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The Chess Box (Box Set) (CD)

By: Howlin' Wolf (Artist)

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DISC 1 for The Chess Box (Box Set) (CD) Album By Howlin' Wolf (Artist)
1   Moanin' At Midnight
2   How Many More Years
3   Howlin' Wolf Boogie
4   Wolf Is At Your Door, The
5   Mr. Highway Man
6   Howlin' Wolf Talks #1
7   Bluebird
8   Saddle My Pony
9   That's All Right, (Well)
10   My Last Affair
11   Just My Kind
12   Work For Your Money
13   Mama Died And Left Me
14   All Night Boogie (All Night Long)
15   Streamline Woman
16   Crazy About You Baby
17   You Gonna Wreck My Life
18   Neighbors
19   Howlin' Wolf Talks #2
20   I'm The Wolf
21   Rockin' Daddy
22   Baby How Long
23   Evil
24   I'll Be Around
25   Forty Four
26   Who Will Be Next
 
DISC 2 for The Chess Box (Box Set) (CD) Album By Howlin' Wolf (Artist)
1   Don't Mess With My Baby
2   Smokestack Lightnin'
3   You Can't Be Beat
4   Howlin' Wolf Talks #3
5   I Asked For Water
6   Natchez Burnin', The
7   Who's Been Talkin'
8   Tell Me
9   Sittin' On Top Of The World
10   I Didn't Know
11   Moaning For My Baby
12   Change My Way
13   I Better Go Now
14   Howlin' For My Darling
15   I've Been Abused
16   Mr. Airplane Man - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
17   Wang Dang Doodle
18   Back Door Man
19   Howlin' Wolf Talks #4
20   Spoonful
21   Down In The Bottom
22   Shake For Me
23   Red Rooster, The
24   You'll Be Mine
25   Just Like I Treat You
26   I Ain't Superstitious
27   Goin' Down Slow
28   Tail Dragger
 
DISC 3 for The Chess Box (Box Set) (CD) Album By Howlin' Wolf (Artist)
1   Hidden Charms
2   Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy
3   Built For Comfort
4   Love Me Darlin'
5   Killing Floor
6   My Country Sugar Mama
7   Louise
8   I Walked From Dallas
9   Tell Me What I've Done
10   Don't Laugh At Me
11   Ooh Baby (Hold Me)
12   New Crawlin' King Snake
13   My Mind Is Ramblin'
14   Commit A Crime
15   Dust My Broom
16   I'm The Wolf
17   Ain't Goin' Down That Dirt Road - (previously unreleased)
18   Mary Sue
19   Hard Luck
20   Red Rooster
21   Moving
 

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Review

Musician (1/92, p.88) - "..whatever your taste, you'd have to be deaf not to respond to Wolf's Chicago classics..."Moanin' At Midnight" is one of the great moments in audio history.."

Title Note

This, the fifth in the series of Chess boxes, contains 71 tracks sequenced chronologically from 1951-1973. Digitally remastered from original master tapes and 78s, it includes two previously unknown solo acoustic guitar and vocal performances ("Ain't Going Down That Dirt Road" and "I'm the Wolf"), four segments from HOWLIN' WOLF TALKS and 17 tracks either previously unreleased in the US or on LP.

Personnel includes: Howlin' Wolf (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Willie Johnson, Hubert Sumlin (guitar); J.T. Brown (tenor saxophone); James Cotton (harmonica); Hosea Lee Kennard, Lafayette Leake, Johnny Jones (piano); Willie Dixon, Buddy Guy (bass); Willie Steele, Sam Lay (drums).

28 of the tracks are in stereo, including previously unissued versions of "Killing Floor", "Spoonful" and "I Ain't Superstitious". The package includes a 32-page LP-sized booklet, with 2 sets of liner notes containing a biography, track-by-track annotation, a Chess discography and rare photos.

Chester "Howlin' Wolf'" Burnett's razor-like voice was one of the signature sounds of post-war Chicago electric blues, and the three-disc CHESS BOX is the definitive document of his landmark recordings for the label that the Chess brothers made into the ultimate conduit for classic Chicago blues. Though coming from similar stylistic roots to his contemporary Muddy Waters, the Wolf had more of an edge to his sound. Where Muddy came across as a confident, grounded man, Burnett often seemed desperate and slightly crazed, as if he might come unhinged at any moment. The physically huge Burnett was indeed an intimidating presence, and such tracks as "Evil" and "How Many More Years" bear a dark, almost scary aura. The Wolf's monolithic status is further borne out when one considers how many of the songs included here ("Smokestack Lightnin'," "Killing Floor," "Spoonful") were the building blocks for nearly every important US and UK rock band that began in the first half of the 1960s. THE CHESS BOX is an absolutely essential slab of blues history.