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01/01/1997 | Chess
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All Music Guide Review
This second volume of a two-volume entry in MCA's Chess 50th Anniversary reissue series chronicles the second decade of blues classics produced by the landmark company. Although Chess' big four (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, and Sonny Boy Williamson) are all finely represented, influential sides by Elmore James ("Madison Blues"), Otis Rush ("So Many Roads, So Many Trains"), and John Lee Hooker (his monochord boogie treatment of Amos Milburn's "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer") pepper the mix as well. As Chess moved into the soul market, so it was that latter-day blues sides by Little Milton, Koko Taylor, and Etta James took on a more pronounced R&B edge, and it is these sides that close this compilation in a near perfect bookend fashion. Extra special highlight: Etta James' nitro reading of Jimmy Reed's "Baby, What You Want Me to Do," recorded live in 1964. ~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide
Chess Blues Classics: 1957-1967 Track Listing
Credits of Chess Blues Classics: 1957-1967
- Andy McKaie
- Producer, Compilation Producer
- Jack Meyers
- Bass
- Gene Miller
- Trumpet
- Muddy Waters
- Vocals, Slide Guitar, Performer
- Bob Neely
- Sax (Tenor)
- Floyd Newman
- Saxophone
- Odie Payne
- Drums
- Earl Phillips
- Drums
- Milton Rector
- Bass
- Otis Rush
- Guitar, Vocals, Performer
- Louis Satterfield
- Bass
- Dick Shurman
- Liner Notes
- Gerald Sims
- Guitar
- Otis Spann
- Piano
- Andrew Stephenson
- Bass
- Charles Stepney
- Piano
- Luther Tucker
- Guitar
- Aaron Varnell
- Saxophone
- Johnny Big Moose Walker
- Organ
- Richard Waters
- Drums
- Sonny Boy Williamson
- Harmonica, Vocals, Performer
- Roger Dawkins
- Drums
- Dewey Oldham
- Organ, Piano
- Erick Labson
- Digital Remastering
- Phil Wright
- Arranger
- Ray Flerlage
- Photography
- Geary Chansley
- Photo Research
- Billy Davis
- Producer
- Marion Wright
- Bass
- Gavrell Cooper
- Sax (Tenor)
- Vonzell Cooper
- Organ
- Johnny Jones
- Piano
- Sam Lay
- Drums
- David T. Walker
- Guitar
- Jody Williams
- Guitar
- David Hines
- Trumpet
- Homesick James Williamson
- Guitar
- Robert Lockwood, Jr.
- Guitar
- Carl Banks
- Organ
- Ralph Bass
- Producer
- Fred Below
- Drums
- Freeman Brown
- Drums
- J.T. Brown
- Sax (Tenor)
- Howlin' Wolf
- Guitar, Performer, Harmonica, Vocals
- Eddie "Guitar" Burns
- Guitar
- Little Milton
- Guitar, Performer, Vocals
- Leonard Caston
- Piano
- Charles Chalmers
- Saxophone
- Leonard Chess
- Producer
- Phil Chess
- Producer
- Francis Clay
- Drums
- Frank Driggs
- Photography
- Al Duncan
- Drums
- Mike Fink
- Design
- Rick Hall
- Producer
- Donald Hankins
- Sax (Baritone)
- Pat Hare
- Guitar
- David Hood
- Bass (Electric)
- George Hunter
- Drums
- Clifton James
- Drums
- Elmore James
- Guitar, Performer, Vocals
- Jimmy Johnson
- Guitar
- Hosea Lee Kennard
- Piano
- Lafayette Leake
- Piano
- Albert Lowe
- Guitar
- Maurice White
- Drums
- James Cotton
- Harmonica
- Willie Dixon
- Bass, Producer
- Buddy Guy
- Guitar, Vocals, Performer
- Earl Hooker
- Guitar
- John Lee Hooker
- Guitar, Vocals, Performer
- Big Walter Horton
- Harmonica
- Etta James
- Vocals, Performer
- Freddie King
- Guitar
- Little Walter
- Harmonica, Vocals, Performer
- Matt "Guitar" Murphy
- Guitar
- Robert Nighthawk
- Guitar
- A.C. Reed
- Sax (Tenor)
- Hubert Sumlin
- Guitar
- Koko Taylor
- Vocals, Performer
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