 source: Original mylar® lithograph "Barbershop Blues" by Neil Harpe originally a sepia drawing, it has been colorized (without Harpe's knowledge or permission) to appear on the front cover of Mapleshade 56952 | Archie Edwards b. September 4, 1918 near Union Hall, Franklin County, Virginia d. June 18, 1998 at home in Seat Pleasant, Prince George's County, Maryland buried (along with his wife Frances) at Fort Lincoln Cemetery in Brentwood, Maryland, 3401 Bladensburg Road discography |  source: Back cover of L+R LP 42.042; photographer: Axel Küstner |
| # | year of release | title / label / notes |
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| 1 | 1977 | ARCHIE EDWARDS - The Road Is Rough And Rocky # @ youtube - Circle Line Boat * @ youtube rec. 1975 at Edgewood Studios; Archie Edwards, voc, g; unknown, dr
# Mississippi John Hurt style !!!
7 inch 45 rpm |
| 2 | 1980 | Living Country Blues USA The Introduction  @ youtube (full double album)LP 1: Guitar Frank - Lonesome Road Blues  @ youtubeMemphis Piano Red - The Train Is Coming @ youtube Flora Molton & The Truth Band - What's The Matter Now @ youtube Flora Molton & The Truth Band - The Titanic @ youtube Lottie Murell - Trouble Late Last Night (4:13) # @ youtubeSam Chatmon - Sittin' On Top Of The World @ youtubeJames "Son" Thomas - Rock Me Mama @ youtubeHammie Nixon - Corinna, Corinna @ youtubeCora Fluker & Ola Mae Bell - Talkin' 'Bout Jesus @ youtube Walter Brown - So Hard To See @ youtube Archie Edwards - Bear Cat Mama Blues @ youtube LP 2: Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins - Reno Factory @ youtube Lonnie Pitchford - My Babe @ youtube Sam "Stretch" Fields - Bluebird Blues @ youtube Joe Savage - Mean Ol' Frisco @ youtube Arzo Youngblood - I Can't Be Successful @ youtube CeDell "Big G" Davis - I Don't Know Why @ youtube Othar Turner & the Rising Star Five & Drum Band - Tango Twist @ youtube Guitar Slim - Come On In My Kitchen (voc, g) @ youtubeGuitar Slim - Lula's Back In Town (voc, p) @ youtube Boyd Rivers - You Got To Move @ youtubeBoogie Bill Webb - Big Road Blues @ youtuberec. October/November 1980 by Siegfried Christmann photos by Axel Küstner "none of the takes included in this double album will re-appear in further releases"
DLP 3 CD set 2 CD set = Bellaphon LR 713014 (Germany 2014) (180 g DLP) (includes download code) L+R Records discography |
| 3 | 1982 | Living Country Blues USA Vol. 6 Archie Edwards: The Road Is Rough And Rocky - That Won't Do - My Old Schoolmates - I Called My Baby Long Distance - Pittsburgh Blues - Baby Please Give Me A Break - Duffle Bag Blues - Lovin' Spoonful - The Road Is Rough And Rocky - Jinky Lou - Stagg-O-Lee - T For Texas - Do Lord Remember Me
rec. 1980 by Siegfried A. Christmann and Axel Küstner
3 CD set
L+R Records discography |
| 4 | 1982 | Living Country Blues USA Vol. 10 Country Boogie Lottie Murrell - Spoonful # @ youtubeNapoleon Strickland - That's The Boogie @ youtubeGuitar Slim - Lovin' Blues @ youtube James "Son" Thomas - Mama Don't 'Low No Guitar Playin' Here @ youtube Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band - Bouncin' Ball @ youtube Lonnie Pitchford - One String Boogie @ youtube Bowling Green John & Harmonica Phil Wiggins - Burn Your Bridges @ youtube Memphis Piano Red - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie @ youtube Archie Edwards - Sellin' That Stuff # @ youtube Lonnie Pitchford - Shake Your Moneymaker @ youtubeCora Fluker - Shotgun Boogie @ youtube Arzo Youngblood - Swing, Swing @ youtubeCedell "Big G" Davis - You Got To Do The Boogie Woogie @ youtube# rec. October 7 or November 30, 1980 in Washington, DC by Siegfried Christmann and Axel Küstner; Archie Edwards, voc, g photos by Axel Küstner
notes by Axel Küstner 3 CD set
L+R Records discography |
| 5 | 1982 | Living Country Blues USA Vol. 12 East Coast Blues Bowling Green John Cephas - Reno Factory Guitar Slim (Stephens) - Lula's Back In Town Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins - Louise Archie Edwards - Three Times Seven Guitar Frank (Hovington) - 90 Goin' North Archie Edwards - Everybody's Blues Guitar Frank (Hovington) - Trouble In Mind Archie Edwards - East Virginia John Henry - Sittin' On Top Of The World Guitar Slim (Stephens) - Won't You Spread Some Flowers On My Grave Guitar Frank (Hovington) - Mama Don't Allow - Key To The Highway notes by Axel Küstner
L+R Records discography |
| 6 | 1982 | American Folk Blues Festival 1982 Program and LP Album with all participating artists James 'Son' Thomas - Cairo Blues Archie Edwards - The Road Is Rough And Rocky Bowling Green & John Cephas - Bye Bye Baby Carey Bell & Billy Brach - Tribute To Big Walter Lurrie Bell & Billy Brach - The Train I Ride Carey Bell's Blues Harp Band - Goin' On Main Street Margie Evans, Cash McCall et al. - Mistreated Woman  tracks from other L+R LPs, unissued tracks, and demo recordings
= Bellaphon CDLR 711624 (Germany 2008) L+R Records discography |
| 7 | 1982 | American Folk Blues Festival Blues Live '82 James "Son" Thomas - Beefsteak Blues - Catfish Blues Archie Edwards - How Long Blues - That Won't Do - Take Me Back Baby Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins - Big Boss Man Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins - Burn Your Bridges - Worried Man Blues °° Lurrie Bell & Billy Branch - Detroit, Michigan - Tribute To Little Walter Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins - Running And Hiding James "Son" Thomas - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Standing At The Crossroads °° - Stormy Moonday Blues Carey Bell - Goin' On Main Street Carey Bell - Blues Harp by Three Margie Evans - That Dirty Black Rat - Sometimes I'll Be Gone - Bye Bye Baby °° not on CD rec. November 15, 1982 at Palmengarten, Frankfurt a. M., Germany and November 24, 1982 at Siegerlandhalle, Siegen, Germany
DLP
3-CD-Box L+R Records discography |
| 8 | 1982 | American Folk Blues Festival '82 Lurrie Bell & Billy Branch - Breaking Up Somebody's Home (6:53) Margie Evans & Carey Bell - Oh Lawdy Lord (5:25) [= It Hurts Me Too] Harmonica Phil Wiggins, Carey Bell, Billy Branch - Tribute To Little Walter (7:28) @ youtube James 'Son' Thomas - Catfish Blues (3:27) Chicago's Young Blues Generation & J. W. Williams - Sweet Little Angel (4:55) Archie Edwards - The Road Is Rough And Rocky (3:28) Carey Bell & Lurrie Bell - Easy To Love (8:18) Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins - Last Fair Deal (4:27) @ youtube rec. November 6, 1982 at Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach-Konzerthalle, Frankfurt/Oder, GDR; prod by Horst Jurczok of Berliner Rundfunk, Redaktion: Jürgen Lahrtz photos by Otto Sill
notes by Herbert Flügge American Folk Blues Festival discography |
| 9 | 1989 | Archie Edwards: Blues 'N Bones - John Henry - Meet Me In The Bottom - I Called My Baby Long Distance - That Won't Do - My Old School Mates - Hen's Cackle - Saturday Night Hop - Baby, Please Gimme A Break - T For Texas - Sitting On Top Of The World - Payday - Take Me Back Baby - Little Girl Archie Edwards, g, voc; Richard Thomas, bones; Mark Wenner, hca
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| 9a | 1992 | The Ultimate Blues Collection Volume 2 CD 1: Willie Mabon - I Don't Know - Rainy Night In Georgia Carey Bell - She's Nineteen Years Old Fernest Arcenaux - The Things I Used To Do Archie Edwards - Boogie Woogie Mama # Big Jay McNeely - Pretty Girls - Country Boy Detroit Gary Wiggins - That What You Doin' To Me Luther Allison - The Dock Of The Bay - Let's Try It Again CD 2: John Lee Hooker - Introduction - Goin' To California - Black Night Is Falling - Crawlin' Kingsnake John Cephas - Richmond Blues °° - St. James Infirmary °° Louisiana Red - Louisiana Boogie - When My Mama Was Livin' - Got Sad News - Stop Doggin' Me Around Sam Chatmon - I Gets The Blues °° - St. Louis Blues °° CD 3: Champion Jack Dupree - Wine, Wine, Wine - You Can Make It Memphis Piano Red - Mother-In-Law Blues °° - Barrelhouse Blues °° Erwin Helfer and The Chicago Allstars - Sneaky Pete - 4 O'clock Blues Tommy Tucker - Blues Had A Baby - Hard Luck Blues - Five Long Years °° - Drifting Blues °° °° previously unreleased
3 CD set Ornament Records discography |
| 10 | 1999 | Living Country Blues: An Anthology Disc 1: Mississippi Moan
Disc 2: Lonesome Road Blues (East Coast) Disc 3: You Got To Move (Tennessee, Arkansas & More)
3 CD set |
| 11 | 2001 | Archie Edwards: The Toronto Sessions, Vol. 1 - I Had A Little Girl - One Thin Dime Blues - I'm Down Today - Sitting On Top Of The World - That Won't Do - Greyhound Bus Blues - I Called My Baby Long Distance - Take Me Back Baby - Easy Rider - How Long Blues - Pittsburgh Blues - Poor Me - Meet Me In The Bottom rec. 1986 in Toronto, Ca
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| 12 | 2002 | American Folk Blues Festival 1982/1983/1985 Disc 1: 1982 Festival James "Son" Thomas - Beefsteak Blues - Catfish Blues - Announcement by John Cephas Archie Edwards - How Long Blues - That Won't Do - Take Me Back Baby Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins - Big Boss Man - Burn Your Bridges Lurrie Bell & Billy Branch - Detroit, Michigan - Tribute To Big Walter Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins - Running And Hiding James "Son" Thomas - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Stormy Monday Blues Carey Bell - Goin' On Main Street - Blues Harp Blues by Three Margie Evans - That Dirty Black Rat - Sometimes I'll Be Gone - Bye Bye Baby Disc 2: 1983 Festival
Disc 3: 1985 Festival
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Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 291 - Robert Santelli: The Big Book of Blues - A Biographical Encyclopedia.- London (Pavilion), 1994, p. 134 - eBay auctions - diverse internet resources thanks to Eleanor Ellis (with the help of Mary Edlin Tisha), Heather Livingston and Scott Barretta for additional info / label scans
 source: photography by Neil Harpe, Blues Review 43 (1998), p. 72
The Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation |