Various – Down Home Blues: Chicago Volume 3: The Special Stuff – 4CD

Down Home Blues: The Special Stuff is the third volume of Chicago Blues post-war down home blues music from Wienerworld: 108 tracks of rare, unissued or alternate takes of blues recorded in Chicago from 1941 through to 1961.

A 4CD set, packaged in a deluxe digipak with an outer slip case, featuring 108 tracks - all remastered, including both previously unissued and alternate takes of well-known recordings. These records are from the late Peter Moody's private collection, and many of them are otherwise unavailable.

Includes an outstanding 15,000 word, 88-page book, by renowned blues historian Chris Bentley on the post-war Chicago scene; many rare period photographs illustrate the essay throughout; as well as full sessionography detailing the where, when and who of the recordings, expertly compiled by blues expert Mike Rowe.

While CD1 sets the scene with the established pre-war bluesmen such as Robert Lockwood Jr and Sonny Boy Williamson, CD2 charts the rise of the amplified electric blues bands following the second world war - such as in never-before-issued recordings of Johnny Temple. CD3 continues the Muddy Waters sequence started on CD2 - and introduces Little Hudson, JB Lenoir and Eddie Taylor.

While beginning with a celebration of Chicago's flagship rock 'n' rollers with a range of tracks from each of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley - CD4 is rounded off by some largely unknown and unheralded artists including Grover Pruitt, Lucky Carmichael, Minnie Thomas.

Track Listing:

CD1: 
Robert Lockwood Jr.: 1. Black Spider Blues - 2:57   2. I'm Gonna Train My Baby - 2:55   Big Maceo: 3. County Jail blues - 2:55   4. Texas Blues - 2:54   Robert Lockwood Jr.: 5. Little Boy Blue - 3:03   6. Take A Walk With Me - 2:54   Ann Sortier: 7. Tell It To The O.P.A. - 2:57   8. Bad Stuff - 2:24   Big Maceo: 9. Do You Remember - 2:29   10. Big City Blues - 2:36   Sunnyland Slim: 11. Miss Bessie Mae - 2:50   Alfred Wallace (The Fat Man): 12. You've Gotta Stop This Mess - 2:44   Jazz Gillum: 13. Keep On Sailing - 2:45   14. Fast Woman Blues - 3:15   15. Long Razor Blues - 2:53   Sonny Boy Williamson: 16. Southern Dream - 2:47   17. Bring Me Another Half Pint - 3:06   Big Joe Williams: 18. P-Vine Blues - 3:13   19. I'm A Highway Man - 2:53   Jazz Gillum: 20. I'm Gonna Train My Baby - 3:03   21. Gonna Take My Rap - 3:11   Sonny Boy Williamson: 22. I Love You For Myself - 3:02   23. Alcohol Blues - 2:51   Big Joe Williams: 24. King Biscuit Stomp - 2:35   25. Don't You Leave Me Here - 2:52   Forest City Joe: 26. Memory Of Sonny Boy - 3:20   27. A Woman On Every Street - 2:49

CD2:
St. Louis Jimmy: 1. Biscuit Roller - 2:59   2. I'm Sorry Now - 2:57   Forest City Joe: 3. Sawdust Bottom - 2:52   4. Ash Street Boogie - 2:50   Willie Mahon: 5. Boogie Man (Bogey Man) - 3:13   6. It Keeps Raining - 2:50   Robert Lockwood Jr.: 7. Dust My Broom - 2:40   8. Pearly B - 2:25   St. Louis Jimmy: 9. Your Evil ways - 2:56   10. Whiskey Drinkin' Woman - 2:55   Johnny Temple: 11. Pretty Woman - 3:34   12. Jack And Jill - 2:24   St. Louis Jimmy: 13. Drinkin' Woman - 2:49   14. Why Work - 2:30   Mata Roy: 15. Pete's Shuffle Boogie (Part 1) - 3:55   16. Pete's Shuffle Boogie (Part 2) - 3:13   Robert Lockwood: 17. Aw Aw Baby - 2:38   18. Sweet Woman From Maine - 3:00   St. Louis Jimmy: 19. Hard Work Boogie - 2:55   20. Good Book Blues - 2:36   Sunnyland Slim: 21. Down Home Child - 2:52   22. Leaving Your Town - 3:03   Little Johnny Jones: 23. Wait Baby - 3:12   24. Hoy Hoy - 2:39 Big Joe Turner: 25. TV Mama - 2:50   Muddy Waters: 26. Iodine In My Coffee - 3:32   27. Flood - 2:40

CD3:
Little Brother: 1. If It's All Night Long - 3:07   2. New Vicksburg Blues - 3:12   Muddy Waters: 3. She's All right - 2:28   4. This Pain - 3:08   5. Sad Sad D - 3:45   6. Smokestack Lightning - 3:07   Little Johnny Jones: 7. Hoy Hoy - 2:12   8. Chicago Blues - 3:12   9. Doin' The Best I Can - 2:40   Little Walter: 10. Come Back Baby - 2:55   11. My Kind Of Baby - 3:10   Little Brother: 12. Pinetop's Boogie Blues - 3:24   13. Arkansas Blues - 3:24   Little Walter: 14. Ah'w Baby - 2:54   J.B. Hutto: 15. Mouth Harp Mambo - 5:39   16. Things Are So Slow - 3:47   Floyd Jones: 17. Skinny Mama - 2:13   Baby Face Leroy: 18. Pet Rabbit - 3:02   J.B. Lenoir: 19. I Have Married - 2:27   Eddie Taylor: 20. Ride 'Em On Down - 2:55   21. Stroll Out West - 2:33   Little Hudson: 22. Don't Hang Around - 2:53   J.T. Brown: 23. Look Out - 3:04   J.B. Lenoir: 24. Do What I Say - 2:05   Jody Williams: 25. I Feel So All Alone - 3:17   Bo Diddley: 26. She's Fine, She’s Mine - 2:43

CD4:
Morris Pejoe: 1. Maybe Blues - 2:53   2. Screaming And Crying - 2:46   Chuck Berry: 3. Deep Feeling - 2:20   4. How You've Changed - 2:48   5. Blue Feeling - 3:02   6. Worried Life Blues - 2:12   7. Sweet Sixteen - 2:49   8. I Got To Find My Baby - 2:17   Junior Wells: 9. I Could Cry - 3:11   10. Prison Bars All Around Me - 2:30   Bo Diddley: 11. I'm Looking For A Woman - 2:33   12. Before You Accuse Me - 3:07   13. Pretty Thing - 2:50   14. I Can Tell - 3:08   Memphis Slim: 15. It's Been Too Long - 2:44   16. Four Walls - 2:46   17. Cold Blooded Woman - 3:40   18. One Man’s Mad - 2:51   Willie Cobbs: 19. You Don't Love Me - 2:34   20. Slow Down - 3:09   Minnie Thomas: 21. Don't Let It Happen To You - 2:52   Lucky Carmichael: 22. Blues With A Feeling - 2:43   Grover Pruitt: 23. Fool For You Baby - 2:25   Magic Sam / Shakey Jake: 24. Every Day And Every Night - 2:34   25. Have You Seen My Mother - 3:27   26. A Hard Road - 3:53   27. Leaving This Morning - 2:25   28. Sweet Home Chicago - 3:00