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From Memphis To Chicago
1-1	Diggin' My Potatoes Written-By – Robert Brown	2:53
1-2	The Jive Blues	2:48
1-3	Last Pair Of Shoes Blues	2:59
1-4	Blue Evening Blues	2:48
1-5	Shelby County Blues	2:58
1-6	Rockin' The House	2:49
1-7	Lend Me Your Love	3:00
1-8	Pacemaker Boogie	2:50
1-9	Nobody Loves Me (Everyday I Have The Blues) Written-By – Aaron Sparks, Melvin Sparks	2:49
1-10	Angel Child Written-By – Blind Lemon Jefferson, Peter Chatman	2:54
1-11	Midnight Jump	2:51
1-12	Slim's Boogie No. 2	2:46
1-13	Having Fun	2:26
1-14	Marack	2:26
1-15	Reverend Bounce	2:41
1-16	Train Is Coming	2:48
1-17	No Mail Blues	2:48
1-18	You'r Gonna Need My Help Someday	2:52
1-19	Tia Juana	2:54
1-20	Rocking The Pad	2:38
Memphis Slim USA
2-1	Living The Life I Love	2:46
2-2	The Come Back	2:32
2-3	Fice O'Clock Blues	2:45
2-4	I Love My Baby	2:58
2-5	Four Years Of Tourment	2:53
2-6	Blue And Lonesome	2:48
2-7	Memphis Slim U S A	2:50
2-8	Two Of A Kind	2:31
2-9	What's The Matter	2:22
2-10	Messin' Around	3:06
2-11	The Comeback	2:14
2-12	Wish Me Well	2:41
2-13	Gotta Find My Baby Written-By – Peter Clayton	2:19
2-14	Sassy Mae	2:42
2-15	Rockin' The House	2:04
2-16	Steppin' Out	2:00
2-17	Mother Earth	3:31
2-18	Joggie Boogie	3:25
2-19	The Bells Written-By – Will Ezell	2:35
2-20	San Juan Blues	2:21
Exile To Europe
3-1	Raining The Blues	3:51
3-2	Baby Doll	2:14
3-3	Rack'em Jack	2:35
3-4	Lucille	2:21
3-5	Don't Think You're So Smart	3:38
3-6	Caught The Old Coon At Last	3:25
3-7	Pinetop's Blues Written-By – Clarence "Pinetop" Smith	3:01
3-8	Angel Child Written-By – Blind Lemon Jefferson, Peter Chatman	3:13
3-9	Lonesome Traveler	2:51
3-10	Hey Slim	4:20
3-11	Lonesome	2:22
3-12	Cold Blooded Woman	3:32
3-13	One Man's Mad	2:45
3-14	Big Bertha	2:04
3-15	How Long Blues Written-By – Leroy Carr	2:21
3-16	Love My Baby	2:51
3-17	When The Sun Goes Down Written-By – Leroy Carr	3:35
3-18	Someday Baby Written-By – Sleepy John Estes	3:00
3-19	Highway 51 Written-By – Curtis Jones	4:13
3-20	Sitting On Top Of The World Written-By – Bo Chatman, Lonnie Chatmon, Walter Vincson*	3:35

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• Distributed By – Socadisc – SC 228

Credits

• Alto Saxophone – Alex Atkins (tracks: 1-6 to 1-15, 2-10 to 2-17), John Calvin (tracks: 2-9 to 2-17, 3-11 to 3-14)
• Bass – Alfred Elkins (tracks: 1-12 to 1-15), Charles Jenkins (tracks: 1-8), Curtis Mosley (tracks: 2-2 to 2-4), Ernest "Big" Crawford (tracks: 1-6, 1-7, 1-9 to 1-11), Henry Taylor (tracks: 1-17 to 2-1, 2-5 to 2-8), Leroy Batchelor* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-5), Ransom Knowling (tracks: 1-16, 3-15 to 3-18), Sam Chatman (tracks: 2-9 to 2-17, 3-11 to 3-14), Wendell Marshall (tracks: 3-1 to 3-5), Willie Dixon (tracks: 2-18)
• Drums – Billie Stepney (tracks: 2-9 to 2-17, 3-11 to 3-14), Francis Clay (tracks: 3-15 to 3-18), Leon Hopper (tracks: 1-12 to 1-15), Oscar Larkin (tracks: 1-16 to 1-18), Otho Allen (tracks: 1-19 to 2-8), Stan Greig (tracks: 3-6, 3-7)
• Guitar – Alexis Koerner* (tracks: 3-6, 3-7), Lafayette Thomas (tracks: 3-1 to 3-5), M.T. Murphy (tracks: 2-1 to 2-17, 3-11 to 3-14), Muddy Waters (tracks: 3-15 to 3-18)
• Harmonica – Buster Brown (tracks: 3-8)
• Liner Notes – Gérard Herzhaft
• Piano, Vocals – Memphis Slim
• Tenor Saxophone – Charlie Ferguson (tracks: 1-19, 1-20), Ernest Cotton (tracks: 1-6 to 1-11, 2-2 to 2-4, 2-10 to 2-17), Jimmy Conley (tracks: 2-5 to 2-8), Johnny Board (tracks: 3-11 to 3-14), Neil Green (tracks: 1-16 to 2-8), Nelson Berry (tracks: 1-17, 1-18), Purcell Bruckenburgh (tracks: 1-16, 2-1), Timothy Overton (tracks: 1-12 to 1-15)
• Washboard – Washboard Sam (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4)
• Written-By – Peter Chatman

Notes

Includes booklet.
Recorded in Chicago on:
2 August 1940: tracks 1-1 to 1-4;
30 October 1940: track 1-5;
December 1946: tracks 1-6, 1-7;
Chicago, February 1947: track 1-8;
July 1947: tracks 1-9, 1-10;
November 1947: track 1-11;
March 1950: tracks 1-12 to 1-15;
10 September 1951: track 1-16;
16 November 1951: tracks 1-17, 1-18;
(Cleveland, Ohio) November 1951: tracks 1-19, 1-20;
26 November 1952: track 2-1;
30 July 1953: track 2-2 to 2-4
16 March 1954: track 2-5;
29 September 1954: tracks 2-6 to 2-8;
8 January 1958: track 2-9;
18 August 1959: tracks 2-10 to 2-17;
(New York City) December 1959: tracks 2-18 to 2-20;
(New York City) 26 April 1960: tracks 3-1 to 3-5;
(London, UK) 26 April 1960: tracks 3-6, 3-7;
(New York City) 15 November 1960: tracks 3-8 to 3-10;
12 February 1961: tracks 3-11 to 3-14;
28 February 1961: tracks 3-15 to 3-18;
(London, UK) 17 April 1961: tracks 3-19, 3-20.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 3 448960 227421
• Other (Distribution Code): SC 228