Illustrated Gabriel Brown discography

Gabriel Brown & Rochelle French in Eatonville, Florida, June 1935
source: http://www.loc.gov/...; photographer: Alan Lomax
Zora Neale Hurston, Rochelle French & Gabriel Brown in Eatonville, Florida, June 1935; source: http://www.loc.gov/...; photographer: Alan Lomax

Gabriel Brown
b. 1910 in (~~Orlando~~) prob. Blue Springs, Gadsden County, Florida
reportedly drowned in 1972, location of death unknown
discography
G A B R I E L B R O W N; source: Front cover of Flyright 591 and Krazy Kat KK 758
source: Front covers of Flyright 591
and Krazy Kat KK 758

#	year of release	title / label / notes
*10 inch 78 rpm*
		- John Henry (355-A) - John Henry (instr.) (355-B) - Blues (357-B) # - Tone The Bell Easy (358-A-1) - The Motherless Child (358-A-2) - A Dream Of Mine (359-A) - Education Blues (360-A) # - Talking In Sebastapol (360-B)# - Careless Love (361-A) rec. late (poss. 20) June, 1935 in Eatonville, FL by Elizabeth Barnicle, Zora Neale Hurston, & Alan Lomax; Gabriel Brown, voc, g; # Rochelle French, g Library of Congress unissued Flyright-Matchbox SDM 257
		- Frankie And Albert (Cooney And Delia) (358-B-1) rec. June, 1935 in Eatonville, FL by Elizabeth Barnicle, Zora Neale Hurston, & Alan Lomax; John French, voc; Gabriel Brown, g Library of Congress unissued Flyright-Matchbox SDM 257
		- Casey Jones (356-A) # - Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On (356-B) - Out In The Cold Again (357-A) - What Did The Doodle-Bug Say To The Mole (359-B-3) - Uncle Bud (366-A) # - Po' Bo, Long Ways From Home (454-B) rec. June, 1935 in Eatonville, FL by Elizabeth Barnicle, Zora Neale Hurston, & Alan Lomax; Rochelle French, voc, g; Gabriel Brown, g, # voc Library of Congress unissued Flyright-Matchbox SDM 257
1	1943	GABRIEL BROWN And His Guitar - I Get Evil When My Love Comes Down (A) @ youtube - You Ain't No Good (B) @ youtube rec. 1943 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g Gennett 5003 = Beacon 5003 = Joe Davis 5003
2	1943	GABRIEL BROWN And His Guitar - Black Jack Blues (A) - Going My Way (B) rec. 1943 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g Gennett 5004 = Beacon 5004 = Joe Davis 5004
3	1943	GABRIEL BROWN And His Guitar - Down In The Bottom (A) - Bad Love (B) rec. August 26, 1943 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g Joe Davis 5006
4	1943	GABRIEL BROWN And His Guitar - I've Got To Stop Drinkin' (A) - Cold Love (B) rec. August 26, 1943 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g Gennett 5008 = Joe Davis 5008
5 [sic]	1944	GABRIEL BROWN And His Guitar - I Don't Feel So Good (A) - Stop Jivin' Me (B) rec. September 13, 1944 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g Gennett 5016 = Joe Davis 5016
6	1944	GABRIEL BROWN And His Guitar - That's Alright # - Doing My Best * # rec. September 13, 1944 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g * rec. October 26, 1944 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g Joe Davis 5018
7	1944	GABRIEL BROWN And His Guitar - Good-Time Papa - Baby Boy, Baby rec. October 26, 1944 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g Joe Davis 5019
8	1945	GABRIEL BROWN And His Guitar - It's Getting Soft (A) - Don't Worry About It (B) rec. May 2, 1945 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g Gennett 5020 = Joe Davis 5020
9	1945	GABRIEL BROWN And His Guitar - Hold That Train (A) - Boogie Woogie Guitar (B) rec. May 2, 1945 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g Beacon 5021 = Joe Davis 5021
10	1945	GABRIEL BROWN And His Guitar - Pleading (A) * - Mean Old Blues (B) # # rec. May 2, 1945 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g * rec. June 27, 1945 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g Joe Davis 5022 Joe Davis DA-5
11	1945	GABRIEL BROWN And His Guitar - You Have To Be Different (A) - The Jinx Is On Me (B) originally unissued track from same session: - The Jinx Is On Me (alt tk) rec. May 2, 1945 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g Gennett 5023 = Joe Davis 5023 Joe Davis DA-5
12	1945	GABRIEL BROWN And His Guitar - I'll Be Seeing You One Of These Days (A) * - It's Time To Move (B) # # rec. May 2, 1945 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g * rec. June 27, 1945 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g Joe Davis 5024 Joe Davis DA-5
13	1945	GABRIEL BROWN And His Guitar - Wrap Me Up Tight (A) - I Want A Little Fun (B) rec. June 27, 1945 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g Gennett 5025 = Joe Davis 5025 Joe Davis DA-5
14	1945	Joe Davis Records presents Down Home Blues by Gabriel Brown and his Guitar - Pleading (Joe Davis 5022) - Mean Old Blues (Joe Davis 5022) - You Have To Be Different (Joe Davis 5023) - The Jinx Is On Me (Joe Davis 5023) - I'll Be Seeing You One Of These Days (Joe Davis 5024) - It's Time To Move (Joe Davis 5024) - Wrap Me Up Tight (Joe Davis 5025) - I Want A Little Fun (Joe Davis 5025) set of four 78 rpm records Joe Davis DA-5 (US 1945)
15	1945	GABRIEL BROWN And His Guitar - Not Now, I'll Tell You When (A) - I'm Gonna Take It Easy (B) rec. September 13, 1944 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g Gennett 5015 = Joe Davis 5015 = Davis 5015 = Jazz Selection J.S. 601 (Fr)
16	1945	GABRIEL BROWN And His Guitar - I've Done Stopped Gambling (A) - Stick With Me (B) rec. October 26, 1944 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g Joe Davis 5017
17	1949	GABRIEL BROWN And His Guitar - Hold Me Baby - Nobody Loves Me Like My Little Girl rec. August 3, 1949 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g Jay-Dee 779 ~~[was cancelled]~~ Krazy Kat KK 785
18	1949	GABRIEL BROWN - I Can't Last Long (75291) - Suffer (75292) rec. August 3, 1949 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g Coral 65019
19	1952	GABRIEL BROWN And His Guitar - Cold Mama (DA 189, 52-4-454) - I'm Just Crazy (DA 188, 52-5-453) originally unissued track from same session: - Youngster's Blues (DA 190, 52-5-455) [Krazy Kat KK 785] rec. October 30, 1952 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g MGM 11407
		- I Am Playing The Game (DA 213, 52-5-548) # - I Am Just Hard Luck (DA 214, 52-5-549) # - Got No Money Blues (DA 215, 52-5-550) # - It Ain't Like That (DA 216, 52-5-551) - I Had My Hands On It (DA 217, 52-5-552) # rec. December 15, 1952 in New York; Gabriel Brown, voc, g unissued # Krazy Kat KK 785
*LP / CD compilations*
20	1966?	Blues Classics Volume 4 Leroy Dallas - I'm Going Away - Good Morning Blues - I'm Down Now - Jump Little Children Joe Williams - His Spirit Lives On Peter Warfield - Morning Train Blues Dennis McMillon - Going Back Home John Henry Barbee - Six Week Old Blue Carl Martin - Lets Have A New Deal Sonny Boy Johnson - Swimming Pool Blues Gabriel Brown - Black Jack Blues Lost John Hunter - YM & V Blues James Cain - Good Mr. Roosevelt Peter McKinley - Mean Black Snake Blues Classics BC 14 (US 1966?) Blues Classics discography
20a	1969	The Blues Keep Falling Luther Huff - Rosalie Jimmy DeBerry - Before Long Gabriel Brown - I Get Evil When My Love Comes Down - You Ain't No Good Tony Hollins - Wine O Woman - Crawlin' Kingsnake Jnr. Parker - Mother In Law Otis Hinton - Walkin' Down Hill - Emmaline Danny Boy - Wild Women Lightning Slim - New Orleans Bound - I Can't Live Happy - Ethel Mae - Buggar Buggar Boy Sunflower without # Sunflower Records discography
20b	1973	New York Country Blues Jelly Belly & Slim Seward - Water Trough Blues Square Walton - Pepper Head Woman Alonzo Scales - Hard Luck Child Allen Bunn (Tarheel Slim) - The Guy With The 45 Leroy Dallas - Baby Please Don't Go Back To New Orleans Gabriel Brown - Cold Mama <b>Brownie McGhee - Seeboard & Southern Jelly Belly & Slim Seward - Sorry Woman Blues Square Walton - Gimme Your Bankroll Alonzo Scales - We Just Can't Agree Allen Baum (Tarheel Slim) - Too Much Competition Gabriel Brown - I'm Just Crazy Sonny Boy & Sam - Mama Blues Big Boy Ellis - Dices Dices notes by Bruce Bastin Flyright LP 4705 (UK 1973) Flyright Records discography
21	1975	Out In The Cold Again Library Of Congress Field Recordings Vol. 3 Gabriel Brown - John Henry - John Henry (instr.) Rochelle French - Casey Jones - Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On - Out In The Cold Again Gabriel Brown & Rochelle French - Blues Gabriel Brown - Tone The Bell Easy - Motherless Child John French - Franky And Albert Rochelle French - Po' Boy, Long Way From Home Gabriel Brown - A Dream Of Mine Rochelle French - Blues (I Ain't Got No Mama Now) (take 1) - Blues (I Ain't Got No Mama Now) (take 2) - What Did The Doodle-Bug Say To The Mole Gabriel Brown - Education Blues - Talking In Sebastapol - Careless Love Rochelle French & Gabriel Brown - Uncle Bud rec. Eatonville, Florida, in late (poss. 20) June 1935 by Elizabeth Barnicle, Zora Neale Hurston, & Alan Lomax Flyright-Matchbox SDM 257 (UK 1975) Flyright Records discography
22	1976	Gabriel Brown And His Guitar - I Get Evil When My Love Comes Down - You Ain't No Good - Black Jack Blues - Going My Way - Down In The Bottom - Bad Love - I've Got To Stop Drinkin' - Cold Love - Not Now, I'll Tell You When - I'm Gonna Take It Easy - I've Done Stopped Gambling - Stick With Me - It's Getting Soft - Don't Worry About It - Hold That Train - Boogie Woogie Guitar "Poor Bill & Gabriel Brown" [~~Gabriel Brown~~] - Way Up On The Mountain # - A Hundred Women # # Flyright FLY 591 minus Poor Bill tracks 12-pp. booklet notes and transcriptions by Tony Travers Policy Wheel PW 4592 (UK 1976) 2-pp. booklet notes (May 1981) by Bruce Bastin (=) Flyright FLY 591 (UK 1981) (minus Poor Bill tracks) Policy Wheel Records discography Flyright Records discography
23	1977	Songs Of Migration And Immigration Folk music in America Vol. 6 - Steamboat Whistle Blues - Roy Acuff - Marching To Utah - Rose Thompson - Railroad Bill - Frank Hovington - The Moore Girl - A. and J. Baxter - Jim Crow Blues - Cow Cow Davenport - Rambling Lover - Dick Reinhart - Down In The Bottom - Gabriel Brown - Dear Okie - Doye O'Dell - Zrobil Góral Krzyz Na Czole - Zespól Gírali Giewont - Barney McCoy - Uncle Alec Dunford and Fields Ward - Emigrantsvisa - Otto Magnusson - Hay Nazanem Yarer - Reuben J. Baboyan - Dzieci w Krateczki - Wladyslaw Polak - Poor But Ambitious - The Bamboo Orchestra, featuring Wilmoth Houdini - O Gero Amerikanos - D. Perdicopoulos - Pesni o Dovbushe - Artistic Village Troup collection ed. by Richard K. Spottswood for The Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture Library of Congress LBC 6
24	1977	Songs Of Complaint And Protest Folk music in America Vol. 7 Mattie, Marthie, and Minnie - You Can't Live With 'Em (And You Can't Live Without 'Em) Wilmoth Houdini - Don't Do That To Me Dutch Coleman - Granny Get Your Hair Cut John McGhee - Well World Doggone Bumble Bee Slim - Hard Rocks In My Bed Jerry McCain And His Upstarts - My Next Door Neighbour Ewgen Zukowsky - Wujko politykan David McCarn - Poor Man, Rich Man Gabriel Brown - I'm Gonna Take It Easy Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - Kill That Nigger Dead J.B. Lenoir - Mississippi Road Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - Over The Hills To The Poorhouse Bessie Tucker - Key To The Bushes Blues Walter Roland - Collector Man Blues The Tiger - Workers' Appeal collection ed. by Richard K. Spottswood for The Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture Library of Congress LBC7
25	1981	Gabriel Brown 1943-1945 - I Get Evil When My Love Comes Down - You Ain't No Good - Black Jack Blues - Going My Way - Down In The Bottom - Bad Love - I've Got To Stop Drinkin' - Cold Love - Not Now, I'll Tell You When - I'm Gonna Take It Easy - Stick With Me - I've Done Stopped Gambling - It's Getting Soft - Don't Worry About Me - Boogie Woogie Guitar - Hold That Train Policy Wheel PW 4592 (1976) + 2 tracks by Poor Bill ~~with Gabriel Brown~~ notes by Bruce Bastin Flyright FLY 591 Flyright Records discography
26	1983	Gabriel Brown 1944-1952 - That's Alright - Stick With Me - Doing My Best - Good-Time Papa - Baby, Boy, Baby - Mean Old Blues - You Have To Be Different - The Jinx Is On Me - It's Time To Move - Hold Me Baby - Nobody Loves Me Like My Little Girl - Youngster's Blues - I Am Playing The Game - I Am Just Hard Luck - Got No Money Blues - I Had My Hands On It notes by Bruce Bastin Krazy Kat KK 785
27	1991	Red River Blues 1934 - 1943 Library of Congress East Coast Blues Recordings Blind Joe - When I Lie Down - In Trouble Reese Crenshaw - Trouble Robert Davis - Poor Joe Breakdown Jimmie Owens - Not Satisfied Willie Williams - Red River Blues J. Wilson - Barrel House Blues Allison Mathis - Mama You Goin' To Quit Me Jimmie Strothers - Goin' To Richmond Smith Band - Fort Valley Blues Buster Brown - War Song Gus Gibson - Milk Cow Blues Sonny Chestain - Po' Boy Long Way From Home Buster Brown - I'm Gonna Make You Happy Gus Gibson - Railroad Song James Sneed's Washboard Band - Southern Rag Allison Mathis & Jesse Stroller - John Henry Gabriel Brown - Talking In Sebastopol Booker T. Sapps - Alabama Blues - part 1 - The Weeping Worry Blues Willy Flowers - Levee Camp Holler Booker T. Sapps - Boot That Thing notes by Ray Templeton Travelin' Man TMCD 08 Travelin' Man Records discography
28	1992	Play My Juke Box East Coast Blues 1943 - 1954 Boy Green - Play My Juke-Box - A&B Blues Curley Weaver - Some Rainy Day Marylin Scott - I Got What My Daddy Likes Skoodle-Dum-Doo & Sheffield - West Kinney Street Blues - Tampa Blues - Broom Street Blues - Gas Station Blues Hank Kilroy - Harlem Women - Awful Shame Hootin' Owl (Guitar Shorty) - I Love That Woman Big Chief Ellis - Dices Dices Julius King - One O'Clock Boogie Robert Lee Westmoreland - Hello Central, Please Give Me 209 - Good Looking Woman Blues Jelly Bean & Guitar Slim - Humming Bird Blues Sunny Jones - Leaving Home Blues - Don't Want Pretty Women Elder R. Wilson & Family - Better Get Ready Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly - I've Been Dreaming Gabriel Brown - The Jinx Is One Me (alt tk) Tarheel Slim - Too Much Competition Flyright FLY CD 45 Flyright Records discography
29	1996	Gabriel Brown: Mean Old Blues 1943 - 1948 - I Get Evil When My Love Comes Down - You Ain't No Good - Black Jack Blues - Going My Way - Down In The Bottom - Bad Love - I've Got To Stop Drinkin' - Cold Love - Not Now, I'll Tell You When - I'm Gonna Take It Easy - I've Done Stopped Gamblin' - It's Getting Soft - Don't Worry About It - Hold That Train - Boogie Woogie Guitar - That's Alright - Stick With Me - Doing My Best - Good-Time Papa - Baby, Boy, Baby - Mean Old Blues - You Have To Be Different - The Jinx Is One Me - It's Time To Move - Hold Me Baby - Nobody Loves Like My Little Girl notes by Lawrence Hoffman Flyright FLYCD 59 Flyright Records discography
29a	1996	The Blues Collection Vol. 84 - East Coast Blues Bobbie Leecan's Need-More Band - Wash-Board Cut Out Julius Daniels - Ninety-Nine Year Blues [Victor 20658] Blind Blake - Southern Rag Luke Jordan - If I Call You Mama Jack Gowdlock - Poor Jane Blues Peg Leg Howell & Eddie Anthony - Turkey Buzzard Blues Luke Jordan - Pick Poor Robin Clean Jack Gowdlock - Rollin' Dough Blues Julius Daniels & Bubba Lee Torrence - Slippin' And Slidin' Up The Golden Street [Victor 20499] Luke Jordan - Tom Brown Sits In His Prison Cell Blind Blake - Depression's Gone From Me Blues Blind Boy Fuller - Walking And Looking Blues Boy Green - Play My Juke Box Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Carolina Blues Gabriel Brown - Down In The Bottom Skoodle Dum Doo & Sheffield Seth Richard(s) - Gas Ration Blues Marylin Scott - I Got What My Daddy Likes Boy Green - A And B Blues Sunny Jones - Don't Want Pretty Women Skoodle Dum Doo & Sheffield Seth Richard(s) - Tampa Blues prod. by Tony Russell; remastering: John R.T. Davis booklet notes by Tony Russell Orbis BLU NC084
30	2001	Gabriel Brown Catfish CD 182 (UK)
31	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
32	2006	Shake That Thing: East Coast Blues 1935-1953 disc 1: Gabriel Brown - John Henry (vocal) - John Henry - Blues - Tone The Bell Easy - Motherless Child - Po' Boy, Long Way From Home - A Dream Of Mine - Education Blues - Talking In Sebastopol - Careless Love - I Get Evil When My Love Comes Down - You Ain't No Good - Black Jack Blues - Going My Way - Down In The Bottom - Bad Love - I've Got To Stop Drinkin' - Cold Love - Not Now, I'll Tell You When - I'm Gonna Take It Easy - That's Alright - Stick With Me - I've Done Stopped Gamblin' - Doing My Best - Good-Time Papa - Baby, Boy, Baby disc 2: Gabriel Brown - It's Getting Soft - Don't Worry About It - Mean Old Blues - You Have To Be Different - The Jinx Is On Me - It's Time To Move - Hold Me Baby - Nobody Loves Me Like My Little Girl - Youngster's Blues - Cold Mama - I'm Just Crazy - I Am Playing The Game - I Am Just Hard Luck - Got No Money Blues - I Had My Hands On It Dan Pickett - Laughing Rag - Baby How Long - You Got To Do Better - Ride To A Funeral In A V-8 - Decoration Day - Drivin' That Thing - That's Grieving Me - 99 1/2 Won't Do - Baby Don't You Want To Go - Chicago Blues - Something's Gone Wrong disc 3: Ralph Willis - Worried Blues - Comb Your Kitty Kat - Just A Note - Church Bells - Trouble Don't Last - Shake That Thing - So Many Days - That Gal's No Good - New Goin' Down Slow - Goin' To Chattanooga - Steel Mill Blues - I Will Never Love Again - Goin' To Virginia - Boar Hog Blues - Eloise - I've Been a Fool - Christmas Blues - Amen Blues - Neighborhood Blues - Mama, Mama Blues - Tell Me Pretty Baby - I'm Gonna Rock - Cool That Thing - Sportin' Life - Everyday I Weep And Moan - Somebody Is Got To Go disc 4: Ralph Willis - Blues, Blues, Blues - I Got A Letter - Too Late To Scream And Shout - Hoodoo Man - Income Tax Blues - Bed Tick Blues - Cold Chills - Black And Tan - Church Bell Blues - Tell Me Pretty Baby - Goodbye Blues - Lazy Woman Blues - Old Home Blues - Salty Dog - Cold Chills - Amen - Gonna Hop On Down The Line - Do Right - Door Bell Blues - Why'd You Do It Dan Pickett - Early One Morning - Number Writer - Lemon Man - Laughing Blues - Number Writer Take 1 - I Can Shake It - Drivin' That Thing (alternate) 4 CD box set notes by Neil Slaven JSP JSPCD 7753
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Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943, 4th ed. 1997, p. 109-110
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 97
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, p. 64
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, p. 19
- Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- New York 1987, p. 59
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
source of left column picture: front cover of Flyright FLYCD 59
thanks to Alan Balfour, Snežana Lažarević, Ulf Bergenblad, Phil Wight, Fede Corchero and Helge Thygesen for additional info / scans