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Various Artists
Released 1993

Have a Good Time
02:17
9 plays

Sit Down Baby [Alternate Version]
01:45
9 plays

Need My Baby
02:15
9 plays

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songs

- 1
- I Can't Quit You Baby [Alternate Version]
- 03:46
- 21 plays

- 2
- Just Wailin' [Originally Titled Just Whaling]
- 02:43
- 14 plays

- 3
- I Can't Quit You Baby [Alternate Version]
- 03:47
- 2 plays

- 4
- Sit Down Baby [Alternate Version]
- 01:45
- 9 plays

- 5
- I Can't Quit You Baby
- 02:56
- 13 plays

- 6
- Rock & Roll Boogie [Alternate Version]
- 02:31
- 12 plays

- 7
- Need My Baby
- 02:15
- 9 plays

- 8
- Have a Good Time
- 02:17
- 9 plays

- 9
- My Love Will Never Die [Alternate Version]
- 03:49
- 8 plays

- 10
- Violent Love
- 02:29
- 14 plays

- 11
- Highway 61
- 03:01
- 20 plays

- 12
- It's You Baby
- 02:20
- 18 plays

- 13
- Groaning the Blues
- 03:02
- 13 plays

- 14
- If You Were Mine
- 03:04
- 20 plays

- 15
- Crying the Blues
- 02:42
- 19 plays

- 16
- Little Girl
- 02:33
- 15 plays

- 17
- I Don't Care Who Knows [Alternate Version]
- 02:25
- 14 plays

- 18
- All Your Love
- 02:54
- 14 plays

- 19
- Love Me With a Feeling
- 02:07
- 21 plays

- 20
- Love That Woman
- 02:59
- 10 plays

- 21
- Jump Sister Bessie
- 02:33
- 18 plays

- 22
- Satisfied [Alternate Version]
- 02:50
- 18 plays

- 23
- My Love [Alternate Version]
- 02:50
- 15 plays

- 24
- Shake It [Alternate Version][#]
- 02:25
- 15 plays

- 25
- Look Whatcha Done
- 02:11
- 14 plays

- 26
- Everything Gonna Be Alright
- 02:53
- 23 plays

- 27
- Eli Toscano Blues [Outtake from Sunnyland Slim Session]
- 01:43
- 13 plays

- 28
- Three Times a Fool
- 02:48
- 27 plays

- 29
- She's a Good 'Un
- 02:48
- 17 plays

- 30
- Ain't Gonna Cry
- 01:59
- 20 plays

- 31
- All Night Long
- 02:48
- 33 plays

- 32
- I Cry for You [Alternate Version][#]
- 02:30
- 23 plays

- 33
- All My Whole Life
- 02:12
- 26 plays

- 34
- It Takes Time
- 02:48
- 20 plays

- 35
- Checking on My Baby
- 02:54
- 33 plays

- 36
- Row Your Boat [Alternate Version]
- 03:13
- 17 plays

- 37
- Sit and Cry (The Blues)
- 02:36
- 28 plays

- 38
- Try to Quit You Baby
- 02:36
- 39 plays

- 39
- Easy Baby [Alternate Version]
- 03:33
- 22 plays

- 40
- 21 Days in Jail [Alternate Version]
- 02:42
- 19 plays

- 41
- Call Me If You Need Me
- 03:02
- 21 plays

- 42
- Roll Your Moneymaker
- 02:44
- 19 plays

- 43
- Double Trouble
- 02:42
- 25 plays

- 44
- Keep on Loving Me Baby
- 02:30
- 25 plays

- 45
- This Is the End
- 02:56
- 56 plays

- 46
- You Sure Can't Do
- 02:37
- 20 plays

- 47
- All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
- 02:36
- 14 plays

- 48
- My Baby's a Good 'Un
- 02:39
- 22 plays

- 49
- Matchbox
- 02:24
- 17 plays

- 50
- You've Got to Lose
- 02:18
- 18 plays

- 51
- Box Top
- 01:55
- 21 plays

- 52
- You Keep on Worrying Me
- 02:24
- 20 plays

- 53
- (I Know) You Don't Love Me
- 02:10
- 28 plays

- 54
- Down and Out
- 03:06
- 27 plays

album review

If the 50 tracks on this double-CD box sound an awful lot like they could have come off of any of MCA's various Chess boxes -- but especially the Willie Dixon volume -- it's no accident. Cobra Records was an upstart Chicago-based label that existed for a little over three years at the end of the 1950s, founded by Eli Toscano and Willie Dixon as competition for Phil and Leonard Chess's Chess Records, where Dixon had worked -- and been regularly cheated of fees and royalties -- since the end of the 1940s. His answer was to leave the employ of the Chess brothers and go to work with Toscano, and the result was an almost "shadow" Chess label, jump-started by the likes of Otis Rush ("I Can't Quit You Baby"), Buddy Guy, and Magic Sam, and filled out with Sunnyland Slim, Shakey Horton, Betty Everett, and Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm. They're all here, along with lesser known performers such as Louis Myers & the Aces, the Clouds, and Little Willie Foster, and there's not one cut on this set that's less than a first-rate, pounding, driving piece of electric Chicago blues. The sound ranges from very good to excellent, the guitars and vocals right in your face and the annotation in the accompanying booklet extremely thorough, so you know exactly which bandmember is impressing you at any given moment -- and Dixon played in and led most of the bands represented, so most of what's here is, in effect, expressions of the Chess Records sound in everything but name. And amid the contemporary Chicago blues, the producers have even managed to find room for one smooth, stomping piece of rock & roll, the Clouds' "Rock and Roll Boogie," which almost sounds like a throwback to '40s-style jump blues. It's all worth hearing, and is the perfect acquisition for anyone who feels like they've run through the totality of MCA's Chess reissues. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide