A The Denial Twist
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B Shelter Of Your Arms
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A1 Reward 1:11
A2 Love Offering 1:29
A3 Blue-Green God 1:22
A4 Walking Boss
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A5 Melons Rising 0:51
A6 Saturday Morning 1:29
A7 Our Friends 2:10
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B4 Playing Dead 1:27
B5 Litterbox 0:53
B6 Electromod 0:46
B7 The Gold Mine
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Best known for his work as a songwriter, producer, and talent scout, singer-bassist Willie Dixon essentially built Chicago's Cobra and Chess labels with his sweat. Although this double-disc set does include five performances by the man from Vicksburg, Mississippi, himself, it's really a testament to his songwriting prowess, packed with recordings that made his tunes classics of blues and early rock & roll. There's Howlin' Wolf tearing through "Spoonful," "Little Red Rooster," "Evil," and "Back Door Man." There's Muddy Waters belting "You Shook Me," "Hoochie Coochie Man," and "I'm Ready." There's Bo Diddley delivering "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover" and Koko Taylor launching her career with "Wang Dang Doodle." The set features excellent liner notes, and its only disappointment is that its label-centricity excludes Dixon's work for Cobra with then-youngsters Otis Rush and Buddy Guy. --Ted Drozdowski
| 28 of 28 people found the following review helpful  Dixon IS The Blues On The Essential 2CD "Chess Box", This review is from: Chess Box (Audio CD) Willie Dixon gave the blues (and, by proxy, rock and roll) much of its identity and personality. As a songwriter, he created some of music's most indelible images: the Back Door Man, Little Red Rooster, Hootchie Coochie Man, and Seventh Son. He not only gave British and Southern rock and roll much of its early repetoire, but his songs became their monikers ("Spoonful," "Pretty Thing"). He played bass on many seminal Chess Records sides (for Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry), and himself recorded several first-class singles.Chess celebrates Dixon's legacy on the 2-disc "Chess Box," and hearing these original versions is a revelation after exposure for years to their classic rock covers. Hear Waters' "You Need Love," and "You Shook Me," Little Milton's "I Can't Quit You Baby," or Sonny Boy Williamson's "Bring It On Home." Led Zeppelin covered these over their first two LPs, but could only... Read more 16 of 16 people found the following review helpful  Exciting addition to the "Chess Box" series, By Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews This review is from: Chess Box (Audio CD) Willie Dixon is the featured performer on only six of these thirty-six songs. But he is there on the rest as well, composing, producing, playing bass, and usually taking a back seat to stars like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter and Bo Diddley.All of these songs are written and composed or co-composed by Willie Dixon, including classic blues hits like Little Walter's "My Babe", Bo Diddley's "Pretty Thing", Muddy Waters' "Hoochie Coochie Man", and Howlin' Wolf's magnificent "Hidden Charms" with its fiery guitar solo. But there are many other superb songs here as well, including lesser-known tracks like the delightful jazzy number "Violent Love", performed by Dixon, guitarist Ollie Crawford, and pianist Leonard Caston, and Dixon's own performance of the catchy "29 Ways". Eddie Boyd's "Third Degree" is here too, co-written by Dixon, and from Howlin' Wolf's incredible catalogue comes "Evil", along with "I Ain't Superstitious", and "Little Red... Read more 11 of 11 people found the following review helpful The Songs of Chicago, By A Customer This review is from: Chess Box (Audio CD) Looking at the track listing for this album shows just what an impact Willie Dixon's songwriting had on Chicago Blues and popular music in general. The list of Chess artistes featured on this album speaks for itself. This is almost the "Best of Chess". It's remarkable the number of songs on the album that were covered or "expanded on" by bands of the sixties and seventies: "I Just Want To Make Love To You" and "Little Red Rooster" - The Rolling Stones. "Spoonful" - Cream. "Back Door Man" - The Doors. "You Shook Me", "Bring It On Home", "I Can't Quit You Babe" and "You Need Love"(Whole Lotta Love) - Led Zeppelin. It's also worth noting that several songs we normally associated with Muddy Waters or Howlin' Wolf were in fact penned by Dixon. "Third Degree" was covered by Eric Clapton in recent years. "Evil" is an excellent vehicle for Howlin' Wolf's... Read more |
A Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground
B Stop Breaking Down (Live At The BBC Studios Maida Vale)
A1 Bathtub
A2 G Funk Intro
A3 Gin And Juice
A4 Tha Shiznit
A5 Lodi Dodi
A6 Murder Was The Case (DeathAfterVisualizingEternity)
A7 Serial Killa
B1 Who Am I (What's My Name)?
B2 For All My Niggaz & Bitches
B3 Ain't No Fun (If The Homies Cant Have None)
B4 Doggy Dogg World
B5 Gz And Hustlas
B6 Pump Pump
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The Carpetbaggers: Sin Now... Pray Later! CUTOUT CD! The Carpetbaggers are: Mike Crabtree (guitar, vocals, lap steel); John Magnuson (guitar, vocals); Rich Copley (bass, vocals). TRACKS: 1. Sin Now...Pray Later; 2. No Such Luck; 3. Absent Without Leaving; 4. The Way You Left Me; 5. Walking, Talking Dead Man; 6. My Jeannie's in a Bottle; 7. I Sure Do Love You Baby; 8. War Between the States; 9. Don't Ask and I Won't Tell; 10. It's Nearly Over; 11. You Stay There; 12. I Guess I'm Crazy; 13. Estranged Bedfellows; 14. The Last Time; 15. Suburban Boy; 16. I Don't Care Too Much About That Kind of Thing Today; & 17. That's That.
