Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters 1951-1960

Original Release Date:  October 24, 2011

Track Listing

• 1. Moanin' at Midnight
• 2. How Many More Years [Alternate Take][#]
• 3. How Many More Years
• 4. The Wolf Is at Your Door (Howlin' for My Baby)
• 5. California Boogie [#]
• 6. Smile at Me [#]
• 7. Howlin' Wolf Boogie
• 8. California Blues #1
• 9. Look-a-Here
• 10. Worried All the Time
• 11. Gettin' Old and Grey
• 12. Mr. Highway Man
• 13. Everybody's in the Mood
• 14. Color and Kind
• 15. Bluebird (Blues)
• 16. Saddle My Pony
• 17. Dorothy Mae [Alternate Take][#]
• 18. Dorothy Mae
• 19. Sweet Woman (aka I Got a Woman)
• 20. Well That's All Right
• 21. Decoration Day (Blues)
• 22. Oh Red
• 23. My Last Affair
• 24. I've Got a Woman
• 25. Just My Kind
• 26. Work for Your Money
• 27. I'm Not Joking
• 28. Mama Died and Left Me
• 29. All Night Boogie (All Night Long)
• 30. I Love My Baby
• 31. Highway My Friend
• 32. Hold Your Money
• 33. Streamline Woman
• 34. California Blues #2
• 35. Stay Here 'Til My Baby Comes Back
• 36. Crazy About You Baby
• 37. No Place to Go (You Gonna Wreck My Life)
• 38. You Gonna Wreck My Life (No Place to Go) [Alternate Take]
• 39. Neighbors
• 40. I'm the Wolf
• 41. Rockin' Daddy
• 42. Baby How Long
• 43. Evil (Is Goin' On)
• 44. I'll Be Around
• 45. Forty Four
• 46. Who Will Be Next
• 47. I Have a Little Girl
• 48. Come to Me Baby
• 49. Don't Mess with My Baby
• 50. Smokestack Lightning
• 51. You Can't Be Beat
• 52. I Asked for Water (She Game Me Gasoline)
• 53. So Glad
• 54. Break of Day
• 55. The Natchez Burning
• 56. Going Back Home
• 57. Bluebird
• 58. My Life
• 59. You Ought to Know
• 60. Who's Been Talking
• 61. Tell Me
• 62. Somebody in My Home [Alternate Take][#]
• 63. Somebody in My Home
• 64. Nature [Takes 1, 4 & 6] [#][Take]
• 65. Nature [Alternate Take]
• 66. Nature
• 67. Walk to Camp Hall
• 68. Poor Boy [Alternate Take]
• 69. Poor Boy
• 70. My Baby Told Me
• 71. Sittin' on Top of the World
• 72. I Didn't Know [#]
• 73. I Better Go Now (Howlin' Blues) [Alternate Take][#]
• 74. Howlin' Blues (I'm Going Away)
• 75. I Better Go Now [Multiple Takes] [#][Take]
• 76. I Didn't Know
• 77. Moaning for My Baby (Midnight Blues)
• 78. Moaning for My Baby (Midnight Blues) [Takes 3 & 4] [#][Take]
• 79. I'm Leaving You [Alternate Take][#]
• 80. I'm Leaving You [Takes 7-10] [#][Take]
• 81. I'm Leaving You
• 82. Can't Put Me Out [Alternate Take]
• 83. Can't Put Me Out [Alternate Take][#]
• 84. (You) Can't Put Me Out
• 85. Change My Way
• 86. Getting Late
• 87. I've Been Abused [Takes 4-12] [#][Take]
• 88. I've Been Abused
• 89. Howlin' for My Baby [Takes 1-7] [#][Take]
• 90. Howlin' for My Darling (Or Baby)
• 91. Wolf in the Mood [Instrumental]
• 92. My People's Gone
• 93. Mr. Airplane Man [Takes 1 & 2] [Take]
• 94. Mr. Airplane Man
• 95. Wang-Dang-Doodle
• 96. Back Door Man
• 97. Spoonful

Credits

• Dr. Demento: Memorabilia
• James Cotton: Harmonica
• Willie Dixon: Bass, Composer
• Henry Gray: Piano
• Hubert Sumlin: Guitar
• Jody Williams: Guitar, Photography
• Freddy Robinson: Guitar
• Fred Below: Drums
• Howlin' Wolf: Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals
• Lee Cooper: Guitar
• Frank Driggs: Photography
• Alfred Elkins: Bass
• Mike Fink: Design
• Peter Guralnick: Liner Notes, Photography, Research
• Hosea Lee Kennard: Piano
• S.P. Leary: Drums
• L.D. McGhee: Guitar
• Andy McKaie: Producer, Compilation
• Earl Phillips: Drums
• Dick Shurman: Liner Notes, Compilation, Assistant, Research
• Abe Smothers: Guitar
• Otis Smokey Smothers: Guitar
• Otis Spann: Piano
• Adolph Duncan: Sax (Tenor)
• Willie Johnson: Guitar
• Paul Ackerman: Liner Notes
• Bill Greensmith: Photography
• Erick Labson: Digital Remastering
• Les Fancourt: Discographical Information
• Yannick Bruynoghe: Photography
• Jacques Demêtre: Photography
• L.C. Hubert: Piano
• Abb Locke: Sax (Tenor)
• Victor Pearlin: Memorabilia
• Michele Horie: Production Manager
• Willie Steele: Drums
• Bill Johnson: Piano
• John Lee Williamson: Composer
• L. Graham: Composer
• Chester Burnett: Composer
• Jo Almeida: Photo Research
• Melvin London: Composer
• Cilla Huggins: Research
• Sam Philips: Liner Notes
• Charles Taylor: Sax (Tenor)
• Bob McGrath: Discographical Information