The Essential

Original Release Date:  June 8, 1993

Track Listing

• 1. Juke
• 2. Can't Hold Out Much Longer
• 3. Boogie
• 4. Blue Midnight [Alternate Take]
• 5. Mean Old World
• 6. Sad Hours
• 7. Don't Need No Horse
• 8. Tell Me Mama
• 9. Off the Wall
• 10. Quarter to Twelve
• 11. Blues With a Feeling
• 12. Too Late
• 13. Fast Boogie
• 14. Lights Out
• 15. Fast Large One
• 16. You're So Fine
• 17. Oh Baby
• 18. I Got to Find My Baby
• 19. Last Night [First Version]
• 20. You Better Watch Yourself
• 21. Mellow Down Easy
• 22. My Babe
• 23. Roller Coaster
• 24. Little Girl
• 25. Hate to See You Go
• 26. Boom, Boom Out Goes the Lights
• 27. It Ain't Right
• 28. It's Too Late Brother
• 29. Just a Feeling
• 30. Ah'w Baby
• 31. I've Had My Fun [Alternate Take]
• 32. Confessin' the Blues
• 33. Key to the Highway
• 34. Walkin' On
• 35. You Gonna Be Sorry (Someday Baby) [Alternate Take]
• 36. Crazy Mixed up World
• 37. Worried Life Blues
• 38. Everything's Gonna Be Alright
• 39. Back Track
• 40. Blue and Lonesome
• 41. I Don't Play
• 42. As Long as I Have You
• 43. Just Your Fool
• 44. Up the Line
• 45. Southern Feeling
• 46. Dead Presidents

Credits

• Charles Brown: Composer
• Willie Dixon: Bass, Composer, Producer
• Buddy Guy: Guitar
• Little Walter: Harmonica, Vocals
• Louis Myers: Guitar
• Jimmy Reed: Composer
• Steve Wariner: Composer
• Jay McShann: Composer
• Walter Brown: Composer
• Bill LaBounty: Composer
• John Phillips: Composer
• Bill Emerson: Organ
• Robert Lockwood, Jr.: Guitar
• Fred Below: Drums
• Bo Diddley: Guitar
• Leonard Caston: Guitar
• Leonard Chess: Producer
• Phil Chess: Producer
• Al Duncan: Composer, Drums
• Lance Finnie: Composer
• Jarrett Gibson: Sax (Baritone)
• George Hunter: Drums
• Ike Turner: Composer
• Lafayette Leake: Piano
• Andy McKaie: Producer
• Jack Meyers: Bass
• Muddy Waters: Guitar, Composer
• Jimmie Lee Robinson: Guitar
• Jimmy Rogers: Guitar
• Willie Schofield: Composer
• Otis Spann: Piano
• Billy Stepney: Drums
• Luther Tucker: Guitar
• Elga Edmunds: Drums
• Fred Robinson: Bass
• Don Snowden: Liner Notes
• Ron Holden: Composer
• Walter Jacobs: Composer
• Dave Myers: Guitar
• A. Walker: Composer