1)The death certificate shows July 10, 1926Joe's exact birthplace is uncertain but it was definitely in the area south of West Memphis near Horseshoe Lake and Hughes.
Aristocrat 3101
Aristocrat unissued
# P-Vine (Jp) PLP 6032[] Chess (UK) 6641 047* Chess (UK) 6641 125§ Negro Rhythm 107
notes by Gary Kramer Atlantic SD-1348
notes by Alan Lomax = Polydor-Atlantic 590 019 (UK 1968)
= Atlantic 7824964 cd boxset 1993"Sounds Of The South"
notes by Gary Kramer Atlantic SD 1352 (US 1960)
= London LTZ-K 15215
notes by Alan Lomax = Polydor-Atlantic 590 025 (UK 1968)
4 CD boxset = Atlantic 782496 (US 1993) "Sounds Of The South"
notes by Paul Oliver Blues Classics BC 15 (1968)
notes by Paul Oliver Blues Classics BC 15
Blues Classics discography
4 LP box setnotes by Mike LeadbitterChess 6641 047 (UK Phonogram)
'Genesis' discography
4 LP box set Chess 6641 125 (UK Phonogram)
Victor LWG-1089 (Jp promo)
notes by Leroy Pierson Nighthawk 102
Nighthawk Records discography
notes by Alan Lomax New World NW 252
Negro Rhythm 107[George Paulus label]
BU 130/26
P-Vine / Chess PLP 6032 (Jp 1984)
notes by Chris Smith = Chess/Green Line GCH 8112 (It 1988)
Charly RED 29 (UK 1991)
4 CD box set64-pp. booklet notes by Mary Katherine Aldin MCA CHD4-9340 (US 1992)
Atlantic 782496 (US 1993)
edited by Tony RussellOrbis BLU NC 063 (EU 1996)
2 CD setChess/MCA 9387
= Chess MVCE-30017 (Jp 1997)
4 CD set40-pp. booklet by Joop Visser Proper CDBOX 7 (UK 1999)
Rounder CDROUN1861 (US 2002)
3 CD boxIndigo/Sanctuary IGOTD 2536 (UK 2003)
15 CD set (341 tracks)MCA International 881
Fremeaux CD FA 5059 (Fr 2003)
2 CD setJSP JSPCD 4227 (UK 2011)
Deltacat 1003
Collection Gerard Herzhaft - Remastered [download only]
2 CD setOne Day Music 5060255182666 (10/2014)
5 CD set Wienerworld WNRCD5106 (US/EU 7/2019)
thanks to Alan Balfour, Jim Clay, Wilson Fabian Ruales Villalva and "Hilmar Wensorra" (Winfried "Winne" Freyer) for additional info / scans
Bob Myers on Forrest City Joesource: Mike Rowe and Frank Weston: 'Them Blues Will Always Stand' - Bob Myers interwiewBlues Unlimited 145 (Winter 1983/84), pp. 12-14
Forrest City Joe 1959 with 'Sonny Boy Rogers' (Sonny 'Cat Daddy' Rodgers)source: Front cover of Polydor-Atlantic 590 033; photographer: Alan Lomax Forrest City Joe 1959 with 'Sonny Boy Rogers' (Sonny 'Cat Daddy' Rodgers)source: Notes to Atlantic 782496; photographer: Alan Lomax
Forrest City Joe 1959 with 'Sonny Boy Rogers' (Sonny 'Cat Daddy' Rodgers)source: Notes to Atlantic 782496; photographer: Alan Lomax