Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Dust My Blues - Elmore James
2. Three O'Clock Blues - B.B. King
3. Killing Floor - Howlin' Wolf
4. Stop Watching Your Enemies - Koko Taylor
5. Messin' With the Kid - Junior Wells
6. Better off With the Blues - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
7. When You Walk Out the Door - Albert King
8. Don't Start Me to Talkin' - Sonny Boy Williamson
9. Blues in the Basement - Rufus Thomas
10. Little Bluebird - Little Milton
11. Mojo Hand - Lightnin' Hopkins
12. Big Boss Man - Jimmy Reed
13. Boogie Chillen' - John Lee Hooker
14. I'll Take Care of You - Bobby "Blue" Bland
15. Otis in the Dark - Otis Spann

Disc 2:

1. Master Charge - Albert Collins
2. Mother Nature - Koko Taylor
3. Walking the Back Streets and Crying - Little Milton
4. Give Me Back My Wig - Hound Dog Taylor, Hound Dog Taylor
5. Prisoner of Love - James Brown
6. You Upset Me Baby - B.B. King
7. Let's Straighten It Out - Latimore
8. I'll Play the Blues for You - Albert King
9. Must Have Been the Devil - Otis Spann
10. Dimples - John Lee Hooker
11. Rainin' in My Heart - Slim Harpo
12. Getaway - Fenton Robinson
13. Too Much Sugar for a Dime - Katie Webster
14. Bright Lights, Big City - Jimmy Reed
15. Driving Wheel - Junior Parker

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36727 in Music
• Released on: 1995-07-25
• Number of discs: 2

Customer Reviews

Lose the commentary please
I bought the Shoebox Full of Blues which contains this disc, and the selection and quality is first rate. There isn't a bad track on the disc, and the mastering is superb. These may be the highest quality versions of these classics you'll hear. Blues purists may argue that vinyl is the only "true" way to listen to these, but who among us has pristine vinyl and the equipment to do it justice?

I wish I had known about the commentary/intros mentioned in another review of this title (There's no mention of the commentary on the reviews or details of the box set). I too find them extremely annoying, and really detest the fact that the produces grafted them onto the end of tracks instead of making them standalone cuts. For all of us that rip our CD's to MP3 there is a cure. It takes a few minutes, but it's worth it. Grab MP3Trim, a free MP3 editor from http://www.mptrim.com/ Then trim from the end of these cuts as indicated.

Killing Floor - 28 Seconds
Better Off With The Blues - 19 Seconds
Mojo Hand - 43 Seconds
Walking The Backstreets And Crying - 35 Seconds
Let's Straighten It Out - 27 Seconds
Rainin' In My Heart - 31 Seconds

I'd also suggest you adjust the volume by -3 db when you trim or you'll induce some clipping on the edited tracks.

Once you do that, and assuming you don't rip the intro that starts each disc, you're left with 30 tracks of nothin' but Blues, guaranteed to make you want more.

inane prattle has me crying the blues
While the music here is solid and the packaging first rate, the incredibly annoying voiceover to announce which artist is up next interupts the music's flow and is enough to make one hit the eject button. And that's after the first listen. Trying to get through it again and again is next to impossible. To add insult to injury, because the VO is tacked onto the back of the tracks, RIPing the disc and removing the offending noise isn't a workaround unless you want to start editing audio files.

Gimme music without interruption.

This CD is awesome!
I have had this C.D. for at least 6 years and it is still one of my favorites. I also happen to like the introductions that the other reviewer found annoying...it makes me feel like I am at the show. I bought my CD at the House of Blues in New Orleans and it brings back great memories of my trip. Several of my friends have heard the CD and wanted to buy it.