Boxset / Compilation · 2007
Tracklist
1-1 –Sonny Boy Williamson Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl 3:02
1-2 –Sonny Boy Williamson Blue Bird Blues 3:08
1-3 –Sonny Boy Williamson Jackson Blues 2:58
1-4 –Sonny Boy Williamson Get The Bottle Up And Go 2:34
1-5 –Sonny Boy Williamson Sugar Mama Blues 2:59
1-6 –Sonny Boy Williamson Skinny Woman 3:01
1-7 –Robert Lee McCoy Tough Luck 3:06
1-8 –Robert Lee McCoy Prowling Night-Hawk 3:05
1-9 –Robert Lee McCoy Sweet Pepper Mama 2:43
1-10 –Big Joe Williams I Know You Gonna Miss Me 3:03
1-11 –Big Joe Williams Rootin' Ground Hog 2:57
1-12 –Big Joe Williams Brother James 2:53
1-13 –Big Joe Williams I Won't Be In Hard Luck No More 2:39
1-14 –Sonny Boy Williamson Up The Country Blues 3:19
1-15 –Sonny Boy Williamson Worried Me Blues 2:32
1-16 –Sonny Boy Williamson Black Gal Blues 2:49
1-17 –Sonny Boy Williamson Collector Man Blues 3:19
1-18 –Sonny Boy Williamson Frigidaire Blues 3:02
1-19 –Sonny Boy Williamson Suzanna Blues 3:00
1-20 –Sonny Boy Williamson Early In The Morning 2:49
1-21 –Sonny Boy Williamson Project Highway 2:55
1-22 –Robert Lee McCoy My Friend Has Forsaken Me 3:08
1-23 –Robert Lee McCoy Mean Black Cat 2:43
1-24 –Robert Lee McCoy Brickyard 3:18
1-25 –Robert Lee McCoy Mamie Lee 3:07
1-26 –Robert Lee McCoy Take It Easy Baby 2:30
2-1 –Robert Lee McCoy I Have Spent My Bonus 2:55
2-2 –Robert Lee McCoy CNA 3:22
2-3 –Henry Townsend Lose Your Man 3:29
2-4 –Henry Townsend All I've Got's Gone 3:26
2-5 –Henry Townsend A Ramblin' Mind 2:57
2-6 –Henry Townsend Now I Stay Away 2:49
2-7 –Sonny Boy Williamson My Little Cornelius 3:11
2-8 –Sonny Boy Williamson Decoration Blues 3:31
2-9 –Sonny Boy Williamson You Can Lead Me 3:09
2-10 –Sonny Boy Williamson Moonshine 3:01
2-11 –Sonny Boy Williamson Miss Louisa Blues 2:56
2-12 –Sonny Boy Williamson Sunny Land 3:18
2-13 –Sonny Boy Williamson I'm Tired Trucking My Blues Away 2:57
2-14 –Sonny Boy Williamson Down South 3:07
2-15 –Sonny Boy Williamson Beauty Parlor 3:28
2-16 –Sonny Boy Williamson Until My Love Come Down 3:13
2-17 –Elijah Jones (2) Katy Fly 3:20
2-18 –Elijah Jones (2) Big Boat 3:05
2-19 –Elijah Jones (2) Only Boy Child 3:05
2-20 –Elijah Jones (2) Lonesome Man 2:56
2-21 –Elijah Jones (2) Mean Actin' Mama 2:59
2-22 –Elijah Jones (2) Stuff Stomp 2:45
2-23 –Yank Rachell J. L. Dairy Blues 3:24
2-24 –Yank Rachell Rachel Blues 3:08
2-25 –Yank Rachell Lake Michigan Blues 2:58
3-1 –Yank Rachell I'm Wild And Crazy As Can Be 3:12
3-2 –Sonny Boy Williamson Honey Bee Blues 3:05
3-3 –Sonny Boy Williamson My Baby I've Been Your Slave 3:05
3-4 –Sonny Boy Williamson Whiskey Headed Blues 2:56
3-5 –Sonny Boy Williamson Lord, Oh Lord Blues 3:03
3-6 –Sonny Boy Williamson You Give An Account 3:14
3-7 –Sonny Boy Williamson Shannon Street Blues 3:24
3-8 –Sonny Boy Williamson You've Been Foolin' Round Town 2:48
3-9 –Sonny Boy Williamson Deep Down In The Ground 3:17
3-10 –Yank Rachell When You Feel Down And Out 3:18
3-11 –Yank Rachell Texas Tommy 3:10
3-12 –Yank Rachell It's All Over 3:01
3-13 –Yank Rachell My Mind Got Bad 3:05
3-14 –Jackson Joe Williams Get Your Head Trimmed Down 3:14
3-15 –Jackson Joe Williams Peach Orchard Mama 3:21
3-16 –Jackson Joe Williams Haven't Seen No Whiskey 3:24
3-17 –Jackson Joe Williams Goin' Up The Mountain 3:17
3-18 –Speckled Red You Got To Fix It 3:13
3-19 –Sonny Boy Williamson Number Five Blues 3:30
3-20 –Sonny Boy Williamson Christmas Morning Blues 3:26
3-21 –Sonny Boy Williamson Susie-Q 3:14
3-22 –Sonny Boy Williamson Blue Bird Blues - Part 2 3:26
3-23 –Sonny Boy Williamson Little Girl Blues 3:21
3-24 –Sonny Boy Williamson Low Down Ways 3:14
4-1 –Sonny Boy Williamson Goodbye Red 3:12
4-2 –Sonny Boy Williamson The Right Kind Of Life 3:23
4-3 –Sonny Boy Williamson Insurance Man Blues 3:21
4-4 –Sonny Boy Williamson Rainy Day Blues 3:21
4-5 –Rambling Bob Next Door Neighbor 2:44
4-6 –Rambling Bob Big Apple Blues 3:08
4-7 –Rambling Bob Freight Train Blues 3:05
4-8 –Rambling Bob Good Gamblin' 3:08
4-9 –Sonny Boy Williamson Bad Luck Blues 2:42
4-10 –Sonny Boy Williamson My Little Baby 3:00
4-11 –Sonny Boy Williamson Doggin' My Love Around 3:16
4-12 –Sonny Boy Williamson Little Low Woman Blues 2:49
4-13 –Sonny Boy Williamson Good For Nothing Blues 3:05
4-14 –Sonny Boy Williamson Sugar Mama Blues No. 2 3:11
4-15 –Sonny Boy Williamson Good Gravy 2:49
4-16 –Sonny Boy Williamson T.B. Blues 3:01
4-17 –Sonny Boy Williamson Someting Goin' On Wrong 3:09
4-18 –Sonny Boy Williamson Good Gal Blues 2:47
4-19 –Sonny Boy Williamson Joe Louis And John Henry Blues 2:58
4-20 –Sonny Boy Williamson Thinking My Blues Away 2:56
4-21 –Sonny Boy Williamson I'm Not Pleasing You 2:47
4-22 –Sonny Boy Williamson New Jail House Blues 2:52
4-23 –Sonny Boy Williamson Life Time Blues 2:45
4-24 –Sonny Boy Williamson Miss Ida Lee 2:58
4-25 –Sonny Boy Williamson Tell Me, Baby 2:52
Line-up/Musicians
Guitar – Big Bill Broonzy (tracks: 4-9 to 4-25), Big Joe Williams, Henry Townsend
Guitar, Vocalese – Robert Lee McCoy
Guitar, Vocals – Elijah Jones (2), Jackson Joe Williams (tracks: 3-2 to 3-17)
Harmonica, Guitar – Sonny Boy Williamson
Mandolin – Willie Hatcher (tracks: 3-18 to 4-4)
Mandolin, Vocals – Yank Rachell
Piano – Walter Davis
Piano, Vocals – Speckled Red (tracks: 3-18 to 4-8)
About this release
JSP Records – JSP7797(UK)
Recording dates:
tracks 1-1 to 1-13: May 5, 1937, Aurora, IL;
1-14 to 2-6: November 11, 1937, Aurora, IL;
2-7 to 3-1: March 13, 1938, Aurora IL;
3-2 to 3-17: June 17, 1938, Aurora, IL;
3-18 to 4-8: December 17-18, 1938, Aurora, IL;
4-9 to 4-25: July 21, 1939, Chicago.
Thanks to snobb for the addition