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R I C H A R D   (R A B B I T)   B R O W N:   James Alley Blues.- Victor 20578There is no photo of this artist known to exist

 

Richard
(Rabbit) Brown
(c. 1880 - 1937)
discography

#year
of
release
title / label # / notes
11927Richard (Rabbit) Brown

- James Alley–Blues (38000-1)   @ youtube
- I'm Not Jealous (38003-1)   @ youtube



unissued track from same session:
- Great Northern Blues (38001-2)

rec. March 11, 1927 in New Orleans, LA; Richard (Rabbit) Brown, voc, g

Jane Alley --> Jane's Alley --> James Alley

10 inch 78 rpm

Victor 20578

21927Richard ("Rabbit") Brown / Andrew & Jim Baxter

Richard ("Rabbit") Brown
- Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice (38002-1) #   @ youtube
Andrew & Jim Baxter
- The Moore Girl (39786-2)   @ youtube


# rec. March 11, 1927 in New Orleans; Richard (Rabbit) Brown, voc, g

10 inch 78 rpm

Victor 21475

31927Richard (Rabbit) Brown

- Mystery Of The Dunbar's Child (38004-1) (4:26)   @ youtube
- Sinking Of The Titanic (38005-1) (3:43)   @ youtube

rec. March 11, 1927 in New Orleans, LA; Richard (Rabbit) Brown, voc, g

12 inch 78 rpm

Victor 35840

 

Blind Willie Harris 78 rpm
who was probably Richard (Rabbit) Brown under a pseudonym
#year
of
release
title / label # / notes
41929Blind Willie Harris

- Does Jesus Care? (NO-106)   @ youtube
- Where He Leads Me I Will Follow (NO-107)   @ youtube

rec. c. February 1929 in New Orleans, LA; Blind Willie Harris, voc, g

10 inch 78 rpm

Vocalion 1273

 

Richard (Rabbit) Brown LPs / CDs
#year
of
release
title / label # / notes
51952Anthology Of American Folk Music
Volume Three: Songs


LP 1:
- The Coo Coo Bird - Clarence Ashley
- East Virginia - Buell Kazee
- Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- I Woke Up One Morning In May - Didier Hebert

- James Alley Blues - Richard "Rabbit" Brown
- Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs
- I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford

- Mountaineer's Courtship - Ernest and Hattie Stoneman
- The Spanish Merchant's Daughter - The Stoneman Family
- Bob Lee Junior Blues - The Memphis Jug Band
- Single Girl, Married Girl - The Carter Family
- Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme - Clemo Breaux and Joseph Falcon
- Rabbit Foot Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Expressman Blues - Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell


LP 2:
- Poor Boy Blues - Ramblin' Thomas
- Feather Bed - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Country Blues - Dock Boggs
- 99 Year Blues - Julius Daniels
- Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- C'est Si Triste Sans Lui - Cleoma and Orphy Breaux w/ Joe Falcon

- Way Down The Old Plank Road - Uncle Dave Macon
- Buddy Won't You Roll Down The Line - Uncle Dave Macon
- Spike Driver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt [OKeh 8692]
- K.C. Moan - The Memphis Jug Band
- Train On The Island - J.P. Nestor
- The Lone Star Trail - Ken Manyard
- Fishing Blues - Henry Thomas


edited by Harry Smith

2 LP set

Folkways FP-253 (US 1952)

2 LP set

= Folkways FA 2953 (US 19??)


1997 re-released as 6 CD box set by Smithsonian Folkways

2 LP set

= Doxy DOY627 (It 2009)


Richard (Rabbit) Brown cited as a favorite in the notes to first Bob Dylan album
(rec. Nov. 20, 1961, rel. Mar. 1962)
more info about that album
61968Nearer My God To Thee
Sanctified Singers, Preachers & Congregations (1926-1942)

Richard Rabbit Brown
- Sinking Of The Titanic
Sister Mary Nelson
- The Royal Telephone
Joe & Emma Taggart
- Mother's Love
Rev. F.W. McGee
- Jonah In The Belly Of The Whale
Washington Phillips
- Lift Him Up That's All
Mississippi John Hurt
- Praying On The Old Camp Ground
Arizona Dranes
- Sweet Heaven Is My Home
Blind Willie Johnson
- You'll Need Somebody On Your Bond

Bozie Sturdivant
- Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down
Mississippi John Hurt
- Blessed Be The Mama
Rev. F.W. McGee
- With His Stripes We Are Healed
Arizona Dranes
- It's All Right Now
Blind Joe Taggart
- Religion Is Something Within You
Blind Lemon Jefferson
- He Arose From The Dead
Skip James
- Be Ready When He Comes
Barbecue Bob
- When The Saints Go Marching In


compiled and produced by Evelyn Parth (resp. Evelyn Sperker)

   
Roots RL-304 (Austria 1968)


autogram/Roots RL-304 (Germany ????)

Roots Records discography

71968Down South 1927-1941
Louisiana-Mississippi-Alabama-Florida

Richard "Rabbit" Brown
- Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice
Shreveport Home Wreckers
- Home Wreckin' Blues
Kid Cole
- Hard Hearted Mama Blues
- Niagra Fall Blues
Robert Johnson
- Milkcow's Calf Blues No. 2
Tommy McClennan
- Deep Blue Sea Blues
Fiddlin' Joe Martin - Son House - Willie Brown
- Fo' Clock Blues
Fiddlin' Joe - Willie Brown - Leroy Williams
- Going To Fishing

Barefoot Bill
- Big Rock Jail
Wiley Barner
- If You Want A Good Woman
Clifford Gibson
- Hard-Headed Woman Blues
- Levee Camp Moan
Jaybird Coleman
- Save Your Money
- Let These Women Go
- Man Trouble Blues
Tallahassee Tight
- Black Snake
Blind Blake
- Depression's Gone From Me Blues



Roots RL 313 (Austria 1968)

Roots Records discography

81969Up And Down The Mississippi

Richard (Rabbit) Brown
- Mystery Of The Dunbar's Child
- I'm Not Jealous Roots
Buddy Boy Hawkins
- Jail House Fire Blues
- Shaggy Dog Blues
Bo Weavil Jackson
- You Can't Keep No Brown
Mae Glover & John Byrd
- Pig Meat Papa
Jim Thompkins
- Bedside Blues
Bertha Lee & Charley Patton
- Mind Reader Blues

Robert Lee McCoy
- Friar's Point Blues
Mississippi Bracey
- You Scolded Me And Drove Me From Your Door
- I'll Overcome Someday
Will Weldon
- Hitch Me To Your Buggy (And Drive Me Like A Mule)
Little Buddy Doyle
- Grief Will Kill You
- Bad In Mind Blues
Lane Hardin
- California Desert Blues
Henry Townsend
- Henry's Worry Blues



Roots RL 319 (Austria 1969)

= autogram/Roots RL 319 (Germany 2009)

Roots Records discography

91970Cream Of The Crop

Son House
- Shetland Pony Blues
Willie Brown
- Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
Bukka White
- Sic 'Em Dogs On
- Po' Boy
William Harris
- Kitchen Range Blues
Dennis Crumpton & Robert Summers
- Go I'll Send Thee
- Everybody Ought To Pray Sometime
Bo Weavil Jackson (Sam Butler)
- Why Do You Moan?

Son House
- The Pony Blues
- The Jinx Blues - part 1
Alfred Lewis
- Mississippi Swamp Moan
Walter "Buddy Boy" Hawkins
- Workin' On The Railroad
- Yellow Woman Blues

Richard (Rabbit) Brown
- James Alley Blues
The Beale Street Sheiks
- Rockin' On The Hill Blues



Roots RL 332 (Austria 1970)

Roots Records discography

101972Blues From The Western States 1927-1949

King Solomon Hill
- Down On My Bended Knee
Will Day
- Sunrise Blues
Ramblin' Thomas
- Lock And Key Blues
Jesse Baby Face Thomas
- No Good Woman Blues
Willie Lane
- Howling Wolf Blues

Rabbit Brown
- James Alley Blues
Little Hat Jones
- Cherry Street Blues

Otis Harris
- You'll Like My Loving
Oscar Woods
- Don't Sell It, Don't Give It Away
Little Hat Jones
- Little Hat Blues
Jesse Baby Face Thomas
- Blue Goose Blues
Willie Lane
- Black Cat Rag
Texas Alexander
- Double Crossing Blues
Little Hat Jones
- Cross The Water Blues


notes by Stephen Calt, Nick Perls, Michael Stewart

Yazoo L-1032 (US 1972)

Yazoo Records discography

111974Il Blues Rurale - Country Blues

Richard Rabbit Brown - James Alley Blues
Blind Boy Fuller - Three Ball Blues
Willie Baker - Sweet Patunia
Willie Reed - Leaving Home
Leadbelly - See See Rider
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Pneumonia Blues
Texas Alexander - Water Bound Blues
Black Ace - Christmas Time Blues

Furry Lewis - Pearlee Blues
Bessie Tucker - Penitentiary
Sleepy John Estes - Diving Duck Blues
Charley Patton - High Water Everywhere
Robert Wilkins - National Stonewall Blues
Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues
Robert Johnson - Hellhound On My Trail
Big Joe Williams - Rooting Ground Hog



Albatros VPA 8187 (It 1974)
= Albatros VC 0775 (cassette)

3 LP set
photo on the front cover depicts Arvella Gray, whose music is not present on any of the three LPs
   
(=) Albatros ALB 8 (= VPA 8187/88/89) "Il Blues Rurale / Jazzistico / Urbano"

Albatros Records discograpy

12197?Guitar Evangelists - Vol. 1   1927-1936

Blind Willie Johnson
- Mother's Children Have A Hard Time
- If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down
- Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground
Mother McCollum
- I Want To See Him
Rev. I. B. Ware
You Better Quit Drinking Shine
Rev. Edward W. Clayborn, The Guitar Evangelist
- Death Is Only A Dream
Blind Benny Paris and wife
- I'm Gonna Live So God Can Use Me
- Hide Me In The Blood of Jesus

Blind Roger Hays
- On My Way To Heaven
- I Must Be Blind, I Cannot See
Bessie Johnson
- He Got Better Things For You
Rev. Moses Mason
- John the Baptist
Rev. I. B. Ware
- I Wouldn't Mind Dying (But I Gotta Go By Myself)

Blind Willie Harris
- Does Jesus Care?
Blind Roosevelt Graves
- Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind On Jesus)
Rev. D.C. Rice
- The Angels Rolled The Stone Away



Truth TLP-1002 (Austria 197?)


= autogram TLP-1002 (Germany 2009)

Truth Records discograpy

131972Guitar Evangelists - Vol. 2   1927-1941

Blind Willie Johnson
- John The Revelator
- You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond

Blind Willie Harris
- Where He Leads Me I Will Follow
Kid Prince Moore
- Church Bells
- Sign Of Judgement
Blind Joe Taggart - I've Crossed The Separation Line
- Scandalous And A Shame
Elders (Lonnie) McIntorsh & Edwards
- Since I Laid My Burden Down

Rev. Johnnie Blakey
- Warmin By The Devil's Fire
Rev. Edward W. Clayborn
- Let That Lie Alone
- Jesus Will Make It All Right
Blind Gary Davis
- I Am The Light Of The World
Blind Willie Davis
- I Belive I'll Go Back Home
Sleepy John Estes
- When The Saints Go Marching In
Blind Joe Taggart
- There's A Hand Writing On The Wall
- Lord Don't Drive Me Away



Truth TLP-1003 (Austria 1972)


= autogram TLP-1003 (Germany 2009)

Truth Records discograpy

141980Gambler's Lament
Old Time Songs and Ballads from the Southern States

Zack Hurt
- Gambler's Lament
Mr. & Mrs. J.D. Baker
- On The Banks Of The Old Tennessee
Green Bailey
- Shut Up In The Mines At Coal Creek
- The Wreck Of Number 4
Virginia Dandies (Walter Smith & Norman Woodlieff)
- The Cabin With The Roses
Bascom Lamar Lunsford
- Italy
Prof. & Mrs. I. G. Greer
- Sweet William & Fair Ellen parts 1 & 2

Carver Boys
- Tom Brooks [Molly And Tenbrooks]
Posey Rorer and the North Carolina Ramblers
- As We Sat Benath The Maple On The Hill
Blind Andy (Andrew Jenkins)
- Frank Dupree
[Frank] Wheeler & [Monroe] Lamb
- Jim Blake The Engineer [Jim Blake's Message]
Shortbuckle Roark and Family
- Gambler's Lament
Oda Roark (with George Roark)
- I Truly Understand You Love Another Man

Richard (Rabbit) Brown
- Mystery Of The Dunbar's Child

notes by Pat Conte, Frank Mare & Barbara Beamon

Country Turtle CT-6001 (US 1980)

Country Turtle discography

151980opus musicum: Jazz

LP 1
Percy Randolph - Shine (1:00)
Horace Sprott - My Little Annie, So Sweet (2:04)
Scott Joplin / Gunther Schuller - Combination March (2:29)
Scott Joplin - Meaple Leaf Rag (3:11)
Scott Joplin - A Real Slow Drag (5:12)

Rabbit Brown - James Alley Blues (3:02)
Bessie Smith - The Yellow Dog Blues (3:01)
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Dippermouth Blues (2:32)
Louis Armstrong And His Hot Seven - Willie The Weeper (3:12)

Jelly Roll Morton And His Red Hot Peppers - Kansas City Stomp(s) (2:52)
Bunk Johnson's Brass & Dance Band - Didn't He Ramble (3:00)
The Young Tuxedo Brass Band - Eternal Peace (3:38)
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Tiger Rag (3:08)
New Orleans Rhythm Kings - Milenberg Joys (2:56)
The Wolverine Orchestra - Jazz Me Blues (2:42)
McKenzie & Eddie Condon's Chicagoans - Sugar (3:06)
Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra - Prince Of Wails (3:02)
Duke Ellington And The Whoopie Makers - The Mooche (2:45)


LP 2
Count Basie - Where Shall I Go (2:30)
Benny Goodman - One O'Clock Jump (6:40)
Coleman Hawkins And His Orchestra - Body And Soul (3:00)
Woody Herman's Second Herd - Keeper Of The Flame (3:01)
Stan Kenton - Ride Of The Valkyries From "Die Walkuere" (3:15)
Charlie Parker - My Melancholy Baby (3:25)

Clifford Brown - Sweet Clifford (6:40)
Miles Davis - Venus De Milo (3:09)
Lee Konitz - Subconscious-Lee (2:47)
Gerry Mulligan Quartet - Walkin' Shoes (4:40)
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - Moanin' (4:20)
Modern Jazz Quartet - Sketch (For Double Quartet) (5:30)


LP 3
John Coltrane - Olé (6:59)
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz - Part 1 (5:41)
Brötzmann / Van Hove / Bennink - Outspan No. 2 (6:00)
Cecil Taylor - Jitney No. 2 (3:23)
Globe Unity Orchestra - Bavarian Calypso (2:02)
Globe Unity Orchestra - Solidaritätslied (1:17)
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Nice Guys (1:40)

Anthony Braxton - C - M = B O 5 -7 (4:30)
Miles Davis - John McLaughlin (4:23)
Weather Report - Birdland (5:59)
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert Part IIc (5:33)
Albert Mangelsdorff - Creole Love Call (5:37)


compiled by Wolfgang Sandner & Reimer von Essen

3 LP set
2 booklets with credits and comments: Reiner Von Essen (didactic-analytic) & Helmut Sandner (historic-analytic)

Opus Musicum OM 128/30 (Cologne, Germany 1980)

161981Papa Harvey Hull & Long Cleve Reed, Richard (Rabbit) Brown: Complete Recordings
Country Blues - The First Generation

Papa Harvey Hull & Long Cleve Reed
- Gang Of Brown Skin Women
- France Blues
- Two Little Tommie Blues
- Don't You Leave Me Here
- Mama You Don't Know How
- Original Stack O'Lee Blues


Richard (Rabbit) Brown
- James Alley Blues
- Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice
- I'm Not Jealous
- Mystery Of The Dunbar's Child
- Sinking Of The Titanic


Matchbox Bluesmaster MSE 201 (Austria 1981)

Matchbox Records discography

171990The Greatest in Country Blues   (1927-1956)

LP 1
- High Water Everywhere - Charlie Patton
- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Cotton Field Blues Part 2 - Garfield Akers

- James Alley Blues - Richard "Rabbit" Brown
- Had A Good Father And Mother - Washington Phillips
- Travelin' Blues - Blind Willie McTell
- Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Nappy Head Blues - Bobby Grant
- Third Street Woman Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds
- My Black Momma Part I - Son House
- Bull-Doze Blues - Henry Thomas
- Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
- Trouble Hearted Blues - Ishman Bracey
- Honey In The Rock - Blind Mamie Forehand
- Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
- Man Trouble Blues - Jaybird Coleman
- How Long - Frank Stokes
- Future Blues - Willie Brown
- Voice Throwin' Blues - Walter "Buddy Boy" Hawkins


LP 2
- Devil Got The Woman - Skip James
- When That Great Ship Went Down - William And Versey Smith
- The Jail House Blues - Sam Collins
- Touch Me Light Momma - George "Bullet" Williams
- Mothers Love - Blind Joe Taggart
- Skin Man Blues - "Hi" Henry Brown
- Lost Lover Blues - Lottie Kimbrough
- Levee Camp Moan Blues - Texas Alexander
- K.C. Moan - Memphis Jug Band
- Paddlin' Madeline Blues - Gitfiddle Jim
- Preachin' Blues - Robert Johnson
- Billy Lyons And Stack O'Lee - Furry Lewis
- Fryin' Pan Skillet Blues - Bessie Tucker
- Dallas Rag - Dallas String Band
- Crazy Cryin' Blues - Memphis Minnie
- Woke Up This Morning - Roosevelt Graves
- That's No Way To Get Along - Robert Wilkins
- McAbee Railroad Piece - Palmer McAbee
- The Gone Dead Train - King Soloman Hill
- Hastings St. - Blind Blake And Charlie Spand


LP 3
- Shorty George - Smith Casey
- Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down - Bozie Sturdivant
- I Be's Troubled - Muddy Waters
- How You Want It Done? - Big Bill Broonzy
- She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day - The Georgia Cotton Pickers
- Sic 'Em Dogs On - Bukka White
- California Desert Blues - Lane Hardin
- Lonesome Day Blues - Jesse James
- Moanin' The Blues - Allen Shaw
- Midnight Hour Blues - Leroy Carr
- Jack O'Diamonds - Pete Harris
- Dust My Broom - Elmore James
- Rowdy Blues - Kid Bailey
- Rollin' And Tumblin' - Baby Face Leroy
- Penitentiary Blues (Pt. 1 & 2) - Smokey Hogg
- Baby How Long - Dan Pickett
- Mighty Long Time - Sonny Boy Williamson
- River Blues (Pt. 2) - Lowell Fulson
- Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf
- Moanin' Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins


compiled by Johnny Parth

3 LP set with 24-pp. booklet notes (English and German) by Paul Oliver

RST Blues Documents BD-01 (Austria 1990)

3 CD set
notes 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)

181990The Greatest Songsters (1927-1929)

Richard (Rabbit) Brown (1927)
- James Alley Blues
- Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice
- I'm Not Jealous
- Mystery Of The Dunbar's Child
- Sinking Of The Titanic
Mississippi John Hurt (1928)
- Frankie
- Nobody's Dirty Business
- Ain't No Tellin'
- Louis Collins
- Avalon Blues
- Big Leg Blues
- Stack O'Lee Blues
- Candy Man Blues
- Got The Blues Can't Be Satified
- Blessed Be The Name
- Praying on the Old Camp Ground
- Blue harvest Blues
- Spike Driver Blues
Hambone Willie Newbern (1929)
- She Could Toodle-Oo
- Nobody Knows
- Shelby County Workhouse Blues
- Way Down In Arkansas
- Dreamy-Eyed Woman's Blues
- Roll and Tumble Blues

notes by Chris Smith

Document DOCD 5003 (UK 1990)

= P-Vine PCD 2259 (Jp 2003)

191990Guitar Evangelists 1928 - 1951

Blind Penny Paris And Wife (1928)
- I'm Gonna Live So God Can Use Me
- Hide Me In The Blood Of Jesus
Rev. I. B. Ware With Wife And Son (1928)
- I Wouldn't Mind Dying (But I Gotta Go By Myself)
- You Better Quit Drinking Shine

Blind Willie Harris (1929)
- Does Jesus Care?
- Where He Leads Me I Will Follow
Eddie Head And His Family (1930)
- Down On Me
- Lord I'm The True Vine
- Tryin' To Get Home
- Within My Mind
Mother McCollum (1930)
- I Want To See Him
- When I Take My Vacation In Heaven
- You Can't Hide
- Jesus Is My Air-o-plane
- Oh Lord I'm Your Child
- Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Dennis Crumpton And Robert Summers (1936)
- Go I'll Send Thee
- Everybody Ought To Pray Sometime
Sister Mathews (1948)
- Stand By Me
Rev. Charles White (1948)
- How Long
Willie Mae Williams (1950)
- Don't Want To Go There
- Where The Sun Never Goes Down
Brother Willie Eason (1951)
- There'll Be No Grumblers There
- I Want To Live (So God Can Use Me)
Sister Elizabeth Phillips (50s)
- A Little Old-Fashioned
- There's Nothing Like The Holy Spirit


Document DOCD 5101

201996New Orleans Blues 1923-1940

Richard (Rabbit) Brown
- James Alley Blues


EPM Musique 157612

171996Blind Willie Johnson and the Guitar Evangelists

Blind Willie Harris
- Does Jesus Care?
- Where He Leads Me I Will Follow

4 CD box set


JSP 7737 (UK 1996)

211997Times Ain't Like They Used To Be
Classic Recordings of the 1920's and 30's, Vol. 1

Prince Albert Hunt - Blues In A Bottle
Charlie Jordan - Dollar Bill Blues
Bascom Lamar Lundsford - Lost John Dean
A.A. Gray & Seven Foot Dilly - Streak of Lean, Streak of Fat

Richard (Rabbit) Brown - Sinking Of The Titanic
Dykes Magic City Trio - Tennessee Girls
Bob Campbell - Shotgun Blues
J.P. Nestor & Norman Edmonds - Train On The Island
The Four Wanderers - The Fault's In Me
Happy Hayseeds - The Tail Of Halley's Comet
Oaks Family - Wake Up You Drowsy Sleeper
Louie Lasky - How You Want Your Rollin' Done
Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers - Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
Memphis Jug Band - On The Road Again
Buell Kazee - The Dying Soldier
Buddy Boy Hawkins - Voice Throwin' Blues
Wilmer Watts & The Lonely Eagles - Been On The Job Too Long
Ken Maynard - Fannie Moore
Nugrape Twins - I Got Your Ice Cold Nugrape
Carson Brothers & Sprinkle - The Old Miller's Will
Winston Holmes & Charlie Turner - Skinner
Southern Moonlight Entertainers - How To Make Love
Grayson & Whitter - Old Jimmie Sutton

- Sinking Of The Titanic remastered directly from original 78s by Richard Nevins

notes by Charles Wolfe & Don Kent

Yazoo CD 2028 (US 1997)

Yazoo Records discography

221997Times Ain't Like They Used To Be
Classic Recordings of the 1920's and 30's, Vol. 2

- John Henry Blues - Earl Johnson
- Moanin' The Blues - Allen Shaw
- Lonesome Road Blues - Ernest Stoneman / Kahle Brewer
- Washboard Cut Out - Bobby Leecan & His Need More Band
- Bob McKinney - Henry Thomas
- Swanee River - Fiddling John Carson & His Virginia...

- James Alley Blues - Richard (Rabbit) Brown
- Sail Away Ladies - Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar...
- The Rooster's Crowing Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Tallapoosa Bound - A.A. Gray / John Dilleshaw
- Billy Grimes, The Rover - Shelor Family
- Brown Skin Girl Down the Lane - Massey Family
- You Know You Done Me Wrong - Joe McCoy
- Old Joe - Sid Harkreader / Gradey Moore
- Beware - Blind Alfred Reed
- Knocking Down Casey Jones - Wilmer Watts / Lonely Eagles
- Four Day Blues - Tommy Bradley
- Riley The Furniture Man - Georgia Crackers
- Piney Woods Girl - Emmett Lundy / Ernest Stoneman
- State Street Rag - Louie Bluie
- Sugar In The Ground - Tweedy Brothers
- Then I'll Move To Town - Southern Moonlight Entertainers
- Lord Keep Me With A Mind - D.C. Rice



Yazoo CD 2029 (US 1997)

Yazoo Records discography

22a1998Titanic Songs
Original Phonograph Recordings Honoring The Disaster - Recorded 1912 to 1948

Vernon Dalhart Sinking Of The Great Titanic (2:52)
Vernon Dalhart - The Ship That Never Returned (3:00)
Dixon Brothers - Down With The Old Canoe (2:48)
Frank Hutchison - The Last Scene Of The Titanic (3:26)
George Reneau - The Sinking Of The Titanic (2:59)
Virginia Liston - Titanic Blues (3:05)
Blind Willie Johnson - God Moves On The Water (2:57)
Vernon Dalhart - The Sinking Of The Titanic (3:09)

Richard "Rabbit" Brown - Sinking Of The Titanic (3:42)
Jeff Calhoun - The Wreck Of The Titanic (2:59)
Hi Henry Brown - Titanic Blues(3:07)
Leadbelly - The Titanic (3:40)
The Blue Ridge Mountaineer - Sinking Of The Titanic (4:41)
William and Versey Smith - When That Great Ship Went Down (2:51)
Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers - The Titanic (2:35)
Ernest Gray - Stand To Your Post (2:50)
Ernest Gray - Be British (3:09)
Frank Oldfield - Be British (3:33)



Unsinkable Music TSCD 22798 (Ca 1998)

232002New Orleans Blues

Richard (Rabbit) Brown
- James Alley Blues
- I'm Not Jealous


Acrobat CD 140

242003Goodbye, Babylon

Blind Willie Harris
- Where He Leads Me I Will Follow (disc 4, # 108)

6 CD box set

Dust-To-Digital DTD 01

252003Mississippi John Hurt
King Of The Blues Vol. 4

with Richard 'Rabbit' Brown & Hambone Willie Newbern

Mississippi John Hurt
- Frankie
- Nobody's Dirty Business
- Ain't No Tellin'
- Louis Collins
- Avalon Blues
- Big Leg Blues
- Stack O Lee Blues
- Candy Man Blues
- Got The Blues Can't Be Satisfied
- Blessed Be The Name
- Praying On The Old Camp Ground
- Blue Harvest Blues
- Spike Driver Blues

Richard 'Rabbit' Brown
- James Alley Blues
- Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice
- I'm Not Jealous
- Mystery Of The Dunbar's Child
- Sinking Of The Titanic
Hambone Willie Newbern
- She Could Toodle-Oo
- Nobody Knows (What The Good Deacon Does)
- Shelby County Workhouse Blues
- Way Down In Arkansas
- Hambone Willie's Dreamy-Eyed Woman's Blues
- Roll And Tumble Blues


The Reissue Project Cooperated by Johnny Parth, Document Records, Vienna, Austria

Document DOCD 5003 (Austria 1990)


P-Vine PCD 2259 (Jp 2003)

262005Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice
Blues, Ballads, Rags and Gospel in the Songster Tradition

disc 1:
Richard 'Rabbit' Brown
- James Alley
- Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice
- I'm Not Jealous
- Mystery Of The Dunbar's Child
- Sinking Of The Titanic
Papa Harvey Hull
- Gang Of Brown Skin Women
- Hey! Lawdy Mama (The France Blues)
- Two Little Tommie Blues
- Don't You Leave Me Here
Big Boy Cleveland
- Quill Blues
- Goin' To Leave You Blues
Long "Cleve" Reed & Little Harvey Hull
- I Believe I'll Go Back Home
- Original Stack O' Lee Blues
William Smith
- I Believe I'll Go Back Home
- When That Great Ship Went Down
- Everybody Help The Boys Come Home
- Sinner, You'll Need King Jesus
Luke Jordan
- Church Bells Blues (tk 1)
- Church Bells Blues (tk 2)
- Pick Poor Robin Clean (tk 1)
- Pick Poor Robin Clean (tk 2)
- Cocaine Blues
- Traveling Coon
- My Gal's Done Quit Me
- Won't You Be Kind?


disc 2:
Luke Jordan
- If I Call You Mama
- Tom Brown Sits In His Prison Cell
Mississippi John Hurt
- Frankie
- Nobody's Dirty Business
- Ain't No Tellin'
- Louis Collins
- Avalon Blues
- Big Leg Blues
- Stack O' Lee Blues
- Candy Man Blues
- Got The Blues Can't Be Satisfied
- Blessed Be The Name
- Praying On The Old Camp Ground
- Blue Harvest Blues
- Spike Driver Blues
Hambone Willie Newbern
- She Could Toodle-Oo
- Nobody Knows (What The Good Deacon Does)
- Shelby County Workhouse
- Way Down In Arkansas
- Hambone Willie's Dreamy Eyed Woman's Blues
- Roll And Tumble Blues
Eli Framer
- Framer's Blues
- God Didn't Make No Monkey Man
Louie Lasky
- How You Want Your Rollin' Done
- Teasin' Brown Blues
- Caroline


disc 3:
Cedar Creek Sheik
- Ford V-8
- Watch The Fords Go By
- Mary Had A Little Lamb
- She's Totin' Something Good
- What A Pity
- I Believe Somebody's Ridin' My Mule
- Don't Use That Stuff
- Buy It From The Poultry Man
- Don't Credit My Stuff
- Jimmy Shut His Store Doors
Robert Hill
- I Had A Gal For The Last Fifteen Years
- Tell Me What's Wrong With You
- You Gonna Look Like A Monkey When You Get Old
- G Blues
- Just Smilin'
- Pal, How I Miss You Tonight
- Lumber-Yard Blues
- I'm Going To Write And Tell My Mother
- It Is So Good
- Hill's Hot Sauce
Virgil Childers
- Dago Blues
- Red River Blues
- Who's That Knockin' At My Door
- Somebody Stole My Jane
- Travelin' Man
- Preacher And The Bear


notes by Chris Smith

Document DOCD-5678 (UK 2005)

272017American Epic: The Collection

disc 1:
- The Coo Coo Bird (The Cuckoo) - Clarence Ashley
- On the Road Again - Memphis Jug Band
- The Panama Limited - Bukka White
- Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers
- 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do, Pt. 1 - Frank Stokes
- K.C. Railroad Blues - Andrew & Jim Baxter
- I Am Bound for the Promised Land - Alfred G. Karnes
- Cottonfield Blues, Pt. 2 - Garfield Akers
- I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
- Down On Penny's Farm - Bentley Boys
- Foldin' Bed - Whistler's Jug Band
- Greenback Dollar - Weems String Band
- Tallahatchie River Blues - Mattie Delaney
- Walk Right In - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow - The Carter Family
- Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson
- Bayou Teche - Columbus Fruge
- Cool Drink of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Train On the Island - J.P. Nestor

disc 2:
- My Heart Keeps Singing - Elder J.E. Burch
- Ninety-Nine Year Blues - Julius Daniels
- I Get My Whiskey From Rockingham - Earl Johnson and his Clodhoppers
- Death's Black Train Is Coming - Rev. J. M. Gates
- Waiting for a Train - Jimmie Rodgers
- Darling, Where Have You Been So Long? - Tenneva Ramblers
- Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
- Ma Blond Est Partie - Amadie Breaux, Ophey Breaux & Cleoma Breaux
- Peg and Awl - Carolina Tar Heels
- Chocolate to the Bone - Barbecue Bob
- Down On Me - Eddie Head and Family
- Prenez Courage - Cleoma Breaux with Joseph Falcon and Ophy Breaux
- Pickin' Off Peanuts - Dilly and his Dill Pickles
- Just Because - Nelstone's Hawaiians
- Dupree Blues - Willie Walker
- Ladies On the Steamboat - Burnett & Rutherford
- Mamma, 'Tain't Long Fo' Day - Blind Willie McTell

disc 3:
- Cecilia - Cuarteto Flores
- La Coquetera - Los Borinquenos
- Coconito - Guty Cárdenas Y Lencho
- Lovesick Blues - Emmett Miller
- Long Tall Mama - Big Bill Broonzy
- John Henry Blues - Two Poor Boys
- Mr. Tom Hughes' Town - Lead Belly
- Louis Collins - Mississippi John Hurt
- I Am The Light of the World - Blind Gary Davis
- Fifty Miles of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. McGee
- Chant of the Eagle Dance - Hopi Indian Chanters
- Hilo Hula - Mike Hanapi & The Ilima Islanders
- If The River Was Whiskey - Charlie Poole
- Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
- The Wreck of the '97 - Ernest Stoneman
- Faded Coat of Blue - Buell Kazee
- Country Blues - Dock Boggs
- Sail Away Ladies - Uncle Dave Macon and His Fruit-Jar Drinkers
- Sail Away Lady - Uncle Bunt Stephens
- Sally Gooden - Eck Robertson
- Arkansas Traveller - Don Richardson

disc 4:
- Hard Time Blues - Lane Hardin
- Down the Dirt Road Blues - Charley Patton
- Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home - Banjo Joe
- Hastings Street - Blind Blake & Charlie Spand
- See That My Grave's Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Gonna Have 'Lasses In the Morning - Golden Melody Boys
- New Orleans Stop Time - Memphis Minnie & Bumblebee Slim
- Prove It On Me Blues - Ma Rainey
- Gonne Die with My Hammer in My Hand - Williamson Brothers & Curry
- Last Kind Words Blues - Geeshie Wiley
- Banjoreno - Dixieland Jug Blowers
- It's a Good Thing - Beale Street Sheiks
- Trust In God and Do the Right - Blind Willie Davis
- Someday Baby Blues - Sleepy John Estes
- Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins
- Future Blues - Willie Brown
- Bull Doze Blues - Henry Thomas
- Brown Skin Gal (Down the Lane) - Massey Family
- Henry Lee aka Young Hunting - Dick Justice
- Old Country Rock - William Moore
- La Danseuse - Delma Lachney & Blind Uncle Gaspard
- My Black Mama, Pt. 1 & 2 - Son House
- Cypress Grove Blues - Skip James

disc 5:
- Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson
- Mal Hombre - Lydia Mendoza
- Sunshine Special - Frenchy's String Band
- Old Jim Canan's - Robert Wilkins
- Les Blues De Voyage - Amédé Ardoin & Dennis McGee
- The Lost Child - Stripling Brothers
- I'm Gonna Cross the River Jordan Some of These Days - Jaybird Coleman
- Tomi Tomi - Sol K. Bright with The Aloha Serenaders
- Sittin' On Top of the World - Mississippi Sheiks

- James Alley Blues - Richard Rabbit Brown
- The Indian Tom Tom - Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band
- Blues In a Bottle - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
- Je Me Suis En Alle - Bartmont Montet & Joswell Dupuis
- Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
- E Mama Ea - Sol Hoopii & His Novelty Quartette
- Ghost Dance - Truett & George
- Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind On Jesus) - Roosevelt Graves & Brother
- Allons A Lafayette - Joseph Falcon
- Corrido De Joaquin Murrieta, Pt. 1 & 2 - Los Madrugadores
- Denomination Blues (Part 1 & 2) - Washington Phillips


"American Epic: The Collection gathers 100 of these original recordings from the 1920s and 1930s in one five-disc set, restored to unprecedented levels of sonic fidelity. For this box set, compiled by Director Bernard MacMahon, engineer Nicholas Bergh refined a transfer process using a mix of both modern and vintage equipment in order to extract the remarkable resolution from the records that is often missed."

5 CD set
 
American Epic AMPC451 (US 2017)

 

Additional information appreciated !!!

 

 

Other artist's Covers of Richard (Rabbit) Brown songs
#year
of
release
Artist:
Record Title

- featured Richard (Rabbit) Brown song
label # / notes
11964Alice Stuart: All The Good Times

- Leavin' Home
- I'll Pawn You My Gold Watch And Chain
- Beatnik
- Seven Daffodils
- Black Jack David

- James Alley Blues   @ youtube
- Everyday Dirt

- Once I Had A Sweetheart
- Stackerlee
- Bad Girl
- Seven Beers With The Wrong Woman
- I Can't Help But Wonder
- All the Good Times


CD bonus tracks:
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
- Follow Me Honey, I'll Turn Your Money Green
- Lady Margaret
- Kassie Jones
- Take It Slow And Easy
- Three Jolly Rogues
- Woman Blue
- Frankie And Johnny


Arhoolie 4002


= Arhoolie CD 9034 (2002)

21966Judy Roderick: Woman Blue

- Someone To Talk My Troubles To (Weissman)
- Born In The Country (Traditional)
- Rock Me Baby (Traditional)
- Walking Slow Behind You (Heath/Lange)
- Young Girl's Dream (Drew/Jean)
- Mistreated (Traditional)
- Louisville Lou (Ager/Yellen)
- Country Girl Blues
- Contemporary Blues (Hendricks)
- Black And Blue (Brooks/Razaf/Waller)
- You Were on My Mind (Fricker)
- Two Hoboes (Gellert/Weissman)
- Woman Blue (Traditional)

CD bonus tracks:
- Jelly Roll Lord
- Me and My Chauffeur (Memphis Minnie)
- Mama Keeps Her Man at Home (Roderick)
- Long Old Road (Smith)


Vanguard VRS-9197 (mono)
VSD-79197 (stereo)
= Fontana TFL 6078 (UK)

click to blow up !
= Vanguard VCD 19197 (US 1993)

Judy Roderick discography

31969The Lyman Family with Lisa Kindred
American Avatar

Love Comes Rolling Down

- California Water - take 1 (Trad.)
- James Alley Blues (Rabbit Brown)
- Good Shepherd (Trad.)
- Jesus Met The Woman At The Well (Trad.)

- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Man To Cry (Bob Dylan)
- My Love Comes Rolling Down (Eric von Schmidt)
- California Water - take 2


Reprise 6353

Lisa Kindred discography
Jim Kweskin discography

41976Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard

- Let That Liar Alone
- When I Loved You
- Working Girl Blues
- West Virginia My Home
- Mama's Gonna Stay
- Montana Cowboy
- Mean Papa Blues
- Nice Like That
- Mary Johnson
- Ramblin' Woman
- Beaufort County Jail
- Banjo Picking Girl

- James Alley Blues
- True Life Blues


Rounder 0054


= Rounder CD 0054 (1998)

51991Philadelphia Jerry Ricks: True Blues

- Got The Blues and Can't Be Satisfied
- Shakes Blues
- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
- Homeless Blues
- Ain't No Tellin' (Blue Harvest)
- Casey Jones
- Goin' Home
- Break Of Dawn
- Let Me Be
- Take Me To The River
- No Crazy Woman

- James Alley Blues


Traditional Line CD TL 1314

Jerry Ricks discography

61994Bob Dylan:
Minnesota Party Tape (May 1961)

- James Alley Blues

3 CD set


Wanted Man
WMM 033/034/035

71995Joan Crane: Foothills

- Hard Time Killing Floor
- It Must Be Love
- Foothills
- Back To The Woods
- You Don't Know
- Come Back Baby
- Marked For Blues

- James Alley Blues
- Tired Of Being Mistreated


Three Rivers Prod. 0029

81997'Philadelphia' Jerry Ricks: Deep In The Well

- James Alley Blues
- No Place For Me
- Down In Luck
- Empty Bottle Blues
- Change Your Ways
- Born With The Blues
- New Pallet On The Floor
- When A Man Gets In Trouble
- New Avalon
- Ain't Afraid Of These Blues
- Gary Davis Medley
- Troubles
- Troubled, Lord
- Swing Low Sweet Chariot


Rooster CD R2636

Jerry Ricks discography

91998The Harry Smith Connection: A Live Tribute To The Anthology Of American Folk Music

- East Virginia Blues - Roger McGuinn, Jeff Tweedy, And Jay Bennett
- I'm On The Battlefield For My Lord - Ethel Caffie-Austin
- John Henry - John Jackson
- A Lazy Farmer Boy - Greg Hooven String Band
- Old Dog Blue - Lonnie Pitchford
- Home Sweet Home - The New Lost City Ramblers
- The Butcher Boy - Ginny Hawker
- John The Revelator - Ethel Caffie-Austin
- His Tapes Roll On - Peter Stampfel
- Minglewood Blues - John Sebastian And The J-Band With Geoff Muldaur
- The Coo Coo Bird - Ella Jenkins
- Frankie And Johnny - John Jackson
- Sugar Baby - Roger McGuinn, Jeff Tweedy And Jay Bennett
- Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme - Balfa Toujours
- Spike Driver Blues - Dave Van Ronk
- Darling Corey - Greg Hooven String Band
- The Coo Coo Bird - Toshi Reagon

- James Alley Blues - Jeff Tweedy, Roger McGuinn, And Jay Bennett
- Nothing - The Fugs


Smithsonian Folkways
CD 40085

101999Roger McGuinn's Folk Den Vol. 1

- Mighty Day
- Pushboat
- John The Revelator
- Bonny Ship The Diamond
- John Henry
- Handsome Cabin Boy
- Wayfaring Stranger
- Finnegan's Wake

- James Alley Blues
- Home On The Range
- Mary Had A Baby


mp3.com 2720

114/2000Rooster Blues Records
1980-2000 Sampler

'Philadelphia' Jerry Ricks
- James Alley Blues


Rooster CD 2637

Jerry Ricks discography

122000Bob Dylan: I Was So Much Younger
Second McKenzie Tape (March 1963)

- James Alley Blues

4 CD set

Scouser/Dandelion
075/076/077/078

132000David Johansen and the Harry Smiths

- James Alley Blues
- Darling, Do You Remember Me?
- Delia
- Little Geneva
- Well, I've Been To Memphis
- Katie Mae
- Old Dog Blue
- Somebody Buy Me A Drink
- Poor Boy Blues
- On The Wall
- Don't Start Me Talking
- Oh Death
- Richland Woman


Chesky JD 196

142000Baby Gramps: Same Ol' Timously

- Nuthin' But A Nuthin'
- Medley Of Heartwarming Worm Songs
- Shake It 'N' Break It

- James Alley Blues
- Uncontrovertible Facts
- St. James Infirmary
- Go Wash An Elephant
- A-Ba-Dic-A-Dabba-Buz
- Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Palindromes
- Let's All Be Fairies
- When A Body Is Out Of A Job
- 'Nuther Nuthin' But A Nuthin'
- How I Found My Teddy Bear
- Teddy Bears' Picnic


Grampophone CD 1

152004Roger McGuinn: Limited Edition

- If I Needed Someone
- Parade Of Lost Dreams
- Shady Grove

- James Alley Blues
- On And On
- Southbound 95
- Castanet Dance
- Shenandoah
- When The Saints Go Marching In


April First 0401

 

Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich: Blues & Gospel Records 1902 - 1943, 3rd ed. 1982, p. 120-121
- http://sunsite.kth.se/feastlib/mrf/yinyue/pw/BROWNR.HTM
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Alan Balfour, 'Montgomery Cleft', John Miller, Joel Slotnikoff, Daniel Wheeler, Russell Shor, Kevin Barker and Peter Brown for additional info / scans

 

Times Ain't Like They Used To Be:
Rabbit Brown, New Orleans Songster

by Kevin S. Fontenot

 

www.thebluestrail.com

 

 

 

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