Illustrated Son House discography

S O N H O U S E 1970; photographer: Giuseppe Pino
Son House 1970; photographer: Giuseppe Pino Son House
Edward James House, Jr.
b. March 21, 1902 in Lyon or Riverton, Coahoma County, Mississippi
d. Oktober 19, 1988 at Harper Hospital in Detroit, Michigan
buried at Mount Hazel Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan
discography S O N H O U S E, June 1970, Club 100, London; photographer: Les Astrella
Son House, June 1970, Club 100, London; photographer: Les Astrella

year
of
release

title / label # / notes

1930

Son House

- Dry Spell Blues Part I (L-425-4) @ youtube
- Dry Spell Blues Part II (L-426-2) @ youtube

rec. ~~May 28,~~ August 1930 in Grafton, WI; Son House, voc, g

Paramount 12990

1930

Son House

- Preachin' The Blues—Part I (L-410-1) @ youtube
- Preachin' The Blues—Part II (L-411-1) @ youtube

rec. ~~May 28,~~ August 1930 in Grafton, WI; Son House, voc, g

only copy known to exist owned by Richard Nevins

Paramount 13013

1930

Son House

- My Black Mama—Part 1 (L-408-2) @ youtube
- My Black Mama—Part 2 (L-409-2) @ youtube

rec. ~~May 28,~~ August 1930 in Grafton, WI; Son House, voc, g
best copy owned by Richard Nevins

Paramount 13042

1930

Son House

- Mississippi County Farm Blues (L-401) @ youtube
- Clarksdale Moan (L-407) @ youtube

rec. ~~May 28,~~ August 1930 in Grafton, WI; Son House, voc, g

Paramount 13096

Yazoo CD 2202 (2006)

- Walkin' Blues (9/2#1) [] @ youtube
- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean

rec. ~~May 28,~~ August 1930 in Grafton, WI; Son House, voc, g; [] Willie Brown, g

[] test pressing offered at a yard sale in Waukegan, IL, in 1985, now in the possession of Richard Nevins

Paramount unissued ?

[] Document 532 (Austria 1988)
Document 5002 (Austria 1990)

- Levee Camp Blues
- Government Fleet Blues
- Walking Blues
- Shetland Pony Blues
- Fo' Clock Blues
- Camp Hollers
- Delta Blues

rec. c. August 24-31, 1941 at Clack Store near Lake Cormorant, MS by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress

Library of Congress,
originally unreleased

- Special Rider Blues (test)
- Special Rider Blues
- Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
- Depot Blues
- Alan Lomax talking
- American Defense
- Am I Right Or Wrong
- Walking Blues
- County Farm Blues
- The Pony Blues
- The Jinx Blues - part 1
- The Jinx Blues - part 2

rec. July 17, 1942 in Robinsonville, MS by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress

Library of Congress,
originally unreleased

1962

Negro Blues And Hollers
From the Archive of Folk Song

- Camp Hollers. Sung by an Unidentified Singer [Son House] At Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1941
- Cornfield Hollers. Sung by Charley Berry At Clarksdale, Ms.
- I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord. Sung by The Congregation Of Silent Grove Baptist Church With Trombone And Guitar At Clarksdale, Ms.
- I'm Gonna Lift Up A Standard For My King. Sung by The Congregation Of The Church Of God In Christ At Moorehead Plantation, Lula, Ms.
- Worried Life Blues. Sung by David Edwards (Honey Boy Edwards) With Guitar At Clarksdale, Ms.
- Ragged And Dirty. Sung by William Brown With Guitar At Clarksdale, Ms.

- Special Rider Blues. Sung and played by Son House With Guitar At Robinsonville, Ms., 1942
- Depot Blues. Sung and played by Son House With Guitar At Robinsonville, Ms., 1942
- Mississippi Blues. Sung by William Brown With Guitar At Sadie Beck's Plantation, Arkansas, 1942
- Four O'Clock Blues. Sung and played by Willie Blackwell And William Brown With Guitar At Sadie Beck's Plantation, Arkansas, 1942
- East St. Louis Blues. Sung by William Brown With Guitar At Sadie Beck's Plantation, Arkansas, 1942
- Low Down, Dirty Dog Blues. Sung and played by Son House With Guitar At Robinsonville, Ms, 1942

rec. 1941/42 by John and Alan Lomax, John W. (John Wesley) Work III, Lewis Wade Jones for a study sponsored jointly by the Library of Congress and Fisk University of Nashville, Tennessee; ed. by Marshall W. Stearns

notes by Marshall W. Stearns

Library of Congress AFS L59 (US 1962)

notes by Marshall W. Stearns

= Library of Congress AFS L59 (US 1977?)

1962

Really! The Country Blues 1927-1933

@ youtube (full album)

Tommy Johnson - Maggie Campbell Blues
William Moore - Old Country Rock
Son House - My Black Mama, Parts 1 and 2
Sunny Boy and His Pals - France Blues
Skip James - Devil Got My Woman
Ishman Bracey - Woman Woman Blues

Sam Collins - The Jail House Blues
George 'Bullet' Williams - Touch Me Light Mama
Henry Sims - Tell Me Man Blues
Buster Johnson - Undertaker Blues
Henry Thomas - Don't Ease Me In
Garfield Akers - Cottonfield Blues - part 1
Garfield Akers - Cottonfield Blues - part 2

compiled by Bill Givens; edited by Pete Whelan; lyrics transcribed by Bill Givens and David Evans

Rory Block: "Stefan [Grossman] gave me a record called 'Really The Country Blues' and that was the beginning of my love affair with the music".

insert brochure notes by Gayle Dean Wardlow

Origin Jazz Library OJL 2 (US 1962, 1st ed.)

notes by Bill Givens and Pete Whelan

= Origin Jazz Library OJL 2

notes by Bill Givens and Pete Whelan on three stapled A4 copy sheets

= Origin Jazz Library OJL 2

= Soundmark 48172 (2011, download only)

OJL Records discography

1963

The Mississippi Blues 1927-1940

Bukka White
- The Panama Limited
- Special Streamline
Willie Brown
- Future Blues
- M & O Blues
Kid Bailey
- Mississippi Bottom Blues
Robert Wilkins
- That's No Way To Get Along
- I Do Blues

Mississippi John Hurt
- Got The Blues, Can't Be Satisfied
- Louis Collins
William Harris
- Bullfrog Blues
- Hot Time Blues
Skip James
- If You Haven't Any Hay, Get On Down The Road
- Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues
Son House
- Preachin The Blues - part 1
- Preachin The Blues - part 2

brochure notes by Gayle Dean Wardlow

Origin Jazz Library OJL-5 (US 1963)also delivered with labels: "The Mississippi Blues No. 1"

notes by Gayle Dean Wardlow (biographies) and David Evans (lyric transcriptions plus leaflet "The Mississippi Blues")

Origin Jazz Library OJL-5 (US 196?) on labels: "The Mississippi Blues No. 1"

notes by Gayle Dean Wardlow (biographies) and David Evans (lyric transcriptions)

= Origin Jazz Library OJL-5 (US 1966) on labels: "The Mississippi Blues No. 1"

= Origin Jazz Library OJL-5 (180g repro 2018)

OJL Records discography

1963

Son House & J.D. Short: Blues From The Mississippi Delta

Son House
- My Black Woman [6607-B-3(a) Walking Blues]
- Sun Goin Down [6607-A-1 Low Down Dirty Dog Blues]
- I Aint Goin To Cry No More [6607-A-2(a) Depot Blues]
- This War Will Last You For Years [6607-B-1(a) American Defense]
- Was I Right Or Wrong [6607-B-2 Am I Right Or Wrong]
- County Farm Blues

J.D. Short
- So Much Wine
- Train, Bring My Baby Back
- You Been Cheating Me
- Fighting For Dear Old Uncle Sam

rec. August 1942 by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress
J. D. Short tracks rec. July 3rd, 1962, in St. Louis

Folkways FA 2467 (US 1963)

= Folkways FTS 31028 (US 1968) "Delta Blues"

= XTRA 1080 (UK 1969)

= Verve/Folkways FV-9035 "Blues from the Mississippi Delta"

XTRA Records discography

Son House "rediscovery" on June 23, 1964
photo taken in front of 61 Greig Street (Corn Hill neighborhood), Rochester, New York,
where Son House lived with his wife Evie in a third floor walk-up apartment (#9)
The apartment has since been torn down and the section of Greig Street where House lived is occupied by an apartment complex at 596 Clarissa Street

Nick Perls, Dick Waterman, Son House, Phil Spiro
source: Eric von Schmidt & Jim Rooney: Baby, let me follow you down.
The illustrated story of the Cambridge folk years.- New York 1979, p. 194
photographer: Mrs. House using Dick Waterman's camera

Betsy Bues: Hunt for 'Blues' Singer Of Thirties Ends in City
Son House interview done in early July 1964

Betsy Bues: Hunt for 'Blues' Singer Of Thirties Ends in City; source: Times-Union July 6, 1924; source: article in Rochester Times-Union, July 6, 1964 (taken from: Daniel Beaumont: Preachin' the Blues - The Life and Times of Son House.- Oxford (Oxford University Press), 2011, p. 132)

article in Rochester Times-Union, July 6, 1964
(taken from: Daniel Beaumont: Preachin' the Blues - The Life and Times of Son House.-
Oxford (Oxford University Press), 2011, p. 132)

Phil Spiro: How we found Son House

Phil Spiro: How we found Son House; source: The Broadside Vol. III # 11 (1964) 'Newport issue', p. 2

Phil Spiro: How we found Son House; source: The Broadside Vol. III # 11 (1964) 'Newport issue', p. 4

The Broadside of Boston Vol. III # 11 (1964) "Newport issue", pp. 2, 4

Rebecca Davis: Child is Father to the Man
How Al Wilson taught Son House how to play Son House
with photos by Dick Waterman

Blues Access # 35 (Fall 1989), pp. 40-43

1965

The Mississippi Blues Number 2
16 Previously Unreissued Sides In The Mississippi Delta Style By A Cadre Of Prophetic Bluesmen Who Voiced The Full, Raw Language Of This Area's Rich Musical Argot!

Son House
- Dry Spell Blues - part 1
- Dry Spell Blues - part 2
Louise Johnson
- All Night Long Blues
- Long Ways From Home
Charlie Patton
- Rattlesnake Blues
- Screamin And Hollerin The Blues
Jaydee Short
- Lonesome Swamp Rattlesnake
- Telephone Arguin' Blues

Blind Willie Reynolds
- 3rd Street Woman Blues
- Nehi Blues
Robert Wilkins
- I'll Go With Her Blues
- Get Away Blues
Hi Henry Brown
- Titanic Blues
- Preacher Blues
Joe Calicott
- Fare Thee Well Blues
Garfield Akers
- Dough Roller Blues

notes by David Evans and Bill Givens

Origin Jazz Library OJL-11 (US 1965)

Origin Jazz Library OJL-11 (US 19??)

OJL Records discography

1965

The Legendary Son House: Father Of Folk Blues

- Death Letter
- Pearline
- Louise McGhee
- John The Revelator
- Empire State Express *

- Preachin' Blues
- Grinning In Your Face
- Sundown
- Levee Camp Moan #

rec. April 12/14, 1965 in Boston; Son House, voc, g; Al Wilson, * second g, # hca; prod. by John Hammond [Sr.]
front cover photo by Dick Waterman

notes by Dick Waterman

Columbia CL 2417 (US 1965)
= CBS 62604
= SBC Sony Sopj94 (Jp)

= Edsel ED167 (Germany 1985) "Death Letter"

1/1967

The Newport Folk Festival 1965

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (July 25)
- Mellow Down Easy (3:35) # @ youtube
The Lilly Brothers (with Tex Logan & Don Stover)
- Black Mountain Rag
Son House
- Son's Blues (aka "Preaching Blues") (6:20)
Ishangi Dance Troupe
- Washwoman
Moving Star Hall Singers
- Been In The Storm So Long
Eric Von Schmidt (with Fritz Richmond, Mel Lyman, Geoff Muldaur & Maria d'Amato)
- My Love Comes Rolling Down (6:05)

Bill Keith & Jim Rooney
- Banjo Medley
John Koerner (with Tony Glover, hca)
- Duncan And Brady (6:20)
Maria d'Amato (with Geoff Muldaur, g)
- Trick Ain't Walkin' No More
Son House
- Death Letter Blues (2:50)
Chambers Brothers
- Bottle Music (0:15)
- I Got It (3:50)
Mel Lyman, hca
- Rock Of Ages (5:05)

originally unissued tracks from same 1965 event:
Son House
- Introduction by Dick Waterman (2:05) [Vanguard VCD2-77005]
- Preachin' Blues (3:54) [Vanguard VCD2-77005, 3VCD193/95-2]
- Death Letter (4:01) [Vanguard VCD2-77005, 3VCD193/95-2]
- Empire State Express (3:50) [Vanguard VCD2-77005, 3VCD 208-10]
- John The Revelator (4:29) [Vanguard VCD 77014-2]

rec. July 24/25, 1965 in Newport, RI

Vanguard VRS 9225 (mono) (US 1/1967)

= Vanguard VSD 79225 (Stereo) // (Stereolab)

= Vanguard VGX 9225 (US 1967) (Reel-To-Reel, 3 ¾ ips, ¼", 4-Track Stereo, 7" Cine Reel)

= Vanguard VAN M 89225 (US 1967) (8-Track Cartridge stereo)

= Vanguard KICP-2122 (Jp 1991)

Newport Folk Festival discography
Eric Von Schmidt discography
Koerner, Ray & Glover discography

1966
~~1967~~

Living Legends
Son House, Skip James, Bukka White, Big Joe Williams

- Levee Camp Moan (100800) (7:28) - Son House @ youtube
- Black Bottom (100801) (3:56) - Bukka White
- Aberdeen, Mississippi Blues (100802) (3:34) - Bukka White
- Whiskey-Headed Woman (100803) (1:40) - Big Joe Williams

- Devil Got My Woman (100804) (6:08) - Skip James
- I'm So Glad (100805) (2:18) - Skip James
- So Soon (100806) (2:26) - Big Joe Williams
- Somebody Evil (100807) (2:56) - Big Joe Williams
- Thunderbird Blues (100808) (4:28) - Bukka White
- Poor Boy (100809) (2:56) - Bukka White

rec. November 24-27, 1965 (!) live at Howard Solomon's Cafe Au Go Go in New York City ("The Blues Bag" event over Thanksgiving week); prod. by Jerry Schoenbaum
rec. neither November 24-27, 1966 (as the liner notes do claim) nor August 9, 1966 (as Fancourt & McGrath 2012 - for whatever reason - tell us)!

front cover photographs by David Gahr

notes by Brian Van der Horst

Verve Folkways FT-3010 (mono) identical back cover for FT-3010 (mono) and FTS-3010 (stereo)

Verve Folkways FTS-3010 (stereo) identical back cover for FT-3010 (mono) and FTS-3010 (stereo)

= Verve Folkways FVS 9504 (Germany 1966) (stereo)

LP must have been released in 1966 (not 1967, as some sources claim!), because it has been mentioned in Billboard as follows:

Billboard November 5, 1966, p. 62

Billboard December 24, 1966, p. 36

12a

1967

Son House

- The Pony Blues (6608-A-2(a))
- The Jinx Blues (No. 1) (6609-A-3)

rec. July 17, 1942 by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress

Herwin 92401

Roots RL 332
Roots RSE 1
Folklyric 9002

Herwin Records discography

1967

Willie Brown / Son House

Willie Brown
- Make Me A Pallet On The Floor (4781-A-3)
Son House
- Shetland Pony Blues (4781-A-1)

rec. August 24 - 31, 1941 by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress

Willie Brown discography

Herwin 92404

Willie Brown track:
Roots RL 332
Roots RSE 5
Flyright FLY 541

Son House track:
Roots RL 332
Roots RSE 1
Folklyric 9002

Herwin Records discography

1967

Mississippi Blues Vol. 1 (1927-1942)

Jelly Jaw Short (J.D. Short) - Snake Doctor Blues
Blind Joe Amos - C & O Blues
William Harris - Early Mornin' Blues
Sam Collins - Signifyin' Blues
Charley Patton & Henry Sims - Mean Black Moan
Charley Patton & Henry Sims - Jesus Is A Dying-Bed Maker
Robert Wilkins - Rolling Stone, part 1 & 2

Isaiah Nettles (The Mississippi Moaner) - Mississippi Moan
Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues
Son House - The Jinx Blues - No. 2
Bukka White - Black Train Blues
Jelly Jaw Short (J.D. Short) - Barefoot Blues
Ishman Bracey - Left Alone Blues
Mississippi John Hurt - Blue Harvest Blues
Robert Johnson - Kind-Hearted Woman No. 2

Roots RL-302 (Austria 1967, 1st pressing) [line of front cover text in black]

Roots RL-302 (Austria 1968, 2nd pressing) [line of front cover text in red]

Roots RL-302 (Austria 19??, 3rd pressing) [line of front cover text in red]

= autogram/Roots RL-302 (Germany 2013)

Roots Records discography

1967

Mississippi Blues 1927 - 1941

Harvey Hull - Gang Of Brownskin Women
Henry Sims - Be True, Be True Blues
William Harris - I'm Leavin' Town
Skip James - Special Rider Blues
Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues
Charley Patton - Hang It On The Wall
Geechie Wiley - Eagles On A Half

Mattie Delaney - Tallahatchie River Blues
John Byrd - Billy Goat Blues
Charley Patton - Mean Black Moan
Charley Patton - Pea Vine Blues
Bobby Grant - Nappy Head Blues
Son House - Delta Blues
Robert Johnson - Dead Shrimp Blues

cover art: Michael Gruener, Nick Perls

notes by Bradley Sweet [= Stephen Calt] 390 East 8th St

Belzona L-1001 (US 1967)

there were specimen with "Belzona" covers and "Yazoo" labels sold!

notes by Bradley Sweet [= Stephen Calt] 390 East 8th St

= Yazoo L-1001 (US 1968)

notes by Bradley Sweet [= Stephen Calt] 54 King St

= Yazoo L-1001 (US 196?)

notes by Bradley Sweet [= Stephen Calt] 245 Waverly Place

= Yazoo L-1001 (US 196?)

notes by Bradley Sweet [= Stephen Calt] 37 E. Clinton St, Newton, NJ

= Yazoo 1001HLP (US 2011) [180g reissue LP]

Yazoo Records discography

1968

Mississippi Moaners 1927-1942

Mississippi John Hurt - Big Leg Blues
Washington White - The New 'Frisco Train
Mattie Delaney - Down The Big Road Blues
Rube Lacey - Ham Hound Crave
Skip James - Cherry Ball Blues
Uncle Bud Walker - Stand Up Suitcase Blues
Charley Patton - Devil Sent The Rain Blues

Son House - Special Rider Blues
Bobby Grant - Lonesome Atlanta Blues
Mae Glover - Gas Man Blues
Papa Harvey Hull - Two Little Tommies Blues
Joe Calicot [sic] - Traveling Mama Blues [Brunswick 7166]
The Mississippi Moaner - Mississippi Moan
Blind Willie Reynolds - Married Man Blues

notes by Brad Sweet (= Stephen Calt) "Yazoo Records, 390 East 8th Street, New York, N.Y. 10009"

Yazoo L 1009 (US 1968) original press, cover font and small / large Yazoo logo in red; black labels

notes by Steve Calt "Yazoo Records, 54 King Street – New York, N.Y. 10014"

Yazoo L 1009 (US 1971 ff.) cover font and large Yazoo logo in orange; black and red labels

notes by Steve Calt "Yazoo Records, 54 King Street – New York, N.Y. 10014"

= Yazoo L 1009 (US 19??) cover font and small Yazoo logo in blue; black labels

notes by Steve Calt "Yazoo Records, 245 Waverly Place, New York, N.Y. 10014"

= Yazoo L 1009 (US 19??) cover font and small Yazoo logo in orange; peacock labels, catalog # on labels printed to the left

notes by Steve Calt "Yazoo Records, P.O Box 810, Newton, New Jersey 07860"

= Yazoo/Shanachie L 1009 (US early 1990s) cover font and small Yazoo logo in blue; peacock labels, catalog # on labels printed to the right

notes by Steve Calt

= Yazoo L 1009 (US 1991)

notes by Stephen Calt

= Yazoo CD 1009 (US 1991)

Yazoo Records discography
Mississippi John Hurt discography
Bukka White discography
Mattie Delaney discography
Rube Lacey discography
Skip James discography
Charley Patton discography
Papa Harvey Hull discography
Mississippi Joe Callicott discography
Blind Willie Reynolds discography

The Video 1: American Folk Blues Festival 1967
Little Walter
- My Babe @ youtube
Koko Taylor
- Will My Man Be Home Tonight
- Wang Dang Doodle
Bukka White
- Aberdeen Mississippi Blues @ youtube
Little Walter
- Untitled (actually "Little Walter's Jump") @ youtube
Skip James
- Hard Times Killing Floor
Interview with Bruce Jackson
Son House
- Death Letter Blues (3:34) @ youtube
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Born With The Blues
Interview with Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Rock Island Line
Interview with Horst Lippmann
Little Walter
- Mean Old World @ youtube
Hound Dog Taylor
- Shake Your Money Maker
Koko Taylor
- What Kind Of Man Is This
- Ad libitum Blues

rec. October 9, 1967 at WDR TV in Cologne, Germany
Little Walter, voc, hca; Hound Dog Taylor, g; Dillard Crume, b; Odie Payne, dr
Koko Taylor, voc; Little Walter, hca; Hound Dog Taylor, g; Dillard Crume, b; Odie Payne, dr
Bukka White, voc, g
Skip James, voc, g
Son House, voc, g
Sonny Terry, voc, hca; Brownie McGhee, voc, g, kazoo
Hound Dog Taylor, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Dillard Crume, b; Odie Payne, dr
presentation: Siegfried Schmidt-Joos; director: Hanno Brühl

American Folk Blues Festival discography

originally issued on TV only

Tropical DVD 68.364 (Germany 2008) "Legends
of the American Folk Blues
Festivals 1967, 1968 &
1969"

Hip-O DVD JHAM0263 track sequence:
Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog (1965)
Roosevelt Sykes - Gulfport Boogie (1965)
Buddy Guy - Out Of Sight (1965)
Dr. Isaiah Ross - Feel So Good (1965)
Joe Turner - Flip, Flop & Fly (1966)
Skip James
- All Night Long # @ youtube
- Crow Jane # @ youtube
Bukka White
- Got Sick And Tired # @ youtube
Son House
- Death Letter Blues #
Hound Dog Taylor & Little Walter
- Wild About You Baby # @ youtube
Koko Taylor & Little Walter
- Wang Dang Doodle # @ youtube
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Stranger Blues # @ youtube
- Burnt Child (Afraid Of Fire) # @ youtube
- Gonna Move Across The River # @ youtube
Helen Humes - The Blues Ain't Nothin' But A Woman (1962)
Earl Hooker - Earl's Boogie (1969)
Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call (1968)
Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working (1968)

Hip-O CD B0003224-02 track sequence:
Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog (1965)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Stranger Blues (1967) #
Skip James - All Night Long (1967) #
Sonny Boy Williamson - Keep It To Yourself (1963)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Your Funeral And My Trial (1963)
Big Joe Turner - Flip, Flop And Fly (1966)
Howlin' Wolf - I'll Be Back Someday (1964)
Willie Dixon - Nervous (1962)
Bukka White - Got Sick And Tired (1967) #
Son House - Death Letter Blues (1967) #
Hound Dog Taylor & Little Walter - Wild About You (1967) #
Koko Taylor & Little Walter - Wang Dang Doodle (1967) #
Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call (1968)
Earl Hooker - Walking The Floor Over You / Off The Hook (1969)
Magic Sam - All Your Love (1969)
entire ensemble - Bye Bye Blues (1963)

# rec. October 11, 1967 at DRTV studio in Copenhagen, Denmark
Bukka White, voc, g
Hound Dog Taylor, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Dillard Crume, b; Odie Payne, dr
Koko Taylor, voc; Little Walter, hca; Hound Dog Taylor, g; Dillard Crume, b; Odie Payne, dr
Son House, voc, g
Skip James, voc, g
Sonny Terry, voc, hca; Brownie McGhee, voc, g, kazoo
presentation: Dillard Crume
photographer: Jan Persson

originally issued on TV only

Hip-O DVD JHAM0263 (US 2004) "The American
Folk Blues Festival 1962-
1969 Volume Three"

Hip-O CD B0003224-02 (US 2004) "The American
Folk Blues Festival 1962-
1969 Volume Two"

American Folk Blues Festival discography

1968

American Folk Blues Festival '67

Bukka White
- Aberdeen Blues
Hound Dog Taylor, Little Walter, Dillard Crume, Odie Payne
- The Sky Is Crying @ youtube
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Rock Island Line
Son House
- Got A Letter This Morning (3:54 / 4:12) (aka "Death Letter Blues")
Hound Dog Taylor, Little Walter, Dillard Crume, Odie Payne
- You Be So Fine

Koko Taylor
- Wang Dang Doodle
Skip James
- Hard Luck Child
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- I'm Gonna Move Across The River
Koko Taylor
- What Kind Of Man Is This
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Walk On

rec. October 15, 1967 at Kongress-Halle, Berlin, Germany
Bukka White, voc, g
Hound Dog Taylor, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Dillard Crume, b; Odie Payne, dr
Sonny Terry, voc, hca; Brownie McGhee, voc, g, kazoo
Son House, voc, g
Little Walter, voc, hca; Hound Dog Taylor, g; Dillard Crume, b; Odie Payne, dr
Koko Taylor, voc; Little Walter, hca; Hound Dog Taylor, g; Dillard Crume, b; Odie Payne, dr
Skip James, voc, g

notes by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos (translated by Nigel Whittaker)

Fontana 885 433 TY (Germany 1968)

notes (8-pp. booklet) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos

= Optimism/L+R LR CD-2070 (US 1990)

notes (8-pp. booklet) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos

= Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 42070 (Germany 1998)

4 CD set
notes by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos

(=) Bellaphon / L+R CDLR 726222 (EU 2002) "American Folk Blues Festival 1965/1966/1967/1969"

American Folk Blues Festival discography
Fontana Records discography
L+R Records discography
Bukka White discography
Hound Dog Taylor discography
Little Walter discography
Skip James discography

1970

The Story Of The Blues Vol. 2

Side One: Guitar Pickers
Curley Weaver - No No Blues
Little Hat Jones - Hurry Blues
Emery Glen - Blue Blazes Blues
'Mooch' Richardson - Low Down Barrelhouse Blues 2
Lonnie Johnson - Broken Levee Blues
Buddy Moss - Undertaker Blues
J.B. Lenoir - Mojo Boogie
Son House - Pearline

Side Two: Piano Blues
Whistlin' Alex Moore - West Texas Woman
Sylvester Palmer - Lonesome Man Blues
George NobleThe Seminole Blues
Cripple Clarence Lofton - Brown Skin Blues
Bumble Bee Slim - Ramblin' With That Woman
Roosevelt Scott - Black Gal Blues
Roosevelt Sykes - Training Camp Blue
Champion Jack Dupree - Junker Blues

Side Three: Blues Girls
Maggy Jones - Good Time Flat Blues
Clara Smith - Whip It To A Jelly
Cleo Gibson - I've Got Ford Movement In My Hips
Martha Copeland - Desert Blues
Victoria Spivey - Christmas Morning Blues
Liza Brown, Ann Johnson - Get On Out Of Here
Merline Johnson - Good Old Easy Street
Big Maybelle - Maybelle's Blues

Side Four: Blues Groups
Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie - That Will Be Alright
Mississippi Mud Steppers - Jackson Stomp
Jazzbo Tommy & Lowlander's - Blaze Face Cow
Duskey Dailey & His Band - Miss Georgia Blues
Willie 'Long Time' Smith - My Buddy Dr. Clayton
Otis Rush - Love That Woman
Magic Sam - All Your Love
John Littlejohn - Been Around The World

compiled by Paul Oliver

DLP
notes by Paul Oliver

CBS 66232 (UK 1970)

= CBS 88630 (NL 1970)

notes by Paul Oliver

= CBS 66232 (It 1970) "La Storia del Blues Vol. Due"

other releases at discogs.com

4 LP set

(=) CBS 66426 (Fr 1972) "Vol. 1 & 2"

= CBS LSP 14410 (Germany 1981)

1972

Son House: The Legendary 1941-1942 Recordings In Chronological Sequence

- Shetland Pony Blues
- Camp Hollers
- Delta Blues
- Special Rider Blues
- Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
- Depot Blues
- The Key Of Minor

- American Defense
- Am I Right Or Wrong
- Walking Blues
- County Farm Blues
- The Pony Blues
- The Jinx Blues - part 1
- The Jinx Blues - part 2

rec. 1941/42 by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress
compiled and produced by Evelyn Parth
photography by Brad Barrett

"released in the U.K. by Saydisc Specialized Recordings Ltd."

Roots RSE 1 (Special edition) (Austria 1972)

= Folklyric 9002 (US 1975?) ("distributed by Arhoolie Records")

= Autogram RSE-1 (Germany 2006) (Collector's series)

Roots Records discography
Arhoolie/Folklyric discography

1973

Legendary Sessions - Delta Style
The Famous Paramount Recordings in Chronological Order

Louise Johnson
- On The Wall
- By The Moon And Stars
Son House
- Dry Spell Blues - part 1
- Dry Spell Blues - part 2
Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Son House, Willie Brown
- Fo' Clock Blues #
Willie Brown
- Make Me A Pallet On The Floor #
Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Willie Brown, Leroy Williams
- Goin' To Fishing #

# "supplements to RSE-1 (Son House 1941-42 Library of Congress Sessions)"

Roots RSE-5 (Austria 1973) (Special edition)

= autogram RSE-5 (Germany 2005) (Collector's series)

Roots Records discography

1969

The Vocal Intensity Of Son House
King Of Mississippi Blues Singers

- Son's Blues
- Yonder Comes My Mother
- Shetland Pony Blues

- Preachin' The Blues
- Empire State Express
- Grinnin' In Your Face (with Evie House, tambourine)
- Sun Goin' Down (alt tk)

rec. September 22/23/24, 1969 in Rochester, NY

Roots/Saydisc SL-504 (Austria 1969)

Roots Records discography

1970

Son House: John The Revelator

- Monologue: The Blues #
- Between Midnight And Day *[]
- I Want To Go Home On The Morning Train *[]
- Levee Camp Moan *
- This Little Light Of Mine *

- Monologue: Thinkin' Strong *
- Death Letter #
- How To Treat A Man ##
- Grinnin' In Your Face #
- John The Revelator #

* rec. June 30, 1970 live at the 100 Club, London; *[] with Al Wilson, hca
# rec. July 14, 1970 live at the 100 Club, London; ## with Delta Dave (Kelly), g
photography: Les Astrella

notes by Chris Trimming and Ron Watts

Liberty LBS 83391 (UK 1970)

notes by Alan Balfour

= Sequel NEXCD 207 (UK 1992)

notes by David Evans

= Capitol CDP 7243 8 31830 29 (US 1995) "Delta Blues & Spirituals" (Capitol Blues Selection series)

1970

Stefan Grossman: The Ragtime Cowboy Jew

- So They Say
- Sound Techniques Recording Blues
- The Birthday Song (People Get Ready)
- Odyssey

- The Alibi (Hush My Babe)
- Georgia Camp Meeting
- A Prairie Song
- Waterfalls
- New Pony Blues (Son House, voc; Stefan Grossman, g) #
- Bye And Bye

- Matesa
- Morning Blues
- Satisfied And Tickled Too
- High Society
- Soldier's March
- Fat Man
- Kokomo
- Belzona Blues

- Orphan Sunday
- Little Sally Walker
- Make Believe Stunt
- Roseberry Hill
- Yonder Comes The Blues (Son House, voc; Stefan Grossman, g; Paul Rowan, harm) #
- A Pretty Little Tune (more info)

# rec. July 1970 in London

DLP

Transatlantic TRA 223 (UK 1970)

1970

Cream Of The Crop

Son House
- Shetland Pony Blues
Willie Brown
- Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
Bukka White
- Sic 'Em Dogs On
- Po' Boy
William Harris
- Kitchen Range Blues
Dennis Crumpton & Robert Summers
- Go I'll Send Thee
- Everybody Ought To Pray Sometime
Bo Weavil Jackson (Sam Butler)
- Why Do You Moan?

Son House
- The Pony Blues
- The Jinx Blues - part 1
Alfred Lewis
- Mississippi Swamp Moan
Walter "Buddy Boy" Hawkins
- Workin' On The Railroad
- Yellow Woman Blues
Richard (Rabbit) Brown
- James Alley Blues
The Beale Street Sheiks
- Rockin' On The Hill Blues

Roots RL 332 (Austria 1970)

Roots Records discography

197?

Delta Blues
Skip James, Son House, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson

Robert Johnson
- Ramblin' On My Mind
- Come On In My Kitchen
- Phonograph Blues
- Cross Road Blues
- Little Queen Of Spades
- Drunken Hearted Man
- Stop Breakin' Down
- Love In Vain

Charley Patton
Skip James
Son House
- Sundown (R-26-1) *

* rec. Sept. 23, 1969 in Rochester, NY

Roots RL 339 (Austria 197?)

Roots Records discography

1972

Blind Lemon Jefferson / Son House

Son House
- My Black Mama - part 1
- My Black Mama - part 2
- Preachin' The Blues - part 1
- Preachin' The Blues - part 2
- Dry Spell Blues - part 1
- Dry Spell Blues - part 2
- Delta Blues *

Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Wartime Blues
- Weary Dog Blues
- Gone Dead On You Blues
- One Dime Blues
- Lemon's Cannonball Moan
- Eagle Eyed Mama
- Dynamite Blues
- Big Night Blues

Eddie James House, Jr. (Son House), voc, g; * Leroy Williams, hca
Blind Lemon Jefferson, voc, g

notes by Arnold S. Caplin

Biograph BLP-12040 (US 1972)

Biograph Records discography

1972

Deep South Country Blues

William Harris
- Bull Frog Blues
William Moore
- Old Country Rock
Son House
- My Black Mama part I
- My Black Mama part II
Sunny Boy & His Pals (Papa Harvey Hull & Long Cleve Reed)
- The France Blues
Kid Bailey
- Mississippi Bottom Blues
- Rowdy Blues

Willie Brown
- Future Blues
- M & O Blues
George "Bullet" Williams
- Touch Me Light Mama
Henry Sims
- Tell Me Man Blues
Buster Johnson
- Undertaker Blues
Garfield Akers
- Cottonfield Blues part 1
- Cottonfield Blues part 2

Flyright LP 102 (UK 1972)

Flyright Records discography

1972

Blues For Your Pocket

Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground [XTRA 1098]
Son House - New Pony Blues [Transatlantic TRA 223]
Furry Lewis - Pearlee Blues [XTRA 1116]
Jazz Gillum - Key To The Highway [XTRA 1111]
Big Bill Broonzy - Guitar Shuffle [XTRA 1004]
Brownie McGhee - Sportin' Life Blues [XTRA 1035]

Memphis Slim - Boogie Woogie Piano Styles [XTRA 1085]
Little Brother Montgomery - Lonesome Mama [XTRA 1115]
Sticks McGhee - Drink Of Wine Mop Mop [XTRA 1110]
J.D. Short - So Much Wine [XTRA 1080]
James 'Son' Thomas - Beefsteak Blues [XTRA 1105]
Fred McDowell - Mojo Hand [Transatlantic TRA 194]

compiled by Mike Leadbitter

notes by Mike Leadbitter

Transatlatic TRA SAM 25 (UK 1972)

= Guimbarda 30.111057 (Sp 1979) "Bluesmen 3"

XTRA Records discography

1972

The Great Blues Men

Vanguard VSD 25/26, LP 1:
Homesick James - Set A Date
John Lee Hooker - Dusty Road
Sleepy John Estes - Corinna °°
Muddy Waters - Nineteen Years Old
Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues
Mance Lipscomb - Blues In G
Rev. Gary Davis - If I Had My Way °°

Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Key To The Highway
Otis Spann - Burning Fire
Lightnin' Hopkins - Cotton Field Blues
Big Bill Broonzy - Louise, Louise Blues
Johnny Young - Tighten Up On It
James Cotton - Ain't Nobody's Business

Vanguard VSD 25/26, LP 2:
Mississippi John Hurt - Moanin' The Blues
Junior Wells - Stormy Monday Blues °°
Johnny Shines - Dynaflow Blues
Son House (+ Al Wilson) - Empire State Blues °°
Sonny Terry - Mountain Blues
Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - It's All Right, Baby

Jimmy Rushing - How Long, How Long Blues
Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues
J. B. Hutto - Please Help
Fred McDowell - Fred's Ramblin' Blues
Ida Cox - Four Day Creep °°
Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VCD 115/16 (US 1991)

Newport Folk Festival discography
Mississippi John Hurt discography
Reverend Gary Davis discography
Reverend Robert Wilkins discography
Skip James discography
Sleepy John Estes discography
Yank Rachell discography
Hammie Nixon discography
Robert Pete Williams discography
Jesse Fuller discography
John P. Hammond discography
Dave Van Ronk discography, Vanguard 3VCD 193/95-2] @ youtube
Otis Rush - I't's A Mean Old World

°° not on CD

design by Jules Halfant; front cover collage by Eric Von Schmidt

Vanguard VCD 25/26:
Homesick James - Set A Date (2:44)
John Lee Hooker - Dusty Road (3:05)
Muddy Waters - Nineteen Years Old (4:55)
Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:40)
Mance Lipscomb - Blues In G (3:33)
Mississippi John Hurt - Moanin' The Blues (3:15)
Johnny Shines - Dynaflow Blues (2:35)
Sonny Terry - Mountain Blues (3:04)
Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - It's All Right, Baby (2:30)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key To The Highway (3:38)
Otis Spann - Burning Fire (3:15)
Lightning Hopkins - Cotton Field Blues (5:36)
Big Bill Broonzy - Louise, Louise Blues (2:55)
Johnny Young - Tighten Up On It (3:06)
James Cotton - Ain't Nobody's Business (3:23)
Jimmy Rushing - How Long, How Long Blues (4:45)
Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues (4:10)
J.B. Hutto - Please Help (2:52)
Fred McDowell - Fred's Rambling Blues (2:05)
Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas (3:43)
Otis Rush - It's A Mean Old World (2:22)

gatefold DLP
notes Leroy J. Pierson

Vanguard VSD 25/26 (US 1972)

gatefold DLP
notes Leroy J. Pierson

= Vanguard VSD 25/26 (Fr 1972)

DLP, no gatefold, but 2-page leaflet
notes Leroy J. Pierson

Vanguard VSD 25/26 (US 1986)

notes Leroy J. Pierson

(=) Vanguard VCD 25/26 (US 1988)

lots of further editions at www.discogs.com

1973

Legendary Sessions - Delta Style
The Famous Paramount Recordings in Chronological Order

# "supplements to RSE-1 (Son House 1941-42 Library of Congress Sessions)"

Roots RSE-5 (Austria 1973) (Special edition)

= autogram RSE-5 (Germany 2005) (Collector's series)

Roots Records discography

1974

Son House: The Real Delta Blues

@ youtube (full album)
14 Songs From The Man Who Taught Robert Johnson

- Milkcow's Calf Blues
- I Shall Not Be Moved
- Rochester Blues [= 'Louise McGhee']
- Hobo [instr]
- Lake Cormorant Blues [= 'Levee Camp Moan']
- Motherless Children Have A Hard Time
- Mississippi County Farm Blues [= Bl. Lemon Jefferson's 'See That My Grave ...']

- Pony Blues
- Trouble Blues @ youtube
- This Little Light Of Mine
- A Down The Stuff [instr]
- The D. T. Moan (instr)
- Lord Have Mercy When I Come To Die
- Soon In The Morning [= 'Pearline']

privately taped early 1960s in Rochester, NY by Nick Perls

notes by Stephen Calt

Blue Goose 2016

TB1,6

Blue Goose Records discography

1976

Great Bluesmen Newport

Robert Pete Williams
- Midnight Boogie
- Levee Camp Blues
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
- My Baby Done Changed The Lock On The Door
John Lee Hooker with Bill Lee on bass
- Tupelo
- Bus Station Blues
Son House
- Son's Blues (6:18) [aka "Preaching Blues"] [Vanguard VSD 79225]
- Death Letter Blues (2:50) °° [Vanguard VSD 79225]
- Pony Blues (2:30) [previously unissued] (with Mance Lipscomb, 2nd g)
Sleepy John Estes
- Mailman Blues [Vanguard VRS 9180 / VSD 79180]
- Clean Up At Home [Vanguard VRS 9180 / VSD 79180] @ youtube
Doc Reese
- Hey Rattler / Oh My Lord [Vanguard VRS 9180 / VSD 79180]
Mississippi John Hurt
- Sliding Delta
- Trouble, I've Had It All My Day
Skip James
- Hard Times Killing Floor Blues [previously unissued]
- Cherry Ball Blues °° [Vanguard VRS-9181 / VSD-79181]
- Illinois Blues [previously unissued]
The Reverend Gary Davis
- Death Don't Have No Mercy [Vanguard SRV-73008]
Willie Doss
- Catfish Blues
- I Had A Woman
Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Lord, I'm Going Down South
- If The River Was Whiskey
Lightnin' Hopkins with Samuel Lay
- Cotten Fields Blues
- Shake That Thing

gatefold inner sleeve of Vanguard VSD 77/78

°° note on CD 77/78: "due to compact disc time restrictions some songs on the original album are not included in this package"

DLP
notes by Maynard Solomon

Vanguard VSD 77/78

King/Vanguard LAX-155 (Jp 1976)

notes by Samuel Charters

= Vanguard CD 77/78 (1991)
2 LPs on 1 CD #
Great Bluesmen At
Newport 1959-1965

1977

Stefan Grossman
Country Blues Guitar Festival

- Special Rider Blues * (Jo Ann Kelly, voc)
- Pallet On Your Floor (Sam Mitchell, 2nd g)
- New Pony Blues * (Son House, voc; Stefan Grossman, g) #
- One Kind Favour (Jo Ann Kelly, voc)
- Hollerin' For My Crow Jane *(Mike Cooper, voc + 2nd g)
- Hard Time Killin' Floor * (Jo Ann Kelly, voc)

- If You Haven't Any Hay ... * (Jo Ann Kelly, voc)
- Ragtime Mama Blues (Sam Mitchell, 2nd g)
- Someday Baby * (Jo Ann Kelly, voc)
- Yonder Comes The Blues * (Son House, voc; Stefan Grossman, g; Paul Rowan, harm) #
- Weeping Willow * (Mike Cooper, voc)
- Brownsville Blues (Jo Ann Kelly, voc)

# rec. July 1970 in London
* re-released 1990 on Shanachie CD 98001/2 ("How To Play Blues Guitar")

Transatlantic TRA 223

Kicking Mule 145 [US]
= Sonet SNKF 129 [UK]
= Sonet 69056 [D]

1979

Walking Blues

Son House
- Levee Camp Blues
- Goverment Fleet Blues
- Walking Blues
Fiddlin' Joe Martin
- Fo' Clock Blues
Willie Brown
- Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
Fiddlin' Joe Martin
- Goin' To Fishing
Son House
- Special Rider Blues

Leroy Williams
- Uncle Sam Done Called
Willie '61' Blackwell
- Junior's A Jap Girl's Christmas For His Santa Claus
David Edwards
- Spread My Raincoat Down
- Water Coast Blues
- Army Blues
- Wind Howlin' Blues
- Roamin And Ramblin Blues

rec. by Alan Lomax in the early 1940s

notes by John Cowley

Flyright FLY 541 (UK 1979)

Flyright Records discography

1980

John And Old Marster
Negro Folk Tales

Jim Daniels #
- The Champion Swimmer
Emmanuel Dunn
- John And The Owl

Emmanuel Dunn
- John And The Stones
Son House
- Two At The Gate *

* rec. April 24, 1965 Iowa City, Ia.
# rec. by Vincent Kohler, all others rec. by Harry Oster

accompanying booklet text taken from: Harry Oster: "Negro Humor: John and Old Marster." Journal of the Folklore Institute 5 (1968), pp. 42-57

Flyright FLY EP 01

Flyright Records discography

1980

Rare Blues

Dr. Isaiah Ross
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
Maxwell Street Jimmy
- Alberta
Big Joe Williams
- I Ain't Got Nobody
Son House
- Preachin' The Blues *
Rev. Robert Wilkins
- I Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down

Little Brother Montgomery
- The Pleadin' Blues
Sunnyland Slim
- Lend Me Your Love
Maxwell Street Jimmy
- Two Trains Running
Big Joe Williams
- Whistling Pines
Rev. Robert Wilkins
- O Lord I Want You To Help Me

* rec. November 21, 1964 live at the University of Chicago, IL, by Norman Dayron

notes by Norman Dayron

Takoma TAK 7081

notes by Norman Dayron

= Sonet SNTF 853
= Sonet RISLP-14115

Fantasy TAKCD-8907-2
"Takoma Blues"

Takoma Records discography

1981

Son House In Concert

- It's So Hard (Levee Camp Moan)
- Judgement Day (Death Letter)
- New York Central (Empire State Express)
- A True Friend Is Hard To Find (Grinnin' In Your Face)

- Preachin' The Blues
- Change Your Mind (Son's Blues)

rec. 1965 at the Oberlin College, Oh.

notes by Robert Scherl

Stack-O-Hits 9004

= Blue Moon BMLP 1020

= Blue Moon CD 20 (1999)

(=) Varese Sarabande (2002)
= Fuel 2000 (2006)

1985

Giants Of Country Blues Vol. 1 (1927-32)

Wolf WSE 116 tracks:
Willie Brown
- Future Blues
- M & O Blues
Bobby Grant
- Lonesome Atlanta Blues
- Nappy Head Blues
King Solomon Hill
- Down On Bended Knee - take 1
- Down On Bended Knee - take 2
- Gone Dead Train
- Tell Me Baby
- Whoopee Blues - take 1
- Whoopee Blues - take 2

Son House
- Dry Spell Blues-part 1
- Dry Spell Blues - part 2
- My Black Mama - part 1
- My Black Mama - part 2
- Preachin' The Blues - part 1
- Preachin' The Blues - part 2
Rube Lacy
- Ham Hound Crave
- Mississippi Jail House Groan

Wolf WSE CD 107 tracks:
Bobby Grant
- Nappy Head Blues
- Lonesome Atlanta Blues
Rube Lacy
- Mississippi Jail House Groan
- Ham Hound Crave
Willie Brown
- M & O Blues
- Future Blues
King Solomon Hill
- Whoopee Blues
- Whoopee Blues
- Down On My Bended Knee
- Down On My Bended Knee
- The Gone Dead Train
- Tell Me Baby
Son House
- My Black Mama (Part 1)
- My Black Mama (Part 2)
- Preachin' The Blues (Part 1)
- Preachin' The Blues (part 2)
- Dry Spell Blues (Part 1)
- Dry Spell Blues (Part 2)
- Walking Blues [unissued Pm Test]
John Henry Barbee
- Six Weeks Old Blues
- God Knows I Can't Help It
- You'll Work Down To Me Someday
- Against My Will

Wolf WSE 116

(=) Wolf WSE CD 107 (2002)

19??

Son House In Concert

- Pony Blues
- Motherless Children
- Preachin' Blues
- This Little Light Of Mine
- Infinity Blues
- Death Letter Blues

- I Shall Not Be Moved
- Levee Camp Moan
- Empire State Express
- Yonder Comes My Mother *
- Louise McGee *

rec. live at the Gaslight Cafe, New York City on Jan. 3, 1965
* rec. live at the Wabash College, Indiana on Nov. 23, 1964

Stefan Grossman
Guitar Workshop release
(cassette only)

Document DOCD-5663

1986

The Roots Of Robert Johnson

Skip James
- Devil Got My Woman
Kokomo Arnold
- Milk Cow Blues
Leroy Carr
- When The Sun Goes Down
Son House
- Preachin' The Blues - part 1
Lonnie Johnson
- Life Saver Blues
Henry Thomas
- Red River Blues
Charley Patton
- Revenue Man Blues

Son House
- My Black Mama - part 1
Skip James
- 22-20 Blues
Hambone Willie Newbern
- Roll And Tumble Blues
The Mississippi Sheiks
- Sitting On Top Of The World
Scrapper Blackwell
- Kokomo Blues
Casey Bill Weldon
- Go Ahead, Buddy
Johnnie Temple
- Lead Pencil Blues

cover artwork by Malcolm Kirton

notes by Stephen Calt 245 Waverly Place, New York, N.Y. 10014

Yazoo L 1073 (US 1986)

= Yazoo CD 1073 YAZ (US 1990)

Yazoo Records discography

1987

Son House Vol. 1 (1965 - 1970)
Previously unissued material plus three bonus tracks

- Levee Camp Moan *
- Death Letter *
- I Had A Job On The Levee *
- Son's Blues - part 1 *
- Son's Blues - part 2 *
- I'm So Sorry Baby #
- Plantation Song #
- Mister Suzie-Q #
- Evening Train #

- Death Letter §
- John The Revelator §
- Preachin' The Blues §
- I Want To Live So God Can Use Me §
- Levee Camp Moan $
- Empire State Blues []
- New Pony Blues &
- Yonder Comes The Blues %

* film soundtrack 1968, previously unissued
# private recordings, Rochester, 1969, previously unissued
§ TV show Seattle, 1969, previously unissued
$ TV show Newport, 1965, previously unissued
[] Newport, R.I., 1965
& 1966/67
% London, 1979

Private Records PR1
(Austria 1987)

1987

Son House Vol. 2 (1964 - 1974)

- Preachin' The Blues *
- Son's Blues #
- Death Letter Blues #
- Pony Blues #
- Levee Camp Moan §

- Got A Letter This Morning $
- Sundown []
- Walking Blues &
- untitled original &

* Chicago concert, 1964
# Newport, R.I., 1965
§ Café Au Go Go, NYC, 1966
$ AFBF, Berlin, W. Germany, 1967
[] private recordings, Rochester, NY, 1969
& last performance, Toronto Island, 1974

Private Records PR2
(Austria 1987)

1988

Delta Blues Vol. 1 1929-1930

Charley Patton
- Elder Greene Blues [L-38-2-unissued Pm Test]
- Some These Days I'll Be Gone [L-43-1-unissued Pm Test]
- Hammer Blues [L-47-1-unissued Pm Test]
Louise Johnson
- All Night Long Blues [L-398-1-unissued Pm Test]
- Long Ways From Home [L-399-2-unissued Pm Test]
- On The Wall [L-419-1-unissued Pm Test]
- By The Moon And Stars [L-420-2-unissued Pm Test]

Son House
- Walkin' Blues [unissued Pm Test]
Louise Johnson
- All Night Long Blues [L-398-2-unissued Pm Test]
Tommy Johnson
- Morning Prayer [Unissued Pm Test]
- Boogaloosa Woman [Unissued Pm Test]
- Black Mare Blues [L-245-1-unissued Pm Test]
Alura Mack
- Woman Woman Blues [L-239-1-unissued Pm Test]

Document DLP 532 (Austria 1988)

Document Records discography

1988

Giants Of Country Blues Guitar 1967-81

Jessie Mae Hemphill
- Eagle Bird °° @ youtube
- Shame, Shame °° @ youtube

Son House
- Baby Please Don't Dog Me 'Round # @ youtube
Sam Chatmon
- Stoop Down Baby @ youtube
- Baby Please Come Back To Me @ youtube
- Stop And Listen @ youtube
Eugene Powell
- 44 Blues @ youtube
- Suitcase Full Of Troubles @ youtube
- Texas - Santa Fe @ youtube
Furry Lewis
- Going To Brownsville @ youtube

Jack Owens
- Hard Times @ youtube
- Cherry Ball @ youtube
- Give Me Your Money @ youtube
- Devil Blues @ youtube
Mager Johnson / Carey 'Ditty' Mason
- Traveling Man Blues @ youtube
Mott Willis
- Traveling Man Blues @ youtube
- Someday Blues @ youtube
- Bad Night Blues @ youtube

°° rec. September 1991 in Senatobia, MS; Jessie Mae Hemphill. voc, g (on CD only)
# rec. September 23, 1969 in Rochester, NY; Son House, voc, g

Wolf LP 120.911 photography by Michael Hortig
Wolf CD 120.911 photography by Michael Hortig and Hannes Folterbauer

notes by Daniel Gugolz

original edition with false photo caption, repress: caption corrected ("Mott Willis" instead of "Jack Owens")
Wolf 120.911 (Austria 1988)

notes by Daniel Gugolz & Hannes Folterbauer

(=) Wolf CD 120.911 (Austria 19??) "Giants Of Country Blues Guitar Vol. 1 (1967-1991)"

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

RST Blues Documents BD-01 (Austria 1990)

3 CD set
notes by Paul Oliver

Vol. 1: 1927-1930

Vol. 2: 1927-1936

Vol. 3: 1929-1956
= Story Of Blues/Da Music 3521/3522/3523 (Austria 1992)

= Century Media SOB 3521-2/3522-2/3523-2 (1994)

3 CD set

= 1201 Music 7002-2 (US 1999)

1990

Stefan Grossman: How To Play Blues Guitar

- Yonder Comes The Blues (Son House, voc; Stefan Grossman, g; Paul Rowan, harm) #
- Police Dog Blues
- Easy Street
- Ragtime Mama Blues
- Corrina, Corrina
- If You Haven't Any Hay
- Don't Get On Down The Road
- Man Of My Own
- Assassination Of John Fahey
- Moon Goin' Down
- Ragged And Dirty
- Crow Jane
- Pallet On Your Floor
- Mississippi Blues no. 3
- New Pony Blues (Son House, voc; Stefan Grossman, g) #
- You Got The Pocket Book, I Got The Key
- Someday Baby
- Juicy Lucy
- Hard Time Killin' Floor
- Belzona Blues
- Oh, Babe It Ain't No Lie
- Special Rider Blues
- Weeping Willow
- Wake Up Mama

# rec. July 1970 in London, UK

Shanachie CD 98001/2

1990

Son House And The Great Delta Blues Singers (1928-1930)

Son House
- My Black Mama - part 1
- My Black Mama - part 2
- Preachin' The Blues - part 1
- Preachin' The Blues - part 2
- Dry Spell Blues - part 1
- Dry Spell Blues - part 2
- Walking Blues [unissued Pm Test]
Willie Brown
- M&O Blues
- Future Blues
Kid Bailey
- Mississippi Bottom Blues
- Rowdy Blues
Garfield Akers
- Cottonfield Blues - part 1
- Cottonfield Blues - part 2
- Dough Roller Blues
- Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues
Joe Callicott
- Fare Thee Well Blues
- Traveling Mama Blues
Jim Thompkins
- Bedside Blues
Blind Joe (Willie) Reynolds
- Outside Woman Blues
- Nehi Blues
- Married Man Blues
- Third Street Woman Blue
Rube Lacy
- Mississippi Jail House Blues
- Ham Hound Crave

notes by Bob Groom

Document DOCD-5002 (Austria 1990 ff.)

notes by Bob Groom

= Document DOCD-5002 (EU 2000)

notes by Bob Groom

= Document DOCD-5002 (EU 2008)

47a

1990

Legends Of The Blues Volume One

Columbia LP C/AL 46215 track sequence:
- St. Louis Blues - Bessie Smith
- Match Box Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Ain't No Tellin' - Mississippi John Hurt
- Lord, I Just Can't Keep From Crying - Blind Willie Johnson
- Pigmeat Is What I Crave - Bo Carter
- Southern Can Is Mine - Blind Willie McTell
- Low Down St. Louis Blues - Lonnie Johnson
- Revenue Man Blues Patton - Charley Patton
- Stormy Night Blues - Leroy Carr
- I Believe I'll Make A Change - Josh White

- Forth Worth And Dallas Blues - Leadbelly
- Sweet Home Blues - Peetie Wheatstraw
- Stop Breakin' Down Blues - Robert Johnson
- Truckin' My Blues Away, #2 - Blind Boy Fuller
- Spreadin' Snakes Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
- Nothing In Ramblin' - Memphis Minnie
- Fixin' To Die Blues - Bukka White
- Hard Day Blues - Muddy Waters
- Don't You Leave Me Here (tk 1) - Big Joe Williams
- Death Letter - Son House

SPV Blue CD SPV 91722 bonus tracks:
- Hell Hound On My Trail - Robert Johnson
- Rock Island Line - Leadbelly and The Golden Gate Quartet

original series compiled & prod. by Lawrence Cohn

notes by Paul Oliver

Columbia LP C/AL 46215 (US 1990)

notes by Paul Oliver

= Columbia/Legacy CD CK 46215 (US 1990)

notes by Paul Oliver

= CBS/Legacy CD 467245 (EU 1990)

= CBS/Sony CSCS 5323 (Jp 1990)

notes by Neil Slaven

(=) SPV Blue SPV 91722 (Germany/Poland 2008)

20 CD box set, CD 5

(=) Sony Music 88875043322 (US 2014) (Roots n' Blues series)

1990

The Slide Guitar: Bottles, Knives & Steel [Vol. 1]

- Bottleneck Blues - Weaver & Beasley
- untitled - Barbecue Bob
- God Don't Never Change - Blind Willie Johnson
- Dark Was The Night (Cold Was the Ground) - Blind Willie Johnson
- St. Louis Blues - Weaver & Beasley
- Experience Blues - Blind Willie McTell, Ruth Mary Willis
- Guitar Rag - Sylvester Weaver
- You Can't Get That Stuff No More - Tampa Red
- High Sheriff Blues - Charley Patton
- Homesick And Lonesome Blues - Blind Boy Fuller
- Packin' Trunk Blues - Leadbelly
- I Believe I'll Make A Change - Casey Bill Weldon
- Don't Sell It (Don't Give It Away) - Buddy Woods
- Muscat Hill Blues - Buddy Woods
- Traveling Riverside Blues - Robert Johnson
- Bukka's Jitterbug Swing - Bukka White
- Special Streamline - Bukka White
- Swing Low, Chariot - Sister O.M. Terrell
- Pearline - Son House

SPV CD 42492 bonus tracks:
- Black Snake Moan - Leadbelly
- Death Letter Blues - Son House

series prod. by Lawrence Cohn
cover photo by Steve Prezant

notes by Richard Spottswood

CBS LP C 46218 (US 1990)
= CBS LP 268.064 (UK 1990) (Roots n' Blues series)

notes by Richard Spottswood

= CBS CD CK46218 (US 1990)
= CBS CD 467251 (EU 1990) (Roots n' Blues series)

= CBS/Sony CSCS 5327 (Jp 1990)

= Columbia WCK 46218 (Ca 1990)

= Columbia 493345 2 (UK 1998)

notes by Neil Slaven

= SPV GmbH/Blue Label CD SPV 42492 (Germany 2008) (Roots n' Blues series)

20 CD box set, CD 8
notes by Dean Rudland

(=) Sony Music 88875043322 (US 2014) (Roots n' Blues series)

1991

Son House: Delta Blues
The Original Library of Congress Sessions From Field Recordings 1941-1942

- Levee Camp Blues
- Goverment Fleet Blues
- Walking Blues
- Shetland Pony Blues
- Delta Blues
- Special Rider Blues
- Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
- Depot Blues
- American Defense
- Am I Right Or Wrong
- Walking Blues
- Country Farm Blues
- The Pony Blues
- The Jinx Blues

Biograph BCD 118

Biograph Records discography

1991

Masters Of The Delta Blues: The Friends Of Charlie Patton

- Rowdy Blues - Kid Bailey
- Big Fat Mama Blues - Tommy Johnson
- I Am In The Heavenly Way - Bukka White
- Future Blues - Willie Brown
- Brown Mama Blues - Ishman Bracey
- On The Wall - Louise Johnson
- Walking Blues - Son House [unissued Pm test]
- Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Promise True And Grand - Bukka White
- Mississippi Bottom Blues - Kid Bailey
- Maggie Campbell Blues - Tommy Johnson
- My Black Mama (Part 1) - Son House
- My Black Mama (Part 2) - Son House
- Yellow Bee - Bertha Lee
- Long Way From Home - Louise Johnson
- M And O Blues - Willie Brown
- Button Up Shoes (tk 1, unissued test) - Tommy Johnson
- Mind Reader Blues - Bertha Lee
- Lonesome Home Blues (tk 1, unissued test) - Tommy Johnson
- Dry Spell Blues (Part 1) - Son House
- Dry Spell Blues (Part 2) - Son House
- Preachin' The Blues (Part 1) - Son House
- Preachin' The Blues (Part 2) - Son House

prod. by Richard Nevins

notes by Don Kent

Yazoo CD 2002 (US 1991)

Yazoo Records discography

1991

Bukka White and Son House

@ youtube (full dvd)
Masters of the Country Blues

Son House
introduction by Taj Mahal
- Death Letter ##
- John The Revelator #
- Preachin' Blues ##
- I Want To Live So God Can Use Me #
Bukka White
introduction by Taj Mahal
- Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
- Mama Don't Allow
- My Baby **
- Broken Down Blues
- Poor Boy ***
- Old Time Boogie

rec. 1967/69 in the studio of Seattle's public TV station, KCTS by John Ullman (Seattle Folklore Society)
# rec. November 15, 1969; Son House, voc, ## g
* rec. December 1967; Bukka White, voc, slide g, ** p, *** lap/knife slide g

VHS video

Yazoo 500 (US 1991)

DVD video

Yazoo 500 (US 2000)

1992

Son House: Father Of The Delta Blues
The Complete 1965 Sessions

disc 1
- Death Letter
- Perline
- Louise McGhee
- John The Revelator
- Empire State Express *
- Preachin' Blues
- Grinnin' In Your Face
- Sundown
- Levee Camp Moan #

disc 2
- Death Letter
- Levee Camp Moan #
- Grinnin' In Your Face
- John The Revelator
- Preachin' Blues
- President Kennedy
- A Down The Staff
- Motherless Children
- Younder Comes My Mother *
- Shake It And Break It
- Pony Blues
- Downhearted Blues

rec. Boston, April 12/14, 1965; prod. by John Hammond [Sr.]
Son House, voc, g; Al Wilson, * second g, # hca

notes by Lawrence Cohn

Columbia/Legacy C2K 48867
= Sony SRCS 5958~9

1992

Son House "At Home"
The Legendary 1969 Rochester sessions

- Son's Blues
- Yonder Comes My Mother
- Shetland Pony Blues
- I'm Sorry Baby
- Plantation Song
- Mister Suzie-Q
- Evening Train
- Sundown
- Preachin' The Blues
- Empire Sate Express
- Never Mind People Grinnin' In Your Face
- Sun Goin' Down
- A Spoken Message

notes by Bob Groom

Document DOCD-5148

1993

Blues With A Feeling
Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival

disc 1 / Vanguard VCD 73133-2:
- Introduction by Dick Waterman (2:05) #
Son House (1965) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2]
- Preachin' Blues (3:54) [Vanguard VSD 79225] #
- Death Letter (4:01) [Vanguard VSD 79225] #
- Empire State Express (3:50) # [Vanguard VSD 25/6; 3VCD 208-10]
Skip James (1964 blues workshop, introduction most likely by Bill Barth) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2]
- Devil Got My Woman (4:52) @ youtube
Bukka White [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2; 3VCD 208-10]
- Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (5:00)
Robert Pete Williams [Vanguard VRS 9180; 3VCD193/95-2]
- Levee Camp Blues (5:26) °°
Mississippi Fred McDowell [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2]
- Louise Louise (3:05)
Rev. Robert Wilkins
- Don't Let Nobody Turn You 'round (3:48) @ youtube
Rev. Pearly Brown & Mrs. Christine Brown
- Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning (3:06) @ youtube
Fred and Annie Mae McDowell with Rev. Robert Wilkins
- What Do You Think About Jesus (5:43) @ youtube
Lightnin' Hopkins (July 23, 1965 morning "Blue Guitar" workshop) [ Vanguard VCD 79715-2]
- The Woman I'm Loving, She's Taken My Appetite (Monkey Faced Woman) (3:22) @ youtube
- Come On Baby (2:13) @ youtube
- Baby Please Don't Go (2:46) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube
Mance Lipscomb [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2]
- Freddie (2:01) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube
- So Different Blues (2:33) @ youtube
- God Moves On The Water (The Sinking Of The Titanic) (2:36) @ youtube

disc 2 / Vanguard VCD 73134-2:
Elizabeth Cotten
- Freight Train (4:02) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]
Mississippi John Hurt [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2]
- Here I Am Lord, Send Me (3:54)
- Make Me A Pallet On The Floor (3:20)
Jesse Fuller [Vanguard VRS-9185; 3VCD193/95-2; 3VCD 208-10]
- San Francisco Bay Blues (2:51) °°
John Lee Hooker (1964 blues workshop) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2]
- I Can't Quit You Baby / Stop Now Blues (2:48) @ youtube
Muddy Waters (1968 blues workshop) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2]
- Walkin' Blues (4:31) @ youtube
- I Can't Be Satisfied (3:16) @ youtube
Eddie Boyd & Willie Dixon
- Five Long Years (2:26) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]
Willie Dixon & Lafayette Leake with Pete Seeger, bj
- Wrinkles (instr) (3:28)
Dave Van Ronk
- Cocaine (3:44) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]
John Hammond
- Drop Down Mama (2:50)
Eric Von Schmidt
- Grizzly Bear (4:55) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]
John Koerner
- Traveling Blues (4:49) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube
The Chambers Brothers [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2]
- See See Rider (3:21) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube
Paul Butterfield Blues Band (July 23, 1965)
- Blues With A Feeling (4:12) * [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2; 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube
- Look Over Yonders Wall (2:10) * @ youtube
- Born In Chicago (4:08) ** [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] @ youtube

compilation prod. by Mary Katherine Aldin
# rec. 1965 live at Newport Folk Festival ("Blues Workshop") in Newport, RI; Son House, voc, g
* rec. July 23, 1965 at an afternoon workshop called "Blues: Origins and Offshoots" (late addition to the roster - advertisements for the concert series make no mention of the group); Paul Butterfield, voc, hca; Michael Bloomfield, g; Elvin Bishop, g; Jerome Arnold, b; Sam Lay, dr; Nick Gravenites, voc; ** Bruce Langhorne, tamb

"all tracks previously unreleased except" °°

2 CD set
notes (May 1993) by Mary Katherine Aldin

Vanguard VCD2-77005 (US/Germany 1993)

(=) Vanguard VCD 73133-2 (US 1997) "part one"

(=) Vanguard VCD 73134-2 (US 1997) "part two"

1994

Son House: The Oberlin College Concert

introduction by Dick Waterman
intro by Son House
- Levee Camp Moan

Monologue
- Death Letter
Monologue
- Empire State Express

Monologue
- Grinnin' In Your Face
- Preachin' Blues

tuning up
- Son's Blues
- Levee Camp Moan
- John The Revelator

Stack-O-Hits 9004 (1981)
= Blue Moon BMLP 1020

DLP gatefold

King Bee KB 1001

(=) Blue Moon CD 20 (1999)
= Varese Sarabande (2002)
= Fuel 2000 (2006)

1995

Capitol Blues Collection

Brownie McGhee, Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Joe Williams, Sonny Terry
- Wimmin From Coast To Coast
Lil' Son Jackson
- Ticket Agent Blues
Sonny Terry
- Telephone Blues
Memphis Slim
- All This Piano Boogie

T-Bone Walker
- I'm Gonna Find My Baby
Sonny Terry
- Whoopin' The Blues
Muddy Waters
- Rock Me
Son House
- Death Letter Blues

10 inch LP

Capitol (promotional LP)

1994

Legends of Bottleneck Blues Guitar

VHS video track sequence:
Johnny Shines
- Ramblin'
- Tell Me Mama
- Mr. Tom Green's Farm
Fred McDowell
- Louise
- Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
Son House
- Death Letter Blues *
Jesse Fuller
- I'm Glad Salvation's Free
- Hark From The Tomb
Mance Lipscomb
- Motherless Children Have A Hard Time @ youtube
Furry Lewis
- Brownsville Blues
Fred McDowell
- I Heard Somebody Call
- Break 'Em On Down
- My Babe
Jesse Fuller
- John Henry
Son House
- talk (about the Blues) #
- Levee Camp Moan # @ youtube

* rec. March 1968; from the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archive
# rec. 1968; from Camera Three (CBS studio New York)

VHS

Vestapol OV11233 (US 1994)

DVD

Vestapol 13002 (US 200?)

1994

Legends of Country Blues Guitar

Mance Lipscomb
- Angel Child
Big Bill Broonzy
- Blues In E
- Blues Like Showers Of Rain
Henry Townsend
- Cairo Blues
Reverend Gary Davies
- Children Of Zion
- Death Don't Have No Mercy
Son House
- Death Letter Blues #
Brownie McGhee
- Don't Kid Me
Big Bill Broonzy
- Hey, Hey
- How You Want It Done
Son House
- I Had A Woman In Hughes *
Mississippi John Hurt
- I'm Going To Walk That Lonesome Valley Blues
Josh White
- Jelly Jelly
Big Bill Broonzy
- John Henry
Robert Pete Williams
- Mamie
Mance Liscomb
- Silver City
Mississippi John Hurt
- Spike Driver
Big Bill Broonzy
- Worried Man Blues

# rec. 1968; from Camera Three (CBS studio New York)
* rec. 1972, BBC

Omnibus Video OV11231
Vestapol 13003
(video & dvd)

1994

Legends of Country Blues Guitar Vol. 2

Bukka White
- Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
Sam Chatmon
- Big Road Blues
Rev. Gary Davis
- Buck Dance
Houston Stackhouse
- Cool Drink Of Water
Lead Belly
- Goodnight Irene - take 1
- Goodnight Irene - take 2
Rev. Gary Davis
- Hard Walking Blues
Big Joe Williams
- Highway 49
Rev. Gary Davis
- Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
- Make Believe Stunt
Lead Belly
- Pick A Bale Of Cotton
Bukka White
- Poor Boy
Big Joe Williams
- Providence Help The Poor People
Sam Chatmon
- Sam's Rag
Big Joe Williams
- Sloppy Drunk Blues
Lead Belly
- Take This Hammer
Sam Chatmon
- That's All Right
Lead Belly
- The Grey Goose
Son House
- Yonder Comes The Blues

Omnibus Video OV11283
Vestapol 13016
(video & dvd)

1995

Legends Of The Delta Blues

Son House
- Don't Mind People Grinning In Your Face
- Empire State Express
Bukka White
- Freight Train Blues
Johnny Shines
- Going To Algiers
- I Don't Know
Son House
- I Had The Blues This Morning
John Lee Hooker
- I'll Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive
Bukka White
- I'm Going Settle Down
John Lee Hooker
- It Serves Me Right To Suffer
Johnny Shines
- Kindhearted Woman
Son House
- Levee Camp Moan
Shines, Edwards, and Horton
- Love Of Mine
Bukka White
- Old Lady
Johnny Shines
- Ramblin'
Johnny Shines
- Sweet Home Chicago
Son House
- Talk About the Blues
Johnny Shines
- Tell Me How You Want Your Rolling Done

Omnibus Video OV11337
Vestapol 13038
(video & dvd)

1995

Gospel at Newport

- Christian's Automobile - The Dixie Hummingbirds °°
- Only Believe - Swan Silvertone Singers °°
- Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning - Rev. Pearly Brown & Mrs. Christine Brown "°°" [actually previously on Vanguard VCD2-77005]
- Gonna Lay Down My Sword And Shield - Joseph Spence °°
- Swing Down Chariot - Dorothy Love Coates & The Gospel Harmonettes °°
- Jesus Hear My Prayer - Swan Silvertone Singers °°
- I've Got So Much To Shout About - The Dixie Hummingbirds °°
- Trouble In The Land Will Soon Be Over - Dorothy Love Coates & The Gospel Harmonettes °°
- You Better Mind - Bessie Jones, Janie Hunter °°
- See God's Ark A-Moving - Moving Star Hall Singers [Vanguard VRS 9182]
- What A Time - Rev. Pearly Brown & Mrs Christine Brown °°
- Highway To Heaven - Rev. Alex Bradford & The Stone Temple Baptist Church Singers °°
- Samson And Delilah (aka "If I Had My Way") - Reverend Gary Davis [Vanguard VRS-9145] @ youtube
- This Little Light Of Mine - The Freedom Singers °°
- John The Revelator (4:29) # - Son House °°
- Every Day Will Be Sunday By And By - Dorothy Love Coates & The Gospel Harmonettes °°
- Just A Closer Walk With Thee - The Chambers Brothers/Joan Baez °°
- Oh Mary Don't You Weep - Swan Silvertone Singers [Vanguard VRS-9186]
- Pray On My Child - The Staple Singers [Vanguard VRS-9185]

rec. live at the Newport Folk Festival 1959, 1963-66
# rec. July 1965; Son House, voc, hand clapping

°° previously unreleased

notes by Mary Katherine Aldin

Vanguard VCD 77014-2 (EU 1995)

Ace/Vanguard VCD 77014-2 (EU 2004)

1996?

Son House 1964 - 1970

TV Film-Soundtrack 'Mississippi Blues', Unknown date
- Introduction
- Untitled Blues
- Talking
- Death Letter Blues
TV Film-Soundtrack c. 1965
- Levee Camp Moan
- Death Letter
- The 'B-L-U-E-S' (Talking)
- I Had A Job On The Levee
- Talking
- Son's Blues - part 1
- Son's Blues - part 2
TV Show Seattle, Wa, 1969
- Death Letter
- John The Revelator
- Preachin' The Blues
- I Want To Live So Go Can Use Me
TV Show, Concert, Newport, RI, July 1965
- Levee Camp Moan (incomplete)
Live Concert, Newport, RI, July 1965
- Empire State Blues
London, July 1970
- New Pony Blues
- Yonder Comes The Blues
Concert, Chicago, November 21, 1964
- Preachin' The Blues
Live at Café 'Au Go Go', New York City, August 9, 1966
- Levee Camp Moan

20 copies worldwide
strictly limited edition
not for sale

Document no #

1996

Devil Got My Woman
Blues at Newport 1966

@ ok.ru (full dvd)

Skip James
- Devil Got My Woman @ youtube
- I'm So Glad @ youtube
- Worried Blues @ youtube
Bukka White
- Baby You're Killing Me @ youtube [Son House dancing!]
- Old Lady Blues @ youtube
Son House
- Forever On My Mind @ youtube
Howlin' Wolf
- Meet Me In The Bottom @ youtube [Howlin' Wolf / Son House "discussion"!]
- How Many More Years @ youtube
- Dust My Broom @ youtube
Rev. Pearly Brown with Mrs. Christine Brown
- Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning @ youtube
- Pure Religion
- It's A Mean Old World
Bukka White
- Please Don't Put Your Daddy Outdoors
- 100th Man @ youtube

filmed by Alan Lomax at the Newport Folk Festival 1966; photos by David Gahr
"'Devil Got My Woman' is not, however, concert footage from Newport. Alan Lomax recreated a juke joint at Newport, stocked the bar, and let nature take its course."

VHS video, 61 min

Vestapol 13049 (EU 1996)

DVD, 30-page booklet
by Mark Humphrey

Vestapol OV13049
(EU 2001)

P-Vine PHV-35

1997

Delta Blues - Cajun Two-Step

Alphonse Ardoin & Canary Fontenot
- Two Step de Eunice
- La Valse de la Prison
- Bon Soir Moreau
- Laccasine Breakdown
Bukka White
- Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
- Tombstone Blues
Ed & Lonnie Young
- Oree
Interview
Skip James
- Cherry Ball Blues
Son House
Talk on the Blues

filmed by Alan Lomax at the Newport Folk Festival 1966

Omnibus Video OV11422
Vestapol 13050 (video)

1998

Son House: The Original Delta Blues

- Death Letter
- Pearline
- Louise McGhee
- John The Revelator
- Empire State Express
- Preachin' Blues
- Grinning In Your Face
- Sundown
- Levee Camp Moan
- Pony Blues
- Downhearted Blues

SME SRCS 9459
(digitally remastered)

1999

Woody Mann & Jo Ann Kelly & Son House: Been Here And Gone

- 4 O'Clock # @ youtube
- Sun Going Down # @ youtube
- Tacit - Green River @ youtube
- Come To Die # @ youtube
- Tacit - Been Here And Gone @ youtube
- Henry Miller's Dream * [Blue Goose 2009] @ youtube
- Jo's Mistreated Blues * [Blue Goose 2009] @ youtube
- Bothering That Thing * [Blue Goose 2009] @ youtube
- Tacit - Travelling Solo @ youtube
- King Street # @ youtube
- Baby Where You Been * @ youtube
- Tacit - For Son @ youtube
- Blues Ain't Nothin' # @ youtube
- Come To Die - Son's Take # @ youtube
- Tacit - Slow Motion @ youtube
- Rolling Log * @ youtube
- Pigmeat * @ youtube
- Tacit - Sour Jive @ youtube
- New Stockyard Blues * @ youtube
- Drunken Barrelhouse * @ youtube
- Tacit - Coda For Jo @ youtube

Woody Mann, g, rec. 1999
* Woody Mann, g, with Jo Ann Kelly, voc, g
# Woody Mann, g, with Son House, voc; rec. 1966

notes (April 1999) by Duck Baker

Acoustic Music Records 319.1174.2 (Germany 1999)

notes (April 1999) by Duck Baker

= Catfish KATCD 126 (UK 1999)

Catfish Records (UK) discography
Jo Ann Kelly discography

1999

American Folk Blues Festival 1965/1966/1967/1969

disc 3: American Folk Blues Festival '67

Bukka White
- Aberdeen Blues
Hound Dog Taylor, Little Walter, Dillard Crume, Odie Payne
- The Sky Is Crying
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Rock Island Line
Son House
- Got A Letter This Morning (aka "Death Letter Blues")
Hound Dog Taylor, Little Walter, Dillard Crume, Odie Payne
- You Be So Fine
Koko Taylor
- Wang Dang Doodle
Skip James
- Hard Luck Child
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- I'm Gonna Move Across The River
Koko Taylor
- What Kind Of Man Is This
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Walk On

rec. October 15, 1967 at Kongress-Halle, Berlin; Germany

4-CD-Box

Bellaphon CDLR 726322
(45 Tracks, 165:59)

1999

Son House: Preachin' The Blues

- Walking Blues
- My Black Mama - part 1
- My Black Mama - part 2
- Preachin' The Blues - part 1
- Preachin' The Blues - part 2
- Dry Spell Blues - part 1
- Dry Spell Blues - part 2
- Levee Camp Blues
- Government Fleet Blues
- Shetland Pony Blues
- Camp Hollers
- Delta Blues
- Special Rider Blues
- Low Down The Dirty Dog Blues
- Depot Blues
- American Defense
- County Farm Blues
- Pony Blues
- Jinx Blues

Catfish CD 112

Catfish Records (UK) discography

1990

Son House: The Complete Library Of Congress Sessions 1941-1942

- Levee Camp Blues
- Government Fleet Blues
- Walking Blues
- Shetland Pony Blues
- Fo' Clock Blues
- Camp Hollers
- Delta Blues
- Special Rider Blues
- Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
- Depot Blues
- The Key Of Minor
- American Defense
- Am I Right Or Wrong
- Walking Blues
- Country Farm Music
- The Pony Blues
- Jinx Blues - part 1
- Jinx Blues - part 2

notes by Ray Templeton

Travelin' Man TMCD 02

1999

Broke, Black And Blue
An Anthology Of Blues Classics And Rarities

disc 1:
Up Country Blues
- Barrel House Blues - Ed Andrews
- Georgia Stockade Blues - Tom Delaney
- Sun Brimmers Blues - Memphis Jug Band
- Goin' To Leave You Blues - Big Boy Cleveland
- Dry Bone Shuffle - Blind Blake
- Up Country Blues - DeFord Bailey
- Dead Drunk Blues - Sippie Wallace
- Original Stack O'Lee Blues - Long 'Cleve' Reed
- Easy Rider Don't You Deny My Name - Barbecue Bob
- Bo Lita - Kid Brown
- Everybody Help The Boys Come Home - William & Versey Smith
- Church Bells Blues - Luke Jordan
- Two Ways To Texas - Emery Glen
- It Won't Be Long Now - Barbecue Bob & Laughing Charley
- Bottleneck Blues - Weaver & Beasley
- Rock Island Blues - Lewis Black
- Midnight Blues - Bill Moore
- Fare Thee Blues - Johnnie Head
- My Monday Woman Blues - Jim Jackson
- What's The Matter Blues - Frank Stokes
- School Girl Blues - Rosie Mae Moore
- Cool Drink Of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Left Alone Blues - Ishman Bracey
- T And T Blues - Mooch Richardson
- TC Johnson Blues - T. C. Johnson

disc 2:
Broke & Hungry Blues
- Ham Hound Crave - Rube Lacey
- No More Women Blues - Alger "Texas" Alexander
- How Long, How Long Blues - Willie Jackson
- Unknown Blues - Tarter & Gay
- Chicken Wilson Blues - Chicken Wilson
- Stack O' Lee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
- Broke And Hungry Blues - Peg Leg Howell
- Funny Feathers - Victoria Spivey
- Pitchin' Boogie - William Ezell
- Mr- Devil Blues - Jed Davenport
- Mississippi Bottom Blues - Kid Bailey
- Weary Heart Blues - James Wiggins
- Poor Man Blues - Henry Townsend
- Framer's Blues - Eli Framer
- Trinity River Blues - T-Bone Walker
- Heavy Suitcase Blues - Charley Taylor
- Traveling Mama Blues - Joe Calicott
- Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues - Garfield Akers
- Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins
- Walking Blues - Son House
- Future Blues - Willie Brown
- Long Ways from Home - Louise Johnson
- Frisco Blues - Bayless Rose
- Good Boy Blues - Arthur Petties
- No Special Rider Blues - Little Brother Montgomery

disc 3:
Good Whiskey Blues
- Married Man Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds
- Dupree Blues - Willie Walker
- 22-20 Blues - Skip James
- Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins
- Midnight Hour Blues - Leroy Carr
- Fat Mama Blues - Jabo Williams
- Never Mind Blues - Georgia Boyd
- Twelves (Dirty Dozens) - Kokomo Arnold
- Little Leg Woman - Big Joe Williams
- That's What My Baby Likes - Bessie Jackson
- Good Whiskey Blues - Peetie Wheatstraw
- Strut That Thing - Cripple Clarence Lofton
- Teasin' Brown Blues - Louie Lasky
- Cold Blooded Murder, No.2 - Bumble Bee Slim
- Baby You Gotta Change Your Mind - Blind Boy Fuller
- Ashes In My Whiskey - Walter Davis
- It's Cold in China Blues - The Mississippi Moaner
- Jockey Blues - Jazz Gillum
- Prisoner Blues - George Clarke
- Back Door Blues - Casey Bill Weldon
- Don't Sell It (Don't Give It Away) - Buddy Woods
- Booker T. Blues - Washboard Sam
- Hard Scufflin' Blues - Little Buddy Doyle
- Jersey Belle Blues - Lonnie Johnson
- Baby, Please Don't Tell On Me - Tommy McClennan

disc 4:
Jumpin' At The Club Blue Flame
- East St.Louis Blues - Faber Smith, Jimmy Yancey
- Bukka's Jitterbug Swing - Bukka White
- Can't You Read - Big Maceo Merriweather
- Life Is Like That - Memphis Slim
- Memory Of Sonny Boy - Forrest City Joe
- Horse Shoe Boogie - Lee Brown
- Ruby Moore Blues - Lee Brown
- Low Land Blues - Lee Brown
- Round The World Blues - Lee Brown
- Rock That Boogie - Jimmie Gordon
- Fast Life - Jimmie Gordon
- Mistreated Blues - Jimmie Gordon
- I Ain't Like That No More - Jimmie Gordon
- Chain Gang Blues - Johnny Temple
- Yum, Yum, Yum - Johnny Temple
- My Baby's Acting Funny - Jimmie Gordon
- It's Time To Go - Jimmie Gordon
- That Woman's A Pearl Diver - Jimmie Gordon
- Jumpin' At The Club Blue Flame - Jimmie Gordon
- I Believe I'll Go Downtown Again - Johnny Temple
- Something In The Moon That Gives Me A Thrill - Johnny Temple
- Dixie Flyer - Johnny Temple
- Believe My Sins Have Found Me Out - Johnny Temple
- Rhythm Mama - Johnny Temple
- New Little Girl, Little Girl - Lee Brown

4 CD set
40-pp. booklet by Joop Visser

Proper CDBOX 7 (UK 1999)

2000

Son House: Live At The Gaslight Cafe

- Pony Blues (4:27)
- Motherless Children (4:11)
- Preachin' The Blues (4:59)
- This Little Light Of Mine (3:53)
- Son's Blues (6:54) @ youtube
- Death Letter Blues - (incomplete) (5:17)
- I Shall Not Be Moved (3:17)
- Levee Camp Moan (8:32)
- Empire State Express (4:29)
- Pearline (4:01)
- Yonder Comes My Mother (When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder) (3:35) *
- Louise McGhee (incomplete) (4:22) *

rec. January 3, 1965 live at The Gaslight Cafe, New York City, NY
* rec. November 23, 1964 live at the Wabash College, IN

notes by Ken Romanowski

Document DOCD-5663 (Austria 2000)

Document DOCD-5663 (UK 2011)

2000

Son House: Delta Blues

- Delta Blues
- Government Fleet Blues
- Shetland Pony Blues
- Camp Hollers
- Levee Camp Blues
- Walking Blues
- Fo' Clock Blues
- Depot Blues
- Am I Right Or Wrong
- Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
- American Defence
- Special Rider Blues
- Walking Blues
- Country Farm Blues
- The Pony Blues
- The Jinx Blues

Library Of Congress Sessions 1941-1942

Arpeggio ARB 004

2001

Negro Blues And Hollers
The Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture

Son House, Willie Brown & Fiddlin' Joe Martin
- Camp Hollers
Charley Berry
- Cornfield Hollers
Silent Grove Baptist Church Conregation
- I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord
Church of God Christ Congregation
- I'm Gonna Lift Up A Standard For My King
David Edwards
- Worried Life Blues
William Brown
- Ragged And Dirty
Son House
- Special Rider Blues
- Depot Blues
William Brown
- Mississippi Blues
William Blackwell & William Brown
- Four O'Clock Flower Blues
William Brown
- East St. Louis Blues
Son House
- Low Down Dirty Dog Blues

Rounder CD 1501

2001

Screamin' and Hollerin' The Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton

disc 6: Charley's Orbit - Songs
- Booze And Blues - Ma Rainey
- The Crowing Rooster - Walter Rhodes
- I Will Turn Your Money Green - Furry Lewis
- Ham Hound Crave - Rube Lacy
- Bye Bye Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Maggie Campbell - Tommy Johnson
- Big Road Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Kansas City Blues - William Harris
- Rowdy Blues - Kid Bailey
- Mississippi Bottom Blues - Kid Bailey
- Cold Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds
- Sitting On Top Of The World - Mississippi Sheiks
- Just A Spoonful - Charley Jordan
- Banty Rooster - Blind Pete And George Ryan
- My Grey Pony - Big Joe Williams
- Dark Road Blues - Willie Lofton Trio
- Blues - Unknown Convict
- Sic 'Em Dogs On - 9Bukka White
- Po' Boy - Bukka White
- Make Me A Pallet on the Floor - Willie Brown
- County Farm Blues - Son House
- Saddle My Pony - The Howlin' Wolf
- Forty Four - The Howlin' Wolf
- Too Close - Roebuck "Pops" Staples & Staple Singers

7-CD album

Revenant RVN-CD-212

74a

2001

Newport Folk Festival
Best of the Blues 1959-68

disc 1:
Mississippi John Hurt
- Sliding Delta
- Candy Man
- Coffee Blues
- Stagger Lee
- Here I Am Lord Send Me
- Pallet On Your Floor
Skip James
- Devil Got My Woman (3:23)
- Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
Son House
- Preaching Blues
- Death Letter Blues
- Empire State Express
- Son Blues
Bukka White
- Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Louise
- If The River Was Whiskey
Muddy Waters (solo)
- Walkin' Blues [Vanguard VCD2-77005]
- I Can't Be Satisfied [Vanguard VCD2-77005]

disc 2:
Robert Pete Williams
- Levee Camp Blues
- Midnight Boogie
- On My Way From Texas
Mance Lipscomb
- Freddie
- So Different Blues
- God Moves On The Water (The Sinking Of The Titanic)
Jesse Fuller
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Double Double Do Love You
Rev. Gary Davis
- Samson And Delilah
- I Won't Be Back No More
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
- Intro/The Train Is Leaving °°
- Drink Muddy Water °°
- Long Gone
- Key To The Highway
- My Baby Done Changed The Lock On The Door
Sleepy John Estes
- Clean Up At Home

disc 3:
Lightnin' Hopkins
- Woman I'm Lovin' She's Taken My Appetite
- Baby Please Don't Go
Lightnin' Hopkins & Samuel Lay
- Shake That Thing
John Lee Hooker & Bill Lee
- Tupelo
- Bus Station Blues
- Let's Make It °°
- Great Fire Of Natchez °°
- Boom Boom °°
- I Can't Quit You Baby / Stop Now Baby
Memphis Slim
- How Long °°
- Black Cat Crossed My Path °°
- Harlem Bound °°
- Piano Instrumental °°
Muddy Waters & Otis Spann
- Blow Wind Blow °° @ youtube
- Flood (= "Clouds In My Heart") °° @ youtube
Chambers Brothers
- CC Rider
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- Blues With A Feeling
- Born In Chicago °°

compilation prod. by Tom Vickers
front cover painting by Meredith Steele
°° 12 previously unreleased tracks

3 CD set
notes by John Milward

Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2 (US 2001)

2002

Son House: Low Down Dirty Dog Blues

- Depot Blues
- Am I Right Or Wrong?
- Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
- American Defense
- Special Rider Blues - part 1
- Special Rider Blues - part 2
- Walking Blues
- County Farm Blues
- The Pony Blues
- The Jinx Blues - part 1
- The Jinx Blues - part 2
- Delta Blues
- Government Fleet Blues
- Shetland Pony Blues
- Camp Hollers
- Levee Camp Blues
- Walking Blues
- Fo' Clock Blues

ABM CD 1240

2002

Son House, Charlie Patton, Willie Brown, Louise Johnson: The Legendary Delta Blues Session

Louise Johnson
- All Night Long Blues
- Long Ways From Home
Son House
- My Black Mama - part 1
- My Black Mama - part 2
- Preachin' The Blues - part 1
- Preachin' The Blues - part 2
Willie Brown
- M&O Blues
- Future Blues
Louise Johnson
- On The Wall
- By The Moon And Stars
Son House
- Dry Spell Blues - part 1
- Dry Spell Blues - part 2
Charley Patton
- Dry Well Blues
- Some Summer Day - part 1
- Moon Going Down
- Bird Nest Bound

P-Vine PCD-2250

2002

Son House Revisited

disc 1 (Oberlin College)
Introduction by Dick Waterman
Monologue by Son House
- Levee Camp Moan
Monologue by Son House
- Death Letter
Monologue by Son House
- Empire State Express
Monologue by Son House
- Grinnin' In Your Face
Monologue by Son House
- Preachin' Blues
Monologue by Son House
- Son's Blues
- Levee Camp Moan, version 2
Monologue by Son House
- John The Revelator

disc 2 (Gaslight Cafe / Wabash College)
- Pony Blues
- Motherless Children
- Preachin' Blues
- This Little Light Of Mine
- Infinity Blues
- Death Letter Blues
- I Shall Not Be Moved
- Levee Camp Moan
- Empire State Express
- Yonder Comes My Mother
- Louise McGee

photographer: Raeburn Flerlage

Stack-O-Hits 9004 (1981)
= Blue Moon BMLP 1020
(=) King Bee KB 1001 (1994)
Blue Moon CD 20 (1999)

2 CD set
notes by Bill Dahl

Varese Sarabande CD 061249 (US 2002)

2 CD set
notes by Bill Dahl

= Fuel 2000 (US 2006)

2002

Muddy Waters and Son House: the field recordings 1941/42

Muddy Waters
- Country Blues
- I Be's Troubled
- Ramblin' Kid
- Rosalie
- Take A Walk With Me
- Burr Clover Blues
- I Be Bound To Write To You Soon
- You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
- You Got To Take Sick And Die
- Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You
- Country Blues
Son House
- Levee Camp Blues
- Shetland Pony Blues
- Delta Blues
- Special Rider Blues
- Low Down Dirty Dog
- Depot Blues
- American Defense
- Walking Blues
- County Farm Blues
- The Pony Blues
- The Jinx Blues

ZirconBleu / Disque Blue CD (Fr 2002)

2003

Son House: Delta Blues

- Delta Blues
- Government Fleet Blues
- Walking Blues
- Shetland Pony Blues
- Levee Camp Blues
- Special Rider Blues
- Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
- Depot Blues
- American Defense
- Am I Right Or Wrong
- Walking Blues
- County Farm Blues
- The Pony Blues
- The Jinx Blues
- The Jinx Blues

Library Of Congress Sessions 1941-1942

Shout DK 30170 (US 2003) (Biograph series)

2003

The Very Best Of Son House
Heroes of the Blues series

- My Black Mama - part 1
- Walking Blues [unissued Pm Test]
- Dry Spell Blues
- Country Farm Blues
- Levee Camp Blues
- Walking Blues
- Shetland Pony Blues
- Delta Blues
- Special Rider Blues
- Depot Blues
- American Defense
- Am I Right Or Wrong
- Walking Blues (Death Letter)
- Grinnin' In Your Face
- Empire State Express
- John The Revelator

rec. between 1930 & 1965

notes by Mark Humphrey

Shout DK 30251 (US 2003)

2003

Martin Scorsese presents the Blues: Son House

- My Black Mama - part 1
- Preachin' Blues - part 1
- Dry Spell Blues - part 1
- Levee Camp Blues
- Walking Blues
- Special Rider Blues
- Pony Blues
- Death Letter *
- Pearline *

* from: The Legendary Son House - The Father Of The Blues
prod. by Jerry Rappaport

notes by Larry Hoffman & Martin Scorsese

Columbia/Legacy ZK 90485 (US 2003)

= Sony Jazz 512574 2 (UK 2004)
= Columbia COL 512574 2 (EU 2004)

2003

Son House: Delta Blues

- Levee Camp Blues
- Government Fleet Blues
- Walking Blues
- Shetland Pony Blues
- Delta Blues
- Special Rider Blues
- Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
- Depot Blues
- American Defense
- Am I Right Or Wrong
- Walking Blues
- County Farm Blues
- The Pony Blues
- Jinx Blues - part 1
- Jinx Blues - part 2

Library Of Congress Sessions 1941-1942

Biograph CD 30170

2003

Alan Lomax - Blues Songbook

disc: 1
- Goin' Down The River - Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Rolled And Tumbled - Rosalie Hill
- Cherry Ball Blues - Jack Owens & Bud Spires
- Dust My Broom - Howlin' Wolf
- Boogie Children - Joe Lee
- Stagolee - Lucious Curtis
- Stop All The Buses - Cecil Augusta
- Worried Life Blues - David 'Honeyboy' Edwards
- The Pony Blues - Son House
- Tangle Eye Blues - Walter 'Tangle Eye' Jackson
- Trouble So Hard - Vera Ward Hall
- Worried Blues - Sonny Terry
- Beggin' The Blues - Bessie Jones
- John Henry - Gabriel Brown
- Country Blues - Dock Boggs
- Cherry Ball Blues - Skip James
- I Hate A Man Like You - Jelly Roll Morton
- Roll 'Em - Pete Johnson
- Kokomo - The Memphis Jug Band
- Life Is Like That - Big Bill Broonzy

disc: 2
- I Could Hear My Name A Ringin' - Big Bill Broonzy
- Dimples In Your Jaws - Joe Lee
- Catfish Blues - Jack Owens & Bud Spires<
- Kill-It-Kid Rag - Blind Willie McTell
- You're Gonna Need My Help - Elinor Boyer
- The Army Blues - David 'Honeyboy' Edwards
- Blues De La Prison - Canray Fontenot
- I Been Drinnkin' - Vera Ward Hall
- I Been A Bad, Bad Girl - Ozella Jones
- I Be's Troubled - Muddy Waters
- Boogie Instrumental - R.L. Burnside
- Blind Lemon Blues - Lead Belly
- Sweet Patootie Blues - Albert Ammons
- The Last Time - Sam Chatmon
- Shorty George - Smith Casey
- Desert Blues - Hattie Ellis
- Joe Turner - Hobart Smith
- Joe Turner - Miles
- Joe Turner - Big Bill Broonzy
- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Hobart Smith
- How Long Blues - Sonny Terry

2 CD set

Rounder CD 1866

83a

2003

Roots Of The Blues

disc 1 "Folk Blues":
Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:47)
The Chambers Brothers - See See Rider (3:08)
John Hammond - Statesboro Blues (3:39)
Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (3:53)
Dave Van Ronk - Cocaine (3:46)
Buffy Sainte-Marie - You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond (2:51) °°
Spider John Koerner - Traveling Blues (4:44)
Bill Monroe - Blue Yodel # 4 (2:43)
Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Maria Muldaur - Richland Woman (4:19)
Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Geoff & Maria Muldaur - Chevrolet (3:51)
Sam & Kirk McGee - Milk Cow Blues (2:31) °°
Tony Glover - I Dont Need No Whiskey (4:30) °°
Josh White - What You Gonna Do When Your Meat Gives Out (1:49) °°
Eric Von Schmidt - Grizzly Bear (4:34)
Mance Lipscomb - Keep On Truckin' Mama (1:35) °°

disc 2 "Delta & Country Blues":
Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53)
Rev. Gary Davis - You Got To Move (5:50)
Skip James - I'm So Glad (1:53)
Son House - Empire State Express (3:50)
Bukka White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (4:45)
Mississippi Fred McDowell - If The River Was Whiskey (2:34)
Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied (2:53)
Odetta - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (2:13)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key To The Highway (3:37)
Sleepy John Estes - Clean Up At Home (2:59)
Mance Lipscomb - Freddie (1:50)
Memphis Slim - How Long (2:59)
Robert Pete Williams - Midnight Boogie (3:25) [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VSD 77/78, Vanguard CD 70193-2, Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube
Eddie Boyd & Willie Dixon - Five Long Years (2:22)
Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (5:12)

disc 3 "Urban Blues":
Junior Wells - Messin' With The Kid (2:21)
Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby (3:14)
J.B. Hutto & The Hawks - Going Ahead (2:03)
Otis Spann - Marie (2:28)
James Cotton - Rocket 88 (2:03)
Homesick James And His Dusters - Dust My Broom (3:17)
Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band - One More Time (2:26)
The Johnny Shines Blues Band - If I Get Lucky (3:23)
Buddy Guy - One Room Country Shack (5:30)
Muddy Waters with Otis Spann - Blow Wind Blow (3:09)
Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go (2:37)
Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Blues With A Feeling (3:55)
Charlie Musselwhite - Juke (4:18)
Big Mama Thornton - Ball And Chain (6:48)
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom (3:01)

compilation prod. by Tom Vickers; cover design by Ann Smalley; photography by David Gahr

°° previously unreleased tracks

3-CD Set
notes by Ed Ward

Vanguard 3VCD 208-10 (Germany 2002)
= Vanguard CD 79715 (US 2003)

83b

2003

Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s Volume 1
2004 Calendar with free CD

CD and Calendar contents:
- He's In The Jailhouse Now - Blind Blake
- No Job Blues - Ramblin' Thomas
- 22-20 Blues - Skip James
- Rising High Water Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Down The Dirt Road Blues - Charley Patton
- Death Cell Blues - Blind Willie McTell
- Rough Rugged Road - Bumble Bee Slim
- Dry Spell Blues - Son House
- Bad Feeling Blues - Blind Blake
- Beale Town Bound - The Beale Street Sheiks
- Black Snake Dream - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Dead Drunk Blues - Ma Rainey

Supplementary CD tracks:
- I Want Someone To Love Me - Tommy Johnson
- Cold Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds
- Times Has Done Got Hard - King Solomon Hill

restored by Richard Nevins

Blues Images Calendar Vol. 1 (rel. 2003, for 2004)

Blues Images CD BIM-101 (US 2003) accompanying Blues Images Calendar Vol. 1 (for 2004)

Blues Images calendar discography

2004

Son House: New York Central Live !

- Intro / It's So Hard
- Judgement Day
- New York Central
- True Friend Is Hard To Find
- Preachin' Blues
- Change Your Mind

SRI CD 312532 (Fr)

2004

Son House: Father Of Folk Blues

MHCP 419 (Jp)

2004

Back To The Crossroads - The Roots of Robert Johnson

Peetie Wheatstraw - Police Station Blues (3:06)
Kokomo Arnold - Old Original Kokomo Blues (2:55)
Bumble Bee Slim - Cruel Hearted Woman (2:49)
Hambone Willie Newbern - Roll And Tumble Blues (3:04)
Lonnie Johnson - Life Saver Blues (3:09)
Mississippi Sheiks - Sitting On Top Of The World (3:16)
Mississippi Jook Band - Hittin' The Bottle Stomp (2:38)
Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (3:00)
Son House - My Black Mama, Pt. 1 (3:09)
Blind Blake - Georgia Bound (3:23)
Leroy Carr - When The Sun Goes Down (2:58)
Kokomo Arnold - Sissy Man Blues (3:09)
Rev. Edward W. Clayborn - Your Enemy Cannot Harm You [as Rev. E.W. Clayborn] (3:02)
Johnnie Temple - Lead Pencil Blues (3:06)
Skip James - 22-20 Blues (2:52)
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Dry Southern Blues (2:5()
Scrapper Blackwell - Kokomo Blues (3:04)
Tampa Red - Things 'bout Coming My Way (3:28)
Peetie Wheatstraw - King Of Spades (3:08)
Harlem Hamfats - Oh Red (2:38)
Charley Patton - You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die (2:58)
Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues (3:10)
Son House - Preachin' The Blues (3:03)

remastered from original 78 recordings

Yazoo CD 2070

2004

The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969 Volume Two

Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog (1965)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Stranger Blues (1967) #
Skip James - All Night Long (1967) #
Sonny Boy Williamson - Keep It To Yourself (1963)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Your Funeral And My Trial (1963)
Big Joe Turner - Flip, Flop And Fly (1966)
Howlin' Wolf - I'll Be Back Someday (1964)
Willie Dixon - Nervous (1962)
Bukka White - Got Sick And Tired (1967) #
Son House - Death Letter Blues (1967) # @ youtube
Hound Dog Taylor & Little Walter - Wild About You (1967) #
Koko Taylor & Little Walter - Wang Dang Doodle (1967) #
Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call (1968)
Earl Hooker - Walking The Floor Over You / Off The Hook (1969)
Magic Sam - All Your Love (1969)
entire ensemble - Bye Bye Blues (1963)

# rec. October 11, 1967 at DRTV studio in Copenhagen, Denmark
Bukka White, voc, g
Hound Dog Taylor, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Dillard Crume, b; Odie Payne, dr
Koko Taylor, voc; Little Walter, hca; Hound Dog Taylor, g; Dillard Crume, b; Odie Payne, dr
Son House, voc, g
Skip James, voc, g
Sonny Terry, voc, hca; Brownie McGhee, voc, g, kazoo

originally issued on TV only

notes by Rob Bowman

Hip-O CD B0003224-02 (US 2004)

American Folk Blues Festival discography

2004

The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969 Volume Three

Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog (1965)
Roosevelt Sykes - Gulfport Boogie (1965)
Buddy Guy - Out Of Sight (1965)
Dr. Isaiah Ross - Feel So Good (1965)
Joe Turner - Flip, Flop & Fly (1966)
Skip James
- All Night Long # @ youtube
- Crow Jane # @ youtube
Bukka White
- Got Sick And Tired # @ youtube
Son House
- Death Letter Blues # @ youtube
Hound Dog Taylor & Little Walter
- Wild About You Baby # @ youtube
Koko Taylor & Little Walter
- Wang Dang Doodle # @ youtube
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Stranger Blues # @ youtube
- Burnt Child (Afraid Of Fire) # @ youtube
- Gonna Move Across The River # @ youtube
Helen Humes - The Blues Ain't Nothin' But A Woman (1962)
Earl Hooker - Earl's Boogie (1969)
Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call (1968)
Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working (1968)

originally issued on TV only

Hip-O DVD JHAM0263 (US 2004)

American Folk Blues Festival discography

2005

Son House: King Of The Delta Blues

- Levee Camp Blues
- Government Fleet Blues
- Walking Blues
- Shetland Pony Blues
- Camp Hollers
- Delta Blues
- Special Rider Blues
- Special Rider Blues
- Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
- Depot Blues
- Demonstration Of Concert Guitar Tuning (The Key Of Minor)
- American Defense
- Am I Right Or Wrong
- Walking Blues
- County Farm Blues
- The Pony Blues
- Jinx Blues - part 1
- Jinx Blues - part 2

Library Of Congress Sessions 1941-1942

Fuel 2000 CD 61511 (US 2005)

2005

Son House: Delta Blues

- My Black Mama - part 1
- My Black Mama - part 2
- Preachin' The Blues - part 1
- Preachin' The Blues - part 2
- Dry Spell Blues - part 1
- Dry Spell Blues - part 2
- Levee Camp Blues
- Government Fleet Blues
- Walking Blues
- Shetland Pony Blues
- Camp Hollers
- Delta Blues
- Special Rider Blues- 2
- Low Down The Dirty Dog Blues
- Depot Blues
- American Defense
- Am I Right Or Wrong?
- Walking Blues
- County Farm Blues
- The jinx blues -part 1
- The jinx blues - part 2

Proper CD 2016 (UK 2005)

2005

Son House: Delta Blues

- Walkin' Blues
- My Black Mama - part 1
- My Black Mama - part 2
- Preachin' The Blues - part 1
- Preachin' The Blues - part 2
- Dry Spell Blues - part 1
- Dry Spell Blues - part 2
- Levee Camp Blues
- Government Camp Blues
- Shetland Pony Blues
- Camp Hollers
- Delta Blues
- Special Rider Blues
- .Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
- Depot Blues
- American Defense
- Am I Right Or Wrong
- County Farm Blues
- The Pony Blues
- The Jinx Blues

Snapper Music Group CD 2 (UK 2005)

2005

Skip James: Hard Time Killin' Floor

Skip James
- Cypress Grove Blues
- If You Haven't Any Hay Get On Down The Road
- Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues
- Special Rider Blues
- Devil Got My Woman
- I'm So Glad
- Cherrry Ball Blues
- 22-20 Blues
- Jesus Is A Mighty Good Leader
- Hard Luck Child
- Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues
- Illinois Blues
- Drunken Spree
- Four O'clock Blues
- How Long Buck
- Yola My Blues Away
- Be Ready When He Comes
- What Am I To Do Blues
Son House
- My Black Mama, Pt. 1 #
- My Black Mama, Pt. 2 #
- Walkin' Blues #
- Dry Spell Blues, Pt. 1 #

# "bonus tracks", remastered by Richard Nevins

notes by Brett J. Bonner

Yazoo CD 2075 (US 2005)

2006

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

disc 1
Freeny's Barn Dance Band: Croquet Habits
Son House: Mississippi County Farm Blues
Georgia Pot Lickers: Up Jumped The Rabbit
Memphis Minnie & Joe McCoy: I'm Going Back Home
Wilmer Watts & The Lonely Eagles: Fightin' In The War With Spain
John Byrd: Old Timbrook Blues
Ernest Phipps And His Holiness Singers: A Little Talk With Jesus
Tommy Johnson: Slidin' Delta
The Three Striped Gears: Alabama Blues
Jack Gowdlock: Rollin Dough Blues
Kentucky Ramblers: Ginseng Blues
Ollis Martin: Police And High Sheriff Come Ridin' Down
Roy Harvey & Jess Johnston And The West Virginia Ramblers: John Hardy Blues
Long "Cleeve" Reed & Little Harvey Hull - The Down Home Boys: Original Stack O' Lee Blues
Amedie Ardoin & Dennis McGee: Two Step De La Prairie Soileau
Andrew & Jim Baxter: Operator Blues
J.D. Harris: The Grey Eagle
Memphis Jug Band: Jim Strainer Blues
Grayson County Railsplitters: Ain't That Trouble In Mind (unissued)
Dock Boggs: Old Rub Alcohol Blues
Jaybird Coleman: Mistreatin' Mama
Henry Whitter: It's A Rough Road To Georgia (unissued)
Rev. B.L. Wightman with Lottie Kimbrough & Congregation: Live The Life

disc 2
Yank Rachel with Sleepy John Estes & Jab Jones: Sweet Mama
Crowder Brothers: We All Love Mother (unissued)
Son House: Clarksdale Moan
Ashley & Foster: Bull Dog Sal (unissued)
Jesse "Babyface" Thomas: Down In Texas Blues
Georgia Pot Lickers: Chicken Don't Roost Too High
William Harris: I'm Leavin' Town (But I Sho' Don't Wanna Go)
Asa Martin & Roy Hobbs: Wild Cat Rag
King Solomon Hill: Whoopee Blues (Alternate Take)
Chubby Parker: Davey Crockett
Geeshie Wiley: Skinny Leg Blues
Sweet Brothers: I'm Gonna Marry That Pretty Little Girl
Blind Roosevelt Graves & Varoy Graves: I Shall Not Be Moved
Smith & Irvine: Lonesome Road Blues
Luke Jordon: If I Call You Mama
Grayson & Whitter: My Mind Is To Marry (unissued)
Osey Helton: Green River
Lottie Kimbrough: Don't Speak To Me
Wade Ward: Married Man's Blues (unissued)
Ken Maynard: Sweet Betsey From Pike (unissued)
Jaybird Coleman: Boll Weevil
Bill Shepherd with Hayes Shepherd & Ed Webb: Bound Steel Blues
Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1: Bells Of Love

remastered by Richard Nevins

double CD

Yazoo YAZ CD 2202 (US 2006)

2006

Legends Of Country Blues

disc 1:
Skip James
- Devil Got My Woman
- Cypress Grove Blues
- Cherry Hall Blues
- Illinois Blues
- Four O'Clock Blues
- Hard Luck Child
- Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues
- Yola My Blues Away
- Jesus Is A Mighty Good Leader
- Be Ready When He Comes
- Drunken Spree
- I'm So Glad
- Special Rider Blues
- How Long Buck
- Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues
- What Am I To Do Blues
- 22-20 Blues
- If You Haven't Any Hay, Get Down The Road
Son House
- Walkin' Blues [unissued Pm Test]
- My Black Mama Part 1
- My Black Mama Part 2
- Preachin' The Blues Part 1
- Preachin' The Blues Part 2
- Dry Spell Part 1
- Dry Spell Part 2

disc 2:
- Levee Camp Blues
- Government Fleet Blues
- Walking Blues
- Shetland Pony Blues
- Fo' Clock Blues
- Camp Hollers
- Delta Blues
- Special Rider Blues
- Special Rider Blues
- Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
- Depot Blues
- The Key Of Minor
- American Defense
- Am I Right Or Wrong
- Walking Blues
- County Farm Blues
- The Pony Blues
- The Jinx Blues Part 1
- The Jinx Blues Part 2

disc 3:
Bukka White
- The New Frisco Train
- The Panama Limited
- I Am In The Heavenly Way
- Promised True And Grand
- Pine Bluff, Arkansas
- Shake 'Em On Down
- Sic 'Em Dogs On
- Po' Boy
- Black Train
- Strange Place Blues
- When Can I Change My Clothes
- Sleepy Man Blues
- Parchman Farm Blues
- Good Gin Blues
- High Fever Blues
- District Attorney Blues
- Fixin' To Die Blues
- Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
- Bukka's Jitterbug Blues
- Special Stream Line

disc 4:
Tommy Johnson
- Cool Drink Of Water Blues
- Big Road Blues
- Bye Bye Blues
- Maggie Campbell Blues
- Canned Heat Blues
- Lonesome Home Blues
- Lonesome Home Blues
- Big Fat Mama Blues
- I Wonder To Myself
- Slidin' Delta Buy
- Lonesome Home Blues
- Morning Prayer Blues
- Boogaloosa Woman
- Black Mare Blues (take 1)
- Black Mare Blues (take 2)
- Ridin' Horse
- Alcohol And Jake Blues

disc 5:
Ishman Bracey
- Stranger Blues
- Saturday Blues
- Left Alone Blues
- Leavin' Town Blues
- Leavin' Town Blues
- Brown Mama Blues
- Brown Mama Blues
- Trouble Hearted Blues
- Trouble Hearted Blues
- The Four Day Blues
- The Four Day Blues
- Jake Liquor Blues
- Family Stirving
- Mobile Stomp
- Farish Street Rag
- Woman, Woman Blues
- Suitcase Full Of Blues
- Bust Up Blues
- Pay Me No Mind
- Heavy Suitcase Blues
- Louisiana Bound
- Too Damp To Be Wet
- Where My Shoes At?

5 CD box

JSP JSPCD 7715 (UK 2006)

2006

Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s Volume 4
2007 Calendar with free CD

CD and Calendar contents:
- Dope Head Blues - Victoria Spivey
- Cocaine Habit Blues - Memphis Jug Band
- Gonna Move To Alabama - Charley Patton
- Texas Blues - Marshall Owens
- 'fore Day Creep - Ida Cox
- Black Snake Moan No. 2 - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Jazzin' The Blues - Beale Street Sheiks
- Back To The Woods Blues - Charlie Spand
- Chain Gang Bound - Bumble Bee Slim
- Don't Wake It Up - Mississippi Sheiks
- Blues The World Forgot - parts I & II - Ma Rainey
- Lonesome Christmas Blues - Blind Blake

Supplementary CD tracks:
- Try Me One More Time - Marshall Owens
- Stingaree Man Blues - Chocolate Brown
- Mississippi County Farm Blues - Son House
- Clarksdale Moan - Son House

remastered by Richard Nevins

Blues Images Vol. 4 (2007)

Blues Images

2008

Legends of the American Folk Blues Festivals 1967, 1968 & 1969

The Video 1: American Folk Blues Festival 1967
Little Walter
- My Babe @ youtube
Koko Taylor
- Will My Man Be Home Tonight
- Wang Dang Doodle
Bukka White
- Aberdeen Mississippi Blues @ youtube
Little Walter
- Untitled (actually "Little Walter's Jump") @ youtube
Skip James
- Hard Times Killing Floor
Interview with Bruce Jackson
Son House
- Death Letter Blues @ youtube
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Born With The Blues
Interview with Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Rock Island Line
Interview with Horst Lippmann
Little Walter
- Mean Old World @ youtube
Hound Dog Taylor
- Shake Your Money Maker
Koko Taylor
- What Kind Of Man Is This
- Ad libitum Blues

The Video 2: American Folk Blues Festival 1968

The Video 3: American Folk Blues Festival 1969

originally issued on TV only

Tropical DVD 68.364 (Germany 2008)

American Folk Blues Festival discography

2011

Son House in Seattle 1968

disc 1: Concert
- Intro - Son House talking
- Death Letter Blues
- Son House talking
- Government Fleet Blues
- Son House talking
- Empire State Express
- Son House talking
- I Want To Live So God Can Use
- Son House talking
- Preachin' Blues
- Son House talking
- Louise McGhee

disc 2: Interview
- My Black Mama pt. 1 (1930)
- Interview
- All Night Long Blues - Louise Johnson
- Interview
- Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues - Charlie Patton
- Interview
- M & O Blues - Willie Brown
- Interview
- Ham Hound Crave - Rube Lacy
- Interview
- Terraplane Blues - Robert Johnson
- Interview
- My Black Mama pt. 2 (1930)

rec. March 1968 in Seattle, WA; Son House, voc, g

2 CD set
notes by Dick Waterman and Bob Groom

Arcola ACD 1008 (US 2011)

2011

Son House: Raw Delta Blues

LP 1:
- Death Letter Blues
- Special Rider Blues
- Delta Blues
- American Defense
- Government Camp Blues
- Depot Blues

- My Black Mama
- Shetland Pony Blues
- Am I Right Or Wrong?
- The Jinx Blues (Part 1)
- The Jinx Blues (Part 2)

LP 2:
- County Farm Blues
- Dry Spell Blues
- Levee Camp Blues
- Preachin' The Blues
- Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
- Four O'Clock Blues
- Walking Blues
- The Pony Blues
- Clarksdale Moan
- John The Revelator
- Camp Hollers
- I Shall Not Be Moved

CD 1:
- Death Letter Blues
- Special Rider Blues
- Delta Blues
- American Defense
- Government Camp Blues
- Depot Blues
- My Black Mama
- Shetland Pony Blues
- Am I Right Or Wrong?
- The Jinx Blues (Part 1)
- The Jinx Blues (Part 2)
- County Farm Blues
- Dry Spell Blues
- Levee Camp Blues
- Preachin' The Blues
- Walkin' Blues (alt version)

CD 2:
- Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
- Four O'clock Blues
- Walking Blues
- The Pony Blues
- Clarksdale Moan
- John The Revelator
- Camp Hollers
- I Shall Not Be Moved
- Louise McGhee
- Motherless Children
- Pearline
- Son's Blues
- This Little Light Of Mine
- Yonder Comes My Mother
- Empire State Express
- The Pony Blues (alt version)

2 (180g) LP set

Not Now Music NOT2LP138

2 CD set

(=) Not Now Music NOT2CD415

2013

Legendary Country Blues Guitarists

Charlie Burse & Will Shade
- Kansas City Blues
Big Bill Broonzy
- Trouble In Mind
- Backwater Blues
Son House
- Talk About The Blues
- So Hard To Love Someone
Skip James
- Cherry Ball Blues
- Son House
- Sick And Bad Blues
Bukka White
- Aberdeen Blues
- Tombstone Blues
- Brownsville Blues,
Rev. Gary Davis Blind Gary Davis
- A Documentary by Harold Becker
Blind Connie Williams
- Take My Hand, Precious Lord
- I'm Going Too
Ralph Willis & Washboard Pete Sanders
- Dream I Had On My Mind
- I've Been Living With The Blues
- Midnight Special
Sam Chatmon
- Sales Tax Blues
- Outside Friend
- Fishing Blues (Evil Jackson)
- Glad When You're Dead
Mance Lipscomb
- I Want To Do Something For You
- Alabama Jubilee
Henry Johnson
- Blood Red River
Willie Trice
- Be Your Dog
- Run Here Gal
- Poor Boy Long Ways From Home
- Good Time Boogie, Sweet Sugar Mama
- Stand And Welcome Jesus
- When The Saints Go Marching In
Son House & Buddy Guy
- I Wish I Had My Whole Heart In My Hand

Vestapol DVD 13129 (US 2013)

100

6/2013

Son House: Clarksdale Moan (1930-1942)

CD 1:
The Library of Congress sessions 1941 and 1942
rec. at Klack's Store, Lake Cormorant, MS between 24th & 31st August 1941
- Levee Camp Blues
- Government Fleet Blues
- Walking Blues
- Shetland Pony Blues
- Fo' Clock Blues
- Camp Hollers
- Delta Blues
rec. in Robinsonville, MS on 17th July 1942
- Special Rider Blues (test)
- Special Rider Blues
- Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
- Depot Blues
- Alan Lomax talking
- American Defense
- Am I Right Or Wrong
- Walking Blues
- County Farm Blues
- The Pony Blues
- The Jinx Blues - part 1
- The Jinx Blues - part 2
rec. by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress

CD 2:
The Complete Paramount recordings May 28th 1930 Grafton Wisconsin
"Restored & Remastered [whatever this means] by Patrick Bird at PSB Music (London) Ltd"
- Dry Spell Blues Part 1
- Dry Spell Blues Part 2
- Preachin' the Blues Part 1
- Preachin' the Blues Part 1
- My Black Mama Part 1
- My Black Mama Part 2
- Clarksdale Moan (B side to Mississippi Blues)
- Mississippi County Farm Blues
- Walking Blues [unissued Pm Test]

10 inch LP:
The Complete Paramount recordings May 28th 1930 Grafton Wisconsin
"Restored & Remastered [whatever this means] by Patrick Bird at PSB Music (London) Ltd"
- My Black Mama Part 1
- My Black Mama Part 2
- Preachin' The Blues Part 1
- Preachin' The Blues Part 1

- Dry Spell Blues Part 1
- Dry Spell Blues Part 2
- Walking Blues [unissued Pm Test]
- Clarksdale Moan
- Mississippi County Farm Blues

the "vintage" Son House photo on the front cover is a hoax, most likely photoshopped from the 1965 Columbia CL 2417 front cover photo by Dick Waterman !!!

2 CD set
essay by Dick Porter

The Devils Tunes DEVICD001

10 inch vinyl
essay by Dick Porter

The Devils Tunes DEVILP001 (6/2013)

100a

2014

The Roots Of It All: Acoustic Blues - The Definitive Collection, Vol. 3

disc 1: The 1960s
Mance Lipscomb - Shake, Shake, Mama (2:50)
John Lee Hooker - Tupelo (3:19)
Rev. Gary Davis - Samson And Delilah (4:05)
Robert Pete Williams - I've Grown So Ugly (2:48)
Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand (3:03)
Lonnie Johnson - Moaning Blues (4:01)
Smoky Babe - Hottest Brand Goin' (4:06)
Herman E. Johnson - I Just Keeps On Wanting You (2:45)
Scrapper Blackwell - Shady Lane (5:27)
Pink Anderson - I Got Mine (3:07)
Pete Franklin - Prison Bound (4:21)
Shirley Griffith - Bye Bye Blues (4:11)
R.C. Smith - Please Don't Drive Me Away (2:25)
Memphis Willie B. - Wine Drinking Woman (3:36)
Baby Tate - What Have I Done To You (2:42)
Leroy Dallas - She Caught The M & O (3:43)
Sleepy John Estes - Vernita's Blues (2:19)
J.D. Short - I'm Just Wastin' My Time (5:25)
Muddy Waters - Feel Like Going Home (3:52)
Buddy Moss - Amy (2:42)
Johnny Young - Want My Lovin' (3:30)
Arvella Gray - Corrine, Corrina (2:13)
Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53)
Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis - Alberta (2:56)

disc 2: The 1970s
Son House - Empire State Express (3:41)
Mississippi Fred McDowell - Frisco Lines (3:59)
J.B. Lenoir - If I Get Lucky (2:59)
Skip James - Sickbed Blues (4:06)
R.L. Burnside - Long Haired Doney (2:45)
Furry Lewis - Old Original Furry Lewis Blues (3:46)
Joe Callicott - Lonesome Katy Blues (3:04)
John Jackson - Rocks And Gravel (3:15)
Babe Stovall - Worried Blues (3:33)
Howlin' Wolf - Ain't Goin' Down That Dirt Road #2 (4:20)
Larry Johnson - Four Women Blues (2:33)
Jack Owens - I Love My Baby (4:50)
Johnny Shines - Your Troubles Can't Be Like Mine (4:18)
Brownie McGhee - My Last Suit (3:53)
Juke Boy Bonner - Tired Of The Greyhound Bus (2:26)
Tarheel Slim - So Sweet, So Sweet (3:19)
Tom Shaw - Baby Be A Boy Child Named Him After Me (5:44)
Eddie Taylor - Bullcow Blues (3:10)
Bill Williams - Salty Dog (4:37)
Guitar Shorty - Jessie Jones (3:58)
Rev. Pearly Brown - It's A Mean Old World To Try To Live In (2:24)
Louisiana Red - Dead Stray Dog (3:56)
David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Big Fat Mama (2:56)
Henry Townsend - Can't You See (3:18)

front cover photo (of Big Joe Williams) by Axel Küstner

112-pp. booklet notes by Bill Dahl

Bear Family BCD 17231 (Germany 2014)

101

2016

Son House: John The Revelator (Chicago to London Town)

CD 1: Chicago ...The Sixties
- Death Letter Blues
- Interview
- Levee Camp Moan
- Interview
- Song Sermon
- Interview
- I shall Not Be Moved
- Interview
- Preachin' The Blues
- Interview
- Louise McGee
- Interview
- Empire State Express
- Interview
- Grinnin' In Your Face

rec. April 9, 1965 at Radio WFMT Chicago 1, Interview by Studs Terkel

CD 2: London ...The Seventies
- Monologue The Blues
- Between Midnight and Day (with Al Wilson, hca)
- I Want to go Home on the Morning Train
- Levee Camp Moan
- This Light of Mine
- Monologue
- Thinkin' Strong
- Death Letter Blues
- How To Treat A Man (Delta Dave, g)
- Grinnin' In Your Face
- John The Revelator
- Death Letter Radio session
- Monologue
- Don't You Mind People Grinnin' In Your Face
- Monologue
- Between Midnight And day

rec. June 11, 1970 (Radio), June 30, 1970 (Concerts) & July 14, 1970 (London)

Deluxe package of two concerts, one in America and one in the UK. Audio cleaned and remastered. Includes rare interview with Son House

2 CD set
notes by Dick Porter

Easy Action DEVICD005 (UK 2016) (The Devil's Tunes series)

102

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

American Epic AMPC451 (US 2017)

103

3/2022

Son House: Forever On My Mind

- Forever On My Mind
- Preachin' Blues
- Empire State Express
- Death Letter

- The Way Mother Did
- Louise McGhee
- Pony Blues
- Levee Camp Moan

rec. November 23, 1964 at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana
"Unreleased recordings from the legendary 'Father Of The Delta Blues' features the never before recorded track, 'Forever On My Mind.' The album comes from noted blues manager and historian Dick Waterman's archives which were the first upon Son House's 1964 re-discovery. Restored to remarkable clarity, by producer Dan Auerbach for Easy Eye Sound, these recordings represent the earliest recordings of House upon his return to the limelight after 20+ years away."

Easy Eye Sound (Orange marble vinyl, CD, vinyl, digital download) LPEES024 (US 3/2022)

**Son House** videos / DVDs
#	year of release	title / label # / notes
103	19??	Son House with Buddy Guy Son House - Levee Camp Moan @ youtube Buddy Guy - Nothin' But the Blues @ youtube Son House - Death Letter @ youtube Monologue - Levee Camp Moan @ youtube Buddy Guy - Stormy Monday Blues @ youtube Son House Monologue Son House & Buddy Guy - My Black Mama @ youtube rec. 1968; from Camera Three (CBS studio New York); third (invisible) guitarist is Jerry Ricks (30 minutes)
104	19??	Son House: Clips from the Festival Movie rec. 1966 (5 minutes)
104	19??	Son House: 1974 - New York / Toronto rec. 1974 (60 minutes)
105	19??	Son House: Preachin' The Blues PBS TV 1977 (30 minutes)
106	19??	Son House: Masters Of Traditional American Music prod. 1978 (20 minutes)
Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Görgen Antonsson discographies
- http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~raindog/Blues/person/sonhouse.html
- Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich: Blues & Gospel Records 1902 - 1943, 3rd ed. 1982, p. 340-341
- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943.- Oxford (Clarendon), 4th ed. 1997, pp. 404-406
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 187-188
- Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- p. 247-249
- Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven: Blues Records 1943 to 1966 - A complete guide to 20 years of recorded blues.- London/New York 1968.- p. 148
- Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven: Blues Records 1943 to 1970 - A selective discography, Vol. one, A to K.- p. 617-619
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver (Eyeball Productions) 2006, p.
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970 (2nd edition).- Vancouver (Eyeball Productions) 2012, p.
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970 (3rd edition).- Vancouver (Eyeball Productions) 2019, p.
- Graham Marsh & Barrie Lewis (Ed.): The Blues Album Cover Art.- Chronicle, San Francisco, 1996
- John Cowley: Son House 1902 - 1988, A Historical Appreciation.- Blues & Rhythm 41 (1988), p. 8-10
- Rebecca Davis: Child is father to the man, How Al Wilson taught Son House to play Son House.- Blues Access 35 (1998), p. 40-43 (with photos by Dick Waterman)
- http://bluesimages.com/museum-78s/HTML-By-Label/Paramount-Paramount13.html
- http://www.msbluestrail.org/blues-trail-markers/son-house
- http://jeffdroke.com/sonHOUSE.htm
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
thanks to Alan Balfour, Paul Russell, Rob Ford, Erwin Bosman, Ulf Bergenblad, John Tefteller, Jouni K., Tom Moon, Edith de Ronde, Russell Shor and Elijah Wald for additional info / scans

click to enlarge!
Larry Johnson, Hank Adkins, Son House, Skip James & Victoria Spivey at the Cafe Au Go Go, New York City, November 1965
source: Back cover of 1984 Spivey LP 1034 "Larry Johnson & Nat Riddles featuring The Doctor's Basin Free"; photographer: Len Kunstadt

Eddie 'Son' House; source: Front cover of Columbia CL 2417; photographer: Dick Waterman
source: Front cover of Columbia CL 2417
photographer: Dick Waterman

Son House
source:www.michaelhavelin.com/phomusic.htm; photographer: Michael F.Havelin

cover of Blues Unlimited Collectors Classics 14 (Son House by Al Wilson)
(scan courtesy Alan Balfour)

Son House signature on OJL11 (1965)
(other signature is by Booker White)

Son House at American Folk Blues Festival 1967

October 9, 1967 at WDR TV in Cologne, Germany

source: Tropical DVD 68.364

October 11, 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark, TV Studio

source: Hip-O Records DVD JHAM0263DVD

Skip James & Son House
photographer: Jan Persson
Son House, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
photographer: Jan Persson

photographer: Jan Persson
source: Screen capture from Hip-O Records DVD JHAM0263DVD

October 1967 at diverse locations

Son House
photographer: David Redfern [?]
Son House
photographer: Keith Perry
Son House, October 21, 1967
Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
source: Philippe Bas-Rabérin (ed.): Blues - Les Incon-
tournables.- Paris (Éditions Filipacchi) 1994, p. 79
photographer: Christian Rose

October 26, 1967 at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK

photographer: Valerie Wilmer
photographer: Valerie Wilmer
source: Back cover
of Flyright LP 541
photographer: Sylvia Pitcher
source: David Harrison: Die Legenden des Blues -
Eine Hommage in Bildern.- Königswinter,
Germany (HEEL-Verlag) 1995, p. 48
photographer: Sylvia Pitcher

Ash Grove handbill: Son House march 1, 2, 3 & 8, 9, 10, 1968

Avalon Ballroom posters

Quicksilver Messenger Service,
Buddy Guy, Son House
february 23-25, 1968
(Paul Zavorskas)
Blood, Sweat & Tears,
John Handy and Son House
march 15-17, 1968
(Stanley Mouse)

Son House in Concert at St. Pancras Town Hall, Euston Road, London 1970
(scan courtesy Alan Balfour)