 Fred McDowell at the Gaslight, New York City, 1971 source: Front cover of Oblivion OD-1; photographer: Valerie Wilmer |  Short film "Blues Maker" by Christian Garrison
Mississippi Fred McDowell |  Fred McDowell at the 1969 Memphis Country Blues Festival photographer: Baron Wolman |
| # | year of release | title / label / notes | |
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| 1 | 1960 | Sounds Of The South Southern Folk Heritage Series  Neil Morris - The Banks Of The Arkansas Neil Morris & Charlie Everidge - Wave The Ocean Lonnie Young, Ed Young & Lonnie Young Jr. - Hen Duck Estil C. Ball - The Farmer's Curst Wife Vera Hall - Boll Weevil Holler The Mountain Ramblers - Jesse James Neil Morris - Jesse James Bob Carpenter - Kenny Wagner Vera Hall - Trouble So Hard Rev. W. A. Donaldson - Baptizing Scene Viola James & Congregation - Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Windham Fred McDowell - Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning # @ youtube Sid Hemphill & Lucius Smith - Come On, Boys, Let's Go To The Ball Wade Ward, Charley Higgins & Charley Poe - Paddy On The Turnpike John Davis & Group - Join The Band Ed Lewis - Lucky Holler Ed Lewis & Group - I Be So Glad When The Sun Goes Down # rec. September 21, 1959 in Como, MS by Alan Lomax with the assistance of Shirley Collins; Fred McDowell, voc, g Front cover depicts Forrest City Joe 1959 with 'Sonny Boy Rogers' (Sonny 'Cat Daddy' Rodgers); photographer: Alan Lomax
notes by Gary Kramer plus 4-pp. booklet by Alan Lomax "Atlantic Recording Corporation, 157 West 57 Street, New York 19, New York" notes by Gary Kramer plus 4-pp. booklet by Alan Lomax notes by Gary Kramer notes by Gary Kramer plus 4-pp. booklet by Alan Lomax "Atlantic Recording Corp., 75 Rockefeller Plaza, NY., NY." (1968-73)
4 CD boxset
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| 2 | 1960 | Roots Of The Blues Southern Folk Heritage Series Lonnie Young - Jim and John Vera Hall - The Wild Ox Moan Fred McDowell - Been Drinkin' Water Out Of A Hollow Log Miles Pratcher - All Night Long Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down # Forest City Joe - Levee Camp Reminiscence Lonnie Young - Chevrolet Lonnie Young - Oree Johnny Lee Moore - Levee Camp Holler - Eighteen Hammers Forest City Joe - Train Time Fred McDowell - Freight Train Blues Forest City Joe - Drink On Little Girl McDowell tracks rec. September 21, 1959 in Como, MS by Alan Lomax with the assistance of Shirley Collins
notes by Gary Kramer notes by Alan Lomax 4 CD boxset
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| 3 | 1960 | Negro Church Music Southern Folk Heritage Series Vera Hall - Death, Have Mercy James Shorty & Fred McDowell - I Want Jesus To Walk With Me °° @ youtube Mrs. Mary Lee & congregation - Jesus Is Real To Me Rev. R. C. Crenshaw & congregation - I Love The Lord Rev. G. I. Townsel - A Sermon Fragment Rev. R. C. Crenshaw & congregation - I'm Goin' Home On The Mornin' Train Madam Mattie Wigley & congregation - Power Viola James, Lonnie Young, & Ed Young - On That Rock James Shorty, Viola James, & congregation - Jesus On The Main Line James Shorty, Viola James, & congregation - This Little Light Of Mine Henry Morrison & St. Simon's Island Singers - I'm Gonna Sail Like A Ship On The Ocean John Davis, Bessie Jones, & St. Simon's Island Singers - Blow Gabriel Felix Dukes & Fred McDowell - Motherless Children @ youtube Bernice McClellan & congregation - What Do You Think About Jesus (He's All Right) McDowell tracks rec. September 21, 1959 in Como, MS by Alan Lomax with the assistance of Shirley Collins
notes by Gary Kramer = London LTZ-K 15214 = Polydor-Atlantic 590 029 (UK 1968) 4 CD boxset
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| 4 | 1960 | The Blues Roll On Southern Folk Heritage Series Boy Blue - Boogie Children Forest City Joe - She Lived Her Life Too Fast Fred McDowell - Drop Down Mama @ youtube Lonnie Young - Sittin' On Top Of The World John Dudley - Cool Water Blues Forest City Joe - She Don't Love Me That Way - Stop Breaking Down Boy Blue - Joe Lee's Rock Rosalie Hill - Bullyin' Well Fred McDowell - When You Get Home, Write Me A Few Little Lines @ youtube Forest City Joe - Red Cross Store - Forest City Jump McDowell tracks rec. September 21, 1959 in Como, MS by Alan Lomax with the assistance of Shirley Collins
notes by Gary Kramer = London LTZ-K 15215 notes by Alan Lomax 4 CD boxset | |
 double page advert for the London-Atlantic LP reissues of Southern Folk Heritage Series from Jazz Journal April 1961 (scan courtesy Alan Balfour) | |||
| 5 | 1961 | Southern Journey 5 Deep South ... Sacred And Sinful Bright Light Quartet - Sweet Roseanne Vera Hall - Mama's Gonna Buy Bessie Jones & Group - East Coast Line Miles Pratcher, Bob Pratcher - Buttermilk Ed Lewis with Johnny Lee Moore, James Carter and Henry Mason - Tom Devil Joe Armstrong, John Davis - Riley Fred McDowell - You Done Tol' Everybody @ youtube Willie Jones, Roland Hayes, Joe B. Pugh - You Got Dimples In Your Jaws Bessie Jones, Hobart Smith - It Just Suits Me James Shorty - My Mother Died And Left Me John Davis & Group - Moses, Don't Get Lost Vera Hall - No Room At The Inn / The Last Month Of The Year Denise Gardner & Mattie Gardner - I Wish I Was In Heaven Silver Leaf Quartet - Very Same Lord Bright Light Quartet - The Prayer Wheel McDowell track rec. September 21, 1959 in Como, MS by Alan Lomax with the assistance of Shirley Collins
4 CD boxset | |
| 6 | 1960 | Southern Journey 10 Yazoo Delta Blues And Spirituals Fred McDowell - 61 Highway Ed Young, Lonnie Young Sr. and Jr. - Jim and John Miles Pratcher & Bob Pratcher I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Till I Die Mattie Gardner, Ida Mae Towns, and Jessie Lee Pratcher - Little Sally Walker Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith - Old Devil's Dream John Dudley - Po' Boy Blues Fred McDowell - Fred McDowell's Blues Ed Lewis and prisoners from Lambert, MS - Stewball Anderson Burton & congregation - God's Unchanging Hand Fred McDowell - Keeps Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning Viola James & congregation - Tryin' to Make Heaven My Home Fred McDowell - Soon One Morning Leroy Gary - Mama Lucy Ervin Webb with prisoners at Parchman MS - I'm Goin' Home Henry Ratcliff - Louisiana Leroy Miller with prisoners, Parchman MS - Berta, Berta McDowell tracks rec. September 21, 1959 in Como, MS by Alan Lomax with the assistance of Shirley Collins
4 CD boxset | |
| - Done Left Here - All The Way From East St. Louis - Shake 'Em On Down - The Girl That I Am Lovin' - Good Morninig Little Schoolgirl - Left My Baby Standing - On The Frisco Line - Write Me A Few Lines - Goin' Down To The River - I Rolled And I Tumbled - Trouble Everywhere I Go - Red Cross Store Blues - John Henry - Kokomo Blues - Milk Cow Blues # - Trouble Everywhere I Go (alternate version) # - I've Been Drinking Water Out Of A Hollow Log # - Highway 61 # - Someday Baby # - untitled instr. (Como) # rec. April 21/22, 1962 at McDowell's home in Como, MS by Dick Spottswood # CD bonus tracks originally unissued Heritage HT 302 (UK 1982) | |||
| 7 | 1964 | Fred McDowell: Mississippi Delta Blues - Write Me A Few Lines - Louise - I Heard Somebody Call - 61 Highway - Mama Don't Allow Me - Kokomo Blues - Fred's Worried Life Blues - You Gonna Be Sorry - Shake 'Em On Down - My Trouble Blues - Black Minnie - That's Alright - When I Lay My Burden Down # rec. February 13/14, 1964 in Como, MS by Chris Strachwitz; Fred McDowell, voc, g; # Annie Mae McDowell, voc cover photo by Chris Strachwitz
notes by Chris Strachwitz notes by Chris Strachwitz notes by Chris Strachwitz notes by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie Records discography | |
| 8 | 1964 | My Home Is In The Delta - Blues and Spirituals by Fred and Annie Mae McDowell - Waiting For My Baby # - I'm In Jail Again # - The Girl I'm Loving # - Going Down South, Carrying My Whip # - Diving Duck Blues # - The Sun Rose This Morning # - Get Right Church * - Amazing Grace * - Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin' Bed * - Where Could I Go * - The Lord Will Make A Way * - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning * - When The Saints * CD bonus tracks: - Six White Horses # - Down on Dankin's Farm # - Big Road Blues * - When I Lay My Burden Down * # rec. November 24, 1963 in Como, MS by Norman Dayron and Pete Welding; Fred McDowell, voc, g * rec Febuary 24, 1964 in Como, MS by Norman Dayron and Pete Welding; Fred McDowell, voc, g; Annie Mae McDowell, voc Testament T-2208 (1st press) / Testament TCD-5019 cover photo by Raeburn Flerlage Testament T-2208 (2nd press) back liner photo by Brad Barrett (Fred McDowell at the Ash Grove, Los Angeles, December 29, 1968) Bounty BY 6022 / Polydor 236.570 cover photo by Valerie Wilmer
notes by Peter J. Welding notes by Peter J. Welding notes by Peter J. Welding notes by Peter J. Welding notes by Peter J. Welding 180 gram vinyl LP two CD set Testament Records discography | |
| 9 | 1965 | Bad Luck N' Trouble Clifton Chenier - Why Did You Go Last Night R.C. Smith - Don't Drive Me Away Mercy Dee - Bird Brain Baby Lightning Hopkins & Spider Kilpatrick - Candy Wagon James Phillips - No Lovin' Little Son Willis - Bad Luck N' Trouble K.C. Douglas - I Know You Didn't Want Me Fred McDowell - Fred's Rambling Blues # [Arhoolie CD 424] @ Spotify Little Son Willis - Harlem Blues Detroit Slim - Nelly Mae Essie Jenkins - Influenza Blues Bukka White - Midnight Blues [Takoma 31364] Manny Nichols - Throw A Little Boogie # rec. February 13/14 1964 in Como, MS; Fred McDowell, voc, g
Arhoolie Records discography | |
| 10 | 1965 | Fred McDowell: Cotton Country Blues - Some Day Baby - Milk Cow Blues - The Train I Ride [] - Over The Hill - Goin' Down To The River - I Wished I Were In Heaven Sitting Down - Louise rec. December 1, 1965 in Como, MS by Alan Bates; Fred McDowell, voc, g; [] Annie Mae McDowell, voc Black Lion front cover photo by Sylvia Pitcher
notes by Alan Bates
notes by Albert McCarthy notes by Albert McCarthy notes by Albert McCarthy (=) Orbis BLU NC 045 (UK 1995) "Mississippi Blues" | |
| 11 | 1965 | The Blues at Newport 1964 - Part 1 Fred McDowell - Lord I'm Going Down South (3:00) - Highway 61 (3:28) @ youtube - If The River Was Whiskey (2:20) @ youtube Sleepy John Estes - Sleepy John's Twist (2:35) || - Mailman Blues (2:35) || - Drop Down Mama (2:25) || - Clean Up At Home (2:53) || @ youtube Doc Reese - Old Hannah (3:05) - Hey Rattler / Oh My Lord (3:21) Robert Pete Williams - Levee Camp Blues (5:10) * - On My Way From Texas (3:43) * @ youtube - Midnight Boogie (3:13) * @ youtube King/Vanguard KICP 2118/9 / Vanguard CD 662247 track sequence: CD 1 - Part 1: Fred McDowell - Lord, I'm Going Down South (3:11) - Highway 61 (3:36) - If The River Was Wiskey (2:39) Sleepy John Estes - Sleepy John's Twist (2:47) || - Mailman Blues (2:44) || - Drop Down Mama (2:43) || - Clean Up At Home (3:01) || Doc Reese - Oh Hannah (4:10) - Hey Rattler (2:19) - Oh My Lord (1:08) Robert Pete Williams - Levee Camp Blues (5:26) * - On My Way From Texas (3:48) * - Midnight Boogie (3:36) * CD 2 - Part 2: Mississippi John Hurt - Sliding Delta (3:34) - Bye And Bye I Will See Jesus (3:09) - Talking Casey (4:08) Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (3:34) - Cherry Ball Blues (3:07) - Sick Bed Blues (2:03) - Cypress Grove Blues (4:24) Robert Wilkins - The Prodigal Son (9:40) Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (3:08) - Oh Baby It Ain't No Lie (1:57) Willie Doss - Coal Black Mare (2:42) # - I Had A Woman (2:28) ## - Hobo Blues (2:22) # rec. July 23-26, 1964 live at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, RI # rec. July 25, 1964 (Saturday afternoon, 1:30 p.m. at St. Michael's School); Willie Doss, voc, g; ## hca * rec. July 25, 1964; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g || rec. July 25, 1964; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca, jug; Yank Rachell, mand photos by David Gahr
notes by Samuel Charters notes by Samuel Charters notes by Samuel Charters 2 CD set 2 CD set Newport Folk Festival discography | |
| 12 | 1965 | Traditional Music at Newport 1964 - Part 1 Hobart Smith - Coo-Coo Bird - Railroad Bill - Jack Of Diamonds Moving Star Hall Singers - Mother Is Gone - See God's Ark Sarah Gunning - Girl Of Constant Sorrow Cajun Band - Les flammes d'enfer - La valse du musician Willie Doss - Catfish Blues @ youtube Ken and Neriah Benfield - Caty Cline - Ella's Grave Joe Patterson - Fox Chase - Shear Them Sheep Even - Casey Jones Sacred Harp Singers - Calvary - Rocky Road Chet Parker & Elgia Hickok - Temperance Reel - Golden Slippers Bill Thatcher - The Job I Left Behind Doc Watson (with Gaither Carlton & Arnold Watson) - Muskrat - Cripple Creep Fred McDowell - Fred's Rambling Blues # @ youtube - Shake 'Em Down ## @ youtube # rec. July 23-26, 1964 live at the Newport Folk Festival; Fred McDowell, voc, g; ## Georgia Sea Island Singers, voc
notes by Ralph Rinzler notes by Ralph Rinzler 2 CD set Newport Folk Festival discography | |
| 13 | 1965 | Newport Folk Festival 1964 Evening Concerts Vol. 3 Doc Watson (with Merle Watson & Arnold Watson) - Blueridge Mountain Blues - Blackberry Blossom - Going Down This Road Feeling Bad Fred McDowell (with the Georgia Sea Island Singers) - Louise Hedy West - 500 Miles - Anger In The Land Swan Silvertones - Oh Mary Don't You Weep - Feed Me, Jesus Tom Paxton - Bottle Of Wine - That Was The Last Thing On My Mind Koerner, Ray & Glover @ youtube - Blackjack Davy - What's The Matter With The Mill Judy Roderick - He Was A Friend Of Mine @ youtube - Mr. Brown To You @ youtube - Blues On My Ceiling (with John Hammond, hca) @ youtube The Cajun Band - Bosco Stomp rec. July 23-26, 1964 live at the Newport Folk Festival compiled and programmed by Jack Lothrop and M.S. [Maynard Solomon] front cover photo by Seymour Solomon; back cover photos by David Gahr
notes by Stacey Williams notes by Stacey Williams notes by Stacey Williams
reel-to-reel tape triple album Newport Folk Festival discography | |
| 14 | 1965 |
Fred McDowell - Highway 61 @ youtube J.B. Lenoir - Slow Down @ youtube Walter Horton - Christine @ youtube Roosevelt Sykes - Come On Back Home @ youtube Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years (3:14) # @ youtube @ Spotify Eddie Boyd - The Big Question (2:49) # @ youtube @ Spotify Jimmy Lee Robinson - Rosalie @ youtube John Lee Hooker - King Of The World @ youtube John Lee Hooker - Della Mae @ youtube Buddy Guy - First Time I Met The Blues @ youtube Big Mama Thornton - Houn' Dog @ youtube Doctor Ross - My Black Name Is Ringing @ youtube # rec. October 8, 1965 at a studio in Hamburg, Germany; Eddie Boyd, voc, org; Buddy Guy, g; Jimmy Lee Robinson, b; Fred Below, dr
Philips/Phonogram SFL-7386 track sequence:
ACT CD 9204 track sequence:
American Folk Blues Festival discography
notes by Horst Lippmann notes by Horst Lippmann notes by Horst Lippmann notes by Horst Lippmann notes by Horst Lippmann Fontana Records discography
5 CD set 2 mini LP CDs L+R Records discography | |
| 15 | 1966 | Fred McDowell Vol. 2 - I Ain't Gonna Be Bad No More # [Arhoolie CD 304] - Where Were You # [Arhoolie CD 424] @ Spotify - I Looked At The Sun # [Arhoolie CD 424] @ Spotify - Do My Baby Ever Think Of Me # [Arhoolie CD 304] - Brooks Run Into The Ocean * [Arhoolie CD 304] - Bull Dog Blues * [Arhoolie CD 304] - I Walked All The Way From East St. Louis [Arhoolie CD 424] @ Spotify - Red Cross Store Blues // [Arhoolie CD 424] @ Spotify - Gravel Road Blues // [Arhoolie CD 424] @ Spotify - Frisco Lines // [Arhoolie CD 304] - You Got To Move // [Arhoolie CD 304] - I Wish I Was In Heaven Sittin Down [] [Arhoolie CD 501] # rec. February 13/14, 1964 in Como, MS; Fred McDowell, voc, g * rec. March 1965 in Holly Springs, MS; Fred McDowell, voc, g; Eli Green, voc [] rec. May 2, 1965, Fred McDowell, voc, g; Annie Mae McDowell, voc; Hunter's Chapel Spiritual Singers, vocals // rec. July 5, 1965 in Berkeley, CA; Fred McDowell, voc, g cover photo by Jim Marshall
notes by Pete Welding Arhoolie Records discography | |
| 16 | 1966 | The Sound Of The Delta A Mississippi Blues Anthology Ruby McCoy - Black Mary Elijah Brown - Won't Be Troubled Long Big Joe Williams - Your Close Friend # Avery Brady - Goin' Home With My Baby °° Mississippi Fred McDowell - Kokomo Bert Logan - Don't You Want To Be A Member? Elijah Brown - Pearline @ youtube Arthur Weston - Uncle Sam Called Me (I Got To Go) Avery Brady - Bad Weather Big Joe Williams - Walkin' Blues °° Ruby McCoy - Rising Sun, Shine On @ youtube Arthur Weston - Early In The Morning Big Joe Williams - Walkin' Ground Hog * Elijah Brown - Winding Ball @ youtube Avery Brady - Uncle Sam's Own Ship °° Russ Logan - Annie Mae Mississippi Fred McDowell - Louise Avery Brady - Let Me Drive Your Ford @ youtube Andrew Cauthen - Canary Bird °° CD bonus tracks prod. by Sammy and Pete Welding; engineered by Norman Dayron or Big Joe Williams Big Joe Williams tracks rec. 1964 in Chicago, IL; Big Joe Williams, voc, g; # Bill Foster, g; * Jimmy Brown, violin photography by Pete Welding
notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding Testament Records discography | |
| 17 | 1966 | Fred McDowell And The Hunter's Chapel Singers: Amazing Grace - Jesus On The Mainline - When I Lay My Burden Down - I'm So Glad I Got Good Religion - Going Over The Hill - I Know I've Been Converted - Just a Little More Faith - Back Back Train - You Got To Move - Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed - Amazing Grace - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning - Tell The Angels - When You Come Out Of The Wilderness - The Lord Will Make A Way - It's A Blessing - This Little Light Of Mine CD bonus tracks: - Going Over The Hill - Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed - The Lord Will Make A Way rec. February 6, 1966 in Chicago, IL; Fred McDowell, voc, g; Fannie Davis, voc; Annie Mae McDowell, voc; Grace Bowden, voc; James Collins, voc
notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding Testament Records discography | |
| 18 | 1966 | Big Mama Thornton In Europe - Swing It On Home °° @ youtube @ Spotify - Sweet Little Angel °° @ youtube @ Spotify - The Place @ youtube @ Spotify - Little Red Rooster °° @ youtube @ Spotify - Unlucky Girl || °° @ youtube @ Spotify - Hound Dog || °° @ youtube (footage!) @ Spotify - My Heavy Load # °° @ youtube @ Spotify - School Boy # °° @ youtube @ Spotify - Down Home Shakedown || @ youtube (footage!) @ Spotify - Your Love Is Where It Ought To Be °° @ youtube @ Spotify - Session Blues || @ youtube @ Spotify Arhoolie CD 9056 bonus tracks: - I Need Your Love @ Spotify - Good Time In London @ Spotify - Chauffeur Blues # @ Spotify - Swing It On Home @ Spotify - Hound Dog (tk 2) @ Spotify - Big Mama talks with Chris Strachwitz @ Spotify rec. October 20, 1965 at Wessex Studio in London, UK by Chris Strachwitz; Big Mama Thornton, voc, hca; Eddie Boyd, keyb; Buddy Guy, g; || Big Walter Horton, hca; # Mississippi Fred McDowell, g; Jimmie Lee Robinson, b; Fred Below, dr cover photo by Chris Strachwitz
°° on Arhoolie CD 305 ("The best of Arhoolie LPs 1028, 1032 & 1039")
notes by Chris Strachwitz
Arhoolie Records discography | |
| 19 | 1967 | Long Way From Home - The Blues Of Fred McDowell - The Train I Ride (4:09) @ youtube - Poor Boy Long Way From Home (3:52) @ Spotify - Milk Cow Blues (3:31) @ youtube - John Henry (3:53) @ Spotify - Gravel Road Blues (3:44) @ Spotify - Millionaire's Daughter Blues (3:29) @ youtube - Big Fat Mama (4:39) @ Spotify - You Drove Me From Your Door (5:29) @ youtube - Sail On, Little Girl (4:37) @ Spotify rec. November 12, 1966 at the University of California in Los Angeles, CA by Pete Welding with the assistance of David Evans; Fred McDowell, voc, g cover photo by David Gahr
notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding
notes by Pete Welding
notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding Milestone Records discography | |
| 20 | 1968 | This Old World's In A Hell Of A Fix the gospel according to ... Rev. Dr. J. Gordon McPherson - This Old World's In A Hell Of A Fix (excerpts from sermon) Rev. Robert Wilkins - Old Time Religion - I Wish I Was In Heaven - Holy Ghost Train - The Gamblin' Man Fred McDowell - Jesus Is On The Main Line - See What My Lord Has Done Skip James - Let Jesus Lead You Jaybird Coleman - I'm Gonna Cross The River Jordan Sam Collins - Devil In The Lion's Den Rev. Moses Mason - Go Wash In The Beautiful Stream Washington Phillips - You Can't Stop A Tattler Blind Lemon Jefferson - I Want to Be Like Jesus in My Heart - All I Want Is That Pure Religion - He Arose From The Dead
notes by Richard K. Spottswood Biograph Records discography | |
| 21 | 1969 | Mississippi Delta Blues - Vol. 1 Napoleon Strickland - Oh Baby Do Boy Diamond - Long Haired Doney - Going Away Blues Johnny Woods & Fred McDowell - Three O'Clock In The Morning # Walter Miller - Stuttgart, Ark Tom Turner - Gonna Bring Her Right Back Home Furry Lewis - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Robert Diggs - Drink, Drink, Drink Dewey Corley - Fishing In The Dark Teddy Williams - Down Home Blues Houston Stackhouse - Canned Heat Peck Curtis - The Death Of Sonny Boy Williamson # rec. August 1967 in Como, MS by George Mitchell and Roger Brown; Johnny Woods, voc. hca; Fred McDowell, g; edited & produced by Chris Strachwitz all photographs by George Mitchell
gatefold LP non gatefold LP (=) Arhoolie CD 401 (US 1994) Arhoolie Records discography | |
| 22 | 1968 | The Roots Of America's Music LP 1: Country Blues Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down Mance Lipscomb - Sugar Babe Black Ace - New Triflin' Woman Alex Moore - July Boogie Big Joe Williams - Greystone Blues Lil Son Jackson - Roberta John Jackson - Going Down In Georgia On A Horn Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly - No More Hard Times Lowell Fulson - River Blues City Blues Mercy Dee - Walked Down So Many Turnrows Juke Boy Bonner - Going Back To The Country Lightning Hopkins - Tom Moore Blues Big Mama Thornton - Unlucky Girl Clifton Chenier - Louisiana Blues Larry Williams - I Know You Hear Me Calling Johnny Young - Wild Wild Woman LP 2: Gospel & Jazz Bukka White - Jesus Died On The Cross To Save The World Jesse Fuller - Amazing Grace Rev. Overstreet - I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord Robert Shaw - The Ma Grinder Kid Thomas - Eh La Bas Joe Turner - Old Piney Brown's Gone Luna - Nisaba In The Grass Country, Cajun & Folk J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers - Run Mountain Del McCoury - Dreams The Hodges Brothers - Carroll County Blues Luderin Darbone - Crowley Waltz Nathan Abshire - Cajun Two Step Alice Stuart - Once I Had A Sweetheart Crabgrass - Charles Giteau James Campbell - Baby Please Don't Go compilation of tracks previously on Arhoolie LPs; ed. & prod. by Chris Strachwitz no previously unissued tracks!
2-disc package
Arhoolie Records discography | |
| 23 | 1969 | Fred McDowell And His Blues Boys - My Baby * # - Levee Camp Blues * # - When The Saints Go Marching In * - Diamond Ring * - Dankin's Farm * - Big Stars Falling [] - You Ain't Treating Me Right * - Meet Me Down In Froggy Bottom * - Ethel Mae Blues [] rec. July 5, 1965 in Berkeley, CA; Fred McDowell, voc, g rec. August 19-21, 1969 in Berkeley, CA; Fred McDowell, voc, g; * Mike Russo, g; * John Kahn, b; # Bob Jones, dr
notes by Pete Welding
Arhoolie Records discography | |
| 24 | 1969 | Memphis Swamp Jam Booker White - Christmas Eve Blues - Columbus, MS Blues - Sad Day Blues Piano Red - Mobile Blues - Abel Street Stomp Nathan Beauregard - Nathan's Bumble Bee Blues - 'Bout A Spoonful Sleepy John Estes - Need More Blues - President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long Fred McDowell - Shake Em On Down - Fred's Blues - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning Napoleon Strickland - Back Water Rising - Other's Piece - Shimmy She Wobble Furry Lewis - Judge Boushay Blues - Walking Blues Watson & Jones [John Fahey & Bill Barth] - Memphis Rag - St. Louis Blues - Praying On The Old Campground McDowell tracks rec. June 9, 1969 in Memphis, Tenn.; Fred McDowell, voc, g, Johnny Woods, hca
inner gatefold of Blue Thumb BTS 6000 DLP (=) Arhoolie 1084 (1979)
Arhoolie Records discography | |
| 25 | 1969 | Mississippi Fred McDowell: I Do Not Play No Rock 'N' Roll - Baby Please Don't Go - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Kokomo Me Baby - That's All Right Baby - Red Cross Store - Everybody's Down On Me - 61 Highway - Glory Hallelujah - Jesus Is On The Mainline bonus tracks on Fuel 2000 CD: - My Baby She Gonna Jump And Shout - Long Line Skinner - You Got To Move - The Train I Ride - You Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Anymore rec. September 8-10, 1969 at Malaco Sound Recording Studios, in Jackson, MS; prod. by Tommy Couch; Fred McDowell, g, voc; Jerry Puckett, b; Darin Lancaster, dr
notes by Fred McDowell 2 CDs
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| 26 | 1969 | Mississippi Fred McDowell In London Volume One @ youtube (full album)- Some Sweet Day - Mojo Hand [Transatlatic TRA SAM 25] - Amazing Grace - My Second Mind - I Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down - My Babe - "Take Your Picture Darling" [actually "Burying Ground"] - Diving Duck Blues [Sire SES 97015] - I Don't Need No Heater [Sire SES 97015, mistitled "I Don't Need No Healer"] rec. March 8, 1969 in London, UK by the National Blues Federation; Fred McDowell, voc, g
notes by Mike Raven notes by Mike Raven | |
| 27 | 1969 | Mississippi Fred McDowell In London Volume Two Transatlantic TRA 203 / Everest/Archive ... FS-253 / Drive Archive CD 41040 track sequence: - What's The Matter With Papa's Little Angel Child - Levee Camp Blues - Got To Move - Get Right Church - Big Fat Mama - Unknown Blues - Good Morning Little School Girl - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning - You Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Anymore - The Train I Ride Rykodisc/Tradition TCD 1012 track sequence: - Unknown Blues (aka I Heard Somebody Call) - The Train I Ride - Levee Camp Blues - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning - You Got to Move - What's The Matter With Papa's Little Angel - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - You Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Anymore - Get Right Church - Big Fat Mama rec. March 8, 1969 in London, UK; Fred McDowell, voc, g; prod. by the National Blues Foundation Rykodisc/Tradition reissue prod. by David Greenberg & Anton Glovsky; photographer: Jim Marshall notes (October 1969) by Mike Raven
= Gamma 68905 (Fr) = Dargil FS-253 (Portugal)
notes by Mississippi Fred McDowell & Anton Glovsky | |
| 28 | 1969 | Blues Roots LP 1: - Frisco Lines - Fred McDowell - Fare You Well Baby Blues - Joe Callicott - Long Haired Doney - R.L. Burnside - Mean Stepfather - Big Joe Williams - Bald Eagle Train - Bukka White and "Washboard Willie" [= Wayne Pope!] @ youtube - Don't Drive Me Away - R.C. Smith - Long Tall Girl - Mance Lipscomb - Red River Blues - Lil' Son Jackson - I Am the Black Ace - Black Ace - Whistling Alex Moore Blues - Alex Moore - Texas Blues - Lowell Fulson and Martin Fulson, rhythm g - Cat Bear - John Jackson - The Ma Grinder - Robert Shaw - Take A Walk - Lightnin' Hopkins LP 2: - Bear Cat - John Jackson - Snowing and Raining - Guitar Slim and Jelly Belly - Got A Date I Can't Be Late - Jesse Fuller - You Got Another - Lightnin' Hopkins and Barbara Dane - Struggle Here - Juke Boy Bonner and Alvin J. Simon, dr - Listen At That Bull - G. Coleman - Trouble Blues - Big Joe Turner - Dream - John Littlejohn - Sugar Daddy - Mercy Dee Walton - I'm Feeling Alright - Big Mama Thornton - Sometimes I Cry - Johnny Young - Black Snake Blues - Clifton Chenier - Two Bugs - Earl Hooker "The selections from this album have been comprised from the catalog of Arhoolie Records ... Except where otherwise indicated, all selections produced and recorded by Chris Strachwitz"
gatefold DLP
= Tomato TOM-2-7006 (US 1978) gatefold DLP 2 CD set | |
| 29 | 1969 | Fred McDowell / Furry Lewis: When I Lay My Burden Down Fred McDowell # - If You See My Baby - John Henry - Louise - 61 Highway - Big Fat Mama - When I Lay My Burden Down - Dankin's Farm Furry Lewis (rec. Nov., 1968) - Casey Jones (Ramblin' Mind) - Every Day Of The Week - Grieve My Mind - Casey Jones (Ramblin' Mind) - Beale Street Blues - When I Lay My Burden Down # rec. February 1969 in Como, MS; Fred McDowell, voc, g
notes by Ernest F. Dyson = Blue Moon BMLP 1.047 (UK 1988) Biograph Records discography | |
| 30 | 1970 | Stars Of The 1969-1970 Memphis Country Blues Festival Furry Lewis - Judge Boyshoy [sic] Blues * [actually "Judge Harsh Blues" aka "Grand Central Station"] * [Blue Horizon 7-63228] - John Henry * [Blue Horizon 7-63228] Joe Callicott - Hoist Your Window \\ [Blue Horizon 7-63227] - On My Last Go Round \\ [Blue Horizon 7-63227] Champion Jack Dupree - Right Now § [Decca SKL 4871] Champion Jack Dupree - Troubles § ° [Decca SKL 4871] Bukka White - Big Boat Blues // [actually "Drifting Blues"] [Blue Horizon 7-63229] - Old Man Tom // [Blue Horizon 7-63229] Fred McDowell - Diving Duck Blues # [Transatlantic TRA 194] - I Don't Need No Healer [actually "Heater"] # [Transatlantic TRA 194] * rec. July 21, 1968 at Ardent Studios in Memphis, TN by Mike Vernon; Furry Lewis, voc, g \\ rec. July 21, 1968 at Ardent Studios, Memphis, TN by Mike Vernon; Joe Callicott, voc, g § rec. April 4 & 5, 1967 in London, UK by Mike Vernon; Champion Jack Dupree, voc, p; Albert Hall, tp; Rx Morris, Bob Efford, ts; Harry Klein, bs; Mickey Baker, g, tamb, ° voc; John Baldwin, b; Ronnie Verrell, dr // rec. July 21, 1968 at Ardent Studios, Memphis, TN by Mike Vernon; Bukka White, voc, g # rec. March 8, 1969 in London, UK by the National Blues Federation; Fred McDowell, voc, g
Furry Lewis discography | |
| 31 | 1970 | All Day Thumb Sucker Southwind - Rootin & Tootin Sam Lay - Maggie's Farm Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down [Blue Thumb BTS 6000] Robbie Basho - Eagle Sails The Blue Tyrannosaurus Rex - Cat Black Ike & Tina Turner - Bold Soul Sister Love - Run To The Top Nathan Beauregard - 'Bout A Spoonful [Blue Thumb BTS 6000] Aynsley Dunbar - Sugar On The Line Albert Collins - Frosty Earl Hooker - Cross Cut Saw Chicago Bluestars - Comin Home Bossa Rio - Blackbird
notes by John Mendelsohn notes by John Mendelsohn [Blue Thumb BT3 7002 "All Day Thumb Sucker Revisited" (US 1995) without Nathan Beauregard track] | |
| 31a | 1970 | The New Spirit of Capitol Steve Miller Band - Little Girl (3:20) Hedge & Donna - Jamie (2:40) Joe South - Games People Play (3:33) Linda Ronstadt - Silver Threads And Golden Needles (2:19) John Stewart - July, You're A Woman (3:12) David Axelrod - A Little Girl Lost (3:24) The Edgar Broughton Band - Boy Soldier (4:18) Grand Funk Railroad - Please Don't Worry (4:16) The Sons - It's Time (3:55) Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine (4:10) Guitar Jr. - Broke An' Hungry (3:10) Bob Seger System - Innervenus Eyes (2:44) Mississippi Fred McDowell - Red Cross Store (4:48)
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| 31b | 1971 | Fred McDowell and Johnny Woods: Eight Years Ramblin' Revival RVS 1001 / Barclay 920415 track sequence: - Shake Em On Down [] - Going Down To The River [] - Smokestack Lightning # [not on Fat Possum CD] - My Babe # [not on Fat Possum CD] - Long Haired Doney # - Red Cross Store [] - I Left My Baby (Sitting In The Back Door Crying) (aka Standing At The Back Door) [] - John Henry [] - Scratch My Back * [not on Fat Possum CD] - Going Away [] Rounder 2007 / Guimbarda 30111075 track sequence: - Shake Em On Down [] - Smokestack Lightning # [not on Fat Possum CD] - John Henry [] - My Babe # [not on Fat Possum CD] - Red Cross Store [] - Going Down To The River [] - Long Haired Doney # - I Left My Baby (Sitting In The Back Door Crying) (aka Standing At The Back Door) [] - Going Away [] - Scratch My Back * [not on Fat Possum CD] Fat Possum CD 03642 track sequence: - Shake Em On Down [] - Going Away [] - Mama Says I'm Crazy [previously unissued] [] - I Got A Woman [previously unissued] # - Red Cross Store [] - Going Down To The River [] - Standing At The Back Door [] - What's Going To Become Of Me? [previously unissued] [] - Long Haired Doney # - John Henry [] - I Walked All Night Long [previously unissued] [] [] rec. August 1967 in Como, MS by George Mitchell; Fred McDowell, voc, g; Johnny Woods, hca # rec. August 1967 in Como, MS by George Mitchell; Johnny Woods, voc, hca; Fred McDowell, g * rec. August 1967 in Como, MS by George Mitchell; Johnny Woods, voc. hca
notes by George Mitchell and Tony Martin notes by George Mitchell notes by George Mitchell
notes by George Mitchell Revival Records discography add'l releases @ discogs | |
 The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers.- Rolling Stones Records/Atlantic COC-59100 1971 including a cover of Fred McDowell's 'You Gotta Move' | |||
| 32 | spring 1972 | Mississippi Fred McDowell Live In New York - Shake 'Em On Down - I'm Crazy About You Baby - John Henry - You Got To Move - Someday - Mercy - The Lovin' Blues - Goin' To The River resp. (on 2nd ed.) - White Lightnin' °° - Baby Please Don't Go rec. November 5, 1971 at the Gaslight, New York City; with Tom Pomposello, b or 2nd g; prod. by Fred Seibert Oblivion OD-1 photography by Valerie Wilmer Tomato LP / CD 2696372 photography by David Gahr °° "Goin' To The River" only on original 1972 edition; on all later editions replaced by "White Lightnin'"
notes by Tom Pomposello and Fred McDowell new notes (March 1973) by Tom Pomposello notes by Tom Pomposello notes by Tom Pomposello new notes (19??) by Tom Pomposello
notes by Les Fancourt 2 CD set containing whole session
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| 33 | 1972 | Mississippi Fred McDowell 1904-1972 Just Sunshine JSS 4 / XTRA 1136 / tracks: - Someday - Write Me A Few Of Your Lines - Mortgage On My Soul - Baby Let Me Lay Down (In Your Cool Iron Bed) - Drop Down Mama - Rap - Louise - Somebody Keeps Callin' Me - Eyes Like An Eagle Antilles AN-7022 / Collector's Issue C-5526 with # bonus tracks: - Someday - Write Me A Few Of Your Lines - Mortgage On My Soul - Baby Let Me Lay Down (In Your Cool Iron Bed) - Shake Em' On Down # - Goin Down To The River (And Sat Down On The Ground) # - Drop Down Mama - Rap - Louise - Somebody Keeps Callin' Me - Eyes Like A Eagle - Goin' Down South # rec. September 8-10, 1969 at Malaco Sound Recording Studios, in Jackson, MS; prod. by Tommy Couch; Fred McDowell, g, voc; Jerry Puckett, b; Darin Lancaster, dr cover photograph by Baron Wolman, 1969
notes by Michael Cuscuna notes by Michael Cuscuna
notes by Michael Cuscuna 2 CDs XTRA Records discography | |
| 34 | 1972 | Blues For Your Pocket Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground [XTRA 1098] Son House - New Pony Blues [Transatlantic TRA 223] Furry Lewis - Pearlee Blues [XTRA 1116] Jazz Gillum - Key To The Highway [XTRA 1111] Big Bill Broonzy - Guitar Shuffle [XTRA 1004] Brownie McGhee - Sportin' Life Blues [XTRA 1035] Memphis Slim - Boogie Woogie Piano Styles [XTRA 1085] Little Brother Montgomery - Lonesome Mama [XTRA 1115] Sticks McGhee - Drink Of Wine Mop Mop [XTRA 1110] J.D. Short - So Much Wine [XTRA 1080] James 'Son' Thomas - Beefsteak Blues [XTRA 1105] Fred McDowell - Mojo Hand [Transatlantic TRA 194] compiled by Mike Leadbitter
notes by Mike Leadbitter
XTRA Records discography | |
| 35 | 1972 | The Great Blues Men Vanguard VSD 25/26, LP 1: Homesick James - Set A Date John Lee Hooker - Dusty Road Sleepy John Estes - Corinna °° Muddy Waters - Nineteen Years Old Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues Mance Lipscomb - Blues In G Rev. Gary Davis - If I Had My Way °° Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Key To The Highway Otis Spann - Burning Fire Lightnin' Hopkins - Cotton Field Blues Big Bill Broonzy - Louise, Louise Blues Johnny Young - Tighten Up On It James Cotton - Ain't Nobody's Business Vanguard VSD 25/26, LP 2: Mississippi John Hurt - Moanin' The Blues Junior Wells - Stormy Monday Blues °° Johnny Shines - Dynaflow Blues Son House (+ Al Wilson) - Empire State Blues °° Sonny Terry - Mountain Blues Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - It's All Right, Baby Jimmy Rushing - How Long, How Long Blues Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues J. B. Hutto - Please Help Fred McDowell - Fred's Ramblin' Blues Ida Cox - Four Day Creep °° Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VCD 115/16 (US 1991) Newport Folk Festival discography
Vanguard VCD 25/26:
gatefold DLP
gatefold DLP
DLP, no gatefold, but 2-page leaflet
notes Leroy J. Pierson lots of further editions at www.discogs.com | |
| 36 | 1973 | Fred McDowell: Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning - Introduction // - I Heard Somebody Calling // - Amazing Grace // - Where Could I Go But To The Lord [] - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning [] - Bye And Bye * - Dig My Grave With A Silver Spade § - Don't Look For Me On A Sunday # [Arhoolie CD 424] @ Spotify - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl # [Arhoolie CD 424] @ Spotify - Little Girl, Little Girl, How Old Are You # [Arhoolie CD 424] @ Spotify - Levee Camp Blues $ # rec. February 13/14, 1964 in Como, MS; Fred McDowell, voc, g [] rec. May 2, 1965; Fred McDowell, voc, g; Annie Mae McDowell, voc; Hunter's Chapel Spiritual Singers, voc // rec. June 23, 1965 in Berkeley, CA; Fred McDowell, voc, g * rec. July 5, 1965 in Berkeley, CA; Fred McDowell, voc, g $ rec. live June 9, 1969 in Memphis, TN; Fred McDowell, voc, g; Johnny Woods, hca § rec. August 19-21, 1969 in Berkeley, CA; Fred McDowell, voc, g; Mike Russo, g; John Kahn, b front cover photo by Peter Feldmann
notes by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie Records discography | |
| 37 | 1973 | Mississippi Fred McDowell / Guitar Jr. Mississippi Fred McDowell - Baby Please Don't Go - 61 Highway - Kokomo Me Baby - Everybody's Down On Me Guitar Jr. (aka Lonnie Brooks) Broke An' Hungry Wee Wee Hours Rooster Blues Texas Flood promotional picture disk; tracks taken from Capitol ST-403 (Guitar Jr. 1969) and Capitol ST-409 (McDowell 1969)
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| 38 | 1973 | Mississippi Fred McDowell: Somebody Keeps Calling Me - Someday - Write Me A Few Of Your Lines - Mortgage On My Soul - Baby Let Me Lay Down - Shake 'Em On Down # - Goin' Down To The River # - Drop Down Mama - Rap - Louise - Somebody Keeps Callin' Me - Eyes Like An Eagle - Goin' Down South # # tracks not on Just Sunshine JSS 4 (1972)
notes by Pete Welding = Mango CD7022 (1990) notes by Pete Welding and Bonnie Raitt | |
| 38a | 1975 | Honest Tom Pomposello - Tommy's Jump - Old Joe Clark - Jesus Died on the Cross (To Save The World) - Movin' Too Fast - Supreme Court Breakdown - Amazing Grace - Meeting You - St. Louis Blues - (I'm) Watchin' The T.V. - Hey Little Girl (Who Made Your Dress?) #
rec. 1973-75; prod. by Fred Seibert
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| 38b | 1976 | Great Bluesmen Newport Robert Pete Williams - Midnight Boogie (3:13) [Vanguard VRS 9180] @ youtube - Levee Camp Blues (5:16) [Vanguard VRS 9180] Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - My Baby Done Changed The Lock On The Door John Lee Hooker with Bill Lee on bass - Tupelo - Bus Station Blues Son House - Son's Blues (6:18) [aka "Preaching Blues"] [Vanguard VSD 79225] - Death Letter Blues (2:50) °° [Vanguard VSD 79225] - Pony Blues (2:30) [previously unissued] (with Mance Lipscomb, 2nd g) Sleepy John Estes - Mailman Blues [Vanguard VRS 9180 / VSD 79180] - Clean Up At Home [Vanguard VRS 9180 / VSD 79180] @ youtube Doc Reese - Hey Rattler / Oh My Lord [Vanguard VRS 9180 / VSD 79180] Mississippi John Hurt - Sliding Delta [Vanguard VRS-9145 / VSD-79145] - Trouble, I've Had It All My Day [Vanguard VRS-9145 / VSD-79145] Skip James - Hard Times Killing Floor Blues [previously unissued] - Cherry Ball Blues °° [Vanguard VRS-9181 / VSD-79181] - Illinois Blues [previously unissued] The Reverend Gary Davis - Death Don't Have No Mercy [Vanguard SRV-73008] Willie Doss - Catfish Blues [Vanguard VRS-9182 / VSD-79182] @ youtube - I Had A Woman [Vanguard VRS-9181 / VSD-79181] Mississippi Fred McDowell - Lord, I'm Going Down South [Vanguard VRS-9180 / VSD-79180] - If The River Was Whiskey [Vanguard VRS-9180 / VSD-79180] Lightnin' Hopkins with Samuel Lay - Cotten Fields Blues - Shake That Thing front cover drawing by Eric Von Schmidt °° note on CD 77/78: "due to compact disc time restrictions some songs on the original album are not included in this package"
DLP DLP
notes (December 1988) by Samuel Charters | |
| 39 | 1977 | Roots Of The Blues Henry Ratcliff - Louisiana Bakari-Badji - Field Song From Senegal John Dudley - Po' Boy Blues Tangle Eye - Kate Left Memphis Leroy Miller And A Group Of Prisoners - Berta, Berta Fred McDowell And Miles Pratcher - Old Original Blues [= Fred McDowell Blues] Ed Young And Lonnie Young - Jim And John Alec Askew - Emmaline, Take Your Time Miles Pratcher And Bob Pratcher - Buttermilk Leroy Gary - Mama Lucy Miles Pratcher And Bob Pratcher - I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Till I Die Tangle Eye And A Group Of Prisoners - No More, My Lord Rev. Crenshaw And The Congregation Of New Brown's Chapel, Memphis - Lining Hymn And Prayer Fred McDowell - Death Comes A-Creepin' In My Room [= Soon One Mornin'] Congregation Of New Brown's Chapel, Memphis - Church-House Moan Bessie Jones - Beggin' The Blues Rose Hemphill - Rolled And Tumbled # Fred McDowell, Miles Pratcher, And Fannie Davis - Goin' Down To The Races [= Goin' Down To The River] Forrest City Joe - You Gotta Cut That Out McDowell tracks rec. September 21, 1959 in Como, MS by Alan Lomax with the assistance of Shirley Collins # Fred McDowell erroneously credited as guitarist
notes by Alan Lomax | |
| 40 | 1980 | Fred McDowell: Levee Camp Blues Fred McDowell 1968: The Early Days Recalled A Folk-Blues Document - Never-Before-Issued! - Levee Camp Blues @ Spotify - Let Me Lay Down in Your Cool Iron Bed @ Spotify - My Baby Don't Treat Me Like Humankind @ Spotify - My Baby Has Eyes Like An Eagle (tk 2) @ Spotify - Jim Steam Killed Lula @ youtube @ Spotify - Pea Vine Special @ Spotify - Dark Clouds A-Rising @ Spotify - My Baby Has Eyes Like An Eagle (tk 1) @ Spotify - Will Me Your Gold Watch And Chain @ Spotify - Won't Be Worried Long @ Spotify - Down On Dankin's Farm @ Spotify - Bye And Bye, Goin' To See The King @ Spotify CD bonus tracks: - Goin' Over The Hill # @ Spotify - When I Lay My Burden Down # @ Spotify rec. March 1968 in Los Angeles, CA by Pete Welding; Fred McDowell, voc, g # rec. February 6, 1966 in Chicago, IL; Fred McDowell, voc, g; Fannie Davis, voc; Annie Mae McDowell, voc; Grace Bowden, voc; James Collins, voc
notes by Bill Givens and Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding OJL Records discography | |
| 41 | 1981 | John Vincent presents Genuine Mississippi Blues Ace LP 2028 track sequence: Bad Smitty - Smokestack Lightnin - How Many More Years Sam Myers - Sad & Lonesome [Ace unissued] - You're So Fine [Ace 3027] - Money Is My Downfall [Ace unissued] - Gold Tail Bird (tk 2) [Ace unissued] Johnny Littlejohn - I Wanna Go Home [Ace 3028] - I Got My Nose Open [Ace unissued] Johnny Littlejohn - She Nineteen Year Old [Ace 3028] Elmore James, Jr. - Crazy Bend Ida Mae - Bad Feeling - Cummins Prison Blues King Edward - I Should Quiet You Baby [Ace unissued] - The Things I Used To Do [Ace 3027] Fred McDowell - Baby Please Don't Go [not "Don't Say A Mumblin Word" as written on back cover!] # Ace CD 2028 track sequence: - Smokestack Lightenin' - Bad Smitty - How Many More Years - Bad Smitty - Sad And Lonesome - Sam Myers - You're So Fine - Sam Myers - Money Is My Downfall - Sam Myers - Gold Tail Bird - Sam Myers - I Wanna Go Home - John Littlejohn - I Got My Nose Open - John Littlejohn - She Nineteen Year Old - John Littlejohn - Crazy Bout Ida Mae - Elmore James, Jr. - Bad Feeling - Elmore James, Jr. - Cummins Prison Blues - Elmore James, Jr. - I Should Quiet You, Baby - King Edward - The Things I Used To Do - King Edward - Baby, Please Don't Go - Mississippi Fred McDowell # - Hey Little Girl - Frankie Lee Sims - Walking With Frankie - Frankie Lee Sims - What Will Lucy Mae Do - Frankie Lee Sims - Don't Say A Mumblin Word - Mississippi Fred McDowell Westside WESM 579 track sequence: - Smokestack Lightning - Bad Smitty - Gold Tail Bird (tk 1) - Sam Myers [Ace unissued] - I Got My Nose Open - Johnny Littlejohn - Crazy 'Bout Ida Mae - Elmore James Jr. - Money Is My Downfall - Sam Myers - The Things I Used To Do - King Edward - Standing At The Crossroads - Bad Smitty [Ace unissued] - You're So Fine - Sam Myers - Bad Feeling - Elmore James Jr. - Sad And Lonesome - Sam Myers - I Wanna Go Home - Johnny Littlejohn - Last Night - Bad Smitty [Ace unissued] - I Should Quit You Baby (Killing Floor) - King Edward - Take Me Where You Go - Sam Myers [Ace unissued]< - Cummins Prison Blues - Elmore James Jr. - She's 19 Years Old - Johnny Littlejohn - How Many More Years - Bad Smitty - Gold Tail Bird (tk 2) - Sam Myers - Today I Started Loving You Again - King Edward - Walkin' With Smitty (tk 1) - Bad Smitty [Ace unissued] # rec. in Jackson, MS (Malaco session); Fred McDowell, voc, g;
notes by Neil Slaven | |
| 42 | 1982 | Mississippi Fred McDowell 1962 His First Recordings Following Discovery - Done Left Here - All The Way From East St. Louis - Shake 'Em On Down - The Girl That I Am Lovin' - Good Morninig Little Schoolgirl - Left My Baby Standing - On The Frisco Line - Write Me A Few Lines - Goin' Down To The River - I Rolled And I Tumbled - Trouble Everywhere I Go - Red Cross Store Blues - John Henry - Kokomo Blues CD bonus tracks: - Milk Cow Blues - Trouble Everywhere I Go (alternate version) - I've Been Drinking Water Out Of A Hollow Log - Highway 61 - Someday Baby - untitled instr. (Como) rec. April 21/22, 1962 at McDowell's home in Como, MS by Dick Spottswood
notes by Chris Smith notes by Bruce Bastin notes by Tom Pomposello | |
| 43 | 1984 | Mississippi Fred McDowell: Standing At The Burying Ground featuring Jo Ann Kelly - 61 Highway - Red Cross Store - When I Lay My Burden Down # @ youtube - Evil Hearted Woman - I Asked For Whisky, She Gave Me Gasoline - Standing At The Burying Ground - Glory Hallelujah - Write Me A Few Short Lines - My Baby Done Me Wrong rec. March 8, 1969 during a British tour at the Mayfair Hotel, London; Fred McDowell. voc, g; # Jo Ann Kelly, voc [not on 'Glory Hallelujah' as listed in Blues Records Vol. 2] photography: Pete Gibson
notes by Jo Ann Kelly
Red Lightnin' Records discography | |
| 44 | 1986 | Phil Guy / Mississippi Fred McDowell: Dose Of Double Dynamite Phil Guy And His Chicago Blues Band - Call The Plumber - Howlin' For My Darlin' - Garbage Man Blues - Miss You Mississippi Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down - Louise - My Babe - Waves Of The Water - Kokomo Blues McDowell tracks rec. March 8, 1969 during a British tour at the Mayfair Hotel, London; Fred McDowell. voc, g
notes (July 1985) by Mick "Frenchie" Atherton
= Onyx Classix CD 261112 | |
| 45 | 1986 | Atlantic Blues: Guitar - Broke Down Engine - Blind Willie McTell - Shake 'Em On Down - Mississippi Fred McDowell - My Baby Don't Love Me - John Lee Hooker - Guitar Lovin' Man - John Lee Hooker * - Tall Pretty Woman - Sticks McGhee - The Blues Rock - Texas Johnny Brown - There Goes The Blues - Texas Johnny Brown - Bongo Boogie - Texas Johnny Brown - Two Bones And A Pick - T-Bone Walker - Mean Ol' World - T-Bone Walker * - Let Me Know - Chuck Norris - It Hurts To Love Someone - Guitar Slim * - Down Through The Years - Guitar Slim - Okie Dokie Stomp - Cornell Dupree - Blue Nocturne - Cornell Dupree * - TV Mama - Big Joe Turner - Reconsider Baby - Al King - Midnight Midnight - Mickey Baker - I Smell Trouble - Ike & Tina Turner - Why I Sing The Blues - B.B. King - Crosscut Saw - Albert King - Angels Of Mercy - Albert King * - Born Under A Bad Sign - Albert King # - Can't Be Satisfied - John Hammond, Jr. * - Shake For Me - John Hammond, Jr. # - Flood Down In Texas - Stevie Ray Vaughan * not included on CD reissue # included on CD reissue only
2 LP set 4 CD set | |
| 46 | 1988 | Fred McDowell: Shake 'Em On Down - 1959 Mississippi Fred McDowell - I Been Drinking Water Out Of A Hollow Log - Shake 'Em On Down - Freight Train Blues - Drop Down Mama - When You Get Home, Write Me A Few Little Lines John Dudley - Poor Boy Blues - Cool Water Blues Mississippi Fred McDowell - 61 Highway Blues - Fred McDowell's Blues - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning - Soon One Mornin' - You Done Tol' Everybody - My Mother Died And Left Me - I Wisht I Was In Heaven rec. September 21, 1959 in Como, MS by Alan Lomax with the assistance of Shirley Collins photography by Sylvia Pitcher notes (March 1988) by Chris Smith | |
| 47 | 1993 | Sounds Of The South A Musical Journey From The Georgia Sea Islands To The Mississippi Delta disc 1: Sounds Of The South / Blue Ridge Mountain Music: - The Banks Of The Arkansas / Wave The Ocean - Neil Morris / Charley Everidge - Hen Duck - Lonnie Young / Ed Young / Lonnie Young Jr. - The Farmer's Curst Wife - Estil C. Ball - Boll Weevil Holler - Vera Hall - Jesse James - The Mountain Ramblers - Jesse James - Vera Hill - Kenny Wagner - Bob Carpenter - Trouble So Hard - Vera Hall - Baptizing Scene - Reverend W.A. Donaldson - Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus - Viola James & Congregation - Windham - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning - Mississippi Fred McDowell - Come On Boys, Let's Go To The Ball - Sid Hemphill/Lucas Smith - Join The Band - John Davis & Group - Lucky Holler - Ed Lewis - I Be So Blad When The Sun Goes Down - Ed Lewis & Group - Cotton Eyed Joe - The Mountain Ramblers - Big Tilda - The Mountain Ramblers - Jennie Jenkins - Estil C. Ball / Orna Ball - John Henry - The Mountain Ramblers - Rosewood Casket - The Mountain Ramblers - Silly Bill - The Mountain Ramblers - Big Ball In Boston - The Mountain Ramblers - Chilly Winds - Wade Ward - The Old Hickory Cane - The Mountain Ramblers - John Brown - Hobart Smith - Poor Ellen Smith - Hobart Smith - Shady Grove - The Mountain Ramblers disc 2: Roots Of The Blues / The Blues Roll On: - Jim And John - Lonnie Young / Ed Young / Lonnie Young Jr. - The Wild Ox Moan - Vera Hall - Been Drinkin' Water Out Of A Hollow Log - Mississippi Fred McDowell - All Night Long - Miles Pratcher / Bob Pratcher - Shake 'Em On Down - Mississippi Fred McDowell / Mile Pratcher / Annie Davis - Levee Camp Reminiscence - Forrest City Joe - Chevrolet - Lonnie Young/Ed Young / Lonnie Young Jr. - Levee Camp Holler - Johnny Lee Moore - Eighteen Hammers - Johnny Lee Moore / 12 Mississippi Penitentary Convicts - Drink On Little Girl - Forrest City Joe/Sonny Rogers/Thomas Morgan - Drop Down Mama - Mississippi Fred McDowell - Boogie Children - Boy Blue / Willie Jones/Joe Lee - She Lived Her Life Too Fast - Forrest City Joe / Sonny Boy Rogers / Thomas Martin - Sittin' On Top Of The World - Lonnie Young / Ed Young / Lonnie Young Jr. - Cool Water Blues - John Dudley - Stop Breaking Down - Forrest City Joe / Sonny Boy Rogers / Thomas Martin - Joe Lee's Rock - Boy Blue/Willie Jones/Joe Lee - Bullyin' Well - Rosalie Hill - When You Get Home, Write Me A Few Lines - Mississippi Fred McDowell - Red Cross Store - Forrest City Joe - Forrest City Jump - Forrest City Joe/Sonny Boy Rogers/Thomas Martin disc 3: Negro Church Music / White Spirituals: - Death, Have Mercy - Vera Hall - I Want Jesus To Walk With Me - James Shorty & Mississippi Fred McDowell - Jesus Is Real To Me - Mrs. Mary Lee / Congregation - I Love The Lord - Reverend R.C. Crenshaw & Congregation - A Sermon Fragment - Reverend G.I. Townsel - I'm Goin' Home On The Mornin' Train - Reverend R.C. Crenshaw & Congregation - Power - Madam Mattie Wigley / Congregation - On That Rock - Viola James/Lonnie Young / Ed Young - Jesus On The Mainline - James Shorty / Viola James / Congregation - I'm Gonna Sail Like A Ship On The Ocean - Henry Morrison & St Simon's Island Singers - Blow Gabriel - John Davis/Bessie Jones/St. Simon's Island Singers - What Do You Think About Jesus (He's Alright) - Bernice McClellan / Congregation - Tribulations - Estil C. Ball/Lacey Richardson/Blair Reedy - When I Get Home - Estil C. Ball/Blair Reedy - The Poor Wayfaring Stranger - Estil C. Ball - Baptizing Down By The Creek - The Mountain Ramblers - Sermon And Lining Hymn - Reverend I.D Back/Congregation - Antioch - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Calvary - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Please Let Me Stay A Little Longer - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Father, Jesus Loves You - Estil C. Ball - Lonesome Valley - Estil C. Ball / Lacey Richardson / Orna Ball / Blair Reedy - Father Adieu - Estil C. Ball - The Old Country Church - The Mountain Ramblers - Cabin On The Hill - Estil C. Ball / Lacey... disc 4: American Folk Songs For Children: - Johnson's Old Gray Mule - Mainer Band - My Little Rooster - Almeda Riddle - Whoa Mule - Mainer Band - Frog Went A-Courtin' - Almeda Riddle - Glenn's Chimes - Mainer Band - Chick-A-Li-Lee-Lo - Almeda Riddle - Old Joe Clark - The Mountain Ramblers - Go Tell Aunt Nancy - Almeda Riddle - Train III - Mainer Band - Johnny Cuckoo - Bessie Jones & Group - Mama Buy Me A Chiney Doll - Almeda Riddle - Soldier, Soldier - Hobart Smith - Mary Mack - Jessie Pratcher / Mattie Gardner / Mary Gardner - Hambone - Bessie Jones - Banging Breakdown - Hobart Smith - Green Sally, Up - Jessie Pratcher / Mattie Gardner / Mary Gardner - Sometimes - Bessie Jones & Group - The Arkansas Traveller - Hobart Smith - Paper Of Pins - Estil C. Ball / Orna Ball - The Little Dappled Cow - Texas Gladden - Go To Sleep, Little Baby - Bessie Jones - Paddy On The Turnpike - Wade Ward / Charley Higgins / Charley Poe - Jimmy Sutton - Spence Moore/Roy Birns - Liza Jane - The Mountain Ramblers - Oree - Lonnie Young/Ed Young / Lonnie Young Jr. - Train Time - Forrest City Joe - Freight Train Blues - Mississippi Fred McDowell - This Little Light Of Mine - James Shorty / Viola James / Congregation - Motherless Children - Felix Dukes / Mississippi Fred McDowell - Little Moses - Neil Morris reissue prod. by Yves Beauvais
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| 48 | 1993 | Mississippi Fred McDowell: You Gotta Move - Write Me A Few Lines - Louise - I Heard Somebody Call - 61 Highway - Mama Don't Allow - Kokomo Blues - Fred's Worried Life Blues - You Gonna Be Sorry - Shake 'Em On Down - My Trouble Blues - Black Minnie - That's Alright - When I Lay My Burden Down - Ain't Gonna Be Bad No Mo' - Do My Baby Ever Think Of Me - Brooks Run Into The Ocean (+ Eli Green) - Bull Dog Blues (+ Eli Green) - Frisco Line - You Gotta Move all of LP 1021 & most of 1027 notes by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie Records discography | |
| 49 | 1993 | Blues With A Feeling Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival disc 1 / Vanguard VCD 73133-2: - Introduction by Dick Waterman (2:05) # Son House (1965) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Preachin' Blues (3:54) [Vanguard VSD 79225] # - Death Letter (4:01) [Vanguard VSD 79225] # - Empire State Express (3:50) # [Vanguard VSD 25/6; 3VCD 208-10] Skip James (1964 blues workshop, introduction most likely by Bill Barth) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Devil Got My Woman (4:52) @ youtube Bukka White [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2; 3VCD 208-10] - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (5:00) Robert Pete Williams - Levee Camp Blues (5:26) °° [Vanguard VRS 9180; 3VCD193/95-2] Mississippi Fred McDowell [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Louise Louise (3:05) Rev. Robert Wilkins - Don't Let Nobody Turn You 'round (3:48) @ youtube Rev. Pearly Brown & Mrs. Christine Brown - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning (3:06) @ youtube Fred and Annie Mae McDowell with Rev. Robert Wilkins - What Do You Think About Jesus (5:43) @ youtube Lightnin' Hopkins (July 23, 1965 morning "Blue Guitar" workshop) [ Vanguard VCD 79715-2] - The Woman I'm Loving, She's Taken My Appetite (Monkey Faced Woman) (3:22) @ youtube - Come On Baby (2:13) @ youtube - Baby Please Don't Go (2:46) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube Mance Lipscomb [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Freddie (2:01) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube - So Different Blues (2:33) @ youtube - God Moves On The Water (The Sinking Of The Titanic) (2:36) @ youtube disc 2 / Vanguard VCD 73134-2: Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (4:02) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] Mississippi John Hurt [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Here I Am Lord, Send Me (3:54) - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor (3:20) Jesse Fuller [Vanguard VRS-9185; 3VCD193/95-2; 3VCD 208-10] - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:51) °° John Lee Hooker (1964 blues workshop) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - I Can't Quit You Baby / Stop Now Blues (2:48) @ youtube Muddy Waters (1968 blues workshop) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Walkin' Blues (4:31) @ youtube - I Can't Be Satisfied (3:16) @ youtube Eddie Boyd & Willie Dixon - Five Long Years (2:26) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] Willie Dixon & Lafayette Leake with Pete Seeger, bj - Wrinkles (instr) (3:28) Dave Van Ronk - Cocaine (3:44) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] John Hammond - Drop Down Mama (2:50) Eric Von Schmidt - Grizzly Bear (4:55) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] John Koerner - Traveling Blues (4:49) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube The Chambers Brothers [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - See See Rider (3:21) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube Paul Butterfield Blues Band (July 23, 1965) - Blues With A Feeling (4:12) * [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2; 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube - Look Over Yonders Wall (2:10) * @ youtube - Born In Chicago (4:08) ** [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] @ youtube compilation prod. by Mary Katherine Aldin # rec. 1965 live at Newport Folk Festival ("Blues Workshop") in Newport, RI; Son House, voc, g * rec. July 23, 1965 at an afternoon workshop called "Blues: Origins and Offshoots" (late addition to the roster - advertisements for the concert series make no mention of the group); Paul Butterfield, voc, hca; Michael Bloomfield, g; Elvin Bishop, g; Jerome Arnold, b; Sam Lay, dr; Nick Gravenites, voc; ** Bruce Langhorne, tamb "all tracks previously unreleased except" °°
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| 50 | 1993 | Mississippi Fred McDowell: Train I Ride - What's The Matter With Papa's Little Angel Child # - Levee Camp Blues - You Got To Move - Get Right Church - Big Fat Mama - Unknown Blues - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning - You Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Anymore # - Train I Ride # additional tracks on "Blues Masters" and "That's The Train I Ride"
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| 51 | c.1994 | Fred McDowell, Furry Lewis, Robert Wilkins When I Lay My Burden Down Fred McDowell (1969) - If You See My Baby - John Henry - Louise - 61 Highway - Big Fat Mama - When I Lay My Burden Down - Dankin' Farm - Jesus Is On The Main Line - See What My Lord Has Done Furry Lewis (1968) - Casey Jones (Ramblin' Mind) - Harry Furry Blues - Every Day Of The Week - Grieve My Mind - Beale Street Blues - When I Lay My Burden Down Robert Wilkins (1960) - Old Time Religion - I Wish I Was in Heaven - Rock Of Ages - When I Lay My Burden Down prod. Arnold S. Caplin notes by Peter Aschoff Biograph Records discography | |
| 52 | 1994 | Lost Blues Tapes Vol. 1 American Folk Blues Festival 1963-65 - Della Mae - John Lee Hooker - Hound Dog - Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton - Captain Captain - Muddy Waters - I Got To Cut Out - Sonny Boy Williamson - Blues Harp Shuffle - 'Big' Walter Horton - Strong Brain Broad Mind - Willie Dixon - Big Leg Woman - Willie Dixon - You Got Me Runnin' - Sugar Pie Desanto - South Side Jump - Buddy Guy - If I Get Lucky - J. B. Lenoir - Got A Letter This Morning - 'Mississippi' Fred McDowell - Sail On - Roosevelt Sykes - Memphis Boogie - Memphis Slim - Your Best Friend's Gone - John Estes & Hammie Nixon - Farewell Baby - Dr. Isaiah Ross - Della Mae - John Lee Hooker
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| 53 | 1995 | Mississippi Fred McDowell: I Do Not Play No Rock 'N' Roll Complete Sessions disc 1 - Baby Please Don't Go * - Good Morning Little School Girl * - Kokomo Me Baby * - That's All Right Baby * - Red Cross Store * - Everybody's Down On Me * - 61 Highway * - Glory Halleujah * - Jesus Is On The Mainline * - Someday # disc 2 - Write Me A Few Of Your Lines # - Mortgage On My Soul # - Baby Let Me Lay Down (In Your Cool Iron Bed) # - Drop Down Mama # - Rap/Louise # - Somebody Keeps Callin' Me # - Eyes Like An Eagle # - My Baby She Gonna Jump And Shout [] - Long Line Skinner [] - Baby Please Don't Go [] rec. September 8-10, 1969 at Malaco Sound Recording Studios, in Jackson, MS; prod. by Tommy Couch; Fred McDowell, g, voc; Jerry Puckett, b; Darin Lancaster, dr * previously on Capitol ST/SM 409 # previously on Just Sunshine JSS 4 [] previously unissued
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| 54 | 1995 | Bottleneck Blues Napoleon Strickland - Key To The Bushes Big Joe Williams - Talking About Bottleneck - Traveling Blues Robert Night Hawk - Crying Won't Help You Mississippi Fred McDowell - Six White Horses # Mott Willis - Knife Instrumental Robert Lee Granderson - Flora Blues J.B. Hutto & The Hawks - Wild Wild Woman Blind Connie Williams - St. Louis Blues David Honeyboy Edwards - Worryin' Woman Blues Robert Johnson - I'm Coming, Lord, Please Don't Drive Me Away Chicago Blues Band - Verna Lee Blues Mississippi Fred McDowell - Wouldn't Mind Dying # John Littlejohn - Dust My Broom Blind Connie Williams - Trouble In Mind Big Joe Williams - How Do You Want Your Rollin' Done Mott Willis - M & O Blues Johnny Shines - Crucial Moment Jack Owens - Train Time Robert Johnson - I Don't Know When Death Is Gonna Call Me Herb Quinn - Casey, You Can't Ride This Train Napoleon Strickland - Skake 'Em Down # rec. February 6, 1966 in Chicago, IL; Fred McDowell, voc, g; Fannie Davis, voc; Annie Mae McDowell, voc; Grace Bowden, voc; James Collins, voc
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| 55 | 1995 | Testament Records Sampler - Pet Cream Man - J.B. Hutto & The Hawks - A Man For The Nation - John Lee Granderson - Railroad Blues - The Chicago String Band - Nobody Knows My Troubles - Otis Spann - Jesus Is On The Mainline - Fred McDowell & The Hunter's Chapel Singers - Peach Tree Blues - Eddie Taylor - I'm Talking 'Bout You - Eddie Lee "Mustright" Jones - Cat Squirrel - Dr. Isaiah Ross - I'm Gettin' Tired - Robert Nighthawk - Going Back To Texas - Jimmy Walker & His Western Stars/Erwin Helfer - Black Mary - Ruby McCoy - So Cold In Vietnam - Johnny Shines - Titanic Blues - Bill Jackson - Don't Start Me To Talkin' - A Feeling / Johnny Turner & Blues With A Feeling - All My Money Gone - Johnny Young - One Thin Dime - Blind Connie Williams - Goin' Down South - Fred McDowell - I'm Going To Detroit - John Wrencher - Annie Mae - Big Joe Williams - My Babe - Napoleon Strickland Fife & Drum Band - Hoodoo Snake Doctor Blues - Johnny Shines - Dust My Broom - Johnny Littlejohn - Pleading And Crying - Billy Boy Arnold
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| 56 | 199? | Mississippi Delta Blues Jam in Memphis, Vol. 1 Napoleon Strickland with The Como Drum Band - Back Water Rising Fred McDowell & Johnny Woods - Shake 'Em On Down - Fred's Blues - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning Otha Turner with The Como Drum Band - Otha's Piece Napoleon Strickland with The Como Drum Band - Shimmy She Wobble Fred McDowell - Write Me A Few Of Your Lines - A Dark Cloud Rising Furry Lewis - Furry Lewis' Blues (previously unreleased) - Walking Blues - Judge Bushay Blues R.L. Watson & Josiah Jones [= John Fahey & Bill Barth] - Memphis Rag - St. Louis Blues - Praying On The Old Campground / Lonesome Blues Memphis Piano Red - Mobile Blues - Abel Street Stomp rec. June 1969 Includes all of Arhoolie LP 1085, part of 1084 and several previously unissued cuts. LPs 1084 & 1085 were once available as "Swamp Blues", a double LP originally released on Blue Thumb
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| 57 | 1994 | Mississippi Fred McDowell: Good Morning Little School Girl Mississippi Fred McDowell Sings Blues and Spirituals Part I: The Blues - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl [Arhoolie 1068] @ Spotify - Little Girl, Little Girl, How Old Are You [Arhoolie 1068] @ Spotify - Fred's Rambling Blues [Arhoolie 1018] @ Spotify - Don't Look For Me On A Sunday [Arhoolie 1068] @ Spotify - I Walked All The Way From East St. Louis [Arhoolie 1027] @ Spotify - Red Cross Store Blues [Arhoolie - Gravel Road Blues [Arhoolie 1027] @ Spotify - Where Were You When The Rooster Crowed 'Fore Day [Arhoolie 1027] @ Spotify - Drop Down Mama [previously unissued] @ Spotify - I Looked At The Sun [Arhoolie 1027] @ Spotify - Early This Morning (Write Me A Few Of Your Lines) [previously unissued] @ Spotify Part II: Church Songs - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning [previously unissued] @ Spotify - Get Right Church [previously unissued] @ Spotify - I'm Going Over The Hill [previously unissued] @ Spotify - Amazing Grace [previously unissued] @ Spotify - I Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down [previously unissued] @ Spotify - You Gotta Move [previously unissued] @ Spotify - It's A Blessing [previously unissued] @ Spotify - Bye And Bye [previously unissued] @ Spotify - I'm So Glad, Got Good Religion [previously unissued] @ Spotify - Look Way Down That Lonesome Road [previously unissued] @ Spotify - When The Saints Go Marching In [previously unissued] @ Spotify front cover photo by Peter Feldmann
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| 58 | 1995 | Mississippi Fred McDowell: This Ain't No Rock & Roll - My Baby * - Levee Camp Blues * - When The Saints Go Marching In * - Diamond Ring * - Dankin's Farm * - You Ain't Treatin' Me Right * - Ethel Mae Blues * - Meet Me Down In Froggy Bottom * - Mama Said I'm Crazy # - I Heard Somebody Calling Me # - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning # - I Wonder What Have I Done Wrong # - I Worked Out Old Lu And I Worked Out Old Bess # - Jim, Steam Killed Lula # - Worried Now, Won't Be Worried Long # - Going Away, Won't Be Gone Long # - Going Down That Gravel Bottom # - Bye, Bye Little Girl # * previously on LP 1046 (rec. 1969) # previously unissued (rec. 1968 at Chris Strachwitz' house)
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| 59 | 1995 | Mississippi Fred McDowell: Mississippi Blues - Some Day Baby # - Milk Cow Blues # - The Train I Ride # - Over The Hill # [] - Goin' Down To The River # - I Wished I Were In Heaven Sitting Down # - Louise # - Germany Blues * - Some Sweet Day * - The Sun Rose This Morning * - When I Lay My Burden Down * [] - Goin' Down To Louisiana * rec. December 1, 1965 in Como, MS by Alan Bates; Fred McDowell, voc, g; [] Annie Mae McDowell, voc # previously on Polydor LP 423.294 (1965) * previously unissued series edited by Tony Russell
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| 60 | 1996 | Mississippi Fred McDowell: Steakbone Slide Guitar - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Big Fat Mama - The Train I Ride - Get Right Church - You Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Anymore - What's The Matter With Papa's Little Angel - Unknown Blues (aka I Heard Somebody Call) - Levee Camp Blues - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning - You Got to Move
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| 60a | 1996 | Mississippi Fred McDowell: Mississippi Real Blues | |
| 60b | 1996 | Arhoolie presents American Masters Vol. 1 15 Down Home Country Blues Classics Mississippi Fred McDowell - Frisco Line [Arhoolie 1027, CD 304] @ youtube Lightning Hopkins - Have You Ever Loved A Woman [Arhoolie 1063] @ youtube John Jackson - Going Down In Georgia On A Horn [Arhoolie 1025, CD 378] @ youtube Melvin "Lil' Son" Jackson - Cairo Blues [Arhoolie 1004, CD 352] @ youtube Mance Lipscomb - 'Bout A Spoonful [Arhoolie 1001, CD 306] @ youtube Black Ace - Drink On Little Girl [Arhoolie 1003] @ youtube Snooks Eaglin - Country Boy Down In New Orleans [Arhoolie CD 348] @ youtube Bukka White - Columbus, Mississippi Blues [Arhoolie 1005] @ youtube Dr. Ross - Shake 'em On Down [Arhoolie 1065, CD 371] @ youtube Robert Pete Williams - Just Tippin' In (4:10) [Arhoolie CD 394] @ youtube [not "Just Trippin' In", as youtube video suggests] Jesse Fuller - Hump In My Back [Arhoolie CD 360] @ youtube Big Joe Williams - Brother James [Arhoolie 1002, CD 315] @ youtube Smoky Babe - I'm Broke And I'm Hungry [Arhoolie 2019, CD 440] @ youtube R.L. Burnside - Poor Black Mattie [Arhoolie 1042, CD 402] @ youtube K.C. Douglas - Mercury Blues [Arhoolie CD 432] @ youtube prod. and edited by Chris Strachwitz cover photo (Big Joe Williams) by Chris Strachwitz
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| 61 | 1997 | Southern Journey, Vol. 1 Voices from the American South Blues, Ballads, Hymns, Reels, Shouts, Chanteys and Work Songs O Day (Bessie Jones) - Katy Went Fishing With Her hook And Line (Hobart Smith) - Walk In The Parlaor (Sid Hemphill & Lucius Smith) - Mama's Gonna Buy (Vera Ward Hall) - Wished I Was In Heaven Sitting Down (Fred McDowell) - Po' Lazarus (Bright light Quartet) - The Lass Of Loch Royale (Neil Morris) - Three Nights Drunk (J.E. Mainer and band) - Turkey In The Straw (Charley Everidge & Neil Morris) - Pharaoh (Sidney Carter) - Interview (Uncle Charley Higgins, Wade Ward & Dale Poe) - Cripple Creek (Uncle Charley Higgins, Wade Ward & Dale Poe) - The diver Boy (Ollie Gilbert) - Pretty Polly (Estil C. Ball) - Sweet Roseanne (Bright Light Quartet) - Sink 'Em Low (Bessie Jones) - Dollar Mamie (Ed Lewis, Leader; with prisoners) - I Wonder Will We Meet Again? (Rev. Crenshaw & congregation) - Poor Wayfaring Stranger (Almeda Riddle) - Testimony (I.D. Beck) - Guide Me O Thou Great Jehobah (Ike Caudill, leader The Thornton Old Regular Baptist Church Congregation) - The Last Words Of Copernicus (Scared Harp singers) - The Gospel Train (Belleville A Capella Choir) - Beulah Land (John Davis & Bessie Jones) - It Just Suits Me (Hobart Smith & Bessie Jones) McDowell track rec. September 21, 1959 in Como, MS by Alan Lomax with the assistance of Shirley Collin
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| 62 | 1997 | Southern Journey, Vol. 3 61 Highway Mississippi - Louisiana - Henry Ratcliff - Jim and John - Ed Young / Lonnie Young Sr. - 61 Highway Blues - Fred McDowell - Stewball - Ed Lewis & Prisoners - Po' Boy Blues - John Dudley - God's Unchanging Hand - Anderson Burton & Congregation - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning - Fred McDowell - Emmaline, Take Your Time - Sidney Hemphill / Lucius Smith - I'm Gonna Live Anyhow 'Till I Die - Miles Pratcher / Bob Pratcher - Little Sally Walker - Mattie Gardner / Ida Mae Towns - Old Devil's Dream - Sidney Hemphill / Lucius Smith - Rolled And Tumbled - Rose Hemphill - Mama Lucy - Leroy Gary - Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' In) - Fred McDowell - I'm Goin' Home - Ervin Webb & Prisoners - Interview - Ervin Webb - Fred McDowell's Blues - Fred McDowell / Miles Pratcher - Tryin' to Make Heaven My Home - Viola James & Congregation - Berta, Berta - Leroy Miller with Hoe Group - Germany Blues - Fred McDowell - Clarksdale Mill Blues - John Dudley - If It's All Night Long - Miles Pratcher / Bob Pratcher - Lord Have Mercy - Fred McDowell - Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby - Mrs. Sidney Carter McDowell tracks rec. September 21, 1959 in Como, MS by Alan Lomax with the assistance of Shirley Collin
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| 63 | 1997 | Southern Journey, Vol. 6 Sheep, Sheep, Don'tcha Know the Road? Southern Music, Sacred and Sinful Sheep, Sheep Don'tcha Know The Road (Bessie Jones and the Sea Island Singers) - The Juice Of The Forbidden Fruit (Neil Morris) - Devil's Dream (Hobart Smith) - You Got Dimples In Your Jaws (Willie Jones & others) - Drunken HHiccups (Hobart Smith) - You Done Tol' Everybody (Fred McDowell) - The House Carpenter (Almeda Riddle) - Straighten 'Em (Bright Light Quartet) - Corn Dodgers (Neil Morris) - I Wished I Was In Heaven (DenisGardner, Mattie Gardner & Fred McDowell) - Tribulations (Estil C. Ball, Lacey Richardson) - No Room At The Inn / The Last Month Of THe Year (Vera Ward Hall) - My Mother Died And Left Me (James Shorty & Fred McDowell) - Buttermilk (Miles Pratcher & Bob Pratcher) - The Prayer Wheel (Bright Light Quarter) - Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah (Ike Caudill and Congregation of Mt. Oliver Old Regular Baptist Church) McDowell tracks rec. September 21, 1959 in Como, MS by Alan Lomax with the assistance of Shirley Collin
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| 64 | 1997 | Fred McDowell Portraits: The First Recordings - Going Down The River - 61 Highway - Wished I Was In Heaven Sitting Down - When The Train Comes Along - Shake 'Em On Down - Worried Mind - Woke Up This Morning With My Mind On Jesus - You Done Told Everybody - Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning - What's The Matter Now? - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - I Want Jesus To Walk With Me - Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning (instrumental) - You're Gonna Be Sorry rec. 1959 by Alan Lomax with the assistance of Shirley Collins notes by Matthew Barton | |
| 65 | 1998 | Mississippi Fred McDowell: Shake 'Em On Down - Shake 'Em On Down - Louise - My Babe - Waves Of Water - Kokomo Blues - 61 Highway - Red Cross Store Blues - When I Lay My Burden Down - Evil Hearted Woman - I Asked For Whiskey, She Brought Me Gasoline - Standing At The Burying Ground - Glory Hallelujah - Write Me A Few Lines - My Baby Done Me Wrong
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| 66 | 1998 | Down Home Slide - That's All Right - Robert Nighthawk - I Know She Didn't Love Me - John Henry Barbee - Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed - Mississippi Fred McDowell, Annie Mae McDowell # - Roll Me Over Slow - Big Joe Williams - Everything Gonna Be Alright - Robert Nighthawk - John Henry - Elijah Brown - Jackson Town Eddie Taylor - Mad & Evil - George Coleman - I'm On My Way To Canaan Land - Blind Connie Williams - Which Way My Baby Go - Big Joe Williams - Hoodoo Snake Doctor Blues - Johnny Shines - Slidin' - John Littlejohn - Walk On, Little Girl - Big Joe Williams - Poor Boy Long Way From Home -Arthur Weston - Anna Lee - Robert Nighthawk - Sweet Home Chicago - David Honeyboy Edwards - I'm So Glad I Got Good Religion - Mississippi Fred McDowell - My Lonesome Bed - Big Joe Williams - Key To The Highway - Blind Connie Williams McDowell tracks rec. February 6, 1966 in Chicago, IL; Fred McDowell, voc, g; # Annie Mae McDowell, voc
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| 67 | 2000 | Mississippi Fred McDowell Live At The Gaslight disc 1 - Shake 'Em On Down - Fred's Worried Blues - Jesus Is On The Mainline - Mercy - When The Saints Go Marchin' In - Someday Baby - The Lovin' Blues - You Got To Move - White Lightnin' - Louise - Baby Please Don't Go disc 1 - Goin' To The River (Carry My Rocking Chair) - Shake 'Em On Down - 61 Highway - John Henry - My Babe - I'm Crazy 'Bout You Baby - Red Cross Store - Levee Camp Blues - Good Mornin' Little Schoolgirl - Don't Mistreat Nobody (Cause You Got A Few Dimes) - Get Right Church - Good Night (Spoken Outro) rec. November 5, 1971 at the Gaslight, New York City; Fred McDowell, voc, g; Tom Pomposello, b or 2nd g; digitally remastered by Anton Glovsky
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| 67a | 2000 | Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary disc 1: - San Francisco Bay Blues - Jesse Fuller (previously unreleased) - Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas - Shake Shake Mama - Mance Lipscomb - Cairo Blues - Lil' Son Jackson - Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton / Robert Curtis Smith [Arhoolie F 1005] - One Thin Dime - Butch Cage / Willie Thomas - Charmin' Betsy - Hodges Brothers - Whistlin' Alex Moore's Blues - Alex Moore - I Am The Black Ace - Black Ace - Brother James - Big Joe Williams - Lady Luck - Mercy Dee - Don't Drive Me Away - R.C. Smith - Zydeco Introduction - Zydeco Announcer - Bernadette Chere - Albert Chevalier - Bald Headed Woman - Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go - James Campbell - Believe On Me - Rev. Louis Overstreet - Low Down Blues - George Lewis - The Country Blues - J.E. Mainer - Crowley Waltz - The Hackberry Ramblers - She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain - Booker White (previously unreleased) - Ay, Ai Ai - Clifton Chenier - Write Me A Few Lines - Fred McDowell - Charlie James - Mance Lipscomb - Louisiana Blues - Clifton Chenier disc 2: - Cindy - John Jackson - Little Red Rooster - Big Mama Thornton - La Betaille - Isom Fontenot - Calcasieu Waltz - Nathan Abshire - Almlied - Eibelsberger Duo - I Wonder Where You Are Tonight - Del McCoury - In The Breeze - Jerry Hahn Quintet - Goin' Back To The Country - Juke Boy Bonner - Sometimes I Cry - Johnny Young - Two Bugs And A Roach - Earl Hooker - Dream - John Littlejohn - Things Gonna Get Better - Bee Houston - Visions - Sonny Simmons - I Wish I Could Sing - Bongo Joe - Boogieing In Strasbourg - Alex Moore - The Death Of Dr. Martin Luther King - Big Joe Williams - Please Settle In Vietnam - Lightnin' Hopkins - Shake 'Em On Down - Fred McDowell / Johnny Woods - El Desesperado - Los Pinguinos Del Norte - Creole Belles - New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra - Finger Lickin' Good - Charlie Musselwhite disc 3: - Church Point Breakdown - Austin Pitre - Gstanzeln Aus Dem Freistriztal - Original Herberstein Trio - Gibson Creek Shuffle - Charles Ford Band - Ups And Downs - L.C. Robinson - You Ain't Got A Chance - Piano Red - Home Sweet Home - Boisec Ardoin / Canray Fontenot - Satan's Burning Hell - Bill Neely - Luzita - Narciso Martinez - Yo Me Enamore - Trio San Antonio - Borracho Perdido - Trio San Antonio - One Of These Mornings (I'm Checkin' Out) - J.C. Burris - Allons A Grand Coteau - Clifton Chenier - En Bas Du Chene Vert - Dewey Balfa / Marc Savoy/D.L. Menard - Besos Y Copas - Chavela Ortiz Y Brown Express - Fast Santa Fe - Robert Shaw - I'll See You In C-U-B-A - Any Old Time String Band - El Balaju - Conjunto Alma Jarocha - La Gata - Los Caporales De Panuco - Beym Rebas Sude - The Klezmorim - J'ai Laisse De La Maison - Cheese Read - Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio - Don Santiago Jimenez Sr. - Mi Problema - Lydia Mendoza disc 4: - Gritenme Piedras Del Campo - Flaco Jimenez - Co-Fe - John Delafose - Single Girl - Rose Maddox - Bec De La Manche - Canray Fontenot - Bosco Stomp - Octa Clark / Hector Duhon - Negra Ausencia - Santiago Jimenez Jr. - La Chanson De Cinquante Sous - Michael Doucet Dit BeauSoleil (previously unreleased) - Shake What You Got - Preston Frank - Little Black Eyes - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band - The Chill Of A Saturday Afternoon - Wade Fruge - Jolie Blonde - Chuck Guillory - Here To Stay - Rebirth Brass Band - I Know That's Right - Katie Webster - I've Been There - Lawrence Ardoin - Mentiste Cuando Dijiste - Flaco Jimenez - Aguililla - Los Campesinos De Michoacan - La Reine De La Salle - Odile Falcon - Chanson De La Sagesse - Michael Doucet - Hot Chili Mama - BeauSoleil - Check Out The Zydeco - C.J. Chenier - El Canoero - Valerio Longoria - Corrido Del Mono - Los Gavilanes De Oakland - San Francisco Can Be Such A Lonely Town - Omar Sharriff disc 5: - Mother - Paramount Gospel Singers - Gumagarugu - Chatuye - Khandan-E Amaturi III - Aziz Herawi - A Ti, Colombia - Ivan Cuesta - Food Stamp Blues - Treme Brass Band - Ain't It A Shame - Elder Roma Wilson - J'ai Ete Au Bal - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band - La Mal Sentada - Los Cenzontles - Falling For You - Rose Maddox - Los Traficantes Del Bravo - Los Palomares Del Bravo (previously unreleased) - Jesus Will Fix It For You - Sonny Treadway - Medved Na Lancu - Csokolom - Jale Griego - Jose Moreno - El Corrido De Esequiel Hernandez - Santiago Jimenez, Jr. - What's His Name - Jesus! - The Campbell Brothers - Just A Closer Walk With Thee - Aubrey Ghent Compilation producers: Chris Strachwitz & Elijah Wald; digitally remastered by Mike Cogan
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| 68 | 2001 | The Best Of Mississippi Fred McDowell - Write Me A Few Of Your Lines - Do My Baby Ever Think Of Me - Levee Camp Blues - When The Saints Go Marching In - My Bottleneck - Fred's Worried Life Blues - Kokomo Blues - Meet Me Down In Froggy Bottom - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning - Shake 'Em On Down - Going Away - Won't Be Gone Long - I Wish I Was In Heaven Sittin' Down - Fred's Rambling Blues - I Looked At The Sun - You Gotta Move - My Baby - Intro: Shake 'Em On Down / Louise
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| 68a | 2001 | Newport Folk Festival Best of the Blues 1959-68 disc 1: Mississippi John Hurt - Sliding Delta - Candy Man - Coffee Blues - Stagger Lee - Here I Am Lord Send Me - Pallet On Your Floor Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (3:23) - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues Son House - Preaching Blues - Death Letter Blues - Empire State Express - Son Blues Bukka White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues Mississippi Fred McDowell - Louise - If The River Was Whiskey Muddy Waters (solo) - Walkin' Blues [Vanguard VCD2-77005] - I Can't Be Satisfied [Vanguard VCD2-77005] disc 2: Robert Pete Williams - Levee Camp Blues - Midnight Boogie - On My Way From Texas Mance Lipscomb - Freddie - So Different Blues - God Moves On The Water (The Sinking Of The Titanic) Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues - Double Double Do Love You Rev. Gary Davis - Samson And Delilah - I Won't Be Back No More Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Intro/The Train Is Leaving °° - Drink Muddy Water °° - Long Gone - Key To The Highway - My Baby Done Changed The Lock On The Door Sleepy John Estes - Clean Up At Home disc 3: Lightnin' Hopkins - Woman I'm Lovin' She's Taken My Appetite - Baby Please Don't Go Lightnin' Hopkins & Samuel Lay - Shake That Thing John Lee Hooker & Bill Lee - Tupelo - Bus Station Blues - Let's Make It °° - Great Fire Of Natchez °° - Boom Boom °° - I Can't Quit You Baby / Stop Now Baby Memphis Slim - How Long °° - Black Cat Crossed My Path °° - Harlem Bound °° - Piano Instrumental °° Muddy Waters & Otis Spann - Blow Wind Blow °° @ youtube - Flood (= "Clouds In My Heart") °° @ youtube Chambers Brothers - CC Rider The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Blues With A Feeling - Born In Chicago °° compilation prod. by Tom Vickers front cover painting by Meredith Steele °° 12 previously unreleased tracks
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| 69 | 2003 | Mississippi Fred McDowell: Heritage Of The Blues - Waiting For My Baby [Testament T-2208] - The Girl I'm Loving [Testament T-2208] - Going Down South, Carry My Whip [Testament T-2208] - Goin' Over The Hill [Testament TCD-6007] - Diving Duck Blues [Testament T-2208] - My Baby Don't Treat Me Like Human Kind [OJL 8051, Testament TCD-6007] - Jim Steam Killed Lula [OJL 8051, Testament TCD-6007] - Just A Little More Faith [Testament T-2219, Testament TCD-5004] - Down On Dankin's Farm [OJL 8051, Testament TCD-6007] - Pea Vine Special [OJL 8051, Testament TCD-6007] - You Got To Move [Testament T-2219, Testament TCD-5004] - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning [Testament T-2219, Testament TCD-5004]
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| 70 | 2003 | The Very Best Of Mississippi Fred McDowell Heroes of the Blues series - Write Me A Few Lines - Louise - My Baby - You Gotta Move - Kokomo Blues - Red Cross Store - 61 Highway - Get Right, Church - Pea Vine Special - Trouble Everywhere I Go - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning - Shake 'Em On Down - On The Frisco Line - Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed - Drop Down Mama - I've Been Drinking Water Out Of A Hollow Log
notes by Frank Scott | |
| 71 | 2003 | The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, Vol. 1 - Shake For Me - Howlin' Wolf (196) - I Can't Quit You Baby - Otis Rush (196) - Another Night To Cry - Lonnie Johnson (196) - Women Be Wise - Sippie Wallace (196) - Everyday I Have The Blues - Memphis Slim (196) - Don't Throw Your Love On Me So Strong - T-Bone Walker (196) - Hoodoo Man Blues - Junior Wells (196) - Black Snake Blues - Victoria Spivey (196) - Mojo Hand - Lightnin' Hopkins (196) - My Younger Days - Sonny Boy Williamson (196) - Five Long Years - Eddie Boyd (196) - Going Down To The River - Mississippi Fred McDowell (196) - Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues - Willie Dixon (196) - Nine Below Zero - Sonny Boy Williamson (196) - Love Me Darlin' - Howlin' Wolf (196) - Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters (196)
notes by Rob Bowman | |
| 71a | 2003 | Alan Lomax - Blues Songbook disc: 1 - Goin' Down The River - Mississippi Fred McDowell - Rolled And Tumbled - Rosalie Hill - Cherry Ball Blues - Jack Owens & Bud Spires - Dust My Broom - Howlin' Wolf - Boogie Children - Joe Lee - Stagolee - Lucious Curtis - Stop All The Buses - Cecil Augusta - Worried Life Blues - David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - The Pony Blues - Son House - Tangle Eye Blues - Walter 'Tangle Eye' Jackson - Trouble So Hard - Vera Ward Hall - Worried Blues - Sonny Terry - Beggin' The Blues - Bessie Jones - John Henry - Gabriel Brown - Country Blues - Dock Boggs - Cherry Ball Blues - Skip James - I Hate A Man Like You - Jelly Roll Morton - Roll 'Em - Pete Johnson - Kokomo - The Memphis Jug Band - Life Is Like That - Big Bill Broonzy disc: 2 - I Could Hear My Name A Ringin' - Big Bill Broonzy - Dimples In Your Jaws - Joe Lee - Catfish Blues - Jack Owens & Bud Spires< - Kill-It-Kid Rag - Blind Willie McTell - You're Gonna Need My Help - Elinor Boyer - The Army Blues - David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - Blues De La Prison - Canray Fontenot - I Been Drinnkin' - Vera Ward Hall - I Been A Bad, Bad Girl - Ozella Jones - I Be's Troubled - Muddy Waters - Boogie Instrumental - R.L. Burnside - Blind Lemon Blues - Lead Belly - Sweet Patootie Blues - Albert Ammons - The Last Time - Sam Chatmon - Shorty George - Smith Casey - Desert Blues - Hattie Ellis - Joe Turner - Hobart Smith - Joe Turner - Miles - Joe Turner - Big Bill Broonzy - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Hobart Smith - How Long Blues - Sonny Terry
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| 71b | 2003 | Roots Of The Blues disc 1 "Folk Blues": Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:47) The Chambers Brothers - See See Rider (3:08) John Hammond - Statesboro Blues (3:39) Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (3:53) Dave Van Ronk - Cocaine (3:46) Buffy Sainte-Marie - You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond (2:51) °° Spider John Koerner - Traveling Blues (4:44) Bill Monroe - Blue Yodel # 4 (2:43) Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Maria Muldaur - Richland Woman (4:19) Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Geoff & Maria Muldaur - Chevrolet (3:51) Sam & Kirk McGee - Milk Cow Blues (2:31) °° Tony Glover - I Dont Need No Whiskey (4:30) °° Josh White - What You Gonna Do When Your Meat Gives Out (1:49) °° Eric Von Schmidt - Grizzly Bear (4:34) Mance Lipscomb - Keep On Truckin' Mama (1:35) °° disc 2 "Delta & Country Blues": Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53) Rev. Gary Davis - You Got To Move (5:50) Skip James - I'm So Glad (1:53) Son House - Empire State Express (3:50) Bukka White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (4:45) Mississippi Fred McDowell - If The River Was Whiskey (2:34) Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied (2:53) Odetta - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (2:13) Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key To The Highway (3:37) Sleepy John Estes - Clean Up At Home (2:59) Mance Lipscomb - Freddie (1:50) Memphis Slim - How Long (2:59) Robert Pete Williams - Midnight Boogie (3:25) [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VSD 77/78, Vanguard CD 70193-2, Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube Eddie Boyd & Willie Dixon - Five Long Years (2:22) Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (5:12) disc 3 "Urban Blues": Junior Wells - Messin' With The Kid (2:21) Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby (3:14) J.B. Hutto & The Hawks - Going Ahead (2:03) Otis Spann - Marie (2:28) James Cotton - Rocket 88 (2:03) Homesick James And His Dusters - Dust My Broom (3:17) Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band - One More Time (2:26) The Johnny Shines Blues Band - If I Get Lucky (3:23) Buddy Guy - One Room Country Shack (5:30) Muddy Waters with Otis Spann - Blow Wind Blow (3:09) Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go (2:37) Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Blues With A Feeling (3:55) Charlie Musselwhite - Juke (4:18) Big Mama Thornton - Ball And Chain (6:48) John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom (3:01) compilation prod. by Tom Vickers; cover design by Ann Smalley; photography by David Gahr °° previously unreleased tracks
3 CD set | |
| 71c | 2005 | Blues With A Message - I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatman - John Henry - John Jackson [Arhoolie 1025 1970] - Walked Down So Many Turn Rows - Mercy Dee - Tom Moore's Farm (live) - Mance Lipscomb (3:40) [Arhoolie 1077] - Tom Moore Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins - River Blues - Lowell Fulson - Levee Camp Blues - Fred McDowell - The 1919 Influenza Blues - Essie Jenkins - Why I Like Roosevelt - Willie Eason - Little Soldier Boy - Doctor Ross - Prisoner's Talking Blues - Robert Pete Williams - I Got To Climb A High Mountain - Johnie Lewis - Depression Blues - Herman E. Johnson - Stockyard Blues - Johnny Young/Big Walter Horton - What Will I Tell The Children - Juke Boy Bonner - It's Enough - Juke Boy Bonner - Things Gonna Get Better - Bee Houston - Back Home Blues - Big Joe Williams ed. by Chris Strachwitz & Paul Oliver
notes by Paul Oliver
on front cover: Sleepy John Estes' hands cropped from a 1962 photo by Georges Adins Arhoolie Records discography | |
| 72 | 2006 | Mississippi Fred McDowell: London Calling - 61 Highway - Red Cross Store - When I Lay My Burden Down (with Jo Ann Kelly) - Evil Hearted Woman - I Asked For Whiskey, She Brought Me Gasoline - Standing At The Burying Ground - Glory Hallelujah - Write Me A Few Lines - My Baby Done Me Wrong - Shake 'Em On Down - Louise - My Babe - Waves Of The Water - Kokomo
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| 73 | 2007 | An Introduction to Mississippi Fred McDowell - Good Morning Little School Girl - Shake 'Em On Down - Levee Camp Blues - You Gotta Move - 61 Highway - Baby Please Don't Go - Como - John Henry - Kokomo Blues - Someday - The Train I Ride - Going Down the River - AIn't Gonna Worry My Life No More - Louise - I Asked For Whiskey, She Gave Me Gasoline - My Baby Done Me Wrong
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| 74 | 2010 | Mississippi Fred McDowell: Come and Found You Gone The Bill Ferris Recordings - Big Fat Mama, Meat Shakin' On Her Bones - Shake 'Em On Down - Baby Please Don't Go - Find My Suitcase - Letter From Hot Springs - John Henry - Hello Darling What Have I Done? - Dream I Went To The U.N. # - The Boogie - Little Red Rooster - Get Right Church - Death Came In - Dialogue [] - I Got Religion [] - Come And Found You Gone [] - Where Could I Go? [] - You Gonna Meet King Jesus [] - Interview with Bill Ferris rec. August 1967 by Bill Ferris; Fred McDowell, voc, g; [] Annie Mae McDowell, voc; Napoleon Strickland, hca; # unidentified musician, voc
notes by Bill Ferris, Luther Dickinson & Vincent Joos | |
| 75 | 2010 | Been Here All My Days - Who's Gonna Be Your Man - John Lee Ziegler - Bullying Well - Rosa Lee Hill - Shake 'Em On Down - Fred McDowell - What Makes Grandma Love Grandpa - Jimmy Lee Williams - Old Country Rock #1 - James Davis - Big Road Blues - Houston Stackhouse - Search Me Lord - James Shorter - Home Going - Jessie Mae Hemphill - Georgia Buck - Precious Bryant - Country Blues - Joe Callicott - Rabbit On A Log - Lonzie Thomas - Trouble Brought Me Down - Green Paschal - Good Morning Judge - Furry Lewis - Hold My Body Down - Robert Johnson "selections from the George Mitchell archive"
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| 76 | 2011 | Mississippi Fred McDowell: Downhome Blues 1959 disc 1: Mississippi Fred McDowell - When You Get Home, Write Me A Few Lines - Drop Down Mama - Shake 'Em On Down - Fred McDowell's Blues - Goin' Down To The River - You Gonna Be Sorry - You Done Tol' Everybody - Woke Up This Morning With My Mind On Jesus - Soon One Mornin' - Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning - Wished I Was In Heaven Sitting Down - Germany Blues - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Freight Train Blues - Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning - Been Drinkin' Water Out Of A Hollow Log - I Want Jesus To Walk With Me - 61 Highway Blues - Lord Have Mercy - Worried Man - What's The Matter Now - Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning (instr) disc 2: Mississippi Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down John Dudley - Cool Water Blues - Po' Boy Blues - Clarksdale Mill Blues Lonnie Young / Ed Young - Jim And John - Hen Duck - Chevrolet - Oree - Sittin' On Top Of The World Miles Pratcher & Bob Pratcher - All Night Long - I'm Gonna Live Anyhow 'Til I Die - Buttermilk Forrest City Joe - Levee Camp Reminiscence - Train Time - Red Cross Store - You Gotta Cut That Out - Stop Breaking Down - Drink On Little Girl - She Lived Her Life Too Fast - She Don't Love Me That Way - Forrest City Jump Joe Lee - Boogie Children - Joe Lee's Rock - You Got Dimples In Your Jaw Mississippi Fred McDowell tracks rec. September 21, 1959 in Como, MS by Alan Lomax with the assistance of Shirley Collins
2 CD set | |
| 77 | 2011 | Mississippi Fred McDowell: The Alan Lomax Recordings - Shake 'Em On Down - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning - Fred McDowell's Blues - Woke Up This Morning With My Mind On Jesus - Drop Down Mama - Going Down To The River - Wished I Was In Heaven Sitting Down - When The Train Comes Along - When You Get Home Please Write Me A Few Of Your Lines - Worried Mind Blues - Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning (instrumental reprise)
notes by Adam Machado and Nathan Salsburg | |
| 78 | 2014 | The Roots Of It All: Acoustic Blues - The Definitive Collection, Vol. 3 disc 1: The 1960s Mance Lipscomb - Shake, Shake, Mama (2:50) John Lee Hooker - Tupelo (3:19) Rev. Gary Davis - Samson And Delilah (4:05) Robert Pete Williams - I've Grown So Ugly (2:48) Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand (3:03) Lonnie Johnson - Moaning Blues (4:01) Smoky Babe - Hottest Brand Goin' (4:06) Herman E. Johnson - I Just Keeps On Wanting You (2:45) Scrapper Blackwell - Shady Lane (5:27) Pink Anderson - I Got Mine (3:07) Pete Franklin - Prison Bound (4:21) Shirley Griffith - Bye Bye Blues (4:11) R.C. Smith - Please Don't Drive Me Away (2:25) Memphis Willie B. - Wine Drinking Woman (3:36) Baby Tate - What Have I Done To You (2:42) Leroy Dallas - She Caught The M & O (3:43) Sleepy John Estes - Vernita's Blues (2:19) J.D. Short - I'm Just Wastin' My Time (5:25) Muddy Waters - Feel Like Going Home (3:52) Buddy Moss - Amy (2:42) Johnny Young - Want My Lovin' (3:30) Arvella Gray - Corrine, Corrina (2:13) Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53) Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis - Alberta (2:56) disc 2: The 1970s Son House - Empire State Express (3:41) Mississippi Fred McDowell - Frisco Lines (3:59) J.B. Lenoir - If I Get Lucky (2:59) Skip James - Sickbed Blues (4:06) R.L. Burnside - Long Haired Doney (2:45) Furry Lewis - Old Original Furry Lewis Blues (3:46) Joe Callicott - Lonesome Katy Blues (3:04) John Jackson - Rocks And Gravel (3:15) Babe Stovall - Worried Blues (3:33) Howlin' Wolf - Ain't Goin' Down That Dirt Road #2 (4:20) Larry Johnson - Four Women Blues (2:33) Jack Owens - I Love My Baby (4:50) Johnny Shines - Your Troubles Can't Be Like Mine (4:18) Brownie McGhee - My Last Suit (3:53) Juke Boy Bonner - Tired Of The Greyhound Bus (2:26) Tarheel Slim - So Sweet, So Sweet (3:19) Tom Shaw - Baby Be A Boy Child Named Him After Me (5:44) Eddie Taylor - Bullcow Blues (3:10) Bill Williams - Salty Dog (4:37) Guitar Shorty - Jessie Jones (3:58) Rev. Pearly Brown - It's A Mean Old World To Try To Live In (2:24) Louisiana Red - Dead Stray Dog (3:56) David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Big Fat Mama (2:56) Henry Townsend - Can't You See (3:18) front cover photo (of Big Joe Williams) by Axel Küstner
112-pp. booklet notes by Bill Dahl | |
| 79 | 6/2018 | Voices Of Mississippi Artists And Musicians Documented by William Ferris CD 1: Blues James "Son Ford" Thomas - 44 Blues (3:45) Lovey Williams - I Feel So Good (2:06) Wallace "Pine-Top" Johnson & Maudie Shirley with Jasper Love - Stackalee And Billy Lyons (2:45) Scott Dunbar - Lil' Liza Jane (2:59) Mississippi Fred McDowell - Big Fat Mama (2:28) Louis Dotson - Bottle Blowing (0:52) Sonny Boy Watson - Bring Me My Shotgun (3:08) Sam Myers - Eyesight To The Blind (2:25) James "Son Ford" Thomas - Cairo (2:49) Scott Dunbar - Jaybird (8:35) Tom Dumas - Cotton Eyed Joe (2:24) Lovey Williams - Coal Black Mare (2:37) Unidentified Musician with Mississippi Fred McDowell - I Dreamed I Went To The U.N. (2:30) Walter Lee Hood - Darling If You Must Leave (1:06) Mississippi Fred McDowell - I Got A Letter From Hot Springs (3:54) Wallace "Pine-Top" Johnson & Maudie Shirley With Jasper Love - Baby Loves To Boogie (3:13) Wash Heron & "Big" Jack Johnson - Nothing (1:36) James "Son Ford" Thomas - Dust My Broom (2:31) Scott Dunbar - The Memphis Mail (3:30) Sonny Boy Watson - Have You Seen My Baby (3:48) James Hughes - Instrumental Guitar Piece In A (1:37) Lovey Williams - Train I Ride (1:57) Unidentified Musician with Mississippi Fred McDowell - Little Red Rooster (3:01) Leland Musician - Darlin' Why You Treat Me So? (2:19) Inmates at Parchman Farm - Water Boy Drowned In The Mobile Bay (1:57) George Lee "Sun Bud" Spears - I Ain't Gonna Live It No More (4:10) James "Son Ford" Thomas with Sonny Boy Watson - I Cannot Stay Here Baby (4:03) CD 2: Gospel Mary Alice & Alan McGowan - My Mother's On That Train (1:36) The Southland Hummingbirds - You Don't Know Like I Know (3:48) Lovey Williams - I'm Standing In The Safety Zone (1:20) Reverend Smith And Family - Children, Go Where I Send Thee (3:27) Liddle Hines - What Could I Do? (3:23) Providence Missionary Baptist Church - So Glad I Got Good Religion (3:21) Church Of God In Christ - I Know The Lord Will Make A Way (Yes He Will) (2:08) Walter Lee Hood And Parchman Inmates - Home On High (2:28) Fannie Bell Chapman -We're So Glad To Be Here (3:52) Mary & Amanda Gordon -Lord, I'm In Your Hand (2:59) Reverend Ott & Family - You Don't Knock, You Just Walk On In (2:29) Walter Lee Hood - They Tell Me Of An Uncloudy Day (1:33) Rose Hill Church - Thanks For Bill Ferris (0:35) Rose Hill Church - Over Yonder Where The Sun Will Never Shine (2:48) The Southland Hummingbirds - I've Been Born Again (3:18) Lovey Williams & Family - The Lord Will Make A Way Somehow (2:51) Providence Missionary Baptist Church - How Did You Feel When You Come Out Of The Wilderness (4:10) Church Of God In Christ - I Don't Have To Worry About Where I Spend Eternity (2:56) Fannie Bell Chapman & Family - He's My Rock, My Sword, And Shield (3:58) Walter Lee Hood & Parchman Inmates - Thank You Jesus (2:23) Mary & Amanda Gordon - Cross Of Calvary (2:50) The Church Of God In Christ - My Grave's Gonna Be Decorated On That Day (2:55) The Southland Hummingbirds - There Are Days (2:58) The Church Of God In Christ - You Can't Hide Sinner (2:43) Reverend Isaac Thomas & Rose Hill Church - Lord, Remember Me (2:51) The Church Of God In Christ - Glory, Glory (Lay My Burden Down) (8:38) CD 3: Storytelling Barry Hannah - On Bill (1:34) Alice Walker - Regions Of The Mind And Heart (0:46) Alex Haley - The South (1:46) Ray Lum - A Trader Is (1:18) Bobby Rush - The Blues To Me (1:23) Barry Hannah - On Son Thomas And Tradition (1:49) James "Son Ford" Thomas - I Know It's Wrong To Be Playin' The Blues (2:56) Sonny Boy Watson - Jitterbug Comes To Town (2:06) James "Son Ford" Thomas - You Whistlin' (2:19) Joe "Skeet" Skillet - Mule Toast And Pool Hall Toast (3:02) Joe Cooper - The Preacher (1:28) Wallace "Pine-Top" Johnson, Jasper Love, Maudie Shirley - Lyin' (1:05) Shelby "Poppa Jazz" Brown - Two Brothers, Heaven And Hell (5:26) Shelby "Poppa Jazz" Brown - Creekman Killed Charlie Kirkland (3:26) B.B. King - Lucille (3:20) Allen Ginsberg, James "Son Ford" Thomas, Bill Ferris - On Blues Composition (4:41) Robert Penn Warren - The Decline In Human Values (2:46) Pecolia Warner - The Bible Salesma n(5:06) Ray Lum - Fast Traders Disguising Mules (2:50) Ray Lum - Horses Too Tall To Drown (1:02) Ray Lum - The Ark And The Cats (1:55) Ray Lum - The Panther (1:33) Victor Bobb - Fixing Charles Lindbergh's Engine (7:43) Barry Hannah - Lying About Being From Mississippi (0:58) Pete Seeger - We Shall Overcome (2:13) James "Son Ford" Thomas - Cemetery Conversations (6:50) DVD 4: Films William Ferris - Gravel Springs Fife And Drum - Otha Turner(10:28) William Ferris - Green Valley Grandparents (10:20) William Ferris - Ray Lum: Mule Trader (18:03) William Ferris - Fannie Bell Chapman: Gospel Singer (42:47) William Ferris - Four Women Artists: Pecolia Warner, Eudora Welty, Ethel Mohamed, Theora Hamblett (24:04) William Ferris - Hush Hoggies Hush: Tom Johnson's Praying Pigs (4:15) William Ferris - Bottle Up And Go - Louis Dotson (17:56)
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| 1 | 200? | Preachin' The Blues - Tribute to Mississippi Fred McDowell - Get Right Church - Paul Geremia - 61 Highway - Charlie Musselwhite - Kokomo Blues - Anders Osborne - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed & Burning - Colleen Sexton - You Gotta Move - Brian Stoltz - Train I Ride - Tab Benoit - I Heard Somebody Call - David Maxwell - Frisco Line - Sue Foley - Fred's Worried Life Blues - Kenny Neal - I Rolled & I Tumbled - Steve James - That's Alright - Johnny Sansone - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Scott Holt
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Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - Keith Briggs: Fred McDowell on CD.- Blues & Rhythm 106 (1996), p. 14-15 - Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. - Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, p. 366-368, 603 - Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, p. - http://www.ionet.net/~tslade/fred.htm - http://www.ne.jp/asahi/ko-1/crossroads/blues/f/mcdowell.htm - eBay auctions - various internet resources thanks to Alan Balfour, Snežana Lažarević, Guillaume Guerin, Scott Barretta, Brad Barrett, Tony Russell and Fernando Goin for additional info / scans
 Fred McDowell & Doctor Ross at the Hotel du Mont Blanc in Paris, France, October 30, 1965 source: Blues & Rhythm Panorama 38/39 (1965), p. 27; photographer: Jacques Demêtre
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photographer: William Eggleston
