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| 1 | 8/1928 | Blind Willie Davis / Blind Willie Jackson Paramount 12658 Blind Willie Davis - When The Saints Go Marching In (20298--) # @ youtube @ Spotify - Rock Of Ages (20568-2) * @ youtube @ Spotify Herwin 93005 Blind Willie Jackson - Rock Of Ages (20568-2) * - When The Saints Go Marching In (20298--) # # rec. January 1928 in Chicago, IL; Blind Willie Davis, voc, g * rec. c. May 1928 in Chicago, IL; Blind Willie Davis, voc, g
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| 2 | 3/1929 | Blind Willie Davis - I've Got A Key To The Highway (21052-3) @ youtube @ Spotify - Your Enemy Cannot Harm You (21051-2) @ youtube @ Spotify rec. c. December 1928 in Chicago, IL; Blind Willie Davis, voc, g
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| 3 | 1930 | Blind Willie Davis - Trust In God And Do The Right (L-112-1) @ youtube @ Spotify - I Believe I'll Go Back Home (L-113-1) (aka "The Prodigal Son") @ youtube @ Spotify rec. c. October 1929 in Grafton, WI; Blind Willie Davis, voc, g
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| 4 | 1964 | Country Blues & Gospel Willie Lofton - Dark Road Blues Blind Willie McTell - Searching The Desert For The Blues Jaybird Coleman - Man Trouble Blues Blind Willie Davis - Rock Of Ages The Guitar Evangelist - Death Is Only A Dream Blind Willie Johnson - Jesus Goin' To Make Up My Dyin' Bed 7 inch EP, 33 1/3 rpm Heritage Records discography |
| 5 | 1966 | In The Spirit Volume 2 Bukka White - Promise True And Grand Blind Willie Davis - Rock Of Ages Charlie Patton - Some Happy Day Sister Cally Fancy - Hold To God's Unchanging Hand Patton and Lee - Troubled Bout My Mother Elder Curry - Memphis Flu Elder Richard Bryant - How Much I Owe For Love Devine McIntorsh and Edwards - The Latter Rain Is Fall McIntorsh and Edwards - The 1927 Flood Rev. D.C. Rice - I'm Pressing On Holy Ghost Sanctified Singers - Thou Carest Lord For Me Blind Roosevelt Graves - When I Lay My Burden Down Mother McCallum - Jesus Is My Air-O-Plane William and Versey Smith - Sinners You'll Need King Jesus Blind Willie Johnson - Sweeter As The Years Roll By Washington Phillips - Take Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There
notes by Bernard Klatzko & Gayle Dean Wardlow notes by Pete Welding OJL Records discography |
| 6 | 1970 | Southern Sanctified Singers Blind Willie Johnson - Go With Me To That Land Washington Phillips - A Mother's Last Word To Her Daughter Bessie Johnson - The Great Reaping Day Bozie Sturdivant (Silent Grove Baptist Church) - When I've Done The Best I Can, I Want My Crown Sam Butler - Christians Fight On, Your Time Ain't Long Rev. Edward W. Clayborn - Your Enimy Cannot Harm You (But Watch Your Best Friend) Arizona Dranes - In That Day Blind Willie Davis - When The Saints Go Marching In Henry Thomas - Jonah In The Wilderness Washington Phillips - I've Got The Key To The Kingdom Rev. J.C. Burnett - Put Your Trust In Jesus Sam Butler - Heaven Is My View Blind Joe Taggart - I'll Be Satisfied Nugrape Twins - There's A City Built On Mansions Rev. Edward W. Clayborn - The Gospel Train Is Coming Elder Otis Jones - Holy Mountain
Roots Records discography |
| 7 | 1970 | Ten Years Of Black Country Religion 1926-36 Charley Patton - Lord I'm Discouraged Kid Prince Moore - Church Bells - Sign Of Judgement Blind Willie Davis - I've Got A Key To The Kingdom - Your Enemy Cannot Harm You Lonnie McIntorsh - Arise And Shine Bo Weavil Jackson - I'm On My Way To The Kingdom Land Jaybird Coleman - I'm Gonna Cross The River Of Jordan Some Of These Days Charley Patton - Prayer Of Death - part 1 - Prayer Of Death - part 2 Dennis Crumpton & Robert Summers - Go I'll Send Thee - Everybody Ought To Pray Sometime Blind Lemon Jefferson - Where Shall I Be ? - All I Want Is That Pure Religion
notes by Stephen Calt, Nick Perls & Michael Stewart Yazoo Records discography |
| 8 | 1971 | Black Diamond Express To Hell LP 1 (1927-1935) - SDX 207 I'm So Glad Today Daniel Brown - Now Is The Needy Time Daniel Brown - Beulah Land Rev. J.C. Burnett - The Angel Done Gone Down Rev. J.C. Burnett - Sit Down, Servant Sam Butler - When The Saint's Come Marching Home Sam Butler - I'm On My Way To The Kingdom Land Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers - I Want Two Wings To Veil My Face Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers - Christ Was Born On Christmas Morn Blind Gary Davis - I Saw The Light Blind Willie Davis - Your Enemy Cannot Harm You Blind Willie Davis - I've Got A Key To The Highway A.C. Forehand - Mother's Prayer A.C. Forehand - I'm So Glad Today, Today Elder Otis Jones - I Am The Vine Rev. F.W. McGhee - You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley Lonnie McIntorsh - Arise And Shine Lonnie McIntorsh - How Much I Owe LP 2 (1944-1953) - SDX 208 I Want Two Wings Rev. Charles White - How Long Prophet B. W. West - Laid My Burden Down Rev. Utah Smith - I Want 2 Wings Rev. Utah Smith - God's Mighty Hand Sister Mathews - Stand By Me Rev. B. C. Cambell And Congregation - I'll Fly Away Rev. B. C. Cambell And Congregation - Heaven Bound Train Gospel Keys - We're Gonna Have A Good Time Two Gospel Keys - I Love Travelling Gospel Keys - I Want My Crown Gold Rock Gospel Singers - What You Want The Lord To Do For You Gold Rock Gospel Singers - Jesus Is With Me Rev. A. Johnson - Jesus Loves Us All Rev. A. Johnson - I Don't Know How To Get Along Without The Lord The Gospel Twins - This Way The Gospel Twins - One Word First LP compiled and produced by David Harrison and Gef Lucena, second LP compiled by Dave William and Paul Manners
2 LP set; notes by Rev. Doug Constable Matchbox Records discography |
| 9 | 1972 | Guitar Evangelists. Vol. II 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 Records discography |
| 10 | 1972 | The World's Rarest Country Blues Records Blind Willie McTell - B And O Blues No 2 (New York Sep. 21 1933) King Solomon Hill - Down On My Bended Knee (Grafton, WI c. Jan 1932) Blind Lemon Jefferson - Disgusted Blues (Chicago, IL c. Jan 1929) - The Cheaters Spell (Richmond IN Sep 24 1929) Sluefoot Joe (Ed Bell) - She's A Fool (Long Island City, N.Y. Apr 1929) - House Top Blues (Long Island City, N.Y. Apr 1929) Jaybird Coleman - Trunk Busted Suitcase Full Of Holes (Birmingham Alabama c. Aug. 1927) Ruby Paul - Last Farewell Blues (Chicago, IL Dec. 1927) Blind Willie Davis - Trust In God And Do Right (Grafton WI c. Jan 1930) William Harris - Electric Chair Blues - Kansas City Blues (Richmond IN Oct. 9th 1928) Geeshie Wiley - Last Kind Words Blues - Skinny Leg Blues (Grafton, WI c. April 1930) Skip James - Hard-Luck Child - 4 O'Clock Blues (Grafton WI c. Feb. 1931) Charley Patton - Circle Round The Moon - Magnolia Blues - Mean Black Cat Blues (Grafton WI Nov. 1929) Strictly limited edition (150 Copies). Plain white cover white Separate Typed Listing Sheet. Note: "Every title presented on this lp has been dubbed from the only copy known to exist in the world. The makers have done their best to make these extremely rare and worn out 78's audible!"
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| 11 | 1975 | The Voice Of The Blues Bottleneck Guitar Masterpieces Barbecue Bob - Goin' Up The Country The Georgia Browns - Decatur Street 81 Ramblin' Thomas - Ground Hog Blues Tampa Kid - Keep On Trying The Hokum Boys - Selling That Stuff The Too Bad Boys - Corrine Corrine Blues Sister O. M. Terrell - I Want You To Lead Me On Sam Butler - Jefferson County Blues Oscar "Buddy" Woods - Come On Over To My House Baby Roy Smeck - Laughing Rag Irene Scruggs - The Voice Of The Blues Jimmie Davis - She's A Hum Dum Dinger From Dingersville Blind Willie Davis - When The Saints Go Marching In Georgia Cotton Pickers - She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy
notes by Stephen Calt
Yazoo Records discography |
| 12 | 1984 | Songsters & Saints Vocal Traditions on Race Records Vol. 1 Dances And Traveling Shows Peg Leg Howell and Eddie Anthony - Turkey Buzzard Blues Pink Anderson and Simmie Dooley - Gonna Tip Out Tonight "Beans" Hambone - El Morrow - Beans Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band - Under The Chicken Tree Alec Johnson - Mysterious Coon "Big Boy" George Owens - The Coon Crap Game Memphis Sheiks - He's In The Jailhouse Now Charley Patton - Elder Greene Blues Hambone Willie Newbern - Way Down In Arkansas Comment, Parodies And Ballad Heroes Lil McClintock - Furniture Man Julius Daniels - Can't Put The Bridle On That Mule This Morning Hezekiah Jenkins - The Panic Is On Bogus Ben Covington - I Heard The Voice Of A Pork Chop Johnson - Nelson - Porkchop - G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again Bo Chatman - Good Old Turnip Greens Two Poor Boys - John Henry Blues Will Bennett - Railroad Bill Kid Coley - Clair And Pearley Blues Baptists And Sanctified Preachers Rev. Jim Beale - The Hand Of The Lord Was Upon Me Rev. A.W. Nix - After The Ball Is Over Rev. Isaiah Shelton - As The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest Rev. J.M. Milton - Silk Worms And Boll Weevils Rev. H.M. Massey - Old Time Baptism - part 2 Rev. J.T. Burch - Baptised By Water, and Baptism By The Holy Ghost Rev. E.S (Shy) Moore - The Solemn Warning Elder Curry - Prove All Things Rev. Leora Ross - God's Mercy To Colonel Lindbergh Gospel Soloists And Evangelists Missionary Josephine Miles and Sister Elizabeth Cooper - You Have Lost Jesus Mother McCollum - When I Take My Vacation In Heaven Eddie Head and his Family - Down On Me Washington Phillips - I Am Born To Preach The Gospel Blind Roosevelt Graves and Brother - Telephone To Glory The Guitar Evangelist - Death Is Only A Dream Blind Willie Davis - Your Enemy Cannot Harm You Blind Nesbit - Pure Religion William and Versey Smith - When That Great Ship Went Down
gatefold DLP Matchbox Records discography |
| 13 | 1989 | When The Saints Go Marching in (1927-1929) Rev. Edward Clayborn, Blind Willie Davis, Moses Mason (Red Hot) Ole Mose - Molly Man Rev. Moses Mason - John The Baptist - Go Wash In The Beautiful Stream - Christ Is Coming Again - The Horse Paweth In The Valley Moses Mason - Judgment Day In The Morning - Red Cross The Disciple Of Christ Today (Red Hot) Ole Mose - Shrimp Man Rev. Edward W. Clayborn (The Guitar Evangelist) - O Lord, I'm In Your Care - Everybody Ought To Treat Their Mother Right Blind Willie Davis - When The Saints Go Marching In - Rock Of Ages - Your Enemy Cannot Harm You - I've Got The Key To The Kingdom - Trust In God And Do The Right - I Believe I'll Go Back Home Rev. Edward W. Clayborn (The Guitar Evangelist) - You Never Will Know Who Is Your Friend - Men Don't Forget Your Wives For Your Sweetheart - If My Saviour Holds My Hand I Will Go - I Heard The Angels Singing
Wolf (WSE) Records discography |
| 14 | 1993 | Gospel Classics 1927 - 1931 Jessie May Hill - Earth Is No Resting Place - The Crucifixion Of Christ - God Rode In The Windstorm - Untitled - This World Is Not My Home - Sunshine In The Shadows - I'm Going To Lift Up A Standard For My King Unknown Artist - Lonesome Valley - My God Don't Like It - On The Other Shore - There's A Man Going Round Taking Names Blind Willie Davis - When The Saints Go Marching In - Rock Of Ages - Your Enemy Cannot Harm You - I've Got A Key To The Kingdom - Trust In God And Do The Right - I Believe I'll Go Back Home Laura Henton - He's Coming Soon - Heavenly Sunshine - Lord, You're Sure Been Good To Me - I Can Tell The World About This - Plenty Good Room In My Father's Kingdom - Lord, I Just Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes Louisville Sanctified Singers - God Give Me A Light - So Glad I'm Here
notes by Ken Romanowski |
| 15 | 1996 | How Can I Keep From Singing, Vol. 2 Early American Religious Music & Song Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s George Long & His Singers - What Shall Our Answer Be Brothers Wright & Williams - I've Got A Home In Beulah Land Blind Willie Davis - Rock Of Ages Roswell Sacred Harp Quartet - Weeping Mary Sam Collins - I Want To Be Like Jesus In My Heart Morris Family - He Rose Unknown L.V. Jones & His Virginia Singing Class - Will My Mother Know Me There Elder Curry & Congregation - Memphis Flu Washington Phillips - Jesus Is My Friend Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - Job Ridgel's Fountain Citians - Hallelujah To The Lamb Copperhill Male Quartet - There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood Shands Superior Jubilee Singers - Silver Slippers Mrs. L. Reed & Mrs. T.A. Duncans - Light In The Valley Cliff Carlisle Quartet - Shine On Me Pace Jubilee Singers - Oh Death Holy Ghost Sanctified Singers - Thou Carest Lord Ed Mcconnell & Family - My Loving Brother Seventh Day Adventist Choir - Take Thy Burden To The Lord Wade Mainer & Sons Of The Mountaineers - Lonely Tomb Blind Joe Taggart - Goin' To Rest Where Jesus Is David Miller - Lonesome Valley Rev. J.F. Forest & Congregation - Prayer Meeting
notes by Don Kent Yazoo Records discography |
| 16 | 1997 | American Primitive Vol. 1 Raw Pre-War Gospel (1926-36) - I Believe I'll Go Back Home - Blind Willie Davis - Down On Me - Eddie Head and His Family - Honey In The Rock - Blind Mamie Forehand - I'm Gonna Cross The River Of Jordan Some O'These Days - Jaybird Coleman - Oh Death - Bertha Lee/Charley Patton/Bertha Lee - You Better Quit Drinking Shine - Rev. I.B. Ware - Been Listening All the Day - Blind Joe Taggart - Sinner You'll Need King Jesus - William Smith/Versey Smith/William & Versey Smith - This Time Another Year You May Be Gone - Rev. Edward Clayborn - Lord I'm The True Vine - Eddie Head and His Family - Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind on Jesus) - Blind Roosevelt Graves - Holy Mountain - Elder Otis Jones - I Wouldn't Mind Dying (But I Gotta Go by Myself) - Rev. I.B. Ware - Everybody Help The Boy Come Home - William Smith/Versey Smith/William & Versey Smith - Everybody Ought To Pray Sometime - Rob Summers/Dennis Crumpton/Robert Summers - Tryin' To Get Home - Eddie Head and His Family - I'll Be Rested (When the Roll Is Called) - Blind Roosevelt Graves - I'm On My Way To The Kingdom Land - Bo Weavil Jackson - Troubled 'Bout My Soul - Frank Palmes - When That Great Ship Went Down - William Smith/Versey Smith/William & Versey Smith - I Am In The Heavenly Way - Washington White - Good Lord (Run Old Jeremiah) - Little Joe Washington/Austin Coleman - Jesus Is Getting Us Ready for That Great Day - Luther Magby - I Believe I'll Go Back Home - William Smith/Versey Smith/William & Versey Smith - Prayer Of Death, Pt. 1 - Elder J.J. Hadley - Prayer Of Death, Pt. 2 - Elder J.J. Hadley
gatefold DLP = Revenant CD Rev 206 (US 1997/2005) John Miller's review in Old Time Herald Vol. 6, Nr. 6 (Winter 1998) |
| 17 | 2012 | Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s Volume 10 2013 Calendar with free CD CD and Calendar contents: - Dark Was The Night - Cold Was The Ground - Blind Willie Johnson - Diddy Wah Diddy - Blind Blake - What's The Matter With The Mill - Memphis Minnie - Sow Good Seeds - Lil' McClintock - Peach Orchard Mama - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Police Dog Blues - Blind Blake - Snatch It Back Blues - Buddy Boy Hawkins - Pig Meat Blues - Ardell Bragg - Alabama Scratch - Parts 1 & 2 - Harum Scarum - Frankie And Albert - Charley Patton - Ice And Snow Blues - Clifford Gibson - The Devil And God Meet At Church - Rev. Emmet Dickenson Supplementary CD tracks: - I Believe I'll Go Back Home - Blind Willie Davis - Trust In God And Do The Right - Blind Willie Davis - Titanic Blues - Hi Henry Brown - Preacher Blues - Hi Henry Brown - Fancy Tricks - Laura Rucker with Blind Blake - Ocean Blues - Freddie Spruell with Washboard Sam - Y.M.V. Blues - Freddie Spruell with Washboard Sam - Some Of These Days I'll Be Gone - tk 1 [unreleased] - Charley Patton - Some Of These Days I'll be Gone - tk 2 [released] - Charley Patton restored by Richard Nevins
Blues Images calendar discography |
| 18 | 2017 | American 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."
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Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943.- Oxford (Clarendon), 4th ed. 1997, p. 209 - Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. --- no entry! - John Tefteller and Blues Images Collection - used with permission - eBay auctions - diverse internet resources thanks to Eric Simkin for additional info / scan
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