Sonny Boy Williamson and The Yardbirds - Related Recordings

Related Recordings

Over the years, other songs recorded during this club tour were released piecemeal by various record labels. In 1993, most were collected on The Yardbird's four-CD boxset "Train Kept a Rollin' - The Complete Giorgio Gomelsky Productions" (Charly LIKBOX3). (Two songs from the original album were not included: "I Don't Care No More" and "Baby Don't Worry"; these are essentially solo pieces by Williamson and feature little or no Yardbird backing.) Besides additional recordings by Williamson, it also includes a six-song set by The Yardbirds from the 8 December 1963 Crawdaddy date.

All songs are written by Sonny Boy Williamson II, except as noted. Tracks 1-6 feature The Yardbirds; the rest are Williamson backed by The Yardbirds. Tracks 1-15 were recorded 8 December 1963, Crawdaddy Club; tracks 16 & 17 recorded 7 December 1963, Star Club; tracks 18-20 recorded 28 February 1964, Birmingham Rhythm & Blues Festival.

1. "Smokestack Lightning" (Howlin' Wolf) - The Yardbirds
2. "You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover" (Willie Dixon) - The Yardbirds
3. "Let It Rock" (Chuck Berry) - The Yardbirds
4. "I Wish You Would" (Billy Boy Arnold) - The Yardbirds
5. "Who Do You Love" (Bo Diddley) - The Yardbirds
6. "Honey in Your Hips" (Keith Relf) - The Yardbirds
7. "Bye Bye Bird" (Williamson, Dixon)
8. "Mister Downchild"
9. "The River Rhine"
10. "23 Hours Too Long" (Williamson, Boyd)
11. "A Lost Care"
12. "Pontiac Blues"
13. "Take It Easy Baby" (version 1)
14. "Out on the Water Coast"
15. "Western Arizona" aka "Do the Weston" (version 1)
16. "Take It Easy Baby" (version 2)
17. "Do the Weston" (version 2)
18. "Slow Walk" aka "The River Rhine"
19. "Highway 49"
20. "My Little Cabin"

After the boxset, expanded reissues of Sonny Boy Williamson & the Yardbirds appeared. However, they invariably leave off two or more of the twenty-two recordings available. Some of the labels that have reissued the album include Repertoire, JVC, Victor, and Sunspots.