Tracks1.1 Love Me or Leave Me - the Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet 1.2 Next Time You See Me - Jimmy Cotton 1.3 Spann's Stomp - Otis Spann's South Side Piano 1.4 One Room Country Shack - Buddy Guy 1.5 That's the Truth - Hutto and His Hawks 1.6 Somebody Been Talkin' - Homesick James and His Dusters 1.7 I Had a Dream Last Night - Buddy Guy 1.8 When My Baby Left Me - Junior Wells 1.9 Sweet Little Angel - Buddy Guy 1.10 Rocket 88 - the Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet 1.11 Mule Kicking in My Stall - Otis Spann 1.12 The Blues Keep Falling - the Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet 1.13 Rockin' My Boogie - Big Walter Horton's Blues Harp Band 1.14 S.P. Blues - Otis Spann's South Side Piano 1.15 Five Long Years - Junior Wells 1.16 Checking on My Baby - Junior Wells 1.17 Some Day - Otis Spann 1.18 Stealin' Back - Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band 1.19 Tobacco Road - Junior Wells
If you're a fan of older Chicago style blues, this is a must have collection. Many players and bands on here have left the planet...but the beat goes on.
Buddy Guy in his younger incarnation shows his guitar prerogatives which made him the revered guitarist he is today. Crazed solos and incredible vocal ranges! As teenagers we listened to this album over and over until we got them right, Checkin On My Baby, Next Time You see Me...all good stuff...Otis Spann is a force to be reckoned with on the 88;s...let's hear the new pianists take on Spann's Stomp!
Again, a tour de force for the Chicago Blues. All of which could be seen regularly in the sleezebag joints that peppered the south and north sides of Chicago 1970's and 80's.