Hoochie Coochie Man: Complete Chess Masters, Vol. 2: 1952-1958 (2004)

About this title: The Vol. 2 designation of this limited-edition double CD may confuse some people, who might reasonably wonder where "Vol. 1" is. Actually, "Vol. 1" was Rollin' Stone: The Golden Anniversary Collection, which came out as a regular retail release in stores and covered Muddy Waters' complete recorded output from 1947 through September of 1952. Picking up right where that release left off, this much more elaborately packaged 51-track double-CD set captures Muddy at the peak of his game, dominating the Chicago blues scene (and, almost equally so, the national blues dialogue) and bursting with ... read more

Tracks:

1. Standing Around Crying [Morganfield]
2. Gone to Main Street [Morganfield]
3. Iodine in My Coffee [Morganfield]
4. Flood [Morganfield]
5. My Life Is Ruined (Landlady) [Morganfield]
6. She's All Right [Morganfield]
7. She's All Right [Alternate Take] [Morganfield]
8. Sad, Sad Day [Morganfield]
9. Turn Your Lamp Down Low (Baby Please Don't Go) [Morganfield]
10. Baby Please Don't Go [Alternate Take] [Morganfield]
11. Loving Man [Morganfield]
12. Blow Wind Blow [Morganfield]
13. Mad Love (I Want You to Love Me) [Dixon]
14. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man [Alternate Take] [Dixon]
15. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man [Dixon]
16. She's So Pretty [Morganfield]
17. I Just Want to Make Love to You [Dixon]
18. Oh Yeh (Oh Yeah) [Dixon]
19. I'm Ready [Dixon]
20. Smokestack Lightning [Howlin' Wolf]
21. I Don't Know Why [Dixon]
22. I'm a Natural Born Lover [Dixon]
23. Ooh Wee [Dixon]
24. This Pain [Dixon]
25. Young Fashioned Ways [Dixon]
26. Want to Be Loved [Dixon]
27. My Eyes (Keep Me in Trouble) [Walker]
28. Mannish Boy [Morganfield/London/]
29. I Got to Find My Baby [Dixon]
30. Sugar Sweet [London]
31. Trouble No More [Waters]
32. Clouds in My Heart [Morganfield]
33. Forty Days and Forty Nights [Roth]
34. All Aboard [Morganfield]
35. Just to Be with You [Roth]
36. Don't Go No Farther [Dixon]
37. Diamonds at Your Feet [Morganfield]
38. I Love the Life I Live (I Live the Life I Love) [Dixon]
39. Rock Me [Morganfield]
40. Look What You've Done [Morganfield]
41. Got My Mojo Working [Foster]
42. Good News [Morganfield]
43. Evil [Waters]
44. Come Home Baby, I Wish You Would [Morganfield]
45. Let Me Hang Around [Morganfield]
46. I Won't Go On [Oden]
47. She's Got It [Oden]
48. Born Lover [Morganfield]
49. She's Nineteen Years Old [Morganfield]
50. Close to You [Dixon]
51. She's Got It [Alternate Take] [Oden]

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