Artist: Various
Album: The Chicago Blues Box: The MCM Records Story
Genre: Chicago Blues
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2013
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- CD 1: MAGIC SLIM
- Magic Slim - That's All Right (5:55)
- Magic Slim - Slim's Bump (3:57)
- Magic Slim - Going Down Slow (7:21)
- Magic Slim - Born In Missouri (6:43)
- Magic Slim - Let Me Love You (6:11)
- Magic Slim - The Things I Used To Do (7:34)
- Magic Slim - That Ain't Right (4:02)
- Magic Slim - Honest I Do (3:40)
- Magic Slim - Nineteen Years Old (6:33)
- Magic Slim - Born On A Bad Sign (7:00)
- Magic Slim - Please Love Me (4:01)
- CD 2: BIG MOJO ELEM, JOHN LITTLE JOHN
- Big Mojo Elem - Drowning On Dry Land ( 5:11)
- Big Mojo Elem - Every Night And Every Day ( 3:33)
- Big Mojo Elem - Black Nights ( 4:45)
- Big Mojo Elem - Hush ( 5:18)
- Big Mojo Elem - Red Light ( 5:03)
- John Littlejohn - Dream ( 7:12)
- Big Mojo Elem - Mojo Boogie ( 2:41)
- Big Mojo Elem - Living In Paradise ( 2:32)
- John Littlejohn - Twelve Years Old Boy ( 5:57)
- Big Mojo Elem - Every Night And Every Day ( 3:32)
- Big Mojo Elem - Long Meter Stomp (11:59)
- John Littlejohn - Reconsider Baby ( 3:39)
- CD 3: EDDIE CLEARWATER, EDDIE TAYLOR
- Eddy Clearwater - Let's Jam (4:51)
- Eddy Clearwater - I Came Up The Hard Way (6:48)
- Eddy Clearwater - Three Ways To Skin A Cat (5:32)
- Eddy Clearwater - Black Night (9:17)
- Eddy Clearwater - Chicago Dailey Blues (9:26)
- Eddy Clearwater - Hoochie Coochie Man (6:52)
- Eddie Taylor - Jackson Town Blues (4:07)
- Eddie Taylor - Train Fare Home (5:57)
- Eddie Taylor - Route 66 (A One A Two) (5:47)
- Eddy Clearwater - Rock Me Baby (6:34)
- Eddie Taylor - Blues For Luc (4:18)
- Eddy Clearwater - The Things I Used To Do (8:16)
- CD 4: BOBBY KING
- Bobby King - Reconsider Baby ( 5:34)
- Bobby King - My Babe ( 5:31)
- Bobby King - Everyday I Have The Blues ( 7:18)
- Bobby King - The Chaser ( 4:04)
- Bobby King - Sweet House Chicago ( 2:32)
- Bobby King - Bad Luck ( 3:19)
- Muddy Waters - Old Folks Boogie (13:46)
- Bobby King - Stormy Monday Blues ( 7:18)
- Bobby King - Hoochie Coochie Man ( 8:17)
- Muddy Waters - Everything Gonna Be Alright ( 4:00)
- CD 5: JIMMY JOHNSON, LUTHER JOHNSON JR., WILLIE KENT
- Jimmy Johnson - So Many Roads (6:28)
- Jimmy Johnson - Crosscut Saw (4:08)
- Jimmy Johnson - Ma Bea's Rock (3:13)
- Jimmy Johnson - Feel So Bad (4:23)
- Luther Johnson Jr. - I Believe My Time Ain't Long (4:54)
- Luther Johnson Jr. - All Your Love (4:38)
- Luther Johnson Jr. - You Gotta Have Soul (4:15)
- Willie Kent - Little Red Rooster (4:16)
- Willie Kent - Nineteen Years Old (4:08)
- Willie Kent - What Will Tomorrow Bring (4:12)
- Luther Johnson Jr. - Got A Mind To Travel (4:31)
- Luther Johnson Jr. - Can You Use A Man Like Me (3:54)
- Luther Johnson Jr. - I Got To Be Crazy (4:04)
- Luther Johnson Jr. - Got Papers On You Baby (3:32)
- CD 6: JIMMY DAWKINS, HIP LANKCHAN
- Jimmy Johnson - So Many Roads (6:28)
- Jimmy Johnson - Crosscut Saw (4:08)
- Jimmy Johnson - Ma Bea's Rock (3:13)
- Jimmy Johnson - Feel So Bad (4:23)
- Luther Johnson Jr. - I Believe My Time Ain't Long (4:54)
- Luther Johnson Jr. - All Your Love (4:38)
- Luther Johnson Jr. - You Gotta Have Soul (4:15)
- Willie Kent - Little Red Rooster (4:16)
- Willie Kent - Nineteen Years Old (4:08)
- Willie Kent - What Will Tomorrow Bring (4:12)
- Luther Johnson Jr. - Got A Mind To Travel (4:31)
- Luther Johnson Jr. - Can You Use A Man Like Me (3:54)
- Luther Johnson Jr. - I Got To Be Crazy (4:04)
- Luther Johnson Jr. - Got Papers On You Baby (3:32)
- CD 7: BIG VOICE ODOM, JIMMY DAWKINS
- Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - Going To California (7:41)
- Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - I Don't Know (7:37)
- Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - Thrill Is Gone (5:25)
- Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - Stormy Monday Blues (5:45)
- Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - All For Business (5:17)
- Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - Rock Me Baby (4:43)
- Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - Wonder Why (4:33)
- Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - Sitting Here Wondering (6:43)
- Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - I Can't Go On The Way (6:54)
- Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - I Want To Know (8:59)
- Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - I've Been Mistreated (7:29)
- CD 8: BLUEBLOOD McMAHON, JOE CARTER
- Andrew McMahon - Go Get Me Baby (4:43)
- Andrew McMahon - I Wonder Why (4:12)
- Andrew McMahon - Change My Way Of Living (4:47)
- Andrew McMahon - You Got To Help Yourself (4:33)
- Andrew McMahon - Give Up And Let Me Go (2:50)
- Andrew McMahon - What Would We Do Later On (4:06)
- Andrew McMahon - You Don't Have To Go (5:36)
- Andrew McMahon - It Hurts Me Too (5:37)
- Andrew McMahon - Got My Mojo Working (4:16)
- Andrew McMahon - Little Red Rooster (3:39)
- Andrew McMahon - So Glad (4:14)
- Andrew McMahon - Stranger In Your Land (5:04)
- Joe Carter - Worried About My Baby (4:29)
- Joe Carter - It Hurts Me Too (4:07)
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MCM Records was founded by a French woman, Marcelle Chailleux Morgantini, after she heard the blues live in the clubs during a trip to Chicago. She returned to Chicago with a tape machine, a small mixing board, and a good selection of microphones in 1975, 1976, and 1977, capturing a very specific time in the history of Chicago blues, recording live sets by Magic Slim, Eddie Clearwater, Eddie Taylor, Bobby King, Jimmy Johnson, Willie Kent, James Lyons, Joe Carter, Jimmy Dawkins, and others, and then issuing them on her own MCM imprint. All of these sessions are collected here, capturing a late Golden Age for Chicago blues.
Review by Steve Leggett