Tracklist

1-1	–Little Walter	My Babe	2:40
1-2	–Willie Dixon With The Big Three Trio	Violent Love	2:20
1-3	–Eddie Boyd	Third Degree	3:13
1-4	–Willie Mabon	Seventh Son	2:52
1-5	–Willie Dixon	Crazy For My Baby	2:49
1-6	–Willie Dixon	Pain In My Heart	3:18
1-7	–Muddy Waters	Hoochie Coochie Man	2:45
1-8	–Howlin' Wolf	Evil	2:52
1-9	–Little Walter	Mellow Down Easy	2:40
1-10	–Jimmy Witherspoon	When The Lights Go Out	2:50
1-11	–Muddy Waters	Young Fashioned Ways	2:59
1-12	–Bo Diddley	Pretty Thing	2:49
1-13	–Muddy Waters	I'm Ready	3:02
1-14	–Lowell Fulson	Do Me Right	2:52
1-15	–Muddy Waters	I Just Want To Make Love To You	2:50
1-16	–Lowell Fulson	Tollin' Bells	3:04
1-17	–Willie Dixon	29 Ways	2:08
1-18	–Willie Dixon	Walkin' The Blues	3:01
2-1	–Howlin' Wolf	Spoonful	2:45
2-2	–Otis Rush	You Know My Love	2:40
2-3	–Bo Diddley	You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover	3:08
2-4	–Howlin' Wolf	I Ain't Superstitious	2:52
2-5	–Muddy Waters	You Need Love	2:39
2-6	–Howlin' Wolf	Little Red Rooster	2:25
2-7	–Howlin' Wolf	Back Door Man	2:48
2-8	–Little Walter	Dead Presidents	2:45
2-9	–Howlin' Wolf	Hidden Charms	2:21
2-10	–Muddy Waters	You Shook Me	2:40
2-11	–Sonny Boy Williamson	Bring It On Home	2:33
2-12	–Howlin' Wolf	300 Pounds Of Joy	3:02
2-13	–Willie Dixon	Weak Brain, Narrow Mind	4:24
2-14	–Koko Taylor	Wang Dang Doodle	2:59
2-15	–Muddy Waters	The Same Thing	5:54
2-16	–Howlin' Wolf	Built For Comfort	2:33
2-17	–Little Milton	I Can't Quit You Baby	6:38
2-18	–Koko Taylor	Insane Asylum	4:19

Companies, etc.

• Copyright (c) – MCA Records, Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – MCA Records, Inc.

Notes

Includes a 12-page booklet with lengthy liner notes and complete session information.
Includes a 4-page booklet advertizing the CHESS legendary masters series with 25 albums
All if the recordings are digitally remastered from original mono and stereo Chess masters.

Tracks 1-2 & 2-13 previously unreleased
Tracks 1-6 & 2-8 previously unreleased on album
Tracks 1-5, 1-11, 1-17 & 2-5 previously unreleased on U.S. album

Track 2-15 from "Fathers And Sons"

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (Text): 0 7673 165002 9
• Barcode (Scanned): 076731650029
• Label Code: LC 01056
• Mastering SID Code (CD 1 and CD 2): none
• Mould SID Code (Stamped, CD 1 and CD 2): IFPI 3707
• Matrix / Runout (CD 1): CHD 216500/A PO254
• Matrix / Runout (CD 2): CHD 216500/B PO258
• Price Code: PY 940
• Price Code (France): UN 540

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
CHD2-16500	Willie Dixon	The Chess Box ‎(2xCD, Comp, RM + Box)	Chess	CHD2-16500	US	1988
CHD2-16500	Willie Dixon	The Chess Box ‎(2xCD, Comp, RE, RM + Box)	Chess	CHD2-16500	US	Unknown
660529, VG 660 660529	Willie Dixon	The Chess Box ‎(2xCD, Comp, RM)	Vogue, Vogue, Chess	660529, VG 660 660529	France	1991
CH3-16500	Willie Dixon	The Chess Box ‎(3xLP, Comp + Box)	Chess	CH3-16500	US	1990
CHD2-16500	Willie Dixon	The Chess Box ‎(2xCD, Comp, RE, RM + Box)	Chess	CHD2-16500	US	Unknown

To be sure, Dixon rates a place in the history of the label right alongside that of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter, but his role was more subtle than that of a performer (indeed, two of the half-dozen recordings here that feature Dixon as a singer were previously unreleased). So he is all over this two-CD set, as a songwriter, producer, and bassist, and occasionally as a singer as well, but the unifying element are the Dixon songs, and he is the only blues songwriter to be honored by a major label with a retrospective of this type.

Willie Dixon With The Big Three Trio. Backing Vocals, Guitar – Ollie CrawfordLead Vocals, Bass – Willie DixonTenor Saxophone – Harold AshbyVocals, Piano – Leonard "Baby Doo" Caston. Tracks A6 & E2 previously unreleased on album Tracks A5, B5, C5 & D5 previously unreleased on . Digitally transferred from original mono and stereo Chess masters by Gary Hollis at MCA Studios, Glendale, Ca. Mastered by Greg Fulginiti, Artisan, Los Angeles, Ca.

This was the most unusual, and probably the most difficult to assemble of MCA's Chess Box series, mostly because of the unusual nature of Willie Dixon's contribution to Chess Records. To be sure, Dixon rates a place in the history of the label right alongside that of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter, but his role was more subtle than that of a performer (indeed, two of the half-dozen recordings here that feature Dixon as a singer were previously unreleased)

Is The Chess Box the best album by Willie Dixon? BestEverAlbums. com brings together thousands of 'greatest ever album' charts and calculates an overall ranking. This album At A Glance. The Chess Box by Willie Dixon (1988) Compilation Overall rank: 9,000th. Accolades: Top albums of 1988 ( 141st ). Top albums of the 1980s ( 1,347th ). Best albums of all time ( 9,000th ).

The Chess Box is a compact disc box set compilation by Chuck Berry. It is one in a series of box sets issued by MCA/Chess in the late 1980s (the other sets were by Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, and Etta James). The Chuck Berry set is the most prominent of these, having won a Grammy Award for Best Historical Album in 1989. Berry's Chess Box was reissued on vinyl in 1990. This collection was also issued on audio cassette.

Dixon started out as a studio bass player with Chess Records when it was a fledgling company started by the Chess brothers. The present set includes 36 songs written by Dixon, and performed by a variety of artists in addition to Dixon including Muddy Waters (Hoochie Coochie Man, et., Howlin Wolf (I Ain't Superstitious, et., Bo Diddley (Pretty Thing, and You Can't Tell a Book by its Cover), Koko Taylor (Wang Dang Doodle) and many others. The boxed set is a must addition for your collection if you have a serious interest in blues. It also makes a good gift

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