01 The Night Time Is The Right Time -
02 It Feels So Good -
03 Coal and Iceman Blues
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04 Chicago Breakdown
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05 I Can’t Be Satisfied -
06 Chicago Bound -
07 That’s All Right -
08 Howlin’ Wolf -
09 How Many More Years -
10 Dust My Broom -
11 Kansas City Blues -
12 Juke -
13 Southbound Train -
14 Act Like You Love Me
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15 Whose Muddy Shoes -
16 Burying Ground -
17 I Just Want To Make Love To You -
18 Mama Talk To Your Daughter -
19 Standing At The Crossroads -
20 My Babe -
21 Walking By Myself -
22 Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby -
23 Wee Wee Hours -
24 Don’t Start Me Talkin’
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25 Free and Easy Mind -
26 Pretty Thing -
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Blues artists from the south and the Mississippi region, moved to Chicago during the Great Migration and took country blues to a new style of electric blues. Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) had his first success with the electric blues of ‘I Can’t Be Satisfied’ and was recognised as the father of Chicago blues.
Other notable blues artists from Mississippi, along with Muddy, were Howlin’ Wolf, Willie Dixon and Jimmy Reed. Willie Dixon was a prolific blues songwriter and contributed greatly to the output of many blues performers as well as his own recordings.
Chicago blues style uses electric and slide guitar, harmonica (harp), bass & drums. Little Walter, Big Walter Horton and the second Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller) were well known harp players. Both Muddy and Elmore James were slide guitar players.
Chicago Blues 30s to 60s (Pt.1)
27 The Seventh Son -
28 Bad Boy -
29 Got My Mojo Working -
30 Who Do You Love? -
31 Bright Lights, Big City -
32 Dimples -
33 I Can’t Quit You Baby -
34 Smokestack Lightnin’ -
35 Before You Accuse Me (Take A Look At Yourself)
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36 Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights) -
37 I Can’t Believe -
38 Fattening Frogs For Snakes
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39 Honest I Do -
40 Bo Diddley -
41 All Your Love (I Miss Your Loving) -
42 Try To Quit You Baby -
43 Take Out Some Insurance -
44 Rock This House -
45 Confessin’ The Blues -
46 First Time I Met The Blues -
47 Big Boss Man -
48 The Story Of Bo Diddley -
49 The Sky Is Crying -
50 Spoonful -
51 Memphis Slim, USA -
52 Shake Your Moneymaker -
53 Shame, Shame, Shame -
54 (I Got) All You Need -
Elmore was responsible for introducing the oft copied opening riff on ‘Dust My Blues’ featured here on ‘Shake Your Moneymaker’.
Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry as recording artists for the Chess label, were both influenced by Chicago blues. On the West Side of Chicago, Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Magic Slim and Luther Allison with a rhythmic section of rhythm guitar, bass guitar and drums with a dominant amplified electric lead guitar.
On a visit to England in the 50s, Muddy stunned the skiffle audiences with his electric blues and was the catalyst for the blues boom which influenced Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies.
Although not directly related to the Chicago style, John Lee Hooker with his boogie influences did sometimes record there.
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