Album · 1989
The Chess Box
Tracklist
Disc 1
1
Gypsy Woman
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2:35
2
Good Looking Woman
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2:44
3
Mean Disposition
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2:35
4
I Can’t Be Satisfied
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2:43
5
I Feel Like Going Home
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3:10
6
Train Fare Home Blues
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2:49
7
Mean Red Spider
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2:18
8
Streamline Woman
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3:18
9
Little Geneva
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2:48
10
Rollin’ and Tumblin’, Part 1
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3:01
11
Rolling Stone
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3:08
12
Walkin’ Blues
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2:59
13
Louisiana Blues
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2:55
14
Evans Shuffle
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2:13
15
Long Distance Call
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2:41
16
Honey Bee
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3:22
17
She Moves Me
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2:58
18
Still a Fool
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3:20
19
Stuff You Gotta Watch
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2:50
20
Standing Around Crying
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3:23
21
Flood
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2:40
22
Baby Please Don’t Go
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3:17
23
Blow Wind Blow
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3:12
24
Hoochie Coochie Man
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2:47
Disc 2
1
I Just Want to Make Love to You
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2:52
2
I’m Ready
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3:05
3
Smokestack Lightnin’
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3:09
4
Young Fashioned Ways
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3:02
5
Mannish Boy
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2:57
6
Trouble No More
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2:42
7
Forty Days and Forty Nights
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2:53
8
Just to Be With You
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3:15
9
Don’t Go No Farther
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2:56
10
Diamonds at Your Feet
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2:26
11
I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love
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2:52
12
Rock Me
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3:12
13
Look What You Done
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2:22
14
Got My Mojo Working
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2:52
15
Good News
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2:49
16
Evil
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2:20
17
She’s Nineteen Years Old
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3:19
18
Close to You
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3:05
19
Walkin’ Thru the Park
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2:48
20
Blues Before Sunrise (with false starts, dialogue)
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3:53
21
Lonesome Road Blues (1959)
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3:04
22
Take the Bitter With the Sweet (dialogue, false start, alt. take)
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3:53
23
She’s Into Something
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2:47
24
Southbound Train
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2:55
25
Double Trouble
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2:49
Disc 3
1
I Feel So Good (live)
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2:57
2
You Shook Me
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2:46
3
You Need Love
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2:45
4
Twenty Four Hours
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2:31
5
Elevate Me Mama (alternate take)
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3:05
6
So Glad I’m Living
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2:54
7
My Love Strikes Like Lightning
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2:44
8
You Don’t Have to Go (alternate take)
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2:51
9
Things That I Used to Do
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3:14
10
My Home Is in the Delta
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4:00
11
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
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3:14
12
The Same Thing
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2:42
13
You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had
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2:57
14
Short Dress Woman
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2:47
15
Making Friends
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2:38
16
Black Night (Hornless alternate mix)
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3:18
17
Bird Nest on the Ground
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2:54
18
Country Boy (live)
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4:42
19
Sugar Sweet (alternate “Fathers and Sons” take)
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2:18
20
All Aboard (alternate “Fathers and Sons” take)
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2:40
21
Going Down Slow (live)
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4:09
22
Who’s Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I’m Gone (original hornless London mix)
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5:06
23
Can’t Get No Grindin’ (What’s the Matter With the Meal)
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2:49
In print
First pressed 1989, still pressed 1990 — 8 pressings across 2 countries.
Credits
Vartan
Art Direction
DZN, The Design Group
Design
Doug Schwartz
Engineer
A.C. Reed
Instrument · tenor saxophone
Alex Atkins
Instrument · alto saxophone
Andrew Stephenson
Instrument · bass
“Baby Face” Leroy Foster
Instrument · guitar
Buddy Guy
Instrument · guitar
Calvin Jones
Instrument · bass
Casey Jones
Instrument · drums
Clifton James
Instrument · drums
Earl Hooker
Instrument · guitar
Elgin Evans
Instrument · drums
Ernest "Big" Crawford
Instrument · bass
Ernest Cotton
Instrument · tenor saxophone
Francis Clay
Instrument · drums
Fred Below
Instrument · drums
James Cotton
Instrument · harmonica
Jimmy Rogers
Instrument · guitar
Johnny "Big Moose" Walker
Instrument · organ, piano
Little Walter
Instrument · guitar
Luther Tucker
Instrument · guitar
Muddy Waters
Instrument · guitar
Otis Spann
Instrument · piano
Pat Hare
Instrument · guitar
Pee Wee Madison
Instrument · guitar
Pinetop Perkins
Instrument · organ
Sammy Lawhorn
Instrument · guitar
Sunnyland Slim
Instrument · piano
Willie “Big Eyes” Smith
Instrument · drums
Willie Dixon
Instrument · bass
Robert Palmer
Liner Notes
Greg Fulginiti
Mastering
Brian Smith (40)
Photography
Colin Escott Showtime Archives
Photography
David Gahr
Photography
Don Bronstein
Photography
Georges Adins
Photography
Jacques Demêtre
Photography
James Bland
Photography
Mary Katherine Aldin
Photography
Paul Natkin
Photography
Photo Reserve Inc.
Photography
Ray Flerlage
Photography
Showtime Music Archives
Photography
Tom Copi
Photography
Val Wilmer
Photography
Andy McKaie
Producer · compiled by
Leonard Chess
Producer · co-producer
Leonard & Phil Chess
Producer
Phil Chess
Producer · co-producer
Big Bill Broonzy
Writer
Sonny Boy Williamson
Writer