tracks

Oh Red (Take 1)
My Last Affair (Take 1)
Come Back Home (Take 1)
California Boogie
California Blues
Look-A-Here Baby
Smile At Me
My Baby Walked Off
Drinkin' CV Wine (CV Wine Blues)
My Troubles And Me
Chocolate Drop
Mr. Highway Man (Cadillac Daddy)
Bluebird Blues
Color And Kind
(Everybody's) In The Mood
Dorothy Mae (Number 2)
I Got A Woman / Sweet Woman
Decoration Day Blues
(Well) That's All Right
How Many More Years
Baby Ride With Me (Ridin' In The Moonlight)
2:56

notes

Produced from digital transfers off the original session masters (except 20, 21).
Includes previously unissued recordings. Jewel case.

Recorded Memphis Recording Service Studio, Memphis, Tennessee, poss. May 14, 1951 (poss. earlier) (tracks 20, 21), December 18 1951 (tracks 4 to 7), January 23, 1952 (tracks 8, 10 to 12), April 17, 1952 (tracks 13 to 19), and October 7 1952 (tracks 1 to 3, 9).

credits

Bass – - Unknown Artist (tracks: 4 to 8, 10 to 19)Bass [Poss.] – - Unknown Artist (tracks: 1 to 3, 9)Drums – - Willie Steele
Guitar – - Howlin' Wolf (tracks: 16), - Willie Johnson (4) (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 13 to 21)Guitar [Poss.] – - Willie Johnson (4) (tracks: 8, 10 to 12)Harmonica – - James Cotton (tracks: 16)Liner Notes – - Colin Escott , - Dave Sax
Mastered By – - Jörg Siemer
Piano – - L.C. Hubert (tracks: 8, 10 to 12)Piano [Poss.] – - Albert Williams (2) (tracks: 4 to 7), - William Johnson * (tracks: 1 to 3, 9)Producer – - Sam C. Phillips *
Reissue Producer – - Colin Escott
Saxophone [Saxes] – - Unknown Artist (tracks: 10)Tenor Saxophone – - Charles Taylor (tracks: 1, 3, 9), - Unknown Artist (tracks: 4 to 6)Trombone – - Walter "Tang" Smith (tracks: 1, 3, 9)Vocals, Harmonica – - Howlin' Wolf
Written-By – - C. Burnett * (tracks: 1 to 7, 10, 12), - Unknown Artist (tracks: 8, 9, 11, 13 to 21)

companies

Licensed From Bellaphon Schallplatten GmbH amp Co KG
Phonographic Copyright Bear Family Records
Copyright Bear Family Records
Recorded At Memphis Recording Service

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