This collection of Chicago blues features some of the toughest & most down home recordings of the mid to late 50's.  Early recordings of ALBERT KING, JOHN BRIM & JB LENOIR are featured along with choice obscurities by JODY WILLIAMS, BABY BOY WARREN, HENRY GRAY & many more.  Some of these sides eventually ended up on Chess but these are the originals in great sound........

1 Bad Luck Blues - Albert King

2 Mama Talk to Your Daughter - J.B. Lenoir

3 West Coast Blues - Ernest Lewis

4 Tough Times - John Brim

5 (I Declare) That Ain't Right - Henry Gray

6 Cool Playing Blues - Curtis Jones

7 Easy Lovin' - Little Papa Joe

8 Fine Girl - J.B. Lenoir

9 Looking for My Baby - Little Papa Joe

10 Murder in the First Degree - St. Louis Jimmy

11 Blue Blues Boogie - Nature Boy Brown

12 Yes, She's Gone - Dusty Brown

13 Santa Fe - Baby Boy Warren

14 Devil Is a Busy Man - Sunnyland Slim

15 Crosstown Blues - Snooky Pryor

16 No More Lovin' - Ernest Lewis

17 Falling Rain Blues - Little Willie Foster

18 Gary Stomp - John Brim

19 Wrong Blues - Curtis Jones

20 Eisenhower Blues - J.B. Lenoir

21 Mattie Mae - Baby Boy Warren

22 Four Day Jump - Little Willie Foster

23 Going Back to Memphis - Sunnyland Slim

24 Watch Yourself - Henry Gray

25 (Be on Your) Merry Way - Albert King