 source: www.fretlesszithers.com | Washington Phillips b. January 11, 1880 (1882?) in Texas d. September 20, 1954 in Teague, Texas discography |  Columbia 14277-D |
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| 1 | 1927 | WASHINGTON PHILLIPS - Take Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There (145305-1) @ youtube - Lift Him Up That's All (145307-2) @ youtube rec. December 2, 1927; Dallas, TX; Washington Phillips, voc, zither
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| 2 | 1927 | WASHINGTON PHILLIPS - Denomination Blues - part 1 (145330-1) @ youtube - Denomination Blues - part 2 (145331-1) @ youtube rec. December 5, 1927; Dallas, TX; Washington Phillips, voc, zither
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| 3 | 1927 | WASHINGTON PHILLIPS - Mother's Last Word To Her Son (145304-2) @ youtube - Paul And Silas In Jail (145306-2) @ youtube rec. December 2, 1927
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| 4 | 1928 | WASHINGTON PHILLIPS - Jesus Is My Friend (147574-1) @ youtube - What Are They Doing In Heaven Today (147575-1) @ youtube rec. December 5, 1928; Dallas, TX; Washington Phillips, voc, zither
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| 5 | 1928 | WASHINGTON PHILLIPS - I Am Born To Preach The Gospel (147560-2) @ youtube - Train Your Child (147561-1) @ youtube rec. December 4, 1928; Dallas, TX; Washington Phillips, voc, zither
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| 6 | 1929 | WASHINGTON PHILLIPS - A Mother's Last Word To Her Daughter (149500-2) @ youtube - I've Got The Key To The Kingdom (149501-1) @ youtube rec. December 2, 1929; Dallas, TX; Washington Phillips, voc, zither
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| - The World Is In A Bad Fix Everywhere - part 1 (149502-2) - The World Is In A Bad Fix Everywhere - part 2 (149503-2) - You Can't Stop A Tattler - Part 1 (149504-2) # @ youtube @ Spotify - You Can't Stop A Tattler - Part 2 (149505-2) * # @ youtube @ Spotify rec. December 2, 1929; Dallas, TX; Washington Phillips, voc, zither Columbia unissued # Agram AB 2006 | ||
| 7 | 1929 | WASHINGTON PHILLIPS - I Had A Good Father And Mother (149506-2) @ youtube - The Church Needs Good Deacons (149507-2) @ youtube rec. December 2, 1929; Dallas, TX; Washington Phillips, voc, zither
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| 8 | 1966 | In The Spirit No. 1! Bukka White - I Am In The Heavenly Way Skip James - Jesus Is A Mighty Good Leader Charlie Patton - You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die Blind Joe Taggart - The Storm Is Passing Over Patton and Lee - Oh Death Rev. D.C. Rice - No Night There McIntorsh and Edwards - Take A Stand Elder Richard Bryant - Watch Ye, Therefore, You Know Not The Day Rev. F.W. McGee - He Is The Saviour For Me Holy Ghost Sanctified Singers - Sinner, I'd Make A Change Rev. D.C. Rice - Sure Foundation Blind Mamie Forehand - Honey In The Rock Duckett and Norwood - I Want To Go Where Jesus Is Mother McCollum - When I Take My Vacation In Heaven Alfred G. Karnes - I Am Bound For The Promised Land Washington Phillips - I Had A Good Father And Mother front cover photo by Ann Charters
broschure notes (for Nos. 1 & 2) by Bernard Klatzko & Gayle Dean Wardlow notes by Pete Welding OJL Records discography |
| 9 | 1966 | In The Spirit Volume 2 Bukka White - Promise True And Grand Blind Willie Davis - Rock Of Ages Charlie Patton - Some Happy Day Sister Cally Fancy - Hold To God's Unchanging Hand Patton and Lee - Troubled Bout My Mother Elder Curry - Memphis Flu Elder Richard Bryant - How Much I Owe For Love Devine McIntorsh and Edwards - The Latter Rain Is Fall McIntorsh and Edwards - The 1927 Flood Rev. D.C. Rice - I'm Pressing On Holy Ghost Sanctified Singers - Thou Carest Lord For Me Blind Roosevelt Graves - When I Lay My Burden Down Mother McCallum - Jesus Is My Air-O-Plane William and Versey Smith - Sinners You'll Need King Jesus Blind Willie Johnson - Sweeter As The Years Roll By Washington Phillips - Take Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There front cover photo by Ann Charters notes by Bernard Klatzko & Gayle Dean Wardlow notes by Pete Welding OJL Records discography |
| 10 | 1968 | This Old World's In A Hell Of A Fix the gospel according to ... Rev. Dr. J. Gordon McPherson - This Old World's In A Hell Of A Fix (excerpts from sermon) Rev. Robert Wilkins - Old Time Religion - I Wish I Was In Heaven - Holy Ghost Train - The Gamblin' Man Fred McDowell - Jesus Is On The Main Line - See What My Lord Has Done Skip James - Let Jesus Lead You Jaybird Coleman - I'm Gonna Cross The River Jordan Sam Collins - Devil In The Lion's Den Rev. Moses Mason - Go Wash In The Beautiful Stream Washington Phillips - You Can't Stop A Tattler - Part 1 [Columbia unissued] Blind Lemon Jefferson - I Want to Be Like Jesus in My Heart - All I Want Is That Pure Religion - He Arose From The Dead
notes by Richard K. Spottswood Biograph Records discography |
| 11 | 1968 | Negro Religious Music Vol. 2 The Sanctified Singers Part 2 Blind Willie Johnson - Take Your Burden To The Lord Blind Mamie Forehand - Wouldn't Mind Dying Washington Phillips - Denomination Blues - pt. 1 & 2 Arizona Dranes - Just Look Brother George - I See The Sign Of The Judgement Willie Mae Williams - When The Sun Never Goes Down - Don't Want To Go There Smokey Hogg - He Knows How Much We Can Bear Lightning Hopkins - Needed Time Two Gospel Keys - You've Got To Move Sister Terrell - The Gambling Man Rev' Utah Smith - Take A Trip - Two Wings cover photo by Jim Marshall notes (march 1968) Blues Classics discography |
| 12 | 1968 | Nearer My God To Thee (1926-1942) Sanctified Singers, Preachers & Congregations Richard Rabbit Brown - Sinking Of The Titanic Sister Mary Nelson - The Royal Telephone Joe & Emma Taggart - Mother's Love Rev. F.W. McGee - Jonah In The Belly Of The Whale Washington Phillips - Lift Him Up That's All Mississippi John Hurt - Praying On The Old Camp Ground Arizona Dranes - Sweet Heaven Is My Home Blind Willie Johnson - You'll Need Somebody On Your Bond Bozie Sturdivant - Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down Mississippi John Hurt - Blessed Be The Mama Rev. F.W. McGee - With His Stripes We Are Healed Arizona Dranes - It's All Right Now Blind Joe Taggart - Religion Is Something Within You Blind Lemon Jefferson - He Arose From The Dead Skip James - Be Ready When He Comes Barbecue Bob - When The Saints Go Marching In compiled and produced by Evelyn Parth (resp. Evelyn Sperker)
Roots Records discography |
| 13 | 1968 | Screening The Blues Aspects Of The Blues Tradition Jack Ranger - Thieving Blues Butterbeans And Susie - Papa Ain't No Santa Claus (Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree) Washington Phillips - Denomination Blues Hambone Willie Newbern - Nobody Knows (What The Good Deacon Does) Hambone Willie Newbern - Roll And Tumble Blues Bumble Bee Slim - Policy Dream Blues Memphis Minnie - He's In The Ring (Doing The Same Old Thing) Memphis Minnie - Joe Louis Strut George Noble - Sissy Man Blues Robert Johnson - Phonograph Blues Clara Smith - It's Tight Like That Bertha Idaho - Down On Pennsylvania Avenue Curley Weaver - Sweet Petunia Bessie Jackson - Shave 'em Dry (tk 1) Lucille Bogan - Shave 'em Dry (tk 2) front cover photo depicts Tommy McClennan! notes by Paul Oliver notes by Paul Oliver notes by Paul Oliver plus leaflet in Japanese album has been issued in association with the book "Screening The Blues - Aspects of the Blues Tradition" by Paul Oliver, published by Cassell and Company, 1968 |
| 14 | 1970 | Southern Sanctified Singers Blind Willie Johnson - Go With Me To That Land Washington Phillips - A Mother's Last Word To Her Daughter Bessie Johnson - The Great Reaping Day Bozie Sturdivant (Silent Grove Baptist Church) - When I've Done The Best I Can, I Want My Crown Sam Butler - Christians Fight On, Your Time Ain't Long Rev. Edward W. Clayborn - Your Enimy Cannot Harm You (But Watch Your Best Friend) Arizona Dranes - In That Day Blind Willie Davis - When The Saints Go Marching In Henry Thomas - Jonah In The Wilderness Washington Phillips - I've Got The Key To The Kingdom Rev. J.C. Burnett - Put Your Trust In Jesus Sam Butler - Heaven Is My View Blind Joe Taggart - I'll Be Satisfied Nugrape Twins - There's A City Built On Mansions Rev. Edward W. Clayborn - The Gospel Train Is Coming Elder Otis Jones - Holy Mountain
Roots Records discography |
| 15 | 1977 | Next Week Sometime a compilation of "pre-war" blues 1927-1940 Alec Johnson - Miss Meal Cramp Blues - Sister Maud Mule - Sundown Blues - Next Week Sometime - Mysterious Coon - Toodle Doo Papa Charlie Jackson - Long Gone Lost John - I'm Looking For A Woman Who Knoes How To Treat Me Right Charley Lincoln - Gamblin' Charley - Ugly Papa Biliken Johnson & Neal Roberts - Frisco Blues Lewis Black - Gravel Camp Blues Bo Carter - What You Want Your Daddy To Do? Tampa Red - Blue And Evil Blues Washington Phillips - Denomination Blues - part 1 - Denomination Blues - part 2
Nugrape Records discography |
| 16 | 1980 | Washington Phillips: Denomination Blues - Mother's Last Word To Her Son - Take Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There - Paul And Silas In Jail - Lift Him Up That's All - Denomination Blues - Part 1 - Denomination Blues - Part 2 - I Am Born To Preach The Gospel - Train Your Child - Jesus Is My Friend - What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? - A Mother's Last Word To Her Daughter - I've Got The Key To The Kingdom - You Can't Stop A Tattler - Part 1 [Columbia unissued; Biograph BLP 12027] - You Can't Stop A Tattler - Part 2 [Columbia unissued] - I Had A Good Father And Mother - The Church Needs Good Deacons
notes by Guido van Rijn and Hans Vergeer |
| 17 | 1984 | Trouble Done Bore Me Down Barbecue Bob - Good Time Rounder - Trouble Done Bore Me Down Charley Jordan - Doin' Wrong Blues Walter Vinson - That's It - Same Thing The Cats Fight About - Times Is Tight Like That Jim Jackson - Policy Blues Lucille Bogan - House Top Blues - Superstitious Blues Washington Phillips - Mother's Last Word To Her Son - Paul And Silas In Jail James Stump Johnson - Baby B. Blues - Worried Man Blues Scrapper Blackwell - Springtime Blues - Mix That Thing Texas Alexander - Thirty Day Blues Sylvester Weaver - Gonna Ramble Blues - Teasing Brown Blues
notes by Guido van Rijn and Hans Vergeer |
| 18 | 1984 | Songsters & Saints Vocal Traditions on Race Records Vol. 1 LP 1: Dances And Traveling Shows Peg Leg Howell and Eddie Anthony - Turkey Buzzard Blues Pink Anderson and Simmie Dooley - Gonna Tip Out Tonight "Beans" Hambone - El Morrow - Beans Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band - Under The Chicken Tree Alec Johnson - Mysterious Coon "Big Boy" George Owens - The Coon Crap Game Memphis Sheiks - He's In The Jailhouse Now Charley Patton - Elder Greene Blues Hambone Willie Newbern - Way Down In Arkansas Comment, Parodies And Ballad Heroes Lil McClintock - Furniture Man Julius Daniels - Can't Put The Bridle On That Mule This Morning Hezekiah Jenkins - The Panic Is On Bogus Ben Covington - I Heard The Voice Of A Pork Chop Johnson - Nelson - Porkchop - G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again Bo Chatman - Good Old Turnip Greens Two Poor Boys - John Henry Blues Will Bennett - Railroad Bill Kid Coley - Clair And Pearley Blues LP 2: Baptists And Sanctified Preachers Rev. Jim Beale - The Hand Of The Lord Was Upon Me Rev. A.W. Nix - After The Ball Is Over Rev. Isaiah Shelton - As The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest Rev. J.M. Milton - Silk Worms And Boll Weevils Rev. H.M. Massey - Old Time Baptism - part 2 Rev. J.T. Burch - Baptised By Water, and Baptism By The Holy Ghost Rev. E.S (Shy) Moore - The Solemn Warning Elder Curry - Prove All Things Rev. Leora Ross - God's Mercy To Colonel Lindbergh Gospel Soloists And Evangelists Missionary Josephine Miles and Sister Elizabeth Cooper - You Have Lost Jesus Mother McCollum - When I Take My Vacation In Heaven Eddie Head and his Family - Down On Me Washington Phillips - I Am Born To Preach The Gospel Blind Roosevelt Graves and Brother - Telephone To Glory The Guitar Evangelist - Death Is Only A Dream Blind Willie Davis - Your Enemy Cannot Harm You Blind Nesbit - Pure Religion William and Versey Smith - When That Great Ship Went Down prod. by Gef Lucena
DLP This set is issued to complement the book "Songsters & Saints: Vocal Traditions On Race Records" by Paul Oliver, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 1984 Matchbox Records discography |
| 19 | 1990 | The Greatest in Country Blues (1927-1956) LP 1 - High Water Everywhere - Charlie Patton - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Cotton Field Blues Part 2 - Garfield Akers - James Alley Blues - Richard "Rabbit" Brown - Had A Good Father And Mother - Washington Phillips - Travelin' Blues - Blind Willie McTell - Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson - Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers - Nappy Head Blues - Bobby Grant - Third Street Woman Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds - My Black Momma Part I - Son House - Bull-Doze Blues - Henry Thomas - Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground - Blind Willie Johnson - Trouble Hearted Blues - Ishman Bracey - Honey In The Rock - Blind Mamie Forehand - Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt - Man Trouble Blues - Jaybird Coleman - How Long - Frank Stokes - Future Blues - Willie Brown - Voice Throwin' Blues - Walter "Buddy Boy" Hawkins LP 2 - Devil Got The Woman - Skip James - When That Great Ship Went Down - William And Versey Smith - The Jail House Blues - Sam Collins - Touch Me Light Momma - George "Bullet" Williams - Mothers Love - Blind Joe Taggart - Skin Man Blues - "Hi" Henry Brown - Lost Lover Blues - Lottie Kimbrough - Levee Camp Moan Blues - Texas Alexander - K.C. Moan - Memphis Jug Band - Paddlin' Madeline Blues - Gitfiddle Jim - Preachin' Blues - Robert Johnson - Billy Lyons And Stack O'Lee - Furry Lewis - Fryin' Pan Skillet Blues - Bessie Tucker - Dallas Rag - Dallas String Band - Crazy Cryin' Blues - Memphis Minnie - Woke Up This Morning - Roosevelt Graves - That's No Way To Get Along - Robert Wilkins - McAbee Railroad Piece - Palmer McAbee - The Gone Dead Train - King Soloman Hill - Hastings St. - Blind Blake And Charlie Spand LP 3 - Shorty George - Smith Casey - Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down - Bozie Sturdivant - I Be's Troubled - Muddy Waters - How You Want It Done? - Big Bill Broonzy - She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day - The Georgia Cotton Pickers - Sic 'Em Dogs On - Bukka White - California Desert Blues - Lane Hardin - Lonesome Day Blues - Jesse James - Moanin' The Blues - Allen Shaw - Midnight Hour Blues - Leroy Carr - Jack O'Diamonds - Pete Harris - Dust My Broom - Elmore James - Rowdy Blues - Kid Bailey - Rollin' And Tumblin' - Baby Face Leroy - Penitentiary Blues (Pt. 1 & 2) - Smokey Hogg - Baby How Long - Dan Pickett - Mighty Long Time - Sonny Boy Williamson - River Blues (Pt. 2) - Lowell Fulson - Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins compiled by Johnny Parth
3 LP set with 24-pp. booklet notes (English and German) by Paul Oliver 3 CD set = Century Media SOB 3521-2/3522-2/3523-2 (1994) 3 CD set |
| 20 | 1991 | Washington Phillips: I Am Born To Preach The Gospel - I Am Born To Preach The Gospel - The Church Needs Good Deacons - I Had A Good Father And Mother - Take Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There - Mother's Last Word To Her Daughter - Paul And Silas In Jail - Denomination Blues - part 1 - Denomination Blues - part 2 - Left Him Up That's All - Jesus Is My Friend - Mother's Last Word To Her Son - What Are They Doing in Heaven Today? - I've Got The Key To The Kingdom - Train Your Child - You Can't Stop A Tattler - Part 1 - You Can't Stop A Tattler - Part 2 notes by Pat Conte Yazoo Records discography |
| 20a | 1992 | Roots N' Blues - The Retrospective (1925-1950) disc 1: Charlie Poole with The North Carolina Ramblers - Whitehouse Blues Aiken County String Band - High Sheriff Frank Hutchison - The Last Scene Of The Titanic Hersal Thomas - Suitcase Blues Reverend J.M. Gates - Death's Black Train Is Coming Dora Carr - Cow-Cow Blues Vance's Tennessee Breakdowners - Washington County Fox Chase Fiddlin' John Carson - I'm Going To Take The Train To Charlotte Ernest V. Stoneman's Trio - Untitled Whistler And His Jug Band - Low Down Blues Washington Phillips - Paul & Silas In Jail Barbecue Bob - Blind Pig Blues Austin & Lee Allen - Chattanooga Blues Sherman Tedder - Untitled Dallas String Band with Coley Jones - Hokum Blues Gladys Bentley - Worried Blues Elizabeth Johnson - Empty Bed Blues Part 1 Elizabeth Johnson - Empty Bed Blues Part 2 South Georgia Highballers - Blue Grass Twist Charlie Bowman And His Brothers - Moonshiner And His Money Clarence Green - Johnson City Blues Reverend Johnny Blakey assisted by The Sanctified Singers - Warming By The Devil's Fire Papa Too Sweet & Harry Jones - (Honey) It's Tight Like That Mississippi John Hurt - Big Leg Blues Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers - Hallelujah disc 2: Hershel Brown and His Happy Five - Liberty Mamie Smith - My Sportin' Man Blues Birdhead - Mean Low Blues Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - C.C. & O. Blues The Okeh Atlanta Sacred Harp Singers - Ortonville Slim Doucet - Dear Black Eyes (Chere Yeux Noirs) Roosevelt Sykes - Roosevelt Blues The Hokum Boys - Gin Mill Blues Joe Falcon acc. by Clemo Breaux & Ophy Breaux - Osson W.T. Narmour & S.W. Smith - Sweet Milk And Peaches (Breakdown) Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers With Riley Puckett & Clayton McMichen - Soldier's Joy Whistlin' Alex Moore - They May Not Be My Toes Mississippi Sheiks - The Jazz Fiddler Lonnie Johnson - I Have To Do My Time Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton - Lonesome Frisco Line Roy Harvey & Leonard Copeland - Back To The Blue Ridge Buster Carter & Preston Young - Darn Good Girl Bo Carter - West Jackson Blues Lonnie Johnson & Violet Green - You Had Too Much Silver Leaf Quartet - Oh! Glory Glory Freeny's Barn Dance Band - Don't You Remember The Time Pelican Wildcats - Walkin' Georgia Rose Peetie Wheatstraw - Police Station Blues Tindley Quaker City Gospel Singers - Hallelujah Side Will Batts - Highway # 61 Blues disc 3: W. Lee O'Daniel & Lightcrust Doughboys - Doughboys Theme Song # 1 W. Lee O'Daniel And His Hillbilly Boys - Ida (Sweet As Apple Cider) W. Lee O'Daniel & Lightcrust Doughboys - Doughboys Theme Song # 2 Blind Willie - Bell Street Lightnin' Charlie Patton - Jersey Bull Blues Walter Roland - Every Morning Blues Blue Ridge Ramblers - D Blues Breaux Freres - La Valse Des Yeux Bleus Bessie Jackson - Skin Game Blues Leroy Carr with Scrapper Blackwell - Good Woman Blues Pinewood Tom (Josh White) - Sissy Man The Rhythm Wreckers - Blue Yodel # 2 (My Lovin' Gal Lucille) The Anglin Twins - Just Inside The Pearly Gates Bumble Bee Slim - Hard Rocks In My Bed The Two Charlies - Tired Feelin' Blues Eldon Baker And His Brown County Revelers - One Eyed Sam A'nt Idy Harper And The Coon Creek Girls - Poor Naomi Wise Kid Prince Moore - South Bound Blues Big Bill Broonzy - C & A Blues George Curry - My Last Five Dollars The Nite Owls - Memphis Blues The Alley Boys Of Abbeville - Pourquoi tu m'aime pas Reverend Benny Campbell - Have Mercy On Me Albert Ammons - Shout For Joy Jack Kelly - Flower Blues Bob Clifford - Onion Eating Mama Callahan Bros. - Brown's Ferry Blues # 2 Little Buddy Doyle - Slick Capers Blues Bill McKinley (Jazz Gillum) - Poor Boy Blues disc 4: Frank Edwards - We Got To Get Together Sweet Violet Boys - You Got To See Mama Every Night (Or You Can't See Mama At All) The Humbard Family - I'll Fly Away Tony Hollins - Cross Cut Saw Blues Peter Cleighton (Clayton) - Black Snake Blues Black Cats And The Kitten - Step It Up And Go Bob And Randall Atcher - Papa's Going Crazy, Mama's Going Mad Adolf Hofner And His San Antonians - Cotton-Eyed Joe Poor Boy Burke - Old Vets Blues Little Son Joe - Black Rat Swing Big Maceo Merriweather - Maceo Special The Light Crust Doughboys with J.B. Brinkley - It's Funny What Love Will Make You Do Hank Penny And His Radio Cowboys - Army Blues James "Beal Street" Clark - Who But You Homer Harris - Tomorrow May Be Too Late McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) - Burying Ground Blues Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys - Goodbye Old Pal Gene Autry - Dixie Cannonball Bill Landford & The Landfordaires - Run On For A Long Time (Big) Joe Williams - Baby, Please Don't Go Sister Myrtle Fields acc. by The Austin McCoy Trio - I'm Toiling Willie "Boodle It" Right - Two By Four Blues Bailes Bros. - You Can't Go Halfway (And Get In) Molly O'Day & The Cumberland Mountain Folks - Heaven's Radio Rosetta Howard - Plow Hand Blues Memphis Seven - Grunt Meat Blues Deep South Boys - Until I Found The Lord Brother Porter & Brother Cook - I Know My Jesus Won't Deny Me  compiled by Lawrence Cohn
4 disc set 20 CD box set |
| 21 | 1994 | Washington Phillips, A.C. Forehand, Blind Mamie Forehand, Luther Magby: Storefront & Streetcorner Gospel 1927 - 1929 Washington Phillips - Mother's Last Word To Her Son - Take Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There - Paul And Silas In Jail - Lift Him Up That's All - Denomination Blues - part 1 - Denomination Blues - part 2 - I Am Born To Preach The Gospel - Train Your Child - Jesus Is My Friend - What Are They Doing In Heaven Today - A Mother's Last Word To Her Daughter - I've Got The Key To The Kingdom - You Can't Stop A Tattler - Part 1 - You Can't Stop A Tattler - Part 2 - I Had A Good Father And Mother - The Church Needs Good Deacons A.C. Forehand & Blind Mamie - Mother's Prayer (take 1) - Mother's Prayer (take 2) - I'm So Glad Today (take 1) - I'm So Glad Today (take 2) - Honey In The Rock - Wouldn't Mind Dying If Dying Was All (part 1) - Wouldn't Mind Dying If Dying Was All (part 2) Luther Magby - Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit - Jesus Is Getting Us Ready For The Great Day
notes by Guido van Rijn |
| 21a | 1996 | How Can I Keep From Singing, Vol. 2 Early American Religious Music & Song Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s George Long & His Singers - What Shall Our Answer Be Brothers Wright & Williams - I've Got A Home In Beulah Land Blind Willie Davis - Rock Of Ages Roswell Sacred Harp Quartet - Weeping Mary Sam Collins - I Want To Be Like Jesus In My Heart Morris Family - He Rose Unknown L.V. Jones & His Virginia Singing Class - Will My Mother Know Me There Elder Curry & Congregation - Memphis Flu Washington Phillips - Jesus Is My Friend Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - Job Ridgel's Fountain Citians - Hallelujah To The Lamb Copperhill Male Quartet - There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood Shands Superior Jubilee Singers - Silver Slippers Mrs. L. Reed & Mrs. T.A. Duncans - Light In The Valley Cliff Carlisle Quartet - Shine On Me Pace Jubilee Singers - Oh Death Holy Ghost Sanctified Singers - Thou Carest Lord Ed Mcconnell & Family - My Loving Brother Seventh Day Adventist Choir - Take Thy Burden To The Lord Wade Mainer & Sons Of The Mountaineers - Lonely Tomb Blind Joe Taggart - Goin' To Rest Where Jesus Is David Miller - Lonesome Valley Rev. J.F. Forest & Congregation - Prayer Meeting
notes by Don Kent Yazoo Records discography |
| 22 | 2004 | Spreading The Word Early Gospel Recordings disc 2: Washington Phillips - Mother's Last Words To Her Son - Take Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There - Paul And Silas In Jail - Lift Him Up That's All - Denomination Blues: Part 1 - Denomination Blues: Part 2 - I Am Born To Preach The Gospel - Train Your Child - Jesus Is My Friend - What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? - A Mother's Last Words To Her Daughter - I've Got The Key To The Kingdom - You Can't Stop A Tattler - Part 1 - You Can't Stop A Tattler - Part 2 - I Had A Good Father And Mother - The Church Needs Good Deacons Bessie Johnson With Her Sanctified Singers - No Room At The Hotel - Key To The Kingdom - One Day - The Whole World In His Hand - The Great Reaping Day - He Got Better Things For You Brother Williams Memphis Sanctified Singers - He's Got The Whole World In His Hands - I Will Meet You At The Station Texas Jubilee Singers - He's The Lily Of The Valley - He's Coming Soon
4 CD set |
| 23 | 2005 | Washington Phillips What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? - Train Your Child - Paul and Silas In Jail - I Was Born To Preach the Gospel - Mother's Last Word To Her Son - You Can't Stop The Tattler - Part 2 - Take Your Burden To The Lord - What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? - Denomination Blues - part 1 - Denomination Blues - part 2 - I Had A Good Mother And Father - Lift Him Up, That's All - Mother's Last Word To Her Daughter
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| 24 | 2005 | Washington Phillips: The Key To The Kingdom Washington Phillips - Lift Him Up That's All - Paul And Silas In Jail - Mother's Last Word To Her Son - The Church Needs Good Deacons - Jesus Is My Friend - A Mother's Last Word To Her Daughter - I Had A Good Father And Mother - I Am Born To Preach The Gospel - Take Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There - Denomination Blues - part 1 - Denomination Blues - part 2 - What Are They Doing In Heaven Today - I've Got The Key To The Kingdom - Train Your Child - You Can't Stop A Tattler - Part 1 - You Can't Stop A Tattler - Part 2 - Wouldn't Mind Dying If Dying Was All Blind Mamie and A.C. Forehand - I'm So Glad Today, Today - Honey In The Rock - Mother's Prayer compiled and prod. by Pat Conte & Richard Nevins remastered by Richard Nevins front cover illustration by Pat Conte
new notes by Pat Conte Yazoo Records discography |
| 25 | 2006 | Washington Phillips - Denomination Blues - part 1 - Take Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There
7 inch 45 rpm |
| 26 | 11/2016 | Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams - Mother's Last Word To Her Son - Take Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There - Paul And Silas In Jail - Lift Him Up That's All - Denomination Blues - Part 1 - Denomination Blues - Part 2 - I Am Born To Preach The Gospel - Train Your Child - Jesus Is My Friend - What Are They Doing In Heaven Today - A Mother's Last Word To Her Daughter - I've Got The Key To The Kingdom - You Can't Stop A Tattler - Part 1 - You Can't Stop A Tattler - Part 2 - I Had A Good Father And Mother - The Church Needs Good Deacons
76-page book by Michael Corcoran |
| 27 | 2017 | American Epic: The Collection disc 1: - The Coo Coo Bird (The Cuckoo) - Clarence Ashley - On the Road Again - Memphis Jug Band - The Panama Limited - Bukka White - Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers - 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do, Pt. 1 - Frank Stokes - K.C. Railroad Blues - Andrew & Jim Baxter - I Am Bound for the Promised Land - Alfred G. Karnes - Cottonfield Blues, Pt. 2 - Garfield Akers - I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Down On Penny's Farm - Bentley Boys - Foldin' Bed - Whistler's Jug Band - Greenback Dollar - Weems String Band - Tallahatchie River Blues - Mattie Delaney - Walk Right In - Cannon's Jug Stompers - Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow - The Carter Family - Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson - Bayou Teche - Columbus Fruge - Cool Drink of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson - Train On the Island - J.P. Nestor disc 2: - My Heart Keeps Singing - Elder J.E. Burch - Ninety-Nine Year Blues - Julius Daniels - I Get My Whiskey From Rockingham - Earl Johnson and his Clodhoppers - Death's Black Train Is Coming - Rev. J. M. Gates - Waiting for a Train - Jimmie Rodgers - Darling, Where Have You Been So Long? - Tenneva Ramblers - Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Ma Blond Est Partie - Amadie Breaux, Ophey Breaux & Cleoma Breaux - Peg and Awl - Carolina Tar Heels - Chocolate to the Bone - Barbecue Bob - Down On Me - Eddie Head and Family - Prenez Courage - Cleoma Breaux with Joseph Falcon and Ophy Breaux - Pickin' Off Peanuts - Dilly and his Dill Pickles - Just Because - Nelstone's Hawaiians - Dupree Blues - Willie Walker - Ladies On the Steamboat - Burnett & Rutherford - Mamma, 'Tain't Long Fo' Day - Blind Willie McTell disc 3: - Cecilia - Cuarteto Flores - La Coquetera - Los Borinquenos - Coconito - Guty Cárdenas Y Lencho - Lovesick Blues - Emmett Miller - Long Tall Mama - Big Bill Broonzy - John Henry Blues - Two Poor Boys - Mr. Tom Hughes' Town - Lead Belly - Louis Collins - Mississippi John Hurt - I Am The Light of the World - Blind Gary Davis - Fifty Miles of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. McGee - Chant of the Eagle Dance - Hopi Indian Chanters - Hilo Hula - Mike Hanapi & The Ilima Islanders - If The River Was Whiskey - Charlie Poole - Stackalee - Frank Hutchison - The Wreck of the '97 - Ernest Stoneman - Faded Coat of Blue - Buell Kazee - Country Blues - Dock Boggs - Sail Away Ladies - Uncle Dave Macon and His Fruit-Jar Drinkers - Sail Away Lady - Uncle Bunt Stephens - Sally Gooden - Eck Robertson - Arkansas Traveller - Don Richardson disc 4: - Hard Time Blues - Lane Hardin - Down the Dirt Road Blues - Charley Patton - Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home - Banjo Joe - Hastings Street - Blind Blake & Charlie Spand - See That My Grave's Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Gonna Have 'Lasses In the Morning - Golden Melody Boys - New Orleans Stop Time - Memphis Minnie & Bumblebee Slim - Prove It On Me Blues - Ma Rainey - Gonne Die with My Hammer in My Hand - Williamson Brothers & Curry - Last Kind Words Blues - Geeshie Wiley - Banjoreno - Dixieland Jug Blowers - It's a Good Thing - Beale Street Sheiks - Trust In God and Do the Right - Blind Willie Davis - Someday Baby Blues - Sleepy John Estes - Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins - Future Blues - Willie Brown - Bull Doze Blues - Henry Thomas - Brown Skin Gal (Down the Lane) - Massey Family - Henry Lee aka Young Hunting - Dick Justice - Old Country Rock - William Moore - La Danseuse - Delma Lachney & Blind Uncle Gaspard - My Black Mama, Pt. 1 & 2 - Son House - Cypress Grove Blues - Skip James disc 5: - Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson - Mal Hombre - Lydia Mendoza - Sunshine Special - Frenchy's String Band - Old Jim Canan's - Robert Wilkins - Les Blues De Voyage - Amédé Ardoin & Dennis McGee - The Lost Child - Stripling Brothers - I'm Gonna Cross the River Jordan Some of These Days - Jaybird Coleman - Tomi Tomi - Sol K. Bright with The Aloha Serenaders - Sittin' On Top of the World - Mississippi Sheiks - James Alley Blues - Richard Rabbit Brown - The Indian Tom Tom - Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band - Blues In a Bottle - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers - Je Me Suis En Alle - Bartmont Montet & Joswell Dupuis - Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson - E Mama Ea - Sol Hoopii & His Novelty Quartette - Ghost Dance - Truett & George - Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind On Jesus) - Roosevelt Graves & Brother - Allons A Lafayette - Joseph Falcon - Corrido De Joaquin Murrieta, Pt. 1 & 2 - Los Madrugadores - Denomination Blues (Part 1 & 2) - Washington Phillips "American Epic: The Collection gathers 100 of these original recordings from the 1920s and 1930s in one five-disc set, restored to unprecedented levels of sonic fidelity. For this box set, compiled by Director Bernard MacMahon, engineer Nicholas Bergh refined a transfer process using a mix of both modern and vintage equipment in order to extract the remarkable resolution from the records that is often missed." 5 CD set |
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later: new notes (leaflet) by Pete Welding
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| 1 | 1972 | Ry Cooder: Into The Purple Valley - How Can You Keep Moving (Unless You Migrate Too) - Billy The Kid - Money Honey - F.D.R. In Trinidad - Teardrops Will Fall - Denomination Blues @ Spotify - On A Monday - Hey Porter - Great Dream From Heaven - Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Us All - Vigilante Man
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| 2 | 1974 | Ry Cooder: Paradise And Lunch - Tamp 'Em Up Solid - Tattler @ youtube - Married Man's A Fool - Jesus On The Mainline - It's All Over Now - Medley: Fool For A Cigarette / Feelin' Good - If Walls Could Talk - Mexican Divorce - Ditty Wah Ditty
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| 3 | 1975 | Barry McGuire & 2nd Chapter Of Acts: To The Bride disc 1: - Intro - Come To Praise The Lord - Little Bitty Dude - He's Comin' Back - Sad Song - Happy Road - Acts Intro - Which Way's The Light - Love, Peace, Joy - Layers - I Wonder - Ogre - Am I Seeing You - Denomination Blues - A Friend - Jimmy's Song - Snow White - Prince Song disc 2: - He Alone Is Worthy - Easter Song - He Is Coming - Anyone But Jesus - The Only Way - Sing The Melody - Shock Absorbers - Chosen Generation - Jesus People - I Walked A Mile - Dolphins - Callin' Me Home - Each Other - Doesn't That Bible Say - Brainwashed - Doesn't That Bible Say
2 LP set |
| 4 | 1976 | Linda Ronstadt: Hasten Down The Wind - Lose Again - The Tattler (Ry Cooder, Russ Titelman & Washington Phillips) [sic] - If He's Ever Near - That'll Be The Day - Lo Siento Mi Vida - Hasten Down The Wind - Rivers Of Babylon - Give One Heart - Try Me Again - Crazy - Down So Low - Someone To Lay Down Beside Me
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| 5 | 1977 | David Soul: Playing To An Audience Of One - Silver Lady - Can't We Just Down And Talk It Over - Tattler (Cooder / Phillips / Titelman) - I Wish I Was - Rider - Going In With My Eyes Open - Playing To An Audience Of One - Tomorrow Child - By The Devil (I Was Tempted) - Nobody But A Fool Or A Preacher - Mary's Fancy - Don't Give Us On Us
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| 6 | 1981 | Andy Cohen & Joe LaRose: Tuxedo Blues - Cheatham County Breakdown (Arthur Smith) - My Money Never Runs Out (Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers) - One-Eyed Sam/ Winkin' Eye (Fields Ward) - Sailing Down The Chesapeake Bay (Jean C. Havez - George Botsford) - Texas Easy Street (Henry Thomas) - Tuxedo Blues (Whistling Pete/Daddy Stovepipe) - Carolina Shout (James P. Johnson) - Seaboard Train Blues (Larry Johnson) - Lost John - I'm Satisfied (Mississippi John Hurt) - Bye & Bye I'm Gonna See The King (Washington Phillips) - Squabblin' Blues (Wiley Barner / Joe LaRose) - Ragged But Right - Airy Man (Papa Charlie Jackson)
Andy Cohen discography |
| 7 | 1982 | The 77's: Ping Pong Over The Abyss - A Different Kind Of Light - How Can You Love - It's So Sad - Falling Down A Hole - Someone New - Renaissance Man - Ping Pong Over The Abyss - Time Is Slipping Away - Denomination Blues (That's All) - A Different Kind Of Light (live) - How Can You Love (4-track demo) - It's So Sad (live) - Falling Down A Hole (live) - Ping Pong Over The Abyss (4-track demo) - Denomination Blues (That's All) (live)
The Discography 123 Box Set |
| 8 | 1992 | Marianne Antonsen: Pickin' Up The Spirit - Little Boy - Gamblin' Man - Jesus On The Main Line - I'M Willing - Nobody Knows - Denomination Blues - Wonders And Things - Motherless Children - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child - Anyhow - Go Down Moses - I Bid You Good Night - I Don't Feel Noways Tired
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| 9 | 1993 | Andy Cohen with William Lee Ellis & Eleanor Ellis: Preachin' In That Wilderness - John The Revelator - C.C. & O. Blues (Simmie Dooley / >Pink Anderson) - In My Girlish Days (Memphis Minnie) - Your Up Is Down (Bill Ellis) - A Mother's Last Words To Her Son (Washington Phillips) - Wee Midnight Hours (Willie McTell / Curley Weaver) - Bill's Blues (Andy Cohen) - Worried Blues Henry Thomas) - You Jes' Well Let Her Go (Casey Bill Weldon) - Lift Him Up (Washington Phillips) - Cookbook (Larry Johnson) - You Got My Money (Bill Ellis) - Spanish Flangdang - Jonah (Henry Thomas) - Hawkins' Rag - New Cat Blues - Leavin' Trunk (Sleepy John Estes) - Jump Little Children (Brownie McGhee) - Shack Rouster Song - Spoonful (Mance Lipscomb) - Hungry Blues (Langston Hughes / James P. Johnson) - Poor Boy (Gus Cannon)
2005 re-released on Riverlark RL 10107 CD Andy Cohen discography |
| 10 | 1993 | Palace Brothers: There Is No One What Will Take Care Of You - Idle Hands Are The Devil's Playthings - Long Before - I Tried To Stay Health For You - The Cellar Song - (I Was Drunk At The) Pulpit - There Is No-One What Will Take Care Of You - O Lord Are You In Need? - Merida - King Me - I Had A Good Mother And Father - Riding - O Paul
= Domino 008 (2001) |
| 11 | 1994 | Kate Wolf: Looking Back At You - The Old Street Singer - I Had A Good Father and Mother (Traditional) - Hold On To Me Babe (Tom Paxton) - Rock Salt And Nails (Bruce "Utah" Phillips) - The Lover's Return (Traditional) - Looking Back At You - Bird On A Wire (Leonard Cohen) - Springfield Mountain Coal Miner (Cyrus Clarke) - These Days (Jackson Browne) - Traveling Day (Lyrics by Jack Aldridge, Music by Kate Wolf)
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| 12 | 1996 | Michael Hakanson-Stacy: Sanctuary Blues - Creepin' - You Drink Too Much - Blues In The Belfry - Pizza Blues - 1944 Blues - Sanctuary Blues - God's Gonna Cut 'em Down - Death Don't Have No Mercy - Denomination Blues - part II - Ring Him Up Easy - Old Time Religion - Delchytown Blues - New Pony Blues - Wiscassett Narrow Line - Eutychus' Dream
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| 13 | 1999 | Geoff Bartley: Hear That Wind Howl - If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day - Sittin' On Top Of The World - Grinnin' In Your Face - The Dying Crapshooter's Blues - Papa's On The Housetop - Prize Your Reputation - Crossroads Blues - Lemonade - When You Got A Good Friend - Everything They Told Me - Peaceable Street - The Fullerton Street Strut - No Money Down - Duncan And Brady - Denomination Blues - Come On In My Kitchen
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| 14 | 1999 | Charles Walker: I'm Available - Homewrecker Legs - Leavin' This Old Town - Fleetwood Cadillac - Make It Rain - Nothing A Young Girl Can Do - Need Somebody - I'm Available - Judge Of Hearts - Monkey Song - You Got The Walk - The Tattler - When I'm Gone - Very Thing That Makes You Rich rec. at Three Little Pigs Studio, Nashville, Tennessee in March 1999; Charles Walker, voc; Johnny Jones, voc, g; Fred James, g, p; Dennis Taylor, tenor & baritone sax; Phil Rugh, org; Rusty Russell, b; Herb Shucher, dr; prod by Fred James
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| 15 | 2002 | Andrew M. Cohen: Dolceola Favorites - Mother's Last Words (Washington Phillips) - Precious Lord (Thomas A. Dorsey) - All Night Long (Skip James) - What A Friend We Have In Jesus (Rev. Charles A. Tindley) - The Entertainer (Scott Joplin) - Oak Top Boogie (Jim Brewer) - John Ate The Locust and the Honey (William Lee Ellis) - Rock Island Line (Huddie Ledbetter) - Organ Grinder Swing (Clarence Williams) - What Are They Doin' In Heaven Today/Paul & Silas (Tindley) - John Hurt Medley (Frankie/Creole Belle/Richland Woman) (Hurt/Lampe/Hurt) - Take Your Burden To The Lord (Rev. Charles A. Tindley) - Tipitina / Denomination Blues (Roy Bird/ Phillips) - La Valse Joyeuse (Jean Carignan) - Teddy Bear's Picnic (Bratton/Kennedy) - When My Sugar Walks Down The Street (Mills/McHugh/Austin) - Goin' Home (Charlie Patton) - Lord Franklin (Trad/Carthy) - I Bid You Goodnight (Pindar Family) - Bertha Mae (Memphis Slim (Peter Chatman)
Andy Cohen discography |
| 16 | 2003 | Gillian Welch: Soul Journey - Look At Miss Ohio - Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor - Wayside/Back In Time - I Had A Real Good Mother And Father - One Monkey - No One Knows My Name - Lowlands - One Little Song - I Made A Lovers Prayer - Wrecking Ball
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| 17 | 2003 | Jorma Kaukonen: Blue Country Heart - Blue Railroad Train - Just Because - Blues Stay Away From Me - Red River Blues - Bread Line Blues - Waiting For A Train - Those Gambler's Blues - Tom Cat Blues - Big River Blues - Prohibition Blues - I'm Free From The Chain Gang Now - You And My Old Guitar - What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?
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| 18 | 2004 | Paul Rishell & Annie Raines: Goin' Home - Hunkie Tunkie Blues (Charlie Jordan, with additional music by Rishell/Raines) - You've Got It Made (Rishell/Raines) - I Had A Good Mother and Father (Washington Phillips) - I'm Goin' Home (Charley Patton) - It Ain't Right (Rishell/Raines) - Candy (David/Kramer/Whitney) - Memphis Town (Carr/Blackwell) - Black Horse Blues (Lemon Jefferson) - Black Eye Blues (Ma Rainey) - Ragtime Millionaire (William Moore) - Custard Pie (Fulton Allen) - Some of These Days (I'll be Gone) -live! (Charley Patton, arrangement by Paul Rishell) - Lookin' Good -live! (Samuel Maghett, with additional music by Rishell/Raines)
= Rykodisc CD 17306 |
| 19 | 2006 | Voice Of The Spirit, Gospel Of The South - By The Side Of The Road - Mac Wiseman - Unclouded Day - Johnny Cash - Twelve Gates To The City - Mavis Staples & Marty Stuart - Over The Next Hill We'll Be Home - Connie Smith - If I Be Lifted Up - Earl & Randy Scruggs - My Lord Keeps A Record - Ronnie & Del McCoury - We Will Overcome - Mighty Clouds Of Joy - Denomination Blues - Rodney Crowell - Leave It There - John Cowan & Tony Rice - Diamonds In The Rough - Laura Cash & Larry Gatlin - Where The Soul Of A Man Never Dies - Jon Randall & Jessi Alexander - Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down - Fisk Jubilee Singers - What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? - Vince Gill
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Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - Görgen Antonsson discographies - Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich: Blues & Gospel Records 1902 - 1943, 3rd ed. 1982, p. 590 - Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013 --- no entry! - John Tefteller and Blues Images Collection - used with permission - eBay auctions - diverse internet resources thanks to Alan Balfour, Bob Riemenschneider, Eric Simkin, Rob Ford, Peter Brown and Helge Thygesen for additional info / scans
 Wash Phillips at 70 in 1950 source: http://afroblues.seesaa.net/category/1841556-3.html photo by Doris Neely
Exhuming The Legend Of Washington Phillipsby Michael Corcoran
WP section at www.fretlesszithers.com (Internet archive)by Garry Harrison
The Instruments of Washington Phillipsby Gregg Miner and Kelly Williams
1907 article gives proof that Washington Phillips didn't play the dolceolaby Michael Corcoran | ||||
