Illustrated Good Rockin' Charles discography

G O O D R O C K I N' C H A R L E S; source: back cover of Blues Unlimited 128 (1978)
Good Rockin' Charles & Left-Hand Frank summer 1977
source: Back cover of Blues Unlimited 128 (1978)
photographer: André Hobus

Good Rockin' Charles
Henry Lee Bester, later known as Charles Edwards
b. March 4, 1933 in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
d. May 17, 1989 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
buried at Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens (South) Glenwood, Cook County, Illinois
discography
G O O D R O C K I N' C H A R L E S; source: Harris 1987, p. 169; photographer: Steve Tomashefsky ('courtesy Delmark Records')
Good Rockin' Charles; source: Harris 1987, p. 169
photographer: Steve Tomashefsky ("courtesy Delmark Records")

1	1976	Good Rockin' Charles Mr. Blues MB 7601 / Rooster R-7601 track sequence: - Eyesight To The Blind * @ youtube - Confessin' The Blues * @ youtube - Shake Your Boogie * @ youtube - Five Years In Prison * @ youtube - The Goat * @ youtube - I Used To Have A Woman * @ youtube - Prison Blues * @ youtube - Broke And Hungry § @ youtube - Blues All Day Long § @ youtube - Rockin' At Midnight § @ youtube CD bonus tracks: - Lazar's Wail [] - Broke And Hungry (tk 1) § - Broke And Hungry (tk 2) § - Flipped Harp Rock [] rec. November 1975 at International Recording Studios in Chicago, IL; Good Rockin' Charles, voc, hca; Walter Smith, J.C. Hurds, gs; Lafayette "Shorty" Gilbert, b; * Eddie Payne, dr; § Ray Scott, dr; [] Eddie Payne or Ray Scott, dr; prod. by Steve Wisner; engineered by Scott Rowley photography front cover by Dale Hoyt; photography back cover by Amy van Singel notes by Dick Shurman Mr. Blues MB 7601 (US 1976) notes by Dick Shurman = Rooster/Double Trouble R-7601 (US/NL 1988) (=) P-Vine PCD-5249 (Jp 2002) (=) P-Vine PCD-93489 (Jp 1/2012) Mr. Blues Records discography
2	1976	The Devil's Music from the BBC T.V. series Red Lightnin' RL0033 track sequence: LP 1: Mississippi and Memphis Blues@ youtube ([almost] full album LP 1) Sam Chatmon - Stop And Listen Big Joe Williams - Highway 49 Houston Stackhouse - Cool Drink Of Water Sam Chatmon - Sam's Rag Big Joe Williams - Watergate Blues Sam Chatmon - Who Gonna Love You Tonight Booker White - Aberdeen Mississippi Mose Vinson - When You Got Rid Of My Mule Sonny Blake - One Room Country Shack Sonny Blake - Bring It On Home To Me Joe Wilkins - Mr. Downchild Houston Stackhouse - Mean Red Spider Mose Vinson - Bugle Call Blues Laura Dukes - Crawdad @ youtube LP 2: Chicago Blues@ youtube ([almost] full album LP 2) The Aces - Take A Little Walk With Me Billy Boy Arnold - Somebody Help Me Fenton Robinson - Somebody Loan Me A Dime Good Rockin' Charles - Don't Start Me To Talkin' # Fenton Robinson - You Don't Know What Love Is Joe Carter - It Hurts Me Too Billy Boy Arnold - She Fooled Me The Aces - Blue Shadows Good Rockin' Charles - Shake Your Boogie # Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues Edith Wilson - Yankee Doodle Blues Little Brother Montgomery - I Ain't Got No Special Rider Now @ Spotify prod. & ed. by Maddalena Fagandini & Giles Oakley (BBC TV series) sleeve design and illustration of Red Lightnin' RL0033 by G.M.W. Snow; photography by Axel Küstner Indigo IGOTCD 2537 track sequence: CD 1: The Devil's Music Part 1 Sam Chatmon - Stop And Listen Big Joe Williams - Highway 49 Houston Stackhouse - Cool Drink Of Water Sam Chatmon - Sam's Rag Big Joe Williams - Watergate Blues Sam Chatmon - Who Gonna Love You Tonight Bukka White - Aberdeen, Mississippi Mose Vinson - When You Got Rid Of My Mule Sonny Blake - One Room Country Shack Sonny Blake - Bring It On Home Joe Willie Wilkins - Mr. Downchild Houston Stackhouse - Mean Red Spider Mose Vinson - Bugle Call Blues Laura Dukes - Crawdad The Aces - Take A Little Walk With Me Billy Boy Arnold - Somebody Help Me Fenton Robinson - Somebody Loan Me A Dime Good Rockin' Charles - Don't Start Me Talkin' # Fenton Robinson - You Don't Know What Love Is Joe Carter - It Hurts Me Too CD 2: The Devil's Music Part 2 Billy Boy Arnold - She Fooled Me The Aces - Blue Shadows Good Rockin' Charles - Shake Your Boogie # Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues Edith Wilson - Yankee Doodle Blues Little Brother Montgomery - I Ain't Got No Special Rider Now James De Shay - Crossroads °° James De Shay - Pony Blues °° James De Shay - Mistake In Life °° James De Shay - Evil Is Going On °° James De Shay - Hold That Train, Conductor °° James De Shay - Forty Four °° Big Joe Williams - Providence Help The Poor People °° Henry Townsend - Tears Came Rolling Down °° Big Joe Williams - Sloppy Drunk °° Henry Townsend - Wave My Hands Bye Bye °° Big Joe Williams - Meet Me At The Bottom °° Victoria Spivey - T.B. Blues °° CD 3: Live 1963 European Blues Festival Memphis Slim - Wish Me Well °° Memphis Slim - I Wrote This Song °° Memphis Slim - All By Myself °° Sonny Boy Williamson - 99 °° Sonny Boy Williamson - Bye Bye Bird °° Memphis Slim - In The Evening °° Matt Murphy - Grooving On Bounce °° Matt Murphy - Taking Off °° Sonny Boy Williamson - All My Love In Vain °° Sonny Boy Williamson - Your Funeral And My Trial °° Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Start Me Talkin' °° °° Indigo IGOTCD 2537 bonus tracks # rec. January 28, 1976 in Chicago, IL; Good Rockin' Charles, voc, hca; The Aces: Louis Myers, g; David Myers, b; Fred Below, dr DLP notes by Giles Oakley Red Lightnin' RL 0033 (UK 1976) 3 CD box set notes by Neil Slaven = Indigo IGOTCD 2537 (UK 2003) "The Devil's Music: The Soundtrack To The 1976 BBC TV Documentary Series" Red Lightnin' Records discography
3	1979	American Blues Legends 79 @ spotify Eddie C. Campbell - Love With You Baby - Lock What You Done Chico Chism - High Rise Blues - 480 Pounds Good Rockin' Charles - I Wish I Had Somebody # @ spotify - I'm Goin' Home Where Women Got Meat On Their Bones # @ spotify Billy 'The Kid' Emerson - Buzzard Luck - Conjured Little Smokey Smothers - Don't Throw Your Love On Me So Strong - All Your Love Lester Davenport - I'm Tryin' - No Peace # rec. August 1, 1979 at Odyssey Studios, Chicago, IL; Good Rockin' Charles, voc, hca; Abraham "Little Smokey" Smothers, Eddie C. Campbell, g; Lester Davenport, b; Napoleon "Chico" Chism, dr; prod. by Jim Simpson Big Bear BEAR 23 (UK 1979) = Big Bear / Intercord INT 146.410 = Carosello BEAR 1 (It 1979) Big Bear Records discography
4	1983	It's Great To Be Rich Billy Boy Arnold and Tony McPhee - It's Great To Be Rich @ youtube Lester Davenport - Lester's Comet @ youtube Good Rockin' Charles - La Cucaracha # @ youtube @ spotify Bo Diddley - Don't Know Where I've Been @ youtube Big John Trice - Sweet Home Chicago @ youtube Billy Boy Arnold rec. October 6 & 7, 1977 at Pathway Studios, Islington, London, UK; remixed May 3 & 4, 1978 at Pathway; Billy Boy Arnold, voc, hca; Tony S. McPhee, g; Alan Fish, b; Wilgur Campbell; prod. by Peter Shertser Bo Diddley rec. March 9, 1982 in London, UK # Good Rockin' Charles rec. August 8, 1981 at Radio Station WBEZ in Chicago, IL; Good Rockin' Charles, voc, hca; Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers, Illinois Slim (Tom Morris), g; Big John Trice, b; Steve Cushing, dr Mad Dog Lester Davenport & Big John Trice rec. August 8, 1981 at Radio Station WBEZ, Chicago, IL front cover artwork by Eureka Arts liner photos by Axel Küstner, Dave Peabody & Liz P. Michael 12 inch LP Red Lightnin' RLEP 0045 (UK 1983) Red Lightnin' Records discography Billy Boy Arnold discography Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers discography
5	1988	Low Blows An Anthology of Chicago Harmonica Blues Big Guitar Red with Good Rockin' Charles - Found My Baby (Gone) # [] Big Leon Brooks - Kicking Up Dust George "Mojo" Buford - Don't Go No Further Easy Baby - Good Morning Mr. Blues Good Rockin' Charles - She Loves Another Man # @ youtube Big Leon Brooks - Pink Champagne Joe Carter with Big John Wrencher - Take A Little Walk With Me Golden Wheeler - Good Lover Big Walter Horton with Carey Bell - Avenue Stomp Good Rockin' Charles - Ground Hog Blues # Golden Wheeler - Evil Woman Big Leon Brooks You Know CD bonus tracks: Good Rockin' Charles - I Got To Go # - Good Rockin' # Joe Carter with Big John Wrencher - Honey Bee # rec. November 15, 1975 in Chicago, IL; Good Rockin' Charles, voc, hca; [] Big Guitar Red (Walter Smith), voc, g; J.C. Hurds, gs; Lafayette "Shorty" Gilbert, b; Eddie Payne, dr; prod. by Steve Wisner Mr. Blues MB 7010 (US 1988) [???] = Rooster Blues R7610 (US) = Bedrock BEDLP 15 (UK) notes by Dick Shurman, Steve Wisner, Jim O'Neal (=) Rooster CD 2610 (1994) = Bedrock BED CD 15 (UK)
6	1996	Nothin' But The Blues disc 1: Muddy Waters - I Got My Mojo Working [live] Roy Gaines - Hell Of A Night Jimmy Reed - Down At The Corner Grocery Store Todd Sharpville - Touch Of Your Love Earl Hooker - Foxtrot [instr] Bo Diddley - Don't Know Where I've Been Mighty Houserockers - Play The Blues For You John Lee Hooker - Goin' Mad Blues Little Walter - Juke Isaac Scott - Don't Let My Baby Ride Paul Lamb - Whoopin' (A Tribute to Sonny Terry) Billy Boy Arnold - I Wish You Would Troyce Key and J.J. Malone - Gimme Mine Out Now "Mississippi" Fred McDowell - I Asked For Whiskey J.B. Hutto And His Hawks - Speak My Mind Charlie Musselwhite and The Dynatones - She Used To Be Beautiful Lightnin' Hopkins - Got Me A Louisiana Woman Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Start Me To Talkin' Aces - Take A Little Walk With Me Big Twist and The Mellow Fellows - Livin' It Up disc 2: Sam Chatmon - Stop And Listen Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man [live] Buddy Guy And Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues Big Joe Williams - Highway 49 Fenton Robinson - Somebody Lone Me A Dime Troyce Key and J. J. Malone - It Should've Been Me King Biscuit Boy - Necromonica Tender Slim - Don't Cut Out On Me Clarence Edwards - Done Got Over It Billy Boy Arnold - Eldorado Cadillac Paul Delay Band - Who Will Be Next Good Rockin' Charles - Don't Start Me To Talkin' Aces - Cold Women Jody Williams - Moanin' For Molasses Bobby Bennett - When Girls Do It Screamin' Jay Hawkins - The Whammy Roosevelt Sykes - Bad News Clovers - He Sure Could Hypnotize Tommy Tucker - Hi Heel Sneakers Buster Benton - Spider In My Stew 2 CD set Emporio DEMPCD 006 (UK 1996)
7	4/2000	Rooster Blues Records 1980-2000 Sampler - Fistful Of Dollars - Lonnie Shields - Eatin' Dry Onions - Willie Cobbs - Worried Dream - Larry Davis - Down In The Delta - Johnson's Jazzers - Rocking Daddy - Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes & The Playboys - Elvira - Lonnie Pitchford - Rollin' And Tumblin' - Carey Bell, Lurrie Bell - I Wouldn't Lay My Guitar Down - Eddy Clearwater - Eyesight To The Blind - Good Rockin' Charles - Bad Avenue - Valerie Wellington - King Of The Jungle - Eddie C. Campbell - Give Me Back My Wig - Magic Slim - Hummin' Blues, Pt. 1 - Big Jack Johnson - How Much More / Mama Talk To Your Daughter - Robert Walker - Dunkin' Donut Woman - Eddie Shaw - Can't Sleep At Night - L.C. Luckett, Johnny Rawls - I Can't Leave You Alone - D.C. Bellamy - James Alley Blues - Jerry Ricks - Walkin' And Cryin' The Blues - Foree 'Guitar' Wells notes by Jim O'Neal Rooster CD R9825 (US 4/2000) "20th Anniversary Sampler" notes by Jim O'Neal = Rooster CD R2637 (US 2001)
Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Jean-Claude Arnaudon: Dictionnaire du Blues.- Paris, France (Filipacci) 1977, p 103
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 93
- Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, p. 38, 166
- Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- New York 1987, p. 168
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
thanks to Jim O'Neal and Tom Morris for additional info

Good Rockin' Charles at the Seventh Annual Midwest Blues Festival
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, November 3-4, 1978
source: Living Blues #42 (1979), p. 44; photographer: D. Shigley

Good Rockin' Charles, Floyd Jones & Jimmy Walker, Chicago, IL, 1979
source: Block 73 (jan/feb/mrt 1990), p. 21; photographer: Rien Wisse

G O O D R O C K I N' C H A R L E S; source: Front cover of Rooster R-7601
Good Rockin' Charles
source: Front cover of Rooster R-7601; photographer: Dale Hoyt