Plug It In! Turn It Up! (Part 3: Electric Blues 1960-1969)
Various Artists
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Release Date: 10/01/2025
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
Part Three of the most comprehensive history EVER of electrified blues on 12 electrifying CDs!Every significant artist. every significant recording from the 1930s to the present day, including T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, George Thorogood, and Freddie, B. B. and Albert King, Jeff Beck, Fleetwood Mac, Charlie Musselwhite, Johnny Winter, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and literally hundreds more! In all, fifteen-and-a-half hours!Compiled and annotated by renowned blues expert, Bill Dahl.Every 3-CD set comes with a 160-page booklet including biographies, illustrations, original release info, and rare photos!Cross-licensed from every record company to be truly comprehensive!Blues historian and musicologist, Bill Dahl from Chicago, has produced the most comprehensive history of electric blues. ever! With nearly 300 tracks, Bear Family Records is telling the story from the beginning into the new millennium. In the 1930s, the invention of Gibson's ES-150 - the first electric guitar - changed popular music forever. The first generation of blues pioneers played acoustic instruments, but with the invention of amplification, guitar and harmonica players could be heard over the piano, drums and horns. Music was revolutionized!The 12 generously full CDs are in four sets of three CDs in elegant digipaks. On more than 650 pages in four lavishly illustrated booklets, Bill Dahl writes authoritatively about the history of electric blues, and how it influenced rock music during the 1960s and beyond. Here's the complete story from jazz-inspired jump numbers in the late 1930s to hard-driving blues/rock from the States and Great Britain in the 1960s, '70s, and beyond. The journey closes with today's contemporary blues. This is it! Truly definitive! Done as only Bear Family can do it!
Disc 1
1: So Many Roads, So Many Trains - Otis Rush
2: First Time I Met the Blues - Buddy Guy
3: Big Boss Man - Jimmy Reed
4: Hide Away - Freddie King
5: Have You Ever Loved a Woman - Freddie King
6: Messin' With the Kid - Junior Wells
7: I Pity the Fool - Bobby Bland
8: Come On (Parts 1 & 2) - Earl King
9: Rockin' This Joint To-nite - Kid Thomas
10: Shake Your Moneymaker - Elmore James
11: I'm a Little Mixed Up - Betty James
12: Driving Wheel - Junior Parker
13: Doctor Feel-good - William Perryman
14: Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker
15: Watch Your Step - Bobby Parker
16: You Don't Love Me - Willie Cobbs
17: Cut You A-loose - Ricky Allen
18: Jelly Roll King - Frank Frost
19: You Can't Judge a Book By Looking at the Cover - Bo Diddley
20: I'm a Woman - Christine Kittrell
21: Help Me - Sonny Boy Williamson
22: Too Many Cooks - Jesse Fortune
23: Part Time Love - Little Johnny Taylor
24: Hidden Charms - Howlin' Wolf
25: Blue Monday - James Davis
Disc 2
1: Hi-heel Sneakers - Tommy Tucker
2: Full Time Lover - Little Frankie Lee & The Saxtons
3: Rock Me Baby - B.B. King
4: Gonna Send You Back to Georgia - Timmy Shaw
5: Use What You Got - Sugar Pie Desanto
6: Killing Floor - Howlin' Wolf
7: All Night Worker - Rufus Thomas
8: Snatch It Back and Hold It - Junior Wells
9: Baby Scratch My Back - Slim Harpo
10: Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor
11: Feel So Bad - Little Milton
12: Little Bluebird - Johnnie Taylor
13: Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
14: Crosscut Saw - Albert King
15: You're Taking Up Another Man's Place - Mable John
16: Tramp - Lowell Fulsom
17: Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business) - Aretha Franklin
18: Born Under a Bad Sign - Albert King
19: I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James
20: Mary Had a Little Lamb - Buddy Guy
21: Slip Away - Clarence Carter
22: One of These Days - Sonny Rhodes
23: A Woman Needs to Be Loved - Tyrone Davis
24: What Have I Done Wrong - Magic Sam
25: Cummins Prison (Farm) - Calvin Leavy
Disc 3
1: Who Do You Love - Ronnie Hawkins
2: Baby What's Wrong - Lonnie Mack
3: Gangster of Love - Johnny Winter
4: The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
5: Bring It to Jerome - Manfred Mann
6: Going Down Slow - Michael Bloomfield
7: Judgement Day - The Pretty Things
8: I Ain't Got You - The Yardbirds
9: Born in Chicago - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
10: Have You Heard - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
11: I Can Tell - John Hammond
12: Baby Will You Please Help Me - Charley Musselwhite's South Side Band
13: Stevie's Blues - The Spencer Davis Group
14: I Want to Know - Ten Years After
15: Shake 'Em On Down - Savoy Brown
16: She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule to Ride) - Taj Mahal
17: On the Road Again - Canned Heat
18: Ball and Chain - Big Brother and the Holding Company
19: Black Magic Woman - Fleetwood Mac
20: I Ain't Superstitious - Jeff Beck Group,
Disc 1
1: So Many Roads, So Many Trains - Otis Rush
2: First Time I Met the Blues - Buddy Guy
3: Big Boss Man - Jimmy Reed
4: Hide Away - Freddie King
5: Have You Ever Loved a Woman - Freddie King
6: Messin' With the Kid - Junior Wells
7: I Pity the Fool - Bobby Bland
8: Come On (Parts 1 & 2) - Earl King
9: Rockin' This Joint To-nite - Kid Thomas
10: Shake Your Moneymaker - Elmore James
11: I'm a Little Mixed Up - Betty James
12: Driving Wheel - Junior Parker
13: Doctor Feel-good - William Perryman
14: Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker
15: Watch Your Step - Bobby Parker
16: You Don't Love Me - Willie Cobbs
17: Cut You A-loose - Ricky Allen
18: Jelly Roll King - Frank Frost
19: You Can't Judge a Book By Looking at the Cover - Bo Diddley
20: I'm a Woman - Christine Kittrell
21: Help Me - Sonny Boy Williamson
22: Too Many Cooks - Jesse Fortune
23: Part Time Love - Little Johnny Taylor
24: Hidden Charms - Howlin' Wolf
25: Blue Monday - James Davis
Disc 2
1: Hi-heel Sneakers - Tommy Tucker
2: Full Time Lover - Little Frankie Lee & The Saxtons
3: Rock Me Baby - B.B. King
4: Gonna Send You Back to Georgia - Timmy Shaw
5: Use What You Got - Sugar Pie Desanto
6: Killing Floor - Howlin' Wolf
7: All Night Worker - Rufus Thomas
8: Snatch It Back and Hold It - Junior Wells
9: Baby Scratch My Back - Slim Harpo
10: Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor
11: Feel So Bad - Little Milton
12: Little Bluebird - Johnnie Taylor
13: Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
14: Crosscut Saw - Albert King
15: You're Taking Up Another Man's Place - Mable John
16: Tramp - Lowell Fulsom
17: Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business) - Aretha Franklin
18: Born Under a Bad Sign - Albert King
19: I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James
20: Mary Had a Little Lamb - Buddy Guy
21: Slip Away - Clarence Carter
22: One of These Days - Sonny Rhodes
23: A Woman Needs to Be Loved - Tyrone Davis
24: What Have I Done Wrong - Magic Sam
25: Cummins Prison (Farm) - Calvin Leavy
Disc 3
1: Who Do You Love - Ronnie Hawkins
2: Baby What's Wrong - Lonnie Mack
3: Gangster of Love - Johnny Winter
4: The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
5: Bring It to Jerome - Manfred Mann
6: Going Down Slow - Michael Bloomfield
7: Judgement Day - The Pretty Things
8: I Ain't Got You - The Yardbirds
9: Born in Chicago - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
10: Have You Heard - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
11: I Can Tell - John Hammond
12: Baby Will You Please Help Me - Charley Musselwhite's South Side Band
13: Stevie's Blues - The Spencer Davis Group
14: I Want to Know - Ten Years After
15: Shake 'Em On Down - Savoy Brown
16: She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule to Ride) - Taj Mahal
17: On the Road Again - Canned Heat
18: Ball and Chain - Big Brother and the Holding Company
19: Black Magic Woman - Fleetwood Mac
20: I Ain't Superstitious - Jeff Beck Group