"It is not certain whether the artist is white or black. He certainly sounds black, but the Victor session sheet carries the description '(Hillbilly)'." (Dixon & Godrich 1982 ("B&GR"))

"Although the Victor session sheet carries the description '(Hillbilly)', the consensus has been that this is an African-American artist. However this is not certain." (Dixon, Godrich & Rye 1997 ("B&GR"))

"This artist is speculatively included in B&GR, but the recordings are described on the Victor session-sheet as 'Hillbilly'." (Russell 2004)

Later made out census records and his WWI draft registration certificate confirmed him as "white"!

Rouse Brothers - Orange Blossom Special
Carolina Tar Heels - The Train's Done Left Me
The Carter Family - Engine One-Forty-Three
Harry "Mac" McClintock - Jerry, Go Ile That Car
Tenneva Ramblers - If I Die A Railroad Man
Blind Alfred Reed - The Wreck Of The Virginian (39725-1)
Monroe Brothers - Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy
Jimmie Davis - The Davis Limited

The Delmore Brothers - The Cannon Ball
J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers - The Longest Train
Vernon Dalhart - Wreck Of The Old 97
G.B. Grayson - The Red And Green Signal Lights
Byron Parker And His Mountaineers - Peanut Special
Johnson Brothers - Crime Of The D'Autremont Brothers

(UK 1966)
RCA Victor LPV 532

William Francis & Richard Sowell
- John Henry Blues
- Roubin Blues
George "Bullet" Williams
- Middlin' Blues
Noah Lewis
- Chicasaw Special

Slim Barton And Eddie Mapp
- I'm Hot Like That
- Careless Love
De Ford Bailey
- Ice Water Blues
- Davidson County Blues
The Two Of Spades (Herbert Leonard & Harry Mays)
- Meddlin' With The Blues
- Harmonica Blues
Jaybird Coleman
- Ah'm Sick And Tired Of Tellin' You (To Wiggle That Thing)
Whistlin' Pete & Daddy Stovepipe
- Black Snake Blues

the LP front cover depicts Percy Randolph being recorded by Harry Oster, most likely January/February 1958 in New Orleans (Harry Oster, on the left of the original photo, has been cropped; the original photo was published in Les Génies du Blues, Volume 2.- Paris (Editions Atlas) 1993, p. 67 ("D.I.T.E. / I.P.S." [French photo agency]; photographer's name not given)

Roots RL-320
(Austria 1969)

= Roots RL-320
(Austria 19??)

= Roots/Autogram RL-320 (Germany 19??)

notes by Paul Oliver

Matchbox MSE-209

3 LP set with 24-pp. booklet notes (English and German) by Paul Oliver

RST Blues Documents BD-01 (Austria 1990)

3 CD set
notes by Paul Oliver

Vol. 1: 1927-1930


Vol. 2: 1927-1936


Vol. 3: 1929-1956
= Story Of Blues/Da Music 3521/3522/3523 (Austria 1992)

= Century Media SOB 3521-2/3522-2/3523-2 (1994)

Yazoo CD 2019