The Best of the Chicago Blues

Various Artists - Blues - Modern/Electric | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vanguard Records
• ASIN: B000000EB1
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #110,407 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Love Me or Leave Me

2. Next Time You See Me

3. Spann's Stomp

4. One Room Country Shack

5. That's the Truth

6. Somebody Been Talkin'

7. I Had a Dream Last Night

8. When My Baby Left Me

9. Sweet Little Angel

10. Rocket 88

11. Mule Kicking in My Stall

12. The Blues Keep Falling

13. Rockin' My Boogie

14. S.P. Blues

15. Five Long Years

16. Checking on My Baby

17. Some Day

18. Stealin' Back

19. Tobacco Road

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ABSOLUTELY THE BEST!!!!, October 23, 2005

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Alan Jansen "AL" (Boston MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of the Chicago Blues (Audio CD)

Today, October 23, 2005...a drizzly, cold Sunday afternoon in Boston, I brought out this great 2-record vinyl LP from my old 60's-70's collection. As I wiped off the dust and placed it on my turntable, I flashed back to the hundreds of times over a 35-yr period that I've received tremendous pleasure and joy listening and turning my friends on to THE Blues as recorded on this LP. Having stood the classic test of time, it still sounds amazing after all these years...even with the scratches!
I'm thrilled that this album has been re-released as I'm about to order it on CD! A MUST FOR ANY LOVER OF THE BLUES AS WELL AS ANYONE OPEN TO EXPLORING THIS GREAT AMERICAN GENRE FOR THE TIME!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the LP that did it, and did it in a big way..., September 16, 2003

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"douglasnegley" (Pittsburgh, Pa. United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of the Chicago Blues (Audio CD)

After heaing this LP for the first time, nothing was ever the same for me, musically, ever again. From this, I steadily found my way through the blues, and into straight ahead jazz. Hearing James (then 'Jimmy') Cotton's "Rocket 88", or Buddy Guy's rendition of "Money" still makes me shiver. This is a great compilation of some great urban, electric blues, as well as some 'pining' southern influenced rural stuff ( Johnny Young's "Stealin", "Mule Kickin 'In My Stall", "Tobacco Road"). Otis Spann's "Spann's Stomp" and "Twisted Snake" cross deep into the early jazz genre. Marvelous stuff here for real blues lovers.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More great Chicago blues, January 23, 2007

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Gene W. Hancock "Citie Mouse01" (Baltimore, Maryland United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of the Chicago Blues (Audio CD)

A fine companion piece to Chicago/the Blues/ Today. A few tracks are duplicated on this but, but mainly, it's more of what is found on the earlier, classic, three cd set. Especially for fans of Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, James Cotton and a few of these other blues heroes. Even for a Vanguard blues anthology without Otis Rush, this is a wonderful set.