Origin Jazz Library OJL 1 "Charlie Patton! 1929-32" (US 4/1961)
5 page booklet notes by Bernard Klatzko Origin Jazz Library OJL 1 (US 1962)
5 page booklet notes by Bernard Klatzko Origin Jazz Library OJL 1 (US 1964?)
notes by David Evans (reprinted from Blues World Booklet No. 2, 1969; revised 1977) Origin Jazz Library OJL 1 (US 1977)
Charley Patton discography
Rory Block: "Stefan [Grossman] gave me a record called 'Really The Country Blues' and that was the beginning of my love affair with the music".
insert brochure notes by Gayle Dean Wardlow Origin Jazz Library OJL 2 (US 1962, 1st ed.)
notes by Bill Givens and Pete Whelan = Origin Jazz Library OJL 2
notes by Bill Givens and Pete Whelan on three stapled A4 copy sheets = Origin Jazz Library OJL 2
= Soundmark 48172 (2011, download only)
Herwin DLP H 209 / Yazoo L 1080/81 track sequence: LP 1: - John Henry °° - Cottonfield Blues °° - Arkansas - The Fox And The Hounds °° - Red River Blues °° - The Little Red Caboose °° - Bob McKinney °° - Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance? °° - Run, Mollie, Run °° - Shanty Blues °° - Woodhouse Blues °° LP 2: - Jonah In The Wilderness - When The Train Comes Along °° - Bull Doze Blues °° - Don't Ease Me In - Texas Easy Street °° - Texas Worried Blues °° - Fishing Blues - Old Country Stomp - Charmin' Betsy - Lovin' Babe - Railroadin' Some - Don't Leave Me Here °° 14 [out of 23] tracks on OJL 3 Yazoo LP/CD front cover drawing by Frederick Carlson
Origin Jazz Library OJL 3 (US 1962) "Henry Thomas Sings The Texas Blues!"
DLPbound in notes by Mack McCormick = Herwin H 209 (US 1974) "Henry Thomas - Ragtime Texas: Complete Works - 1927 to 1929 in Chronological Order"
DLPnotes by Steven Calt & Mack McCormick = Yazoo L 1080/81 (US 1989) "Texas Worried Blues"
notes by Stephen Calt = Yazoo CD 1080/81 (US 1993) "Texas Worried Blues"
DLPnotes by Steven Calt & Mack McCormick= Yazoo L 1080/81 (US 2013) 180g "Texas Worried Blues"
Henry Thomas discographyHerwin Records discographyYazoo Records discography
notes by Sam Charters Origin Jazz Library OJL 4 (US 1962)
notes by Sam Charters = Origin Jazz Library OJL 4 (US 196?)
notes by Sam Charters = Origin Jazz Library OJL 4 (US 19??)
Cannon's Jug Stompers discographyJaybird Coleman discographyWhistler and His Jug Band discographyMemphis Jug Band discography
brochure notes by Gayle Dean Wardlow Origin Jazz Library OJL-5 (US 1963)also delivered with labels: "The Mississippi Blues No. 1"
notes by Gayle Dean Wardlow (biographies) and David Evans (lyric transcriptions plus leaflet "The Mississippi Blues") Origin Jazz Library OJL-5 (US 196?) on labels: "The Mississippi Blues No. 1"
notes by Gayle Dean Wardlow (biographies) and David Evans (lyric transcriptions) = Origin Jazz Library OJL-5 (US 1966) on labels: "The Mississippi Blues No. 1"
= Origin Jazz Library OJL-5 (180g repro 2018)
the woman on the front cover of OJL 6 is not Geeshie Wiley !!! The photo depicts a Gullah woman; "photo by Doris Ulmann, from 'Roll, Jordan, Roll', by Julia Peterkin & Doris Ulmann (New York, Robert O. Ballou, 1934), p. 101." [Chris Smith] "A photo of a Gullah woman may have been chosen because the album included material by Geeshie, on the basis that the name 'Geeshie' was thought to indicate a GA/SC origin for her - whereas it turns out she came from Texas." [Bob Eagle]
notes by Nancy Grace Whelan or Origin Jazz Library OJL 6
booklet notes by Bernard Klatzko or Origin Jazz Library OJL 7 (US 1964)
notes by David Evans (reprinted from Blues World Booklet No. 2, 1969; revised 1977) Origin Jazz Library OJL 7 (US 1977)
notes by Gayle Dean Wardlow or Origin Jazz Library OJL 8 (US 1965)
Origin Jazz Library OJL 9
notes by Pete Whelan Origin Jazz Library OJL 10 (US 1965)
Origin Jazz Library OJL 10 (US 196?) different running order of tracks!
Origin Jazz Library OJL 10 (US 19??)
Sam Collins discographyKing Solomon Hill discography
notes by David Evans and Bill Givens Origin Jazz Library OJL-11 (US 1965)
notes by David Evans and Bill Givens Origin Jazz Library OJL-11 (US 196?)
broschure notes (for Nos. 1 & 2) by Bernard Klatzko & Gayle Dean Wardlowlater: new notes (leaflet) by Pete Welding later Origin Jazz Library OJL 12 (US 1966 ff.)
notes by Pete Welding = Origin Jazz Library OJL 12 (US 19??)
notes by Bernard Klatzko & Gayle Dean Wardlow Origin Jazz Library OJL 13
notes by Pete Welding Origin Jazz Library OJL 13
notes by Jacques Roche Origin Jazz Library OJL 14
notes by Tracy Nelson Origin Jazz Library OJL 15
Origin Jazz Library OJL 16
notes by David Evans Origin Jazz Library OJL 17
notes by Bill Givens and David Evans Origin Jazz Library OJL 18 (US 1969)
notes by Henry Vestine Origin Jazz Library OJL 19
Origin Jazz Library OJL 20
notes by Dave [sic] Evans Origin Jazz Library OJL-21
Origin Jazz Library OJL-22
Peg Leg Howell discography
notes by Lawrence Cohn Origin Jazz Library OJL 23
Lonnie Johnson discography
Origin Jazz Library OJL 24
notes by Don Kent Origin OJL-25
notes by Bill Givens and Pete Welding Origin Jazz Library OJL 8051 (US 1980)
notes by Pete Welding = Testament TCD-6007 (US 1998)
Mississippi Fred McDowell discographyTestament Records discography
notes by Dick Spottswood Piedmont PLP 13162 (US 1964)
notes by Dick Spottswood = Piedmont PLP 13162 (US 196?)
the cover image is on a separate 8"x12" paper glued onto a generic white jacket6-pp. booklet "Father To 'The Prodigal Son'" by Mark Humphrey = Origin Jazz Library OJL 8052 (US 1984) "The Prodigal Son"
= Origin Jazz Library OJL 8052 (US 19??) "The Legendary Piedmont Recordings"
Robert Wilkins discographyPiedmont Records discography
Bear Family BCD16629
notes by T.G. Rockwell & Dick Spottswood Piedmont PLP 13157 (1st press 1963, blue labels) "presenting, Mississippi John Hurt - Folk Songs and Blues"on back cover: "Produced by Music Research, Incorporated, 2023 N Woodstock Street, Arlington 7, Virginia, U.S.A."(Arlington is where Dick and Louisa Spottswood lived at that time!)
notes by T.G. Rockwell & Dick Spottswood Piedmont PLP 13157 (2nd press 1963?, blue labels) without "presenting,"on back cover: "Produced by Music Research, Incorporated, 2023 N Woodstock Street, Arlington 7, Virginia, U.S.A."
notes by T.G. Rockwell & Dick Spottswood = Gryphon GLP 13157 (1963?)on back cover: "Produced by Gryphon, Spottswood Music Co, Inc., Box 7102, Arlington, Virginia, 22207, U.S.A."Gryphon Records, one of Dick Spottswood's labels founded soon after he "left" Music Research, Inc./Piedmont Records
notes by T.G. Rockwell & Dick Spottswood = Piedmont PLP 13157 (3rd press 1965?, black labels)on back cover: "Produced by Music Research, Inc., producers of Piedmont and Bullfrog records""Music Research, Inc., P.O.Box 288, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A." (Gene Rosenthal [then working for Takoma Records] had built a recording studioin the basement of his parents' house in Silver Spring, Maryland)
original notes by T.G. Rockwell & Dick Spottswood; additional notes by Lawrence Cohn (1964 Sing Out! article) = Piedmont PLP 13157 (reissued and distributed 19?? by OJL) "Mississippi John Hurt, 1963 (Volume I of the Original Piedmont Recordings - 'Folksongs and Blues')"
notes by Bill Givens = Origin Jazz Library OJL 8053 (US c.1984) special reissue, produced by Bill GivensOn back sleeve: "This material reissued by special arrangement with Music Research, Inc., Tom Hoskins, Pres."On labels: "(C)℗ Music Research, Piedmont Records - Bullfrog Music"
notes by David Brown & Thomas Hoskins = Rounder CD 1081 (US 1991) "Avalon Blues 1963"
= Rounder C-1081 (cassette) (US 1991) "Avalon Blues 1963"
mini LP replica CD with OBI = Vivid Sound VSCD-130 (Jp 2001)
= Old Days ODR-6226 (Jp 4/2016)
= Doxy (download only?) (It 8/2017)
180 g LP= Hi Horse HHO 13001 (US/Ca 2018)
Mississippi John Hurt discographyPiedmont Records discography
Mississippi John Hurt discography
notes by Robert Sheltonand Dick Spottswood Piedmont PLP 13161 (1964)
= Chesapeake CLP 13161
original notes by RobertShelton and Dick Spottswood reissued and distributed19?? by OJL"Mississippi John Hurt,1964 (Volume II of theOriginal Recordings'Worried Blues')"
= Origin Jazz LibraryOJL 8054
notes by Eric Park= OJL 8054
notes by David Brown= Rounder CD 1082 (1991)"Worried Blues 1963"["1963" ?]
www.rounder.com
= Vivid Sound VSCD-131 (Jp 2001)
Thanks to Robert Sacré, Brad Barrett, Rob Ford, Chris Smith, Bob Eagle, Hank Moore, Fernando Goin and Peter K. Siegel for additional information / scans