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W I L L I E   L O F T O N, 1935; source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7434303@N07/6045507483/, also published in The Frog Blues & Jazz Annual No. 3
Willie Lofton, 1935, holding a Style O National guitar
source: www.flickr.com/
also published in The Frog Blues & Jazz Annual No. 3
Willie 'Poor Boy' Lofton
b. [1905] January 1897 in [Clarksdale] Copiah County, Mississippi
d. "1956" (Bogaert 1972)  or "about 1962" (Evans 1971) in [Jackson] Copiah County, Mississippi

discography
Decca 7010B label 'Poor Boy Blues'

#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
11934POOR BOY LOFTON

- It's Killin' Me (C-9303--) #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Poor Boy Blues (C-9304--)   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. August 16, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Willie Lofton, voc, g; # unknown, 2nd g


Decca 7010

21935POOR BOY LOFTON

- Dirty Mistreater (C-9636-A)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Rainy Day Blues (C-9637-A)   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. January 9, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Willie Lofton, voc, g


Decca 7049

31935POOR BOY LOFTON

- Jake Leg Blues (C-9386-A)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- My Mean Baby Blues (C-9387-A)   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. August 24, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Willie Lofton, voc, g


Decca 7076

47/22/1936'Bill' Wilber

- My Babe My Babe (90198-A)   @ youtube
- Greyhound Blues (90199-A)   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. July 22, 1935 in Chicago, IL; 'Bill' Wilber [believed to be Joe Wilbur "Kansas Joe" McCoy], voc, prob. own g; Willie Lofton, g


Champion 50053

51936Willie Lofton Trio / Willie Lofton

- Beer Garden Blues (96256-1) #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Dark Road Blues (96257-1)   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. November 1, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Willie Lofton, voc, g; # Black Bob, p; # unknown, sb; # unknown, kazoo


Bluebird B6229


EP / LP / CD compilations
61964Country Blues & Gospel
Willie Lofton
- Dark Road Blues
Blind Willie McTell
- Searching The Desert For The Blues
Jaybird Coleman
- Man Trouble Blues

Blind Willie Davis
- Rock Of Ages
The Guitar Evangelist
- Death Is Only A Dream
Blind Willie Johnson
- Jesus Goin' To Make Up My Dyin' Bed


7 inch EP, 33 1/3 rpm

Heritage H-302 (UK 1964)

Heritage Records discography

71965Country Blues Encores 1927-1935

Ishman Bracey
- Saturday Blues
Blind Joe Reynolds
- Outside Woman Blues
Tommy Johnson
- Cool Drink Of Water Blues
Henry Sims
- Farrell Blues
Rube Lacey
- Mississippi Jailhouse Groan
Jaybird Coleman
- Man Trouble Blues
John Byrd
- Old Timbrook Blues
Skip James
- I'm So Glad

Red Hot Old Man Mose
- Molly Man
Garfield Akers
- Jumpin And Shoutin Blues
Charlie Jordan
- Keep It Clean

Bill Wilber
- My Babe, My Babe
The Mississippi Moaner
- It's Cold In China Blues
Big Bill and Thomps
- House Rent Stomp
Sunny Boy and His Pals
- Don't You Leave Me Here
Bill Moore
- One Way Gal


notes by Gayle Dean Wardlow

Origin Jazz Library OJL 8 (US 1965)

OJL Records discography

81967Down With The Game   Volume 2
Vintage Country Blues

Casey Bill Weldon
- Gonna Take My Time
- Somebody Changed The Lock
Furry Lewis
- Everybody's Blues
- Rock Island Blues

Poor Boy Lofton
- Dirty Mistreater
- Rainey Day Blues
Walter Davis
- I Think You Need A Shot

Walter Roland
- Red Cross Blues No. 2
Sonny Scott
- No Good Biddie
Bo Carter
- Sue Cow
- Flea On Me
- Pussy Cat Blues
Robert Lee McCoy
- Prowlin' Nighthawk
- C.N.A.



Down With The Game D 201 (UK 1967)

Down With The Game discography

91968Jackson 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
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Yazoo 1007 (US 1968)

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= Yazoo CD 1007 YAZ (US 1991)


= Yazoo HLP 1007 (180 g)

Yazoo Records discography

101968Mississippi Blues Vol. 3 1928-1942

Arthur Petties
- Out On The Santa Fe Blues
Bo Carter
- I Want You To Know

Poor Boy Lofton
- Jake Leg Blues
- My Mean Baby Blues
Mississippi Sheiks
- Jail Bird Love Song
- Yodeling Fiddling Blues
Big Joe McCoy
- I'm Through With You
- When You Said Goodbye

Robert Johnson
- Drunken Hearted Man
Mr. Freddie Spruell
- Let's Go Riding
Robert Petway
- My Baby Left Me
- Cotton Pickin' Blues
Mississippi John Hurt
- Stack O'Lee Blues
Mississippi Jook Band
- Dangerous Woman
Tommy McClennan
- Mozelle Blues
- Mr. So And So Blues


compiled and produced by Evelyn Sperker


Roots RL-314 (Austria 1968)

= autogram/Roots RL-314 (Germany 20??)

Roots Records discography

111970Country Blues Obscurities Vol. 1 (1926 - 1936)

Williams & Versey Smith
- When That Great Ship Went Down
'Big Boy' George Owens
- The Coon Crap Game
Smith And Harper
- Poor Girl
- Insurance Policy Blues
Big Boy Cleveland
- Quill Blues
John D. Fox & Sam Collins
- The Moanin' Blues
Johnnie Head
- Fare Thee Blues - pts. 1 & 2


"Bill" Wilber with Willie Lofton
- Greyhound Blues
Alfred Lewis
- Friday Moan Blues
Walter Rhodes
- Leaving Home Blues
Will Bennett
- Real Estate Blues
Whistlin' Rufus
- (Who's Gonna Do Your) Sweet Jelly Rollin'
Archie Lewis
- Miss Handy Hanks
Shreveport Home Wreckers with Ed Schaffer & Oscar Woods
- Fence Breakin' Blues



Roots RL-334 (Austria 1970)

Roots Records discography

121977Jake Walk Blues

Stash ST-110 track sequence:
- Jake Walk Blues - Allen Brothers
- Jake Leg Wobble - Ray Brothers
- Jake Legs Blues - Byrd Moore

- Jake Leg Blues - Willie Lofton
- Limber Neck Rag - Narmour & Smith
- Jake Walk Papa - Asa Martin
- Beer Drinkin Woman - Blace Ace
- Bear Cat Papa Blues - Gene Autry

- Jake Liquor Blues - Ishman Bracey
- Jake Bottle Blues - Lemuel Turner
- Got The Jake Leg Too - Ray Brothers
- Jake Leg Blues - Mississippi Sheiks
- Jake Leg Blues - Maynard Britton
- Jake Leg Rag - Narmour & Smith
- Jake Walk Blues - Maynard Britton


prod. by Bernard Brightman
Stash ST-110 cover art and layout by Barbara Gottlieb

Jass J-CD-642 track sequence:
The Allen Brothers - Jake Walk Blues (2:32)
Asa Martin - Jake Walk Papa (3:10)
Lemuel Turner - Jake Bottle Blues (3:09)
David McCarn & Howard Long - Ray Rum Blues (3:11)

Willie Lofton - Jake Leg Blues (3:04)
Gene Autry - Bear Cat Papa Blues (2:20)
Namour and Smith - Limber Neck Rag (3:16)
Mississippi Sheiks - The Jake Leg Blues (3:08)
Namour and Smith - Jake Leg Rag (3:15)
Maynard Britton - Jake Legs Blues (3:34)
Ray Brothers - Jake Leg Wobble (2:56)
Maynard Britton - Jake Walk Blues (1:28)
Black Ace - Beer Drinkin' Woman (3:26)
Byrd Moore - Jake Legs Blues (3:08)
Tommy Johnson - Alcohol And Jake Blues (3:19)
Ishman Bracey - Jake Liquor Blues (3:30)


Jass J-CD-642 cover art and layout by Johanna Gillman

In 1930 thousands of cases of muscle pain, weakness of upper and lower extremities, and minimal sensory impairment occured in the United States. The illness was caused by the consumption of an adulterated Jamaica ginger extract ("Jake"), an illicit beverage then popularly used in the southern and midwestern United States to circumvent prohibition statutes...victims with resultant gait impairment, sometimes permanent, were said to have "Jake Leg" or "Jake Walk".

notes by John P. Morgan

Stash ST-110 (US 1977)


(=) Jass J-CD-642 (US 1994)

Stash/Jass Records discography

131977Jackson Blue Boys (And two from New Orleans)
Sixteens classics of blues, jazz, hokum and minstrelsy 1928 - 1940

New Orleans Nehi Boys
- Mobile Stomp
- Farish Street Rag
Mississippi Blacksnakes
- Blue Sky Blues
Sonny Boy Nelson
- Low Down

Willie Lofton
- It's Killing Me
- Poor Boy Blues
Alec Johnson
- Mysterious Coon

Bo Carter
- County Farm Blues
- Border Of New Mexico
Charlie McCoy
- It Ain't No Good part 1
Arthur Pettis
- Thart Won't Do
Walter Vincson
- Losing Blues
Jackson Blue Boys
- Hidin' On Me
- Sweet Alberta
Johnny Temple
- Snapping Cat


notes by Chris Smith

Policy Wheel PW 4593 (UK 1977)

Policy Wheel Records discography

141988Mississippi Blues Guitars   (1926-1935)

Mr. Freddie Spruell
- Milk Cow Blues
- Muddy Water Blues
- Way Back Down Home
- Tom Cat Blues
- Low Down Mississippi Bottom Man
- 4A Highway
- Don't Cry Baby
- Your Good Man Is Gone
- Let's Go Riding
- Mr. Freddie's Kokomo Blues


Willie 'Poor Boy' Lofton
- It's Killing Me
- Poor Boy Blues
- Jake Leg Blues
- My Mean Baby Blues
- Dirty Mistreater
- Rainy Day Blues
- Beer Garden Blues
- Dark Road Blues
Chasey Collins
- Walking Blues
- Atlanta Town



RST Blues Documents BD-2014 (Austria 1988)

RST Records discography

151988Kansas Joe McCoy - Joe Williams (1929-1941)

- You Stole My Cake
- You Got To Move - Part 2
- Don't Need No Doctor When I Come To Die
- That Great Love (He's so Good to Me)
- Twenty Minutes In Hell

- My Babe My Babe
- Greyhound Blues
- Well, Well
- What Will I Do ?

- We Gonna Move
- Back Door
- You Done Tore Your Pants With Me
- I Want It Awful Bad
- Mr. Devil Blues
- Get Your Head Timmed Down
- Peach Orchard Mama
- Haven't Seen No Whiskey
- Goin' Up The Mountain



RST Blues Documents BD-2032 (Austria 1988)

RST Records discography

161993Mississippi Blues: Complete Recorded Works Vol. 2   (1926-1935)

Arthur Petties (1928-1930)
- Two Time Blues
- Out On Santa Fe Blues
- That Won't Do
- Good Boy Blues
- Quarrellin' Mama Blues
- Revenue Man Blues
Freddie Spruell (1926-1935)
- Milk Cow Blues
- Muddy Water Blues
- Way Back Down Home (Milk Cow Blues)
- Tom Cat Blues
- Low-Down Mississippi Bottom Man
- 4A Highway
- Don't Cry Baby
- Your Good Man Is Gone
- Let's Go Riding
- Mr. Freddie's Kokomo Blues

Willie 'Poor Boy' Lofton (1934-1935)
- It's Killin' Me
- Poor Boy Blues
- Jake Leg Blues
- My Mean Baby Blues
- Dirty Mistreater
- Rainy Day Blues
- Beer Garden Blues
- Dark Road Blues

notes by John H. Vanco

Document DOCD 5158 (Austria 1993)

171999Tommy Johnson & Associates

- Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Cool Drink Of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Big Road Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Bye-Bye Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Maggie Campbell Blues - Tommy Johnson
- I Wonder To Myself - Tommy Johnson
- Slidin' Delta - Tommy Johnson
- Lonesome Home Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Stop and Listen Blues - Mississippi Sheiks
- Down The Big Road Blues - Mattie Delaney

- Jake Leg Blues - Willie Lofton
- Dirty Mistreater - Willie Lofton
- Stop Look And Listen - Kokomo Arnold
- Sad And Lonesome - Bumble Bee Slim
- Rough Road Blues - Bumble Bee Slim
- Going Back Home Blues - Missisipi Mudder
- Bo Carter's Advice - Bo Carter
- Ten Pound Hammer - Mose Andrews
- Joliet Bound - Kansas Joe
- Wait And Listen - Fred McMullen
- Saturday Blues - Ishman Bracey
- Trouble Hearted Blues - Ishman Bracey



Catfish CD 118 (UK 1999)

Catfish Records (UK) discography

182000Mississippi Blues

disc 1:
- Mississippi Bottom Blues - Kid Bailey
- Little Girl In Rome - Otto Virgial
- Bad Notion Blues - Otto Virgial
- Hittin' The Bottle Stomp - Mississippi Jook Band
- Skippy Whippy - Mississippi Jook Band

- Dirty Mistreater - Poor Boy Lofton
- Two Times Blues - Arthur Petties
- That Won't Do - Arthur Petties
- I'm A Guitar King - Tommy McClennan
- New Highway 51 - Tommy McClennan
- In The Evening - Robert Petway
- Devil Got My Woman - Skip James
- Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues - Skip James
- Let's Go Riding - Freddie Spruell
- Mr. Freddie's Kokomo Blues - Freddie Spruell
- Aberdeen Mississippi Blues - Bukka White
- Revenue Man Blues - Charlie Patton
- 34 Blues - Charlie Patton
- M&O Blues - Willie Brown
- Jackson Stomp - Mississippi Mud Steppers
- It Still Ain't No Good - Mississippi Black Snakes
- Driving That Thing - Mississippi Sheiks
- Winter Time Blues - Mississippi Sheiks


disc 2:
- Fare Thee Welll - Joe Callicott
- I Ain't Give Nobody None - Mae Glover
- Me And The Devil Blues - Robert Johnson
- Shetland Pony Blues - Son House
- On The Wall - Louise Johnson
- All Night Long Blues - Louise Johnson
- Look Here Mama Blues - Uncle Bud Walker
- Last Kind Word Blues - Geechie Wiley
- Pick Poor Robin Clean - Elvie Thomas & Geechie Wiley
- Miss Meal Cramp Blues - Alec Johnson
- Leavin' Town Blues - Ishmon Bracey
- Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Down The Big Road Blues - Mattie Delaney
- Pony Blues - Sonny Boy Nelson
- Bullfrog Blues - William Harris
- Cottonfield Blues, Pt. 1 - Garfield Akers
- Cottonfield Blues, Pt. 2 - Garfield Akers
- Gang Of Brown Skin Women - Papa Harvey Hull
- Original Stack O'Lee Blues - Papa Harvey Hull
- Candy Man Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
- Avalon Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
- I'll Overcome Someday - Ishmon Bracey
- Mississippi Jail House Groan - Rube Lacey


2 CD set

Catfish KATCD 170 (UK 2000)

Catfish Records (UK) discography

192000Charlie & Joe McCoy Volume 1 (1934-1936)

Charlie McCoy
- Candy Man Blues
- Charity Blues
- Baltimore Blues
- Motherless And Fatherless Blues

Joe McCoy
- Please Baby
- One In A Hundred
- One More Greasing
- The Progidal's Return
- If I Be Lifted Up
- Don't Need No Doctor When I Come To Die
- That Great Love (He's So Good To Me)
- Main Key To Heaven
- Twenty Minutes To Hell
- Dry Bones In The Valley
- Highway 61

- My Babe My Babe
- Greyhound Blues
- Look Who's Coming Down The Road
- The World Is A Hard Place To Live In
- Something Gonna Happen To You
- Well, Well
Papa Charlie's Boys
- Too Long
- Let My Peaches Be



Document DOCD-6019 (Austria 2000)

202001Screamin' and Hollerin' The Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton

disc 6: Charley's Orbit - Songs
- Booze And Blues - Ma Rainey
- The Crowing Rooster - Walter Rhodes
- I Will Turn Your Money Green - Furry Lewis
- Ham Hound Crave - Rube Lacy
- Bye Bye Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Maggie Campbell - Tommy Johnson
- Big Road Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Kansas City Blues - William Harris
- Rowdy Blues - Kid Bailey
- Mississippi Bottom Blues - Kid Bailey
- Cold Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds
- Sitting On Top Of The World - Mississippi Sheiks
- Just A Spoonful - Charley Jordan
- Banty Rooster - Blind Pete and George Ryan
- My Grey Pony - Big Joe Williams

- Dark Road Blues - Willie Lofton Trio
- Blues - Unknown Convict
- Sic 'Em Dogs On - Bukka White
- Po' Boy - Bukka White
- Make Me A Pallet on the Floor - Willie Brown
- County Farm Blues - Son House
- Saddle My Pony - The Howlin' Wolf
- Forty Four - The Howlin' Wolf
- Too Close - Roebuck "Pops" Staples & Staple Singers


7-CD album
notes by David Evans, John Fahey, Ed Komara & Dick Spottswood

Revenant RVN-CD-212

212004Big Joe Williams and the Stars of Mississippi Blues

disc 4:
Tommy McClennan
- Cross Cut Saw Blues (take 1)
- Cross Cut Saw Blues (take 2)
- Classy Mae Blues
- You Can't Read My Mind
- Travelin' Highway Man
- Deep Blue Sea Blues
- I'm A Guitar King
- It's A Crying Pity
- Mozelle Blues
- Blues Trip Me This Morning
- Mr. So And So Blues
- Roll Me, Baby
- I Love My Baby
- Shake It Up And Go
- Blues As I Can Be
- Bluebird Blues
- Bluebird Blues (take 2)
- Boogie Woogie Woman
Robert Petway
- Catfish Blues
- Ride 'Em On Down
- Rockin' Chair Blues
- My Little Girl
- Let Me Be Your Boss
- Left My Baby Crying
- Sleepy Woman Blues

disc 5:
Robert Petway
- Don't Go Down Baby
- Bertha Lee Blues
- Hollow Log Blues
- In The Evening
- My Baby Left Me
- Cotton Pickin' Blues
David 'Honeyboy' Edwards
- Roamin' And Ramblin' Blues
- You Got To Roll (Levee Camp Song)
- You Got To Roll
- Water Coast Blues
- Stagolee
- Just A Spoonful
- Spread My Raincoat Down
- Hellatakin' Blues
- Wind Howlin' Blues
- Worried Life Blues
- Tear It Down Rag
- The Army Blues

Willie 'Poor Boy' Lofton
- It's Killin' Me
- Poor Boy Blues
- Jake Leg Blues
- My Mean Baby Blues
- Dirty Mistreater
- Rainy Day Blues
- Beer Garden Blues
- Dark Road Blues

5 CD set
notes by Neil Slaven

JSP JSPCD 7719 (UK 2004)

222007Mississippi Blues Delta Guitar Pioneers

Part I - The Delta
Charley Patton - Stone Pony Blues (2:53)
Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues (3:07)
Son House - Walking Blues (2:58)
Willie Brown - Future Blues (2:56)
Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (3:00)
Bukka White - Parchman Farm Blues (2:41)
Pearl Dickson with "Pet" And "Can" - Twelve Pound Daddy (3:09)
Big Joe Williams - Little Leg Woman (3:18)
Uncle Bud Walker - Look Here Mama Blues (2:56)
Part I - The South
Sam Collins - The Jail House Blues (2:30)
King Solomon Hill - Tell Me Baby (3:29)
Geechie Wiley - Last Kind Word Blues (3:13)
Part III - Around Jackson
Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues (3:37)
Ishmon Bracey - Trouble Hearted Blues (3:24)
Bo Carter - The Ins And Outs Of My Girl (3:05)
Caldwell Bracey - You Scolded Me And Drove Me From Your Door (3:19)
Walter Vinson - Overtime Blues (2:53)
Charlie McCoy - Last Time Blues (3:01)
Willie Harris - Never Drive A Stranger From Your Door (3:31)
Mississippi Matilda - Happy Home Blues (2:47)

Willie 'Poor Boy' Lofton - Dirty Mistreater (2:48)
The Mississippi Moaner - Mississippi Moan (2:28)
Part IV - From The Delta To Memphis
Garfield Akers - Dough Roller Blues (3:14)
Mississippi Joe Calicott - Travelling Mama Blues (3:13)


notes by Gérard Herzhaft

Saga 530 191-9 (Fr 2007) (Sagablues #36)

232009Essential Delta Blues

CD 1:
Robert Johnson - I Believe I'll Dust My Broom (3:00)
Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go (1:43)
Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues (3:40)
Tony Hollins - Crawlin' King Snake (3:09)
Bukka White - Parchman Farm Blues (2:42)
Muddy Waters - Country Blues (3:27)
Sleepy John Estes - Special Agent Blues (2:51)
Son House - Walkin' Blues (6:40)
Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man Blues (2:47)
Skip James - Hard Time Killin Floor Blues (2:49)
Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night - Cold Was The Ground (3:20)
Robert Lockwood Jr. - Little Boy Blue (3:06)
Bo Carter - Banana In Your Fruit Basket (3:08)
Robert Petway - Catfish Blues (2:53)
Tommy McClennan - Bottle It Up And Go (2:49)
John Lee Hooker - Landing Blues (3:29)
Elmore James - Standing At The Crossroads (2:48)
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - Death Valley Blues (3:16)
Blind Willie McTell - Stomp Down Rider (3:08)
Big Joe Williams - Rootin' Ground Hog (3:03)
Robert Johnson - Love In Vain (2:22)
Charley Patton - Shake It And Break It (3:08)
Ishman Bracey - Trouble Hearted Blues (3:25)
Bukka White - Fixin' To Die (2:49)
Skip James - I'm So Glad (2:53)


CD 2:
Big Bill Broonzy - Mississippi River Blues (2:46)
Mississippi John Hurt - Ain't No Telling (2:58)
Bukka White - Special Steam Lines (2:56)
Big Joe Williams - I'm Getting Wild About Her (2:49)
Robert Johnson - Hellhound On My Trail (2:38)
Tommy Johnson - Cool Drink Of Water Blues (3:36)
Robert Lockwood - Take A Little Walk With Me (2:55)
Muddy Waters - I Be's Troubled (3:07)
John Lee Hooker - Shady Grove Blues (3:22)
Sleepy John Estes - Hobo Jungle Blues (2:57)
Charley Patton - 34 Blues (2:58)
Ishman Bracey - Left Alone Blues (3:30)
Tommy McClennan - Highway No.51 (2:51)
Robert Petway - Rockin' Chair Blues (2:56)
Son House - My Black Mama (Part 1) (3:10)
Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's Fault But Mine (3:11)

Willie 'PoorBoy' Lofton - Dirty Mistreater (2:50)
David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - Stagolee (1:07)
Charley Patton - Moon Going Down (3:17)
Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (3:01)
Robert Johnson - Preaching Blues (Up Jumped The Devil) (2:53)
Big Joe Williams - Delta Blues (2:41)
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - Black Pony Blues (3:23)
Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie (3:25)
Bo Carter - My Pencil Won't Write No More (2:56)


2 CD set
notes by Michael Heatley

Not Now Music NOT2CD321 (EU 2009)

2 LP set
notes by Michael Heatley

(=) Not Now Music NOT2LP150 (EU 2012)

242009The Definitive Charley Patton

CD 1: A Spoonful Blues
Charley Patton - Mississippi Boweavil Blues
Bessie Smith - Bo Weevil Blues
Charley Patton - Screamin' & Hollerin' The Blues
Alberta Hunter - Down South Blues
Charley Patton - Down The Dirt Road Blues
Tommy Johnson - Big Road Blues
Charley Patton - Pony Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Black Horse Blues
Charley Patton - Banty Rooster Blues
Walter Rhodes - The Crowing Rooster
Charley Patton - Pea Vine Blues
Robert Johnson - Come On In My Kitchen
Charley Patton - Tom Rushen Blues
Ma Rainey - Booze And Blues
Charley Patton - A Spoonful Blues
Charley Jordan - Just A Spoonful
Charley Patton - Shake It And Break It
Cripple Clarence Lofton - I Don't Know
Charley Patton - Going To Move To Alabama
Jim Jackson - Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues
Charley Patton - Elder Greene Blues
Papa Charlie Jackson - I'm Alabama Bound
Charley Patton - Frankie & Albert
Charlie Poole - Leaving Home
Charley Patton - Some These Days I'll Be Gone
Ethel Waters - Some Of These Days


CD 2: Moon Goin' Down
Charley Patton - Hammer Blues
Bessie Smith - Mountain Top Blues
Charley Patton - You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die
Blind Willie Johnson - You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond
Charley Patton - High Water Everywhere Pt. 1
Mattie Delaney - Tallahatchie River Blues
Charley Patton - Jesue Is A Dying-Bed Maker
Blind Willie Johnson - Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed
Charley Patton - Running Wild Blues
Cow Cow Davenport - Running Wild
Charley Patton - Some Summer Day
Mississippi Sheiks - Sitting On Top Of The World
Charley Patton - Moon Going Down
Howlin' Wolf - Crying At Daybreak
Charley Patton - Bird Nest Bound
Ardell Bragg - Bird Nest Blues
Charley Patton - Jersey Bull Blues
Big Bill Broonzy - Bull Cow Blues
Charley Patton - 34 Blues
Howlin' Wolf - Forty Four
Charley Patton - Oh Death
Pace Jubilee Singers - Oh Death
Charley Patton - Poor Me
Hound Head Henry - Cryin' Blues
Charley Patton & Bertha Lee - Yellow Bee
Memphis Minnie - Bumble Bee


CD 3: Mississippi Bottom Blues
Bessie Smith - Mama's Got The Blues
Tommy Johnson - Bye Bye Blues
Son House - Clarksdale Moan
Kid Bailey - Mississippi Bottom Blues
Blind Pete & Partner - Banty Rooster
Louise Johnson - On The Wall
Will Weldon - Hitch Me To Your Buggy
David Edwards - Water Coast Blues
Son House - The Pony Blues
Johnny Temple - Louise, Louise Blues
Kid Bailey - Rowdy Blues
Mattie Delaney - Down The Big Road Blues
Willie Brown - Future Blues
Tommy Johnson - Maggie Campbell Blues
Son House - The Jinx Blues

Poor Boy Lofton - Dark Road Blues
Sonny Boy Nelson - Pony Blues
Skip James - If You Haven't Any Hay
Howlin' Wolf - Saddle My Pony
Marshall Owens - Texas Blues
Will Weldon - Turpentine Blues
Papa Charlie Jackson - Spoonful
Son House - My Black Mama Pt. 1
Willie Brown - M & O Blues


DVD: Talkin' Charley Patton
Various - Talkin' Charley Patton

3 CD / DVD set

Proper PROPERBOX 151 (UK/EU 2009)

252012Definitive Delta Blues

CD 1:
Elmore James - Standing At The Crossroads
Bukka White - Fixin' To Die
Robert Johnson - I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go
Charley Patton - Spoonful Blues
David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - Who May Your Regular Be
Big Bill Broonzy - Mississippi River Blues
John Lee Hooker - Miss Sadie Mae
Tommy McClennan - Bottle It Up And Go
Muddy Waters - I Be's Troubled
Blind Willie McTell - Stomp Down Rider
Mississippi John Hurt - Blue Harvest Blues

Willie 'Poor Boy' Lofton - Dirty Mistreater
Robert Lockwood Jr - Little Boy Sue
Willie Brown - Ragged And Dirty
Skip James - Devil Got My Woman
Bobo Thomas - Catfish Blues
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - Black Pony Blues
Lucious Curtis - Lonesome Highway Blues
Son House - Special Rider Blues
Charley Patton - 34 Blues
Robert Petway - Crawlin' King Snake
Tony Hollins - When The Leevee Breaks
Kansas Joe McCoy - Canned Heat Blues
Tommy Johnson - Delta Blues


CD 2:
Big Joe Williams - Country Blues
Muddy Waters - Stagolee
David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - Death Valley Blues
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - Black Spider Blues
Robert Lockwood Jr - Highway No. 51
Tommy McClennan - Candy Man Blues
Mississippi John Hurt - Hellhound On My Trail
Robert Johnson - Early In The Morning
Elmore James - Early In The Morning
Sleepy John Estes - Hobo Jungle Blues
Papa Charlie McCoy - Motherless And Fatherless Blues
Mississippi John Hurt - Blue Harvest Blues
Bukka White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
Bo Carter - Banana Your Fruit Basket
Son House - My Black Mama (Part 1)
Ishman Bracey - Left Alone Blues
Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's Fault But Mine
Luther Huff - 1951 Blues
Skip James - Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues
Robert Petway - Rockin' Chair Blues
Kansas Joe McCoy - Something Gonna Happen To You
Joe Hill Louis - Joe's Jump
Tommy Johnson - Cool Drink Water Of Blues
Big Joe Williams - Rootin' Ground Hog
Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues


CD 3:
Robert Johnson - Preaching Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)
Son House - Am I Right Or Am I Wrong?
Muddy Waters - You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie
David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - Build A Cave
Bukka White - Parchman Farm Blues
Robert Lockwood Jr - Take A Little Walk With Me
Ishman Bracey - Trouble Hearted Blues
Big Joe Williams - She's A Married Woman
Skip James - I'm So Glad
Tommy McClennan - I Love My Baby
John Lee Hooker - Landing Blues
Papa Charlie McCoy - Last Time Blues
Big Joe Williams - I'm Getting Wild About Her
Sleepy John Estes - Special Agent Blues
Bukka White - Shake Them Down
Charley Patton - Shake It And Break It
Freddie Spruell - Milk Cow Blues
L.C. Green - Little School Girl
Mississippi John Hurt - Ain't No Telling
Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night - Cold Was The Ground
Robert Johnson - Love In Vain
Charley Patton - Moon Going Down
Bukka White - Special Steam Lines
Bo Carter - My Pencil Won't Write No More


3 CD set

Not Now Music NOT3CD087 (EU 2012)

262013201 Blues Hits
201 of the best shades of blues

CD 9:
Big Charley Bradix - Dollar Diggin' Woman
Billy 'Curley' Barrix - Cool Off Baby
Howlin' Wolf - Smoke Stack Lightening
Son House - Am I Right Or Wrong?
B.B. King - Sweet Thing
Elmore James - Dust My Broom
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Black Pony Blues
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love
Robert Johnson - Cross Roads Blues

Willie 'Poor Boy' Lofton - Dirty Mistreater
Big Joe Williams - Stack Of Dollars
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Death Valley Blues
Bukka White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
Robert Johnson - Love In Vain
Roosevelt Sykes - Sweet Old Chicago
B.B. King - Bw Careful With A Fool
Eddie Boyd - 24 Hours
James Cotton - Cotton Crop Blues
Memphis Slim - Memphis Slim
Skip James - Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues


10 CD set

MCPS Ltd. 201BOX001 (EU 2013)

272014The Frog Blues & Jazz Annual No. 3
The Musicians, the Records and the Music of the 78 rpm era

Jasper Taylor & his State Street Boys - Stomp Time Blues
Roberta Dudley - Krooked Blues
Moanin' Bernice Edwards - Low Down Dirty Shame Blues
The Washingtonians - Choo Choo
Julia Lee - Won't You Come Over To My House?
Fate Marable's Society Syncopaters - Pianoflage
Lottie Kimborough & Winston Holmes - Lost Lover Blues
Lottie Kimborough & Winston Holmes - Wayward Girl Blues
Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues
Big Bill Broonzy - San Antonio Blues
South Memphis Jug Band - Doctor Medicine
Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats - Beale Street Blues
Jelly Roll Morton & his Red Hot Peppers - Sidewalk Blues #2
Freddy Keppard's Jazz Cardinals -Salty Dog #2
Louis Armstrong & his Hot Seven - Potato Head Blues
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra - Knockin' A Jug
The Hokum Trio - You Do It
Ruth Willis - Experience Blues

Poor Boy Lofton - Dark Road Blues
Cow Cow Davenport - Alabama Strut
Doc Cook & his Orchestra - Hot Tamale Man
Lee Collins & the Hangover All Stars - I Found A New Baby
Leadbelly - Mississippi River
Wilson 'Thunder' Smith - Mr. Freddie's Blues
Cow Cow & Congregation - Do You Call That Religion?


CD accompanying The Frog Blues & Jazz Annual No. 3


Frog FB&JA3 (UK 2014)

282014Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s Volume 12
2015 Calendar with free CD

CD and Calendar contents:
- When The Levee Breaks - Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe
- Dark Road Blues - Willie Lofton
- Texas Easy Street Blues - Henry Thomas
- I Want To Live So God Can Use Me - Brother Son Bonds and Hammie Nixon
- Match Box Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Dry Bone Shuffle - Blind Blake
- A Spoonful Blues - Charley Patton
- Walk Right In - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- The New Shake That Thing - Mississippi Sheiks
- Conjur Man Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- You Got What I Want - Chocolate Brown with Blind Blake
- Clanka A Lanka (Sleep On Mother) - Famous Blue Jay Singers of Birmingham


Supplementary CD tracks:
- Alcohol And Jake Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Ridin' Horse - Tommy Johnson
- Raggin' The Blues - William Moore
- Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues - Garfield Akers

- Greyhound Blues - Bill Wilber
- My Babe My Babe - Bill Wilber
- Don't You Leave Me Here - Papa Harvey Hull and Long Cleve Reed
- Cherry Hill Blues - Chocolate Brown with Blind Blake

- Beer Garden Blues - Willie Lofton Trio
- Match Box Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Little Sow Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- I'm Leaning On The Lord - Famous Blue Jay Singers of Birmingham


restored by Richard Nevins


Blues Images Calendar Vol. 12 (rel. 2014, for 2015)


Blues Images CD BIM-112 (US 2014) accompanying Blues Images Calendar Vol. 12 (for 2015)

Blues Images calendar discography



Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Karel Bogaert: Blues Lexicon.- Antwerpen (Standaard) 1972, p. 237
- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943, 4th ed. 1997, p. 552, 1027
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 215
- David Evans: Tommy Johnson.- London (Studio Vista) 1971
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, p. 660
- http://bluesimages.com/museum-78s/HTML-Individual-78s/Decca-7076-a-Poor-Boy-Lofton-Jake-Leg-Blues.html
- http://bluesimages.com/museum-78s/HTML-Individual-78s/Bluebird-6229-a-Willie-Lofton-Beer-Garden-Blues.html
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Frits Segers, Peter Brown and Rob Ford for additional info / scans

 

 

 

 

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