2-CD SET

Just two years after his brilliant debut for Alligator Records, Ice Pickin’, we find him performing at Onkel Pö‘s Carnegie Hall, in Hamburg in 1980. Albert Collins, "The Master of the Telecaster," "The Iceman," and "The Razor Blade" was robbed of his best years as a blues performer by a bout with liver cancer that ended with his premature death on November 24, 1993. By that time he was on the cusp of a much wider worldwide following via his deal with Virgin Records' Pointblank subsidiary. In the middle he had performed mainly in obscurity before finally finding a following in the mid-'80s. This album documents Collins on his rise to a well deserved fame.

PERSONNEL:

ALBERT COLLINS, guitar, vocals
A.C. REED, tenor sax, vocals
JACKSON MARVIN, guitar
JOHNNY B. GAYDEN, bass
CASEY JONES, drums, vocals

Recorded on December 1st, 1980 at Onkel Pö's Carnegir Hall, Hamburg, Germany.

CD 1:

01. SWEET HOME CHICAGO
02. DOCK OF THE BAY
03. MAMA, TALK TO YOUR DAUGHTER
04. HOWLING FOR MY DARLING
05. ANNOUNCEMENT I
06. LISTEN HERE
07. I GOT A MIND TO TRAVEL
08. ANNOUNCEMENT II
09. FROSTY
10. COLD, COLD FEELING
11. ICE PICK
12. STAND BY ME

CD 2:

01. MOJO WORKING
02. ANNOUNCEMENT III
03. I‘M FED UP WITH THIS MUSIC
04. SHE‘S FINE
05. ANNOUNCEMENT IV
06. MUSTANG SALLY
07. ANNOUNCEMENT V
08. THINGS I USED TO DO
09. CALEDONIA
10. MASTER CHARGE
11. CONVERSATIONS WITH COLLINS
12. COLD CUTS