This collection, drawn from 14 albums, covers the greatest blues and jazz performances of his Capitol years (1962-70) and finds him in the company of such great arrangers as Benny Carter, Onzy Matthews, Benny Golson, and H.B. Barnum, and with Les McCann's trio and the Pilgrim Travelers. Bonus tracks include "Mean Old World," "Long Gone blues," and "Fine And Mellow" all done with the Curtis Amy Sextet with the legendary trumpeter Dupree Bolton.
1) Motherless Child
2) God Bless the Child
3) Nobody But Me
4) Blues for the Weepers
5) Goin' to Chicago Blues
6) How Long How Long Blues
7) Southside Blues/Tobacco Road (Medley)
8) Something Stirring in My Soul
9) Georgia on My Mind
10) So Hard to Laugh So Easy to Cry
11) Old Folks
12) Somebody Have Mercy
13) Why (Do I Love You So)
14) Street of Dreams
15) I Wonder
16) Let's Burn Down the Cornfield
17) One for My Baby One More for the Road
18) Mean Old World
19) Long Gone Blues
20) Fine and Mellow