Artist	Song
Eddie Boyd	Twenty-Four Hours
from Chess Chartbusters, Vol. 3 (2008)
Otis Spann	Must Have Been the Devil
from Blues Masters Vol. 10 (1992)
Muddy Waters	I'm Ready
from Fathers and Sons (Expanded) (2001)
Sonny Boy Williamson II	Don't Start Me to Talkin'
from Chess Blues Classics 1947 - 1956 (1997)
Eddie Shaw And The Wolf Gang	Sitting on Top of the World
from Living Chicago Blues, Vol. 1 (1978)
Billy Branch, Carey Bell, James Cotton & Junior Wells	Down Home Blues
from Harp Attack! (1990)
J.B. Lenoir	Eisenhower Blues
from Chess Blues Classics 1947 - 1956 (1997)
Jimmy Dawkins	Sad and Blues
from Fast Fingers (1998)
Chuck Berry	Wee Wee Hours
from His Complete '50s Chess Recordings (2008)
Lefty Dizz	Look On Yonders Wall
from Ain't It Nice to Be Loved (2005)
Robert Lockwood, Jr.	Everyday I Have the Blues
from I Got to Find Me a Woman (1997)
Joanna Connor	Doctor Feelgood
from Believe It! (1989)
Lurrie Bell	Got My Eyes On You
from Blues Had a Baby (1999)
Mojo Buford	Watch Dog
from State of the Blues Harp (2005)
Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials	Walking the Dog
from Roughhousin' (1986)
Lonnie Brooks	Voodoo Daddy
from Bayou Lightning (1979)
Little Johnny Jones	Big Town Playboy
from Chess Blues Classics 1947 - 1956 (1997)
Willie Kent	What You Doin' to Me
from Long Way to Ol' Miss (1996)
Michael Coleman	The Train
from Do Your Thing! (2000)
Billy Boy Arnold & Johnnie Jones	I Hear My Black Name Ringing
from Rare Chicago Blues (1962-1968) (1993)
Carey Bell	Big Walter Strut
from Mellow Down Easy (1991)
Mighty Joe Young	As the Years Go Passing By
from Mighty Joe Young (2002)
James Wheeler	Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
from Ready! (1998)
Sugar Blue	I Ain't Got You
from Blue Blazes (1994)
The Legendary Blues Band	Hush Hush
from Life of Ease (1994)

Comment:

The stinging guitars and howling harps of Chicago blues stole their share of the spotlight, but where would they have been without the piano men pumping their blood, sweat, and soul into the ivories? Muddy’s piano pounder, Otis Spann, stays just a half step ahead of the wages of sin on “Must Have Been the Devil.” Hard-livin’ wild man Little Johnny Jones’ rolling riffs add a brash, barrelhouse edge behind Billy Boy Arnold’s voice on “I Hear My Black Name Ringing.” And when Chuck Berry backed his milestone Chess debut single “Maybelline” with the lonesome blues of “Wee Wee Hours,” his right-hand man Johnnie Johnson — whose left hand was none too shabby either — knew just how to lay into that lamp-lit, late-night vibe.

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