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Moanin' in the Moonlight and The Best of Muddy Waters were the two titles that opened the series in October 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIssued by Chess in 1959, Moanin' in the Moonlight was Howlin' Wolf's first album, gathering a dozen sides first released as singles. The two oldest, \"Moanin' at Midnight\" and \"How Many More Years,\" were cut in 1951 at Sam Phillips' Memphis Recording Service with Ike Turner on piano and Willie Johnson on guitar, then sold to the Chess brothers. Later sessions brought in Hubert Sumlin and Otis Spann, with Willie Dixon on double bass; Dixon also wrote \"Evil.\" Writer Robert Palmer has cited \"How Many More Years\" as the first record to feature a distorted power chord, played by Johnson. Wolf had grown up idolizing folk and country singers, and the Chess notes quote his explanation: \"I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe original jacket carried cover art by Don S. 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It is cut from the original analog tapes by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab, whose TML-M mark sits in the runout of both sides, and pressed in mono on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings. The jacket is a tip-on gatefold printed on heavy board that reproduces the 1966 sleeve, Don S. Bronstein's cover art and Willie Dixon's original liner notes included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChess first issued the album in January 1966 as LP-1503, the third title in its Real Folk Blues series after volumes by Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. Williamson had died the previous spring, and the record gathers Chicago sessions cut between 1957 and 1964, produced for the album by Marshall Chess and made up mostly of material that had never been released.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe twelve songs come from the decade Williamson spent recording for the Chess subsidiary Checker, roughly seventy sides in all. \"One Way Out,\" recorded in September 1961 with Otis Spann on piano, Robert Lockwood and Luther Tucker on guitars, Willie Dixon on bass and Fred Below on drums, had appeared on a Checker single in January 1962 and was later taken up by the Allman Brothers Band. \"Checkin' Up on My Baby,\" from an April 1960 session, was never a single and has since become one of the most recorded songs he wrote. 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Matthew Lutthans remastered the original analog tapes in mono at The Mastering Lab at Blue Heaven Studios and cut the lacquers there. The disc is pressed on 180-gram black vinyl at Quality Record Pressings and housed in a tip-on gatefold jacket printed on high-grade board.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe front of the jacket keeps Don Bronstein's black-and-white portrait of Walter cupping his harmonica, under the original CHESS LP 1428 masthead, and the package carries the original liner notes by Chicago historian Studs Terkel. The reissue's label copy dates the first release to 1958. 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It was one of two titles that opened the series on October 17, 2025, alongside Howlin' Wolf's Moanin' in the Moonlight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatthew Lutthans mastered it all-analog from the original analog tapes at The Mastering Lab at Blue Heaven Studios, and it is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings. The tip-on gatefold jacket, printed on high-grade board, reproduces the front and back covers of the 1958 original, keeps Studs Terkel's liner notes, and opens to two photographs of Waters. The front of the sleeve carries the original catalog number, Chess LP 1427.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChess first issued The Best of Muddy Waters in April 1958. It was Waters' first LP and the third album Chess released on the long-playing format, gathering twelve sides first issued as singles between 1948 and 1954, most of which reached Billboard's R\u0026amp;B top 10. Leonard and Phil Chess are credited as producers. 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Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab cut the lacquers in mono from the original analog tapes, an all-analog chain from tape to disc. Quality Record Pressings pressed it on 180-gram black vinyl, and the record ships in a tip-on gatefold jacket printed on high-grade board. The front still carries the original Chess LP 1435 catalog number and \"high-fidelity\" banner, along with the 1959 cover photograph of a strawberry sundae in a diner booth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBerry Is on Top was Chuck Berry's third LP, issued by Chess in July 1959 and produced by Leonard and Phil Chess. 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