tracks

Juke
Ends & Odds
Rocket 88
Help Me
Messin' With The Kid
Blues With A Feeling
Sugar Coated Love
Steady
I'll Be Around
I Was Fooled
Take A Little Walk With Me
Easy
Boogie Twist
Wolf Call Boogie
Last Night
I Got Love If You Want It
Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White
Christo Redemptor

notes

The Essential Blues Collection
* CD Bonus Tracks [7, 12, 13, 14]
This Compilation ℗ & © 1992 Rhino Records Inc.

01. Recorded Chicago, May 12, 1952. Checker single #758, Aug. 1952.
02. Recorded Chicago, Sept. 5, 1957. Vee-Jay single #304, Dec. 1958.
03. Recorded Chicago, Dec. 1965. From the album Chicago The Blues Today, Vol. 2, Vanguard #9217, 1966.
04. Recorded Chicago, Jan. 11, 1963. Checker single #1036, 1963.
05. Recorded Chicago, late 1965. From the album Chicago The Blues Today, Vol. 1, Vanguard #9216, 1966.
06. Session location and date unknown. From the album The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Elektra #7294, Nov. 1965.
07. Recorded Crowley, LA, 1958. Excello single #2143, Aug. 1958.
08. Recorded Birmingham, Alabama, 1961. Rex single #1014, 1961.
09. Recorded Chicago, Oct. 1954. Chess single #1584, Oct. 1954.
10. Recorded Chicago, May 1955. Vee-Jay single #146, Jan. 1955.
11. Recorded Chicago, 1976. From the album Low Blows, Rooster Blues #7610, 1988.
12. Recorded Memphis, early 1953. Sun single #180, March 1953.
13. Recorded Chicago, probably late 1950s. JOB single #1126, 1963.
14. Recorded Memphis, Jan. 8, 1954. Sun single #196, Jan. 1954.
15. Recorded Los Angeles, Oct. 3, 1968. From the album Blues With A Feeling, A Tribute To Little Walter, World Pacific #21887, 1969.
16. Recorded Crowley, LA, 1957. Excello single #2113, July 1957.
17. Session location and date unknown. From the album Butt Rockin’, Chrysalis #1319, 1981.
18. Session location and date unknown. From the album Tennessee Woman, Vanguard #6528, 1967.

Photos: Michael Ochs Archives, Venice, CA, Showtime Music Productions, Toronto

Track durations uncredited.
Has a different cover to Blues Masters, Volume 4: Harmonica Classics.

credits

Art Direction – Geoff Gans
Compilation Producer [Series Consultant] – Peter Guralnick
Compilation Producer [Series Produced By] – James Austin
Compiled By, Liner Notes – Cub Koda
Design [Logo] – Glenn Parsons
Design [Package] – Brigid Pearson, Rachel Gutek
Photography By – Denny Bruce, John Broven, Ray Flerlage
Remastered By – Bob Fisher

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Rhino Records Inc.
Copyright (c) – Rhino Records Inc.
Mastered At – Digital Domain
Glass Mastered At – Specialty Records Corporation

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