The Complete Chess Masters

Three-fold digipak including 16-page booklet Tracks 1-1 and 1-2 recorded in 1954(*), tracks 1-3 to 1-12 recorded in 1955, tracks 1-13 to 1-19 in 1956, tracks 1-20 to 2-3 recorded in 1957. Tracks 2-4 to 2-11 recorded in 1960, tracks 2-12 to 2-15 recorded in 1961, tracks 2-16 to 2-19 in 1962 and tracks 2-20 to 2-23 in 1963. Tracks 1-7, 1-8, 1-15, 1-18 and 2-22 previously unreleased Distributed by the local BMG company ℗ & © 1998 Made in the EU (*) “I wrote a song, finished it, and I happened to be touring with a band down in Texas – Fathead Newman, Leroy Cooper, and the boys. I told them, ‘Man, I got a tune I’d sure like to cut, but I can’t go back to Chicago with all you guys…’ The boys said, ‘We’ll do it with you,’ and there was a recording studio there. I called the Chess brothers, and they told me, you want to cut it there, no, come to Chicago with us, I told them, ‘No, I’m not coming to Chicago. I’ll cut here, or I’ll just keep the song.’ They said, ‘All right.’ So I produced my own, ‘Reconsider Baby’ and ‘Check Yourself.’ I went down to [l1682291] and cut it, and then Chess had Stan Lewis from Shreveport come along and pay the musicians. The masters were sent right back to Chess, and, oh, I’ll say in a couple of months, I had a record out.” – Lowell Fulson [r=3050758] CD2 liner notes