 only known photo of Charlie Kyle source: Blues Images Calendar Vol. 13 (rel. 2015, for 2016) "... was part of a bunch of photos that once belonged to Burt Goldblatt and were found in a trash can outside his house after he passed away." (John Tefteller @ Facebook) | Charlie Kyle possibly aka Charlie Lennox b. November 6, 1881, in San Marcos, TX d. November 19, 1934 in Fort Worth, TX discography |  |
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| 1 | 1928 | Charlie Kyle - Kyle's Worried Blues (45468-2) @ youtube - Monkey-Man Blues (45470-1) @ youtube  unissued track from same session: - Lost Baby Blues (45469-2) rec. September 1, 1928 at The Peabody Hotel in Memphis,TN; Charlie Kyle, voc, 12str g
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| 2 | 1930 | Charlie Kyle - No Baby (45472-2) @ youtube - Walking Blues (45471-1) (aka "T B Blues") @ youtube unissued track from same session: - Unlucky Black Cat (45473-2) rec. September 1, 1928 at The Peabody Hotel in Memphis,TN; Charlie Kyle, voc, 12str g 642 copies sold
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| 3 | 1969 | Going Away Blues 1926 - 1935 Lottie Beaman - Going Away Blues - Rolling Log Blues George 'Big Boy' Owens - Kentucky Blues Charlie Kyle - Kyle's Worried Blues [Victor 21707] Jelly Jaw Short - Grand Daddy Blues Frank Stokes - Right Now Blues George 'Bullet' Williams - Frisco Leaving Birmingham Charley Jordan - Stack O'Dollar Blues Henry Thomas - Railroadin' Some Robert Wilkins - Old Jim Canaan - New Stockyard Blues William McCoy - Central Tracks Blues Uncle Bud Walker - Look Here Mama Blues Elvie Thomas & Geeshie Wiley - Over To My House
= CD 1018 YAZ (US 1992) Yazoo Records discography |
| 4 | 1989 | Texas Blues 1927-1935 Lewis Black - Rock Island Blues - Gravel Camp Blues - Corn Liquor Blues - Spanish Blues Charlie Kyle - Kyle's Worried Blues [Victor 21707] - Monkey-Man Blues [Victor 21707] - Walking Blues [Victor V-38625] - No Baby [Victor V-38625] Bernice Edwards - Sunshine Blues Bernice Edwards - Lonesome Longing Blues - Two-Way Mind Blues Oak Cliff T-Bone (Walker) - Trinity River Blues - Wichita Falls Blues Gene Campbell - Somebody's Been Playin' Papa - Wash And Iron Woman Blues - Main Papa's Blues - Face To Face Blues Willie Reed - Some Lowdown Groundhog Blues - All Worn Out And Dry Blues compiled / prod. by Johnny Parth
Document Records discography |
| 5 | 1993 | Rare Country Blues 1928-1937 Seth Richard - Lonely Seth Blues - Skoodeldum Doo Charlie Kyle - Kyle's Worried Blues [Victor 21707] - Monkey-Man Blues [Victor 21707] - Walking Blues [Victor V-38625] - No Baby [Victor V-38625] 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
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| 6 | 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 [Victor 21707] - 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 - The Jug Band Special - 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 - Jazz Fiddler, The - 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 |
| 7 | 2011 | Robert Johnson: Complete Masters 100th Birthday Box Set twelve 10" 45 rpm [sic, not 78 rpm!] discs sleeve 1: Vocalion 03416 - Kind Hearted Woman Blues / Terraplane Blues sleeve 2: Oriole 7-04-60 - 32-20 Blues / Last Fair Deal Gone Down) sleeve 3: Conqueror 8871 - Dead Shrimp Blues / I Believe I'll Dust My Broom sleeve 4: Romeo 7-05-81 - Ramblin' On My Mind / Cross Road Blues sleeve 5: Romeo 7-07-57 - Come On In My Kitchen / They're Red Hot sleeve 6: Vocalion 03601 - Sweet Home Chicago / Walkin' Blues sleeve 7: Vocalion 03623 - From Four Until Late / Hell Hound On My Trail sleeve 8: Perfect 7-10-65 - Malted Milk / Milkcow's Calf Blues sleeve 9: Perfect 7-12-67 - Stones In My Passway / I'm A Steady Rollin' Man sleeve 10: Vocalion 04002 - Stop Breakin' Down Blues / Honeymoon Blues sleeve 11: Vocalion 04108 - Little Queen Of Spades / Me And The Devil Blues sleeve 12: Vocalion 04630 - Preachin' Blues / Love In Vain The Robert Johnson Centennial Collection (2CD) - Kindhearted Woman Blues - Kindhearted Woman Blues (alt tk) - I Believe I'll Dust My Broom - Sweet Home Chicago - Rambling On My Mind - Rambling On My Mind (alt tk) - When You Got A Good Friend - When You Got A Good Friend (alt tk) - Come On In My Kitchen - Come On In My Kitchen (alt tk) - Terraplane Blues - Phonograph Blues - Phonograph Blues (alt tk) - 32-20 Blues - They're Red Hot - Dead Shrimp Blues - Cross Road Blues - Cross Road Blues (alt tk) - Walking Blues - Last Fair Deal Gone Down - Preaching Blues (Up Jumped The Devil) - If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day  - Stones In My Passway - I'm A Steady Rollin' Man - From Four Till Late - Hellhound On My Trail - Little Queen Of Spades - Little Queen Of Spades (alt tk) - Malted Milk - Drunken Hearted Man - Drunken Hearted Man (alt tk) - Me And The Devil Blues - Me And The Devil Blues (alt tk) - Stop Breakin' Down Blues - Stop Breakin' Down Blues (alt tk) - Traveling Riverside Blues - Traveling Riverside Blues (alt tk) - Honeymoon Blues - Love in Vain - Love in Vain (alt tk) - Milkcow's Calf Blues - Milkcow's Calf Blues (alt tk) Rarities From The Vaults 2-CD Set - South Memphis Blues - Frank Stokes (1929) - Bunker Hill Blues - Frank Stokes (1929) - Dry Land Blues - Furry Lewis (1928) - Cannonball Blues - Furry Lewis(1928) - She's Got Jordan River in Her Hips - R.T. Hanen (1931) - Happy Days Blues - R.T.Hanen (1931) - Expressman Blues - Sleepy John Estes (1930) - Sweet Mama - Sleepy John Estes (1930) - Fence Breakin' Blues - Shreveport Home Wreckers (1930) - Home Wreckin' Blues - Shreveport Home Wreckers (1930) - Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson (1928) - Big Fat Mama Blues - Tommy Johnson (1928) - Leavin' Town - Ishman Bracey (1928) - The Four Day Blues - Ishman Bracey (1928) - I Never Told a Lie - Memphis Minnie-Kansas Joe (1930) - Don't Want No Woman - Memphis Minnie-Kansas Joe (1930) - Real Estate Mama - Samuel "Fat" Westmoreland (unissued) - Dreamin' Blues - Samuel "Fat" Westmoreland (unissued) - Cash Money Blues - Kaiser Clifton (1930) - Fort Worth and Denver Blues - Kaiser Clifton (1930) - Walking Blues - Charlie Kyle (1928) - No Baby Blues - Charlie Kyle (1928) - Lonesome Day Blues - Ruby Glaze & Blind Willie McTell (1932) - Searching the Desert for the Blues - Ruby Glaze & Blind Willie McTell (1932) Also Playing (other performers who recorded on the same day) - The Engineer's Child - The Chuck Wagon Gang (Vocalion 04105) - Que Piensas tu que me Amore - Andres Berlanga y Francisco Montalvo - Ay! Que Bonitos Ojitos - Andres Berlanga y Francisco Montalvo - Que Sera? - Hermanas Brazza y Daniel Palomo - Muchos Besos - Hermanas Brazza y Daniel Palomo - Tell Me Pretty Mama - Crystal Springs Ramblers (Vocalion 03856) - Down in Arkansas - Crystal Springs Ramblers (Vocalion 03856) - Breeze - Zeke Williams & His Rambling Cowboys (Vocalion 03755) - The Eyes of Texas - The Light Crust Doughboys (Vocalion 03640) - Stay Out of the South - The Light Crust Doughboys (unissued) The Life And Music Of Robert Johnson: Can't You Hear The Wind Howl DVD prod. by Stephen C. LaVere; engineer: Steven Lasker; mastering engineer: Seth Winner
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| 8 | 2011 | Rarities From The Vault Blues From The Victor Vault Frank Stokes - South Memphis Blues Frank Stokes - Bunker Hill Blues Furry Lewis - Dry Land Blues Furry Lewis - Cannonball Blues R.T. Hanen - She's Got Jordan River In Her Hips R.T. Hanen - Happy Days Blues Sleepy John Estes - Expressman Blues Sleepy John Estes - Sweet Mama Shreveport Home Wreckers - Fence Breakin' Blues Shreveport Home Wreckers - Home Wreckin' Blues Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues Tommy Johnson - Big Fat Mama Blues Ishman Bracey - Leavin' Town Ishman Bracey - The Four Day Blues McCoy & Johnson - I Never Told A Lie McCoy & Johnson - Don't Want No Woman Samuel "Fat" Westmoreland - Real Estate Mama Samuel "Fat" Westmoreland - Dreamin' Blues Kaiser Clifton - Cash Money Blues Kaiser Clifton - Fort Worth And Denver Blues Charlie Kyle - Walking Blues Charlie Kyle - No Baby Blues Ruby Glaze & Hot Shot Willie - Lonesome Day Blues Ruby Glaze & Hot Shot Willie - Searching The Desert For The Blues Also playing... The Chuck Wagon Gang - The Engineer's Child Andres Berlanga Y Francisco Montalvo - Que Piensas Ti Que Mi Amore Andres Berlanga Y Francisco Montalvo - Ay! Que Bonito Ojitos Hermanas Barraza Y Daniel Palomo - Que Sera? Hermanas Barraza Y Daniel Palomo - Muchos Besos Crystal Springs Ramblers - Tell Me Pretty Mama Crystal Springs Ramblers - Down In Arkansas Zeke Williams & His Rambling Cowboys - Breeze The Light Crust Doughboys - The Eyes Of Texas The Light Crust Doughboys - Stay Out Of The South compilation prod. by Michael Brooks
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| 9 | 2015 | Memphis Rounders Blues Blues Singers Recorded in Memphis 1928 & 1929 Jim Jackson, voc, g - I'm Wild About My Lovin' - This Morning She Was Gone [previously unissued] - This Ain't No Place For Me [previously unissued] - I'm Gonna Move To Louisiana - Pt. 1 [previously unissued] - I'm Gonna Move To Louisiana - Pt. 2 [previously unissued] Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g - 'Tain't Nobody's Business [ - 'Tain't Nobody's Business [ Tommy Johnson, voc, g - Lonesome Home Blues - Lonesome Home Blues [previously unissued] Charlie Kyle, voc, g - Kyle's Worried Blues [Victor 21707] - Monkey-Man Blues [Victor 21707] Will Shade, voc, g; Jab Jones, p - Better Leave That Stuff Alone - Better Leave That Stuff Alone [previously unissued] - She Stabbed Me With An Ice-Pick [previously unissued] Minnie Wallace, voc; acc. prob.: Will Shade, g -1 / hca -2; Milton Roby, vn; Jab Jones, p -1 / jug -2; Charlie Burse, g -2 - Dirty Butter -1 - The Old Folks Started It -2 [previously unissued] Frank Stokes, voc, g; Will Batts, vn - South Memphis Blues - Bunker Hill Blues Hattie Hart, voc; prob.: Will Shade, g; Milton Roby, vn; Johnny Hardge, p - Won't You Be Kind To Me? Frank Stokes, voc, g; Will Batts, vn -1 - Right Now Blues -1 - Shiney Town Blues -1 - I'm Going Away Blues -1 - Old Sometime Blues -1 - Frank Stokes' Dream - Memphis Rounders Blues including alternate takes, rare tests, & previously unissued tracks all transfers by Nick Dellow, from rare originals
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| 10 | 2015 | 20 Classic Blues Songs from the 1920s Volume 13 2016 Calendar with free CD CD and Calendar contents: - My Monday Blues - Jim Jackson - When The War Was On - Blind Willie Johnson - Walking Blues - Charlie Kyle [Victor V-38625] - Atlanta Moan - Barbecue Bob - Boogie Woogie - Papa Charlie McCoy - Some Cold Rainy Day - Curly Weaver and Ruth Willis - Wabash Rag - Blind Blake - 'Lectric Chair Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Beale Street Breakdown - Jed Davenport and His Beale Street Jug Band - Vampire Women - Spark Plug Smith - Georgia Cake Walk - Ma Rainey - The High Cost Of Sin - Black Billy Sunday Supplementary CD tracks: - Will You Spend Eternity In Hell - Black Billy Sunday - Special Question Blues - Hattie Hyde - T & N O Blues - Hattie Hyde - No Baby - Charlie Kyle [Victor V-38625] - Country Guy Blues - Papa Charlie McCoy - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Tar Road Blues - Jaydee Short - Flaggin' It To Georgia - Jaydee Short restored by the AMERICAN EPIC sound team
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Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich: Blues & Gospel Records 1902 - 1942.- Hatch End, Middlesex (Brian A.L. Rust), 1963/64, p. - Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich: Blues & Gospel Records 1902 - 1942.- London (Storyville Publications), revised 2nd ed. 1969, p. - Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich: Blues & Gospel Records 1902 - 1942.- Chigwell (Storyville Publications), fully revised 3rd ed. 1982, p. 429 - Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943.- Oxford (Clarendon), 4th ed. 1997, p. 513 - Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 311 - Dick Spottswood: When the Wolf Knocked on Victor's Door.- 78 Quarterly Volume One, No. 5 (1990), pp. 63-77 - From contributions by Gayle Dean Wardlow, Bob Eagle, Paul Swinton, Larry Cohn & Mark Berresford: Charlie Kyle - Another True Mystery Man of the Blues ("Who'll Be A Witness, Part one").- The Frog Blues & Jazz Annual No. 2 (2011), p. 69 - eBay auctions - diverse internet resources
 From contributions by Gayle Dean Wardlow, Bob Eagle, Paul Swinton, Larry Cohn & Mark Berresford: Charlie Kyle - Another True Mystery Man of the Blues ("Who'll Be A Witness, Part one").- The Frog Blues & Jazz Annual No. 2 (2011), p. 69
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