This collection of Chicago blues features some of the toughest & most down home recordings of the mid to late 50's. Early recordings of ALBERT KING, JOHN BRIM & JB LENOIR are featured along with choice obscurities by JODY WILLIAMS, BABY BOY WARREN, HENRY GRAY & many more. Some of these sides eventually ended up on Chess but these are the originals in great sound........
1 Bad Luck Blues - Albert King
2 Mama Talk to Your Daughter - J.B. Lenoir
3 West Coast Blues - Ernest Lewis
4 Tough Times - John Brim
5 (I Declare) That Ain't Right - Henry Gray
6 Cool Playing Blues - Curtis Jones
7 Easy Lovin' - Little Papa Joe
8 Fine Girl - J.B. Lenoir
9 Looking for My Baby - Little Papa Joe
10 Murder in the First Degree - St. Louis Jimmy
11 Blue Blues Boogie - Nature Boy Brown
12 Yes, She's Gone - Dusty Brown
13 Santa Fe - Baby Boy Warren
14 Devil Is a Busy Man - Sunnyland Slim
15 Crosstown Blues - Snooky Pryor
16 No More Lovin' - Ernest Lewis
17 Falling Rain Blues - Little Willie Foster
18 Gary Stomp - John Brim
19 Wrong Blues - Curtis Jones
20 Eisenhower Blues - J.B. Lenoir
21 Mattie Mae - Baby Boy Warren
22 Four Day Jump - Little Willie Foster
23 Going Back to Memphis - Sunnyland Slim
24 Watch Yourself - Henry Gray
25 (Be on Your) Merry Way - Albert King