| The Chess Box :Muddy Waters | 
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Category: Music
Artist: Muddy Waters
Publisher: Chess
Studio: Chess
Brand: WATERS,MUDDY
Label: Chess
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 12.4 x 12.4 x 0.9
MPN: 80002
UPC: 076741080229
EAN: 0076741080229
ASIN: B000002Q40
Publication Date: 1989
Release Date: October 13, 1989
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Gypsy Woman | | • | Good Looking Woman [#] | | • | Mean Disposition | | • | I Can't Be Satisfied | | • | I Feel Like Going Home | | • | Train Fare Home | | • | Mean Red Spider [#] | | • | Streamline Woman | | • | Little Geneva | | • | Rollin' and Tumblin', Pt. 1 | | • | Rollin' Stone | | • | Walking Blues | | • | Louisiana Blues | | • | Evans Shuffle (Ebony Boogie) | | • | Long Distance Call | | • | Honey Bee | | • | She Moves Me | | • | Still a Fool | | • | Stuff You Gotta Watch | | • | Standing Around Crying | | • | Flood [#] | | • | Baby Please Don't Go | | • | Blow Wind Blow [#] | | • | (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man [Alternate Take][#] |
Disc 2
| • | I Just Want to Make Love to You | | • | I'm Ready | | • | Smokestack Lightning | | • | Young Fashioned Ways | | • | Mannish Boy | | • | Trouble No More | | • | Forty Days and Forty Nights | | • | Just to Be With You | | • | Don't Go No Farther | | • | Diamonds at Your Feet [#] | | • | I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love | | • | Rock Me | | • | Look What You've Done [#] | | • | Got My Mojo Working | | • | Good News [#] | | • | Evil [#] | | • | She's Nineteen Years Old | | • | Close to You | | • | Walkin' Thru the Park | | • | Blues Before Sunrise [With Dialogue & False Starts][#] | | • | Lonesome Road Blues | | • | Take the Bitter With the Sweet [False Start, Dialogue & Alternate Take] | | • | She's into Something | | • | Southbound Train | | • | Double Trouble |
Disc 3
| • | I Feel So Good [Live] | | • | You Shook Me | | • | You Need Love | | • | Twenty-Four Hours [#] | | • | Elevate Me Mama [Alternate Take][#] | | • | So Glad I'm Living [#] | | • | My Love Strikes Like Lightning [#] | | • | You Don't Have to Go [Alternate Take][#] | | • | Things That I Used to Do [#] | | • | My Home Is in the Delta | | • | Good Morning Little Schoolgirl | | • | Same Thing | | • | You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had | | • | Short Dress Woman [#] | | • | Making Friends | | • | Black Night [Alternate Mix][#] | | • | Bird Nest on the Ground | | • | Country Boy [Live][#] | | • | Sugar Sweet [Fathers and Sons Alternate Take][#] | | • | All Aboard [Fathers and Sons Alternate Take][#] | | • | Going Down Slow [Live][#] | | • | Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone [Original Hornless Londo | | • | Can't Get No Grindin' (What's the Matter With the Meal) |
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Product Description
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Media Type: CD
Artist: WATERS,MUDDY
Title: CHESS BOX
Street Release Date: 11/07/1989
Domestic
Genre: BLUES TRADITIONAL
Amazon.com essential recording
For the completist, this three-CD, 72-song box remains the definitive collection of one of the leading lights of Chicago blues. The collection spans 25 years, beginning with rare early recordings with pianist Sunnyland Slim and moving through Waters's peak '50s period, which offered the legendary support of Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and Otis Spann. Luminaries including Pat Hare, James Cotton, Earl Hooker, Buddy Guy, and Pinetop Perkins all make valuable contributions to his '60s work. Along with his original hits and his noteworthy Willie Dixon interpretations, Chess wisely includes his lesser-known covers of Big Bill Broonzy, Howlin' Wolf, Guitar Slim, Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, and Sonny Boy Williamson. --Marc Greilsamer
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Gonna make pretty women jump and shout. February 11, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This three CD box set covers the Chess Records recordings of Muddy Waters. Muddy was unquestionably one of the all time greatest blues singers, as the 72 songs included here amply prove. The earliest song here is from 1947 and the last song is from 1972. There are more songs from the early years than the later years, and rightly so, because most of his "classics" were recorded early in his career. The box does include all his classic songs, plus several rare and unreleased songs. This is a must get for any fan of the blues.
This Muddy guy just couldn't go wrong July 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
72 tracks on this compilation, and not a single flaw.
The Plantation Recordings from the early 40's and his late 70's albums produced by Johnny Winter are all fine, because again, he just couldn't open his mouth and sing a BAD song.
But leave these ones alone, and get The Chess Box (Everything he has done for Chess between 1947-1972). Just like other Chess artists (Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy) - the Chess years are his best by far, and the tracks put chronologically here serves you ear and historic sense great.
The music here is absolutely astonishing - Muddy's clear, throaty famous vocal and whining slide work, Little Walter's/James Cotton's weeping harmonicas, Otis Spann on piano and all the other members of this legendary blues band.
5 stars without a doubt. Just get it.
 Great Compilation, but not the best versions of the songs January 17, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love all these songs. The only problem I have is, there are recordings of these songs that are much longer. Mannish boy, Long distance call, Got my mojo working, She's 19 Years old, and many others have versions where the song is over 5 minutes. Unfortanately, these are all short versions.
There are simply not enough stars....... December 13, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
McKinley Morganfield was born in Mississippi in 1913. He was given the name of Muddy Waters by his grandmother at an early age.
Muddy Waters was one of the Blues musicians who was deftly able to make the transition from the cotton field, delta, acoustic blues, to the electric sound which has remained with us since. He not only made the transition, but set an example for others.
Disc one of the box set covers the period 1947-1954. Disc two covers the hits of the 1950's, many of which inspired English rockers who were preparing to hit the shores. And Disc three covers the latter period from 1960 through 1972. It should be noted that there are recordings before and after the time periods on this box, and as such, this box set could not be termed "all inclusive". Not covered are the very early years of Muddy's singing, as covered by The Complete Plantation Recordings. And the Blue Sky recordings (I'm Ready; Hard Again; King Bee) of the 1980's cover the latter part of his career. This box set covers the meaty, main portion of his career and are definitely the set to get if you are going to get just one for your collection. The book that comes with this 3-CD set also gives a very nice overview of Muddy's life and career, something that the mp3 downloads cannot do.
Muddy Waters was one of the most influential blues singers of all time and influenced generations of singers who came after him. If you plan on getting only one collection of Muddy Waters, I would strongly recommend this 3-CD set. You can now buy the songs individually through Amazon, but it is strongly recommended to buy the box set en total.
They get no bluer than this. Muddy was, and is, the real deal.
Highly recommended. 5 Stars.
Best ever January 6, 2006
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is simply the best collection of blues recordings ever! If you like the real blues, you must add this set no matter the cost. It makes you long for music that can be felt and not just heard like most anything recorded in the last quarter century.
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