Track Listing 1. After Midnight 2. Crazy Moon 3. Call Me the Breeze 4. Magnolia 5. Crying Eyes 6. Lies 7. I'll Kiss the World Goodbye 8. If You're Ever in Oklahoma 9. Changes 10. Crying 11. Cajun Moon 12. Okie 13. Anyway the Wind Blows 14. Cocaine 15. Travelin Light 16. Hey Baby 17. Cherry 18. You Got Something 19. I'll Make Love to You Anytime 20. Don't Cry Sister 21. Sensitive Kind 22. Thirteen Days 23. Mona 24. Carry On 25. Mama Don't 26. If You Leave Her 27. City Girls 28. Don't Wait 29. Downtown L A 30. Devil in Disguise 31. Grasshopper 32. Money Talks 33. Hard Times 34. Teardrops in My Tequila 35. Trouble in the City 36. Change Your Mind 37. Lady Luck 38. Lonesome Train 39. Jailer 40. Borrowed Time 41. Low Down 42. Guitar Man 43. Stone River 44. Problem 45. Midnight in Memphis 46. Woke up This Moring 47. Durango 48. Things Ain't Simple 49. Wish I Had Me a Dollar (Live) 50. Santa Cruz 51. Cocaine (Live) 52. After Midnight (Live) 53. Call Me the Breeze (Live) 54. Travelin Light (2 Meter Sessie) 55. Tijuana (2 Meter Sessie) 56. Hold up (2 Meter Sessie) 57. Rose in the Garden (2 Meter Sessie) 58. After Midnight (2 Meter Sessie) 59. Ride Me High (2 Meter Sessie) 60. Devil in Disguise (2 Meter Sessie)
Personnel includes: J.J. Cale (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, organ, synthesizer, bass, drums); Tommy Tedesco, Mac Gayden, Harold Bradley (guitar); Shelly Kurland, Carl Gorodetezy, Roy Christensen (strings); Ed Colis (harmonica); Dennis Goode, Bill Humble, Bob Phillips, Norm Ray (horns); David Briggs, Jerry Whitehurst, Bob Wilson (piano); Barry Beckett, Beegie Cruzer (electric piano); Christine Lakeland (organ); Tommy Cogbill, Tim Drummond, Joel Green, David Hood (bass); Chck Browning, Kenny Buttrey, Buddy Harmon, Russ Kunkel (drums); Farrell Morris, Jimmy Karstein (percussion); Diane Davidson, Christine Lakeland, Joann Sweeney (background vocals).Producers: Audie Ashworth, J.J. Cale.Compilation producer: Bill Levenson.Recorded between 1970 & 1980. Includes liner notes by Joseph F. Laredo.All tracks have been digitally remastered.This is part of Universal Records "20th Century Masters The Millenium Collection" series.If you were to compare the J. Geils Band's 1970 self-titled debut to their final album with singer Peter Wolf, 1981's FREEZE FRAME, you could easily be fooled into thinking they were two completely different bands. Although they'd later become best known for chart-storming pop-rock, the J. Geils Band started out as a straight-ahead blues-rock band, much like their mentors the Rolling Stones and their peers ZZ Top and Aerosmith.J. Geils's debut has a fun, loose, and very rootsy feel, not far from how the band sounded on the concert stage early on. The choice of covers speaks volumes about the group's influences, as treatments of John Lee Hooker's "It Serves You Right to Suffer" and Albert Collins's "Sno-Cone" are served up with downhome, bluesy fervor. But there are some fine original compositions too, like the Stax/Booker T. sounds of "Ice Breaker (For the Big 'M')," and the FM radio-ready "Hard Drivin' Man." This is a thoroughly entertaining snapshot of the J. Geils Band's beginnings.