Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. You Can't Always Get What You Want - Luther Allison
2. Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters
3. You Fired Yourself - Otis Rush
4. Chicago Bound - Jimmy Rogers
5. Up and Down World - Johnny Adams
6. I Need You So Bad - Magic Sam
7. Jinx Blues - Corey Harris
8. Farther up the Road - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Bill Harvey
9. I Don't Know - Sonny Boy Williamson
10. Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker
11. My Babe - Little Walter
12. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Junior Wells
13. I'm in the Mood - John Lee Hooker
14. Shake 'Em on Down - R.L. Burnside
15. Corrina, Corrina - Mississippi John Hurt

Disc 2:

1. Toe Hold - Robert Ward
2. Voodoo Daddy - Lonnie Brooks
3. We're Gonna Make It - Little Milton
4. Change of Heart, Change of Mind - Robert Cray
5. Keep Your Hands Out of My Pocket - Otis Spann
6. Screamin' & Hollerin' the Blues - Alvin Youngblood Hart
7. You Got Me Dizzy - Jimmy Reed
8. I Don't Know - Ruth Brown
9. Katie Mae - Lightnin' Hopkins
10. Best of Me - Dr. John, Maria Muldaur
11. Driving Wheel - Robert Lockwood, Jr.
12. Go to the Mardi Gras - Professor Longhair
13. Honky Tonk Women - Taj Mahal
14. C Jam Blues - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
15. Fool's Paradise - Charles Brown
16. Meet Me in the City - Junior Kimbrough

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #180727 in Music
• Released on: 1999-06-22
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Great mix of new and old blues recordings
The House of Blues label has done it again with another incredible collection of blues essentials. From classics must-haves by Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, and John Lee Hooker to more recent recordings by Taj Mahal and Luther Allison, this collection is calling to you.

Also have to mention that the album art and liner notes are beautifully designed and well-written.

Only reason not to give it a full five stars is too many tracks pulled from other HOB discs, but if you don't have them all yet, you won't mind.

Lots of hits, lots of misses
This is a so-so collection of blues recordings. A few are great, with artists like Muddy Waters, T-bone Walker, and John Lee Hooker contributing some classics. But there are a few songs that were made famous by the Rolling Stones, and they sound ridiculous played in a blues style. Bottom line: this is worth getting, but only if you can get it cheap, and you're willing to sift through some duds to get to the good ones.