VA - Blues From The Checker Vaults (2014)

The Checker label was founded by brothers Leonard and Philip Chess in 1952, along with the famous Chess label that would prove a driving force in the rise of the blues in the Fifties. One of the reasons for opening another label was to maximise the chance of radio airplay, so Checkers, a board game similar to chess, was the logical choice of name. With the likes of Elmore James, Jimmy Witherspoon and Bo Diddley there’s a treasure trove of music to be found on these discs. Checkers is a board game…you’ll be anything but.

TRACKLIST

CD 1

01. Sonny Boy Williamson - All My Love In Vain
02. Memphis Minnie - Broken Heart
03. Willie Dixon - Crazy For My Baby
04. Elmore James - Country Boogie
05. Bo Diddley - I'm A Man
06. Lowell Fulson - I Believe I'll Give It Up
07. Otis Spann - Five Spot
08. J.B. Lenoir - Let Me Die With The One I Love
09. Little Walter - Lights Out
10. Big Ed & His Combo - Biscuit Baking Woman
11. Joe Williams And King Kolax - Everyday I Have The Blues
12. Sonny Boy Williamson - Keep It To Yourself
13. John Brim - It Was A Dream
14. Joe Hill Louis - Dorothy Mae
15. Morris Pejoe - Cant Get Along
16. Danny Overbea - Forty Cups Of Coffee
17. Rocky Fuller - Come On Baby
18. Sonny Boy Williamson - Let Me Explain
19. Lowell Fulson - If I Give My Love To You
20. Little Walter - Off The Wall

CD 2

01. Elmore James - She Just Won't Do It Right
02. Jimmy Witherspoon - When The Lights Go Out
03. Bo Diddley - Pretty Thing
04. Otis Spann - It Must Have Been The Devil
05. Little Walter - Rocker
06. Willie Dixon - Walkin' The Blues
07. Percy Lee Crudup - Tears In My Eyes
08. Lowell Fulson - Trouble Trouble
09. Memphis Minnie - Me & My Chauffeur
10. Big Boy Spires - One Of These Days
11. John Brim - Rattlesnake
12. Lowell Fulson - Lonely Hours
13. Rocky Fuller - Soon One Morning
14. Morris Pejoe - Tired Of Crying Over You
15. Percy Lee Crudup - Open Your Book
16. Joe Hill Louis - When Im Gone (She Treats Me Mean And Evil)
17. Sonny Boy Williamson - Your Imagination
18. Little Walter - Mean Old World
19. Jimmy Witherspoon - Time Brings About A Change
20. Lowell Fulson - Loving You (Is All I Crave)