Genesis: The Beginnings of Rock Vol.2 - From Memphis to Chicago (1973)

Disc A

Sonny Boy Williamson
1. Work With Me
2. Don't Start Me To Talking
3. All My Love In Vain
4. Good Evening Everybody
5. You killing Me (On My Feet)
6. Let Me Explain
7. I Know What Love Is All About

Disc B

Sonny Boy Williamson
1.I Wonder Why
2.Your Imagination
Elmore James
3.Country Boogie
4.My Best Friend
5.I See My Baby
6.She Just Won't Do Right
7.Muddy Shoes

Disc C

Ethel Mae
1. Down The Line
2. Handsome Lover
3.Sugar Papa
Robert Nighthawk
4.Good News
5.Six Three O
6.Prison Bound
Forrest City Joe
7.Mean Mistreatin' Woman

Disc D

1. Lonesome Day Blues
Howlin' Wolf
2. Mama Died And Left Me
3. I'm Not Joking
4. Moanin' At Midnight
5. How Many More Years
6. All Night Long
7. No Place To Go

Disc E

Jackie Brenston
1.Rocket "88"
Doctor Ross
2.Country Clown
3. Doctor Ross Boogie
Willie Nix
4.Truckin' Little Woman
5.Just One Mistake
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
6.Open Your Book
7.Tears In My Eyes (C-1023 [alt.])

Disc F

Woodrow Adams
1. Pretty Baby Blues
2. She's Done Come And Gone
Joe Hill Louis
3.Dorothy Mae
4.When I Am Gone
Harmonica Frank
5. Swamp Root
6. Howlin' Tomcat
7. She Done Moved

Disc G

Sonny Boy Williamson
1.Keep It To Yourself
2.Please Forgive (Keep It To Yourself)
3.The Key To Your Love
Howlin' Wolf
4.Baby How Long
5.Evil Is Goin' On
6.Forty Four
7.Who Will Be Next

Disc H

Howlin' Wolf
1. I Have A Little Girl
2. Come To Me Baby
3. Don't Mess With My Baby
4. Smokestack Lightning
5. You Can't Be Beat
6. So Glad
7. Break Of Day

This is a lot of three four-record box sets, the complete Genesis series in three volumes, issued in England in the early Seventies (the first is undated, the others are from 1973 and 1974) and never offered in the U.S.--which provide a still-unequalled historical overview of the archetypal blues/rhythm 'n' blues record company called Chess Records, tracing the path of major blues performers northwards, from the Delta to Memphis to Chicago, and the resulting evolution of both electrified blues and Chess. The three sets are 6641 047, The Beginnings of Rock (a name no doubt chosen as a marketing ploy, aimed at England's young "beat" fans c.1970); 6641 125 Vol. 2 Memphis to Chicago; and 6641 174, Vol. 3 Sweet Home Chicago. The four records in each set feature founding giants of Chicago blues--Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter Jacobs, Sonny Boy Williamson--as well as great less-known figures Jimmy Rogers, Otis Spann, Elmore James, even Memphis Minnie and Big Bill Broonzy late in their careers, and unknowns like Blue Smitty, Harmonica Frank, and Big Boy Spires. The selections, 14 per disc (16 on Vol. 3), are a mixture of famous tracks and (at that time) still-unreleased rarities, pressed from master tapes as well as collector 78s; and each box houses a splendid 20-page book rich with photos and brilliant essays by Mike Leadbitter and (for the third) Mike Rowe. While there have been many superior Chess Records reissues in the compact disc era, no other set/sets have quite equalled this rare Genesis trio for scope and notation and musical selections. Exterior boxes have seen some handling: the first is VG with much edge-wear, the second VG+ with corner breaks, and the third VG++, showing only miniscule wear at the corners. The three books within are pretty much VG++; and the all-important records are in superb shape: VG++ in the first box, Mint- in the other two. A blues set for the ages. --- abebooks.com

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