Gold Star 668

= Dot 1051 (5/1951)

Modern unissued

Imperial 5113

Imperial 5125

Imperial 5156

Imperial 5229

Imperial 5300

Chris Strachwitz @ facebook: "Arhoolie never officially issued colored vinyl pressings. However around 1961 - 1963 Ed Denson and I had purchased a small, older record pressing plant in East Oakland which had previously been used by Bob Geddins. At that time pressings of 12" LPs were still made by supplying the pressers with 'biscuits' in the form of a chocolate bars which had to be heated on a 'heating table' next to the press. They came usually in black but you could also get them in various colors! So we thought it to be fun to try out a few like that! And that is how a few copies of (I think) Lowell Fulson and Lil Son Jackson were shipped out on colored vinyl!"

2-pp. leaflet notes by Chris Strachwitz inside jacket   "Arhoolie Records, P.O. Box 671, Los Gatos, California"
 
Arhoolie F 1004 (US 1960)     green vinyl version"Recorded by: Cris [sic] A. Strachwitz in Ft. Worth, Texas, 1960"

notes by Chris Strachwitz   "Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Calif. 94719"
 
Arhoolie F 1004 (US 19??)

notes by Chris Strachwitz

(=) Arhoolie CD 409 (US 1994) "Lil' Son Jackson: Blues Come To Texas"

= Arhoolie F 1004 (US 2012)

(=) Arhoolie/P-Vine PCD-93734 (Jp 2013)

Lightnin' Hopkins - Bad Luck And Trouble °°
Blind Boy Fuller - Thousand Woman [sic!] Blues
Arthur Crudup - If I Get Lucky
Charlie Pickett - Down The Highway

Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues
Blind Willie Johnson - Take Your Burden To The Lord
Tommy McClennan - New Highway 51
Lightnin' Hopkins - Penitentiary Blues °°
Blind Willie McTell - Mama T'ain't Long 'Fo' Day
Charlie Burse - Take Your Fingers Off It
Charlie Lincoln - My Wife Drove Me From My Door [on back cover: "Drive"]
Peg Leg Howell - Skin Game Blues
Lightnin' Hopkins - Come Go Home With Me °°
Lightnin' Hopkins - Goin' Back To Florida
Robert Johnson - Standing At The Crossroads

Lightnin' Hopkins - One Kind Favor
Furry Lewis - John Henry
Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's Fault But Mine
Furry Lewis - Warm Up
Bukka White - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing
Furry Lewis - Casey Jones
Peg Leg Howell - Coal Man Blues
John Hurt - Frankie
Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Mama
Papa Charlie Jackson - Airy Man Blues
Skip James - Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues
Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - New How Long Blues

Bert Bilbro - Mohana Blues °°
Sonny Terry & Oh Red - Harmonica Stomp
Frank Stokes - Shiney Town Blues
Virgil Perkins - Trouble In Mind
Arthur Crudup- Mean Old Frisco
Brownie McGhee- Sportin' Life Blues
Virgil Perkins - [Washboard] Solo
Charlie Burse - Tippin' Round
Ham Gravy - Mama Don't 'Low It
Moochie Reeves - Key To The Highway

2 LP boxed set
notes (8-page booklet) by Samuel B. Charters

same front cover as RF-202(X)
(1964), but with more reddish lettering


notes captioned "RBF RECORDS
album No. RF 202 Copyright © 1960"


RBF RF-202 (1960)

(=) RBF RF-202 (X) (1964)

notes by Anonymous

Imperial LP-9142 [mono] (US 1961)

= Polydor 046 866 (Fr 197?) "Home Of The Blues Volume 2"

= Toshiba Liberty LLR 8194 (Jp 1974)

notes by Anonymous

= Pathé Marconi PM 231 1546671 (Fr 1983)

Juke Boy Bonner - Ridin' The Greyhound Bus Again (4:10) °° [add'l track, on later release only]   @ youtube
Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - B & O Blues

Mercy Dee - Sugar Daddy
Big Joe Williams - Little Machine
Paul McZiel Zydeco Band - I'm Sad And I'm Blue
Blind James Campbell - Sittin' Here Drinking
Robert Shaw - Turn Loose My Tongue
Dr. Ross (Isaiah Ross) - Downtown Boogie (tk 2) (2:20) °° [add'l track, on later release only]   @ youtube

notes by Chris A. Strachwitz   "Arhoolie Records, Box No. 5073, Berkeley 5, Calif."

Arhoolie F 1012 (US 1962) (11 tracks!)

notes by Chris A. Strachwitz   "Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Ca. 94709"

Arhoolie F 1012 (US 196?) (11 tracks!)

notes by Chris A. Strachwitz   "Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Ca. 94709"

Arhoolie F 1012 (US 1964?) (13 tracks!)

Ray Charles
- Why Did You Go?
- Back Home
Peppermint Harris
- These Are My Blues
- Evil Woman Blues
James Wayne
- I'm A Real Gypsy Fellow
- If I Were A Millionaire

Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
- Dissatisfied Woman
- Pawn Shop Blues
Arbee Stidham
- I'm A Real Gypsy Fellow
- If I Were A Millionaire

Time LP N90P-1386/87

Time Records discography

T-Bone Walker
- Cold Cold Feeling
- I Get So Weary
- Travelin' Blues
- The Sun Went Down
Charles Brown
- Drifting Blues
- Black Night

Amos Milburn
- Trouble In Mind
- Baby Baby
Floyd Dixon
- Tired Broke And Busted
- Call Operator #210

James Wayne
- Tend To Your Business

Pathé Marconi LP has the following tracks instead of "Travelin' Blues" and "The Sun Went Down"
T-Bone Walker
- The Hustle Is On
- Evil Hearted Woman

Imperial LP 9210

Ray Charles
- Why Did You Go
- Guitar Blues
- I Found My Baby There
- Back Home
Peppermint Harris
- These Are My Blues
- Oh I Got the Blues

Lightnin Hopkins
- Hello Central
- Mad As I Can Be
- New Short Haired Woman
- Gotta Move

Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
- Dissatisfied Woman
- Pawn Shop Blues
- Goin' Down Slow
- Mean Old Frisco
Arbee Stidham
- Feeling Blue And Low
- I Want To Rock

Smokey Hogg
- Saved All My Money
- What In The World Am I Gonna Do
Lightnin Hopkins
- Fast Life Woman
- Buck Dance Boogie
- Worried Blues
- Home In The Woods

Mainstream XM-93/94-MS inner gatefold

2 LP set

Time PMS- (Jp)

2 LP set

= Columbia / Mainstream XM-93/94-MS (Jp 1969)

Charlie Pickett - Down The Highway [Decca 7707]

Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues [Decca 7026]
Blind Willie Johnson - Take Your Burden To The Lord [Columbia 14520-D]
Tommy McClennan - New Highway 51 [Bluebird B8499]
Blind Willie McTell - Mama T'ain't Long 'Fo' Day [Victor 21474]
Charlie Burse - Take Your Fingers Off It (0:34) [previously unissued]
Charlie Lincoln - My Wife Drove Me From My Door [Columbia 14305-D]
Peg Leg Howell - Skin Game Blues [Columbia 14473-D]
Lightnin' Hopkins - Goin' Back To Florida [rec. January 16, 1959, Folkways FS 3822]   @ youtube (3:17)
Robert Johnson - Standing At The Crossroads [aka "Cross Road Blues", Vocalion 03519]


LP 2:
Lightnin' Hopkins - One Kind Favor (0:57) [rec. January 16, 1959, previously unissued]   @ youtube
Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's Fault But Mine [Columbia 14303-D]
Furry Lewis - Warm Up [rec. October 3, 1959, previously unissued, Wolf 120.920]
Bukka White - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing [OKeh 05625]
Peg Leg Howell - Coal Man Blues [Columbia 14194-D]
Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Mama [Columbia 14632-D]
Papa Charlie Jackson - Airy Man Blues [Paramount 12219]
Skip James - Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues [Paramount 13085]
Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - New How Long Blues [Vocalion 1435]

Sonny Terry & Oh Red - Harmonica Stomp [OKeh 05538]
Frank Stokes - Shiney Town Blues [Victor V38589]
Virgil Perkins - Trouble In Mind [rec. November 6, 1955, previously unissued]

2 LP boxed set
notes (8-page booklet) by Samuel B. Charters

originally issued with same front and back cover as RF-202 (1960) but with orange lettering
RBF RF-202 (X) (US 1964)

later issued with addition "All original recordings are included in their entirety" on back cover
= RBF RF-202 (X) (US 196?)

= RBF RF-202 (X) (US 196?)

= RBF RF-202 (X) (US 1966?)

2 LP boxed set
(abbreviated) notes by Samuel B. Charters

= XTRA 1035 (UK 1966)

DLP gatefold
notes by Samuel B. Charters

= XTRA 1035 (UK 1966?)

= Fontana 982.099

2 x CDr
notes by Samuel B. Charters

= Smithsonian CD RF 202 (US 2012)

J. B. Lenoir - My Father's Style (guitar solo)
J.B. Lenoir - So It Rocked On (spoken)
J.B. Lenoir - Move To Kansas City (vocal and own guitar)
Otis Spann - When She Comes Back (spoken)
Otis Spann - Poor Country Boy (vocal, with own piano)
Lightnin' Hopkins - Ain't No Easy Thing (spoken)
Mance Lipscomb - Evil Heart Blues (vocal and own piano)
Blind Arvella Gray - A Roughneck (spoken) #
Roosevelt Sykes - West Helena Blues (vocal and guitar)
Will Shade - Days Of Nineteen-Hundred (spoken)
Will Shade - Newport News Blues (vocal and own guitar)
Whistling Alex Moore - Chock House Days (spoken)
Whistling Alex Moore - Come and Get Me (vocal and own piano)
Brother John Sellers - Move Back For What? (spoken)
J.B. Lenoir - I Been Down So Long (vocal and own guitar)

Jasper Love - Santa Fé Blues (vocal and piano)
John Lee Hooker - Somewhere Down The Line (spoken)
Robert Curtis Smith - I Hope One Day My Luck Will Change (vocal and own guitar)
Otis Spann - Only Places They Can Go (spoken)
Otis Spann - People Calls Me Lucky (vocal and own piano)
Henry Townsend - What Have I Committed (spoken)
James Butch Cage - Tween Midnight And Day (vocal and own guitar)
Little Brother Montgomery - Walking Basses (spoken)
Little Brother Montgomery - Dud Low Joe (piano solo)
Little Brother Montgomery - It's A Barrelhouse Blues (spoken) []
Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues (vocal with piano)
Little Brother Montgomery - They Beat Me To Chicago (spoken) []
Roosevelt Sykes - They All Called Him 'Pork Chops' (spoken)
Roosevelt Sykes - Forty-Four Blues (vocal and own piano)
Robert Junior Lockwood & Sunnyland Slim - Doctor Clayton And Me (spoken) []
Robert Junior Lockwood & Sunnyland Slim - Take A Little Walk With Me (vocal with own electric guitar, with Sunnyland Slim, piano) []
Edwin Buster Pickens - To Have The Blues Within (spoken)
Mance Lipscomb - Blues In The Bottle (vocal and own guitar)

CD tracks:
- So Much Good Feeling - Boogie Woogie Red
- A Little Different - Willie Thomas
- Kill That Nigger Dead - James "Butch" Cage & Willie Thomas
- The Onliest Way - Lil Son Jackson
- My Father's Style / So It Rocked On / Move To Kansas City - J.B. Lenoir
- When She Come Back / Poor Country Boy - Otis Spann
- Ain't No Easy Thing - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Evil Heart Blues - Mance Lipscomb
- A Roughneck - Blind Arvella Gray #
- West Helena Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- Days of 1900 / Newport News Blues - Will Shade
- Chock House Days / Come and Get Me - Whistling Alex Moore
- Move Back! For What? - Brother John Sellers
- Been Down So Long - J.B. Lenoir
- A Place They Call Boots' - James "Stump" Johnson []
- Henry Brown Blues - Henry Brown []
- They Called Us Gandy Dancers / Work Songs / John Henry - Blind Arvella Gray with Blind James Brewer # []
- Santa Fe Train - Edwin "Buster" Pickens
- Most Reason I Sing - Robert Curtis Smith
- Santa Fe Blues - Jasper Love
- Somewhere Down The Line - John Lee Hooker
- I Hope One Day My Luck Will Change - Robert Curtis Smith
- Only Places They Can Go / People Call Me Lucky - Otis Spann
- What Have I Committed? - Henry Townsend
- 'Tween Midnight And Day - James "Butch" Cage
- Walking Basses / Dud Low Joe / The First Vicksburg Blues - Little Brother Montgomery
- They Call Him "Pork Chops" / Forty-Four Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- Blues In The Bottle - Mance Lipscomb
- To Have The Blues Within - Edward "Buster" Pickens
- Colorado Springs Blues - Edwin "Buster" Pickens []

All tracks recorded between June 26 and August 28, 1960
# rec. July 29, 1960 in Dallas, TX

LP and CD have slightly different tracks: [] = not on LP resp. CD !!!

notes (plus 6-pp. insert) by Paul Oliver    Decca LK 4664 insert (1 sheet folded to 6 pp.)
 
Decca LK 4664 (UK 1965)

notes by Paul Oliver

= Decca LK 4664 (Germany 1965)

LP resp. CD accompanying Paul Oliver's book by the same title:


London (Cassell) (1st UK ed. 1965)   xv, 217 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm

 
New York (Horizon Press) (1st US ed. 1965)   xix, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

 
London ("Jazz Book Club") JBC 64 (2nd UK ed. 1967)

Cambridge (University Press) 0 521 59181 3 (revised edition of the original 1965 book with enclosed CD) (2nd US ed. 1997)

Lil' Son Jackson - Gambling Blues [Gold Star 668]
Lil' Son Jackson - Homeless Blues [Gold Star 668]
Lee Hunter - Back To Santa Fe [Gold Star 651]
L.C. Williams - Strike Blues [Gold Star 667]
Leroy Ervin - Blue, Black And Evil [Gold Star 628]
Leroy Ervin - Rock Island Blues [Gold Star 628]
Lightning Hopkins - Grievance Blues [Gold Star 669]
Lightning Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go [Gold Star 646] °°

L.C. Williams - You Never Miss The Water [Gold Star 614]
Thunder Smith - Santa Fe Blues [Gold Star 644]
Thunder Smith - Big Stars Are Falling [Gold Star 615]
Lightning Hopkins - Big Mama Jump [Gold Star 3131]
L.C. Williams - I Wonder [Gold Star unissued]
Lightning Hopkins - Death Bells [Gold Star 646]
L.C. Williams - I Won't Be Here Long [Gold Star 648]
L.C. Williams - Black Woman [Gold Star 648] °°

°° re-release bonus tracks



P-Vine PCD-2519 bonus tracks (from Arhoolie F 1017):
Black Ace - Beer Drinking Woman
Rattlesnake Cooper - I'm Leaving Town
Mercy Dee Walton - Ebony Baby
Billy Bizor - Tom Moore
Alex Moore - Chock House Boogie
Smokey Hogg - Hello Baby
Robert Shaw - The Fives
Lightnin' Hopkins - Hurricanes Carla & Esther
Mercy Dee Walton - 8th Wonder Of The World

notes by Paul Oliver     Arhoolie Records, Box 5073, Berkeley 5, California
 
Arhoolie 2006 (US 1963)

notes by Paul Oliver     Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Ca. 94709

(=) Arhoolie 2006 (US 19??) (first re-release, bonus tracks not indicated on sleeve nor label!)

notes by Paul Oliver     Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Ca. 94709

Arhoolie 2006 (US 19??) (second re-release, bonus tracks indicated on labels, but not on sleeve!)

(=) P-Vine PCD-2519 (Jp 1989)

(=) Arhoolie CD 352

Arhoolie Records discography
L.C. Williams discography
Lightnin' Hopkins discography
Thunder Smith discography

John Jackson - Going Down In Georgia On A Horn
Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly - No More Hard Times
Lowell Fulson - River Blues

City Blues
Mercy Dee - Walked Down So Many Turnrows
Juke Boy Bonner - Going Back To The Country
Lightning Hopkins - Tom Moore Blues
Big Mama Thornton - Unlucky Girl
Clifton Chenier - Louisiana Blues
Larry Williams - I Know You Hear Me Calling
Johnny Young - Wild Wild Woman


LP 2:
Gospel & Jazz
Bukka White - Jesus Died On The Cross To Save The World
Jesse Fuller - Amazing Grace
Rev. Overstreet - I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord
Robert Shaw - The Ma Grinder
Kid Thomas - Eh La Bas
Joe Turner - Old Piney Brown's Gone
Luna - Nisaba In The Grass

Country, Cajun & Folk
J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers - Run Mountain
Del McCoury - Dreams
The Hodges Brothers - Carroll County Blues
Luderin Darbone - Crowley Waltz
Nathan Abshire - Cajun Two Step
Alice Stuart - Once I Had A Sweetheart
Crabgrass - Charles Giteau
James Campbell - Baby Please Don't Go

inner gatefold with Pete Welding notes

2-disc package
notes by Pete Welding



Arhoolie R2001/2002

= Stateside SR-9323B (Jp 1972)

notes (September 1968) by Pete Welding
 
Imperial LM-94000 (US 10/1968)

notes (September 1968) by Pete Welding

= Liberty LBL 83213E (UK 1968)

= Liberty 2C062-90.185 (Fr 1969) (manufactured by Pathé Marconi)

notes by Pete Welding

(=) Beat Goes On BGOCD 384 (UK 1998) (along with Imperial LM-94001) "Rural Blues, Volumes 1&2" (remastered)

mini LP CD

= Clinck ODR-6610 (Jp 8/2018) "Rural Blues Vol. 1 & Vol. 2"

Papa Lightfoot
- Jump The Boogie
- Mean Ol Train
Boogie Bill Webb
- Boogie
- Bad Dog
J.D. Edwards
- Playboy Blues
- Hobo
Lowell Fulsom
- Stormin' And Rainin'

Roosevelt Sykes
- Hush Oh Hush
- I'm Tired
Manny Nichols
- No One To Love Me
Country Jim
- Sad And Lonely

Imperial LM-94006 inner gatefold

notes by Pete Welding

Imperial LM-94006

notes by Pete Welding

= Liberty LBL 83329

= Matchbox MB 904 (UK 1989) "Rural Blues"

Slim Harpo - A Man Is Crying
The Robins - Around About Midnight

Fats Domino - Stay Away
Sunnyland Slim - Dust My Broom
George Smith & The Chicago Blues Band - My Babe
T-Bone Walker - I Get So Weary
Big Joe Williams - Oh Baby
George Smith & The Chicago Blues Band - Can't Hold On Much Longer

LP 2:
Slim Harpo - Something Inside Me
Papa George Lightfoot - Take It Witcha
The Chambers Brothers - It's All Over Now
Smiley Lewis - Shame, Shame, Shame
Country Jim - Phillipine Blues
Snooks Eaglin - Travellin' Mood

Lightnin' Hopkins - California Mudslide [Vault SLP 129]
Boogie Bill Webb - Boogie
The Jewels - No Shoulder To Cry
Wilson Pickett - If You Need Me
Lightnin' Hopkins - Howling Wolf Blues
Chris Kenner - I Like It Like That

same front cover for mono & stereo!

Minit MLL 40005 (mono) (UK 1968) [Liberty subsidiary]

= Minit MLS 40005 (stereo) (UK 1968)

Smokey Hogg
- Unemployment Blues [Modern 20-556]
- Bad Life Blues (BB 5)
Jesse Thomas
- Meet Me Tonight (MM 1188) #
Alexander Moore
- Neglected Woman
Lowell Fulsom
- Prison Bound

Alexander Moore
- Lillie Mae Boogie

# rec. Los Angeles 1949; Jesse Thomas, voc, g

Kent KST-9005 inner gatefold

notes by Bruce Bromberg

Kent KST-9005

= United Superior US-7782

= Musidisc 30AB5605

- Frisco Lines - Fred McDowell
- Fare You Well Baby Blues - Joe Callicott
- Long Haired Doney - R.L. Burnside
- Mean Stepfather - Big Joe Williams
- Bald Eagle Train - Bukka White and "Washboard Willie" [= Wayne Pope!]   @ youtube
- Don't Drive Me Away - R.C. Smith

- Long Tall Girl - Mance Lipscomb

- I Am the Black Ace - Black Ace
- Whistling Alex Moore Blues - Alex Moore
- Texas Blues - Lowell Fulson and Martin Fulson, rhythm g
- The Ma Grinder - Robert Shaw
- Take A Walk - Lightnin' Hopkins


LP 2:
- Bear Cat Blues - John Jackson
- Snowing and Raining - Guitar Slim and Jelly Belly
- Got A Date I Can't Be Late - Jesse Fuller
- You Got Another - Lightnin' Hopkins and Barbara Dane
- Struggle Here - Juke Boy Bonner and Alvin J. Simon, dr
- Listen At That Bull - G. Coleman
- Trouble Blues - Big Joe Turner

- Dream - John Littlejohn [Arhoolie 1043]
- Sugar Daddy - Mercy Dee Walton
- I'm Feeling Alright - Big Mama Thornton
- Sometimes I Cry - Johnny Young
- Black Snake Blues - Clifton Chenier
- Two Bugs - Earl Hooker

gatefold DLP

Poppy PYS-60.003 (US 1969)
= RCA Victor 740 069 (France 1969)

= RCA Victor SHP-6124/25 (Jp)

= Tomato TOM-2-7006 (US 1978)

gatefold DLP

= Tomato DLP 2696181 (Germany 1989)

James Tisdom
- Last Affair Blues
- Model T. Boogie
Lowell Fulson
- The Blues Is Killing Me
- Did You Ever Feel Lucky
West Texas Slim
- Little Mae Belle
- Lou Della
Luther Huff
- Rosalie

Monister Parker
- Black Snake Blues
- You Gonna Need Me

Blues Obscurities BOV4

notes by Neil Slaven

= London/King GXF 2004 (Jp 1975)
"River Town Blues"

Smoky Hogg
- Unemployment Blues
Jesse Thomas
- Tomorrow I May Be Gone
Charlie Bradix
- Dollar Diggin Woman
Lowell Fulson
- Prison Bound

cover art by Kazuyuki Goto

7 inch 33 1/3 rpm EP

Black Diamond 4505

Arhoolie CD 101 (US 1996)

5 CD box
66-pp. booklet by Chris Strachwitz, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt & Elijah Wald

Arhoolie CD 491 (US 2000)