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The Essential Etta James comprises 44 tracks summarizing the long and brilliant Chess tenure of "Miss Peaches," Etta James, opening with her 1960 smash "All I Could Do Was Cry," and encompassing her torchy, fully orchestrated ballads "At Last," "My Dearest Darling," and "Trust in Me," and continuing on through her 1962 gospel-rocker "Something's Got a Hold on Me," the Chicago soul standouts "I Prefer You" and "842-3089," and her 1967 Muscle Shoals-cut smash "Tell Mama." A few of the '70s sides that conclude the two-disc set seem like filler when compared to what preceded them, but most of the essentials are aboard. ~ Bill Dahl, All Music Guide
The Essential Etta James
06/08/1993 | Chess
All Music Guide Review
The Essential Etta James Track Listing
Credits of The Essential Etta James
- Ken Marco
- Guitar
- Andy McKaie
- Producer, Compilation Producer
- Gabriel Mekler
- Keyboards, Producer
- Gene Miller
- Trumpet
- Larry Mizell
- Arp
- Larry Nash
- Keyboards
- Floyd Newman
- Saxophone
- Louis Spears
- Bass (Upright)
- Charles Stepney
- Vibraphone
- John Strother
- Engineer
- Marvell Thomas
- Piano
- Phil Thomas
- Percussion
- Aaron Varnell
- Saxophone
- Richard Waters
- Drums
- Wah Wah Watson
- Guitar
- Murray Watson
- Trumpet
- William D. "Smitty" Smith
- Keyboards
- David Ritz
- Liner Notes
- Roger Dawkins
- Drums
- Dewey Oldham
- Organ, Piano
- Vartan
- Art Direction
- David Henderson
- Bass
- Kenny Rice
- Drums
- Raymond Orr
- Trumpet
- Sidney Pinchback
- Guitar
- Billy Davis
- Producer
- Marion Wright
- Bass
- Gavrell Cooper
- Sax (Tenor)
- Vonzell Cooper
- Programming
- Bobby Martin
- Producer
- Lawrence Hamilton
- Drums
- Gene Barge
- Sax (Tenor)
- Lowell George
- Guitar
- David T. Walker
- Guitar
- The Moonglows
- Vocals (Background)
- Monk Higgins
- Arranger, Producer
- Carl Banks
- Organ
- Ralph Bass
- Producer
- Barry Beckett
- Organ
- Milton Bland
- Piano
- Reggie Boyd
- Bass
- Ben Branch
- Trombone, Sax (Tenor)
- Oscar Brashear
- Trumpet
- Freeman Brown
- Drums
- Charles Chalmers
- Saxophone
- Gary Coleman
- Percussion
- George Davis
- Piano
- Al Duncan
- Drums
- Esmond Edwards
- Producer
- Morris Ellis
- Trombone
- Harvey Fuqua
- Vocals, Performer
- Burgess Gardner
- Trumpet
- Rick Hall
- Producer
- Riley Hampton
- Arranger, Conductor
- Willie Henderson
- Trombone
- Delbert Hill
- Sax (Baritone)
- David Hood
- Bass (Electric), ?
- Bill Inglot
- Engineer
- Jimmy Johnson
- Guitar
- Danny Kortchmar
- Guitar
- Albert Lowe
- Guitar
- Sugar Pie DeSanto
- Vocals, Performer
- John Young
- Piano
- King Errisson
- Conga
- Chuck Rainey
- Bass
- Etta James
- Vocals, Main Performer
- Cash McCall
- Guitar
- Matt "Guitar" Murphy
- Guitar
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