The Ultimate Collection: Blues

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Annotation

Track 8 on disc 2 does not appear on the list on the box set (confirmed by listening).

Annotation last modified on 2021-11-12 11:30 UTC.

Tracklist

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#TitleArtistRatingLength
1How Blue Can You Get?
B.B. King2:56
2I Can't Be Satisfied
recording of:
I Can’t Be Satisfied (Bill Frisell arr.)
composer:
McKinley Morganfield (blues musician)
arranger:
Bill Frisell
arrangement of:
I Can’t Be Satisfied
Muddy Waters2:43
3Homework
Otis Rush2:38
4I Pity the Fool
recorded in:
Chicago, Illinois, United States (on 1960-11-12)
recording of:
I Pity the Fool (on 1960-11-12)
lyricist and composer:
Deadric Malone
Bobby Bland2:44
5It Serves You Right to Suffer
John Lee Hooker5:10
6Drivin' Wheel
Junior Parker2:39
7Mother Earth
Memphis Slim2:43
8Pack Fair & Square
Big Walter Price2:23
9Okie Dokie Swamp
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown2:35
10Seventh Son
Willie Mabon2:54
11That's Alright
Jimmy Rogers2:49
12Tell Mama
recording engineer and producer:
Rick Hall (American producer & FAME studios founder, “Father of Muscle Shoals Music”)
drums (drum set):
Roger Hawkins (drummer and producer) (on 1967-08-24)
electric bass guitar:
David Hood (Muscle Shoals, AL guitarist and trombonist) (on 1967-08-24)
guitar:
Jimmy Johnson (guitar, producer, Muscle Shoals rhythm section) (on 1967-08-24) and Albert Lowe Jr. (American guitarist, bassist, and songwriter) (on 1967-08-24)
organ:
Carl Banks (on 1967-08-24) and Dewey Oldham (on 1967-08-24)
piano:
Dewey Oldham (on 1967-08-24)
saxophone:
Charles Chalmers (American saxophonist, singer-songwriter, arranger, and producer) (on 1967-08-24), Floyd Newman (on 1967-08-24) and Aaron Varnell (on 1967-08-24)
trumpet:
Gene “Bowlegs” Miller (American trumpeter) (on 1967-08-24)
lead vocals:
Etta James (on 1967-08-24)
arranger:
Rick Hall (American producer & FAME studios founder, “Father of Muscle Shoals Music”)
recorded at:
FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, United States (on 1967-08-24)
cover recording of:
Tell Mama (on 1967-08-24)
writer:
Clarence Carter, Marcus Daniel and Wilbur Terrell
publisher:
Lowery Music Corp.
Etta James42:24
13Confessin' the Blues
recording of:
Confessin’ the Blues
writer:
Walter Brown (US jazz/blues singer) and Jay McShann
publisher:
Leeds Music, MCA Music (not for release label use! this is a music publisher, ASCAP-affiliated) and MCA Music Publishing (renamed since c. 1996 as Universal Music Publishing Group)
Jay McShann with Walter Brown2:56