Lightnin' Slimreal name: Otis V. Hicksb. March 13, 1913 in St. Louis, Missourid. July 27, 1974 in Detroit, Michiganburied at Oak Hill Cemetery in Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigandiscography
Feature 3006
Feature 3008
Feature 3012
Feature 3013
= 2010 UK repro
Ace 505
African Folk Society 3428
*** false report in Leadbitter & Slaven 1968 ("with Slim Harpe" [sic]) (and many parroting other sources ;-)
Excello 2066
Excello 2075
Excello 2080
Excello 2096
Excello 2106
Excello 2116
Excello 2131
Excello 2142
Excello 2150
Excello 2160
Excello 2169
Excello 2173
P-Vine PCD-2326 track sequence (18 tracks): - Rooster Blues - Long Leanie Mama - My Starter Won't Work - "G.I." Slim - Lightnin's Troubles - Bed Bug Blues - Hoo-Doo Blues - It's Mighty Crazy - Sweet Little Woman - Tom Cat Blues - Feelin' Awful Blues - I'm Leavin' You, Baby - Lightnin' Blues [Excello 2066] - I Can't Be Successful [Excello 2066] - Sugar Plum [Excello 2075] - Just Made Twenty-One [Excello 2075] - Goin' Home [Excello 2080] - Wonderin' And Goin' [Excello 2080]
Hip-O CD HIPD-40134 track sequence (15 tracks): - Rooster Blues - Long Leanie Mama - My Starter Won't Work - "G.I." Slim - Lightnin's Troubles - Bed Bug Blues - Hoo-Doo Blues - It's Mighty Crazy - Sweet Little Woman - Tom Cat Blues - Feelin' Awful Blues - I'm Leavin' You, Baby - Lightnin' Blues - Just Made Twenty-One - Sugar Plum
notes by Anonymous Excello LP-8000 (US 1960)
notes (July 1970) by Mike Leadbitter = Blue Horizon 7-63863 (UK 1970)
= Excello LP-8000 (US 1970s) "Electronically reprocessed to simulate stereo"
= Excello 8000/SO-1 (US late 1980s)
(=) P-Vine PCD-2326 (Jp 1991)
(=) Ace CDCHD 517 (Germany 1994) "Lightnin' Slim: Rooster Blues / Bell Ringer"
(=) Hip-O CD HIPD-40134 (US 1998)
12 inch LP(=) Rumble RUM2011064 (EU 2014)
Lightnin' Slim discography
Excello 2179
Excello 2186
Excello 2195
Excello 2203
Excello 2215
Excello 2224
Excello 2228
Excello 2234
Excello 2240
Excello 2245
notes by Guy Stevens Stateside SL 10068 (UK 1963)
= Tasty TASTY 001 (UK 19??)
= Ace CDCHD 492 (Germany 1993)
Stateside SL 10112 (UK 1/1965)
= Tasty TASTY 002 (UK 19??)
(=) Ace CDCHD 562 (UK 1994)
notes by Guy Stevens Stateside SL 10135 (UK)
Excello 2252
Excello 2258
Excello 2262
Excello 2267
Excello 2269
Excello 2272
Excello 2276
Excello LPS-8004 (US 1965)
= Excello LPS-8004 (US 1973?) "Electronically reprocessed to simulate stereo"
= Excello 8004/SO-1 (US late 1980s)
(=) Ace CDCHD 517 "Lightnin' Slim: Rooster Blues / Bell Ringer"
12 inch LP= Rumble RUM 2011073 (EU/US 2014)
Excello Records discography
notes by Guy Stevens Sue ILP 919 (UK)
notes by Guy Stevens Sue ILP 921 (UK 1965)
Polydor 623 240 (Ger)
Teem LP-5005[Ace budget subsidiary]
(=) Vivid Sound/Ace VS-1008 (Jp 1979)
Python PLP-KM 8
Python Records discography
Excello 8011 (US 1969)
= Excello 8011 (US 19??)
= Excello 8011/SO-1 (US late 1980s) "Electronically reprocessed to simulate stereo"
notes by Mike Leadbitter Flyright LP 3503
Flyright Records discography
2 LP setnotes by Mike Leadbitter CBS 66278 (UK 1971)
DLP accompanying the book by the same title: Mike Leadbitter (ed.): Nothing But The Blues.- London / New York (Hanover Books / Oak Publications) 1971
notes by B.B. King Excello LPS-8018 (US)
= Sonet SNTF 770 (UK)
= Contempo CRM 118
(=) Intermedia 5062
(=) Aim 2008 (Australia)
(=) Ace CDCHD 578 (UK1995) Lightnin' Slim /Whispering Smith "High& Low Down/Over Easy"
Excello 2320
Excello LPS-8023
= Blue Horizon 2931-005
DLPnotes (February 1972)by John BrovenExcello LPS-8025 (US 1972)
DLPnotes (February 1972)by John Broven = Blue Horizon 2683 007= 2937-001A / 2937-002B (UK 1972)
Blue Horizon Records discography
DLPnotes by Mike Vernonand Chris Turner Excello EX 28026 (US 1972)
DLPnotes by Mike Vernonand Chris Turner (=) Verve 2610 006 (Germany 1972)"Blues Night - Live fromMontreux"
"Big Bear Four"
Polydor 2460 186 (UK 1973)
= Big Bear BEAR 20
2 CD set (=) Big Bear/IndigoCD 2527 (UK 2002) "American BluesLegends '73/'74"
Big Bear Records discography
gatefold DLPnotes (German & English) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos Atlantic 60036 (Germany, Austria, Switzerland 1973) "The 10th American Folk Blues Festival - 'Blues Giants - Rock Creators'"
gatefold DLPnotes (English only) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos = L+R 42.018 (Germany 1980) "American Folk Blues Festival '72"= L+R LRC-2018 (cassette) (Germany 1980)
= Edigsa/L+R 12A0272 (Sp 1981)
notes (English only) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos (=) Optimism/L+R LR CD-2018 (US 1991?)
notes (English only) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos (=) Bellaphon/L+R CDLS 42018 (Germany 1998?)
American Folk Blues Festival discographyL+R Records discographyBukka White discographyBig Joe Williams discographyRobert Pete Williams discographyRoosevelt Sykes discographyJohnny Young discographyJimmy Rogers discographyWhispering Smith discographyJimmy Dawkins discography
African Folk Society 3428[George Paulus' label]
notes by Keith Tillman Python PLP-KM 22
notes by Bruce Bastin Flyright FLY 524
notes by Bruce Bastin Flyright FLY 532
notes (June 1977) by Bruce Bastin Flyright FLY 533 (UK 1978)
notes by Bruce Bastin Flyright FLY 583
Avi 8654
P-Vine/Chess PLP 6035 (Jp 1985)
= Chess GCH 8122 (It 1989)
notes (October 1986)by Dave Williams Flyright FLY 612 (UK 1986)
Flyright FLYCD 08 (UK 1998)
Flyright FLYCD 09 (UK 1989)
Flyright FLYCD 24 (UK 1990)
notes by John Broven Flyright CD 42 (UK 1991)
notes by John Broven Flyright FLYCD 47
Flyright FLYCD 51 (UK 1992)
notes by John Broven Indigo IGO 2002 (UK 1992)
notes by Cub KodaExcello CD 3002 (1994)
notes by Cub Koda= AVI EXD-4204 (1997)
Stateside SL 10068
Ace CDCHD 492 (UK)
Ace CDCHD 562 (UK)
Ace CDCHD 587
Ace CDCHD 616
2 CD setP-Vine PCD-5230/31
AIM 2000 (Australia)
Ace CDCHD 674
2 CD setWestside WESM-570 (UK)
Stompin' STOMP 109 (UK)
Stompin' Records discography
Ace CDCHD 604 (UK)
Hip-O HIPD-12010
Rock & Melody3445.2101-2(Switzerland / Cz)
Stompin' CD 327
2 CD setnotes by Jim SimpsonIndigo IGOXDCD 2503 (UK)(Big Bear Blues Heritageseries)
= Sanctuary CD 81268 (2003)
= Castle CD 36170 (US 2005)
Excello CD 2002
Polydor 2460 186= Big Bear BEAR 20Munich BM 150 202= Big Bear BEAR 1
2 CD setBig Bear / Indigo CD 2527(Big Bear Blues Heritageseries)
2 CD setWestside WESD 240 (UK)
Cherrie CR-CDA20-2 (US)
4 CD setnotes by Neil SlavenJSP JSPCD 77150
notes by Bill DahlFuel 2000 619152
notes by Ian Saddler Ace CDCHD 1368
Bellaphon CDLR 664128 (Germany 2013)
Ace CDCHD 1506
2 CD setnotes by Martin Hawkins Bear Family Records BCD 17512 (Germany 2019)
Excello Records discographySlim Harpo discographyButch Cage & Willie B. Thomas discographyRobert Pete Williams discographyLonesome Sundown discographySmoky Babe discographyLazy Lester discographyHerman E. Johnson discographySilas Hogan discographyMoses "Whispering" Smith discographyArthur "Guitar" Kelley discography
thanks to Ray Templeton, Phil Wight, Steve Franz, Wilson Fabian Ruales Villalva and Patrick Banino for additional info / scans
Lightnin' Slim at Quartier Latin in Berlin, Germany, January 17, 1973source: Blues Forum #20 (Mai 1987), p. 38; photographer: Ulrich Borchert
Lightnin' Slimsource: Philippe Bas-Rabérin: Le Blues Moderne Depuis 1945.- Paris (Albin Michel) 1986, photo pp. without pagination between pp. 64 and 65photographer: Christian Rose