notes by Paul Oliver Heritage HLP 1004 (UK 1961)
= Collector's Issue C-5527 (Austria 1989?)
notes by Paul Oliver, Rien Wisse & Gary Atkinson = Document DOCD 5692 (UK 2012)
Heritage Records discographyCollector's Issue discographyArvella Gray discographyDaddy Stovepipe discography
notes by Pete Welding Milestone MLP-3002 (mono) (US 1966)
Milestone MSP-93002 (stereo) most likely never happened, 'cause all musical content only existed in mono!
notes by Pete Welding "Made in France by Pathé Marconi" = Milestone 2C 062-94300 M (Fr 1973)
Milestone Records discography
CD track sequence:@ youtube (full album) - So Much Good Feeling - Boogie Woogie Red - A Little Different - Willie Thomas - Kill That Nigger Dead - James "Butch" Cage & Willie Thomas - The Onliest Way - Lil Son Jackson - My Father's Style / So It Rocked On / Move To Kansas City - J.B. Lenoir - When She Come Back / Poor Country Boy - Otis Spann - Ain't No Easy Thing - Lightnin' Hopkins - Evil Heart Blues - Mance Lipscomb - A Roughneck - Blind Arvella Gray # - West Helena Blues - Roosevelt Sykes - Days of 1900 / Newport News Blues - Will Shade - Chock House Days / Come and Get Me - Whistling Alex Moore - Move Back! For What? - Brother John Sellers - Been Down So Long - J.B. Lenoir - A Place They Call Boots' - James "Stump" Johnson [] - Henry Brown Blues - Henry Brown [] - They Called Us Gandy Dancers # / Work Songs & John Henry ## - Blind Arvella Gray # with Blind James Brewer ## [] (starting @ 31:23) - Santa Fe Train - Edwin "Buster" Pickens - Most Reason I Sing - Robert Curtis Smith - Santa Fe Blues - Jasper Love - Somewhere Down The Line - John Lee Hooker - I Hope One Day My Luck Will Change - Robert Curtis Smith [] - Only Places They Can Go / People Call Me Lucky - Otis Spann - What Have I Committed? - Henry Townsend - 'Tween Midnight And Day - James "Butch" Cage - Walking Basses / Dud Low Joe / The First Vicksburg Blues - Little Brother Montgomery - They Call Him "Pork Chops" / Forty-Four Blues - Roosevelt Sykes - Blues In The Bottle - Mance Lipscomb - To Have The Blues Within - Edward "Buster" Pickens - Colorado Springs Blues - Edwin "Buster" Pickens [] All tracks recorded between June 26 and August 28, 1960 # rec. July 9, 1960 in Chicago, IL; Arvella Gray, voc, g or sp; ## Jim Brewer, g
LP and CD have slightly different tracks: [] = not on LP resp. CD !!!
notes (plus 6-pp. insert) by Paul Oliver  Decca LK 4664 insert (1 sheet folded to 6 pp.) Decca LK 4664 (UK 1965)
notes by Paul Oliver = Decca LK 4664 (Germany 1965)
LP resp. CD accompanying Paul Oliver's book by the same title:London (Cassell) (1st UK ed. 1965) xv, 217 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm
New York (Horizon Press) (1st US ed. 1965) xix, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
London ("Jazz Book Club") JBC 64 (2nd UK ed. 1967)
Cambridge (University Press) 0 521 59181 3 (revised edition of the original 1965 book with enclosed CD) (2nd US ed. 1997)
Doyosha LLC (1st Jp ed. 2016) ISBN 978-4-907511-25-8 (190 × 129 × 21,8 mm | 336 pages (incl. 48 photos) | weight: 9,5 pound; price: 1.850 JPY equals 14,84 EUR) translated by Yasufumi Higurashi
notes by Peter J. Welding "5851 Blackstone Avenue/Chicago 37, Illinois" "577 Levering Avenue/Los Angeles, Calif./90024" Testament S-01 (US 1964 ff.)BU 62 (May 1969), p. 26
notes by Peter J. Welding = Bounty BY 6035 (UK 1967)
notes by Peter J. Welding (=) Testament TCD-5007 (US 1994)
Testament Records discography
notes by A.M. Cohenand Roy Filson Philo 1003
notes by Pete Welding Storyville SLP 180= Storyville 670180= Teichiku ULS-1815-R (Jp)
notes by Pete Welding = Storyville SLP 4035 "Blues Roots Vol. 1"
Storyville Records discography
notes by George Mitchell (May 1979) & Bruce Bastin Flyright LP 549 (UK 1979)
Flyright Records discography
accompanying flyer
DLP notes by Manfred Miller (English translation by Christa M. Gowing) Storyville 6.28470 (Germany 1979)to read liner notes click on pictures of covers: G = German / E = English text has been black/white reversed to improve readability
= PGP RTB 2LP 3220044 (Yugoslavia 1981)
notes by Howard L. Sacks Earwig LPS-4904
= Earwig CD-R 4904 (US 2009)
Earwig 4943 CD
2 CD setEarwig 4946 CD
2 CD setnotes by Scott Barretta, Björn Helander, Peps Persson, Sven Zetterberg & Louise Hoffsten Jefferson Records SBACD 12653/4 (Sweden 1999)
2 CD setwith 62 pp. booklet P-Vine PCD-5527/28 (Jp 1999)
3 CD setnotes by Colin Talcroft with Allan Murphy (=) Rooster CD ROO2641 (US 2000)
3 CD set (=) Catfish KAT3D1 (UK 2000)
Catfish Records (UK) discography
thanks to Alan Balfour, Colin Talcroft, eRIC LeBlanc, Frank Scott and Andy Cohen for additional info / photo / scans
Chuck Cowdery's Save Maxwell Street website
Jim Brewer & Andy Cohen at WHRW radio stationat State University at Binghamton, New York, 1971(press photo by Leo F. Fahey)(Jim Brewer plays a Gibson D-28, Andy Cohen a Gibson J-200) Jim Brewer with Michael Kennedy and Strawberry McCloudat the New Harmony Festival of Traditional Music, June 1977;source: Sing Out! 31/2 (1985), p. 30; photo by Dillon Bustin
Jim Brewer with Michael Kennedy and Strawberry McCloudat the New Harmony Festival of Traditional Music, June 1977;source: Sing Out! 31/2 (1985), p. 30; photo by Dillon Bustin