V.A. - Atlantic Blues (4CDs, 1991)

This box is separated into 4 categories by CD: Guitar, Piano, Vocalists and Chicago. The assortment is staggering…contains tracks by all of these must-hear artists: John Lee Hooker, the Kings (BB, Freddie and Albert) on the Guitar ad Chicago CDs, as well as Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, Otis Rush, Koko Taylor…on the Piano CD you get "Champion" Jack Dupree, Big Joe Turner, Dr. John AND Professor Longhair AND Ray Charles. Throw in tracks by T-Bone Walker, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Blind Willie McTell, Guitar Slim, Ike & Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin and Stevie Ray Vaughan…this is a great box set to start or finish with. Fave sleeper tracks: Johnny Shines version of "Dust My Broom" and Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Ain't That Lovin' You".

Tracklist:

Atlantic Blues: Chicago

01. Johnny Jones - Chicago Blues (3:12)
02. Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Poor Man's Plea (3:10)
03. Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - My Baby She Left Me (3:09)
04. Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - T-Bone Shuffle (4:16)
05. Freddie King - I Wonder Why (3:18)
06. Freddie King - Play It Cool (3:45)
07. Freddie King - Wake up This Morning (3:10)
08. Otis Rush - Gambler's Blues (5:41)
09. Otis Rush - Feel So Bad (3:38)
10. Otis Rush - Reap What You Sow (4:54)
11. Howlin' Wolf - Highway 49 (5:00)
12. Muddy Waters - Honey Bee (5:09)
13. Koko Taylor - Wang Dang Doodle (6:10)
14. Johnny Shines - Dust My Broom (2:56)
15. Luther Allison - Please Send Me Someone to Love (7:22)
16. Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson - Walkin' the Dog (4:18)
17. J. B. Hutto - I Feel So Good (5:13)

Atlantic Blues: Guitar

01. Blind Willie McTell - Broke Down Engine (2:47)
02. Mississippi Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em on Down (3:21)
03. John Lee Hooker - My Baby Don't Love Me (3:02)
04. Stick McGhee - Tall Pretty Woman (3:08)
05. Texas Johnny Brown - The Blues Rock (2:44)
06. Texas Johnny Brown - There Goes the Blues (3:13)
07. Texas Johnny Brown - Bongo Boogie (3:04)
08. T-Bone Walker - Two Bones and a Pick (2:51)
09. Chuck Brown - Let Me Know (2:56)
10. Guitar Slim - Down Through the Years (2:24)
11. Cornell Dupree - Okie Dokie Stomp (2:49)
12. Big Joe Turner - TV Mama (2:49)
13. Al King - Reconsider Baby (3:00)
14. Mickey Baker - Midnight Midnight (2:27)
15. Ike & Tina Turner - I Smell Trouble (6:59)
16. B.B. King - Why I Sing the Blues (6:15)
17. Albert King - Crosscut Saw (2:36)
18. Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign (2:49)
19. John Hammond, Jr. - Shake for Me (2:42)
20. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Flood Down in Texas (10:22)

Atlantic Blues: Piano

01. Jimmy Yancey - Yancey Special (2:40)
02. Little Brother Montgomery - Talkin' Boogie (2:53)
03. Jimmy Yancey - Mournful Blues (3:11)
04. Jimmy Yancey - Salute to Pinetop (2:50)
05. Jimmy Yancey - Shave 'Em Dry (2:51)
06. Jack Dupree - Frankie & Johnny (3:23)
07. Jack Dupree - TB Blues (3:42)
08. Jack Dupree - Strollin' (2:58)
09. Professor Longhair - Tipitina (2:39)
10. Vann "Piano Man" Walls - Blue Sender (2:48)
11. Vann "Piano Man" Walls - After Midnight (2:37)
12. Joe Turner - Roll 'Em Pete (3:46)
13. Jay McShann - Fore Day Rider (4:11)
14. Jay McShann - My Chile (4:20)
15. Meade Lux Lewis - Cow Cow Blues (3:14)
16. Meade Lux Lewis - Albert's Blues (3:05)
17. Meade Lux Lewis - Honky Tonk Train Blues (2:51)
18. Ray Charles - Low Society (2:54)
19. Floyd Dixon - Hey Bartender (2:48)
20. Floyd Dixon - Floyd's Blues (2:27)
21. Texas Johnny Brown - After Hours Blues (3:09)
22. Doctor John - Junco Partner (4:30)
23. Willie Mabon - I Don't Know (3:36)

Atlantic Blues: Vocalists

01. Sippie Wallace - Suitcase Blues (4:29)
02. Jimmy Witherspoon - Trouble in Mind (3:03)
03. Jimmy Witherspoon - In the Evenin' (3:40)
04. LaVern Baker - Gimme a Pigfoot (3:08)
05. Mama Yancey - How Long Blues (4:36)
06. Joe Turner - Oke-She-Moke-She-Pop (2:58)
07. Lil Green - I've Got That Feelin' (2:57)
08. Lil Green - Every Time (2:56)
09. Wynonie Harris - Destination Love (1:51)
10. Wynonie Harris - Tell a Whale of a Tale (2:19)
11. Ruth Brown - Rain Is a Bringdown (3:07)
12. Percy Mayfield - Nothing Stays the Same Forever (4:26)
13. Ted Taylor - River's Invitation (3:10)
14. Esther Phillips - Just Like a Fish (2:27)
15. Otis Clay - Pouring Water on a Drowning Man (2:38)
16. Rufus Thomas - Did You Ever Love a Woman (3:27)
17. Titus Turner - Baby Girl Parts 1 & 2 (4:54)
18. Bobby Bland - Ain't That Lovin' You (2:19)
19. Johnny Copeland - It's My Own Tears That's Being Wasted (2:47)
20. Eldridge Holmes - Cheatin' Woman (4:00)
21. Johnny Taylor - I Had a Dream (3:13)
22. Aretha Franklin - Takin' Another Man's Place (3:28)
23. Z. Z. Hill - It's a Hang-Up Baby (2:30)