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Disc: 1
1. Help Me (A Tribute To Sonny Boy Williamson) - The Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band
2. It Hurts Me Too (When Things Go Wrong) - The Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band
3. Messin' With The Kid - The Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band
4. Vietcong Blues - The Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band
5. All Night Long - The Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band
6. Going Ahead - J.B. Hutto And His Hawks
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Disc: 2
1. Cotton Crop Blues - The Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet
2. The Blues Keep Falling - The Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet
3. Love Me Or Leave - The Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet
4. Rocket 88 - The Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet
5. West Helena Blues - The Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet
6. Everything's Going To Turn Out Alright - The Otis Rush Blues Band
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Disc: 3
1. One More Time - Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band
2. Kid Man Blues - Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band
3. My Black Mare - Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band
4. Stealin' Back - Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band
5. I Got Mine In Time - Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band
6. TIghten Up On It - Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band
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5.0 out of 5 stars Three in one, or one in three, Dec 16 2002

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Jonathan M. Mason "jm_1951" (Punta Gorda, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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I bought all three of the albums in this set separately a few years ago, but you can get all three in a set for this ridiculously low price. It would still be a great deal to buy each of the three discs for whatever it was that I paid, probably [cheap], because this is an utterly superb collection of electric blues that you could never find anywhere else. For my money the Otis Rush contribution is the best thing he ever recorded, the Junior Wells version of Help Me is better than the Sonny Boy original, and every single track on all three albums is absolutely choice. One of the strengths of the set is that with three acts on each disc, there is no space whatsoever for inferior or filler material. If you want Chicago electric blues, this set should be your first purchase.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great music, horrible packaging!, Sep 22 2002

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Wow, this is one of the crown jewels as far as the electric blues is concerned!

You can't go wrong with this although for those of you who think the electric blues started with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Gary Moore, then this might be too 'ethnic' and not 'heavy' enough for you.

That would be a sad thought really, since without albums like this, there wouldn't have been people like two mentioned up above, imo.

However the packaging is terrible. The CDs were scratched when I opened it for the first time, prompting a return to the store for an exchange. The second copy was just as scratched leading me to believe that the paper sleeves themselves were the problem. A very poor design.

If this is a big concern, then stick with the older CD reissues in their individual jewel cases. I believe they're still widely available through Vanguard.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Chicago Blues Heaven, May 26 2000

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Quite simply, blues heaven. This compilation is a whole lot of bang for anybody's buck. Produced on a limited budget back in 1965, the musicians just streamed into the studio and did what they were known to do best. A barebones approach to recording, you won't find much in the way of studio wizardry here, but who cares?

Legend has it that Johnny Shines and his band just walked in, unpacked their instruments and powered into a version of "Dynaflow Blues" that pasted the onlookers in the studio to the wall and that song is captured forever here as that one take. The onlookers themselves happened to be some of the finest blues musicians of the day.

I later met some of the people bearing witness to that memorable day and they were still talking about it. Two decades later, Charles Musselwhite was still impressed enough to name one of his bands the Dynatones, in honor of the "Dynaflow Blues." Johnny Shines's voice is exciting and electric, his guitar playing has an electrified delta sound, and his music is pushed along by back-beat drumming. Johnny Shines and band continued pushing hard in the studio that day, laying down their tracks, I think recorded in the same sequence as they were played. They blistered through an essential hard blues, "If I Get Lucky" and at the end one of them shouts "Roll the tape!" as if that was all just a warm up session for the band. Man!

That's Johnny Shines on two of his six tracks. But elsewhere on different tracks on the disc there's also a young Charles Musselwhite disguised as Memphis Charlie ... Johnny Young, Otis Spann, Otis Rush ... I don't have room here to say all that I want to say, just read the list of names on all the tracks and take a chance on this. I think it's superlative. Chicago/The Blues/Today has always been one of my favorite blues series, and one that will continue to inspire people for as long as it's played. There's a beautiful little book with this collection, full of photographs and stories, some 47 pages.

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