Eyesight to the Blind

Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 27, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Catfish UK
• ASIN: B00005Q5MH
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #836,329 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Eyesight to the Blind

2. Crazy About You Baby

3. Stop Crying

4. Do It If You Wanna

5. Cool, Cool Blues

6. Come on Back Home

7. I Cross My Heart

8. West Memphis Blues

9. Sonny Boy's Christmas Blues

10. Pontiac Blues

11. Mighty Long Time

12. Nine Below Zero

13. She Brought Life Back to the Dead

14. Too Close Together

15. Stop Now Baby

16. Mr. Down Child

Editorial Reviews

This album features the earliest recordings of one of the most popular blues harmonica players of all time. Sonny Boy was hugely popular in Britain and Europe where he lived and worked for many years and where he was a TV, Radio, stage and club regular. These, his earliest commercial recordings were made for the Trumpet label in the early 1950's and feature the A and B sides of every release he made for the label before joining Chess Records in Chicago. British blues groups with whom he would eventually perform in the 1960's recorded many of these tunes. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Back where it all began., March 17, 2010

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rick from Boston - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Eyesight To The Blind (Audio CD)

These are Sonny Boy's earliest recordings for the Trumpet label. The sound quality is decent and the bonus is that there are 9 more songs than are listed on the Amazon site(which lists 16). You get Elmore James' original "dust my broom",as well as others from the years 1951-1954. The songs are presented in chronological order as they were released as singles. BB King appears on "from the bottom". This set and the "from the bottom" disc available on the Collectables label should complete your early Rice Miller collection. The liner notes have personel listings and a brief story of Sonny Boy, who as we all know, went on to greater fame on the Chess label, recutting some of the sides on this collection. There is an energy on these early songs, similar to the early recordings of the Wolf. The guitar sound is awesome. Very raw and exciting.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Influential father of rockers and blues, December 6, 2009

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Robert W. Rogers "Buck Rogers" (Gwynn's Island, Va) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eyesight To The Blind (Audio CD)

Sonny Boy was the guy that played with Jimmy Paige, Eric Clapton and influenced them and a couple of generations of musicians. Start here for the basics.