Chess Blues Classics: 1957-1967
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1997-03-25
Music Label: Chess
Soundtracks:
- Sitting On Top Of The World - Howlin' Wolf
- Fattening Frogs For Snakes - Sonny Boy Williamson
- Key To The Highway - Little Walter
- Take The Bitter With The Sweet - Muddy Waters
- Spoonful - Howlin' Wolf
- So Many Roads, So Many Trains - Otis Rush
- Madison Blues - Elmore James
- The Red Rooster - Howlin' Wolf
- You Shook Me - Muddy Waters
- Help Me - Sonny Boy Williamson
- Baby, What You Want Me To Do (Live) - Etta James
- My Time After A While - Buddy Guy
- We're Gonna Make It - Little Milton
- I Got What It Takes - Koko Taylor
- One Bourbon, One Scotch And One Beer - John Lee Hooker
- I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James
Free Music Notes for Chess Blues Classics: 1957-1967
Free Music Review: When Blues Was The Dues
Hit: 4 Stars
I have recently done a few commentaries on the legendary Sun Records label that produced more than its share of both black blues and white rockabilly stars as well as a galaxy of early rock and roll idols and classic songs. If one were to ask what other record company might have had such influence in those days that natural response should be Chicago's Chess Records that caught many of the black blues artists as they headed North to reach their own stardom once the limits of what Memphis had to offer a black recording artist gave out. This album is a 50th Anniversary tribute to many of those who made stardom or, at least, were one-shot johnnies (and janes) on that label from 1957-67.
No Chess Record tribute can be complete, can moreover even be considered as such, unless the name Howlin' Wolf is mentioned. He is represented here by one of the all time great blues songs (and maybe rock and roll as well) Little Red Rooster (as well as Sitting on Top of The World). I know I flipped out the first time I heard it covered by Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones in the early 1960's. When I heard the Wolf do it I went crazy. Others who stand out here are a litany of blues greats- Etta James, Koko Taylor, Elmore James and on and on. But here is the tip of the day. What you are getting this for is the Wolf's Little Red Rooster (okay, maybe also for Elmores's Madison Blues) and that is just fine.
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