Sonny Boy Williamson & the Yardbirds: Complete Crawdaddy Recordings [Live] [Special Edition]

Track Listings
1. Smokestack Lightning - The Yardbirds    
2. You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover - The Yardbirds    
3. Let It Rock - The Yardbirds    
4. I Wish You Would - The Yardbirds    
5. Who Do You Love - The Yardbirds    
6. Honey in Your Hips - The Yardbirds    
7. Bye Bye Bird    
8. Mister Downchild    
9. River Rhine    
10. 23 Hours Too Long    
11. Lost Care    
12. Pontiac Blues    
13. Take It Easy Baby [Version One]    
14. Out on the Water Coast    
15. I Don't Care No More    
16. Western Arizona    
17. Take It Easy Baby [Version Two]    
18. Slow Walk [*]    
19. Highway 69 [*]    
20. My Little Cabin [*]    

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Full title - Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds (Live). Italian remastered reissue of the British Invasion act's 1966 album (featuring a young Eric Clapton on guitar), recorded in 1963 at the Craw-Daddy club in London, packaged in a miniature LP gatefold sleeve. 20 tracks including 3 bonus tracks recorded live at Birmingham R & B Festival in 1964, 'Slow Walk', 'Highway 69' & 'My Little Cabin'. Includes an 8-page booklet with photos & notes on the artists. Sunspots. 2003.

Sonny Boy Williamson & the Yardbirds: Complete Crawdaddy Recordings, Music, The Yardbirds, Blues-Rock, British Blues, British Invasion, Pop, Rock, Rock & Roll, Rock/Pop
His Best
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ASIN: B000005KQN
Release Date: 1997-05-20

Tracks:

  1. Good Evening Everybody
  2. Don't Start Me To Talkin'
  3. All My Love In Vain
  4. Keep It To Yourself
  5. Fattening Frogs For Snakes
  6. I Don't Know
  7. Cross My Heart
  8. Born Blind
  9. Ninety Nine
  10. Your Funeral And My Trial
  11. Keep Your Hands Out Of My Pocket
  12. Sad To Be Alone
  13. Checkin' Up On My Baby
  14. Down Child
  15. Nine Below Zero
  16. Bye Bye Bird
  17. Help Me
  18. Bring It On Home
  19. My Younger Days
  20. One Way Out

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This is Sonny Boy Williamson II, whose 1940s Mississippi Delta radio broadcasts for King Biscuit Time made him one of the most influential of all blues musicians. A master harmonica player, he created relaxed songs, often humorous, that reminded urban listeners of their country roots. These tracks are from his years at Chess, beginning in the mid-1950s until his death in 1965. His recording bands feature Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, and Robert Lockwood Jr., among others. Perhaps his best-known track here is "Don't Start Me to Talkin' (I'll Tell You Everything I Know)," but his signature sound is evident on every high trill he played. --Robert Gordon

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great harmonica work and a great blues voice.......2007-05-04

He was probably born Aleck or Alex Ford, took the name "Rice" Miller later on, and adopted the name of another fine blues player, Sonny Boy Williamson still later. His harmonica playing is wondrous to listen to; he was a mentor to such luminaries as Howlin' Wolf, Junior Wells, Little Walter, and so on. This CD features work from 1955 to 1964.

A few selections well illustrate his art.

"Good evening Everybody" begins the CD with typical riveting harmonica work. The instrument wails. What a backing group: Otis Spann, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Willie Dixon, and Fred Below. The song has an up tempo beat (as liner notes mention, the tempo slows over the 10 year period covered by this CD). He finishes the song by singing of being in a studio in Chicago playing the blues. And play the blues he does.

"Don't Start Me to Talkin'" is a nice tune, with more exquisite harmonica work.

"All My Love in Vain" should not be confused with the similarly named song by the legendary Robert Johnson. Again, terrific harmonica playing. And some good lines:

"Heart's been broken,
And all my love in vain."

The backing group (same as the previous two cuts) plays well.

One of his most well known songs, "Nine Below Zero" features good lines, such as:

"It was 9 below zero
And she put me down for another man.
I gave her all my love and all my money,
Everything."

His voice suggests a hard living life (and liner notes indicate that that was the truth)! The harmonica work embellishes the singing nicely.

All in all, a good introduction to the work of Sonny Boy Williamson. For blues' enthusiasts, this is a work well worth considering.

5 out of 5 stars Great Rice Miller Compilation.......2007-04-02

This is a wonderful collection of blues harmonica music. The Sonny Boy Williamson who was also known as Rice Miller was a masterful player, and a talented songwriter. His voice aged with him to produce that fine bluesy-gravelly sound that endears a blues performer to his audience.

Some of his classic songs like Don't Start Me To Talking, Your Funeral and My Trial, Fattening Frogs For Snakes, and Nine Below Zero are on this retrospective. This is a blues music collectors must have if you love harmonica music.

5 out of 5 stars S.B Williamson (review).......2007-03-11

Chess 50th Anniversary CD for Sonny Boy Williamson is a very good CD. Especially for the avid Blues fan, I recommend it as a "must have".

5 out of 5 stars Fast Shipment.......2007-01-19

Item arrived in excellent condition. Shipping was fast and in plenty of time for Christmas.

Thank you.

5 out of 5 stars Blues, and more blues. He taught the old rockers........2007-01-10

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King Biscuit Time
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ASIN: B0000001FP
Release Date: 1993-11-30

Tracks:

  1. Do It If You Wanna
  2. Cool, Cool Blues
  3. Come On Back Home
  4. Stop Crying
  5. Eyesight To The Blind
  6. West Memphis Blues
  7. I Cross My Heart
  8. Crazy About You Baby
  9. Nine Below Zero
  10. Mighty Long Time
  11. She Brought LIfe Back To The Dead
  12. Stop Now Baby
  13. Mr. Downchild
  14. Sonny Boy's Christmas Blues
  15. Pontiac Blues
  16. Too Close Together
  17. Radio Program a)V-8 Ford; b) Stormy Monday; c)Right Now; d) Come Go With Me
  18. Dust My Broom - Elmore James

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Seminal!.......2004-08-18

Aleck "Rice" Miller, Sonny Boy Williamson II, was around long enough to have played with Robert Johnson at one end of his career, and with Eric Clapton at the other. He was born at the tail end of the 19th century in Glendora, Mississippi, he taught the basics of blues harmonica to a young Howlin' Wolf, and he was present the night Robert Johnson was poisoned.

And even though he took his moniker from the younger Tennessee bluesman John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, Miller's style was nothing like Williamson's.

In fact, no-one really sounded like Rice Miller. His raspy vocal delivery was sly, world-weary, and delightfully evil, and his inimitable harp-playing relied on short, rhythmic bursts one minute and powerful, passionate blowing the next. The liner notes to a 1960s LP of his stated with disturbing seriousness that only a man who had long since sold his soul to the devil in exchange for not having to breathe while performing could sing and play the way Miller did.
And Rice Miller was perhaps the best songwriter the blues has ever seen, displaying an attention to detail which is rare in the blues. His songs were full of mordant wit, with largely autobiographical lyrics that truly hold up to the scrutiny of the printed page.

This CD collects most of Miller's earliest recordings, his magnificent 1951 Trumpet sides. The raw original versions of several songs that whe would later record for Chess are here, including "Cross My Heart", "Nine Below Zero", "Too Close Together", and the classic "Eyesight To The Blind". And since Miller was already in his early 50s at the time and had established a style of his own many years before, these performances are every bit as impressive as his later Chess sides.

Miller is backed by drums, piano, bass and electric guitar, and slide guitar legend Elmore James is credited as one of the guitarists on several tracks, alongside pianist Willie Love and the "eternal sideman", Joe Willie Wilkins. Wilkins taught B.B. King guitar in the 40s, and recorded with Little Walter, Big Walter Horton, Elmore James, Roosevelt Sykes and several others.
The fidelity here doesn't match Miller's Chess sides, but there is so much power and grit in these 52 year old recordings that it really doesn't matter all that much.

This CD reissue also includes Elmore James' first single, the famous rendition of Robert Johnson's "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom", which features Rice Miller on harp, as well as a thirteen-minute KFFA broadcast from 1965, the year Rice Miller died. That one includes his versions on "V-8 Ford", "Right Now", "Come Go With Me", and T-Bone Walker's "They Call It Stormy Monday".

"King Biscuit Time" is a tremendous collection of Sonny Boy in his prime, and a must-have for any and all fans of blues harmonica.
4 1/2 stars - highly recommended.

5 out of 5 stars The REAL King of Rock 'n' Roll?.......2002-09-13

Sonny Boy somehow gets swept into a corner because he only had a few records that were "hits" in the 1950s, "Don't Start Me To Talkin'" and "Mighty Long Time," his masterpiece on this CD. However, when he died, artists including The Moody Blues, Jack Bruce, Jimmy Reed, Paul Jones of Manfred Mann, John Maysll, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton and others recorded tributes to him. He recorded with the Animals and Yardbirds, Jimmy Page, jazzmen Chris Barber and Roland Kirk and others. The real story is that Sonny Boy II (not the same Sonny Boy Williamson who recorded "Good Morning Little School Girl"} was Alex Miller, a blues harp player, songwriter and singer who had been playing in the Mississippi delta since the late 1920s with people like Robert Johnson and Robert Lockwood Jr., Joe Willie Wilkins, Pinetop Perkins, Ike Turner and others. He was THE star of the Delta, so popular he didn't need to record until 1950 when he started to record these sides with Jackosn Mississippi's Trumpet Records. He was an escaped convict who became an international blues star using another man's name (John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson among others) and another's as his alias (his brother Willie Miller). He was truly hiding in the spotlight.

5 out of 5 stars His Finishing School, Before He Made His Chess Legend.......2001-06-09

For hearing the man born as Alec (Rice) Miller as he had rounded into near-complete game shape, in the years immediately preceding the seminal sides he would cut for Chess beginning in the mid-to-late 1950s, there is no better package than this of Sonny Boy Williamson's incandescent, embryonic recordings for the ancient Trumpet label. Many of these songs would get the Sonny Boy makeover when he re-cut them during his Chess years, and it's intriguing to compare between the Trumpet originals and the Chess refineries of such signature songs as "Eyesight To The Blind," "Cross My Heart," "Nine Below Zero," "Mr. Down Child," and "Mighty Long Time." Then again, the tandem treat is to hear a good enough dollop of some of Sonny Boy's more personal material, particularly the slightly haunting "West Memphis Blues," which he wrote about the fire that actually burned down the house he had bought with his wife.

Then, there are the bonuses: one of the last broadcasts of the legendary "King Biscuit Time" on which Sonny Boy would appear before his death; and perhaps the earliest known version Elmore James would cut of his signature "Dust My Broom," this one with Sonny Boy (who was long reputed to have tricked him into cutting it for Trumpet) sliding in with some fills showing he was a deft an accompanist/partner as he was a harmonica virtuoso. Accompanying the cantankerously poetic Sonny Boy, mostly, are such legends of Memphis/Helena blues as guitarist Joe Willie Wilkins (Robert Jr. Lockwood he ain't, but for laying a sensible support and spitting out the occasional fill and run he acquits his own self very nicely), bassist Cliff Bivens, drummer Frock, and pianist Dave Campbell, and they deliver yeoman's work.

5 out of 5 stars Traveling Harp Wizard Needs Home.......2000-06-10

Rice Miller was a man of many faces, tones, and zip codes. THis disc packs some of the fiercest, most downhome sounds that Mississippi had to offer. Includes a radio broadcast from the KING BICUIT FLOWER HOUR and definitve versions of such tunes as "She Brought Life Back To The Dead," "Cool Blues," and "Eyesight To The Blind." As well, "Mighty Long Time" is a marvel. Wonderful harp with Willie Love on piano, and Elmore James on guitar for most tracks. Some of the best Sonny Boy available in the States.

5 out of 5 stars an angel plays harp.......2000-04-17

If you are picking up the harp buy this I have played for twenty years and this is one of the first albums I bought.Check out the AbWaaahs. A Mighty Long Time is the closest I have ever heard to heavenly music. I hope I get to hear him up there.
Sugar Mama
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Release Date: 1998-03-04

Tracks:

  1. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
  2. Bluebird Blues
  3. Got the Bottle up and Gone
  4. Sugar Mama Blues
  5. Early in the Morning
  6. Black Gal Blues
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  15. My Little Machine
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  22. My Black Name
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  24. What's Gettin' Wrong With You?

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars 4 1/2 stars - the definitive single disc collection.......2003-09-05

Tennessee's John Lee 'Sonny Boy' Williamson almost single-handedly made the little mouth organ a major lead instrument for blues bands.

He shouldn't be confused with the older Aleck 'Rice' Miller, who also took (or was given) the name Sonny Boy Williamson...John Lee Williamson was already dead, the victim of a street mugging in 1948, when the ageing Rice Miller started his recording career with Trumpet Records in 1951.

John Lee Williamson's first single was 1937's seminal "Good Morning, School Girl", and that song opens this excellent collection which gathers 24 of Williamson's best sides, including "Blue Bird Blues", "Sugar Mama Blues", "Sloppy Drunk Blues", "Decoration Blues", "Got The Bottle Up And Go" and several more.

"Sugar Mama" is a thorough, well-researched compilation, and a great place to start. And if you only want one Sonny Boy Williamson-CD in your collection, this one is actually at least as good as the double-disc "Bring Another Half Pint", which may feature an additional 16 tracks, but it also misses out on a couple of key songs.

5 out of 5 stars Sonny Boy Williamson I -- Never Sounded Better.......2000-08-19

Hear the man that was one of the main influences on Little Walter --Sonny Boy Williamson I. He never sounded better than he does on this album. The sound quality is amazing considering some the songs were recorded over sixty years ago (1937 to 1942). His vocals and harp sound better than ever. This sound quality makes the recording worthy of five stars.

Included are: Good Morning School Girl, Blue Bird Blues, I've Been Dealing With The Devil, Sloppy Drunk Blues, and Black Gal. These songs are absolute classics.

Most of the songs Sonny Boy Williamson sings himself but on some he accompanies Joshua Altheimer and on one --What's Gettin Wrong With You -- he accompanies Big Bill Broonzy.

Sonny Boy was essentially a country blues musician before he came to Chicago. His style gradually become more sophisticated as he was influenced by the urban sound of Chicago. His acoustic sound became the foundation for modern Chicago blues. He was a major influence on Little Walter and Junior Wells. Junior Wells did a cover of the first song on the CD -- Good Morning School Girl.

This is a must recording for any collector of country blues -- it is an important historical marker in the history of blues.
Cool Cool Blues: The Classic Sides 1951-1954
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    Release Date: 2006-03-14

    Tracks:

    1. Eyesight To The Blind - Sonny Boy Williamson
    2. Crazy About You Baby - Sonny Boy Williamson
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    4. Do It If You Wanna - Sonny Boy Williamson
    5. Cool, Cool Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
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    10. Pontiac Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
    11. Mighty Long Time - Sonny Boy Williamson
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    16. Stop Now Baby - Sonny Boy Williamson
    17. Mr Down Child - Sonny Boy Williamson
    18. Cat Hop - Sonny Boy Williamson
    19. Gettin' Out Of Town - Sonny Boy Williamson
    20. Red Hot Kisses - Sonny Boy Williamson
    21. Going In Your Direction - Sonny Boy Williamson
    22. Empty Bedroom - Sonny Boy Williamson
    23. Boppin' With Sonny - Sonny Boy Williamson
    24. From The Bottom - Sonny Boy Williamson
    25. No Nights By Myself - Sonny Boy Williamson

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    2. Delta Blues - Big Joe Williams
    3. Overhauling Blues - Big Joe Williams
    4. Whistling Pines - Big Joe Williams
    5. Friends And Pals - Big Joe Williams
    6. Juanita - Big Joe Williams
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    22. Middle Of The Night - Jerry McCain
    23. Love To Make Up - Jerry McCain
    24. Crazy 'Bout That Mess - Jerry McCain
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    1. Take It Easy Baby - Willie Love
    2. Little Car Blues - Willie Love
    3. Everybody's Fishing - Willie Love
    4. My Own Boogie - Willie Love
    5. Feed My Body To The Fishes - Willie Love
    6. Falling Rain - Willie Love
    7. Vanity Dresser Boogie - Willie Love
    8. Seventy Four Blues - Willie Love
    9. 21 Minutes To Nine - Willie Love
    10. Shady Lane Blues - Willie Love
    11. Nelson Street Blues - Willie Love
    12. V-8 Ford - Willie Love
    13. Shout Brother, Shout - Willie Love
    14. Way Back - Willie Love
    15. Pretty Baby Blues - Sherman 'Blues' Johnson
    16. Sugar Mama - Willie Love
    17. Hot Fish - Willie Love
    18. Lost In Korea - Willie Love
    19. Early In The Morning Baby - Tiny Kennedy
    20. Strange Kind Of Feeling - Tiny Kennedy
    21. Blues Disease - Tiny Kennedy
    22. Don't Lay This Job On Me - Tiny Kennedy
    23. Have You Heard About The Farmer's Daughter - Tiny Kennedy
    24. Too Old To Get Married - Wally Mercer
    25. If You Don't Mean Business - Wally Mercer
    26. Hey, Miss Lula - Wally Mercer

    Tracks:

    1. She's Crazy: Take 1 - Sonny Boy Williamson
    2. 309 - Sonny Boy Williamson
    3. Sonny's Rhythm: Take 1 - Sonny Boy Williamson
    4. City Of New Orleans - Sonny Boy Williamson
    5. Keep It To Yourself: Take 1 - Sonny Boy Williamson
    6. Going In Your Direction: Take 4 - Sonny Boy Williamson
    7. Clowning With The World: Take 1 - Sonny Boy Williamson
    8. I Ain't Beggin' Nobody: Take 2 - Sonny Boy Williamson
    9. Shuckin' Mama - Sonny Boy Williamson
    10. From The Bottom: Take 1 - Sonny Boy Williamson
    11. She's Crazy: Take 2 - Sonny Boy Williamson
    12. Sonny's Rhythm: Take 2 - Sonny Boy Williamson
    13. Keep It To Yourself: Take 2 - Sonny Boy Williamson
    14. Going In You Direction: Take 5 - Sonny Boy Williamson
    15. From The Bottom: Take 3 - Sonny Boy Williamson
    16. I Ain't Beggin' Nobody: Take 3 - Sonny Boy Williamson
    17. From The Bottom: Take 6 - Sonny Boy Williamson
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    19. Gotta Find My Baby: Alt Tk - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
    20. Worried Blues: Alt Tk - Willie Love
    21. Lonesome World Blues - Willie Love
    22. Wonderful Baby - Willie Love
    23. Wille Mae - Willie Love
    24. Worried Blues: Take 2 - Willie Love
    25. Shout Brother, Shout: Alt Tk - Willie Love
    26. Willie Mae: Alt Tk - Willie Love
    When the Sun Goes Down, Vol. 8: Bluebird Blues
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    ASIN: B0000AM6J2
    Release Date: 2003-09-09

    Tracks:

    1. Good Morning, School Girl
    2. Blue Bird Blues
    3. Sugar Mama Blues
    4. Got The Bottle Up And Gone
    5. Early In The Morning
    6. Whiskey Headed Blues
    7. Decoration Blues
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    12. Western Union Man
    13. My Baby Made A Change
    14. Mattie Mae Blues
    15. Sloppy Drunk Blues
    16. Million Years Blues
    17. She Was A Dreamer
    18. My Black Name Blues
    19. Sonny Boy's Jump
    20. Elevator Woman
    21. Hoodoo Hoodoo
    22. Mellow Chick Swing
    23. Polly Put Your Kettle On
    24. Alcohol Blues
    25. Better Cut That Out

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Excellent music!.......2003-10-05

    This is a wonderful recording and worth every penny. Sonny Boy Williamson's music is so fundamental to the blues and this album does not disappoint.
    Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 3 (1939-1941)
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    		 Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 3 (1939-1941)
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    25. Coal And Iceman Blues

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Sonny Boy, Sonny Boy.......2007-01-03

    Best song, "Fattening frogs for snakes", otherwise I couldn't pick a favorite because they all are. Sonny Boy could play the harmonica, breathe, talk and probably eat a sandwich at the same time - he rocks. If I could play a harp like that, I'd be a rich woman.
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      ASIN: B000001NVL
      Release Date: 1996-02-20

      Tracks:

      1. Good Morning School Girl
      2. Blue Bird Blues
      3. Jackson Blues
      4. Got The Bottle Up And Gone
      5. Sugar Mama
      6. Skinny Woman
      7. Worried Me Blues
      8. Collector Man Blues
      9. Early In The Morning
      10. I'm Tired Trucking My Blues Away
      11. Decoration Blues
      12. Down South
      13. You've Been Foolin' Round Town
      14. Honey Bee Blues
      15. Lord, Oh Lord Blues
      16. Low Down Ways
      17. Susie-Q
      18. The Right Kind Of Life
      19. Goodbye Red
      20. Thinking My Blues Away
      21. Good Gal Blues
      22. Tell Me Baby
      23. Life Time Blues
      24. Good Gravy
      Bummer Road
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • Not a bummer...
      		 Bummer Road
      Sonny Boy Williamson [II]
      Manufacturer: Universal Japan
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B0002J51MQ
      Release Date: 2004-09-06

      Tracks:

      1. She Got Next to Me
      2. Santa Claus
      3. Little Village
      4. Your Funeral and My Trial
      5. Lonesome Cabin
      6. I Can't Do Without You
      7. Temperature 110
      8. Unseen Eye
      9. Keep Your Hand out of My Pocket
      10. Open Road
      11. This Old Life
      12. Your Imagination
      13. Key (To Your Door)
      14. Unseeing Eye
      15. I Can't Be Alone

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Not a bummer..........2004-12-22

      Originally an eleven-track LP, Rice Miller's "Bummer Road" has been remastered and bolstered by four bonus tracks, "Unseeing Eye", a gritty "Key To Your Door" and two little-known songs, "Your Imagination" and "I Can't Be Alone".

      This album was originally issued with a warning sticker which said something like "Not suitable for airplay". That was because of one particular song, "Little Village", which is actually twelve minutes of takes and re-takes, complete with a heated discussion between producer Leonard Chess and Sonny Boy Williamson. Lots of cursing going on, and not just "well, gosh darn it!" Great song, by the way, and an enjoyable glimpse into what recording at the Chess studios around 1960 must have been like ;-)

      Rice Miller is backed by superstar sidemen like Otis Spann, Luther Tucker, Fred Below, Robert "Jr." Lockwood, and Willie Dixon, and "Bummer Road" includes one of his least recognized, yet very best songs, the magnificent "Santa Claus" (raspiest vocal delivery ever). But virtually every track is a burner, really, from the classic, swinging "Your Funeral And My Trial", to the sizzling "Temperature 110".
      If you aren't satisfied with just "The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson" or the 20-track "His Best" (and there's no reason why you should be), go pick up this magnificent blues record right away.
      The Real Folk Blues/More Real Folk Blues
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • A very interesting collection of latter-day Chess sides
      		 The Real Folk Blues/More Real Folk Blues
      Sonny Boy Williamson
      Manufacturer: Chess
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B000062YBL
      Release Date: 2002-03-12

      Tracks:

      1. One Way Out
      2. Too Young to Die
      3. Trust My Baby
      4. Checkin' Up on My Baby
      5. Sad to Be Alone
      6. Got to Move
      7. Bring It on Home
      8. Down Child
      9. Peach Tree
      10. Dissatisfied
      11. That's All I Want
      12. Too Old to Think
      13. Help Me
      14. Bye Bye Bird
      15. Nine Below Zero
      16. The Hunt
      17. Stop Right Now
      18. She's My Baby
      19. The Goat
      20. Decoration Day
      21. Trying to Get Back on My Feet
      22. My Younger Days
      23. Close to Me
      24. Somebody Help Me

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      The biography of Sonny Boy Williamson is something of an enigma, even to ardent blues fans. Indeed, he isn't even the "real" Williamson; a shrewd businessman simply gave singer-mouth harpist Aleck "Rice" Miller the name after the 1948 murder of popular blues artist John Lee Williamson. Still, Miller/Williamson's remarkable career literally bridged Robert Johnson and Eric Clapton, both his music and life embodying a free-wheeling, hard-living lifestyle that became something of a rock and blues cliché. After considerable local radio success in the Delta, Miller/Williamson ended up at Chicago's Chess Records in the mid-1950s, where all but one of these two dozen tracks originated in the early '60s. But by the time Chess originally issued the first of these ill-timed collections (belatedly compiled to cash in on a waning '60s folk boom), Williamson was six months dead. Listen and it's not hard to hear why a generation or two of blues-smitten rockers held him especially dear, be it the Allmans (the original "One Way Out," with longtime partner Robert Lockwood Jr. supplying the familiar guitar licks) or Zeppelin (a lugubrious, boogied-up take of Willie Dixon's "Bring It On Home"). Punctuated by harp blasts that could turn from sharply staccato to lyrically wrenching, Williamson's leathery voice muses over his being "Too Young to Die" or "Too Old to Think" with the self-deprecating indifference that became a trademark. Though these tracks are the cream of his last years, they're more boozy celebration than elegy. --Jerry McCulley

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars A very interesting collection of latter-day Chess sides.......2004-08-14

      MCA/Chess' "The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson" remains the ultimate Rice Miller-compilation, with "His Best" in second.
      But this twofer-CD, which brings together all 24 tracks from Miller's two "Real Folk Blues" albums, doesn't make a bad supplement. It does repeat eight songs from "His Best", but it also has 16 songs which can't be found on that collection. Conversely, if you have the more extensive "Essential" anthology, you'll find only eight songs here that you don't already have.

      The overall standart of this material is high, with "The Real Folk Blues" being slightly stronger than its companion volume.
      "Help Me", "Bring It On Home", "Nine Below Zero", "Down Child", the supremely tough "Checkin' Up On My Baby", and the punchy "One Way Out" are all among Rice Miller's best most familiar songs, and numbers like "Too Young To Die", "Decoration Day" and "My Younger Days" are equally excellent. Rice Miller was by far the best songwriter of all the Chess greats of the 50s and early 60s, an awesome lyricist whose highly personal songs express sentiments ranging from pure joy to the deepest, darkest despair. Willie Dixon's way with words was impressive, but Rice Miller is something else:

      "When I first met the lil' girl / I didn' know what I was doin' /
      Now we all tied up / And my life is ruined!
      I'm scared o' that child / I'm scared o' that child /
      I'm scared o' that child / I'm too young to die!"

      She's a cute lil' girl / She got such a wonderful mug /
      When she start to talk / Her voice but stone jug /
      I'm scared o' that child...

      We had a date and I couldn't make it / That's what made 'er mad /
      Now I'm lookin' at two brown eyes / They turned greenish-gray /
      So I'm scared o' that child...

      I called my baby / And I told 'er I would be late /
      'Time my baby opened the door I looked in the barrel of a .38 /
      I'm scared o' that child..."

      23 of these 24 songs are from the 60s, and they are significantly better than Miller's 60s recordings for Delmark, even if this collection doesn't quite maintain the magnificent level of quality of MCA/Chess's main Sonny Boy-compilations.
      Among the best lesser-known songs are the funky, playful "Peach Tree", Willie Dixon's swinging "That's All I Want", and the slow "Got To Move" from Miller's first LP, "Down & Out Blues". "Stop Right Now", "The Goat", "Close To Me" and a couple of other great songs will be familiar to those who own "The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson", but not to those who "only" have "His Best". ("Sad To Be Alone", on the other hand, is on "His Best", but not on the "Essential" collection.)

      Newcomers will be better off with "His Best", but this CD is a really fine addition to that compilation...the sound is very good, and the liner notes get a B+ as well.
      4 1/4 stars. Definitely recommended.
      Mostly Sonny: Tribute to Sonny Boy Williamson
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • Hot Blues
      • Mostly Sonny- Mostly Fantastic!
      		 Mostly Sonny: Tribute to Sonny Boy Williamson
      Dave Walker , and The Ambulators
      Manufacturer: Mooreland Street
      ProductGroup: Music
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      ASIN: B0007VF23W
      Release Date: 2005-03-08

      Tracks:

      1. Don't Start Me Talkin'
      2. Nine Below Zero
      3. Bring It On Home
      4. Help Me
      5. Eyesight To The Blind
      6. Keep It To Yourself
      7. Miss You Too
      8. Talk The Talk
      9. Soup In A Basket
      10. Floreen
      11. Driftin'
      12. Ninety Nine
      13. The Midnight Special

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Hot Blues.......2005-03-19

      It might be Nine Below Zero outside but this set of Mostly Sonny is Red Hot. Dave Walker sounds better than ever. His stints with Savoy Brown put that Band on the Map. On this offering, Dave and his mates are laying it down and dirty in the blues. For my money this has some of the best new versions of classic blues that I have heard in many years. Nine Below Zero, Bring it on Home (Shades of Zepplin), and Help Me Baby are stellar. Bring this show on the road and record it as well! Great guitar work by Ray Majors. Bottom Line: if your into British Blues you owe it to yourself to get this CD.

      5 out of 5 stars Mostly Sonny- Mostly Fantastic!.......2005-03-09

      Dave Walker was the voice of the 1970's and '80's British Blues Rock band, Savoy Brown, as well as having short stints as the lead singer for Fleetwood Mac and Black Sabbath. Walker began his professional music career in 1960 at the age of 15 when he played with the Redcaps, a British version of Gene Vincent and the Bluecaps, and shared the stage with the Beatles. After recording dozens of albums and touring for three decades, he dropped out of the entire music scene to lead a Spartan existence as a survivalist, living without electricity or running water. He was accepted into the Pueblo Indian culture and changed his views about life in general. Today he lives in Bozeman, Montana, and two years ago he decided to re-enter civilization by getting electricity and even a telephone, but he doesn't own a TV set and has never used a computer.
      The Mostly Sonny album was initially a project of Russ Garrett, who put together the Ambulators as an all-British Blues band, consisting of members from well-known groups: Savoy Brown co-founder John O'Leary plays harp; Peter Green's Splinter Group provides Nigel Watson on lead guitar and Roger Cotton on keyboards/piano/Hammond organ; Ray Majors, who was a member of the Yardbirds and Mott plays lead guitar; from the Downliners sect come Don Craine on rhythm guitar and Keith Grant, who plays bass; Mick Avory, who came from the Kinks along with Alan Brooks and Chris Hunt, handled the drums.

      When producer Russ Garrett contacted Arnie Goodman, who was Dave Walker's manager when he was with Savoy Brown, about filling the lead singer position, the choice was obvious. So for the first time in thirteen years Walker consented to participate in a full-blown record album. Dave's gritty vocals were the crowning jewel in an album representing a collaboration of musicians from four decades of British Blues. The album gives recognition to the ultimate source of their inspiration, American Blues, in the persona of Sonny Boy Williamson.

      The group was assembled at Roundel Studios in Kent, England, and Walker flew in for a two-day session where he provided the vocals on all eight of the Sonny Boy Williamson songs with lyrics, plus one of his own compositions titled "Floreen." Williamson's compositions include "Nine Below Zero," "Bring It On Home," "Help Me," "Eyesight To The Blind," "Keep It To Yourself," "Don't Start Me Talkin'," "Ninety Nine," and "The Midnight Special." "Talk the Talk" is a short band jam providing interplay between the dominant harp of John O'Leary and the guitar of Nigel Watson. Vocals on the remaining three tunes are sung by their respective authors: "Miss You Too" by Keith Grant, "Soup In A Basket" by Don Craine, and "Driftin'" by Ray Majors.

      The album bears the test of repeated listening easily, from the beautiful guitar work reminiscent of early Peter Green period Fleetwood Mac on the first title, "Nine Below Zero," to the familiar finale "The Midnight Special," with its honky-tonk piano. Walker's voice is holding up beautifully as he prepares to enter his sixtieth year.

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