Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. We All Gotta Go Sometime - The Black-Eyed Snakes
2. Baker Shop Boogie - Willie Nix
3. Easy [Instrumental] - Jimmy DeBerry, Walter Horton
4. Bear Cat (The Answer to Hound Dog) - Rufus Thomas
5. Feelin' Good - Little Junior's Blue Flames
6. Tiger Man (King of the Jungle) - Rufus Thomas
7. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Pinetop Perkins
8. Hydramatic Woman - Joe Hill Louis
9. Hucklebuck - Earl Hooker
10. Mystery Train - Little Junior's Blue Flames
11. Love Me Baby - Little Junior's Blue Flames
12. Come Back Baby - Charles Ross, Doctor Ross
13. Somebody Told Me - Little Milton
14. Straighten Up Baby - James Cotton
15. I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare
16. Cotton Crop Blues - James Cotton
17. Boogie Disease - Charles Ross, Doctor Ross
18. When It Rains It Really Pours - Billy "The Kid" Emerson
19. I Feel So Worried - Willie Johnson, Sammy Lewis
20. Red Hot - Billy "The Kid" Emerson
21. Lookin' for My Baby - Little Milton
22. Ain't That Right - Eddie Snow
23. Go Ahead On - Guitar Red, Guitar Red
24. Chicken (Dance with You) - Rosco Gordon
25. Jelly Roll King - Frank Frost

Disc 2:

1. She May Be Yours (But She Comes to See Me Sometime) - Joe Hill Louis
2. Seems Like a Million Years - Willie Nix
3. Walked All Night - Charley Booker
4. Baby's Gone and Left Me - Houston Stokes
5. Walking in the Rain - Houston Stokes
6. (Talkin') Off the Wall - Walter Horton
7. Fussin' and Fightin' Blues - Little Junior One Hand
8. Save That Money - Rufus Thomas
9. Razorback - Earl Hooker
10. Believe I'll Settle Down - Boyd Gilmore
11. My Love Has Gone - Mose Vinson
12. Chicago Breakdown - Charles Ross, Doctor Ross
13. Sittin' at the Bar - Little Junior One Hand
14. High - Kenneth Banks
15. Harmonica Jam - Coy "Hot Shot" Love
16. My Baby - James Cotton
17. Gee I Wish - Billy Love
18. Satisfied - Billy "The Kid" Emerson
19. Hold Me in Your Arms - James Cotton
20. Juke Box Boogie - Charles Ross, Doctor Ross
21. Move Baby Move - Billy "The Kid" Emerson
22. So Long Baby, Goodbye - Willie Johnson, Sammy Lewis
23. Bring Your Love Back Home - Eddie Snow
24. Trouble Down the Road - Frank Ballard
25. Everything's Alright - Frank Frost

Disc 3:

1. Keep Your Arms Around Me - Joe Hill Louis
2. Married Woman - Rufus Thomas
3. I'm a Good Man
4. Policy Man Blues - Sleepy John Estes
5. Last Time - Woodrow Wilson Adams
6. Prison Bound Blues - Willie Nix
7. I'm Back Pretty Baby - Raymond Hill
8. In the Mood - Walter Horton
9. Before Long
10. We're All Gonna Do Some Wrong - Houston Stokes
11. Blue Guitar - Earl Hooker
12. Rhumba Chillen - Albert Williams
13. Sweet Home Chicago - Honeyboy Edwards
14. Sittin' Drinkin' and Thinkin' - Little Junior One Hand
15. Move on Down the Line - Earl Hooker
16. 44 Blues - Mose Vinson
17. Carry My Business On - Houston Boines
18. Feelin' Bad - Little Junior One Hand
19. Wolf Call Boogie - Coy "Hot Shot" Love
20. Lookin' for My Baby - Little Milton
21. Hart's Bread Boogie - Billy Love
22. Bonus Pay - Pat Hare
23. Little Fine Healthy Thing - Billy "The Kid" Emerson
24. Hey Hey Girl - Rosco Gordon
25. Just Come on Home - Frank Frost

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71676 in Music
• Released on: 2003-08-19
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Box set, Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

Git It Now Before It's Gone
Well, this is it. Unless you own the very pricey Sun box set on Bear Family, you'll want to purchase this 3-disc compilation if you are a blues lover and the "Sun Sound" rings your bell. This set is an absolute bargain and it contains most of the best blues titles that Sam Phillips ever recorded. Yup, it's all here; Big Walter Horton's "In the Mood", and "Easy" are in the desert island top 10 for blues harp instrumentals. Little Milton Campbell can be heard doing a respectable imitation of early B.B. King, and Little Jr. Parker's perfect voice is not to be missed. Other highlights are the great Earl Zebedee Hooker - King of the slide guitarists - performing some very rare tracks in the Robert Nighthawk mould plus Rufus Thomas (later of Stax records fame) doing his best to knock Big Mama Thornton's Hound Dog off the charts with his version of Bear Cat. James Cotton fans will be intrigued to hear Jimmy's sandpaper voice (but no harp) on his earliest sides. And not to be missed are one-man bands Joe Hill Louis and Dr. Ross blasting their harmonicas and wanging away on drum kits and guitars sounding like a full blues band in a jook. No doubt that a certain Mr. P. was listening to some of these same titles on his radio set while growing up in Memphis. Informative notes by journalist-aficionado Bill Dahl and some nice photos are supplied in the enclosed 8 page booklet. Get this set now. Like so many of the great vintage blues reissues, this won't be around long and you'll kick yourself if you miss it.

A message from the compilation producer
This comprehensive three CD, 75-track collection covers some of the best blues recordings Sun Records has to offer. Featured in this box are tracks by genuine blues legends like: Rufus Thomas, whose "Bear Cat" was Sun's first national hit in `53; Little Junior Parker (including the original "Mystery Train"), Walter Horton, Earl Hooker, Pinetop Perkins, James Cotton, Little Milton (including his rocking 1953 debut single, "Somebody Told Me"), Billy "The Kid" Emerson's original 1955 waxing of "Red Hot," Rosco Gordon, and plenty more.