WIENERWORLD Down Home Blues - Chicago Volume 3: The Special Stuff

Down Home Blues: The Special Stuff is the third volume of Chicago Blues post-war down home blues music from Wienerworld: 108 tracks of rare, unissued or alternate takes of blues recorded in Chicago from 1941 through to 1961. A 4CD set, packaged in a deluxe digipak with an outer slip case, featuring 108 tracks - all remastered, including both previously unissued and alternate takes of well-known recordings. These records are from the late Peter Moody's private collection, and many of them are otherwise unavailable. Includes an outstanding 15,000 word, 88-page book, by renowned blues historian Chris Bentley on the post-war Chicago scene; many rare period photographs illustrate the essay throughout; as well as full sessionography detailing the where, when and who of the recordings, expertly compiled by blues expert Mike Rowe. While CD1 sets the scene with the established pre-war bluesmen such as Robert Lockwood Jr and Sonny Boy Williamson, CD2 charts the rise of the amplified electric blues bands following the second world war - such as in never-before-issued recordings of Johnny Temple. CD3 continues the Muddy Waters sequence started on CD2 - and introduces Little Hudson, JB Lenoir and Eddie Taylor. While beginning with a celebration of Chicago's flagship rock 'n' rollers with a range of tracks from each of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley - CD4 is rounded off by some largely unknown and unheralded artists including Grover Pruitt, Lucky Carmichael, Minnie Thomas.