1) "Bracey's first name is Ishmon, not Ishman, his wife Annie said.She said he was named after an Old Testament character."(Gayle Dean Wardlow 1998, p. 45)2) The guitar Bracey's holding is a Stromberg (with an asymmetrical headstock - lower string side more "protruding" than higher string side!), which signifies that the originally published photo actually must have been flipped on its way to publication. That doesn't necessarily mean that Bracey was a left-handed guitar player, because we also have a Big Joe Williams photo (undisputed a right-hand player!) holding his guitar equally "wrong way round" for a photo shooting!
Victor 21349 (US 6/1928)
Victor 21408 (US 1928)
Victor 21691 (US 11/1928)
Victor V38560
Paramount 12941 (US 5/1930)
Paramount 12949 (US 6/1930)
Paramount 12970 (US 8/1930)
Paramount 12980 (US 8/1930)
Paramount 13038 (US 2/1931)
Paramount ?????? [record never surfaced]
Paramount 13121 [record never surfaced]
10 inch LPnotes by Bill Grauer, Jr. and Orrin Keepnews RCA "X" LVA-3032
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
notes by Gayle Dean Wardlow or Origin Jazz Library OJL 8 (US 1965)
7 inch EPnotes by Michael Vernon RCA RCX 7167 (UK 6/1965)
RCA RCX discography
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
notes by Dave Evans Yazoo 1007
= Yazoo CD 1007 YAZ (US 1991)
= Yazoo HLP 1007 (180 g)
Yazoo Records discography
notes by Chris Albertson Historical HLP-32
Historical Records discography
source: Melody Maker April 1970
Roots RL-330 (Austria 1969)
Saydisc Roots RL-330 (UK 1969)
= Autogram RL-330 (Germany )
= JSP 11002 (UK 2014)
Roots Records discographyTommy Johnson discography
°° CD has seven additional tracks!
3 LP folding box with 30-pp. booklet RCA Victor RA-5433/5 (Jp 1971)
3 LP slide-in box with 30-pp. booklet = RCA Victor RA-9051/3 (Jp 1975)
2 CD set, notes by Hiroshi Suzuki, Toyo Nakamura, Yasufumi Higurashi, Hisamitsu Noguchi & Shoichi Yui = RCA BVCP-8733/4 (Jp 1994) "Blues 1927-46"
2 CD set = RCA BVCM-37530/1 (Jp 2004) "Blues 1927-46"
notes by Bernard Klatzko Herwin H 201
Herwin Records discography
Herwin H-205 (US 1973)
notes by John P. Morgan Stash ST-110
(=) Jass J-CD-642
Stash/Jass Records discography
notes by Chris Smith Policy Wheel PW 4593 (UK 1977)
Policy Wheel Records discography
notes by Paul Oliver Wolf WSE 105 (Austria 1983)
notes by Paul Oliver(=) Wolf CD-WSE 105 (Austria 1998)
Wolf Records (WSE series) discography
Earl Archives BD 612 (Austria 1984)
Document DLP 532 (Austria 1988)
Document Records discography
3 LP set with 24-pp. booklet notes (English and German) by Paul Oliver RST Blues Documents BD-01 (Austria 1990)
3 CD setnotes 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)
notes by Don Kent Yazoo CD 2002 (US 1991)
RCA / BMG CD 61047-2 (US 1992) (Bluebird Heritage series)
notes by John TottenhamBlack Swan HCD-23 (US 1995)
notes by Paul Oliver Document DOCD-5049 (Austria 1991)
notes by Larry Hoffman Frog CD 21 (UK 1998)
Catfish CD 118 (UK 1999)
Catfish Records (UK) discography
4 CD set40-pp. booklet by Joop Visser Proper CDBOX 7 (UK 1999)
notes (June 2000) by Dave Moore Catfish KATCD 160 (UK 2000)
2 CD setnotes by Gary Atkinson Document CBL-200008 (UK 2001)
5 CD box JSP CD 7715 (UK 2003)
JSP Records discography
P-Vine PCD-2433 (Jp 2003)
DLP Monk 322 (It 2010)
54-pp. booklet with stories and anecdotes of shellac collectors Yazoo CD 2203 (US 9/2012)
Nehi NEH 02 (UK 1/2014)
Blues Images Calendar Vol. 14 (rel. 2016, for 2017)
Blues Images CD BIM-114 (US 2016) accompanying Blues Images Calendar Vol. 14 (for 2017)
Blues Images calendar discography
thanks to Alan Balfour, Akira Blake Kikuchi, Neil Harpe, Mark Jacobson, Daniel Wheeler and Howard Rye for additional info / scans
REV. ISHMON BRACEYBORN JAN. 9TH 1901DIED FEB. 12TH 1970source: https://de.findagrave.com/memorial/7318058/ishman-braceyphotographer: Natalie Maynor
source: http://www.roaddawgblues.com/Jackson.html; photographer: "Road Dawg"
Ishmon Bracey's grave at Willow Park Cemetery in Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi