Best of the Blues
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The Best of the Blues is a 2002 two-CD compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 by Gary Moore
Gary Moore
Robert William Gary Moore , better known simply as Gary Moore, was a Northern Irish musician from Belfast, best recognised as a blues rock guitarist and singer....

. The first disc contains songs from his 1990s blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 albums After Hours, Blues Alive
Blues Alive
Blues Alive is an album by the Northern Irish guitar player Gary Moore released in 1993. It is a collection of live recordings taken from a 1992 tour and draws most of its material from Moore's then-recent Still Got the Blues and After Hours albums....

, Blues for Greeny
Blues for Greeny
Blues For Greeny is a 1995 cover album by Gary Moore in honour of Peter Green, founder of the band Fleetwood Mac.-Track listing:#"If You Be My Baby" Blues For Greeny is a 1995 cover album by Gary Moore in honour of Peter Green, founder of the band Fleetwood Mac.-Track listing:#"If You Be My Baby"...

and, most prominently, Still Got the Blues
Still Got the Blues
Still Got the Blues is a 1990 album by guitarist Gary Moore. Prior to this album Moore's work had consisted of predominantly jazz-fusion with Colosseum II and rock and hard rock styles including his work with Skid Row, Thin Lizzy, G-Force as well as a large repertoire of solo work...

. The second disc is entirely live
Live album
A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

. Both discs feature blues veterans Albert King
Albert King
Albert King was an American blues guitarist and singer, and a major influence in the world of blues guitar playing.-Career:...

, B. B. King
B. B. King
Riley B. King , known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No.3 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. According to Edward M...

 and Albert Collins
Albert Collins
Albert Collins was an American electric blues guitarist and singer whose recording career began in the 1960s in Houston and whose fame eventually took him to stages across the US, Europe, Japan and Australia...

 as guest artists.

CD 1

  1. "Walking By Myself" (Jimmy Rogers
    Jimmy Rogers
    Jimmy Rogers was an American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters' band of the 1950s.-Career:...

    ) -- 2:55
  2. "Oh, Pretty Woman" (A.C. Williams), feat. Albert King -- 4:24
  3. "Still Got the Blues" -- 6:10
  4. "Separate Ways" -- 4:54
  5. "Since I Met You Baby
    Since I Met You Baby (song)
    "Since I Met You Baby" is an American rhythm and blues song written and recorded by pianist Ivory Joe Hunter. The song, which Hunter recorded in 1956, became an American standard, and saw renewed popularity in 1969 when country music artist Sonny James released his hit version.-Song...

    " feat. B.B. King -- 2:51
  6. "Story of the Blues" -- 4:34
  7. "All Your Love" (Otis Rush
    Otis Rush
    Otis Rush is a blues musician, singer and guitarist. His distinctive guitar style features a slow burning sound and long bent notes...

    ) -- 3:40
  8. "Too Tired" (Saul Bihari, Maxwell Davis
    Maxwell Davis
    Maxwell Davis was an American R&B saxophonist, arranger and record producer.-Biography:Davis was born in Independence, Kansas. In 1937 he moved to Los Angeles, California, playing saxophone in the Fletcher Henderson orchestra...

    , Johnny "Guitar" Watson), feat. Albert Collins -- 2:50
  9. "Need Your Love So Bad
    Need Your Love So Bad
    "Need Your Love So Bad" sometimes known as "I Need Your Love So Bad", is a blues song first published in 1955 and written by Mertis John Jr....

    " (Mertis John Jr.) -- 4:06
  10. "Midnight Blues" -- 4:58
  11. "King of the Blues" -- 4:34
  12. "Jumpin' at Shadows" (Duster Bennett
    Duster Bennett
    Anthony "Duster" Bennett was a British blues singer and musician. Based around London, his first album Smiling Like I'm Happy saw him playing as a one-man band, playing a bass drum with his foot and blowing a harmonica on a rack while strumming a 1952 Les Paul Goldtop guitar given to him in 1968...

    ) -- 4:20
  13. "Texas Strut" -- 4:49
  14. "Moving On" -- 2:38
  15. "Stop Messin' Around
    Stop Messin' Around
    "Stop Messin' Round" is a song written by Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac and was originally recorded on Fleetwood Mac's album Mr. Wonderful in 1968...

    " (Peter Green
    Peter Green (musician)
    Peter Green is a British blues-rock guitarist and the founder of the band Fleetwood Mac...

    ) -- 3:52
  16. "Parisienne Walkways -'93" (Phil Lynott
    Phil Lynott
    Philip Parris "Phil" Lynott was an Irish musician who first came to prominence as a founding member, principal songwriter, and frontman of the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy....

    , Moore) -- 5:02
  17. "The Supernatural" (Green) -- 3:00

CD 2

  1. "Caldonia", feat. Albert Collins & Albert King -- 5:35
  2. "You Don't Love Me (No No No)" (Carlin, Dawn Penn
    Dawn Penn
    Dawn Penn is a Jamaican reggae singer.-Career:Dawn Penn's earliest recordings were for Prince Buster around 1966. In 1967 she recorded and released the rocksteady single, "You Don't Love Me" produced by Coxsone Dodd at Studio One...

    , U-Roy
    U-Roy
    U-Roy , OD, is a Jamaican musician, also known as The Originator. He is best known as a pioneer of toasting.-Biography:...

    ) -- 4:17
  3. "Key to Love" (John Mayall
    John Mayall
    John Mayall, OBE is an English blues singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, whose musical career spans over fifty years...

    ) -- 2:20
  4. "The Thrill Is Gone" (Rick Darnell, Roy Hawkins
    Roy Hawkins
    Roy Hawkins was an American pianist, songwriter and blues musician. After working in clubs and recording unsuccessful singles, he broke through with his song "Why Do Everything Happen to Me?," inspired by an auto accident which paralyzed his right arm.-Career:Little is known of Hawkins' early days...

    ), feat. B.B. King -- 8:43
  5. "Stormy Monday
    Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)
    "Call It Stormy Monday " is a blues song written by T-Bone Walker and first recorded in 1947. Confusingly, it is also sometimes referred to as "Stormy Monday Blues", although that is the title of a 1942 song by Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine...

    " (T-Bone Walker
    T-Bone Walker
    Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker was a critically acclaimed American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was one of the most influential pioneers and innovators of the jump blues and electric blues sound. He is the first musician recorded playing blues with the...

    ), feat. Albert King -- 10:17
  6. "Cold, Cold Feeling" (Jessie Mae Robinson), feat. Albert Collins -- 7:18
  7. "Further Up the Road" (Don Robey
    Don Robey
    Don Robey was an American record label executive, songwriter and record producer, who used criminal means as part of his business model...

    , Joe Medwich Veasey), feat. Albert Collins -- 5:49
  8. "The Stumble
    The Stumble
    "The Stumble" is an instrumental blues song originally composed by the guitarist Freddie King. It has been recorded by scores of artists including: Anthony Hawkins of "Black Merda", Luther Allison, Jeff Beck, Eric Bell, Canned Heat, Dave Edmunds, Peter Green, Steve Hackett, Bugs Henderson, Love...

    " (Freddie King
    King
    - Centers of population :* King, Ontario, CanadaIn USA:* King, Indiana* King, North Carolina* King, Lincoln County, Wisconsin* King, Waupaca County, Wisconsin* King County, Washington- Moving-image works :Television:...

    , Sonny Thompson
    Sonny Thompson
    Sonny Thompson was an American R&B bandleader and pianist, popular in the 1940s and 1950s.Born Alfonso Thompson in Centreville, Mississippi, he began recording in 1946, and in 1948 achieved two #1 R&B chart hits on the Miracle label – "Long Gone " and "Late Freight", both featuring saxophonist...

    ) -- 3:00
  9. "Oh, Pretty Woman" (Williams) -- 4:07
  10. "Walking By Myself" (Rogers) -- 4:10
  11. "Too Tired" (Bihari, Davis, Watson) -- 3:40
  12. "Still Got The Blues (For You)" -- 6:50
  13. "All Your Love" (Rush) -- 3:54
  14. "Midnight Blues" -- 6:58
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