Lottie Merle [real name: Lattie Murrell]
- When A Gal Cross The Bottom
Perry Tillis
- Kennedy Moan   @youtube
David Johnson
- Train Imitation
William Floyd
- Why Did I Have To Leave Cairo   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Lottie Merle [real name: Lattie Murrell]
- Spoonful   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Perry Tillis
- Soon One Morning   @ youtube
Lottie Merle [real name: Lattie Murrell]
- Blues For Mattie Mae   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Memphis Piano Red
- Dupree Blues

Lum Guffin & Bill Barth
- Minglewood Blues   @ youtube
Perry Tillis
- Too Close   @youtube   @ Spotify
Lottie Merle [real name: Lattie Murrell]
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl   @ youtube
David Johnson
- Let The Nation Be Free
William Floyd
- Every Time I Need You Baby
Joe Townsend & Bill Barth
- Take Your Burdens To The Lord   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Perry Tillis
- Motherless Children
Lincoln Jackson
- What You Want Your Daddy To Do

all tracks rec. by Bengt Olsson
rec. June-September 1971 in Somerville, TN; Lattie Murrell, voc, g
rec. June-September 1971 in Tennessee; Lum Guffin, voc, g
rec. June-September 1971 in Memphis, TN; Memphis Piano Red, voc, p

notes by Bengt Olsson

Flyright LP 501 (UK 1972)

Flyright Records discography
Lum Guffin discography
Lattie Murrell discography

Flyright LP 503 / Flyright FLYCD 58 track sequence:
- Railroad Blues #
- Mean Old Frisco
- Key To The Highway
- Jack Of Diamonds   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Moaning & Groaning Blues #

- Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
- St. Louis Blues
- My Little Machine
- Johnny Wilson [2:31] #   [3:43] @ youtube
- On The Road Again #
- Dust My Broom *

Mississippi MRP-056 / Sutro Park SP-1031 track sequence:
- Jack O Diamonds
- Moanin And Groanin Blues
- Railroad Blues
- Key To The Highway
- On The Road Again
- Johnny Wilson

- Menglewood Blues
- Mean Old Frisco
- St. Louis Blues
- My Little Machine
- Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
- Old Time Piece

rec. 1973 by Bengt Olsson; Lum Guffin, voc, g acc. by Bill Barth, g on some tracks and * slide g
Mississippi MRP-056 / Sutro Park SP-1031 cover woodcut by Trish Tripp

notes by Bill Barth

Flyright LP 503 (UK 1973)

# Flyright FLYCD 58

= Mississippi MRP-056 / Sutro Park SP-1031 (US 8/2015)

Flyright Records discography
Lum Guffin discography

- Howlin' In The Moonlight   @ youtube
- Catfish   @ youtube

rec. June-September 1971 in Somerville, TN by Bengt Olsson; Lattie Murrell, voc, g

Flyright 45.001

Flyright Records discography
Lattie Murrell discography

Lattie Merle [real name: Lattie Murrell]
- When A Gal Cross The Bottom [different version to that on Flyright LP 501] [re-released on Flyright CD 58 ???]
Dewey Corley
- Fool's Blues [re-released on Flyright CD 58]   @ Spotify
Perry Tillis
- Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt [re-released on Flyright CD 58]
Lum Guffin
- Old Country Blues # [re-released on Flyright CD 58]
Lincoln Jackson
- Loping Blues [re-released on Flyright CD 58]   @youtube
Walter Miller
- Hop's Boogie [re-released on Flyright CD 58]
Lum Guffin, John Mitchell & McKenzie
- Sally Got A Big Leg * [re-released on Flyright CD 58]

Perry Tillis
- The Man From Galilee
Ashley Thompson
- Sweet Peace [re-released on Flyright CD 58]
Walter Miller
- Sherman's Blues [re-released on Flyright CD 58]
Perry Tillis
- God Don't Like It
Othar Broadnax
- Don't The Peaches Look Mellow [re-released on Flyright CD 58]
Lincoln Jackson
- Big Fat Mama
unknown
- Getting That Stuff
Lum Guffin, Hallie Massey & Plez Rivers
- Do You Know Him []

field recordings 1969-1974 in Tennessee and Alabama by Bengt Olsson
# rec. 1974; Lum Guffin, mandolin; Bill Barth, g
* rec. 1974; Lum Guffin, fife; John Mitchell, bass dr; McKenzie, snare dr
[] rec. 1974; Lum Guffin, fife; Hallie Massey, voc, bass dr; Plez (Williamson) Rivers [notes: "father of Homesick James"], snare dr

notes by Bengt Olsson

Flyright FLY 537 (UK 1979)

some tracks on Flyright FLYCD 58

Flyright Records discography
Lattie Murrell discography
Dewey Corley discography
Lum Guffin discography
Walter Miller discography

- When A Gal Cross The Bottom - Lattie Murrell [Flyright LP 501 or 537 ?]
- Railroad Blues - Lum Guffin (Germany) [Flyright LP 503]
- Spoonful - Lattie Murrell [Flyright LP 501]
- Blues For Mattie Mae - Lattie Murrell [Flyright LP 501]   @ youtube
- Johnny Wilson - Lum Guffin (voc, g) [Flyright LP 503] [2:31]
- On The Road Again - Lum Guffin (voc, g) [Flyright LP 503]
- Loping Blues - Lincoln Jackson [Flyright LP 537]   @youtube
- Kennedy Moan - Perry Tillis [Flyright LP 501]
- Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt - Perry Tillis [Flyright LP 537]
- Why Did I Have To Leave Cairo? - William Floyd Davis [Flyright LP 501]
- Sweet Peace - Ashley Thompson [Flyright LP 537]
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Lattie Murrell [Flyright LP 501]
- Old Country Blues - Lum Guffin (mandolin) [Flyright LP 537]
- Denomination Blues - Perry Tillis [previously unreleased]
- Take Your Burdens To The Lord - Joe Townsend [Flyright LP 501]
- Moaning And Groaning Blues - Lum Guffin (voc, g) [Flyright LP 503]
- Stuttgart, Arkansas - Walter Miller [previously unreleased]
- Last Night - Dewey Corley [previously unreleased]
- Sherman's Blues - Walter Miller [Flyright LP 537]
- Fool's Blues - Dewey Corley [Flyright LP 537]   @ Spotify
- Hop's Boogie - Walter Miller [Flyright LP 537]
- Don't The Peaches Look Mellow - Othar Broadnax [Flyright LP 537]
- Sally Got A Big Leg - The Fife And Drum Band Of The United Sons And Daughters Of Zion Chapter 9 (Lum Guffin, fife) [Flyright LP 537]

rec. by Bengt Olsson
photos by Bengt Olsson

notes by Bengt Olsson

Flyright FLYCD 58 (UK 1997)

Flyright Records discography

- Stuttgart Arkansas - Walter Miller [Flyright FLYCD 58]   @ Spotify
- Jack Of Diamonds - Lum Guffin [Flyright 503]   @ Spotify
- Spoonful - Lattie Murrell [Flyright 501]   @ Spotify
- Too Close - Bishop Perry Tillis [Flyright 501]   @ Spotify
- Loping Blues - Lincoln Jackson [Flyright 537]   @youtube
- Take Your Burdens To The Lord - Joe Townsend [Flyright 501]   @ Spotify
- Sally Got A Big Leg - Fife And Drum Band Of The United Sons And Daughters Of Zion Chapter Nine [Flyright 537]   @ Spotify
- Blues For Mattie Mae - Lattie Murrell [Flyright 501]   @ youtube
- Denomination Blues - Bishop Perry Tillis [Flyright FLYCD 58]   @ Spotify
- Fool's Blues - Dewey Corley [Flyright 537]   @ Spotify
- Why Did I Have To Leave Cairo? - William Davis Floyd [Flyright 501]   @ Spotify
- Sweet Peace - Ashley Thompson [Flyright 537]   @ Spotify
- Old Country Blues - Lum Guffin [Flyright 537]   @ Spotify

rec. by Bengt Olsson

for download only ("Birdman-a-phone is a virtual wing of the Birdman Recording Group, Inc.")
[David Katznelson's label] birdmanaphone.com

- God Don't Like It [Flyright 537]
- Too Close [Flyright 501]   @youtube
- Kennedy Moan [Flyright 501]   @youtube
- Look Out Liar [previously unreleased]
- That's All (Denomination Blues) [Flyright FLYCD 58]   @youtube
- Soon One Morning [Flyright 501]
- Nobody's Fault But Mine [previously unreleased]   @youtube
- What Is This [previously unreleased]
- Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt [Flyright 537]
- Rich Girl, Poor Girl [previously unreleased]
- Do You Know The Man (aka The Man From Galilee) [Flyright 537]   @youtube

rec. by Bengt Olsson

Birdman BMR 093

- Johnny Wilson - Lum Guffin [3:43] [Flyright 503]   @ youtube
- Sherman's Blues - Walter Miller [Flyright 537]
- Somewhere To Lay My Head - Bishop Perry Tillis [previously unreleased]
- Jesus Has Never Left Me Alone - Cleo Williams & Howard Williams [previously unreleased]   @youtube
- Sweet Peace - Ashley Thompson [Flyright 537]   @ youtube
- Take Your Burdens To The Lord - Joe Townsend & Bill Barth [Flyright 501]   @ youtube

- Stuttgart, Ark - Dewey Corley & Walter Miller [previously unreleased]   @ youtube
- He's Calling Me - Bootlegger's Quartet [previously unreleased]
- Wolf's At Your Door - Lattie Murrell [previously unreleased]   @ youtube
- 40 Days And 40 Nights - David Johnson & Guitar Sam   @ youtube
- Moan - Lonnie Fuqua [previously unreleased]
- The Soul Of A Man - David Johnson [previously unreleased]

field recordings produced during the late 60s/early 70s by Bengt Olsson
artwork by Nathaniel Russell

180 Gram vinyl
notes by Scott Barretta

Sutro Park SP 1003LP (UK 2010)
[David Katznelson's vinyl only reissue project]

- When A Gal Cross The Bottom - Lattie Murrell [Flyright LP 501]
- Spoonful - Lattie Murrell [Flyright LP 501]
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Lattie Murrell [Flyright LP 501]
- Howlin' In The Moonlight - Lattie Murrell [Flyright 45.001]
- Blues For Mattie Mae - Lattie Murrell [Flyright LP 501]
- Lookin' Down The Road - William Floyd Davis [previously unissued]
- The Capt'n - William Floyd Davis [previously unissued]
- Why Did I Have To Leave Cairo - William Floyd Davis [Flyright FLYCD 58]
- Catfish Blues - Lattie Murrell [Flyright 45.001]

- Rock Me Baby - Bootlegger with Bill Barth [previously unissued]
- Getting That Stuff - Bootlegger [Flyright FLY 537?]
- Bottle Up And Go - Bootlegger Quartet with Bill Barth [Birdman BMR 036]
- He's Callin' Me - Bootlegger Quartet [Sutro Park SP 1003]
- Cummins Prison Farm - Bootlegger [previously unissued]

rec. 1971 live at a bootlegger's homebase in Fayette County, TN by Bengt Olsson
illustrations by Cameron Forsley

notes by Bengt Olsson

Sutro Park SP 1024LP (180 Gram vinyl)
[David Katznelson's vinyl only reissue project]