't Hold Out
- Standing at the Crossroads
RRP: £11.99
Price: £3.83
Review The Sky Is Crying: The History of Elmore James / Elmore James:
Tracks John Lee Hooker: The Legendary Modern Recordings 1948-1954
- Please Take Me Back
- Down Child
- Women In My Life
- Queen Bee
- Gotta Boogie
- Howlin' Wolf
- Tease Me Baby
- Playin' The Races
- Turn Over A New Leaf
- Boogie Chillun
- Wednesday Evenin' Blues
- Rock House Boogie
- Let Your Daddy Ride
- Bad Boy
- Drifting From Door To Door
- Too Much Boogie
- Need Somebody
- Hoogie Boogie
- Sally Mae
- Hobo Blues
- Jump Me Up One More Time
- Crawlin' Kingsnake
- Weeping Willow Boogie
- I'm In The Mood
Release date: 1993-04-26
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.14
Review John Lee Hooker: The Legendary Modern Recordings 1948-1954 / John Lee Hooker:Here's proof that one man can rock a house. These 24 songs are stone simple: built upon Hooker singing to his boogying guitar and stomping foot. But their energetic performances and irresistible grooves remain a model of blues perfection. They include the hits that made Hooker a star around Chicago and Detroit: "Boogie Chillen," "Crawling Kingsnake," and "I'm in the Mood. " More than a ticket out of his factory job, these singles became the foundation of a career that has spanned half a century. They were also quite daring for their day. Producer Bernie Besman used techniques like doubling and tripling Hooker's voice on tape, and occasionally (on "I'm in the Mood," for example) had Detroit blues guitarist Eddie Kirkland duplicate Hooker's lines as he sang and played them. For Hooker fans, this is ground zero in all its fiery glory. -Ted Drozdowski.
Tracks Big Boss Man: the Best of Jimmy Reed
- Sun Is Shining
- Take Out Some Insurance
- My First Plea
- Aw Shucks Hush Your Mouth
- Down In Virginia
- Down In Mississippi
- Ends And Odds
- Devil's Shoestring 2
- Left Handed Woman
- You Don't Have To Go
- High And Lonesome
- Going To New York
- Baby What You Want Me To Do
- Help Yourself
- Found Love
- When Girls Do It
- I'm Gonna Get My Baby
- Boogie In The Dark
- Bright Lights Big City
- Hush Hush
- I'm Going Upside Your Head
- Come On Baby
- Ain't That Lovin' You Baby
- You Upset My Mind
- Oh John
- I'm The Man Down There
- Ain't No Big Deal
- I'm A Love You
- Honest I Do
- Come On Baby
- Little Rain
- Let's Get Together
- Close Together
- You're Something Else
- I Ain't Got You
- Big Boss Man
Release date: 1999-07-26
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.98
Review Big Boss Man: the Best of Jimmy Reed / Jimmy Reed:
Tracks His Best
- Born Blind
- I Don't Know
- Down Child
- Your Funeral And My Trial
- Checkin' Up On My Baby
- Ninety Nine
- Don't Start Me Talking
- Bring It On Home
- All My Love In Vain
- My Younger Days
- Fattening Frogs For Snakes
- One Way Out
- Cross My Heart
- Keep It To Yourself
- Help Me
- Bye Bye Bird
- Sad To Be Alone
- Nine Below Zero
- Good Evening Everybody
- Keep Your Hands Out Of My Pocket
Release date: 1999-03-20
Run time: 54 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.99
Review His Best / Sonny Boy Williamson:
Tracks Super Session
- You Don't Love Me
- Albert's Shuffle (2002 Remix w/o Horns)
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
- Really
- Season Of The Witch (2002 Remix w/o Horns)
- Harvey's Tune
- His Holy Modal Majesty
- Fat Grey Cloud (Live)
- Blues For Nothing
- Albert's Shuffle
- Stop Album
- Season Of The Witch
- Man's Temptation
Release date: 2003-04-07
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.17
Review Super Session / Al Kooper:Nothing on this 1968 album approaches the best work of any of the three principals involved (Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills). What's more, Super Session sounds hopelessly mired in 1968. On the other hand, it's one of the original, groovy jam-rock statements, a spontaneous session filled with enjoyable but dispensable noodling. The first half showcases Bloomfield's piercing, edgy guitar on three blues instrumentals and one modal-jazz extravaganza. The cover of Curtis Mayfield's "Man's Temptation" falls into comic-relief territory, however. Stills and Kooper engage in a countrified Dylan cover and a rambling 11-minute version of Donovan's "Season of the Witch". The album's appeal and its ultimate downfall lie in the impromptu, thrown-together vibe. -Marc Greilsamer, Amazon. com.
Tracks Mr. Lucky
- I Want To Hug You
- Crawlin' Kingsnake
- Susie
- Stripped Me Naked
- Highway 13
- I Cover The Waterfront
- Mr Lucky
- This Is Hip
- Backstabbers
- Father Was A Jockey
Release date: 1999-08-31
RRP: £9.99
Price: £16.99
Review Mr. Lucky / John Lee Hooker:
Tracks Poet of the Blues
- Cool Kind Woman Blues
- No One To Love Me
- Spoonful
- O C Bounce
- It's All Over Now
- You Shook Me
- Juice Head Bartender
- You Don't Love Me No More
- Same Thing
- Signifying Monkey
- Little Red Rooster
- Big Three Stomp
- I Ain't Gonna Be Your Monkey Man No More
- I Ain't Superstitious
- Seventh Son
- If The Sea Were Whiskey
- I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
- Tell That Woman
- Back Door Man
- Money Tree Blues
- I Can't Quit You Baby
Release date: 1998-07-20
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.50
Review Poet of the Blues / Willie Dixon:One of blues music's greatest composers, Willie Dixon, was also a strong performer. This Columbia Legacy reissue is a profile of the artist in his post-Chess Records years. It is chock-full of classics, many of which have been covered by rock bands as well as blues musicians: "Back Door Man"; "I Can't Quit You Baby"; "Spoonful"; "I Ain't Superstitious"; "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man". the list goes on. For all his achievements as a composer and performer, relatively little of Dixon's recorded work is available, particularly from his later years. Poet of the Blues is an excellent introduction as well as a chance to hear many of these classic songs in their original incarnations. -Genevieve Williams.
Tracks The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions
- Little Girl
- Stealin'
- Lorraine
- My Trainfare Out Of Town
- Johnny's Mess Around
- Jackson Bound
- Walking Slow
- Mean Black Snake
- Lend Me Your Love
- Go Ahead On (With That Funky Broadway Sound)
- Deal The Cards
- Prison Bound
- Moaning And Groaning
- Deal The Cards
- Lula Mae
- Heard My Doorbell Ring
Release date: 2007-08-27
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.76
Review The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions / Johnny Young:
Tracks The Sky Is Crying
- Standing On The Crossroads
- Fine Little Mama
- Dust My Broom
- Stranger Blues
- Can't Stop Loving You
- One Way Out
- Anna Lee
- She Done Moved
- Rollin' And Tumblin'
- Early One Morning
- Done Somebody Wrong
- Mean Mistreatin' Mama
- Look On Yonder Wall
- Sky Is Crying
- Baby Please Set A Date
- My Bleeding Heart
- I Need You Baby
- Make My Dreams Come True
- Strange Angels
- Shake Your Moneymaker
- I'm Worried
- Something Inside Me
Release date: 1997-09-27
Price: £6.99
Review The Sky Is Crying / Elmore James:
Tracks Come on in This House
- Trust My Baby
- Give Me One Reason
- Ships On The Ocean
- You Better Watch Yourself
- Mystery Train
- So Glad You're Mine
- King Fish Blues
- I'm Gonna Move To Kansas City
- Goat
- She Wants To Sell My Monkey
- Why Are People Like That
- Come On In This House
- What My Momma Told Me/That's All Right
- Million Years Blues
Release date: 2001-04-04
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.43
Review Come on in This House / Junior Wells:
Tracks King of the Slide Guitar: the Complete Chief & Fire Sessions
- The Sky Is Crying
- Dust My Broom
- Mean Mistreatin Mama (Take 2)
- I Believe
- The Twelve Year Old Boy
- Anna Lee
- She Done Moved
- Find My Kind Of Woman (Take 1)
- Something Inside Me
- Stranger Blues (Alt. Take)
- Look At Yonder Wall
- I Cant Stop Lovin You
- Twelve Year Old Boy
- My Bleeding Heart
- I Gotta Go Now
- Rollin And Tumblin
- Bobbys Rock
- My Kind Of Woman
- Fine Little Mama
- Find My Kind Of Woman (Alt. Take)
- Dust My Broom (Original)
- Elmores Contribution To Jazz
- Cry For Me Baby
- My Babys Gone
- Hand In Hand (Take 1)
- Coming Home
- Look On Yonder Wall(Look Up On The Wall)
- Talk To My Baby
- I Have A Right To Love My Baby
- Im Worried
- Dust My Broom
- Take Me Where You Go
- Mean Mistreatin Mama (Take 1)
- You Know You Done Me Wrong
- I Need You (Baby)
- Got To Move
- Pickin The Blues (Manhattan Slide)
- You Know Youre Wrong
- Everyday I Have The Blues
- Mean Mistreatin Mama (Take 3)
- Got To Move (Shes Got To Go)
- Hand In Hand (take 3)
- Make My Dreams Come True
- So Unkind
- One Way Out
- Standing At The Crossroads
- Hand In Hand (take 4)
- Sunnyland Train
- Shake Your Moneymaker
- Back In Mississippi (Conversation)
- Stranger Blues
- Held My Baby Last Night
- It Hurts Me Too
- Baby, Please Set A Date
- Early One Morning
- Dust My Broom
- Go Back Home Again
- Cant Stop Loving My Baby
- Elmore Jumps One (Up Jumped Elmore/Black Snake Slide)
- Done Somebody Wrong
- Person To Person
- Knocking At Your Door
- It Hurts Me Too
Release date: 2003-04-14
RRP: £16.99
Price: £11.06
Review King of the Slide Guitar: the Complete Chief & Fire Sessions / Elmore James:
Tracks His Best
- Goin' Down Slow
- I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
- Howlin' for My Darlin'
- I Ain't Superstitious
- Who's Been Talking?
- Three Hundred Pounds of Joy
- Hidden Charms
- Wang Dang Doodle
- Red Rooster
- Shake for Me
- Back Door Man
- How Many More Years
- Moanin' at Midnight
- Evil
- Sitting on Top of the World
- Killing Floor
- Built for Comfort
- Spoonful
- Smokestack Lightning
- Forty-Four
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.96
Review His Best / Howlin Wolf:Chester Burnett's ferocious growl was a staple of Chicago's electric-blues heyday. This 20-song compilation ranges from his 1951 debut "Moanin' at Midnight" with Willie Johnson on guitar to 1964's "Killing Floor" with Buddy Guy on guitar. His scratchy, sawed-off vocal approach and his energetic harmonica grace original classics such as "How Many More Years" and "Smokestack Lightnin'". By 1960, he became, along with Muddy Waters, the foremost interpreter of Willie Dixon's songs, lending his coarse voice to legendary Dixon cuts such as "Wang Dang Doodle", "Back Door Man", "Spoonful", "The Red Rooster", and "I Ain't Superstitious". Wolf's style was based on primal raw power, and he ranks among the genre's most distinctive performers. -Marc Greilsamer.
| Models & Brands:
The Chess Box, Masters of Modern Blues Series, The Collection, The Original Guitar Wizard, Hawk Squat, Chess Pieces: The Very Best Of Chess Records, The Best of King Albert, Ultimate Collection, The Sky Is Crying: The History of Elmore James, John Lee Hooker: The Legendary Modern Recordings 1948-1954, Big Boss Man: the Best of Jimmy Reed, His Best, Super Session, Mr. Lucky, Poet of the Blues, The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions, The Sky Is Crying, Come on in This House, King of the Slide Guitar: the Complete Chief & Fire Sessions, His Best |
