Track Listing

1. Help Me - Marshall Chess, Sonny Boy Williamson, Leonard Chess, Willie Dixon
2. Bring It On Home - Leonard Chess, Sonny Boy Williamson, Willie Dixon
3. Don't Start Me To Talkin' - Sonny Boy Williamson, Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Fred Below
4. Born Blind - Sonny Boy Williamson
5. Ninety Nine - Sonny Boy Williamson
6. Your Funeral And My Trial - Leonard Chess, Sonny Boy Williamson, Phil Chess
7. Nine Below Zero - Leonard Chess, Sonny Boy Williamson, Willie Dixon
8. Cross My Heart - Sonny Boy Williamson
9. Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide - Sonny Boy Williamson
10. One Way Out - Sonny Boy Williamson, Marshall Chess
11. Decoration Day - Marshall Chess, Sonny Boy Williamson, Leonard Chess, Willie Dixon
12. The Key (To Your Door) - Sonny Boy Williamson
13. Keep It To Yourself - Leonard Chess, Sonny Boy Williamson, Phil Chess
14. Wake Up Baby - Sonny Boy Williamson
15. Too Young To Die - Marshall Chess, Sonny Boy Williamson, Leonard Chess, Willie Dixon
16. Cool Disposition - Sonny Boy Williamson
17. The Goat - Leonard Chess, Sonny Boy Williamson, Phil Chess
18. Like Wolf - Sonny Boy Williamson
19. Fattening Frogs For Snakes - Sonny Boy Williamson
20. Bye Bye Bird - Marshall Chess, Sonny Boy Williamson, Leonard Chess, Willie Dixon

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3407 in Music
• Released on: 2000-07-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 56 minutes

Customer Reviews

Excellent album
If you've never heard Sonny Boy Williamson before I recommend this album. If your particularly interested in blues harmonica there aren't many better than Sonny Boy Williamson and you could do a lot worse than have this in your collection.

magnificent blues
The music on this compilation is magnificent, I didn't give it 5 stars only because it lacks the listing of musicians on each track (some of which are true blues legends themselves).
In this period he recorded with Otis Spann, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters and others, so it would be nice to have the correct info on that.

Otherwise, this is classical stuff; both vocally and instrumentally...

BTW, if my ears don't decieve me, the performer of "Like Wolf" (track 18) is Howlin' Wolf , although the authorship of the song is attributed to Williamson.

sonny boy williamson
like many "best of" compilations this one starts superbly but after you've heard 3 or 4 tracks you get the feeling you've heard them before..the very simple instrumentation becomes limiting and restrictive..and while the songs are classics you can see why other peoples versions are more entertaining..the album is well worth buying if only for the fantastic opening track