5018755512117

Down Home Blues - Chicago Volume 3: The Special Stuff

Various Artists

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Format: 4CD

Cat No: WNRCD5121

Release Date:  27 October 2023

Label:  Wienerworld

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  4

Barcode:  5018755512117

Genres:  Blues  

  • Description

    Down Home Blues: The Special Stuff is the third volume of Chicago Blues post-war down home blues music from Wienerworld: 108 tracks of rare, unissued or alternate takes of blues recorded in Chicago from 1941 through to 1961.



    A 4CD set, packaged in a deluxe digipak with an outer slip case, featuring 108 tracks - all remastered, including both previously unissued and alternate takes of well-known recordings. These records are from the late Peter Moody's private collection, and many of them are otherwise unavailable.



    Includes an outstanding 15,000 word, 88-page book, by renowned blues historian Chris Bentley on the post-war Chicago scene; many rare period photographs illustrate the essay throughout; as well as full sessionography detailing the where, when and who of the recordings, expertly compiled by blues expert Mike Rowe.



    While CD1 sets the scene with the established pre-war bluesmen such as Robert Lockwood Jr and Sonny Boy Williamson, CD2 charts the rise of the amplified electric blues bands following the second world war - such as in never-before-issued recordings of Johnny Temple. CD3 continues the Muddy Waters sequence started on CD2 - and introduces Little Hudson, JB Lenoir and Eddie Taylor.



    While beginning with a celebration of Chicago's flagship rock 'n' rollers with a range of tracks from each of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley - CD4 is rounded off by some largely unknown and unheralded artists including Grover Pruitt, Lucky Carmichael, Minnie Thomas.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Black Spider Blues - Robert Lockwood
      • 2. I'm Gonna Train My Baby - Robert Lockwood
      • 3. County Jail Blues - Big Maceo
      • 4. Texas Blues - Big Maceo
      • 5. Little Boy Blue - Robert Lockwood
      • 6. Take A Little Walk With Me - Robert Lockwood
      • 7. Tell It To The O.P.A. - Ann Sorter
      • 8. Bad Stuff - Ann Sorter
      • 9. Do You Remember - Big Maceo
      • 10. Big City Blues - Big Maceo
      • 11. Miss Bessie Mae - Sunnyland Slim
      • 12. You've Gotta Stop This Mess - Alfred Wallace (The Fat Man)
      • 13. Keep On Sailing - Jazz Gillum
      • 14. Fast Woman Blues - Jazz Gillum
      • 15. Long Razor Blues - Jazz Gillum
      • 16. Southern Dream - Sonny Boy Williamson
      • 17. Bring Me Another Half Pint - Sonny Boy Williamson
      • 18. P Vine Blues - Big Joe Williams
      • 19. I'm A Highway Man - Big Joe Williams
      • 20. I'm Gonna Train My Baby - Jazz Gillum
      • 21. Gonna Take My Rap - Jazz Gillum
      • 22. I Love You For Myself - Sonny Boy Williamson
      • 23. Alcohol Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
      • 24. King Biscuit Stomp - Big Joe Williams
      • 25. Don't You Leave Me Here - Big Joe Williams
      • 26. Memory of Sonny Boy - Forest City Joe
      • 27. A Woman On Every Street - Forest City Joe

      Disc 2

      • 1. Biscuit Roller - St Louis Jimmy
      • 2. I'm Sorry Now - St Louis Jimmy
      • 3. Sawdust Bottom - Forest City Joe (Previously Unissued)
      • 4. Ash Street Boogie - Forest City Joe (Previously Unissued)
      • 5. Boogie Man (Bogey Man) - Willie Mahon
      • 6. It Keeps Raining - Willie Mahon
      • 7. Dust My Broom - Robert Lockwood Jr
      • 8. Pearly B - Robert Lockwood Jr (Previously Unissued)
      • 9. Your Evil Ways - St Louis Jimmy
      • 10. Whiskey Drinkin' Woman - St Louis Jimmy
      • 11. Pretty Woman - Johnny Temple (Previously Unissued)
      • 12. Jack and Jill - Johnny Temple (Previously Unissued)
      • 13. Drinkin' Woman - St Louis Jimmy
      • 14. Why Work - St Louis Jimmy
      • 15. Pete's Shuffle Boogie (Part 1) - Matu Roy
      • 16. Pete's Shuffle Boogie (Part 2) - Matu Roy
      • 17. Aw Aw Baby - Robert Lockwood
      • 18. Sweet Woman From Maine - Robert Lockwood
      • 19. Hard Work Boogie - St Louis Jimmy
      • 20. Good Book Blues - St Louis Jimmy
      • 21. Down Home Child - Sunnyland Slim
      • 22. Leaving Your Town - Sunnyland Slim
      • 23. Wait Baby - Little Johnny Jones (Previously Unissued)
      • 24. Hoy Hoy - Little Johnny Jones
      • 25. TV Mama - Big Joe Turner
      • 26. Iodine In My Coffee - Muddy Waters (Previously Unissued)
      • 27. Flood - Muddy Waters (Previously Unissued)

      Disc 3

      • 1. If It's All Night Long - Little Brother
      • 2. New Vicksburg Blues - Little Brother
      • 3. She's Alright - Muddy Waters (Alternate Take)
      • 4. This Pain - Muddy Waters (Previously Unissued)
      • 5. Sad Sad Day - Muddy Waters (Previously Unissued)
      • 6. Smokestack Lightning - Muddy Waters (Previously Unissued)
      • 7. Hoy Hoy - Little Johnny Jones (Alternate Take)
      • 8. Chicago Blues - Little Johnny Jones (Previously Unissued)
      • 9. Doin' The Best I Can - Little Johnny Jones
      • 10. Come Back Baby - Little Walter (Previously Unissued)
      • 11. My Kind of Baby - Little Walter (Previously Unissued)
      • 12. Pinetop's Boogie Blues - Little Brother
      • 13. Arkansas Blues - Little Brother
      • 14. Ah'w Baby - Little Walter (Alternate Take)
      • 15. Mouth Harp Mambo - JB Hutto (Previously Unissued)
      • 16. Things Are So Slow - JB Hutto (Alternate Take)
      • 17. Skinny Mama - Floyd Jones
      • 18. Pet Rabbit - Baby Face Leroy
      • 19. I Have Married - JB Lenoir (Unissued)
      • 20. Ride 'Em On Down - Eddie Taylor (Previously Unissued)
      • 21. Stroll Out West - Eddie Taylor (Previously Unissued)
      • 22. Don't Hang Around - Little Hudson (Previously Unissued)
      • 23. Look Out - JT Brown (Previously Unissued)
      • 24. Do What I Say - JB Lenoir
      • 25. I Feel So All Alone - Jody Williams (Previously Unissued)
      • 26. She's Fine, She's Mine - Bo Diddley

      Disc 4

      • 1. Maybe Blues - Morris Pejoe
      • 2. Screaming And Crying - Morris Pejoe
      • 3. Deep Feeling - Chuck Berry
      • 4. How You've Changed - Chuck Berry
      • 5. Blue Feeling - Chuck Berry
      • 6. Worried Life Blues - Chuck Berry
      • 7. Sweet Sixteen - Chuck Berry
      • 8. I Got In To Find My Baby - Chuck Berry
      • 9. I Could Cry - Junior Wells
      • 10. Prison Bars All Around Me - Junior Wells
      • 11. I'm Looking For A Woman - Bo Diddley
      • 12. Before You Accuse Me - Bo Diddley
      • 13. Pretty Thing - Bo Diddley
      • 14. I Can Tell - Bo Diddley
      • 15. It's Been Too Long - Memphis Slim
      • 16. Four Wells - Memphis Slim
      • 17. Cold Blooded Woman - Memphis Slim
      • 18. One Man's Mad - Memphis Slim
      • 19. You Don't Love Me - Willie Cobbs
      • 20. Slow Down - Willie Cobbs
      • 21. Don't Let It Happen To You - Minnie Thomas
      • 22. Blues With A Feeling - Lucky Carmichael
      • 23. Fool For You Baby - Grover Pruitt
      • 24. Every Day and Every Night - Magic Sam/Shakey Jake (Previously Unissued)
      • 25. Have You Seen My Mother - Magic Sam/Shakey Jake (Previously Unissued)
      • 26. A Hard Road - Magic Sam/Shakey Jake (Previously Unissued)
      • 27. Leaving This Morning - Magic Sam/Shakey Jake (Previously Unissued)
      • 28. Sweet Home Chicago - Magic Sam/Shakey Jake (Previously Unissued)