tracks

Down In The Bottom
No Place To Go
Sitting On Top Of The World
Smokestack Lightnin'
The Red Rooster
Spoonful
Evil
Killing Floor
Do The Do
I Ain't Superstitious
Who's Been Talkin'
Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy
Back Door Man
Wang Dang Doodle

notes

Sticker on shrink :
"Limited edition colored vinyl"

Recorded in Chicago, 1954-1965.
These recordings previously appeared on Chess LPs 2ACMB-201, CH-418.

ⓟ 1983 © 2016 Geffen Records
Manufactured by Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

credits

Baritone Saxophone – Donald Hankins (tracks: B5)
Bass – Buddy Guy (tracks: B5), Willie Dixon (tracks: A1, A2, A5 to B4, B6, B7)
Design – Mike Metz (2)
Drums – Clifton James (tracks: B1), Earl Phillips (tracks: A2, A3, A4, A7, B4), Fred Below (tracks: A6, B6, B7), Junior Blackman (tracks: B2), Sam Lay (tracks: A1, A5, B3, B5)
Engineer [Reissue] – Eric Thorngren
Guitar – Hubert Sumlin (tracks: A1 to B3, B5 to B7), Jimmy Rogers (tracks: A1, B3), Jody Williams (tracks: A3, A7), Lee Cooper (2) (tracks: A2), Otis "Smokey" Smothers (tracks: B4), Willie Johnson (4) (tracks: B4)
Lacquer Cut By – Adam Gonsalves
Liner Notes – Peter Guralnick
Mastered By – Jack Skinner
Photography By – Ray Flerlage
Piano – Henry Gray (tracks: B3), Hosea Lee Kennard (tracks: A3, A4), Lafayette Leake (tracks: B5), Johnny Jones, (tracks: A1, A5, B2), Otis Spann (tracks: A2, A6, A7, B6, B7)
Producer [Original Recordings] – Leonard Chess, Phil Chess
Tenor Saxophone – Adolph "Billy" Docking, (tracks: B4), J.T. Brown (tracks: B2, B5)
Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica – Howlin' Wolf
Written-By – Chester Burnett (tracks: A2 to A4, B1, B4), Willie Dixon (tracks: A1, A5 to A7, B2, B3, B5 to B7)

companies

Record Company – Universal Music Special Markets
Manufactured By – Universal Music Enterprises
Record Company – UMG Recordings, Inc.
Record Company – Chess

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