Down Home Blues Chicago Volume 3: The Special Stuff [4 CDs]

Various Artists/Anthologies , Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, J.B. Hutto, Little Walter, Magic Sam, Sunnyland Slim, Big Joe Turner, Muddy Waters, Junior Wells , Sonny Boy Williamson

Down Home Blues Chicago Volume 3: The Special Stuff [4 CDs]


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 and including alternate takes of well-known recordings. All unissued and alternate take records are from the late Peter Moody's private collection, many of which are otherwise unavailable.


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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 and including alternate takes of well-known recordings. All unissued and alternate take records are from the late Peter Moody's private collection, many of which 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; plus full track details, 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 immediately following the second world war - such as in never-before-issued Chess 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. These obscure blues gems mirror the preceding Chicago set - regarding which RNR Magazine were willing to bet that "no matter how vast your blues collection, much of this wonderful music will be unfamiliar to you", and "even if your knowledge of blues is encyclopedic you won't even have heard of several of the performers" - a testament to the depth of Peter Moody's own collection.

 

Track Listing

Disc 1:
    • Robert Lockwood - Black Spider Blues
    • Robert Lockwood - I’m Gonna Train My Baby
    • Big Maceo - County Jail Blues
    • Big Maceo - Texas Blues
    • Robert Lockwood - Little Boy Blue
    • Robert Lockwood - Take A Little Walk With Me
    • Ann Sorter - Tell It To The O.P.A.
    • Ann Sorter - Bad Stuff
    • Big Maceo - Do You Remember
    • Big Maceo - Big City Blues
    • Sunnyland Slim - Miss Bessie Mae
    • Alfred Wallace (The Fat Man) - You’ve Gotta Stop This Mess
    • Jazz Gillum - Keep On Sailing
    • Jazz Gillum - Fast Woman Blues
    • Jazz Gillum - Long Razor Blues
    • Sonny Boy Williamson - Southern Dream
    • Sonny Boy Williamson - Bring Me Another Half Pint
    • Big Joe Williams - P Vine Blues
    • Big Joe Williams - I’m A Highway Man
    • Jazz Gillum - Gonna Take My Rap
    • Sonny Boy Williamson - I Love You For Myself
    • Sonny Boy Williamson - Alcohol Blues
    • Big Joe Williams - King Biscuit Stomp
    • Big Joe Williams - Don’t You Leave Me Here
    • Forest City Joe - Memory of Sonny Boy
    • Forest City Joe - A Woman On Every Street
Disc 2:
      • St Louis Jimmy - Biscuit Roller
      • St Louis Jimmy - I’m Sorry Now
      • Forest City Joe - Sawdust Bottom (Previously Unissued)
      • St Louis Jimmy - Ash Street Boogie (Previously Unissued)
      • Willie Mahon - Boogie Man (Bogey Man)
      • Willie Mahon - It Keeps Raining
      • Robert Lockwood Jr - Dust My Broom
      • Robert Lockwood Jr - Pearly B (Previously Unissued)
      • St Louis Jimmy - Your Evil Ways
      • St Louis Jimmy - Whiskey Drinkin’ Woman
      • Johnny Temple - Pretty Woman (Previously Unissued)
      • Johnny Temple - Jack and Jill (Previously Unissued)
      • St Louis Jimmy - Drinkin’ Woman
      • St Louis Jimmy - Why Work
      • Matu Roy - Pete’s Shuffle Boogie (Part 1)
      • Matu Roy - Pete’s Shuffle Boogie (Part 2)
      • Robert Lockwood - Aw Aw Baby
      • Robert Lockwood - Sweet Woman From Maine
      • St Louis Jimmy - Hard Work Boogie
      • St Louis Jimmy - Good Book Blues
      • Sunnyland Slim - Down Home Child
      • Sunnyland Slim - Leaving Your Town
      • Little Johnny Jones - Wait Baby (Previously Unissued)
      • Little Johnny Jones - Hoy Hoy
      • Big Joe Turner - TV Mama
      • Muddy Waters - Iodine In My Coffee (Previously Unissued)
      • Muddy Waters - Flood (Previously Unissued)
    Disc 3:
        • Little Brother - If It’s All Night Long
        • Little Brother - New Vicksburg Blues
        • Muddy Waters - She’s Alright (Alternate Take)
        • Muddy Waters - This Pain (Previously Unissued)
        • Muddy Waters - Sad Sad Day (Previously Unissued)
        • Muddy Waters - Smokestack Lightning (Previously Unissued)
        • Little Johnny Jones - Hoy Hoy (Alternate Take)
        • Little Johnny Jones - Chicago Blues (Previously Unissued)
        • Little Johnny Jones - Doin’ The Best I Can
        • Little Johnny Jones - Come Back Baby (Previously Unissued)
        • Little Walter - My Kind of Baby (Previously Unissued)
        • Little Brother - Pinetop’s Boogie Blues
        • Little Brother - Arkansas Blues
        • Little Walter - Ah’w Baby (Alternate Take)
        • JB Hutto - Mouth Harp Mambo (Previously Unissued )
        • JB Hutto - Things Are So Slow (Alternate Take)
        • Floyd Jones - Skinny Mama
        • Baby Face Leroy - Pet Rabbit
        • JB Lenoir - I Have Married (Previously Unissued)
        • Eddie Taylor - Ride ‘Em On Down (Previously Unissued)
        • Eddie Taylor - Stroll Out West (Previously Unissued)
        • Little Hudson - Don’t Hang Around (Previously Unissued)
        • JT Brown - Look Out
        • JB Lenoir - Do What I Say
        • Jody Williams - I Feel So All Alone (Previously Unissued)
        • Bo Diddley - She’s Fine, She’s Mine
      Disc 4:
        • Morris Pejoe - Maybe Blues
        • Morris Pejoe - Screaming And Crying
        • Chuck Berry - Deep Feeling
        • Chuck Berry - How You’ve Changed
        • Chuck Berry - Blue Feeling
        • Chuck Berry - Worried Life Blues
        • Chuck Berry - Sweet Sixteen
        • Chuck Berry - I Got To Find My Baby
        • Junior Wells - I Could Cry
        • Junior Wells - Prison Bars All Around Me
        • Bo Diddley - I’m Looking For A Woman
        • Bo Diddley - Before You Accuse Me
        • Bo Diddley - Pretty Thing
        • Bo Diddley - I Can Tell
        • Memphis Slim - It’s Been Too Long
        • Memphis Slim - Four Walls
        • Memphis Slim - Cold Blooded Woman
        • Memphis Slim - One Man’s Mad
        • Willie Cobbs - You Don’t Love Me
        • Willie Cobbs - Slow Down
        • Minnie Thomas - Don’t Let It Happen To You
        • Lucky Carmichael - Blues With A Feeling
        • Grover Pruitt - Fool For You Baby
        • Magic Sam/Shakey Jake - Every Day and Every Night (Previously Unissued)
        • Magic Sam/Shakey Jake - Have You Seen My Mother (Previously Unissued )
        • Magic Sam/Shakey Jake - A Hard Road (Previously Unissued)
        • Magic Sam/Shakey Jake - Leaving This Morning (Previously Unissued)
        • Magic Sam/Shakey Jake - Sweet Home Chicago (Previously Unissued)