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The Chess Box (Box Set) (CD)

By: Etta James (Artist)

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DISC 1 for The Chess Box (Box Set) (CD) Album By Etta James (Artist)
1   All I Could Do Was Cry
2   My Dearest Darling
3   If I Can't Have You - (with Harvey Fuqua)
4   I Just Want To Make Love To You
5   Anything To Say You're Mine
6   In My Diary
7   Spoonful
8   Sunday Kind Of Love, A
9   At Last
10   Stormy Weather
11   Trust In Me
12   Don't Cry Baby
13   Fool That I Am
14   One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
15   Waiting For Charlie (To Come Home)
16   Don't Get Around Much Any More
17   Next Door To The Blues
18   I Don't Want It - (previously unreleased)
19   Something's Got A Hold On Me
20   Stop The Wedding
21   These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
22   You Got Me Where You Want Me - (previously unreleased)
23   I Want To Be Loved (But By Only You)
24   Prisoner Of Love
25   Pushover
26   Be Honest With Me - (previously unreleased)
 
DISC 2 for The Chess Box (Box Set) (CD) Album By Etta James (Artist)
1   Would It Make Any Difference To You
2   Look Who's Blue - (previously unreleased)
3   Pay Back
4   Two Sides (To Every Story)
5   At Last - (previously unreleased, live)
6   Baby What You Want Me To Do - (live)
7   Loving You More Every Day
8   I Wish Someone Would Care
9   Bobby Is His Name
10   Only Time Will Tell
11   How To Treat My Man, (I Don't Need Nobody To Tell Me) - (previously unreleased)
12   In The Basement, Part 1 - (with Sugar Pie DeSanto)
13   Lover Man (Oh, Where Can He Be?)
14   Do I Make Myself Clear - (with Sugar Pie DeSanto)
15   I Prefer You
16   It Must Be Your Love
17   842-3089 (Call My Name)
18   I'd Rather Go Blind
19   Tell Mama
20   Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
21   Security
22   I Worship The Ground You Walk On - (previously unreleased)
23   You Took It - (previously unreleased)
24   Almost Persuaded
25   You Got It
26   Light My Fire - (previously unreleased)
 
DISC 3 for The Chess Box (Box Set) (CD) Album By Etta James (Artist)
1   Slow And Easy - (previously unreleased)
2   Soul Of A Man, The - (previously unreleased)
3   Miss Pitiful
4   Losers Weepers, Part 1
5   I Found A Love
6   W.O.M.A.N.
7   Never My Love - (previously unreleased)
8   I Never Meant To Love Him
9   You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin - (previously unreleased)
10   Sail Away
11   Down So Low
12   All The Way Down
13   God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)
14   Feeling Uneasy
15   St. Louis Blues
16   Let's Burn Down The Cornfield
17   Gonna Have Some Fun Tonight
18   Sookie Sookie
19   Out On The Street Again
20   Lovin' Arms
 

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Title Note

Personnel includes: Etta James (vocals); Riley Hampton (conductor); Harvey Fuqua, Sugar Pie DeSanto (vocals); Matt Murphy, Sidney Pinchback, Cornell Dupree (guitar); Clifford Clark (alto saxophone); Ben Branch (tenor saxophone); Delbert Dill (baritone saxophone); Burgess Gardner, Oscar Brasheer (trumpet); Morris Ellis (trombone); John Young, Milton Bland (piano); Richard Tee (keyboards); Charles Stepney (vibraphone); Reggie Boyd, David Henderson, Gordon Edwards (bass); Lawrence Hamilton, Steve Gadd (drums); Phillip Thomas (percussion).

The Kinfolks: David T. Walker (guitar); Garvell Cooper (tenor saxophone); Vonzell Cooper (organ); Marion Wright (bass); Freeman Brown (drums);

Producers include: Ralph Bass, Billy Davis, Monk Higgins, Rick Hall, Marshall Cress.

Compilation producer: Andy McKaie.

Recorded between January 1960 and December 1974. Includes liner notes by Lee Hildebrand.

Digitally remastered by Erick Labson (Universal Mastering Studios-West, North Hollywood, California).

This three-CD set covering Etta James's stint with Chess is a fascinating chronological journey that includes a number of previously unreleased tracks. Aided by arranger Riley Hampton's sweeping string arrangements, James's early '60s material consisted of pop and R&B hits that were a mix of contemporary originals ("All I Could Do Was Cry," "My Dearest Darling") and classic standards ("Stormy Weather," "At Last"). Even throughout this phase of sophistication, James injected her earthy sexuality into a pair of Willie Dixon-penned blues covers--"Spoonful" and "I Just Want to Make Love to You," the latter of which was revived for a millennial ad campaign.

By 1967, James was down in Muscle Shoals churning out gritty interpretations of Otis Redding ("Security") and Aretha Franklin ("Do Right Woman, Do Right Man"), while dabbling in country (David Houston's "Almost Persuaded"). James's all-too short foray into Philly soul ("Never Love") gave way to producer Gabriel Mekler's attempts to make her a rock singer. James was equal to the challenge, and the remaining few tracks of this box set find her boldly mastering material by Randy Newman ("Sail Away"), Tracy Nelson ("Down So Low"), and W.C. Handy ("St. Louis Blues").

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