The Chess Box

by Muddy Waters

The Chess Box cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Chess
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 3:36:04
  • Community rating: 4.25/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This monumental archival set thoroughly chronicles the Mississippi-born bluesman's transformative years in Chicago, where he effectively electrified Delta blues. The chronological sequencing provides an unmatched historical overview of the genre's transition into the urban, amplified sound that birthed modern rock music.

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Tracklist

  1. Gypsy Woman (2:35)
  2. Good Lookin' Woman (2:43)
  3. Mean Disposition (2:35)
  4. I Can't Be Satisfied (2:42)
  5. I Feel Like Going Home (3:10)
  6. Train Fare Home (2:49)
  7. Mean Red Spider (2:17)
  8. Streamline Woman (3:18)
  9. Little Geneva (2:47)
  10. Rollin' And Tumblin' - Pt. 1 (3:00)
  11. Rollin' Stone (3:08)
  12. Walkin' Blues (2:58)
  13. Louisiana Blues (2:54)
  14. Evans' Shuffle (2:12)
  15. Long Distance Call (2:41)
  16. Honey Bee (3:22)
  17. She Moves Me (2:58)
  18. Still A Fool (3:20)
  19. Stuff You Gotta Watch (2:49)
  20. Standing Around Crying (3:23)
  21. Flood (2:40)
  22. Baby, Please Don't Go (3:17)
  23. Blow Wind Blow (3:11)
  24. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man (2:47)
  25. I Just Want To Make Love To You (2:52)
  26. I'm Ready (3:04)
  27. Smokestack Lightnin' (3:08)
  28. Young Fashioned Ways (3:01)
  29. Mannish Boy (2:56)
  30. Trouble No More (2:42)
  31. Forty Days And Forty Nights (2:52)
  32. Just To Be With You (3:15)
  33. Don't Go No Farther (2:56)
  34. Diamonds At Your Feet (2:25)
  35. I Love The Life I Live (I Live The Life I Love) (2:51)
  36. Rock Me (3:11)
  37. Look What You've Done (2:22)
  38. Got My Mojo Working (2:52)
  39. Good News (2:48)
  40. Evil (2:19)
  41. She's Nineteen Years Old (3:18)
  42. Close To You (3:05)
  43. Walkin' Thru The Park (2:47)
  44. Blues Before Sunrise (3:53)
  45. Lonesome Road Blues (3:03)
  46. Take The Bitter With The Sweet (3:52)
  47. She's Into Something (2:46)
  48. Southbound Train (2:54)
  49. Double Trouble (2:49)
  50. I Feel So Good - Live At Newport Jazz Festival/1960 (2:57)
  51. You Shook Me (2:46)
  52. You Need Love (2:45)
  53. Twenty Four Hours (2:31)
  54. Elevate Me Mama (3:04)
  55. So Glad I'm Living (2:53)
  56. My Love Strikes Like Lightning (2:44)
  57. You Don't Have To Go (2:51)
  58. Things That I Used To Do (3:14)
  59. My Home Is In The Delta (3:59)
  60. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (3:14)
  61. The Same Thing (2:42)
  62. You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had (2:56)
  63. Short Dress Woman (2:47)
  64. Making Friends (2:37)
  65. Black Night (3:18)
  66. Bird Nest On The Ground (2:53)
  67. Country Boy - Live (4:42)
  68. Sugar Sweet (2:17)
  69. All Aboard (2:40)
  70. Going Down Slow - Live (4:08)
  71. Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone (5:06)
  72. Can't Get No Grindin' (What's The Matter With The Meal) (2:49)

Credits

  • Tony Adams - bass, vocals
  • John Laforge - drums
  • Colin Wight - guitar, written-by
  • Sean Lyons - guitar, written-by
  • Peter Godwin - lead vocals, written-by

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