The Ultimate Blues Collection

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Annotation

Individual cat#s: CRIMBX10(1/2/3)

Annotation last modified on 2025-08-06 07:03 UTC.

Tracklist

1▼CD: Volume 1
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Dimples
John Lee Hooker2:12
2The Welfare (Turns Its Back on You)
Robert Cray3:20
3You've Got Me Dizzy
recording of:
You Got Me Dizzy
lyricist and composer:
Jimmy Reed (blues musician)
Jimmy Reed2:48
4Rolling and Rolling
Lightnin’ Hopkins2:59
5My Mama Don't Allow Me
Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup2:21
6Dust My Blues
recording of:
Dust My Blues
additional writer:
Robert Johnson (1930s blues legend)
writer:
Joe Bihari and Elmore James
version of:
Dust My Broom
Elmore James3:11
7Big town Playboy
recorded in:
Chicago, Illinois, United States (on 1955-12-05)
drums (drum set):
Vernell Fournier
guitar:
Jimmy Reed (blues musician) and Eddie Taylor (electric blues guitarist and singer)
harmonica:
Jimmy Reed (blues musician)
lead vocals:
Eddie Taylor (electric blues guitarist and singer)
recording of:
Big Town Playboy
writer:
Little Johnny Jones (Chicago blues pianist)
publisher:
Conrad Music (publisher; do NOT use as release label)
Eddie Taylor2:57
8I'm Sinking
Lowell Fulson4:00
9Gonna Make You Mine
Frank Frost2:30
10Wish Me Well
recorded in:
Chicago, Illinois, United States (on 1959-08-18)
alto saxophone:
Alex Atkins
bass:
Sam Chatman (Blues bass player) (on 1959-08-18)
drums (drum set):
Billy Stepney (on 1959-08-18)
electric guitar:
Matt Murphy (US blues guitarist) (on 1959-08-18)
guitar:
Matt Murphy (US blues guitarist)
piano:
Memphis Slim (on 1959-08-18)
saxophone:
Alex Atkins (on 1959-08-18), John Calvin (1950-1960s Chicago tenor & alto saxophone player) (on 1959-08-18) and Ernest Cotton (1950s US jazz saxophonist) (on 1959-08-18)
tenor saxophone:
John Calvin (1950-1960s Chicago tenor & alto saxophone player) and Ernest Cotton (1950s US jazz saxophonist)
lead vocals:
Memphis Slim
vocals:
Memphis Slim (on 1959-08-18)
performer:
Memphis Slim and The Houserockers (on 1959-08-18)
Memphis Slim2:41
11Mojo Hand
Lightnin’ Hopkins3:02
12I'm Tore Up
Billy Gayles2:22
13That's All I Care
Floyd Dixon2:38
14Blues In the Dark
Little George Smith2:58
15Knocks Me Out Fine, Fine, Fine
Guitar Junior1:55
16Good Lovin'
Bobby “Blue” Bland2:24
17You Upset Me Baby
alto saxophone:
Jewell Grant (US saxophonist) (from 1954-08-18 until 1954-08-19)
bass:
Ralph Hamilton (US jazz/R&B bassist) (from 1954-08-18 until 1954-08-19)
drums (drum set):
Jesse Sailes (from 1954-08-18 until 1954-08-19)
guitar:
B.B. King (from 1954-08-18 until 1954-08-19)
piano:
Willard McDaniel (from 1954-08-18 until 1954-08-19)
saxophone:
Floyd Turnham (from 1954-08-18 until 1954-08-19)
tenor saxophone:
Maxwell Davis (1940s tenor sax and arranger “The Father of West Coast R&B”) (from 1954-08-18 until 1954-08-19)
trumpet:
Harry D. Jones (from 1954-08-18 until 1954-08-19)
vocals:
B.B. King (from 1954-08-18 until 1954-08-19)
arranger:
Maxwell Davis (1940s tenor sax and arranger “The Father of West Coast R&B”)
publisher:
Intersong Music
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Ace Records Ltd (Do not use as label, use only for copyright and distribution credits.) (in 1954) and P‐VINE RECORDS (record label — add releases here) (in 1954)
recorded at:
Modern Studios in Culver City, California, United States (from 1954-08-18 until 1954-08-19)
recording of:
You Upset Me Baby (from 1954-08-18 until 1958-08-19)
writer:
Riley B. King and Jules Taub
publisher:
BMG Music Publishing Ltd. and Copyright Control (not for release label use! this is only for copyrights and publishing relationships)
B.B. King13:02
18Telephone Blues
Little George Smith3:01
19I Know Your Wig Has Gone
T‐Bone Walker2:42
2▶CD: Volume 2
3▶CD: Volume 3