Down Home Blues: Chicago Volume 3: The Special Stuff (Various Artists)

Artista: Down Home Blues: Chicago Volume 3 / Various

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: MVD

Catalogo: 5121

Faixas: 1.1 Robert Lockwood – Black Spider Blues
1.2 Robert Lockwood – I’m Gonna Train My Baby
1.3 Big Maceo – County Jail Blues
1.4 Big Maceo – Texas Blues
1.5 Robert Lockwood – Little Boy Blue
1.6 Robert Lockwood – Take A Little Walk With Me
1.7 Ann Sorter – Tell It To The O.P.A.
1.8 Ann Sorter – Bad Stuff
1.9 Big Maceo – Do You Remember
1.10 Big Maceo – Big City Blues
1.11 Sunnyland Slim – Miss Bessie Mae
1.12 Alfred Wallace (The Fat Man) – You’ve Gotta Stop This Mess
1.13 Jazz Gillum – Keep On Sailing
1.14 Jazz Gillum – Fast Woman Blues
1.15 Jazz Gillum – Long Razor Blues
1.16 Sonny Boy Williamson – Southern Dream
1.17 Sonny Boy Williamson – Bring Me Another Half Pint
1.18 Big Joe Williams – P Vine Blues
1.19 Big Joe Williams – I’m A Highway Man
1.20 Jazz Gillum – Gonna Take My Rap
1.21 Sonny Boy Williamson – I Love You For Myself
1.22 Sonny Boy Williamson – Alcohol Blues
1.23 Big Joe Williams – King Biscuit Stomp
1.24 Big Joe Williams – Don’t You Leave Me Here
1.25 Forest City Joe – Memory of Sonny Boy
1.26 Forest City Joe – A Woman On Every Street
2.1 St Louis Jimmy – Biscuit Roller
2.2 St Louis Jimmy – I’m Sorry Now
2.3 Forest City Joe – Sawdust Bottom (Previously Unissued)
2.4 St Louis Jimmy – Ash Street Boogie (Previously Unissued)
2.5 Willie Mahon – Boogie Man (Bogey Man)
2.6 Willie Mahon – It Keeps Raining
2.7 Robert Lockwood Jr – Dust My Broom
2.8 Robert Lockwood Jr – Pearly B (Previously Unissued)
2.9 St Louis Jimmy – Your Evil Ways
2.10 St Louis Jimmy – Whiskey Drinkin’ Woman
2.11 Johnny Temple – Pretty Woman (Previously Unissued)
2.12 Johnny Temple – Jack and Jill (Previously Unissued)
2.13 St Louis Jimmy – Drinkin’ Woman
2.14 St Louis Jimmy – Why Work
2.15 Matu Roy – Pete’s Shuffle Boogie (Part 1)
2.16 Matu Roy – Pete’s Shuffle Boogie (Part 2)
2.17 Robert Lockwood – Aw Aw Baby
2.18 Robert Lockwood – Sweet Woman From Maine
2.19 St Louis Jimmy – Hard Work Boogie
2.20 St Louis Jimmy – Good Book Blues
2.21 Sunnyland Slim – Down Home Child
2.22 Sunnyland Slim – Leaving Your Town
2.23 Little Johnny Jones – Wait Baby (Previously Unissued)
2.24 Little Johnny Jones – Hoy Hoy
2.25 Big Joe Turner – TV Mama
2.26 Muddy Waters – Iodine In My Coffee (Previously Unissued)
2.27 Muddy Waters – Flood (Previously Unissued)
3.1 Little Brother – If It’s All Night Long
3.2 Little Brother – New Vicksburg Blues
3.3 Muddy Waters – She’s Alright (Alternate Take)
3.4 Muddy Waters – This Pain (Previously Unissued)
3.5 Muddy Waters – Sad Sad Day (Previously Unissued)
3.6 Muddy Waters – Smokestack Lightning (Previously Unissued)
3.7 Little Johnny Jones – Hoy Hoy (Alternate Take)
3.8 Little Johnny Jones – Chicago Blues (Previously Unissued)
3.9 Little Johnny Jones – Doin’ The Best I Can
3.10 Little Johnny Jones – Come Back Baby (Previously Unissued)
3.11 Little Walter – My Kind of Baby (Previously Unissued)
3.12 Little Brother – Pinetop’s Boogie Blues
3.13 Little Brother – Arkansas Blues
3.14 Little Walter – Ah’w Baby (Alternate Take)
3.15 JB Hutto – Mouth Harp Mambo (Previously Unissued )
3.16 JB Hutto – Things Are So Slow (Alternate Take)
3.17 Floyd Jones – Skinny Mama
3.18 Baby Face Leroy – Pet Rabbit
3.19 JB Lenoir – I Have Married (Previously Unissued)
3.20 Eddie Taylor – Ride ‘Em On Down (Previously Unissued)
3.21 Eddie Taylor – Stroll Out West (Previously Unissued)
3.22 Little Hudson – Don’t Hang Around (Previously Unissued)
3.23 JT Brown – Look Out
3.24 JB Lenoir – Do What I Say
3.25 Jody Williams – I Feel So All Alone (Previously Unissued)
3.26 Bo Diddley – She’s Fine, She’s Mine
4.1 Morris Pejoe – Maybe Blues
4.2 Morris Pejoe – Screaming And Crying
4.3 Chuck Berry – Deep Feeling
4.4 Chuck Berry – How You’ve Changed
4.5 Chuck Berry – Blue Feeling
4.6 Chuck Berry – Worried Life Blues
4.7 Chuck Berry – Sweet Sixteen
4.8 Chuck Berry – I Got To Find My Baby
4.9 Junior Wells – I Could Cry
4.10 Junior Wells – Prison Bars All Around Me
4.11 Bo Diddley – I’m Looking For A Woman
4.12 Bo Diddley – Before You Accuse Me
4.13 Bo Diddley – Pretty Thing
4.14 Bo Diddley – I Can Tell
4.15 Memphis Slim – It’s Been Too Long
4.16 Memphis Slim – Four Walls
4.17 Memphis Slim – Cold Blooded Woman
4.18 Memphis Slim – One Man’s Mad
4.19 Willie Cobbs – You Don’t Love Me
4.20 Willie Cobbs – Slow Down
4.21 Minnie Thomas – Don’t Let It Happen To You
4.22 Lucky Carmichael – Blues With A Feeling
4.23 Grover Pruitt – Fool For You Baby
4.24 Magic Sam/Shakey Jake – Every Day and Every Night (Previously Unissued)
4.25 Magic Sam/Shakey Jake – Have You Seen My Mother (Previously Unissued )
4.26 Magic Sam/Shakey Jake – A Hard Road (Previously Unissued)
4.27 Magic Sam/Shakey Jake – Leaving This Morning (Previously Unissued)
4.28 Magic Sam/Shakey Jake – Sweet Home Chicago (Previously Unissued)

Down Home Blues: The Special Stuff é o terceiro volume do Chicago Blues, a música down home blues pós-guerra, da Wienerworld: 108 faixas de blues raras, não lançadas ou feitas em tomadas alternativas gravadas em Chicago entre 1941 e 1961.

Um conjunto de 4 CD, apresentado em um digipak de luxo com uma embalagem externa, apresentando 108 faixas – todas remasterizadas e incluindo tomadas alternativas de gravações conhecidas. Todas as faixas não lançadas e tomadas alternativas são da coleção particular do falecido Peter Moody, muitas das quais de outra forma indisponíveis.

Inclui um excelente livro de 15.000 palavras, com 88 páginas, do renomado historiador de blues Chris Bentley sobre a cena de Chicago pós-guerra; muitas fotografias de época ilustram o ensaio ao longo do texto; além de detalhes completos das faixas, bem como a discografia completa detalhando onde, quando e quem gravou, habilmente compilada pelo especialista em blues Mike Rowe.

Enquanto o CD1 estabelece o cenário com os já estabelecidos bluesmen pré-guerra, como Robert Lockwood Jr. e Sonny Boy Williamson, o CD2 traça o surgimento das bandas de blues elétrico amplificado imediatamente após a segunda guerra mundial – como nas gravações nunca antes lançadas da Chess com Johnny Temple. O CD3 continua a sequência de Muddy Waters iniciada no CD2 – e apresenta Little Hudson, JB Lenoir e Eddie Taylor.

Começando com uma celebração dos roqueiros de Chicago que são a referência do estilo – com uma variedade de faixas de Chuck Berry e Bo Diddley – o CD4 é concluído por artistas amplamente desconhecidos e pouco reconhecidos, incluindo Grover Pruitt, Lucky Carmichael & Minnie Thomas. Essas joias obscuras do blues refletem o conjunto anterior de Chicago – em que a RNR Magazine esteve disposta a apostar que “não importa o quão vasta seja sua coleção de blues, grande parte desta música maravilhosa será desconhecida para você”, e “mesmo que seu conhecimento de blues seja enciclopédico, você não terá ouvido falar de várias das performances” – um testemunho da profundidade da própria coleção de Peter Moody.”