Illustrated Willie Harris discography

W I L L I E H A R R I S There is no photo of this artist known to exist

Willie Harris
b. May 15, 1893 at Mt. Airy, St. John The Baptist Parish, Louisiana
in 1942 living on the South side of Chicago, Illinois
d. after 1942, probably in Chicago, IL
discography

#	year of release	title / label / notes
*10 inch 78 rpm* Since this ain't no museum, my aim is not to depict actually existing specimen of 78 rpm records, but to show the labels as pristine as workmanlike possible even if this - in some cases - takes a whole lot of my time to photoshop process the initial data
		- Hollow Log Blues (C-3445-B) rec. May 7, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Willie Harris, voc, g; James Williams, p Brunswick unissued
1	1929	COLETHA SIMPSON - Riverside Blues (C-3225- ) # @ youtube @ Spotify - Lonesome Lonesome Blues (C-3543- ) * @ youtube @ Spotify # rec. April 2, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Coletha Simpson, voc; James Williams, p * rec. May 28, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Coletha Simpson, voc; James Williams, p; Willie Harris, g Brunswick 7089 (US 1929)
2	1929	WILLIE HARRIS - West Side Blues (C-3446-A) # @ youtube @ Spotify - What Makes A Tom Cat Blue? (C-3544- ) * @ youtube @ Spotify # rec. May 7, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Willie Harris, voc, g; James Williams, p; poss. Coletha Simpson, sp * rec. May 28, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Willie Harris, g; James Williams, p Brunswick 7092 (US 1929)
3	1929	WILLIE HARRIS - Lonesome Midnight Dream (C-5551- ) @ youtube @ Spotify - Never Drive A Stranger From Your Door (C-5552- ) @ youtube @ Spotify c. mid-March 1930 in Chicago, IL; Willie Harris, voc, g; unknown, 2nd g Brunswick 7149 (US 1929)
This is not the musician "Willie Harris Jr." who in 1936 played second guitar with 'Sonny Boy Nelson', Mississippi Matilda and Robert Hill (although some sources tell us that he probably is!) --> Eugene Powell discography
*LP / CD compilations*
4	1968	Jackson Blues 1928-1938 Ishmon Bracey - Trouble Hearted Blues Charlie McCoy - Last Time Blues Walter Vincent - Overtime Blues Arthur Pettis - Two Time Blues Bo Carter - Old Devil Tommy Johnson - Lonesome Home Blues - Black Mare Blues Willie Lofton - Dark Road Blues Mississippi Sheiks - Stop And Listen Blues Mississippi Mudder - Going Back Home Tommy Johnson - Bye Bye Blues Willie Harris - Never Drive A Stranger From Your Door Ishman Bracey - The Fore Day Blues - Pay Me No Mind Blues notes by Dave Evans Yazoo 1007 (US 1968) = Yazoo CD 1007 (US 1991) = Yazoo HLP 1007 (180 g) Yazoo Records discography
5	1969	Favorite Country Blues Piano-Guitar Duets 1929-1937 Willie Harris - West Side Blues Charlie Spand - Good Gal - Back To The Woods Blues Leroy Carr - Sloppy Drunk Blues Roosevelt Sykes "& Clifford Gibson" - Tired Of Being Mistreated Springback James - Poor Coal Passer Leola Manning - The Blues Is All Wrong Joe Evans - Down In Black Bottom - Shook Woman Blues Blind Blake - Poker Woman Blues Walter Davis - Sloppy Drunk Again Cripple Clarence Lofton - Monkey Man Blues Bumble Bee Slim - New Orleans Stop Time Buddy Woods - Don't Sell It, Don't Give It Away front cover drawing by Rory Block notes by Stephen Calt, Jerome Epstein, Nick Perls, Michael Stewart Yazoo L-1015 (US 1969) = Yazoo CD 1015 Yazoo Records discography
6	1972	Country Blues Obscurities Vol. 2 Jelly Roll Anderson - Free Women Blues Bob Campbell - Dice's Blues - Shotgun Blues Spider Carter - Don't Leave Me Blues Lonnie Clark - Broke Down Engine - Down In Tennessee Bob Coleman - Sing Song Blues Willie Harris - Lonesome Midnight Dream Smoky Harrison - Hop Head Blues - Iggly Oggly Blues Kid Prince Moore - Bug Juice Blues - Honey Dripping Papa William Moore - Midnight Blues George Thomas - Fast Stuff Blues - Don't Kill Him In Here Too Tight Henry - Charleston Contest - part 1 Roots RL 340 (Austria 1972) = autogram/Roots RL-340 (Germany 20??) Roots Records discography
7	1974	Uptown Blues A Decade Of Guitar-Piano Duets 1927-1937 Big Bill Broonzy - Mountain Blues Rufus & Ben Quillian - Sweet Miss Stella Blues [Paramount 12901] Bo Carter - When You Left Charlie Campbell - Goin' Away Blues Teddy Darby - My Leona Blues - Down Home Blues - You Do It Leola Manning - He Pans Me Rufus & Ben Quillian - Good Feeling Blues [Paramount 12901]> Watson's Pulman Porters - Barbecue Blues Cripple Clarence Lofton - Policy Blues Willie Harris - What Makes A Tom Cat Blue? Mack Rhinehart & Brownie Stubblefield - Uptown Blues Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Papa's On The Housetop Charley Spand - Ain't Gonna Stand For That cover artwork by Garry Bready notes by Stephen Calt and John Miller Yazoo L 1042 (US 1974) = Yazoo CD 1042 (US 1993) Yazoo Records discography
8	1988	Central Mississippi Blues The Jackson Area 1928-1935 Willie Harris - West Side Blues - What Makes A Tom Cat Blue - Lonesome Midnight Dream - Never Drive A Stranger From Your Door Caldwell 'Mississippi' Bracey - You Scolded Me And Drove Me From Your Door - Cherry Ball - Stered Gal - I'll Overcome Someday "Big Road" Webster Taylor - World In A Jug "Big Road" Webster Taylor - Sunny Southern Blues Arthur Petties - Two Time Blues - Out On Santa Fe - Blues - That Won't Do - Good Boy Blues - Quarrellin' Mama Blues - Revenue Man Blues The Mississippi Moaner - Mississippi Moan - It's Cold In China Blues CD bonus tracks: Louise Johnson - All Night Long Blues - Long Ways From Home - On the Wall - By The Moon And Stars - All Night Long Blues Wolf WSE 130 (Austria 1988) (=) Wolf CD 111 (Austria 1998) Wolf Records discography
9	1990	Female Country Blues 1924-1930 Edna Johnson - I'm Drifting From You Blues - A Woman Gets Tired Of One Man All The Timeybr> Louise Ross - No Home Blues - Can't Fool Me Blues Sadie James - Mamma, Fold Your Hands - What Makes A Bow-Legged Woman Crazy 'Bout Her Knock-Kneed Man? Coletha Simpson - Riverside Blues - Black Man Blues - Down South Blues - Lonesome Lonesome Blues Lizzie Washington - Working Man Blues - Fall Or Summer Blues - Mexico Blues - Sport Model Mamma Blues - Daddy Threw Me Down Blues Katherine Baker - My Man Left Me Blues - I Helped You, Sick Man, When You Were Sick And Down Jenny Pope - Rent Man Blues Wolf WSE 141 (Austria 1990)
10	1993	Rare Country Blues 1928-1937 Seth Richard - Lonely Seth Blues - Skoodeldum Doo Charlie Kyle - Kyle's Worried Blues - Monkey-man Blues - Walking Blues - No Baby Freezone - Indian Squaw Blues Willie Harris - West Side Blues - What Makes A Tom Cat Blue? - Lonesome Midnight Dream - Never Drive A Stranger From Your Door Leola Manning - He Cares For Me - He Fans Me - The Arcade Building Moan - Satan Is Busy In Knoxville - Laying In The Graveyard - The Blues Is All Wrong Jazzbo Tommy Settlers - Low Down Blues Moan - Part 1 - Low Down Blues Moan - Part 2 - Shawking Weed Blues - Bed Blues Blues (Big Bed Bug) - Pearlie Mae Blues - Don't Want You No More - You Don't Mean Me No Good - Blaze Face Cow notes by Keith Briggs Document DOCD-5170 (Austria 1993)
11	1996	Blue Girls Volume 1 1924-1930 Edna Johnson - I'm Drifting From You Blues - A Woman Gets Tired Of One Man All The Time Sadie James - Mamma, Fold Your Hands - What Makes A Bow-Legged Woman Crazy? Helen Beasley - Tia Juana Blues - Rambling Mind Blues Coletha Simpson - Riverside Blues - Black Man Blues - Down South Blues - Lonesome Lonesome Blues Julia Johnson - Hard Headed Daddy - Tickling Blues Alura Mack - My Kitchen Man - West End Blues - Wicked Daddy Blues - Loose Like That - Beef Blood Blues - Cotton Belt Blues - I Ain't Puttin' Out Nothin' Blues - The Long Lost Blues - Everybody's Man Is Mine - Monkey Blues - It Worries Me - 82 Years Blues notes by Alan Balfour Document DOCD-5503 (Austria 1996)
12	1999	Southern Blues Volume One - I'm Leaving Town - William Harris - Mistreatin' Blues - Frank Stokes - Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson - Dry Land Blues - Furry Lewis - Last Time Blues - Charlie Mccoy - Elder Greene Blues - Charley Patton - Never Drive A Stranger From Your Door - Willie Harris - Dough Roller Blues - Garfield Akers - Beale Street Breakdown - Jed Davenport - Skinny Legs Blues - Geeshie Wiley - Stop And Listen - Mississippi Sheiks - I Let My Daddy Do That - Hattie Hart - Little Girl In Rome - Otto Virgial [Bluebird B6213] - It's Cold In China Blues The Mississippi Moaner - The Ins And Outs Of My Girl - Bo Carter - Skippy Whippy - Mississippi Jook Band - Preachin' Blues - Robert Johnson - Lonesome World Robert Lee Mccoy - Spider Bite Blues - James De Barry - Special Streamline - Bukka White - Jailhouse Blues - Sleepy John Estes - Mozelle Blues - Tommy McClennan - Standin' At My Window - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Anna Mae Cecil - Cecil Gant - No Good Woman Blues Rudy Greene Audio Book & Music Company ABMCD 1090 = Acrobat CD 130 (UK 2002)
13	2007	A Richer Tradition - Country Blues & String Band Music 1923 - 1942 disc 1: - Guitar Blues - Sylvester Weaver - Time Ain't Gonna Make Me Stay - Ed Andrews - Sundown Blues - Daddy Stovepipe - Salt Lake City Blues - Papa Charlie Jackson - Whiskey And Gin Blues - South Street Trio - James Alley Blues - Richard "Rabbit" Brown - Goin' To Leave You Blues - Big Boy Cleveland - Hey Lawdy Mama - The France Blues - Papa Harvey Hull/Long "Cleve" Reed - Chicken Can Waltz the Gravy Around, A - Stovepipe No-1/David Crockett - Bamalong Blues - Andrew & Jim Baxter - Man Trouble Blues - Jaybird Coleman - Blue Coat Blues - "Blue Coat" Tom Nelson - Frisco Whistle Blues - Ed Bell - Two Ways To Texas - Emery Glen - Gravel Camp Blues - Lewis Black - T And T Blues - Mooch Richardson - Death Bell Blues - Tom Dickson - C.C. & O. Blues - Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - Middlin' Blues - George "Bullet" Williams - Rolling Log Blues - Lottie Kimbrough - Kyle's Worried Blues - Charlie Kyle - Bull Frog Blues - William Harris - Sobbin' Woman Blues - Elizabeth Johnson - Miss Meal Cramp Blues - Alec Johnson - Unknown Blues - Tarter & Gay disc 2: - Jail House Blues - Whistler & His Jug Band - Blues, Just Blues, That's All - Old Southern Jug Band - String Band Blues - Kansas City Blues Strummers - Black Cat Blues - Old Pal Smoke Shop Four - Dirty Guitar Blues - Leecan & Cooksey - Boodle-Am-Shake - Dixieland Jug Blowers - Quill Blues - Big Boy Cleveland - Jug Band Special, The - Whistler & His Jug Band - Cold Morning Shout - South Street Trio - Violin Blues - Johnson Boys - Easy Winner - The Blue Boys - G- Burns Is Gonna Rise Again - Johnson / Nelson / Porkchop - I Got a Gal - James Cole's String Band - The Jazz Fiddler - Walter Jacobs/Lonnie Carter - Knox Couty Stomp - Tennessee Chocolate Drops - Adam And Eve - Tommie Bradley - Runnin' Wild - James Cole's Washboard Four - Giving It Away - Birmingham Jug Band - Jackson Stomp - Mississippi Mud Steppers - Old Hen Cackle - Coleman & Harper - Travelin' Railroad Man Blues - Alabama Sheiks - Old Hen Cackle - Coleman & Harper - Ted's Stomp - Louie Blue/Ted Bogan - Dusting the Frets - Dallas Jamboree Jug Band - Arkansas Traveller - Nashville Washboard Band disc 3: - Original Stack O'Lee Blues - "Long Cleve" Reed / Little Harvey Hull - Tuxedo Blues - Whistlin' Pete & Daddy Stovepipe - Mean Conductor Blues - Ed Bell - Back Door Blues - Emery Glen - Spanish Blues - Lewis Black - Helena Blues - Mooch Richardson - I Heard the Voice Of a Pork Chop - Bogus Ben Covington - Rising River Blues - George Carter - She Could Toodle-Oo - Hambone Willie Newbern - Weak Minded Woman - Willie Baker - Old Rock Island Blues - Lonnie Coleman - Cairo Blues - Henry Spaulding - I Ain't Givin' Nobody None - Mae Glover - Showers Of Rain Blues - Edward Thompson - Framer's Blues - Eli Framer - If I Call You Mama - Luke Jordan - Never Drive A Stranger From Your Door - Willie Harris - Mississippi Swamp Moan - Alfred Lewis - Paddlin' Madeline Blues - Gitfiddle Jim - Shaking Weed Blues - Tommy Settlers - South Carolina Rag - Willie Walker - Beans - El Morrow/Beans Hambone - Poor Jane Blues - Jack Gowdlock - Window Pane Blues - Tommie Bradley - Hot Jelly Roll Blues - George Carter disc 4: - Labor Blues - Tom Dickson - Goin' Away Blues - Lottie Kimbrough - No Baby - Charlie Kyle - Early Mornin' Blues - William Harris - Dreaming Blues - Willie Reed - Weeping Willow Blues - George Carter - Way Down In Arkansas - Hambone Willie Newbern - Wild About My Loving - Lonnie Coleman - Indian Squaw Blues - Freezone - Florida Bound - Edward Thompson - God Didn't Make No Monkey Man - Eli Framer - Tallahatchie River Blues - Mattie Delaney - Diamond Ring Blues - Jim Jam (Walter Taylor) - Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins - Lonesome Midnight Dream - Willie Harris - Billy Goat Blues - John Byrd - That Won't Do - Arthur Pettis - Ghost Woman Blues - George Carter - 'Toby' Woman Blues - Gene Campbell - Rollin' Dough Blues - Jack Gowdlock - Starvation Farm Blues - Bob Campbell - Farewell To You Baby - Carl Martin - Teasin' Brown Blues - Louie Lasky - Married Woman Blues - George Torey - Dago Blues - Virgil Childers 4 CD box JSP JSPCD 7798 (UK 2007)
Additional information appreciated !!! I herewith confess that I do not have the ambition to list each and every CD anthology / compilation containing only one (or two ;-) Willie Harris track(s) !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943, 4th ed. 1997, pp. 362, 799
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 167
- John Tefteller and Blues Images Collection - used with permission
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
thanks to Bob Eagle and Fernando Goin for additional info / scans