Rhythm & Blues Caravan: The Complete Savoy Recordings (1999)

About this title: A deluxe three-disc set summing up Otis' pre-Hand Jive days as an R&B bandleader of some renown who employed various singers on a number of singles for the Savoy label. The recording debuts of the Robins, Little Esther Phillips, Mel Walker, guitarist Pete Lewis, and Linda Hopkins are all here, and you hear how Otis kept his ear to the ground, changing and moving to keep pace with a big-band scene that was slowly dying out, while making some marvelous DIY records along the way. Incredible notes from Billy Vera make this a box set well worth having in the collection. Cub Koda, All Music Guide

Tracks:

1. Harlem Nocturne [Hagen]
2. Round the Clock [Rene]
3. MT Baby's Bussiness [Cryor]
4. Preston Love's Mansion [Otis/Otis]
5. Midnight in the Barrelhouse [Otis]
6. Boogie Guitar [Otis]
7. Ain't Nothin' Shakin' [Burnette]
8. Hangover Blues [Otis]
9. Get Together Blues [Otis]
10. I'm Falling in Love With You [Otis]
11. If It's So, Baby [Leonard/Richards]
12. Our Romance Is Gone [Castillo/Nunn/Richa]
13. If I Didn't Love You So [Delagarde/Leonard]
14. Rain in My Eyes [DeMetrius]
15. Double Crossing Blues [Otis]
16. Head Hunter [Otis]
17. Going to See My Baby [Hillis/Otis]
18. The Little Red Hen [Hillis/Otis]
19. New Orleans Shuffle [Lewis/Otis]
20. The Turkey Hop, Pt. 1 [Bass/Otis]
21. The Turkey Hop, Pt. 2 [Bass/Otis]
22. Blues Nocturne [Otis/Delagarde]
23. Cry Baby [Otis/Delagarde]
24. Lover's Lane Boogie
25. I Found Out My Troubles
26. Misery [Otis/Delagarde]
27. I'm Through [Castillo/Delagarde/]
28. I'm Living O.K. [Castillo/Delagarde/]
29. There Ain't No Use Beggin' [Otis/Delagarde/Robi]
30. You're Fine But Not My Kind [Otis/Delagarde/Robi]
31. Helpless [Otis/Delagarde]
32. Cool and Easy [Otis/Hillis]
33. Mistrustin' Blues [Otis]
34. Dreamin' Blues [Otis]
35. Cupid's Boogie [Otis]
36. Just Can't Get Free [Otis]
37. My Heart Tells Me [Otis/Lightsey]
38. Lost Dream Blues (Lost in a Dream) [Otis]
39. Deceivin' Blues [Otis]
40. Lonely Blues [Otis]
41. Strange Woman [Bass/Waters]
42. Freight Train Boogie [Otis/Delagarde]
43. Good Time Blues [Hillis/Otis]
44. Sunset to Dawn [Darnell/Otis]
45. Wedding Boogie [Otis]
46. Far Away Christmas Blues [Otis]
47. Love Will Break Your Heart for You [Otis]
48. Rockin' Blues [Otis]
49. I Don't Care [Otis]
50. I Dream [Otis]
51. Beer Bottle Boogie [Scott]
52. Uneasy Blues [Scott]
53. It Can Never Happen Again [Darnell/Otis]
54. Gee Baby [Otis]
55. Fool's Gold [Darnell/Otis]
56. Feel Like Crying Again [Darnell/Otis]
57. Heartache, Here I Come [Love/Otis]
58. Turn the Lights Down Low
59. Hold Me Close
60. Gonna Take a Train
61. Doggin' Blues [Hopkins/Otis]
62. Chitlin' Switch Blues [Otis]
63. Warning Blues [Hopkins/Otis]
64. Living and Loving You [Hopkins/Otis]
65. Hunter Hancock Theme [Otis]
66. Mambo Boogie [Otis]
67. New Love
68. Just Another Flame
69. I'll Ask My Heart [Otis]
70. It Ain't the Beauty [Otis/Washington]
71. All Night Long [Otis]
72. Help Me Blues [Williams/Otis]
73. Walkin' Shoe Blues

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.