Greatest Blues Legends

"Es liest sich wie ein WHO IS WHO des amerikanischen Blues: Diese 10-CD-Box präsentiert zwanzig Alben der größten Namen des Genres. Von B.B. King bis Muddy Waters, von Charlie Patton bis Robert Johnson, von T-Bone Walker bis John Lee Hooker - das Beste der Besten. Auch kaum zu toppen ist der Preis, denn diese Box mit insgesamt zwanzig Klassikern wird im Handel nur etwas mehr als ein reguläres CD-Album kosten. Inklusive der Original-Cover und Kurzbiografien."

Inhalt
CD1
MUDDY WATERS - "MUDDY WATERS AT
NEWPORT (1960)
Born: McKinley Morganfield (1915 - 1983). American blues musician
and considered by many to be a founder of the modern Chicago
Blues style. A powerful inspiration in the emergence of the electric
blues oriented groups in the UK during the 60s. Muddy Waters was
inducted into the "Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

1. I Got My Brand on You (Morganfield)
2. I m Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Morganfield)
3. Baby Please Don t You Energy (Morganfield)
4. Soon Forgotten (Oden)
5. Tiger in Your Tank (Dixon)
6. I Feel So Good (Broonzy)
7. I ve Got My Mojo Working (Morganfield)
8. I ve Got My Mojo Working PART II (Morganfield)
9. Goodbye Newport Blues (Hughes/Morganfield)
   Bass Andrew Stevenson + Drums Francis Clay + Guitar Tat Harris +
   Harmonica James Cotton, Piano Otis Spann & Vocals track 9) + Vocals & Guitar
   Muddy Waters
   MUDDY WATERS - "MUDDY WATERS SINGS
   BIG BILL (1960)
10. Tell Me Baby (Broonzy)
11. Southbound Train (Broonzy)
12. When I Get To Thinking (Melka)
13. Just a Dream (On My Mind) (Broonzy)
14. Double Trouble (Melka)
15. I Feel So Good (Broonzy)
16. Baby, I Done Got Wise (Morganfield)
17. Mopper s Blues (Broonzy)
18. Lonesome Road Blues (Broonzy)
19. Hey Hey (Broonzy)
    CD2
    HOWLIN WOLF - "MOANIN IN THE MOONLIGHT
    (1958)
    Born: Chester Arthur Burnett (1910 - 1976). American Blues singer,
    guitarist and harmonica player. Inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of
    Fame in 1991.
20. Moanin at Midnight (Burnett)
21. How Many More Years (Burnett)
22. Smokestack Lightnin (Burnett)
23. Baby How Long (Burnett)
24. No Place to Go (Burnett)
25. All Night Boogie (Burnett)
26. Evil (Burnett)
27. I m Leavin You (Burnett)
28. Moanin for My Baby (Burnett)
29. I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline) (Burnett)
30. Fourty-Four (Burnett)
31. Somebody in My Home (Burnett)
    HOWLIN WOLF - "HOWLIN WOLF (1962)
32. Shake for Me (Dixon)
33. The Red Rooster (Dixon)
34. You ll Be Mine (Dixon)
35. Who s Been Talkin (Burnett)
36. Wang-Dang Doodle (Dixon)
37. Little Baby (Dixon)
38. Spoonful (Dixon)
39. Going down Slow (St. Louis Jimmy)
40. Down in the Bottom (Dixon)
41. Back Door Man (Dixon)
42. Howlin for My Baby (Dixon)
43. Tell Me (Burnett/Doxon)
    CD3
    SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON -"DOWN AND OUT BLUES (1959)
    Born: Alex Miller (1899 - 1965). American blues singer & harmonica
    player at the emergence of electric blues.
    Research has shown that Miller was born Aleck Ford on the Sara Jones
    Plantation in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. He took on the name of
    his sharecropper stepfather, Jim Miller. His gravestone lists his date
    of birth as March 11, 1908. The tombstone lists his death as 23 June
44. Such is the mystery of blues legends.
45. Don t Start Me to Talkin (Williamson)
46. I Don t Know (Williamson)
47. All My Love in Vain (Williamson)
48. The Key (To Your Door) (Williamson)
49. Keep It to Yourself (Williamson)
50. Dissatisfied (Williamson)
51. Fattening Frogs for Snakes (Williamson)
52. Wake up Baby (Williamson)
53. Your Funeral and My Trial (Williamson)
54. "99 (Williamson)
55. Cross My Heart (Williamson)
56. Let Me Explain (Williamson)
    Bass Willie Dixon (tracks: 2, 4 to 12) + Drums Fred Below + Guitar Jimmy
    Rogers (tracks: 1, 3) & Luther Tucker (tracks: 2, 4 to 12) & Muddy Waters (tracks:
    1, 3) & Robert Jr. Lockwood (tracks: 2, 4 to 12), Piano Otis Spann (tracks: 1, 3, 6,
    7 to 12) + Vocals & Harmonica Sonny Boy Williamson
    ALBERT KING - "THE BIG BLUES (1962)
    Born: Albert Nelson (1923 - 1992). American singer, guitarist and songwriter.
    Albert King is one of the most influential blues guitarists of the
    1950s and 1960s. A recording artist since the late 1940s, he enjoyed his
    biggest commercial successes while signed to the Stax label from 1966
    until 1974.
    ... Muddy Waters At Newport (1960)
    Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill (1960) Howlin' Wolf
    »Moanin' In The Moonlight« (1958)
    »Howlin' Wolf« (1962)
    Sonny Boy Williamson »Down And Out Blues« (1959)
    Albert King - »The Big Blues« (1962)
    B. B. King - »Singin' The Blues« (1957)
    B. B. King - »King Of The Blues« (1960)
    »Let's Hide Away And Dance Away With Freddie King« (1961)
    Robert Johnson - »King Of The Delta Blues Singers« (1961)
    Elmore James - »Blues After Hours« (1960)
    »Immortal Charlie Patton No. 1« (1961)
    T-Bone Walker - »T-Bone Blues« (1959)
    »Blind Lemon Jefferson« (1961)
    Lightnin' Hopkins - »Mojo Hand« (1962)
    Lightnin' Hopkins - »Lightnin' Strikes« (1962)