1. Satchel Mouth Swing
2. Lazy 'Sippi Steamer
3. Old Man Mose
4. Hear Me Talkin' to Ya
5. Swing That Music
6. Brother Bill
7. Back O' Town Blues
8. Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train
9. Wild Man Blues
10. Someday (You'll Be Sorry)
11. Potato Head Blues
12. Gully Low Blues
13. Struttin' With Some Barbeque

Personnel includes: Louis Armstrong (vocals, trumpet); Sy Oliver, Bob Haggart (arranger, conductor); Pete Clark, Charlie Holmes, Rupert Cole, Henry Jones (alto saxophone); Albert Nicholas, Bingie Madison (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Joe Garland, Greely Walton, Bud Freeman (tenor saxophone); Shelton Hemphill, Louis Bacon, Henry Red Allen, Bernard Flood, Leonard Davis, Gus Aiken, Otis Johnson (trumpet); Wilbur De Paris, George Washington, J.C. Higginbotham, Harry White, Jimmy Archey, Trummy Young (trombone); Barney Bigard (clarinet); Luis Russell, Billy Kyle (piano); Lee Blair (guitar); Pops Foster, Arvell Shaw (bass); Paul Barbarin, Sidney Catlett, Barrett Deems (drums).
Compilation producers: Marlene Selsman, Andy McKaie.
Recorded in New York, New York and Los Angeles, California between 1935 and 1957. Includes liner notes by Marlene Selsman.
When Louis Armstrong comes to most people's minds, one thinks of his regal, swinging trumpet and his singular singing voice. This compilation serves to remind us that he also made many contributions as composer and co-writer. In this set are later remakes of some of his most well-known titles including "Potato Head Blues," "Bock 'o Town Blues," "Wild Man Blues" (written with Jelly Roll Morton, another father of jazz), and "Struttin With Some Barbecue."
"Gully Low Blues" features a giddy spoken introduction by Pops recounting the session that spawned the original version of the tune. "Swing That Music" sounds like what must've been the favorite tune of Roy Eldridge, the trumpet player who was the link between Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie. Armstrong takes an unusually long out-chorus, riding a single note and an improbable syncopation that is reminiscent of Eldridge's wild, stratospheric solos. And "Someday You'll Be Sorry," a melody that Armstrong claims drove him to distraction until he got out of bed to write it down, is an under-recorded gem of a standard.