VA - The Chicago Blues Box, MCM Records [2012] (8 x CD's)

CHICAGO BLUES

VA - The Chicago Blues Box, MCM Records [2012] (8 x CD's)

Live recordings from the vaults of MCM Records including bonus tracks. The brief and dazzling life of MCM Records was a labor of love that captured many treasurable live performances from the last flowering of the classic Chicago Blues age. A young French woman Marcelle Chailleux Morgantini was married to Jacques Morgantini who changed her life into American jazz and blues.  

Guitarist Jimmy Dawkins was a good friend and helped them in Chicago to meet and hear the many good blues musicians that played at the different clubs in Chicago. Marcelle returned from her Chicago pilgrimage filled with excitement. Says Jacques Morgantini: It was the year of Marcelle’s 50th birthday and she came into some money from her family. She said to me, “I do not want an expensive coat or jewels – I want to go to Chicago to record the blues. She knew that it could only be done if she had her own record label and complete artistic control. Marcelle made three trips to Chicago in 1975,1976 and 1977 and arrived with her Nagra machine, a small mixing desk and a selection of microphones.  She recorded live: Magic Slim, Big Mojo Elem,John Littlejohn, Eddie Clearwater,Eddie Taylor, Bobby King,Jimmy Johnson, Luther Johnson Jr.,Willie Kent, James Lyons,Hip Lankchan,Big Vocie Odom,Bluebloos McMahon, Joe Carter and Jimmy Dawkins at “Ma Bea’s”, “Golden Slipper”, “Queen Bea’s”, and “Big Duke’s”, on Chicago west and south side. Many of the blues musicians had not recorded before and can only been found on the Storyville label (Danish jazz and blues label founded in 1952 by Karl Emil Knudsen) that issued all the recordings on CD’s. She was at the right place at the right time.

• CD 1: Recorded live at Ma Bea's, Chicago, November 9, 1976
• CD 2: Big Mojo Elem tracks recorded live at Golden Slipper, Chicago, October 12, 1977; John Littlejohn tracks recorded live at Ma Bea's, Chicago, November 8, 1976
• CD 3: Eddie Clearwater tracks recorded live at Ma Bea's, Chicago, November 5, 1976; Eddie Taylor tracks recorded live at Golden Slipper, Chicago, October 24, 1977
• CD 4: Recorded at Queen Bee's, Chicago, October 9, 1975
• CD 5: Jimmy Johnson tracks recorded live at Ma Bea's, Chicago, October 15, 1975; Luther Johnson Jr. tracks recorded live at Ma Bea's, Chicago, October 17, 1975; Willie Kent, Willie James Lyons tracks recorded live at Ma Bea's, Chicago, October 17, 1975
• CD 6: Jimmy Dawkins tracks recorded live at Big Duke's, Chicago, November 10, 1976; Hip Lankchan tracks recorded live at Ma Bea's, Chicago, November 1, 1976; Jimmy Johnson tracks recorded live at Golden Slipper, Chicago, October 19, 1977; Alabama Junior Pettis track recorded live at Ma Bea's, Chicago, November 9, 1976
• CD 7: Recorded live at Ma Bea's, Chicago, October 16, 1975 & October 28, 1976
• CD 8: Blueblood McMahon tracks recorded live at Ma Bea's, Chicago, November 8, 1976 & at Big Duke's, Chicago, November 10, 1976; Joe Carter tracks recorded live at Ma Bea's, Chicago, October (Discogs)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Magic Slim That's All Right 5:56

02 Magic Slim Slim's Bump 4:00

03 Magic Slim Going Down Slow 7:21

04 Magic Slim Born In Missouri 6:46

05 Magic Slim Let Me Love You 6:13

06 Magic Slim The Things I Used To Do 7:37

07 Magic Slim That Ain' All Right 4:05

08 Magic Slim Honest I Do 3:43

09 Magic Slim Nineteen Years Old 6:35

10 Magic Slim Born On A Bad Sign 7:03

11 Magic Slim Please Love Me 4:01

CD2

01 Big Mojo Elem Drowning On Dry Land 5:14

02 Big Mojo Elem Every Night And Every Day 3:36

03 Big Mojo Elem Black Nights 4:47

04 Big Mojo Elem Hush 5:21

05 Big Mojo Elem Red Light 5:05

06 John Littlejohn Dream 7:15

07 Big Mojo Elem Mojo Boogie 2:44

08 John Littlejohn Living In Paradise 2:34

09 John Littlejohn Twelve Years Old Boy 6:00

10 Big Mojo Elem Every Night And Every Day 3:34

11 Big Mojo Elem Long Meter Stomp 12:01

12 John Littlejohn Reconsider Baby 3:40

CD3

01 Eddie Clearwater Let's Jam 4:53

02 Eddie Clearwater I Came Up The Hard Way 6:50

03 Eddie Clearwater Three Ways To Skin A Cat 5:34

04 Eddie Clearwater Black Night 9:23

05 Eddie Clearwater Chicago Dailey Blues 9:29

06 Eddie Clearwater Hoochie Coochie Man 6:54

07 Eddie Taylor Jackson Town Blues 4:10

08 Eddie Taylor Train Fare Home 5:59

09 Eddie Taylor Route 66 (A One A Two) 5:49

10 Eddie Clearwater Rock Me Baby 6:37

11 Eddie Taylor Blues For Luc 4:20

12 Eddie Clearwater The Things I Used To Do 8:14

CD4

01 Bobby King Reconsider Baby 5:39

02 Bobby King My Babe 5:36

03 Bobby King Everyday I Have The Blues 4:10

04 Bobby King The Chaser 4:09

05 Bobby King Sweet House Chicago 2:37

06 Bobby King Bad Luck 3:24

07 Bobby King Old Folks Boogie 13:51

08 Bobby King Stormy Monday Blues 7:24

09 Bobby King Hoochie Coochie Man 8:23

10 Bobby King Everything Gonna Be Allright 4:00

CD5

01 Jimmy Johnson So Many Roads 6:31

02 Jimmy Johnson Crosscut Saw 4:12

03 Jimmy Johnson Ma Bea's Rock 3:16

04 Jimmy Johnson Feel So Bad 4:23

05 Luther Johnson Jr, Willie James Lyons & Willie Kent I Believe My Time Ain't Long 4:56

06 Luther Johnson Jr, Willie James Lyons & Willie Kent All Your Love 4:41

07 Luther Johnson Jr, Willie James Lyons & Willie Kent You Gotta Have Soul 4:18

08 Willie James Lyons & Willie Kent Little Red Rooster 4:21

09 Willie James Lyons & Willie Kent Nineteen Years Old 4:14

10 Willie James Lyons & Willie Kent What Will Tomorrow Brings 4:15

11 Luther Johnson Jr, Willie James Lyons & Willie Kent Got A Mind To Travel 4:34

12 Luther Johnson Jr, Willie James Lyons & Willie Kent Can You Use A Man Like Me ? 3:57

13 Luther Johnson Jr, Willie James Lyons & Willie Kent I Got To Be Crazy 4:08

14 Luther Johnson Jr, Willie James Lyons & Willie Kent Got Papers On You Baby 3:33

CD6

01 Jimmy Dawkins Welfare Line 9:22

02 Jimmy Dawkins You Don't Love Me 4:26

03 Jimmy Dawkins Come Back Baby 5:54

04 Jimmy Dawkins I Got Wise 8:43

05 Hip Lankchan Millionnaire Blues 4:01

06 Hip Lankchan Hip's Jam 3:22

07 Hip Lankchan All Right The Way You Do 2:53

08 Hip Lankchan Sweet Home Chicago 4:05

09 Jimmy Dawkins Cross Road Blues 6:02

10 Jimmy Dawkins Blue Shadow Falling 5:29

11 Jimmy Johnson Little By Little 3:28

12 Jimmy Johnson Lucille 4:12

13 Alabama Jr Pettis I Want Some 4:41

14 Hip Lankchan Hide Away 4:51

CD7

01 Big Voice Odom & Jimmy Dawkins Going To California 7:44

02 Big Voice Odom & Jimmy Dawkins I Don't Know 7:40

03 Big Voice Odom & Jimmy Dawkins Thrill Is Gone 5:25

04 Big Voice Odom & Jimmy Dawkins Stormy Monday Blues 5:48

05 Big Voice Odom & Jimmy Dawkins All For Business 5:20

06 Big Voice Odom & Jimmy Dawkins Rock Me Baby 4:45

07 Big Voice Odom & Jimmy Dawkins Wonder Why 4:32

08 Big Voice Odom & Jimmy Dawkins Sitting Here Wondering 6:46

09 Big Voice Odom & Jimmy Dawkins I Can't Go On The Way 6:57

10 Big Voice Odom & Jimmy Dawkins I Want To Know 9:04

11 Big Voice Odom & Jimmy Dawkins I've Been Mistreated 7:29

CD8

01 Blueblood Mcmahon Go Get Me Baby 4:47

02 Blueblood Mcmahon I Wonder Why 4:16

03 Blueblood Mcmahon Change My Way Of Living 4:51

04 Blueblood Mcmahon You Got To Help Yourself 4:36

05 Blueblood Mcmahon Give Up And Let Me Go 2:53

06 Blueblood Mcmahon What Would We Do Later On ? 4:09

07 Blueblood Mcmahon You Don't Have To Go 5:39

08 Blueblood Mcmahon It Hurts Me Too (Elmore James) 5:41

09 Blueblood Mcmahon Got My Mojo Working 4:20

10 Blueblood Mcmahon Little Red Rooster 3:42

11 Blueblood Mcmahon So Glad 4:17

12 Blueblood Mcmahon Stranger In Your Land 5:07

13 Joe Carter Worried About My Baby 4:33

14 Joe Carter It Hurts Me Too (Hudson Whittaker) 4:08

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