OKeh 06375
Peter Clayton discography
OKeh 06398
OKeh 06464
# = Conqueror 9947
OKeh 06514
Conqueror 9947
Conqueror 9948
rec. July 1, 1941 in Chicago, IL; Peter Cleighton, voc; Blind John Davis, p; Robert Lockwood, g; unknown, sb
Columbia unissued
# = RST BD 2062 (1989)
* = RST BD 2102
Bluebird B8820
Bluebird B8877
JOB 102
JOB 103
= Nashboro 516 (US 195?)
J.O.B. JB1002Leroy Foster discography
Leroy Foster discography
J.O.B. JB1003
J.O.B. unissued
# Juke Joint 1501 (1978)* Flyright 584 (1983)
# Juke Joint 1501 (1978)* Flyright 563 (1980)
Mercury 8260 (US 1951)
Mercury unissued
Mercury CD 8-528292 (US 1996)
Chess 1523
Eddie Boyd discography
Chess unissued
# Teldec/Chess 6.24810 AG# Chess/P-Vine PLP 6019
Chess 1533
# Chess CHD-4-9340* P-Vine PLP 6019
Herald 407 [Fred Mendelsohn's label]
# Savoy MG 16000
St. Louis Jimmy discographyRoosevelt Sykes discography
Herald 408
J.O.B. JOB 1107
= Fury 500
J.O.B. JOB 1108
= J.O.B. JOB 1108
Checker 793
Little Walter discography
Checker 793 (repress)
Checker unissued
# Le Roi Du Blues 33.2012* Le Roi Du Blues 33.2017|| Chess CHD 2-9357
# Chess LP 60003 (Cn)# Chess CHD 9357# Le Roi Du Blues 33.2017* Argo LP 4042* Le Roi Du Blues 33.2017
# Checker 1013 (1962)* Chess CHD 4-9340|| Le Roi Du Blues 33.2007|| Chess CHD 2-9357
Checker 799
Checker 805
# Le Roi Du Blues 33.2017# Hip-O-Select CD B0012636-02
Checker 811
Checker 817
# Le Roi Du Blues 33.2012# Chess CHD 9342* Checker 986 (1961)|| Chess CHD 9357
Checker 825
* Chess CHD 9357
Chess 1616 (US 1/1956)
Jimmy Rogers discographyLittle Walter discographyLittle Johnny Jones discographyMuddy Waters discography
Chess 1624
John Brim discographyLittle Walter discography
Checker 833 (US 2/1956)
Checker 838 (US 5/1956)
El-Bee 157
= El-Bee 157
Chess/P-Vine PLP-6022Chess GCH-8105
Otis Spann discography
Walter Horton discography
Checker 845 (US 8/1956)
Checker 852
Checker 859
Checker 867
Chess 1660
Chess 1674
Chess 1680
Muddy Waters discography
Pat Hare discography
J.O.B. 114 (US c.5/1954)
= J.O.B. 114 repro (2010)
John Lee Henley discography
Checker 901
J.B. Lenoir discography
Chess 2ACMB 208 (1976)
Ruler 5000 (US 1958)
Ruler 1131 (US 1963)
= Rice Belt 1131 (US 1963)
(=) Ruler 900 (US c. 1971)
Robert Lockwood Jr. discography
Ebony MMF 1040("South Center Records")
# Ebony EB-1095
Brother John Sellers discographyLittle Brother Montgomery discography
Ebony EB-1095
Bea & Baby 101
Bea & Baby 107
Bea & Baby 108 (1959)
(=) Key Hole 107 (1960)
# Le Roi Du Blues 33.2007# Chess CHD 9357* Chess CD 2-9357
Checker 945
Checker 955
= London HLM 9175 (UK 8/1960)
# Chess LP 1535
Bea & Baby 116
Roosevelt Sykes discography
Bea & Baby unissued
La Salle 503
La Salle unissued
Checker CK-986
cover design by John Marshall
7 inch EPnotes by B. Palmer Esquire EP 247 (UK 1962) [Carlo Krahmer's label]
notes by Nat Hentoff Candid CJM 8001 (mono) (US 1960)
notes by Nat Hentoff Candid GJS 9001 (stereo) (US 1960)
notes by Don DeMicheal = Barnaby Z 30246 (US 1972)
(shortened) notes by Nat Hentoff = Jazz Man BLZ 5504 (US 1980)
(German) notes by Manfred Miller = CrossCut CCR 1003 (Germany 1983)
notes by Nat Hentoff = Candid CCD 79001 (UK 2000)
Muse MR 5212 / Tobacco Road B2537 tracks: Frank Edwards - Gotta Get A Gettin' [actually "Gotta Get Together"] [Regal unissued] Pig N' Whistle Red (Willie McTell) - A To Z Blues Curley Weaver - She Don't Treat Me Good No More Dennis McMillan - Poor Little Angel Girl David Wylie - You're Gonna Weep And Moan John Lee Hooker - When My Wife Quit Me Memphis Minnie - Kid Man Blues Pee Wee Hughes - I'm A Country Boy Blind Billy Tate - Cryin' In The Morning St. Louis Jimmy - Trying To Change My Ways [= "Good Book Blues"] Sunnyland Slim - Orphan Boy Blues Blind Billy Tate - Ooh Wee Baby Muse MR 5212 / Tobacco Road B/2537 / Happy Bird B 90084 reissues "prepared and edited by Fred Seibert" Muse MR 5212 cover photo and design by Ron Warwell Tobacco Road B/2537 cover photo by Jan Saudek "Some compositions previously released on Savoy MG-16000"
Musidisc 30CV955 tracks: Brownie McGhee - Livin' With The Blues Memphis Minnie - Kid Man Blues John Lee Hooker - When My Wife Quit Me St. Louis Jimmy - Trying To Change My Ways [= "Good Book Blues"] Pee Wee Hughes - I'm A Country Boy Curley Weaver - She Don't Treat Me Good No More Sunnyland Slim - Orphan Boy Blues Dennis McMillan - Poor Little Angel Girl Frank Edwards - Gotta Get A Gettin' [actually "Gotta Get Together"] [Regal unissued] Peg [sic] n' Whistle Red (Willie McTell) - A To Z Blues David Wylie - You're Gonna Weep And Moan Papa Lightfoot - That Mean Old Train Musidisc 30CV955 cover photo (John Lee Hooker) by Jean-Pierre Leloir
notes by Fred MendelsohnSavoy MG 16000 (US 1962)"Living With The Blues"
notes by Chris Whent= Realm/Oriole RM 209 (UK 1964)"Livin' With The Blues"
notes by Chris Whent = CBS 52209 (US 1964)(CBS Realm Jazz series)"Livin' With The Blues"
notes by Ed Salamon = Muse MR 5212 (US 1979)"Cryin' In The Morning"
= Tobacco Road B/2537 (Germany 1976?)"What Is The ThingCalled Blues?" (AmericanJazz & Blues History Vol. 37)
= Happy Bird B 90084 (Germany 1979 "Jazz 2000")"Cryin' In The Morning"
= Muse MR 5212(Australia 1981)"Cryin' In The Morning"
= Musidisc 30CV955 (Fr)"Living With The Blues"
= Musidisc 30CO955 (Fr "collection or")
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 17, 1960 in Chicago, IL
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)
Doyosha LLC (1st Jp ed. 2016) ISBN 978-4-907511-25-8 (190 × 129 × 21,8 mm | 336 pages (incl. 48 photos) | weight: 9,5 pound; price: 1.850 JPY equals 14,84 EUR) translated by Yasufumi Higurashi
Blues Classics BC 7
Blues Classics discography
notes by Chris Albertson Biograph BLP 12010 (US 1969)
= Blue Moon BMLP 1.067 (UK 1989)
Biograph Records discographyLittle Brother Montgomery discography
Delmark DS 630
(=) Delmark DD 630
Kay 014 KJ (1979)(30 minutes)
= Rhapsody 8022 (1986)
(=) Vestapol DVD 13003(2003 "bonus track")"Legends of CountryBlues Guitar Vol. 1"
Ruler 900 (US 1971)
= Ruler 900 (UK 2010 repro)
°° CD has seven additional tracks!
3 LP folding box with 30-page booklet RCA Victor RA-5433/5 (Jp 1971)
3 LP slide-in box with 30-page booklet = RCA Victor RA-9051/3 (Jp 1975)
2 CD set, notes by Hiroshi Suzuki, Toyo Nakamura, Yasufumi Higurashi, Hisamitsu Noguchi & Shoichi Yui = RCA BVCP-8733/4 (Jp 1994) "Blues 1927-46"
2 CD set = RCA BVCM-37530/1 (Jp 2004) "Blues 1927-46"
Big Star BB 020 (US 1972)
Barnaby KZ 31290 (US 1972) [originallyintended as Candid 8/9025]
= Candid 9025 (US 1987)
notes by Tony Russell= Candid CCD 79025 (US 1989)
Delmark DS 632
= Delmark CD DS 632
notes by Roger S. Brown Lockwood signatureTrix 3307
notes by Roger S. Brown = Trix CD 3307 (US 1993)
= Trix CS 3307 (1993) (cassette)
2 CD setnotes by Kevin Calabro & Fetzer Mills Jr.(=) 32 Blues 32109 (US 1999) (along with 'Does 12') "The Complete Trix Recordings"
= Savoy Jazz SVY17312 (US 2003)
Trix Records discography
notes by Stephen Calt and John Miller Yazoo L-1038
= Yazoo L-1038
= Yazoo CD 1038 (1992?)
Yazoo Records discography
Trio PA-6024 (Jp 1975) "Blues Live"
notes by Steve Tomashevsky = Advent 2807 (US 1976) "Blues Live In Japan"
= Art Union/Vivid KEN-2001 (Jp 1999)
(=) Vivid VSCD-011 (Jp 20??)
3 CD set (=) Vivid VSCD-3107/08 (Jp 2008) (VSCD-011 plus VSCD-033 plus bonus CD 3)
Trio Records discographyAdvent Records discography
notes (in Japanese) by Yasufumi Higuarsi RCA RVC RA-5708 (Jp 1975)
Delmark/Trio TD6 (Jp)
notes by Leroy Pierson Nighthawk 101
Nighthawk Records discography
boxed set of 3 LPsnotes by Michael Walter (translated by Don Waterhouse) RCA PM 42039 (Fr 1977)
notes by Tim (Mit) Schuller Trix 3317 (US 1978)
= Trix CD 3317 (US 1998)
2 CD setnotes by Kevin Calabro & Fetzer Mills Jr.(=) 32 Blues 32109 (US 1999) (along with 'Contrasts') "The Complete Trix Recordings"
notes by Pete Welding Juke Joint 1501
Negro Rhythm 107 [George Paulus label]BU 130/26
notes (Oct. 1979) by Dick Shurman Blues Over BluesBOB 2701 (US 1979) [Bob Corritore's label]
notes (Oct. 1979) by Dick Shurman = Earwig CD 4930 (US 1994)
Little Willie Anderson discography
notes by Mike Rowe Flyright FLY 563
(=) Flyright FLYCD 10 (UK 1989)= Paula PCD 14 (US 1990)
Johnny Shines discographyFlyright Records discography
notes by Peter Guralnick Rounder 2023 (US 1980)
= Paris Album PLB 2-28516 (Fr 1980)
= Bluesmen BS-32221
notes by Frank-John Hadley(=) Bullseye Blues CD 9623 "Robert Jr. Lockwood: Just The Blues" (only tracks featuring Lockwood on lead voc)
Johnny Shines discographyRounder Records discography
Delta Blues DBF 79
Kay Jazz KJ 081 (UK 1980)
Rounder 2026 (US 1981)
= Atlas LA25-5002 (Jp 1983)
Black & Blue 33.740 (Fr 1982)
= Black & Blue CD 59.740
= Evidence ECD 26020
(=) Black & Blue BB 438-2 "Ramblin' On My Mind"
Document DLP 519
(=) Document DOCD 5682 (2007) "Mississippi Blues Vol. 4" (new material digitally remastered by Gary Atkinson in 2007)
Document Records discography
Flyright FLY 563 plus five (Robert Lockwood) bonus tracks
notes by Mike RoweFlyright FLYCD 10 (UK 1989)
= Paula PCD-14 (US 1990)
P-Vine PCD 24051 (Jp 2003)
notes by Alan Balfour Wolf WBCD-005 (Austria 1991)
notes by Barry Lee Pearson with introduction by Bernice Johnson Reagon CBS 48584
notes by Mark A. Humphrey and Michael CuscunaMosaic MR5-139 (US 1992)
Delmark DX-2 (US 1993)
Delmark Records discography
Black and Blue 604 (Fr 1993)
4 CD set with 44 pp. bookletCharly CD DIG 3 (UK 1995)
8 CD setnotes by Dick Shurman, Mary Katherine Aldin, Jim O'Neal & Billy VeraMercury CD 8-528292
Rounder 2023 / Rounder 2026
notes by Frank-John HadleyBullseye Blues CD 9623
= Vivid VSCD-033 (Jp 1999)
notes by Dick ShurmanHightone HMG 1009
liner notes cover art work
notes by Fred Reif and Nancy SinghamP-Vine PCD-5641 (Jp 2001)
2 CD setWestside CD WESD 233
Johnny Shines discography
Honeybee CD 3302
4 CD boxJSP JSPCD 7781 UK 2007)
16-pp. booklet The Blue Shoe Project no #
notes by Bill DahlFuel 2000 CD 61921 (US 2012)
5 CD set Wienerworld WNRCD5106 (US/EU 7/2019)
thanks to Patrick Banino, Brad Barrett, Ray Templeton, Richard Egner, Bob Frank, Keith Randall, Larry Hoffman, Tom Morris, Gerrit Robs and Don Deering for additional info / scans
Little Walter and his Jukes at the Zanzibar Club in Chicago, IL, c. 1955/56l to r: Fred Below, Luther Tucker, Little Johnny Jones, unknown female (Bill Hill's wife Mary ?), LittleWalter, unknown male (DJ Big Bill Hill ?), unknown female (Johnny Jones' wife Letha ?), Robert Jr Lockwoodsource: ebay auction; photographer unknown; photoshop processed by Stefan WirzBTW: PA system top left is a Bell Sound 3725 (amplifier) and (half of) a Danelectro Commando (speaker)
Robert Lockwood 1990ssource: Norberg 1995, p. 204; photographer: Marc Norberg
Robert Lockwood's headstonein Section 25 of Riverside Cemetery in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohiosource: Killer Blues Headstone Project; photographer: Steven Salter