Simply the Best Blues · The Ultimate Collection

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Tracklist

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1Keep Your Hands to Yourself
engineer and producer:
Jeff Glixman
bass guitar:
Rick Price (Georgia Satellites)
drums (drum set):
Mauro Magellan
guitar:
Dan Baird (US singer/songwriter/guitarist, Georgia Satellites founder) and Rick Richards (US rock/metal guitarist)
lead vocals:
Dan Baird (US singer/songwriter/guitarist, Georgia Satellites founder)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Elektra/Asylum Records (not for release label use! copyrights holder, distributor within the US), WEA International Inc. (not for release label use! copyrights holder, distributor for the world outside of the US) and Elektra Entertainment (company, DO NOT USE as release label, for releases use “Elektra”) (in 1986)
part of:
VH1’s 100 Greatest One‐Hit Wonders of the ’80s (number: 46)
recording of:
Keep Your Hands to Yourself
lyricist and composer:
Dan Baird (US singer/songwriter/guitarist, Georgia Satellites founder)
publisher:
Eleksylum Music Inc., No Surrender Music and Warner–Tamerlane Pub. Corp. (publisher; do NOT use as release label)
The Georgia Satellites53:25
2Couldn’t Stand the Weather
recording of:
Couldn’t Stand the Weather
lyricist and composer:
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan4:41
3A Poor Man’s Plea
Buddy Guy and Junior Wells3:10
4Baby Please Don’t Go
cover recording of:
Baby, Please Don’t Go
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Big Joe Williams (American Delta blues guitarist, singer and songwriter)
publisher:
EMI Full Keel Music, Leeds Music Corp., MCA Music (not for release label use! this is a music publisher, ASCAP-affiliated), MCA Music Ltd. and Universal/MCA Music Ltd. (not for release label use!)
version of:
Another Man Done Gone
Lightnin’ Hopkins2:50
5It’s Only Love
engineer:
Terry Manning (US recording engineer) and Larry Nix (US mastering engineer)
producer:
Bill Ham (manager of ZZ Top)
recorded at:
Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, United States
recording of:
It’s Only Love
writer:
Frank Beard (ZZ Top drummer), Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill
publisher:
Music of Stage Three and Songs of Mosaic
ZZ Top44:25
6The Same Thing
recording of:
The Same Thing
lyricist and composer:
Willie Dixon
publisher:
Arc Music (U.S. rock & blues publisher), Arc Music Corp. (U.S. rock & blues publisher) and Hoochie Coochie Music
Muddy Waters2:42
7Basin Street Blue
Dr. John4:28
8Polk Salad Annie
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Rhino Entertainment Company (not for release label use!) (in 1969)
recording of:
Polk Salad Annie
lyricist and composer:
Tony Joe White
publisher:
Combine Music Corp. and EMI Blackwood Music Inc.
Tony Joe White3:43
9Born Under a Bad Sign
recorded in:
Memphis, Tennessee, United States (in 1967)
producer:
Jim Stewart (US producer, founder for Stax & Volt Records)
bass guitar:
Donald “Duck” Dunn (US bass guitarist, session musician, record producer & songwriter) (in 1967)
drums (drum set):
Al Jackson, Jr. (Booker T & The MGs drummer) (in 1967)
guitar:
Steve Cropper (in 1967) and Albert King (well‐known US blues guitarist & singer) (in 1967)
horn:
Joe Arnold (in 1967), Wayne Jackson (trumpet/horn, member of The Mar-Keys and The Memphis Horns) (in 1967) and Andrew Love (in 1967)
piano:
Isaac Hayes (in 1967) and Booker T. Jones (in 1967)
lead vocals:
Albert King (well‐known US blues guitarist & singer) (in 1967)
performer:
Booker T. & the MG’s (in 1967) and The Memphis Horns (in 1967)
part of:
Blues Hall of Fame: Classic of Blues Recording Single (number: 1988)
recording of:
Born Under a Bad Sign (in 1967)
lyricist:
William Bell
composer:
Booker T. Jones
publisher:
Cotillion Music Inc. (BMI), Irving Music, Inc., Warner Bros. Music Ltd. (UK subsidiary, so named between 1970/01/23–1971/04/26 and 1972/04/25–1988/08/23) and Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Albert King32:47
10Georgia
cover recording of:
Georgia on My Mind
anthem of:
Georgia, United States (from 1979 to present)
lyricist:
Stuart Gorrell (in 1930)
composer:
Hoagy Carmichael (in 1930)
publisher:
Peer International Corporation (BMI), Peermusic III, Ltd. (BMI), Campbell Connelly & Co. Ltd. (from 1930 to present) and Southern Music Publishing Co., Inc. ((ASCAP) tradename Peermusic) (from 1930 to present)
sub-publisher:
ピアーミュージック (Peer Music Japan, Japan, subsidiary of Nichion)
arrangement of:
Georgia on My Mind (Solo piano arrangement)
Cold Chisel7:15
11Stormy Monday
T‐Bone Walker3:06
12When the Levee Breaks
cover recording of:
When the Levee Breaks (original country blues song)
writer:
Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie
John Campbell6:13
13Smokestack Lightin’
recording of:
Smokestack Lightning
lyricist and composer:
Chester Arthur Burnett
publisher:
Arc Music (U.S. rock & blues publisher)
Howlin’ Wolf3:06
14Sitting in the Rain
producer:
Mike Vernon
bass:
John McVie (on 1966-10-11)
guitar:
Peter Green (former member of Fleetwood Mac) (on 1966-10-11) and John Mayall (on 1966-10-11)
percussion:
Aynsley Dunbar (on 1966-10-11)
vocals:
John Mayall (on 1966-10-11)
John Mayall2:57
15Blues in the Night
Johnnie Taylor3:16
16Shake for Me
engineer:
Marlin Greene (’60s teen artist, writer & engineer) and Jimmy Johnson (guitar, producer, Muscle Shoals rhythm section)
bass:
David Hood (Muscle Shoals, AL guitarist and trombonist) (on 1969-11-21)
drums (drum set):
Roger Hawkins (on 1969-11-21)
guitar:
John Hammond (blues singer and guitarist) (on 1969-11-21) and Jimmy Johnson (guitar, producer, Muscle Shoals rhythm section) (on 1969-11-21)
piano:
Barry Beckett (on 1969-11-21)
slide guitar:
Duane Allman (on 1969-11-21)
vocals:
John Hammond (blues singer and guitarist) (on 1969-11-21)
recorded at:
Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama, United States (on 1969-11-21)
cover recording of:
Shake for Me (on 1969-11-21)
composer:
Willie Dixon
John Hammond2:41
17Walkin’ Blues
cover recording of:
Walking Blues (in 1966-07)
lyricist and composer:
Robert Johnson (1930s blues legend)
publisher:
King of Spades Music and Paul Rodriguez Music Ltd.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band3:17