Artist	Song
John Lee Hooker	Wheel and Deal
from John Lee Hooker on Vee-Jay, 1955-1958 (2007)
Elmore James	Dust My Broom
from Got to Move (2008)
Jimmy Reed	Bright Lights, Big City
from Easy Blues (2008)
Buddy Guy	This Is the End
from Southern Blues 1957-63 (2006)
Junior Wells	Hoodoo Man (Originally Titled Hoodo Man)
from Blues Hit Big Town (1998)
Otis Rush	All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
from The Essential Otis Rush (2006)
Little Richard	Good Golly Miss Molly
from The Very Best of Little Richard (2008)
Elvis Presley	Mystery Train
from Elvis At Sun (Remastered) (2004)
The Crickets	Not Fade Away
from Buddy Holly: Greatest Hits (1996)
Bill Haley & His Comets	Rock Around the Clock
from Rock Around the Clock (2004)
Earl Hooker	Blue Guitar
from The Essential (2008)
Robert Jr. Lockwood	Sweet Woman from Maine
from Rough Treatment - The J.O.B. Records Story, Vol. 1 (Disc 1) (2006)
Magic Sam	All Your Love
from The Essential Magic Sam: The Cobra and Chief Recordings 1957-1961 (2006)
Walter "Shakey" Horton	Have a Good Time
from Blues Harp Hero (2006)
Johnny Shines	Evening Sun
from Back to the Country (1991)
Otis Spann	The Hard Way
from Otis Spann Is the Blues (2006)
Billy Boy Arnold	I Was Fooled
from The Best of Chicago Blues, Vol. 1 (2008)
Baby Face Leroy Foster	Rollin' & Tumblin' Parts 1 & 2
from The Road to Robert Johnson and Beyond, CD D (2007)
Eddie Boyd	Five Long Years
from Rough Treatment - The J.O.B. Records Story, Vol. 1 (Disc 1) (2006)
Floyd Jones	Ain't Times Hard
from Classic Sides 1951-1955 (CD C) (2006)
J.B. Lenoir	Mama Talk to Your Daughter
from The Parrot Sessions (2005)

Comment:

Seems like the city of Chicago reversed the course of the Mississippi, the way musicians streamed in from the Delta. And not just to Chess, but to an alphabet soup of labels, including Mercury, Vee-Jay, Cobra, Chief, Delmark, Chance, Artistic — all yearning to make a little green off the blues. Freshly imported locals, like Otis Spann, Junior Wells, and Buddy Guy, haunted Windy City studios (including Chess) as sidemen one day, leaders the next. In "This Is the End," Strat-slingin' Hall of Famer Guy tears through the roof with a hellhound wail and a King-dethroning flurry of digit-disjointing riffage. Magic Sam, Chicago's best-kept secret, lived West Side blues, and died it (at 32), but the bad-moon-risin' howl of his "All Your Love" [i]still[/i] barrels out of the speakers like a locomotive hauling eight boxcars of dynamite. B.B. King's ever-present six-string partner, Lucille, digs her razor-sharp spurs into the citified haunches of "Everyday I Have the Blues." And a whole [i]horde[/i] of rockers, from Elvis Presley to Little Richard, took their cues — and sometimes more — from their South Side rivals; check out the Crickets' Diddley-style hambone beat in "Not Fade Away." From John Lee Hooker to Bill Haley, Chess left an indelible label on way more than just its records.

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