Blues Masters 2

Blues Masters (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 10, 1992)
• Original Release Date: November 10, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0000032X1
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Track Listings

1. Rollin' & Tumblin', Pt. 1 - Baby Face Leroy Trio

2. Just Make Love to Me - Muddy Waters

3. That's All Right - Jimmy Rogers And His Trio

4. Off the Wall - Little Walter and The Night Cats

5. Don't Start Me to Talkin' - Sonny Boy Williamson

6. Evening Sun - Johnny Shines

7. Smokestack Lightning - Howlin' Wolf

8. I'm a Man - Bo Diddley

9. Five Long Years - Eddie Boyd

10. Sweet Woman (From Maine) [*] - Robert Lockwood Jr.

11. Mama Talk to Your Daughter [*] - J.B. Lenoir

12. Bright Lights, Big City - Jimmy Reed

13. You May [*] - Jody Williams

14. All Your Love (I Miss Loving) - Otis Rush

15. All Your Love - Magic Sam

16. First Time I Met the Blues - Buddy Guy

17. Blue Guitar [*] - Earl Hooker

18. Little by Little - Junior Wells

Editorial Reviews

Tracks Rollin' & Tumblin', Pt. 1 Just Make Love to Me That's All Right Off the Wall Don't Start Me to Talkin' Evening Sun Smokestack Lightning I'm a Man Five Long Years Sweet Woman (From Maine) [*] Mama Talk to Your Daughter [*] Bright Lights, Big City You May [*] All Your Love (I Miss Loving) All Your Love First Time I Met the Blues Blue Guitar [*] Little by Little

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ****1/2. Fine sampler, December 7, 2003

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Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blues Masters 2 (Audio CD)

This 1992 CD is one of the best installments in Rhino's generally excellent "Blues Masters" series.

It brings together 18 recordings by some of the best and most renowned artists on the Chicago blues scene, and the postwar Chicago blues scene is of course "where it's at" as far as classic electric blues goes.

Not every selection is perfect...they could have done better by Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and Junior Wells in particular, and where the heck are Elmore James and John Lee Hooker?

But what is here is mostly great, from Buddy Guy's slow, anguished "First Time I Met The Blues" to J.B. Lenoir's upbeat "Mama Talk To Your Daughter", and the compilers at Rhino have included some of the very best songs by men like Eddie Boyd (the slow blues "Five Long Years"), Howlin' Wolf (the menacing "Smokestack Lightnin'"), Jimmy Reed (the swinging, lethargic boogie of "Bright Lights, Big City"), Sonny Boy Williamson II (the magnificent, harp-driven "Don't Start Me to Talkin'"), Otis Rush (the fiery "All Your Love"), and several others.

Magic Sam is here as well, (his "All You Love" is not the same song as Otis Rush's), and so are Jimmy Rogers, Bo Diddley, and Johnny Shines, all well represented by really great songs.

"Blues Masters vol. 2" ranks alongside MCA/Chess' "Chess Blues Classics: 1947 To 1956", "Chess Blues Classics: 1957 To 1967", and "Chess Blues Guitar" as one of the best "various artists"-compilations available. Seasoned blues listeners will have most or even all of this music already, of course, but this is a really good place to start, and the liner notes are excellent as always.

4 1/2 stars.