Willie Dixon - The Chess Box

Disc 1

1 My Babe by Little Walter 2:42
2 Violent Love by The Big Three 2:22
3 Third Degree by Eddie Boyd 3:16
4 Seventh Son by Willie Mabon 2:54
5 Crazy For My Baby by Willie Dixon 2:51
6 Pain In My Heart by Willie Dixon 3:19
7 Hoochie Coochie Man by Muddy Waters 2:47
8 Evil by Howlin' Wolf 2:54
9 Mellow Down Easy by Little Walter 2:43
10 When The Lights Go Out by Jimmy Witherspoon 2:52
11 Young Fashioned Ways by Muddy Waters 3:00
12 Pretty Thing by Bo Diddley 2:50
13 I'm Ready by Muddy Waters 3:04
14 Do Me Right by Lowell Fulson 2:54
15 I Just Want To Make Love To You by Muddy Waters 2:53
16 Tollin' Bells by Lowell Fulson 3:06
17 29 Ways by Willie Dixon 2:09
18 Walkin' The Blues by Willie Dixon 3:02

Disc 2

1 Spoonful by Howlin' Wolf 2:46
2 You Know My Love by Otis Rush 2:42
3 You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover by Bo Diddley 3:10
4 I Ain't Superstitious by Howlin' Wolf 2:53
5 You Need Love by Muddy Waters 2:42
6 Little Red Rooster by Howlin' Wolf 2:26
7 Back Door Man by Howlin' Wolf 2:51
8 Dead Presidents by Little Walter 2:46
9 Hidden Charms by Howlin' Wolf 2:22
10 You Shook Me by Muddy Waters 2:41
11 Bring It On Home by Sonny Boy Williamson II 2:36
12 300 Pounds Of Joy by Howlin' Wolf 3:06
13 Weak Brain Narrow Mind by Willie Dixon 4:25
14 Wang Dang Doodle by Koko Taylor 3:02
15 The Same Thing by Muddy Waters 5:57
16 Built For Comfort by Howlin' Wolf 2:40
17 I Can't Quit You Baby by Little Milton 6:41
18 Insane Asylum by Koko Taylor 4:20

Willie Dixon - I Am The Blues

1. Back Door Man
2. I Can't Quit You, Baby
3. The Seventh Son
4. Spoonful
5. I Ain't Supertitious
6. You Shook Me
7. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
8. The Little Red Rooster
9. The Same Thing


Originally released in 1970, this disc has the legendary songwriter singing nine of his classics as his hand-picked Chicago band makes the changes. Dixon's nothing special, even if he is the blues personified, since his dryly charming voice lacks tonal inflections and his way with rhythm is less than fluent. Whatever glimmers of expressivity these performances have are due to harp player Carey Bell. In spite of Mobile Fidelity's exemplary sound technology, the instruments at the original session sound like mysterious things thumping on the roof in the dead of night. -- © Frank John Hadley 1993