 drawing by Cathy Mitchell source: Front cover of Southland SLP-5 | Cecil Barfield a/k/a 'William Robertson' b. December 19, 1921 in Bronwood, Terrell County, Georgia d. June 10, 1994 in Opa Locka, Miami-Dade County, Florida discography |  source: https://biglegalmessrecords.com/collections/cecil-barfield photographer's name not given [probably Margo Rosenbaum; not George Mitchell!] |
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| 1 | 197? | 'William Robertson': South Georgia Blues - Frolicking Blues - Lucy Mae Blues @ youtube - Hooks In The Water @ youtube - Baby, Please Don't Go - Five Long Years - Big Legged Woman @ youtube - William Robertson Blues - Lucky Mama Blues - Talk To Your Daughter - The Root Blues - True Love # @ youtube  originally unissued tracks from same session: - I Woke Up Crying [Fat Possum GMBOX] - Love Blues [Fat Possum GMBOX] - I Told You Not To Do That [Fat Possum GMBOX] rec. summer 1976 in Albany, GA by George Mitchell; Cecil Barfield, voc, g; # Clifford Scott, g
notes by George Mitchell notes by George Mitchell Southland Records discography |
| Cecil Barfield - Sugar Coated Love - ??? rec. 1972 / 1977 by Pete Lowry ("enough material for one album, I'd say") Trix unissued | ||
| 2 | 1981 | Georgia Blues Today William Robertson - Love Blues # @ youtube - Baby Please Don't Go # @ youtube James Davis - Old Country Rock John Lee Ziegler - Poor Boy (2:44)  @ youtube- John Henry (4:30) Jimmy Lee Williams - Hoot Your Belly And Give Your Backbone Ease (2:45) @ youtube - Shortening Bread (2:28) @ youtube John Lee Ziegler - Used To Be Mine But Look Who Got Her Now (4:01) @ youtubeJames Davis - James' Boogie William Robertson - My Babe # @ youtube - Hoochie Coochie Wagon # John Lee Ziegler - If I Lose Let Me Lose (4:47) @ youtube James Davis - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl # rec. 1976-79 prob. in Albany, GA by George Mitchell; Cecil Barfield, voc, g
notes by George Mitchell and Bruce Bastin
Flyright Records discography |
| 3 | 2006 | Cecil Barfield The George Mitchell Collection Vol. 1 - Lucy Mae Blues [Southland SLP-5] - I Woke Up Crying - Love Blues - I Told You Not To Do That rec. by George Mitchell in Plains, Georgia, late 1970s and early 1980s 7 inch 33 rpm EP |
| 3a | 2006 | Cecil Barfield The George Mitchell Collection - Love Blues (3:13) - Sun Goin' Down (2:54) - Tell Me Rider (3:11) - See What You Made Me Do (2:09) - My Babe (3:03) - Left My Baby Crying (4:23) - Captain Had A Bulldog (2:52) - Lonesome House Blues (4:08) - I Woke Up Crying (1:33) @ youtube - Lucy Mae Blues (3:30) - Big Legged Woman (3:52) - Five Long Years (4:09) - William Robertson Blues (5:39) @ youtube - Talk To Your Daughter (3:23) - Root Blues (3:46) - Hooks In The Water (2:43) - I Told You Not To Do That (2:35) @ youtube - Bottle Up And Go (1:58) @ youtube - I Want Your Little Lovin' (3:49) rec. by George Mitchell in Plains, Georgia, late 1970s and early 1980s
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| 4 | 2006 | Cecil Barfield The George Mitchell Collection, Volume 2, Disc 3 - I Woke Up Crying - Lucy Mae Blues - Catfish Blues - The Root Blues - Bottle Up And Go #1 - Crawling King Snake #1 - Love Blues #1 - Lucy Mae Blues #2 - Mojo Hand - I Told You Not To Do That - Big Legged Woman - Five Long Years - True Love #1 - William Robertson Blues #1 - Talk To Your Daughter - Good Love Blues - Hooks In The Water - Frolicking Blues - Love Blues #2 - Baby Please Don't Go #1 - Hoochie Koochie Wagon - My Babe rec. by George Mitchell in Plains, Georgia, late 1970s and early 1980s
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| 2006 | Cecil Barfield The George Mitchell Collection, Volume 2, Disc 4 - Sun Going Down @ youtube - Love Blues #2 - See What You Did To Me - Tell Me Rider #1 @ youtube - Wake Up Rider Rag - Rock Me - Paparia Open Your Big Fat Thighs - Left My Poor Baby Crying - Getting Down South - I Wanna Satisfy Your Mind - Captain Had A Bulldog - True Love #2 - Lonesome House Blues - Mellow Peaches - William Robertson Blues #2 - That's Alright Mama - Hooks In The Water #2 - I Want Your Little Loving - Baby Please Don't Go #2 - I Woke Up Crying #2 - Bull Frog Blues rec. by George Mitchell in Plains, Georgia, late 1970s and early 1980s
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| 2006 | Cecil Barfield The George Mitchell Collection, Volume 2, Disc 5 - Bottle Up And Go #2 - Step It Up And Go - Crawling King Snake #2 - I Can't Go Home rec. by George Mitchell in Plains, Georgia, late 1970s and early 1980s
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| 5 | 2006 | Lower Chattahoochie Valley The George Mitchell Collection Albert Macon And Robert Thomas - Flat Foot Boogie - Don't Nothing Hurt Me But My Back And Side William Grant - Jack Of Diamonds Jimmy Lee Harris - Sitting Here 1000 Miles - All Night Long Cliff Davis - I've Been Treated So Bad Lonzie Thomas - Lonzie Thomas Dragaround - Red Cross Store Precious Bryant - When The Saints Go Marching In - Georgia Buck Cecil Barfield - True Love (3:11) [Southland SLP-5] - Lonesome House Blues (4:09) [Fat Possum FP 1039-2] Ray Favors - Baby Please Don't Go - Hambone Ray Favors And James Lloyd - If I Had My Way
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| 6 | 2006 | Art Of Field Recording 50 Years Of Traditional Music Documented By Art Rosenbaum - Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down - Sister Fleeta Mitchell and Rev. Willie Mae Eberhard - Fred Adams - Ray Rhodes - La Grondeuse (The Scolding Woman) - Fidel Martin - Big Foot Feller - Buell Kazee - Blues - Eddie Bowles - Tony Gave a Picnic - Ralph Sheckel - 12th Street Rag - Frosty Lamb and Buzz Fountain - Eve and Adam (Pickin' Up Leaves) - McIntosh County Shouters - Five To My Five - Rev. Howard Finster - Carabina Treinta-Treinta (30-30 Rifle) - Epifanio Sanchez and Group - I'm Dying, Mother - Bert Hare - Eternal Day - Georgia Sacred Harp Convention - Tom Watson Tune - Mabel Cawthorn - Danish Galop - Dwight "Red" Lamb - Billy in the Low Ground - Gordon Tanner and Smoky Joe Miller - Who Killed Poor Robin? - Ollie Gilbert - Georgia Blues - Cecil Barfield # @ youtube - Free Go Lily - Doc and Lucy Barnes - The Miller's Will - Dr. C. B. Skelton - Brickyard Joe - John W. Summers - Old John Henry Died on the Mountain - Henry Grady Terrell - Big Road Blues - Shirley Griffith - Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Gal - Lawrence and Vaughn Eller - Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad - Golden River Grass Group # rec. July 26, 1987 in Bronwood, GA by Art Rosenbaum; Cecil Barfield, voc, g
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| 7 | 11/2007 | Art Of Field Recording Vol. 1 50 Years Of Traditional Music Documented By Art Rosenbaum disc 3: - Georgia Bottleneck Blues - Cecil Barfield # @ youtube - Carroll County Blues - Gordon Tanner, Smokey Joe Miller & Uncle John Patterson - Brooks' Blues - Brooks Berry & Scrapper Blackwell - Key to the Highway - Neal Patman & Bill Giles - Red River Blues - J. T. Adams - Nobody's Business - George Childers - Bowles' Blues - Eddie Bowles - Got the Blues So Bad - Cliff Sheats - Guitar Pete's Blues - Guitar Pete Franklin - Peach Orchard Mama - James Yank Rachel & Shirley Griffith - Big Leg Women - James Easley, Guitar Pete Franklin & Raymond Holloway - Leaving Here, Don't Know Where I'm Going - Joe K. Rakestraw & Art Rosenbaum - The Mogul - Neal Patman - Deep Ellum Blues - Buford Boyd & Willard Benson - River Line Blues - Shirley Griffith - Going Down the Road Feeling Bad - Jake Staggers - I Cried All Night Long - Harvie Sims - Maggie Campbell Blues - Shirley Griffith - How Long Blues - Guitar Pete Franklin - "A" Blues - Scrapper Blackwell # rec. July 26, 1987 in Bronwood, GA by Art Rosenbaum & Allan W. MacLeod; Cecil Barfield, voc, g
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| 8 | 2007 | George Mitchell Collection Volumes 1 - 45 disc 1: - Lucy Mae Blues - Cecil Barfield [Southland SLP-5, Fat Possum BLM 001] - I Woke Up Crying - Cecil Barfield [Fat Possum BLM 001] - Love Blues - Cecil Barfield [Fat Possum BLM 001] - I Told You Not To Do That - Cecil Barfield [Fat Possum BLM 001] - In the Evening - Buddy Moss - Hey Lawdy Mama - Buddy Moss - Thousand Woman Blues - Buddy Moss - Blue Shadow Falling - Buddy Moss - Cold Rainy Day - Buddy Moss - Amy - Buddy Moss - Motherless Child - Leon Pinson - Hush, Somebody is Calling My Name - Leon Pinson - What God Can Do - Leon Pinson - He'll Understand and Say Well Done - Leon Pinson - Big Road Blues - Houston Stackhouse - Cool Water Blues - Houston Stackhouse - Big Fat Mama Blues - Houston Stackhouse - Take a Little Walk With Me - Houston Stackhouse - Everyone Got a Woman - Big Joe Williams - What She Need With a Rooster - Big Joe Williams - Sink or Swim - Big Joe Williams - Prison Bound - Big Joe Williams - Who's Gonna Be Your Man - John Lee Zeigler - If I Lose Let Me Lose - John Lee Zeigler - Black Woman - Othar Turner - Bumble Bee - Othar Turner disc 2: - Rabbit On a Log - Lonzie Thomas - Raise a Ruckus Tonight - Lonzie Thomas - My Three Women - Lonzie Thomas - Red Cross Store - Lonzie Thomas - Rats In the Kitchen - Sleepy John Estes - Special Agent - Sleepy John Estes - Trying To See - Sleepy John Estes - Mail Man Blues - Sleepy John Estes - Down Home Blues - Teddy Williams - Catfish Blues - Teddy Williams - Black Mattie - Teddy Williams - Sun Don't Shine - Teddy Williams - Trouble Brought Me Down - Green Paschal - My Lord - Green Paschal - Mother is Dead - Green Paschal - Lay My Burden Down - Green Paschal - Your Close Friend - Green Paschal - I'm Going To Leave It In the Hands of the Lord - Green Paschal - Hard Time Blues - Do-Boy Diamond - Just Want To Talk To You - Do-Boy Diamond - Just a Dream I Got On My Mind - Dewey Corley / Walter Miller - Memphis is a Wonderful City - Dewey Corey / Walter Miller - Down To Arkansas - Dewey Corey / Walter Miller - Rock Me Mama - Bud Grant - Freight Train Blues - Bud Grant - So Sweet - Bud Grant - Bud Grant's Grunt - Bud Grant disc 3: - Go Ahead On - Bud White - You've Been Gone So Long - Bud White - White Horses - Bud White - When I'm Sober I'm Drunk Blues - George Henry Bussey - Mean Mistreater - George Henry Bussey - Blues Around My Bed - George Henry Bussey - Looking For My Woman - George Henry Bussey - Old Red #2 - Jim Bunkley - Jack of Diamonds - Jim Bunkley - Them Greasy Greens - Jim Bunkley - Rocking Chair - Jim Bunkley - Old Breakdown - Tom Turner - Drop Down Mama #1 - Tom Turner - Search Me Lord - James Shorter - My Mother Died and Left Me - James Shorter - Consolation - James Shorter - Home Going - James Shorter - Better Than Myself - Abe McNeil - Steady Rollin' Man - Abe McNeil - Drink Drink Drink - Abe McNeil - Country Blues - Joe Callicott - River Blues - Joe Callicott - 3 O'Clock In the Morning - Johnny Woods - I's Be Troubled - Johnny Woods disc 4: - Someday Baby - Robert Diggs - Racehorse Charleston - Robert Diggs - Done Lost My Health - Robert Diggs - Drive Your Car - Robert Diggs - Woke Up This Morning - Cliff Scott - Long Wavy Hair - Cliff Scott - Please Come Home - Cliff Scott - Pole Pattin' - Cliff Scott - I Wanna Ramble - Jimmie Lee Harris - Sitting Here Looking 1000 Miles Away - Jimmie Lee Harris - Just Like A Bird Without A Feather - R.L. Burnside - Skinny Woman - R.L. Burnside - Goin' Down South - R.L. Burnside - Poor Black Mattie - R.L. Burnside - Hold My Body Down - Robert Johnson - Trying To Make It Home - Robert Johnson - Precious Lord - Robert Johnson - He'll Make a Way - Robert Johnson - Sugar Mama - Robert Longstreet - Black Gal - Robert Longstreet - Sloppy Drunk - Robert Longstreet - Decoration Day - Robert Longstreet - Shake Em' On Down - Fred McDowell - Mama Says I'm Crazy - Fred McDowell disc 5: - That Ain't It - John Henry Barbee - Gonna Lose Your Mind - John Henry Barbee - Flat Foot Boogie - Albert Macon /Robert Thomas - Mama Can I Lay It Down - Albert Macon / Robert Thomas - How Can You Do It - Albert Macon / Robert Thomas - John Henry - Jessie Clarence Gorman - Goin' Up To the Country #1 - Jessie Clarence Gorman - Goin' Up To the Country #2 - Jessie Clarence Gorman - Dirty Dozens - Will Shade - Won't You Send Me John - Will Shade - Wine Headed Man - Will Shade - K.C. Blues - Will Shade/Charlie Burse - Every Time I Come Around - Georgia Fife & Drum Band - J.W.'S Special - Georgia Fife & Drum Band - Old Hen Cackle - Georgia Fife & Drum Band - Buck Dance - Georgia Fife & Drum Band - Hey Freddie - Como Fife & Drum Band - Late In the Evening - Como Fife & Drum Band - Punky Tony - Como Fife & Drum Band - Shimmy She Wa - Como Fife & Drum Band - You Got Reap What You Sow - Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis - Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis - That's the Way the Good Thing Go - Precious Bryant - Georgia Buck - Precious Bryant - When the Saints Go Marching In - Precious Bryant - Pork & Beans - Rosa Lee Hill - Count the Days I'm Gone - Rosa Lee Hill - Roll & Tumble - Rosa Lee Hill - Bullying Well - Rosa Lee Hill disc 6: - Good Morning Judge - Furry Lewis - Furry Lewis' Careless Love - Furry Lewis - What Make Grandpa Love Grandma So - Jimmy Lee Williams - Have You Ever Seen Peaches - Jimmy Lee Williams - Hoboing Into Hollywood - J.W. Warren - Sundown Blues - J.W. Warren - Rabbit On a Log - J.W. Warren - You're Gonna Miss Me - J.W. Warren - House On the Hill - Eddie Harris - I Have To Love Somebody - Eddie Harris - Old Country Rock #1 - James Davis - Instrumental #1 - James Davis - Who Stole the Lock Off the Henhouse Door? - James Davis - Instrumental #4 - James Davis - Canned Heat - Robert Nighthawk - Nighthawk Boogie - Robert Nighthawk - Down By the Woodshed - Robert Nighthawk - Home Going - Jessie Mae Hemphill - I Want To Be Ready - Jessie Mae Hemphill - Interview - Jessie Mae Hemphill disc 7 (bonus CD - tracks not on 45s set!) - Miss Maybelle - Jessie Lee Vortis - When My Baby Got On Board - Jessie Lee Vortis - Them Greasy Greens #1 - George Hollis - Rock and Roll To Midgetville - George Hollis - Black Rat Swing - Willie Rockomo - Tease Me Baby #2 - Bruce Upshaw/Willie Rockomo - Someday Baby #1 - Bruce Upshaw - Wonder Why My Baby Treat Me So Bad - Bruce Upshaw - Rosa Lee - Bruce Upshaw - I Got a Woman - Buddy Hubbard - So Sweet - Buddy Hubbard - You're Gonna Miss Me - Ira "Tiny" Coney - Mamie - Ira "Tiny" Coney - I'm So Lonesome - Ira "Tiny" Coney - Blood Red River - Eddie Hodge - Sitting On Top of the World - Eddie Hodge - Glory Hallelujah - Eddie Hodge - Jesus is Coming Back To Me - Pettis Sisters - Bound For Zion - Pettis Sisters - You Told Me Baby - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall - Sweet As an Apple On a Tree - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall - Juke #2 - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall - Woke Up This Morning - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall - Tell Me You Love Me - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall
7 CD set [with 24-pp. booklet!] |
| 9 | 2008 | Art Of Field Recording Vol. 2 disc 1 - Survey: Fidel Martin - La Grondeuse (1:55) Eddie Bowles - Blues (4:13) Frosty Lamb & Buzz Fountain - 12th Street Rag (1:44) Dwight Lamb - Danish Galop (1:15) Tony Bryant - Broken Down Engine (4:12) The Balfa Brothers & Nathan Abshire -J'ai passé devant la porte (2:58) The Balfa Brothers & Nathan Abshire - Colinda (1:38) Jake Staggers - Garfield 2:23) Bobby McMillon - The Devil Song (Child 275) (5:14) John W. Summers - Unnamed Tune (2:04) Kirk Brandenberger & Art Rosenbaum - Going Across The Prairie (3:52) Uncle John Patterson - Muddy Roads Of Georgia (3:08) Cecil Barfield - Georgia Blues (5:15) Mary Lomax - Billy Staffer (The State Of Arkansas) (Laws H1) (2:57) Eller Brothers - Cindy In The Summertime (2:17) Ross Brown & Howard Cunningham - General Lee's Surrender (2:06) Neal Patman - Shortnin' Bread (1:47) Juanita Shehan & Oscar "Shorty" Shehan - Free Little Bird (1:47) Juanita Shehan & Oscar "Shorty" Shehan - The Soldier And The Lady (Laws P14) (3:10) Shirley Griffith - Big Road Blues (2:56) Pete Steele - Harlan County Farewell Tune (Rambling Hobo) (1:04) Earl Murphy & Andy Carlson - Marmaduke's Hornpipe (2:49) Bert Hare - Jonah (2:54) Smokey McKinnis & Bob Black - Turkey In The Straw (2:32) Clester Hounchell - Paddy On The Turnpike (1:37) Anna Sandage Underhill - Play Party Songs: In This Ring / I'd Rather Be A Farmer's Boy (0:43) The Chancey Brothers - Mulberry Gap / Cumberland Gap (3:35) Louis Riendeau & Henry Riendeau - Fred Rogers' Reel (1:42) Scrapper Blackwell - Goin' Where The Monon Crosses The Yellow Dog (4:47) # rec. July 26, 1987 in Bronwood, GA by Art Rosenbaum & Allan W. MacLeod; Cecil Barfield, voc, g
4-CD set |
| 10 | 2010 | Dixiefrog presents Black & White Recorded in the Field by Art Rosenbaum Henry Grady Terrel - Old John Henry Died On The Mountain The Chancey Brothers - I Wish I Was A Mode In The Ground Mose Parker - John Henry Silver Light Gospel Singers - Don't You Let Nobody Turn You 'round Gordon Tanner & Smokey Joe Miller - Devilish Mary James "Yank" Rachell & Shirley Griffith - Mandolin Stomp [Flyright LP 523] Lawrence Eller & Vaughn Eller - Down The Road Golden River Grass - Going Down The Road Feeling Bad Jake Staggers - Going Down The Road Feeling Bad Brady Doc & Lucy Barnes - Free Go Lily Ben Entrekin & Uncle John Patterson - Flat Foot Charlie Cecil Barfield - Georgia Bottleneck Blues [Dust-to-Digital 08] Lawrence McKiver & The Mcintosh County Shouters - Jubilee Marie Lomax - Lord_daniel The Eller Brothers & Ross Brown - Don't Go Riding Down That Old Texas Trail Guitar Pete Franklin - Guitar Pete's Blues Albert Hash & Art Rosenbaum - Train 45 Eddie Bowles - Bowles' Blues George Childers - Nobody's Business Scrapper Blackwell - Goin' Where The Monon Crosses The Yellow Dog Fleeta & Rev. Nathaniel Mitchell - Brother, You Ought T've Been There Tony Bryant - Broke Down Engine Juanita & Oscar Shorty Shehan - Free Little Bird The Balfa Brothers & Nathan Abshire - J'ai passé devant ta porte
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Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 103 - Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, pp. 382-383 - http://dusttodigital.bandcamp.com/track/georgia-bottleneck-blues - eBay auctions - diverse internet resources thanks to George Mitchell, Pan Salmenhaara and Axel Küstner for additional info
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