Complete Chess Masters: 1950–1967

Tracklist

Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.

Disc 1

• 1 Evans Shuffle 2:14
• 2 Juke (single version) 2:45
• 3 Juke (alternate take) 2:57
• 4 Can’t Hold Out Much Longer 3:01
• 5 Can’t Hold Out Much Longer (alternate) 2:51
• 6 Blue Midnight (alternate take) 3:02
• 7 Blue Midnight 2:59
• 8 Boogie 3:01
• 9 Mean Old World 2:55
• 10 Sad Hours 3:12
• 11 Fast Boogie 2:48
• 12 Fast Boogie (alternate 1) 3:13
• 13 Fast Boogie (alternate 2) 2:57
• 14 Fast Boogie (alternate 3) 3:00
• 15 Don’t Need No Horse 3:15
• 16 Driftin’ 3:12
• 17 Driftin’ (alternate) 3:08
• 18 Don’t Have to Hunt No More 3:01
• 19 Crazy Legs 3:23
• 20 Tonight With a Fool 2:53
• 21 Off the Wall (alternate version) 2:55
• 22 Off the Wall 2:50
• 23 Tell Me Mama 2:45
• 24 Quarter to Twelve 3:13
• 25 That’s It 3:10

Disc 2

• 1 Blues With a Feeling (alternate take) 2:56
• 2 Blues With a Feeling 3:07
• 3 Last Boogie 2:32
• 4 Too Late 2:41
• 5 Fast Boogie 2:52
• 6 Lights Out 2:46
• 7 Fast Large One 2:50
• 8 You’re So Fine 3:04
• 9 My Kind of Baby 3:08
• 10 Come Back Baby 2:54
• 11 Rocker 3:07
• 12 I Love You So (Oh Baby) 2:33
• 13 Oh Baby 2:46
• 14 I Got to Find My Baby (alternate take) 3:07
• 15 I Got to Find My Baby 2:48
• 16 Big Leg Mama 2:47
• 17 Mercy Babe (My Babe) 3:18
• 18 Last Night 2:54
• 19 You Better Watch Yourself 3:04
• 20 Blue Light 3:14
• 21 Instrumental 2:55
• 22 Last Night 2:44
• 23 Mellow Down Easy 2:43
• 24 My Babe 2:42
• 25 My Babe (overdubbed version) 2:30

Disc 3

• 1 Thunderbird 2:48
• 2 Roller Coaster 2:53
• 3 I Got to Go 2:41
• 4 Hate to See You Go 3:04
• 5 Little Girl 3:06
• 6 Crazy for My Baby 3:01
• 7 Can’t Stop Lovin’ You 2:48
• 8 One More Chance With You 2:55
• 9 Who 2:24
• 10 Boom, Boom Out Goes the Light 2:51
• 11 It Ain’t Right 2:54
• 12 Flying Saucer 3:03
• 13 It’s to Late Brother 2:43
• 14 Teenage Beat 3:02
• 15 Take Me Back 3:06
• 16 Just a Feeling 2:54
• 17 Nobody but You 2:07
• 18 Temperature (version 1) 1:59
• 19 Shake Dancer 2:44
• 20 Everybody Needs Somebody 2:53
• 21 Temperature (alternate 1) 2:15
• 22 Temperature (alternate 2) 2:16
• 23 Temperature (take 30) 3:28
• 24 Temperature (take 35–38) 4:54
• 25 Temperature (version 2) 2:40
• 26 Ah’w Baby (alternate) 2:50

Disc 4

• 1 Ah’w Baby 2:54
• 2 I’ve Had My Fun (alternate) 2:13
• 3 I’ve Had My Fun (alternate 2) 2:26
• 4 I’ve Had My Fun 2:02
• 5 The Toddle 2:38
• 6 Confessin’ the Blues 3:04
• 7 Key to the Highway 2:46
• 8 Rock Bottom 2:31
• 9 Rock Bottom 2:18
• 10 Walkin’ On 2:36
• 11 You Gonna Be Sorry (Someday Baby) (take 5) 2:43
• 12 You Gonna Be Sorry (Someday Baby) (alternate) 3:08
• 13 You Gonna Be Sorry (Someday Baby) 2:49
• 14 One of These Mornings (instrumental) 3:13
• 15 Baby 2:00
• 16 My Baby Is Sweeter (alternate) 2:51
• 17 My Baby Is Sweeter 2:29
• 18 Crazy Mixed Up World (alternate) 2:01
• 19 Crazy Mixed Up World 2:00
• 20 Worried Life (alternate) 2:18
• 21 Worried Life 2:40
• 22 Everything’s Gonna Be Alright (take 1) 4:29
• 23 Everything’s Gonna Be Alright (alternate 1) 2:15
• 24 Everything’s Gonna Be Alright (alternate 2) 3:02
• 25 Everything’s Gonna Be Alright 2:50
• 26 Mean Old Frisco (alternate) 3:06
• 27 Mean Old Frisco 2:25

Disc 5

• 1 Back Track 2:49
• 2 One of These Mornings 2:56
• 3 Blue and Lonesome (alternate) 4:51
• 4 Blue and Lonesome 2:55
• 5 Me and Piney Brown 2:32
• 6 Break It Up 2:27
• 7 Going Down Slow 2:56
• 8 You’re Sweet 2:59
• 9 I Don’t Play 2:19
• 10 As Long as I Have You 2:39
• 11 You Don’t Know 2:25
• 12 Just Your Fool 2:24
• 13 Up the Line 2:07
• 14 I’m a Business Man 2:55
• 15 Dead Presidents 2:53
• 16 Southern Feeling 2:59
• 17 Back in the Alley 3:07
• 18 I Feel So Bad (take 1) 2:43
• 19 I Feel So Bad (take 2) 4:15
• 20 Chicken Shack 2:47
• 21 Feel So Bad 2:57
• 22 Make It Alright 3:23
• 23 Juke 3:27

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