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Media Type: CD
Artist: WATERS,MUDDY
Title: CHESS BOX
Street Release Date: 11/07/1989
Domestic
Genre: BLUES TRADITIONAL

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Gypsy Woman
2. Good Looking Woman [#]
3. Mean Disposition
4. I Can't Be Satisfied
5. I Feel Like Going Home
6. Train Fare Home
7. Mean Red Spider [#]
8. Streamline Woman
9. Little Geneva
10. Rollin' and Tumblin', Pt. 1
11. Rollin' Stone
12. Walking Blues
13. Louisiana Blues
14. Evans Shuffle (Ebony Boogie)
15. Long Distance Call
16. Honey Bee
17. She Moves Me
18. Still a Fool
19. Stuff You Gotta Watch
20. Standing Around Crying
21. Flood [#]
22. Baby Please Don't Go
23. Blow Wind Blow [#]
24. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man [Alternate Take][#]

Disc 2:

1. I Just Want to Make Love to You
2. I'm Ready
3. Smokestack Lightning
4. Young Fashioned Ways
5. Mannish Boy
6. Trouble No More
7. Forty Days and Forty Nights
8. Just to Be With You
9. Don't Go No Farther
10. Diamonds at Your Feet [#]
11. I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love
12. Rock Me
13. Look What You've Done [#]
14. Got My Mojo Working
15. Good News [#]
16. Evil [#]
17. She's Nineteen Years Old
18. Close to You
19. Walkin' Thru the Park
20. Blues Before Sunrise [With Dialogue & False Starts][#]
21. Lonesome Road Blues
22. Take the Bitter With the Sweet [False Start, Dialogue & Alternate Take]
23. She's into Something
24. Southbound Train
25. Double Trouble

Disc 3:

1. I Feel So Good [Live]
2. You Shook Me
3. You Need Love
4. Twenty-Four Hours [#]
5. Elevate Me Mama [Alternate Take][#]
6. So Glad I'm Living [#]
7. My Love Strikes Like Lightning [#]
8. You Don't Have to Go [Alternate Take][#]
9. Things That I Used to Do [#]
10. My Home Is in the Delta
11. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
12. Same Thing
13. You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had
14. Short Dress Woman [#]
15. Making Friends
16. Black Night [Alternate Mix][#]
17. Bird Nest on the Ground
18. Country Boy [Live][#]
19. Sugar Sweet [Fathers and Sons Alternate Take][#]
20. All Aboard [Fathers and Sons Alternate Take][#]
21. Going Down Slow [Live][#]
22. Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone [Original Hornless Londo
23. Can't Get No Grindin' (What's the Matter With the Meal)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28018 in Music
• Brand: WATERS,MUDDY
• Published on: 1989
• Released on: 1989-10-13
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: 1.66 pounds

Amazon.com essential recording
For the completist, this three-CD, 72-song box remains the definitive collection of one of the leading lights of Chicago blues. The collection spans 25 years, beginning with rare early recordings with pianist Sunnyland Slim and moving through Waters's peak '50s period, which offered the legendary support of Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and Otis Spann. Luminaries including Pat Hare, James Cotton, Earl Hooker, Buddy Guy, and Pinetop Perkins all make valuable contributions to his '60s work. Along with his original hits and his noteworthy Willie Dixon interpretations, Chess wisely includes his lesser-known covers of Big Bill Broonzy, Howlin' Wolf, Guitar Slim, Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, and Sonny Boy Williamson. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews

The most complete overview of Muddy Waters' Chess sides
More casual fans will probably be better served by MCA/Chess's much cheaper (but very good) two-disc compilation "The Anthology: 1947-1972". But if you're looking for the best and currently most thorough available overview of Muddy's recordings for Aristocrat and Chess, this is it.
It is not the final word on Muddy Waters - his excellent latter-day recordings with Johnny Winter as producer aren't here, and you'll need some of his live stuff as well - but these 72 tracks do include the vast majority of his best songs from 1947 and twenty-five years on.

Disc one spans 1947-1954, and most of the 24 tracks feature just Muddy Waters on slide guitar and bassist Ernest "Big" Crawford backing him, although the great Sunnyland Slim rolls the ivories on a few songs, like the delightful 1947 single "Gypsy Woman".
Muddy's arsenal of slide guitar riffs may seem limited, but his playing on the 1948 hit "I Can't Be Satisfied" and the mellow "Train Fare Home" is really great, demonstrating what a fine guitarist he actually was.

Percussion doesn't show up until two-thirds of the way through the disc, when the "classic" Muddy Waters band begins to take shape: Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on second guitar, drummer Elgin Evans, and Otis Spann playing the piano.
Along with the songs already mentioned, the lean, mean "I Feel Like Going Home" and "Rollin' And Tumblin'" are among the highlights on disc 1, which ends with the tough, swinging "Blow Wind Blow" and the classic "Hoochie Coochie Man". Big Walter Horton plays superb harmonica on "Blow Wind Blow".

Disc 2 includes the majority of Muddy's classic 50s singles, from "I'm Ready" and the thumping "I Just Want To Make Love To You" to "Got My Mojo Working", the Bo Diddley-ripoff "Mannish Boy", and the superbly swinging "I Love The Life I Live, I Live The Life I Love". Harpist James Cotton appears for the first time on "I Love The Life I Live", blowing a truly inspired harmonica riff.
And there are several lesser-known songs here as well, including previously unreleased takes and singles which make their LP/CD debut on this album. Most of them are good, although not quite great, with the exception of a very fine rendition of Jimmy Oden's "Take The Bitter With The Sweet".

Disc 3 covers 1960-1972, and includes a few live recordings, as well as two alternates from the sublime "Fathers And Sons" sessions. Opening with the great live "I Feel So Good" from the Newport album, it is highlighted by Muddy's version of Eddie Boyd's "Twenty-Four Hours", the mid-60s hit singles "The Same Thing" and "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had", and a hornless version of "Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone", one of the few good cuts from the otherwise forgettable "London Sessions" album.

There is nothing here from the misguided and completely superflous "Electric Mud", or from Muddy's last Chess-effort, "The Woodstock Album", but that detracts little or nothing from the greatness of this compilation, the finest overview of Muddy Waters' Chess sides available.

If You Only Had One Blues Album.....Yep, This Is It!
A comprehensive collection from the best bluesman ever. Sure, others have done significant recordings, established new sounds, forged creative sounds, but no one has been *the man* for decades, like Muddy has. Regardless of whether it is these priceless early recordings where the genius was just starting to come through or whether it is any of the numerous eras Muddy went through, they are all well represented on this set.

The supporting book is one of the best I've seen ever. It is comprehensive, has new and unusal photos, and gives a good history of Waters' recordings.

The one belongs in the "if I was on a desert island and take only one CD, which one would it be" category.

Absolutely essential!
Muddy Waters is the Blues! This set will prove that. It does afantastic job of ccovering his material from his years at Chess Records. It starts in 1947 with Gypsy Woman and winds thru the some of the most important songs in the Blues genre. Does I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man, Got My Mojo Working, or I Just Want To Make Love To You sound familiar? They're here. The booklet that comes with it is also very imformative with some nice pictures to boot. A nice package and at the price a steal.