Disc 3
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. Mellow Down Easy - Little Walter ~ Various Artists |  |
| 2. My Eyes (Keep Me In Trouble) - Muddy Waters ~ Various Artists | |
| 3. My Babe - Little Walter ~ Various Artists | |
| 4. You Got To Love Me - Billy Boy Arnold (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | |
| 5. Walking The Blues - Willie Dixon ~ Various Artists | |
| 6. Don't Start Me To Talkin' - Sonny Boy Williamson ~ Various Artists | |
| 7. Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf ~ Various Artists | |
| 8. 29 Ways - Willie Dixon ~ Various Artists | |
| 9. Right To Love You - Paul Gayten/Myrtle Jones (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | |
| 10. Ain't Nobody's Business - Jimmy Witherspoon ~ Various Artists | |
| 11. I'm Leaving You - Otis Spann ~ Various Artists | |
| 12. Break Of Day - Howlin' Wolf ~ Various Artists | |
| 13. Please Don't Go - Floyd Dixon (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | |
| 14. Keep It To Yourself - Sonny Boy Williamson ~ Various Artists | |
| 15. Walking By Myself - Jimmy Rogers ~ Various Artists | |
| 16. Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters ~ Various Artists | |
| 17. Fattening Frogs For Snakes - Sonny Boy Williamson (alternate take) ~ Various Artists | |
| 18. Slow Leake - Lafayette Leake (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | |
| 19. Sitting On Top Of The World - Howlin' Wolf ~ Various Artists | |
| 20. She Don't Know - J.B. Lenoir ~ Various Artists | |
| 21. Your Funeral And My Trial - Sonny Boy Williamson ~ Various Artists | |
| 22. Key To The Highway - Little Walter ~ Various Artists | |
| 23. Douhble Trouble - Muddy Waters (previously unreleased, alternate take) ~ Various Artists | |
| 24. Come On Home - Eddie Boyd ~ Various Artists | |
| 25. Goat, The - Sonny Boy Williamson (band track) ~ Various Artists | |
| 26. So Many Roads, So Many Trains - Otis Rush ~ Various Artists | |
(P) 1992 UMG Recordings, Inc.
(C) 1992 Geffen Records
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| Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | This 4 CD box set is comprised of 101 Chess tracks--including 46 rarites and 19 previously unreleased songs. The set includes a 64-page booklet with full track-by-track annotations, rare photos, and extensive liner notes by noted blues expert Mary Katherine Aldin. | | Producers include: Sam Phillips, Oliver Sain, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess, Willie Dixon. | | Compilation producer: Andy McKaie. | | Digitally remastered by Erick Labson (MCA Studios, North Hollywood, California). | | Chess Blues is a superlative four-CD box set featuring important tracks by all the main stars of the label (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson), as well as much previously unreleased material. A well-done retrospective of Chicago blues in its heyday, as recorded by America's greatest blues label, Chess. ~ Cub Koda |
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| Technical Info |
| Release Date : 02/02/1993 | | Original Release Date : 1992 | | Catalog ID : 9340 | | Label : Chess (USA) | | Number of Discs : 4 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Mixed | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00076732934029 |
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| Professional Reviews |
| Q (5/93, p.109)
- 4 Stars - Excellent - "...abbreviated but still staggering account of [the Chess brothers's] proprietorial claim on Chicago blues....an astonishing collection..."Musician (5/93, p.86)
- "...it's the mix of the familiar with the relatively obscure, the consistency of vision, that makes CHESS BLUES so compelling..." |
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