Audio CD review:
Muddy Waters - The Chess Box :Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters - The Chess Box :Muddy Waters

Band: Muddy Waters Title: The Chess Box :Muddy Waters Rating: Release Date: 13 October, 1989 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 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 Blues 7: Mean Red Spider 8: Streamline Woman 9: Little Geneva 10: Rollin' And Tumblin', Part 1 11: Rolling Stone 12: Walkin' Blues 13: Louisiana Blues 14: Evans Shuffle 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: Hoochie Coochie Man 25: I Just Want To Make Love To You 26: I'm Ready 27: Smokestack Lightnin' 28: Young Fashioned Ways 29: Mannish Boy 30: Trouble No More 31: Forty Days And Forty Nights 32: Just To Be With You 33: Don't Go No Farther 34: Diamonds At Your Feet 35: I Love The Life I Live, I Live The Life I Love 36: Rock Me 37: Look What You Done 38: Got My Mojo Working 39: Good News 40: Evil 41: She's Nineteen Years Old 42: Close To You 43: Walkin' Thru The Park 44: Blues Before Sunrise (With False Starts, Dialogue) 45: Lonseome Road Blues 46: Take The Bitter With The Sweet (Dialogue, False Start, Alt. Take) 47: She's Into Something 48: Southbound Train 49: Double Trouble 50: I Feel So Good (Live) 51: You Shook Me 52: You Need Love 53: Twenty Four Hours 54: Elevate Me Mama (Alt. Take) 55: So Glad I'm Living 56: Myu Love Stirkes Like Lightning 57: You Don't Have To Go (Alt. Take) 58: Things That I Used To Do 59: My Home Is In The Delta 60: Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 61: The Same Thing 62: You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had 63: Short Dress Woman 64: Making Friends 65: Black Night (Hornless Alt. Mix) 66: Bird Nest On The Ground 67: Country Boy (Live) 68: Sugar Sweet (Alt. 'Fathers And Sons' Take) 69: All Aboard (Alt. 'Fathers And Sons' Take) 70: Going Down Slow (Live) 71: Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone (Original Hornless London Mix) 72: Can't Get No Grindin' (What's The Matter With The Meal)

Editoral Review 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. For the completist, this three-CD, 72-song box remains the definitive collection of one of the leading lights of Chicago blues. 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 .. You can see a complete list of all Muddy Waters discography, or go back to the Muddy Waters tabs