The extraordinary success of Chess Records was founded upon the groundbreaking guitar-charged tracks laid down by bluesmen Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Lockwood Jr., Sonny Boy Williamson, and Buddy Guy, plus rockers Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, with the piano playing a supporting role in their ensembles. But this comprehensive two-CD offering reminds us of the many 88-key blues classics Chess released as well. Popular piano men Eddie Boyd and Willie Mabon are featured here with studio stalwarts Otis Spann and Lafayette Leake. Boyd leads off with slow stunners "24 Hours" and "Third Degree," which heavily influenced the 1960s British blues scene, and the surprisingly upbeat "Just a Fool". The stylish Mabon, more entertainer than bluesman, is represented by his big jump-blues hits "I Don't Know" and "I'm Mad," followed by four cuts from the masterly Spann and three superb instrumental tracks by the mysterious Leake.

Tracklist:

CD 1
1. 24 Hours - Boyd, Eddie
2. Got Lonesome Here - Boyd, Eddie
3. I Got the Blues - Boyd, Eddie
4. I Began to Sing the Blues [#]
5. Rosa Lee Swing - Boyd, Eddie
6. Blues for Baby - Boyd, Eddie
7. Hard Time Gettin' Started - Boyd, Eddie
8. Third Degree - Boyd, Eddie Listen
9. Just a Fool - Boyd, Eddie
10. Rattin' and Running Around - Dixon, Willie
11. Hush Baby, Don't You Cry - Boyd, Eddie
12. Instrumental [Take 2][#][Instrumental]
13. Picture in the Frame - Boyd, Eddie
14. Nothing But Trouble - Boyd, Eddie
15. Got Me Seein' Double - Boyd, Eddie
16. What's the Matter Baby?
17. Life Gets to Be a Burden - Boyd, Eddie
18. Hotel Blues [#] - Boyd, Eddie
19. Come on Home - Boyd, Eddie
20. Five Long Years [#] - Boyd, Eddie
21. It Must Have Been the Devil - Spann, Otis
22. Five Spot [Instrumental] - Spann, Otis
23. I'm Leaving You - Spann, Otis
24. I'm in Love with You Baby - Spann, Otis

CD 2
1. I Don't Know - Hoskins, Ollie
2. Worry Blues - Mabon, Willie
3. I'm Mad - Mabon, Willie
4. Got to Have It - Mabon, Willie
5. Monday Woman - Mabon, Willie
6. I Got to Go - Mabon, Willie
7. Life Could Be Miserable [#]
8. Late Again - Burnett, Chester
9. Willie's Blues - Mabon, Willie
10. Say Man - Diddley, Bo
11. Poison Ivy - Leiber, Jerry
12. Wow! I Feel So Good - Mabon, Willie
13. The Seventh Son - Dixon, Willie
14. Lucinda [#] - Martin, B.
15. Someday You Will Have to Pay - Mabon, Willie
16. He Lied - Mabon, Willie
17. Knock on Wood - Cropper, Steve
18. I Love My Baby [#] - Warren, Harry
19. Slow Leake - Leake, Lafayette
20. Wrinkles [Live] - Dixon, Willie
21. Swiss Boogie [Live] - Leake, Lafayette

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