Name: Box of the Blues / Various
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Box of the Blues / Various

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Album: Box of the Blues / Various
#	Song Title	Time
1)	61 Highway - Mississippi Fred McDowell
2)	See See Rider - Herb Quinn/Jewell "Babe" Stovall
3)	I Could Hear My Name A-Ringin' - Memphis Slim/Sonny Boy Williamson II/Big Bill Broonzy
4)	Cheating and Lying Blues - Robert Nighthawk
5)	Lonesome Whistle - Johnny Shines/Robert Lockwood, Jr.
6)	Broken Hearted Blues - Etta Baker
7)	I'm Gonna Make You Happy - Buster Brown
8)	Dooleyville Blues - Bill "Boogie Bill" Webb
9)	One Kind Favor - Cephas & Wiggins
10)	Blues for Martin Luther King - Otis Spann
11)	Wind Howlin' Blues - David "Honeyboy" Edwards
12)	Dying Crapshooter's Blues - Blind Willie McTell
13)	Screamin' and Cryin' - Big Joe Williams
14)	Candy Man - Mississippi John Hurt
15)	Red Cross Store, The - Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee
1)	One More Mile - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
2)	My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble - Carey Bell
3)	Give Me Flowers While I'm Livin' - Champion Jack Dupree
4)	Cool Blues Walk - Eddy Clearwater
5)	Port Arthur Blues - Phillip Walker
6)	Nobody But You - Johnny Copeland
7)	Jukin' - Willie Cobbs
8)	Johnny's Jump - Johnny Young (previously unreleased)
9)	Goin' Out West, Pts. 1 and 2 - Larry Davis
10)	Walking by Myself - Jimmy Rogers
11)	Blues and My Guitar - Lowell Fulson
12)	Eighteen Year Old Girl - J.B. Hutto
13)	I'm from Mississippi - Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson & the Magic Rockers
14)	This Is the Blues - Lonesome Sundown
15)	Man from Mars, The - Smokey Wilson
1)	Change in My Pocket - Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets
2)	Blue House - Marcia Ball
3)	Meanest Woman - Geoff Muldaur
4)	Make Some Changes - Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones
5)	Down South Blues - Tarbox Ramblers
6)	How Long - The Chris Duarte Group
7)	I'm the Toughest Girl Alive - Candye Kane
8)	Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning - Corey Harris
9)	Frankie and Albert - Rory Block
10)	What That Means to Me - Duke Robillard
11)	Let Me Live - Roomful of Blues
12)	Lovin' Someone Else - Little Jimmy King & The Memphis Soul Survivors
13)	John Hardy - George Thorogood
14)	One Night Affair - Bnois King/Smokin' Joe Kubek/Little Milton
15)	Shifting Sand - Michelle Wilson
1)	Good Day for the Blues, A - Ruth Brown
2)	Outskirts of Town - Wilson Pickett
3)	Live and Let Live - Terry Evans/Bobby King
4)	Roadblock - Johnny Adams
5)	I Can Take You to Heaven Tonight - Otis Clay
6)	Got to Get Myself Some Money - Solomon Burke
7)	Nowhere to Hide - Paul Kelly
8)	What Can I Do (Somebody Tell Me) - Little Buster & the Soul Brothers
9)	Two Wrongs - Theryl DeClouet
10)	I Stepped in Quicksand - Charles Brown
11)	Ain't No Business Like Your Business - Ann Peebles
12)	Promised Land - The Holmes Brothers
13)	You Don't Know Nothin' About Love - Irma Thomas/Tracy Nelson
14)	Bring It on Home Daddy - Ted Hawkins
15)	Out of the Dark - Walter "Wolfman" Washington

Album: Box of the Blues / Various
#	Song Title	Time
1)	61 Highway - Mississippi Fred McDowell
2)	See See Rider - Herb Quinn/Jewell "Babe" Stovall
3)	I Could Hear My Name A-Ringin' - Memphis Slim/Sonny Boy Williamson II/Big Bill Broonzy
4)	Cheating and Lying Blues - Robert Nighthawk
5)	Lonesome Whistle - Johnny Shines/Robert Lockwood, Jr.
6)	Broken Hearted Blues - Etta Baker
7)	I'm Gonna Make You Happy - Buster Brown
8)	Dooleyville Blues - Bill "Boogie Bill" Webb
9)	One Kind Favor - Cephas & Wiggins
10)	Blues for Martin Luther King - Otis Spann
11)	Wind Howlin' Blues - David "Honeyboy" Edwards
12)	Dying Crapshooter's Blues - Blind Willie McTell
13)	Screamin' and Cryin' - Big Joe Williams
14)	Candy Man - Mississippi John Hurt
15)	Red Cross Store, The - Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee
1)	One More Mile - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
2)	My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble - Carey Bell
3)	Give Me Flowers While I'm Livin' - Champion Jack Dupree
4)	Cool Blues Walk - Eddy Clearwater
5)	Port Arthur Blues - Phillip Walker
6)	Nobody But You - Johnny Copeland
7)	Jukin' - Willie Cobbs
8)	Johnny's Jump - Johnny Young (previously unreleased)
9)	Goin' Out West, Pts. 1 and 2 - Larry Davis
10)	Walking by Myself - Jimmy Rogers
11)	Blues and My Guitar - Lowell Fulson
12)	Eighteen Year Old Girl - J.B. Hutto
13)	I'm from Mississippi - Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson & the Magic Rockers
14)	This Is the Blues - Lonesome Sundown
15)	Man from Mars, The - Smokey Wilson
1)	Change in My Pocket - Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets
2)	Blue House - Marcia Ball
3)	Meanest Woman - Geoff Muldaur
4)	Make Some Changes - Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones
5)	Down South Blues - Tarbox Ramblers
6)	How Long - The Chris Duarte Group
7)	I'm the Toughest Girl Alive - Candye Kane
8)	Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning - Corey Harris
9)	Frankie and Albert - Rory Block
10)	What That Means to Me - Duke Robillard
11)	Let Me Live - Roomful of Blues
12)	Lovin' Someone Else - Little Jimmy King & The Memphis Soul Survivors
13)	John Hardy - George Thorogood
14)	One Night Affair - Bnois King/Smokin' Joe Kubek/Little Milton
15)	Shifting Sand - Michelle Wilson
1)	Good Day for the Blues, A - Ruth Brown
2)	Outskirts of Town - Wilson Pickett
3)	Live and Let Live - Terry Evans/Bobby King
4)	Roadblock - Johnny Adams
5)	I Can Take You to Heaven Tonight - Otis Clay
6)	Got to Get Myself Some Money - Solomon Burke
7)	Nowhere to Hide - Paul Kelly
8)	What Can I Do (Somebody Tell Me) - Little Buster & the Soul Brothers
9)	Two Wrongs - Theryl DeClouet
10)	I Stepped in Quicksand - Charles Brown
11)	Ain't No Business Like Your Business - Ann Peebles
12)	Promised Land - The Holmes Brothers
13)	You Don't Know Nothin' About Love - Irma Thomas/Tracy Nelson
14)	Bring It on Home Daddy - Ted Hawkins
15)	Out of the Dark - Walter "Wolfman" Washington

Performer Notes

Personnel: Duke Robillard (vocals, guitar, electric guitar); Robert Nighthawk (vocals, guitar, slide guitar); Corey Harris (vocals, guitar, lap steel guitar); David "Honeyboy" Edwards (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Edward Forehand (vocals, guitar, background vocals); Chris Duarte, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Etta Baker, Geoff Muldaur, Michael Tarbox, Robert Lee Wilson, J.B. Hutto, Little Jimmy King & The Memphis Soul Survivors, Jimmy Rogers , John Cephas, Johnny Copeland, Johnny Shines, Larry Davis, Lonesome Sundown, Lowell Fulson, Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones, Phillip Walker, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Ted Hawkins, Jewell "Babe" Stovall, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Wendell Holmes, Big Joe Williams, Bill "Boogie Bill" Webb (vocals, guitar); George Thorogood (vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica); Blind Willie McTell (vocals, 12-string guitar); Johnny Young (vocals, mandolin); Daniel Kellar (vocals, violin); Sonny Boy Williamson I , Sam Myers, Sugar Ray Norcia, Willie Cobbs, Buster Brown, Carey Bell (vocals, harmonica); Charles V. Brown, Marcia Ball, Otis Spann, Champion Jack Dupree (vocals, piano); Stuart Holmes (vocals, Wurlitzer organ); Popsy Dixon (vocals, drums); Paul Kelly, Ann Peebles (vocals, background vocals); Irma Thomas, Johnny Adams, Johnny Sciascia, Michelle Willson, Otis Clay, Ruth Brown, Solomon Burke, Terry Evans, Theryl DeClouet, Tracy Nelson, Wilson Pickett, Bnois King, Bobby King , Candye Kane (vocals); Michael Toles (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Thomas Bingham (guitar, background vocals); June Yamagishi, Chris Vachon, Danny Caron, Steve Wilcox, Kenn Lending, Eddy Clearwater, Steve "Syco Steve" Williams, Eugene Ross, Earl The Pearl, Jamal Millner, Frank Capek, Ken Pino, Jimmy Ponder, Jon Tiven, Little Milton, Mabon "Teenie" Hodges, Anson Funderburgh, Renard Poch?, Rory Block, Ry Cooder, Stephen Bruton, Brian Bisesi (guitar); Cranston Clements (electric guitar); Herb Quinn (mandolin); Phil Wiggins, Sonny Terry (harmonica); Bill "Foots" Samuel (saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Andrew Love (saxophone, tenor saxophone); Chris Mason , David Li, David II (saxophone); Rich Lataille (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Thadeus Richard (alto saxophone, keyboards); Donald Harrison, Earl Turbinton, Joe Salisbury, Warren Bell, Ray Moore (alto saxophone); Gordon "Sax" Beadle, Jim Spake (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Clarence Ford, Lannie McMIllian, Clifford Solomon, Tom Fitzpatrick , Dennis Taylor, Ed Petersen, Scott Shetler, Fred Kemp, Bob Mathes, Timothy Richardson, Jerry Harshaw, Mark "Kaz" Kazanoff, Alvin "Red" Tyler, Bill Easley, Paul Klemperer (tenor saxophone); Carl Blouin, Doug James , Red Rails, James Mitchell , Victor Goines (baritone saxophone); Terry Tullos (trumpet, flugelhorn); Wayne Jackson (trumpet, trombone); Brian Murray, Steve Smith , Barney Floyd, Laurence Etkin, Jamil Sharif, Stacy Cole, Mark Braud, Mary Thomas , Keith Winking, Glen MacArthur, Melvin Moore, Scott Thompson, Steve Howard, Abram Wilson, Bob Enos, Bobby Campo, Charlie Miller (trumpet); Al Basile (cornet); Ernie Gautreau (trombone, valve trombone); Randy Zimmerman, Steven Walker, Richard Martinez, Bruce Hammond, Alonzo Bowens, Maynard Chatters, John Touchy, Carl Querfurth (trombone); Ron Levy (piano, organ, synthesizer); Joe Krown, Charles Hodges (piano, organ); Craig Wroten (piano, keyboards); Jon Cleary (piano, synthesizer); John Street, Daryl Davis, Dave Limina, Tony West, James Rudy, Fred Hodges, Arthur Woods, Bob Riedy, Ernest Vantrease, Nathaniel Dove, Matt McCabe, Memphis Slim, Archie Turner, Bobby Forrester (piano); Ronnie Bramhall, Spooner Oldham, Charles "Chas" Hodges (organ); Llew Matthews, Sky Williams, Eugene Dacosta Cordew, Ken Vangel (keyboards); Willie Tee (synthesizer); Lloyd Lambert, Big Bill Broonzy, James Singleton (acoustic bass); John Packer , Chris Jones, Greg Willis, Buster Paterson (electric bass); George Journigan (5-string bass); John Cohan, Simon Kirke, Herman V. Ernest III (drums, percussion); Curtis Steele, Kenneth "Spider Webb" Rice , Charles "Sugar Boy" Jones , Joey Vee, Robert Shipley, Doyle Bramhall, Richard "Hubcap" Robinson , Jeff Alexander , Tom DeQuattro, David Lee , Danny Cochran, Tommy Tucker, Jr., Cedric Cowboy McCory, Franchot Blake, Jimmy "Blue Shoes" Pendleton, Rodney Craig, Robert Whitehead, Glen Rogers, Leroy Pina, Jim Keltner, John Rossi, Johnny Vidacovich, Akira Tana, Kerry Brown , S.P. Leary, Sam Lay, Shannon Powell, Tommy Hill , Wilbert "Junkyard Dog" Arnold, David Peters , Billy Kilson, Marty Richards, Howard Grimes, Sammy Creason, Gaylord Birch, Raymond Weber, Dwayne "Cook" Broadnax (drums); Scott Billington (cowbells); Cornell Williams, Ina Bea Walker, Donald Bryant, Charles Elam III, William "Billy" Brown, Jimmy Grisby, Cano, Earl J. Smith, Jr., Bertram Brown (background vocals).
Audio Mixers: David Farrell ; Eddie Kramer; Glenn Berger; Gregg Lunsford; Jared Tuten; Jeff Juliano ; John Nagy; John Paul Gauthier; Mark Linett; Miles Wilkinson; Paul Mufson; Phil Greene; Rob Jaczko; Steve Reynolds; Steve Rosenthal.
Audio Remixer: Bill Dashiell.
Liner Note Author: Scott Billington.
Recording information: 1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, CA (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Ardent Studios, Memphis, TN (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Arlyn Studios, Austin, TX (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Audio Dallas Recording Studio, Dallas, TX (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Blue Jay Studio, Carlisle, MARoseland (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Chico's Organic, Malibu, CA (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Crosstown Recorders, Memphis, TN (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Dimension Sound Studios, Boston, MA (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Dojo, Sperryville, VA (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Eldorado Studio (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Grog Kill Studio, Willow, NY (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Haunted Hollow Studio, Charlottesville, VA (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Hip Pocket Studios, New York, NY (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Lakewest Recording, West Greenwich, RI (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Music Lab, Los Angeles, CA (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); My Generation Studio, Somerville, MA (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Ocean Way Studios, Hollywood, CA (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Pedernales Recording Studio (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Power Station New England, Sonalyst Studios, Waterford, (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Royal Recording Studios, Memphis, TN (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Sound Studio, Chicago, IL (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Southlake Recording Studio, Metairie, LA (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Studio In The Country, Bogalusa, LA (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Studio Six, Memphis, TN (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Studio Solo, Slidell, LA (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Studoi 900, New York, NY (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Syncro Sound, Boston, MA (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); The Magic Shop, Platinum Island, New York, NY (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); The Mixing Lab, Newton, MA (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Tone Cool Studio, Newton, MA (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Ultrasonic Studios, New Orleans, LA (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); World Axis Studios, Austin, TX (11/02/1940-12/??/1999); Your Place Or Mine Remote Recording, Glendale, CA (11/02/1940-12/??/1999).
Editor: Steve Reynolds.
Photographers: Chris Colbourn; Jennifer Esperanza; Birney Imes; Deni McIntyre; Kathy Chapman; Rick Olivier; Will McIntyre; Bill Crump.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets; The Holmes Brothers.
Arrangers: Una Gibney; Ken Vangel; Lowell Fulson; Ron Levy; Bill Easley.
Rounder's four-CD Box of the Blues is, by looking at its inclusion of tracks, seemingly an ambitious proposition. But looks can be deceiving. Compiled and introduced by vice president of A&R Scott Billington -- a man whose credentials, when it comes to fighting for and preserving blues traditions, are unassailable -- these discs become a kind of theme-oriented blur of Rounder's substantial catalog holdings. Billington's schemata are quirky, sometimes ironic, and sometimes downright scary and profound as the set's first and second discs' "61 Highway" and "One More Mile" attest. The first CD concentrates its energies on the revelation of blues as it came up from the Mississippi Delta in the music of Fred McDowell, Johnny Shines, Etta Baker, Blind Willie McTell, John Hurt, and others and mutated up north to Chicago with Otis Spann, Robert Nighthawk, and others. On disc two, the blues becomes a more regional concern as expressed by everyone from Gatemouth Brown to Jack Dupree to Willie Cobbs and J.B. Hutto. Texas and News Orleans are prominently featured. And disc four, being a mishmash of current styles, has its merits even if the strategy is hard to decipher -- perhaps it is only that Billington put his favorite cuts on the disc, which would make it plenty valid even if it is a careening listen. But "Change in the Pocket" is erratic in its presentations of traditional purveyors of the music from George Thorogood and Corey Harris to the Tarbox Ramblers and Roomful of Blues. Here everything feels willy-nilly and reeks of some kind of revisionism. But still, three out of four isn't bad and the price is right, too. This is no Grammy-deserving compilation, but there are some amazing things on it -- even if it feels like Rounder patting itself on the back and trying to cash in on Martin Scorsese's Presents the Blues series on PBS. ~ Thom Jurek

Professional Reviews

Mojo (Publisher) (12/03, p.128) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[A] giant bottle of cask-strength music with which to toast the last weeks of the Year Of The Blues - and long afterwards."