VA — The Chicago Blues Box: The MCM Records Story (2013)
FLAC (tracks.cue, log) / MP3 320 kbps | 8h 53 min | Chicago Blues, Blues | 8h 53 min | 2.9 / 1.1 GB
MCM Records was founded by a French woman, Marcelle Chailleux Morgantini, after she heard the blues live in the clubs during a trip to Chicago. She returned to Chicago with a tape machine, a small mixing board, and a good selection of microphones in 1975, 1976, and 1977, capturing a very specific in the history of Chicago blues, recording live sets by Magic Slim, Eddie Clearwater, Eddie Taylor, Bobby King, Jimmy Johnson, Willie Kent, James Lyons, Joe Carter, Jimmy Dawkins, and others, and then issuing them on her own MCM imprint. All of these sessions are collected here, capturing a late Golden Age for Chicago blues.
CD1: (63:28) MAGIC SLIM
01. That\’s all right (5:56)
02. Slim\’s bump (4:01)
03. Going down slow (7:21)
04. Born in Missouri (6:46)
05. Let me love you (6:14)
06. The things i used to do (7:37)
07. That ain\’ all right (4:06)
08. Honest i do (3:43)
09. Nineteen years old (6:36)
10. Born on a bad sign (7:04)
11. Please love Me (4:02)
CD2: (61:59) BIG MOJO ELEM & JOHN LITTLE JOHN
01. Drowning on dry land (5:15)
02. Every night and every day (3:36)
03. Black nights (4:48)
04. Hush (5:22)
05. Red light (5:05)
06. Dream (7:16)
07. Mojo Boogie (2:44)
08. Living in paradise (2:35)
09. Twelve years old boy (6:00)
10. Every night and every day (2) (3:35)
11. Long meter stomp (12:02)
12. Reconsider baby (3:40)
CD3: (78:19) EDDIE CLEARWATER / EDDIE TAYLOR
01. Let\’s jam (4:53)
02. I came up the hard way (6:51)
03. Three ways to skin a cat (5:34)
04. Black night (9:24)
05. Chicago dailey blues (9:29)
06. Hoochie coochie man (6:54)
07. Jackson town blues (4:11)
08. Train fare home (5:59)
09. Route 66 (a one a two) (5:49)
10. Rock me baby (6:37)
11. Blues for Luc (4:21)
12. The things i used to do (8:15)
CD4: (59:18) BOBBY KING
01. Reconsider baby (5:39)
02. My babe (5:36)
03. Everyday i have the blues (4:10)
04. The chaser (4:10)
05. Sweet house Chicago (2:38)
06. Bad luck (3:24)
07. Old folks boogie (13:51)
08. Stormy monday blues (7:24)
09. Hoochie coochie man (8:23)
10. Everything gonna be allright (4:00)
CD5: (61:26) JIMMY JOHNSON / LUTHER JOHNSON JR. / WILLIE KENT / WILLIE JAMES LYONS
01. So many roads (6:32)
02. Crosscut saw (4:12)
03. Ma bea\’s rock (3:17)
04. Feel so bad (4:24)
05. I believe my ain\’t long (4:57)
06. All your love (4:42)
07. You gotta have soul (4:18)
08. Little red rooster (4:21)
09. Nineteen years old (4:14)
10. What will tomorrow brings (4:15)
11. Got a mind to travel (4:34)
12. Can you use a man like me (3:58)
13. I got to be crazy (4:08)
14. Got papers on you baby (3:34)
CD6: (71:36) JIMMY DAWKINS / HIP LANKCHAN
01. Welfare line (9:22)
02. You don\’t love me (4:27)
03. Come back baby (5:55)
04. I got wise (8:43)
05. Millionnaire blues (4:01)
06. Hip\’s jam (3:22)
07. All right the way you do (2:53)
08. Sweet home Chicago (4:05)
09. Cross road blues (6:02)
10. Blue shadow falling (5:29)
11. Little by little (3:29)
12. Lucille (4:13)
13. I want some (4:41)
14. Hide away (4:51)
CD7: (71:38) BIG VOICE ODOM / JIMMY DAWKINS
01. Going to California (7:44)
02. I don\’t know (7:40)
03. Thrill is gone (5:25)
04. Stormy monday blues (5:49)
05. All for business (5:20)
06. Rock me baby (4:46)
07. Wonder why (4:33)
08. Sitting here wondering (6:47)
09. I can\’t go on the way (6:58)
10. I want to know (9:05)
11. I\’ve been mistreated (7:30)
CD8: (63:05) BLUEBLOOD McMAHON / JOE CARTER
01. Go get me baby (4:48)
02. I wonder why (4:16)
03. Change my way of living (4:51)
04. You got to help yourself (4:36)
05. Give up and let me go (2:53)
06. What would we do later on (4:10)
07. You don\’t have to go (5:39)
08. It hurts me too (Elmore James) (5:41)
09. Got my mojo working (4:20)
10. Little red rooster (3:43)
11. So glad (4:17)
12. Stranger in your land (5:08)
13. Worried about my baby (4:33)
14. It hurts me too (Hudson Whittaker) (4:08)
