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S C O T T   D U N B A R ; from Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who; photographer: Bill Ferris
source: Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who, p. 163
photographer: Bill Ferris

Scott Dunbar
b. July 1, 1904 1910 on Deer Park Plantation, Wilkinson County, Mississippi
west of Woodville and south of Natchez
d. October 1, 1994 in Centreville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi

discography
S C O T T   D U N B A R at his home in Old River Lake, Mississippi; source: Lawrence Cohn: Nothing But The Blues.- p. 291; photographer: Bill Ferris; click to enlarge!
Scott Dunbar at his home in Old River Lake, MS
source: Cohn 1993, p. 192; photographer: Bill Ferris

#year
of release
title / label # / notes
11956Music From The South   Vol. 5
Song, Play And Dance


Horace Sprott
- Fox Chase
Harry Rutledge & Horace Sprott
- Buck Dance
Horace Sprott
- Take Rocks And Gravel To Make A Solid Road
Mrs. Philip Ramsey
- Me And My Short Box
Horace Sprott
- Saturday Night Hoe-Down
- I Feel Good Now, Baby
Children's Group with Berenice & Eunice Ford, Bessie Lee Daniels
- Blind Child
- Head-Shoulder Baby
- I Asked My Mother For Fifty Cents
Philip Ramsey, Rosemary Daniels & Berenice Ford
- Talk About Jesus

Mississippi String Band (Tom Johnson and John Copeland)
- Blues
- Hootchie Kootchie
- It's Tight Like That
- See See Mama

Scott Dunbar
- Memphis Mail *   @ youtube
Scott Dunbar and Joe Tucker
- Buck Dance By Joe Turner #   @ youtube
Scott Dunbar
- Forty Four #   @ youtube
Scott Dunbar with Celeste Dunbar, voc & Rosie Dunbar, dancing
- Easy Rider #   @ youtube

* rec. June 24, 1954 in Old River Lake, MS; Scott Dunbar, voc, g

# rec. June 25, 1954 in Pond, MS; Scott Dunbar, voc, g

Field recordings taken under a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation by Frederic Ramsey, Jr.

notes by Frederic Ramsey, Jr.

Folkways FP 654 (US 1956)

notes by Frederic Ramsey, Jr.


= Folkways FA 2654

CDr
= Smithsonian Folkways FA 2654 (US 2006)

27/1960Music From The South   Vol. 10
Been Here And Gone


Louis Bonner
- Old Country Hunt Horn
- The Hunt
- Hunt Horn
Horace Sprott
- My Little Annie, So Sweet
- The Frisco
Gandy Dancers
- Let's Move It!
Freddie L. Small
- Tiger Rag
Eureka Brass Band
- When The SAin'ts Go Marching In
Dora Bliggen
- Blackberries
Eureka Brass Band
- Bourbon Street Parade
Dora Bliggen
- Blackberries

Dennis Atkins
- Hymn
Elder Ella Hall, Effie Fits, Jenie Jackson, Brother William ...
- When The SAin'ts Go Marching In
Mozelle Moore
- When The SAin'ts Go Marching In
- I'm Going To Pack Up My Things And Back Down That Sunny Road I'm Goin'

Scott Dunbar with Celeste [wife] & Rosie [daughter] Dunbar, voc
- Goin' Back To Vicksburg (Vicksburg And Natchez Blues) #
Mozelle Moore, Philip Ramsey, Jr., Philip Ramsey, Sr., Horace Sprott
- Good Times (Skiffle and Dance Improvisation)
Dennis Atkins
- Hymn
Dora Bliggen
- O Lord Have Mercy
Eureka Brass Band
- Just A Closer Walk With Thee
- Panama


# rec. June 25, 1954 in Pond, MS; Scott Dunbar, voc, g; Rosie Dunbar, voc

Field recordings taken under a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation by Frederic Ramsey, Jr.

notes by Frederic Ramsey, Jr.

Folkways FA 2659 (US 7/1960)

Frederic Ramsey Jr.: Been Here And Gone
"In text and pictures, this report move across the Southern landscape and brings the reader close to the men and women who have created work songs, spirituals, blues, and jazz."
Frederic Ramsey Jr.: Been here And Gone.- 1960
1st edition (1960)
London Cassell (UK) and
New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers University Press
Frederic Ramsey Jr.: Been here And Gone.- 1969
2nd printing (1969)
New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers University Press
Frederic Ramsey Jr.: Been here And Gone.- 2000
(2000)
University Of Georgia Press
31970Scott Dunbar: From Lake Mary

- Who Been Foolin' You   @ youtube
- Little Liza Jane   @ youtube
- Memphis Mail   @ youtube
- Vicksburg Blues   @ youtube
- Forty-Four Blues   @ youtube

- That's Alright Mama   @ youtube
- Easy Rider   @ youtube
- Richard Daley Blues   @ youtube
- Sweet Mama Rollin' Stone   @ youtube
- Blue Yodel   @ youtube
- Goodnight Irene   @ youtube

rec. February 27, April 19 and August 6, 1970 at Lake Mary (Old River Lake, an eleven mile cut-off arm of the Mississippi, west of Woodville and south of Natchez), MS by Parker Dinkins
"Today Scott Dunbar is a fisherman and guide on Lake Mary, father of six, and resident blues singer of Woodville and rural Wilkinson County, Mississippi. There everybody knows old Scott."
photos by Parker A. Dinkins



unissued tracks from same session (source: Leadbitter & Slaven):

February 27, 1970 in Lake Mary, MS

- You Are My Sunshine
- Wabash Cannonball
- When The SAin'ts Go Marching In
- Done Laid Down (Do Remember Me)
- Filipena
- Home Sweet Home
- Just Because
- Never Been So Blue
- Goodnight Irene
- Goodbye My Lady Cindy
- My Old Shoe
- Sally Good'n
- Buffalo Gal
- Nobody's Darlin' But Mine
- Memphis Mail
- Vicksburg Blues
- Say That's Alright With You
- Filipena
- Baby Please Don't Go
- That's Alright Mama
- Have Mercy On My Soul
- Tennessee Waltz
- Careless Love
- Blue Heaven
- Lay That Pistol Down (Pistol Packin' Mama)
- Untitled Instrumental

April 19, 1970 in Lake Mary, MS

- Wabash Cannonball
- Who's Been Foolin You
- Sally Good'n
- You Are My Sunshine
- Want To See My Darlin'
- Little Liza Jane
- Hand
- Jaybird
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Lay That Pistol Down
- Just Because
- Filipena
- Have Mercy On My Soul
- Done Laid Around

August 6, 1970 in Lake Mary, MS

- You Don't Know My Mind
- Want To See My Darlin'
- 44 Blues
- Richard Daley Blues
- Hymn
- Who Been Foolin' You
- Beautiful Brown Eyes
- Memphis Mail

notes by Karl Michael Wolfe

Ahura Mazda AMS SDS 1 (UK 1970)


= Ahura Mazda AMS SDS 1 (US 1970)

notes by Karl Michael Wolfe and Matthew Johnson

= Fat Possum LP 80338-1 (US 2000)

notes by Karl Michael Wolfe and Matthew Johnson

= Fat Possum CD 80338-2 (US 2000)

Ahura Mazda discography

41972Blues From The Delta
Field Recordings 1968

Son Thomas
- Cairo Blues (4:25)   @ youtube
Lee Kizart
- Bottle Up And Go (2:20)   @ youtube

Scott Dunbar
- Big Fat Momma * (5:20)   @ youtube
Lovey Williams
- Rooting Ground Hog (2:55)   @ youtube
Son Thomas
- Rock Me Momma (2:40)   @ youtube

Lovey Williams
- Train I Ride (2:25)   @ youtube

Scott Dunbar
- It's So Cold Up North * (3:40)   @ youtube
Lee Kizart
- Don't Want No Woman Telling Me What To Do (3:45)   @ youtube

Scott Dunbar
- Jay Bird * (8:45)   @ youtube

* rec. Summer of 1968 in Lake Mary, MS by Bill Ferris; Scott Dunbar, voc, g

notes by Bill Ferris

Matchbox SDM 226 (UK 1972)


= Autogram ALLP-243 (Germany 19??)


LP illustrates the book by William Ferris Jr.: Blues From The Delta.- Studio Vista, London 1970 (series ed. by Paul Oliver)

Matchbox Records discography

52001Not The Same Old Blues Crap II
The Fat Possum Compilation

Scott Dunbar
- Easy Rider [Ahura Mazda AMS SDS 1]
R.L. Burnside
- Goin' Down South
- Walkin' Blues
Jr. Kimbrough
- I Feel Good Again
- Meet Me In The City
Robert Belfour
- Black Mattie
Asie Payton
- Goin' Back To The Bridge
- Please Tell Me You Love Me
Paul Jones
- Goin' Back Home
- I'm Gonna Leave
T-Model Ford
- Sail On
King Ernest
- House Where Nobody Lives
Super Chikan
- El Camino



Fat Possum E80342-2 (US 2001)

6200?Wrong Time To Be Right

Elizabeth Cotten - Reuben
Scott & Rosie Dunbar - Easy Rider [Ahura Mazda AMS SDS 1]
Charlie Feathers & R.L. Burnside - Feel Good Again
John Ziegler - Who's Gonna Be Your Man
Robert Pete WIlliams - Grown So Ugly
Blind Willie McTell - Dyin' Crap Shooters Blues
Malvina Reynolds - What's Going On Down There?
Furry Lewis - On The Road Again

Jimmy Lee Williams - Hoot Your Belly, Give Your Backbone Ease
Unknown Artist - (unidentified)
William Robertson - Frolicking
Cast King - Wrong Time To Be Right
Joseph Spence - Sloop John B
John Hurt - Spanish Fandang
Watson Family - Your Long Journey
Michael Hurley - Lonesome Graveyard
Rocky Erickson - Right Track Now



Mississippi MRC-008 (cassette)

72010Way Beyond The Moon

Gary U.S. Bonds - I Wanna Holler
The Dixie Cups - Two Way Paka Way
Pearl Williams - My Man
The Megatons - Blowin' Through Yokahama
The Ideals - Mo' Gorilla
Melvin Davis - I Don't Want You
The Blonde Bomber - I Am To Blame
Big Maybelle - 96 Tears
The Curtains - Midnight Limbo
Daryll Banks - Only Your Love
Ruby Johnson - I'll Run Your Heart Away

Joseph Spence & Blooming Sallie Roberts - Living On The Hallelujah Side

Scott Dunbar - Memphis Mail [Ahura Mazda AMS SDS 1]
Mary Bennett & Charlie Jackson - Trouble In My Way
Bukka White - Aberdeen Blues
Junior Kimbrough - Burn In Hell
Gary Davis - Death Don't Have No Mercy
Dorothy Lee, Norma Jean & Shirley Marie Johnson - You Got To Give An Account
Charlie Patton - Poor Me



Mississippi MRC-069 (cassette)

82014Blues Runs The Game

Elizabeth Cotten & Brenda Evans - Shake Sugaree
Angae Mae Hinton - Cook Cornbread For Your Husband
Eddie "One String" Jones - Rolling And Tumbling Blues
Bukka White - Sad Day Blues
George Montgomery - Pull My Windowshade Low
Jessie Mae Hemphill - Lord Help The Poor And Needy
Junior Kimbrough - Feel So Good #2
Howlin' Wolf - You'll Be Mine
Jesse Fuller - Hark From The Tomb

Gary Davis - I Heard The Angels Singing
Joe Callicott - Poor Boy Blues
Lonnie Pitchfork - One String Boogie
Robert Pete Williams - Texas Blues
Grace Bowden - It's A Blessing

Scott Dunbar - 44 Blues [Ahura Mazda AMS SDS 1]
Son House - Milkcow Calf Blues
Wilson & Williams - Careless Love



Mississippi MRC-029 (cassette)

92016Visions Of The Blues
Southern Music Issue No. 18

Allen ToussAin't - Rocks In My Bed
Koko Taylor - Yes, It's Good For You
Gil Scott-Heron - New York Is Killing Me

Scott Dunbar - Memphis Mail [Ahura Mazda AMS SDS 1]
Adia Victoria - Stuck In The South
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Segu Blue
Charley Patton - Down The Dirt Road Blues
Ida Cox - Wild Women Don't Have The Blues
Otis Taylor - Ten Million Slaves
Big Mama Thornton - Black Rat
John Lee Hooker - John Henry
Cedell Davis - One Of These Days
Bobby Rush - Chicken Heads
Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas - Pick Poor Robin Clean
Barbara Dane - You Don't Know Me
Tail Dragger - My Head Is Bald
Alabama Shakes - Miss You
Alexis Zoumbas - Epirotiko Mirologi
Bonnie Raitt - I Feel The Same
Regina Carter - Trampin'
Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind
John Fahey - Sunflower River Blues
Etta Baker & Cora Phillips - Railroad Bill


compiled by Maxwell George & Eliza Borné


Oxford American No. 18

106/2018Voices Of Mississippi
Artists And Musicians Documented by William Ferris

CD 1: Blues
James "Son Ford" Thomas - 44 Blues (3:45)
Lovey Williams - I Feel So Good (2:06)
Wallace "Pine-Top" Johnson & Maudie Shirley with Jasper Love - Stackalee And Billy Lyons (2:45)
Scott Dunbar - Lil' Liza Jane (2:59)
Mississippi Fred McDowell - Big Fat Mama (2:28)
Louis Dotson - Bottle Blowing (0:52)
Sonny Boy Watson - Bring Me My Shotgun (3:08)
Sam Myers - Eyesight To The Blind (2:25)
James "Son Ford" Thomas - Cairo (2:49)

Scott Dunbar - Jaybird (8:35)
Tom Dumas - Cotton Eyed Joe (2:24)
Lovey Williams - Coal Black Mare (2:37)
Unidentified Musician with Mississippi Fred McDowell - I Dreamed I Went To The U.N. (2:30)
Walter Lee Hood - Darling If You Must Leave (1:06)
Mississippi Fred McDowell - I Got A Letter From Hot Springs (3:54)
Wallace "Pine-Top" Johnson & Maudie Shirley With Jasper Love - Baby Loves To Boogie (3:13)
Wash Heron & "Big" Jack Johnson - Nothing (1:36)
James "Son Ford" Thomas - Dust My Broom (2:31)

Scott Dunbar - The Memphis Mail (3:30)
Sonny Boy Watson - Have You Seen My Baby (3:48)
James Hughes - Instrumental Guitar Piece In A (1:37)
Lovey Williams - Train I Ride (1:57)
Unidentified Musician with Mississippi Fred McDowell - Little Red Rooster (3:01)
Leland Musician - Darlin' Why You Treat Me So? (2:19)
Inmates at Parchman Farm - Water Boy Drowned In The Mobile Bay (1:57)
George Lee "Sun Bud" Spears - I Ain't Gonna Live It No More (4:10)
James "Son Ford" Thomas with Sonny Boy Watson - I Cannot Stay Here Baby (4:03)



CD 2: Gospel
Mary Alice & Alan McGowan - My Mother's On That Train (1:36)
The Southland Hummingbirds - You Don't Know Like I Know (3:48)
Lovey Williams - I'm Standing In The Safety Zone (1:20)
Reverend Smith And Family - Children, Go Where I Send Thee (3:27)
Liddle Hines - What Could I Do? (3:23)
Providence Missionary Baptist Church - So Glad I Got Good Religion (3:21)
Church Of God In Christ - I Know The Lord Will Make A Way (Yes He Will) (2:08)
Walter Lee Hood And Parchman Inmates - Home On High (2:28)
Fannie Bell Chapman -We're So Glad To Be Here (3:52)
Mary & Amanda Gordon -Lord, I'm In Your Hand (2:59)
Reverend Ott & Family - You Don't Knock, You Just Walk On In (2:29)
Walter Lee Hood - They Tell Me Of An Uncloudy Day (1:33)
Rose Hill Church - Thanks For Bill Ferris (0:35)
Rose Hill Church - Over Yonder Where The Sun Will Never Shine (2:48)
The Southland Hummingbirds - I've Been Born Again (3:18)
Lovey Williams & Family - The Lord Will Make A Way Somehow (2:51)
Providence Missionary Baptist Church - How Did You Feel When You Come Out Of The Wilderness (4:10)
Church Of God In Christ - I Don't Have To Worry About Where I Spend Eternity (2:56)
Fannie Bell Chapman & Family - He's My Rock, My Sword, And Shield (3:58)
Walter Lee Hood & Parchman Inmates - Thank You Jesus (2:23)
Mary & Amanda Gordon - Cross Of Calvary (2:50)
The Church Of God In Christ - My Grave's Gonna Be Decorated On That Day (2:55)
The Southland Hummingbirds - There Are Days (2:58)
The Church Of God In Christ - You Can't Hide Sinner (2:43)
Reverend Isaac Thomas & Rose Hill Church - Lord, Remember Me (2:51)
The Church Of God In Christ - Glory, Glory (Lay My Burden Down) (8:38)



CD 3: Storytelling
Barry Hannah - On Bill (1:34)
Alice Walker - Regions Of The Mind And Heart (0:46)
Alex Haley - The South (1:46)
Ray Lum - A Trader Is (1:18)
Bobby Rush - The Blues To Me (1:23)
Barry Hannah - On Son Thomas And Tradition (1:49)
James "Son Ford" Thomas - I Know It's Wrong To Be Playin' The Blues (2:56)
Sonny Boy Watson - Jitterbug Comes To Town (2:06)
James "Son Ford" Thomas - You Whistlin' (2:19)
Joe "Skeet" Skillet - Mule Toast And Pool Hall Toast (3:02)
Joe Cooper - The Preacher (1:28)
Wallace "Pine-Top" Johnson, Jasper Love, Maudie Shirley - Lyin' (1:05)
Shelby "Poppa Jazz" Brown - Two Brothers, Heaven And Hell (5:26)
Shelby "Poppa Jazz" Brown - Creekman Killed Charlie Kirkland (3:26)
B.B. King - Lucille (3:20)
Allen Ginsberg, James "Son Ford" Thomas, Bill Ferris - On Blues Composition (4:41)
Robert Penn Warren - The Decline In Human Values (2:46)
Pecolia Warner - The Bible Salesma n(5:06)
Ray Lum - Fast Traders Disguising Mules (2:50)
Ray Lum - Horses Too Tall To Drown (1:02)
Ray Lum - The Ark And The Cats (1:55)
Ray Lum - The Panther (1:33)
Victor Bobb - Fixing Charles Lindbergh's Engine (7:43)
Barry Hannah - Lying About Being From Mississippi (0:58)
Pete Seeger - We Shall Overcome (2:13)
James "Son Ford" Thomas - Cemetery Conversations (6:50)



DVD 4: Films
William Ferris - Gravel Springs Fife And Drum - Otha Turner(10:28)
William Ferris - Green Valley Grandparents (10:20)
William Ferris - Ray Lum: Mule Trader (18:03)
William Ferris - Fannie Bell Chapman: Gospel Singer (42:47)
William Ferris - Four Women Artists: Pecolia Warner, Eudora Welty, Ethel Mohamed, Theora Hamblett (24:04)
William Ferris - Hush Hoggies Hush: Tom Johnson's Praying Pigs (4:15)
William Ferris - Bottle Up And Go - Louis Dotson (17:56)


3 x CD, DVD-Video

Dust-To-Digital DTD-53 (US June 1, 2018)



Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Lawrence Cohn: Nothing But The Blues.- New York, London, Paris (Abbeville Press) 1993, p. 291
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 189
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970 (2nd edition).- Vancouver 2012, p. 166
- Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- New York (Da Capo Press) 1987, p. 163
- Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven: Blues Records 1943 to 1970 - A selective discography, Vol. one, A to K.- p. 367-369
- Frederic Ramsey Jr.: Been Here And Gone.- London (Cassell & Company Ltd.) 1960
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Marc Claes and Mario Hemken for additional info / scans

 

'Old River Lake, Mississippi' (Lake Mary), 1954; source: Folkways FA 2659 notes; photographer: Frederic Ramsey Jr.
"Old River Lake, Mississippi" (Lake Mary), 1954
source: Folkways FA 2659 notes; photographer: Frederic Ramsey Jr.

 


Scott Dunbar with electric guitar
source: Mississippi Folklife Volume 30, No. 1 and 2 (May 1998), p. 54
photographer's name not given ("Courtesy of the Mississippi Arts Commission")

 

Bill Steber page (Scott Dunbar 1994)

 

 

 

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