![]() Nathan Beauregard at the Memphis Country Blues Festival, June 1969 source: "Memphis Country Blues Festival" film trailer | Nathan Beauregard né Nathan Bogard b. [ in [ d. May [ discography | ![]() source: Inner gatefold of Blue Thumb BTS 6000; photographer: Jim Marshall |
# | year of release | title / label / notes |
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1 | 1968 | The 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival![]() ![]() Nathan Beauregard - Highway 61 - Kid Gal Blues Bukka White - Hello Central, Give Me 49 - Baby, Please Don't Go Furry Lewis - Furry's Blues ![]() Rev. Robert Wilkins - In Heaven, Sitting Down - What Do You Think About Jesus? Joe Callicott - You Don't Know My Mind - Great Long Ways From Home Bukka White - My Mother Died ![]() rec. July 20, 1968 at the Municipal Shell, Overton Park in Memphis, TN [third annual festival]; Nathan Beauregard, voc, amplified g; M.C.: Jim Crosthwait; prod. by Mike Vernon, exec. producer: Seymour Stein (Sire Records) front cover photography by Margaret Tucker, back cover photos supplied by Randall Lyon, Lydia Saltzman and Blues Unlimited
notes by Mike Vernon notes by Mike Vernon notes by Mike Vernon notes by Mike Vernon
(=) Blue Horizon CD 82876851232 (2006) Blue Horizon Records discography |
2 | 1969 | Memphis Swamp Jam![]() LP 1: Booker White - Christmas Eve Blues - Columbus, Miss. Blues - Sad Day Blues Piano Red - Mobile Blues - Abel Street Stomp ![]() Nathan Beauregard - Nathan's Bumble Bee Blues (10:30) # @ youtube - 'Bout A Spoonful (3:20) # @ youtube Sleepy John Estes - Need More Blues - President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long ![]() ![]() LP 2: Furry Lewis - Judge Boushay Blues - Walking Blues Fred McDowell - Shake Em On Down - Fred's Blues Napoleon Strickland - Back Water Rising ![]() - Other's Piece - Shimmy She Wobble R.L. Watson & Josiah Jones [John Fahey & Bill Barth] - Memphis Rag - St. Louis Blues - Praying On The Old Campground ![]() # rec. June 9, 1969 at Ardent Recording Studios in Memphis, Tennessee; Nathan Beauregard, voc, el g [right channel]; Mike Stewart, ac g [left channel]; all sessions supervised by Chris Strachwitz; prod. by Chris Strachwitz; assistant producers: John Fahey and Bill Barth ![]() front cover photo of Blue Thumb BTS 6000 / Arhoolie 1084 taken at the Memphis Blues Festival by Jim Marshall
DLP = King SR-481 (Jp 1971) notes (1969) by Pete Welding
Arhoolie Records discography |
3 | 1971 | The Memphis Blues Again Vol. 1![]() Nathan Beauregard - Nobody's Business But My Own (2:47) # * @ youtube - Lonesome To Myself (4:59) # @ youtube Sam Clark & Dewey Corley and Richard Harney - Sunnyland Train Blues Earl Bell & Marshall "Memphis Sonny Boy" Jones - Catfish Blues Mose Vinson & Backwards Sam Firk and Dewey Corley - You Ain't Too Old Mose Vinson & Backwards Sam Firk - Bullfrog Blues Sweet Charlene Peeples & Mose Vinson - Tin Pan Alley - Scood Up Be Doop Day ![]() Furry Lewis - Natural Born Eastman No. 2 Furry Lewis & Willie Morris and Dewey Corley - New Turn Your Money Green Joe Dobbins & Backwards Sam Firk - Basin Street Blues - Sweet Patricia Gus Cannon - Mule Gallop Dewey Corley & Willie Morris and Furry Lewis - Dewey's Walkin' Blues Dewey Corley & Walter Miller - Step It Up And Go ![]() # rec. October 1969 in Memphis, TN; Nathan Beauregard, voc, g; * Mike Stewart, g; prod. by Gene Rosenthal Adelphi AD 1009 cover drawing by Dick Bangham
notes by Stephan Michaelson and Steve LaVere with assistance by Nick Perls and Michael Stewart notes by Stephan Michaelson Adelphi Records discography |
4 | 1970 | All Day Thumb Sucker![]() Southwind - Rootin & Tootin Sam Lay - Maggie's Farm Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down [Blue Thumb BTS 6000] Robbie Basho - Eagle Sails The Blue Tyrannosaurus Rex - Cat Black Ike & Tina Turner - Bold Soul Sister ![]() Love - Run To The Top Nathan Beauregard - 'Bout A Spoonful [Blue Thumb BTS 6000] Aynsley Dunbar - Sugar On The Line Albert Collins - Frosty Earl Hooker - Cross Cut Saw [Blue Thumb BTS 12] Chicago Bluestars - Comin Home Bossa Rio - Blackbird ![]()
notes by John Mendelsohn notes by John Mendelsohn [Blue Thumb BT3 7002 "All Day Thumb Sucker Revisited" (US 1995) without Nathan Beauregard track] |
5 | 1981 | Kings Of Country Blues, Vol. 1![]() Booker White - Christmas Eve Blues - Columbus, Miss. Blues - Sad Day Blues Piano Red - Mobile Blues - Abel Street Stomp ![]() Nathan Beauregard - Nathan's Bumble Bee Blues # [Blue Thumb BTS 6000] - 'Bout A Spoonful # [Blue Thumb BTS 6000] Sleepy John Estes - Need More Blues - President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long ![]() reissue of LP 1 of (DLP) Blue Thumb BTS 6000
Arhoolie Records discography |
6 | 1993 | Mississippi Delta Blues Jam In Memphis Vol. 2![]() Sleepy John Estes - Need More Blues - Little Laura °° - Rats °° - President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long Nathan Beauregard - Nathan's Bumble Bee Blues * [Blue Thumb BTS 6000] - 'Bout A Spoonful * [Blue Thumb BTS 6000] Booker White - Christmas Eve Blues - Columbus, Miss. Blues - Sad Day Blues - Stuttgart, Ark °° - Mixed Water ![]() °° previously unreleased
Arhoolie Records discography |
7 | 1999 | Shake 'Em On Down The Real Country Blues ![]() - Shake 'Em On Down - Fred McDowell - Sloppy Drunk Blues - Big Joe Williams - Alabama Blues - Bukka White - Need More Blues - Sleepy Joe Estes - Judge Boushay Blues - Furry Lewis - Pardon Denied Again - Robert Pete Williams - Rabbit Blues - Smoky Babe - Take Me Out Of The Bottom - Big Joe Williams - Fred's Worried Life Blues - Fred McDowell - Poor Black Mattie - R.L. Burnside - Come Home To Me Baby - Joe Callicott - Smokestack Lightning - Clarence Edwards - Write Me A Few Lines - Fred McDowell - Mississippi River - Smoky Babe - Just Tippin' It - Robert Pete Williams - She Left Me A Mule To Ride - Big Joe Williams - Canned Heat - Houston Stackhouse - Three O'Clock In The Morning - Johnny Woods - 'Bout A Spoonful - Nathan Beauregard [Blue Thumb BTS 6000] - You Call Yourself A Cadillac - Robert Nighthawk - Keep Your Nose Out Of My Business - Johnny Young & Otis Spann - Oh Baby - Napeleon Strickland ![]()
Arhoolie Records discography |
8 | 2006 | The 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival with Bukka White: The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions ![]() disc 1: Nathan Beauregard - Highway 61 [Sire SES 97003 / Blue Horizon 7-63210] - Kid Gal Blues [Sire SES 97003 / Blue Horizon 7-63210] Bukka White - Hello Central, Give Me 49 - Baby, Please Don't Go Furry Lewis - Furry's Blues Rev. Robert Wilkins - In Heaven, Sitting Down - What Do You Think About Jesus? Joe Callicott - You Don't Know My Mind - Great Long Ways From Home Bukka White - My Mother Died ![]() disc 2: Bukka White - Bed Spring Blues - Aberdeen, Mississippi Blues - Drifting Blues - (Brand New) Decoration Day - Baby Please Don't Go - Give Me An Old, Old Lady - Got Sick And Tired - World Boogie - School Learning - Old Man Tom - Gibson Town - Drifting Blues [master version without reverb] - Old Man Tom [complete master version without reverb] ![]() reissue (remastered) of 1968 Sire SES 97003 / Blue Horizon 7-63210 "The 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival" and Blue Horizon 7-63229 "Memphis Hot Shots"
2 CD set Blue Horizon Records discography |
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Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - eBay auctions - Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 213-214 - Chris Smith: Trying to make a hundred (99 and a half ain't true).- Blues & Rhythm 217 (2007), p. 25 - diverse internet resources thanks to Patrice Champarou for drawing my attention to the Chris Smith article ("99 1/2 ain't true")
Bill Barth (1995): The Real True Story of How I Found Nathan Beauregard and Got Him to Play Music Again |