#SonnyBoyWilliamson

2025-06-27

Various Artists, The Best of Chess Blues, 1987 on Chess / MCA

Great 2xLP 80s compilation of the post-war blues that made Chess such a critical label, issued by MCA who acquired the rights to the Chess catalog in the mid-eighties.

  • Muddy Waters– Rollin’ Stone
  • Robert Nighthawk– Black Angel Blues (Sweet Black Angel)
  • Eddie Boyd & The Chess Men– 24 Hours
  • Willie Mabon– Seventh Son
  • Lowell Fulson–Reconsider Baby
  • Muddy Waters– (I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
  • Howlin’ Wolf– Smokestack Lightnin’
  • Little Walter & His Night Cats– Juke
  • J.B. Lenoir– Eisenhower Blues
  • Jimmy Rogers– Walking By Myself
  • Howlin’ Wolf– Back Door Man
  • Elmore James– Madison Blues
  • Sonny Boy Williamson– Your Funeral My Trial
  • Otis Rush– So Many Roads, So Many Trains
  • Buddy Guy– My Time After Awhile
  • Sonny Boy Williamson– Bring It On Home
  • John Lee Hooker– One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
  • Etta James– Baby What You Want Me To Do
  • Little Milton– Stormy Monday
  • Koko Taylor– Wang Dang Doodle

My copy—via Mel’s Record Shop in Amesbury MA—is a 1987 pressing by MCA Records’ plant in Gloversville, NY.

#1980s #1987 #AmesburyMA #Blues #BuddyGuy #ChessRecords #Collection #EddieBoydTheChessMen #elmoreJames #HowlinWolf #JBLenoir #JimmyRogers #JohnLeeHooker #KokoTaylor #LittleMilton #LittleWalter #LowellFulson #MCARecords #MelSRecordShop #MuddyWaters #OriginalChessMasters #OtisRush #Reissue #RobertNighthawk #SonnyBoyWilliamson #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #WillieMabon

2024-10-22

Ted Tocks Covers - Year 7 - Day 87

Led Zeppelin II

On this day 55 years ago Led Zeppelin released their critically acclaimed second album known simply as ‘II’.

Here is a very brief track by track retrospective. As always, it brings back some fun memories. Hopefully it does the same for you.

#ledzeppelin #williedixon #howlinwolf #sonnyboywilliamson

tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2

2024-10-07

Sonny Boy Williamson, The Real Folk Blues, 1966 on Chess

This album was first released in the UK in 1965 as In Memorium, (Williamson died in May of 1965). In the US it was retitled to The Real Folk Blues and released in 1966. Later reissues have appeared with either title in different regions.

This is one of my favorite blues albums of all time – Williams is backed here by Willie Dixon, Luther Tucker, Otis Spann, Fred Bellow, Matt Murphy, […]

#1960s #1966 #1987 #ChessRecords #LutherTucker #OriginalChessMasters #OtisSpann #Reissue #RobertLockwoodJr #SonnyBoyWilliamson #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #WillieDixon #WorcesterMA #WorcesterRecordRiot

wp.me/p4tTZ-6BH

textalbum jacket rear - credits, liner notesChess Records label
2024-09-10

Ted Tocks Covers

Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

Originally posted on September 10, 2018

Sixty years ago today, Rod Stewart recorded this classic, albeit creepy blues classic. For Stewart it was the first single of a long and storied career that continues today.

As an added bonus we hear a young John Paul Jones on bass guitar.

Legends all around.

#SonnyBoyWilliamson #WillieDixon #BrownsvilleSonBonds #RodStewart

tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2

The Vinyl Ape 🦍TheVinylApe@masto.ai
2024-09-06

SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON
A Portrait In Blues
1980 U.S. reissue

Friday is finally here.

Blues for breakfast, a add me then we’ll see what this unseasonably warm afternoon has in store.

If I had grown up with the name “Alex Miller”, I would have changed it, too.

This dude was clearly not an accountant from Hartford, Connecticut. He was a badass.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #blues #chicago #chicagoblues #sonnyboywilliamson

Sonny Boy Williamson – Trying To Get Back On My Feet

youtu.be/hT8_YIFux8s

#FediRadio #Blues #SonnyBoyWilliamson

2024-08-25

The Allman Brothers made it big in album rock circles in the early 70s with an an excellent, classic live rendition on their “Eat A Peach” album. Couldn’t have done it without the original from a decade before.
#MusicOfMastodon
#TheBlues
#SonnyBoyWilliamson

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ivpUuExT

2024-05-24

Ted Tocks Covers - Year 7 - Day 42

The Acid Queen

Remembering Tina Turner.

One year ago today, the music world lost the ‘Queen of Rock and Roll’. Here is just one song that puts her talent on full display.

“Gather your wits and hold on fast
Your mind must learn to roam
Just as the gypsy queen must do
You’re gonna hit the road”

 #TheWho #PeteTownshend #SonnyBoyWilliamson #TinaTurner #TheLondonSymphonyOrchestra #MerryClayton #PattiLaBelle #TheHillBenders

tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2

2023-09-10

Ted Tocks Covers

Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

Originally posted on September 10, 2018

It was on this day in 1964 that Rod Stewart recorded his first single. It was a cover of Sonny. Boy Williamson’s ‘Good Morning Little Schoolgirl’ The bass player was a session player by the name of John Paul Jones.

#SonnyBoyWilliamson #BrownsvilleSonBonds #RodStewart

tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2

2022-12-28

Sonny Boy Williamson II (“Rice Miller”), “All My Love In Vain”, 1955.

Different lyrics to the Robert Johnson song, but featuring Robert Jr Lockwood on guitar.

youtu.be/bBo2tk-pwHg

#SonnyBoyWilliamson #ChessRecords #BluesMusic #ChicagoBlues #DeltaBlues

Chris BondVibracobra23
2022-12-25

Sonny Boy Williamson II - Santa Claus youtu.be/CHzprR6ubc8

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