Illustrated Yank Rachell discography

Yank Rachell in Hamburg, Germany, February 1978
source: Blues Forum Nr. 11 (1983), p. 8; photographer: Axel Küstner Yank Rachell
James A. "Yank" Rachell
b. March 16, 1910 near Allens (Allens Station) northeast of Brownsville, Haywood County, Tennessee
d. April 9, 1997 at home in Indianapolis, Indiana
buried at New Crown Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana, Sec. 42, Row 8, Gr. 28
discography
source: Back cover of Blind Pig BP-1986
photographer: Ira Landgarten

#	year of release	title / label / notes
*10 inch 78 rpm*
		- Broken Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too (55531-2) rec. September 17, 1929 in Memphis, TN; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, mand (Three J's Jug Band) Victor unissued
1	1929	John Estes - Diving Duck Blues (55596-2) * - The Girl I Love She Got Long Curly Hair (55581-1) # # rec. September 24, 1929 in Memphis, TN; John Estes, voc, g; Johnny Hardge, p; James Rachell, mand * rec. September 26, 1929 in Memphis, TN; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, mand (Three J's Jug Band) Victor V38549 # = Bluebird B-7849 (Rev. by Sonny Boy Nelson) * = Bluebird B-7677 Sleepy John Estes discography
2	1929	John Estes - Broken Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too (55531-3) # - Black Mattie Blues (36335-1) * # rec. Memphis, TN, September 26, 1929; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, mand (Three J's Jug Band) * rec. October 2, 1929 in Memphis, TN; John Estes, voc, g; "Tee", hca; James Rachell, mand Victor V38582 Sleepy John Estes discography
3	1929	John Estes - James Rachel - T-Bone Steak Blues (56336-2) * - Little Sarah (55597-2) # # rec. September 26, 1929 in Memphis, TN; James Rachell, voc, mand; John Estes, g; 'Tee', Jab Jones, p (Three J's Jug Band) * rec. October 2, 1929 in Memphis, TN; James Rachell, voc, mand; John Estes, g; "Tee", hca Victor V38595 Sleepy John Estes discography
4	1930	John Estes - Milk Cow Blues (59918-2) # - Street Car Blues (59919-2) rec. May 13, 1930 in Memphis, TN; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, mand (Three J's Jug Band) Victor V38614 # = Bluebird B-7677 Sleepy John Estes discography
5	1930	Noah Lewis - New Minglewood Blues (64737-2) # - Bad Luck's My Buddy (64739-2) * # rec. November 26, 1930 in Memphis, TN; Noah Lewis, voc, hca; John Estes, g; James Rachell, mand; Ham Lewis, j * rec. November 28, 1930 in Memphis, TN; Noah Lewis, voc, hca; John Estes, g; Ham Lewis, j Victor 23266 Sleepy John Estes discography
6	1930	John Estes - Expressman Blues (59934-2) # - Sweet Mama (62550-2) * # rec. May 17, 1930 in Memphis, TN; John Estes, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, voc, mand (Three J's Jug Band) * rec. May 30, 1930 in Memphis, TN; John Estes, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, voc, mand (Three J's Jug Band) Victor 23318 Sleepy John Estes discography
		- Wadie Green Blues (59935-2) rec. May 17, 1930 in Memphis, TN; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, mand (Three J's Jug Band) Victor unissued Sleepy John Estes discography
7	1930	John Estes - Whatcha doin'? (59967-2) - Poor John Blues (59968-2) rec. May 21, 1930 in Memphis, TN; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, mand (Three J's Jug Band) Victor 38628 Sleepy John Estes discography
8	1930	John Estes - Stack O' Dollars (62547-2) - My Black Gal Blues (62548-2) rec. May 30, 1930 in Memphis, TN; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, mand (Three J's Jug Band) Victor 23397 Sleepy John Estes discography
		- Ninety Pound Mama (62549-2) rec. May 30, 1930 in Memphis, TN; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, voc, mand (Three J's Jug Band) Victor unissued Sleepy John Estes discography
9	1934?	The Memphis Jug Band / Noah Lewis and his Jug Band The Memphis Jug Band - Stonewall Blues (62542- ) * @ youtube Noah Lewis and his Jug Band - Ticket Agent Blues (64736-2) # @ youtube # rec. November 26, 1930 in Memphis, TN; Noah Lewis, voc, hca; John Estes, g; James Rachell, mand; Ham Lewis, j * rec. May 29, 1930 in Memphis, TN; Will Shade, voc, g; Ben Ramey, kazoo; Charlie Burse, g; Hambone Lewis, j Bluebird B-5675 Sleepy John Estes discography
10	193?	John Estes - Milk Cow Blues (59918-2) # - Diving Duck Blues (55596-2) * # rec. May 13, 1930 in Memphis, TN; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, mand * rec. September 26, 1929 in Memphis, TN; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, mand (* This reissue may use a different take than the original Victor V38549) # Victor V38614 * Victor V38549 Bluebird B-7677 Sleepy John Estes discography
11	193?	John Estes / Sonny Boy Nelson - The Girl I Love She Got Long Curly Hair (55581-1) # - Long Tall Woman (02597-1) * # rec. September 24, 1929 in Memphis, TN; John Estes, voc, g; Johnny Hardge, p; James Rachell, mand (This reissue may use a different take than the original Victor V38549) * rec. October 15, 1936 in New Orleans; Sonny Boy Nelson, voc, g; Willie Harris Jr, g # Victor V38549 Bluebird B-7849 Sleepy John Estes discography
12	1934	Poor Jim with Dan Jackson - Stack O'Dollars Blues (14789-2) - Sugar Farm Blues (14788-1) @ youtube rec. February 6, 1934 in New York City; Yank Rachell, voc, g; Dan Smith, g Banner 33007 = Conqueror 8355 = Melodeon 12958 = Oriole 8319 Perfect 0273 Romeo 5319
13	1934	Poor Jim - Blue And Worried Woman (14779-1) # - Squeaky Work Bench Blues (14792-2) * # rec. February 5, 1934 in New York City; Yank Rachell, voc; self or Dan Smith, g * rec. February 6, 1934 in New York City; Yank Rachell, voc, g; Dan Smith, g Banner 33047 = Melodeon 13009 = Oriole 8333 Perfect 0278 = Romeo 5333
14	1934	Yank Rachel and Dan Smith - Night Latch Blues (14791-1) - Gravel Road Woman (14793-2) rec. February 6, 1934 in New York City; Yank Rachell, voc, g; Dan Smith, g Vocalion 02649
15	1938	Sonny Boy Williamson - My Little Cornelius (020110- ) - Sunny Land (020115- ) # rec. March 13, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Sonny Boy Williamson, voc, hca; Walter Davis, p; Yank Rachell, mand, # poss sp; Joe Williams, g Bluebird B-7500 = Montgomery Ward M-7504 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography Walter Davis discography Joe Williams discography
16	4/1938	Walter Davis - I Hear My Baby Crying (020106-1) @ youtube - Walking The Avenue (020107-1) # @ youtube rec. March 13, 1938 at Leland Hotel in Aurora, IL; Walter Davis, voc, p; # Yank Rachell, g Bluebird B-7512 (4/1938, "staff" label) / (10/1939 ff., "dog 3" label) = Montgomery Ward M-7507 Walter Davis discography
17	1938	Yank Rachel [sic] - Rachel Blues (020127- ) @ youtube - J.L. Dairy Blues (020126- ) * @ youtube rec. March 13, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, mand; * Elijah Jones, g; Sonny Boy Williamson, hca Bluebird B-7525 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
18	1938	Elijah Jones / Washboard Sam Elijah Jones - Stuff Stomp (020125-1) # Washboard Sam - Down At The Old Village Store (020148-1) * # rec. March 13, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Elijah Jones, voc, g; Yank Rachell, mand, voc interjections * rec. March 14, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Arnett Nelson, cl; Black Bob, p; Big Bill Broonzy, g; George Barnes, eg; Washboard Sam, voc, washb Bluebird B-7526 = Montgomery Ward M-7500
19	1938	Sonny Boy Williamson - You Can Lead Me (020112- ) * - I'm Tired Trucking My Blues Away (020116- ) # rec. March 13, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Sonny Boy Williamson, voc, hca; Yank Rachell, * mand, # g; * Joe Williams, g Bluebird B-7536 * Montgomery Ward M-7765 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
20	4/1938	Walter Davis - Easy Goin' Mama (020108-1) # @ youtube - If You Only Understand (020105-1) (= Pet Cream Blues) * @ youtube rec. March 13, 1938 at Leland Hotel in Aurora, IL; Walter Davis, voc, p; Yank Rachell, # g, * mand Bluebird B-7551 (4/1938) = Bluebird B-7996 (1/1939) * Montgomery Ward M-7506 Walter Davis discography
21	1938	Elijah Jones - Only Boy Child (020122-1) # @ youtube - Big Boat (020121-1) @ youtube rec. March 13, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Elijah Jones, voc, g; # Sonny Boy Williamson, hca; Yank Rachell, mand Bluebird B-7565 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
22	1938	Sonny Boy Williamson - Miss Louisa Blues (020114- ) - Until My Love Come Down (020119- ) # rec. March 13, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Sonny Boy Williamson, voc, hca; Yank Rachell, mand, poss sp; Joe Williams, g Bluebird B-7576 # Montgomery Ward M-7766 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
23	5/1938	Walter Davis - Million Dollar Baby (020103-1) @ youtube - When Nights Are Lonesome (020102-1) @ youtube rec. March 13, 1938 at Leland Hotel in Aurora, IL; Walter Davis, voc, p; Yank Rachell, g Bluebird B-7589 (5/1938) Walter Davis discography
24	1938	Yank Rachell / Washboard Sam Yank Rachell - I'm Wild And Crazy As Can Be (020129- ) * Washboard Sam - My Woman's A Sender (020141-1) # * rec. March 13, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, g; Sonny Boy Williamson, hca; * unknown, 2nd voc # rec. March 14, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Arnett Nelson, cl; Black Bob, p; Big Bill Broonzy, g; Washboard, Sam, voc, washb * Bluebird B-7602 # Bluebird B-7440 Montgomery Ward M-7498 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
25	1938	Yank Rachel [sic] - Lake Michigan Blues (020128- ) # @ youtube - I'm Wild And Crazy As Can Be (020129- ) * @ youtube rec. March 13, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, # mand, * g; # Elijah Jones, g; Sonny Boy Williamson, hca; * unknown, 2nd voc Bluebird B-7602 * Montgomery Ward M-7498 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
26	1938	Sonny Boy Williamson - Moonshine (020113-1) # - Beauty Parlor (020118- ) * rec. March 13, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Sonny Boy Williamson, voc, hca; Yank Rachell, g, mand; Joe Williams, g Bluebird B-7603 # Montgomery Ward M-7765 * Montgomery Ward M-7766 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
27	1938	Elijah Jones - Katy Fly (020120-1) - Mean Actin' Mama (020124-1) # rec. March 13, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Elijah Jones, voc, g; # Sonny Boy Williamson, hca; Yank Rachell, mand Bluebird B-7616 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
28	6/1938	Walter Davis - I Did Everything I Could (020101-1) # @ youtube - Candy Man (020104-1) * @ youtube rec. March 13, 1938 at Leland Hotel in Aurora, IL; Walter Davis, voc, p; # Yank Rachell, g Bluebird B-7643 (6/1938) Walter Davis discography
29	1938	Elijah Jones / Washboard Sam Elijah Jones - Lonesome Man (020123-1) # Washboard Sam - The Gal I Love (020149-1) * # rec. March 13, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Elijah Jones, voc, g; # Sonny Boy Williamson, hca; Yank Rachell, mand * rec. March 14, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Black Bob, p; Big Bill Broonzy, g; George Barnes, eg; unknown, imb; Washboard Sam, voc, washb Bluebird B-7655 = Montgomery Ward M-7939 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
30	6/1938	Walter Davis - If You Ever Get Lonesome (020100-1) @ youtube - Friendless (020109-1) @ youtube rec. March 13, 1938 at Leland Hotel in Aurora, IL; Walter Davis, voc, p; Yank Rachell, g Bluebird B-7663 (6/1938) Walter Davis discography
31	1938	Sonny Boy Williamson - Decoration Blues (020111- ) - Down South (020117-1) rec. March 13, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Sonny Boy Williamson, voc, hca; Yank Rachell, mand; Joe Williams, g Bluebird B-7665 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
32	7/1938	Walter Davis - Angel Child–Part 2 (020834-1) @ youtube - 13 Highway (020835-1) @ youtube rec. June 17, 1938 at Leland Hotel in Aurora, IL; Walter Davis, voc, p; Yank Rachell, mand Bluebird B-7693 (7/1938, "staff" label) / (10/1939 ff., "dog 3" label) = Montgomery Ward M-7762 Walter Davis discography
33	1938	Yank Rachel [sic] - It's All Over (020852-1) @ youtube - My Mind Got Bad (020853-1) @ youtube rec. June 17, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, mand; prob. Joe Williams, g; Sonny Boy Williamson, hca Bluebird B-7694 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
34	1938	Sonny Boy Williamson - Honey Bee Blues (020842-1) # - Whiskey Headed Blues (020844-1) * rec. June 17, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Sonny Boy Williamson, voc, hca; # Walter Davis, p; Yank Rachell, # g, * mand, * poss sp; Joe Williams, g, * poss sp Bluebird B-7707 Montgomery Ward M-7940 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
35	1938	Joe Williams - Get Your Head Trimmed Down (020854-1) @ youtube - Haven't Seen No Whiskey (020856-1) # @ youtube rec. June 17, 1938 in Aurora, Il.; 'Jackson' Joe Williams, voc, g; Yank Rachell, mand, sp; # Sonny Boy Williamson, hca this is not the musician known as "Big Joe Williams"! Bluebird B-7719 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
36	1938	Yank Rachel [sic] - When You Feel Down And Out (020850-1) @ youtube - Texas Tommy (020851-1) @ youtube rec. June 17, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, mand; prob. Joe Williams, g; Sonny Boy Williamson, hca Bluebird B-7731 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
37	8/1938	Walter Davis - Just Tell Me Your Trouble (020840-1) @ youtube - Call Me Anytime (020841-1) @ youtube rec. June 17, 1938 at Leland Hotel in Aurora, IL; Walter Davis, voc, p; Yank Rachell, mand Bluebird B-7745 (8/1938) = Montgomery Ward M-7764 Walter Davis discography
38	1938	Sonny Boy Williamson - You Give An Account (020846-1) - You've Been Foolin' Round Town (020848-1) rec. June 17, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Sonny Boy Williamson, voc, hca; Yank Rachell, mand; Joe Williams, g Bluebird B-7756 Montgomery Ward M-7941 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
39	1938	Joe Williams - Peach Orchard Mama (020855-1) # @ Spotify - Goin' Up The Mountain (020857-1) @ Spotify rec. June 17, 1938 in Aurora, IL; 'Jackson' Joe Williams, voc, g; Yank Rachell, mand, sp; # Sonny Boy Williamson, hca this is not the musician known as "Big Joe Williams"! Bluebird B-7770 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
40	9/1938	Walter Davis - What Is Wrong With You (020838-1) @ youtube - Love Will Kill You (020839-1) @ youtube rec. June 17, 1938 at Leland Hotel in Aurora, IL; Walter Davis, voc, p; Yank Rachell, mand Bluebird B-7792 (9/1938) = Montgomery Ward M-7763 Walter Davis discography
41	1938	Sonny Boy Williamson - My Baby I've Been Your Slave (020843- ) # - Deep Down In The Ground (020849-1) * rec. June 17, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Sonny Boy Williamson, voc, hca; # Walter Davis, p; Yank Rachell, * g, # mand; # Joe Williams, g Bluebird B-7805 Montgomery Ward M-7592 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
42	9/28/1938	Walter Davis - If You Treat Me Right (020837-1) @ youtube - Homesick (020836-1) @ youtube rec. June 17, 1938 at Leland Hotel in Aurora, IL; Walter Davis, voc, p; Yank Rachell, g Bluebird B-7836 (September 28, 1938) = Montgomery Ward M-7591 Walter Davis discography
43	1938	Sonny Boy Williamson - Lord, Oh Lord Blues (020845-1) - Shannon Street Blues (020847-1) rec. June 17, 1938 at Leland Hotel, Aurora, IL; Sonny Boy Williamson, voc, hca; Yank Rachell, mand; Joe Williams, g Bluebird B-7847 Montgomery Ward M-7589 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
44	1941	Yank Rachell - It Seem [sic] Like A Dream (064105-1) # @ youtube - 38 Pistol Blues (064107-1) * @ youtube rec. April 3, 1941 in Chicago, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, g; Sonny Boy Williamson, hca. # voc, * sp; William Mitchell, b cano; Washboard Sam, washb; * unknown, sp Bluebird B-8732 * RCA Victor 20-2955 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
45	1941	Yank Rachell - Biscuit Baking Woman (064109-1) @ youtube - Hobo Blues (064104-1) * @ youtube rec. April 3, 1941 in Chicago, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, g; Sonny Boy Williamson, hca, * sp; William Mitchell, b cano; Washboard Sam, washb Bluebird B-8768 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
46	1941	Yank Rachell - Insurance Man Blues (064110-1) @ youtube - Up North Blues (There's A Reason) (064111-1) * @ youtube rec. April 3, 1941 in Chicago, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, g; Sonny Boy Williamson, hca, * sp; William Mitchell, b cano; Washboard Sam, washb; unknown, sp Bluebird B-8796 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
46	1941	Yank Rachell - Army Man Blues (064106-1) @ youtube - Worried Blues (064108-1) @ youtube rec. April 3, 1941 in Chicago, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, g; Sonny Boy Williamson, hca; William Mitchell, b cano; Washboard Sam, washb; unknown, sp Bluebird B-8840 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
48	1941	Yank Rachell - Tappin' That Thing (070471-1) @ youtube - Yellow Yam Blues (070470-1) @ youtube rec. December 11, 1941 in Chicago, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, g; Sonny Boy Williamson, hca; Alfred Elkins, b cano; Washboard Sam, washb Bluebird B-8951 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
49	1941	Yank Rachell - Loudella Blues (070476-1) * @ youtube - Rainy Day Blues (070472-1) @ youtube rec. December 11, 1941 in Chicago, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, g; Sonny Boy Williamson, hca, * sp; Alfred Elkins, b cano; Washboard Sam, washb Bluebird B-8993 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
50	1941	Yank Rachell - Peach Tree Blues (070473-1) @ youtube - She Loves Who She Please (070474-1) @ youtube rec. December 11, 1941 in Chicago, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, g; Sonny Boy Williamson, hca; Alfred Elkins, b cano; Washboard Sam, washb Bluebird B-9033 Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
51	6/1944	Yank Rachell - Bye Bye Blues (070475-1) @ youtube - Katy Lee Blues (070477-1) @ youtube rec. December 11, 1941 in Chicago, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, g; Sonny Boy Williamson, hca; Alfred Elkins, b cano; Washboard Sam, washb Bluebird B-34-0715 (US June 16, 1944) Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
*EP / LP / CD compilations*
53	1952	Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume Three: Songs LP 1: - The Coo Coo Bird - Clarence Ashley - East Virginia - Buell Kazee - Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers - I Woke Up One Morning In May - Didier Hebert - James Alley Blues - Richard "Rabbit" Brown - Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs - I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Mountaineer's Courtship - Ernest and Hattie Stoneman - The Spanish Merchant's Daughter - The Stoneman Family - Bob Lee Junior Blues - The Memphis Jug Band - Single Girl, Married Girl - The Carter Family - Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme - Clemo Breaux and Joseph Falcon - Rabbit Foot Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Expressman Blues - Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell LP 2: - Poor Boy Blues - Ramblin' Thomas - Feather Bed - Cannon's Jug Stompers - Country Blues - Dock Boggs - 99 Year Blues - Julius Daniels - Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson - C'est Si Triste Sans Lui - Cleoma and Orphy Breaux w/ Joe Falcon - Way Down The Old Plank Road - Uncle Dave Macon - Buddy Won't You Roll Down The Line - Uncle Dave Macon - Spike Driver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt [OKeh 8692] - K.C. Moan - The Memphis Jug Band - Train On The Island - J.P. Nestor - The Lone Star Trail - Ken Manyard - Fishing Blues - Henry Thomas edited by Harry Smith 2 LP set Folkways FP-253 (US 1952) 2 LP set = Folkways FA 2953 (US 19??) 1997 re-released as 6 CD box set by Smithsonian Folkways 2 LP set = Doxy DOY627 (It 2009)
53a	1962	The Great Jug Bands Cannon's Jug Stompers - Heart Breakin' Blues - Goin' To Germany Memphis Minnie and Her Jug Band - Grandpa And Grandma Blues Birmingham Jug Band - Getting Ready For Trial - German Blues Jack Kelly and His South Memphis Jug Band - Cold Iron Bed - Red Ripe Tomatoes Whistler and His Jug Band - The Jug Band Special Memphis Jug Band - Coal Oil Blues - Jug Band Waltz Elder Richard Bryant's Sanctified Singers - Come Over Here Dixieland Jug Blowers - Garden Of Joy Blues Kentucky Jug Band - Walkin' Cane Stomp Noah Lewis's Jug Band - New Minglewood Blues # - Ticket Agent Blues # Memphis Sheiks - He's In The Jailhouse Now # with Yank Rachell notes by Sam Charters Origin Jazz Library OJL 4 OJL Records discography
53b	196?	Blues Classics by Sonny Boy Williamson - Groundhog Blues - Collector Man - Until My Love Come Down # - You Give An Account # - Western Union Man - Shotgun Blues - Welfare Store - She Don't Love Me That Way - Black Panter Blues - Bad Luck Blues - My Black Name - Jivin' The Blues - My Little Machine - Joe Louis And John Henry - Sloppy Drunk Blues - Check Up On My Baby # with Yank Rachell Blues Classics BC 3 Blues Classics discography
54	1964	Yank Rachell And His Tennessee Jug Busters: Mandolin Blues Delmark DS/DL 606 track sequence: - Texas Tony - Up And Down The Line * - Shout Baby Shout - Bye Bye Baby * - Stop Knockin On My Door * - Move Your Hand * # - Doorbell Blues * - Lonesome Blues - I'm Gonna Get Up In The Morning - Get Your Morning Exercise * 77 LA12/23 track sequence: - Texas Tony - Shout Baby Shout - Lonesome Blues - I'm Gonna Get Up In The Morning - Up And Down The Line * - Bye Bye Baby * - Stop Knockin On My Door * - Move Your Hand * # - Doorbell Blues * - Get Your Morning Exercise * CD track sequence: - Texas Tony - Girl Of My Dreams - Do The Boogie Mama (take 3) - Starvation In My Kitchen - I'm Gonna Get Up In The Morning - Lonesome Blues - Shout Baby Shout - Rocky Mountain Blues - Do The Boogie Mama (take 2) - Stop Knocking On My Door * - Doorbell Blues * - Move Your Hand * - Get Your Morning Exercise * - When My Baby Comes Back Home * - Up And Down The Line * - Bye Bye Baby * red = previously unissued CD DD 608 bonus tracks: - Everybody Oughta Change # [] [previously unissued] - Al Rawls # [previously unissued] rec. March 6 & 31, 1963 in private homes in Chicago, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, mand; Hammie Nixon, jug, hca; Sleepy John Estes, g; * Big Joe Williams, 9-str g, # voc; * Mike Bloomfield, g; album production and supervision: Robert G. Koester; cover design by Peter J. Welding Front cover photo by Ray Flerlage 77 LA 12-27 (UK 1964) notes by Bob Koester = Delmar(k) DE-608 (US) = Delmark DL-608 = Delmark DS-9608 (stereo) later Delmark DS-608 = Trio PA-3048 (Jp 1974) = Trio PA-6207 (Jp 1978) notes by Bob Koester = Goody GY 10008 (Germany 198?) "Super Black Blues Vol. 3" = Delmark CD DD-608 (US 1995) 77 Records discography Delmark Records discography Trio Records discography
55	1965	Sleepy John Estes' Brownsville Blues Institutions - The Girl I Love # - City Hall Blues * - Government Money // - Working Man Blues # - Mailman Blues # - Mary Come On Home # People - Pat Mann * - Vassie Williams # - Young Lawyer $ - Al Rawls # - Lawyer Clark # - Martha Hardin $ CD bonus tracks: - 38 Pistol # - Time Is Drawing Near # - God Can Use Me> # - I'd Been Well Warned # - Drop Down Mamma # - Rats In My Kitchen # # rec. March 24, 1962 in Saukville, WS; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g * rec. June 3, 1962 in Saukville, WS; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca; Ed Wilkenson, b $ rec. October 9, 1964 in Copenhagen; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g // rec. February 27, 1965 in Chicago, IL; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Yank Rachell, mand; Ransom Knowling, b notes by Bob Koester Delmark DS-613 (=) Delmark CD DD-613 Sleepy John Estes discography
56	1965	Walter Davis - I Did Everything I Could - Easy Goin' Mama - If You Ever Get Lonesome - I Hear My Baby Crying cover photo by Paul Oliver notes by Michael Vernon RCA RCX 7169 (UK 1965) Walter Davis discography
56a	1965	The Blues at Newport 1964 Part 1 Fred McDowell - Lord I'm Going Down South - Highway 61 - If The River Was Whiskey Sleepy John Estes - Sleepy John's Twist \|\| - Mailman Blues \|\| - Drop Down Mama \|\| - Clean Up At Home \|\| Doc Reese - Old Hannah - Hey Rattler - Oh My Lord Robert Pete Williams - Levee Camp Blues - On My Way From Texas - Midnight Boogie 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 Vanguard VRS 9180 (mono) (US 6/1965) notes by Samuel Charters = Vanguard VSD 79180 (stereo) (US 6/1965) notes by Samuel Charters = Fontana TFL 6048 (mono) (UK 196?) 2 CD set (=) King/Vanguard KICP 2118/9 (Jp 1991) "The Blues at Newport 1964 part 1 and 2" 2 CD set (=) Vanguard CD 662247 (Fr 1993) "The Blues at Newport 1964 - Complete edition" Newport Folk Festival discography Sleepy John Estes discography Hammie Nixon discography Mississippi John Hurt discography Reverend Gary Davis discography Reverend Robert Wilkins discography Skip James discography Robert Pete Williams discography Jesse Fuller discography John P. Hammond discography Dave Van Ronk discography
56b	1965	Newport Folk Festival 1964 Evening Concerts Vol. 1 Pete Seeger - Oh Mary Don't You Weep - Never Wed an Old Man Sleepy John Estes - Corinna # Buffy Sainte-Marie - Melora - Cod'ine Jose Feliciano - La Bamba - El Pastor - I'm Satisfied With My Babe Rodriguez Brothers - Yo Soy Negro Phil Ochs - The Power and the Glory - Draft Dodger Rag Frank Proffitt - Tom Dooley - Moonshine Still Jim Kweskin and The Jug Band - I'm a Woman - Sadie Green - My Gal # rec. July 25, 1964 live at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca, jug; Yank Rachell, mand Vanguard VRS-9184 (mono) Vanguard VSD-79184 (stereo) = Fontana TFL 6050 (UK) = King/Vanguard SH-225 (Jp) Newport Folk Festival discography
56c	1965	Bluebird Blues 1933-46 RCA Victor LPV-518 / RCA RD-7786 track sequence: Blind Willie McTell - Lonesome Day Blues - Searching The Desert For The Blues Tampa Red - Kingfish Blues - Mean Mistreater Blues Big Joe Williams - Wild Cow Blues - Somebody's Been Borrowing That Stuff °° Sonny Boy Williamson - Down South - Moonshine Tommy McClennan - Bluebird B-lues °° - Brown Skin Girl Sleepy John Estes - Lawyer Clark Blues °° - Little Laura Blues °° Arthur Crudup - Black Pony Blues - Death Valley Blues Lonnie Johnson - Jersey Belle Blues - Crowing Rooster Blues reissue prod. by Brad McCuen; °° = tracks not on RCA 430.701 RCA 430.701 track sequence: Frank Stokes - It Won't Be Long Now °° Blind Willie McTell - Lonesome Day Blues - Searching The Desert For The Blues Tampa Red - Kingfish Blues - Mean Mistreater Blues Leroy Carr - Ain't It A Shame °° Big Joe Williams - Wild Cow Blues Curtis Jones - Drinking And Thinking Blues °° Curtis Jones - School Mate Blues °° Sonny Boy Williamson - Down South - Moonshine Tommy McClennan - Brown Skin Girl Arthur Crudup and Joe McCoy - Black Pony Blues - Death Valley Blues Lonnie Johnson - Jersey Belle Blues - Crowing Rooster Blues compiled by Bert Bradfield; °° = tracks not on RCA Victor LPV-518 / RCA RD-7786 notes by Lawrence Cohn RCA Victor LPV-518 (1965) notes by Lawrence Cohn = RCA RD-7786 (UK 1965) (not =) RCA 430.701 (Fr 1966) "Blue Bird Blues (1928-1942)" (Treasury Of Jazz #61)
56d	1966	Blues Roots / Mississippi Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues - Big Fat Mama Blues - Big Road Blues Mississippi Jook Band - Barbecue Bust Joe Williams - My Grey Pony Bo Carter - Cigarette Blues - All Around Man Robert Johnson - I Believe I'll Dust My Broom - Honeymoon Blues Charlie McCoy - That Lonesome Train Took My Baby Away Tommy McClennan - Whiskey Head Man Robert Petway - Bertha Lee Blues Sonny Boy Williamson - Miss Louisa Blues # - Until My Love Come Down # # with Yank Rachell compiled and annotated by Samuel Charters RBF RF 14 (US 1966) RBF discography
57	1966	American Folk Blues Festival '66 Fontana 885 431 BY / L+R 42.069 Roosevelt Sykes - Running The Boogie @ youtube @ Spotify Otis Rush - All Your Love \|\| @ youtube @ Spotify Little Brother Montgomery - I Keep On Drinking @ youtube @ Spotify Sleepy John Estes - You Shouldn't Do It @ youtube @ Spotify Otis Rush - My Own Fault \|\| [actually "Sweet Little Angel"] @ youtube @ Spotify Junior Wells - Checkin' On My Baby \\ @ youtube @ Spotify - A Tribute To Sonny Boy Williamson \\ @ youtube (2:40) @ Spotify Sippie Wallace - Suitcase Blues @ youtube @ Spotify Robert Pete Williams - Louise @ youtube @ Spotify Big Joe Turner - Flip, Flop And Fly // * @ youtube @ Spotify - Roll 'Em Pete // ^ @ youtube @ Spotify rec. October 16, 1966 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, East-Berlin, GDR (American Folk Blues Festival 1966); prod. by Siegfried E. Loch Roosevelt Sykes, voc, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr \|\| Otis Rush, voc, g; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Little Brother Montgomery, voc, p; Freddie Below, dr Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Yank Rachell, voc, mand \\ Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Sippie Wallace, voc; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Robert Pete Williams, voc, g // Big Joe Turner, voc; * Little Brother Montgomery, ^ Roosevelt Sykes, p; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr notes by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos Fontana 885 431 TY (Germany 1966) = Fontana 885 431 BY/MY (Fr 1966) = Fontana TL 5389 (mono) / STL 5389 (stereo) (UK 1966) = Fontana 681.533 TL/IL (Fr 1966?) = Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 42069 (Germany 1990) = Optimism/L+R LR CD-2069 (US 1990) 4-CD-Box original 1966 notes by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos (=) Bellaphon CDLR 726322 (Germany 1998) (45 Tracks, 165:59) American Folk Blues Festival '66 Vol. 1 Vol. 1: Amiga 855114 Roosevelt Sykes - Running The Boogie @ youtube @ Spotify Otis Rush - All Your Love \|\| @ youtube @ Spotify Little Brother Montgomery - I Keep On Drinking @ youtube @ Spotify Sleepy John Estes - You Shouldn't Do It @ youtube @ Spotify Big Joe Turner - Roll 'Em Pete // ^ @ youtube @ Spotify Junior Wells - Sheckin' [sic] On My Baby \\ @ youtube @ Spotify - Vietnam Blues \\ °° @ youtube @ Spotify Sippie Wallace - Suitcase Blues @ youtube @ Spotify Robert Pete Williams - Midnight Boogie °° @ youtube @ Spotify Big Joe Turner - Flip, Flop And Fly // * @ youtube @ Spotify °° not on Fontana 885 431 BY rec. October 16, 1966 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, East-Berlin, GDR (American Folk Blues Festival 1966); prod. by Siegfried E. Loch Roosevelt Sykes, voc, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr \|\| Otis Rush, voc, g; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Little Brother Montgomery, voc, p; Freddie Below, dr Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Yank Rachell, voc, mand \\ Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Sippie Wallace, voc; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Robert Pete Williams, voc, g // Big Joe Turner, voc; * Little Brother Montgomery, ^ Roosevelt Sykes, p; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr notes (1968) by Karlheinz Drechsel Amiga 855114 (GDR 1968) notes (1968) by Karlheinz Drechsel = Amiga 855114 (GDR 1979) (Amiga Jazz series) = Amiga 855114 (GDR 1981-86?) blue label re-release = Amiga CD 82876-63060-2 (Germany 2004) American Folk Blues Festival '66 Vol. 2 Vol. 2: Amiga 850126/855126 Otis Rush - It Takes Time \|\| °° @ youtube @ Spotify Roosevelt Sykes - Night Time Is The Right Time °° @ youtube @ Spotify Otis Rush - My Own Fault \|\| [actually "Sweet Little Angel"] @ youtube @ Spotify Little Brother Montgomery - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie °° @ youtube @ Spotify Sleepy John Estes, g (Yank Rachell, voc, mand!) - Yellow Jam Blues °° @ youtube @ Spotify Junior Wells - Over Yonders Walls \\ °° @ youtube @ Spotify Sippie Wallace - Women Keep Your Mouth Shut °° @ youtube @ Spotify Junior Wells - A Tribute To Sonny Boy Williamson \\ @ youtube (2:40) @ Spotify Robert Pete Williams - Louise @ youtube @ Spotify Big Joe Turner - Feeling Happy // * °° °° not on Fontana 885 431 BY rec. October 16, 1966 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, East-Berlin, GDR (American Folk Blues Festival 1966); prod. by Siegfried E. Loch Roosevelt Sykes, voc, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr \|\| Otis Rush, voc, g; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Little Brother Montgomery, voc, p; Freddie Below, dr Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Yank Rachell, voc, mand \\ Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Sippie Wallace, voc; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Robert Pete Williams, voc, g // Big Joe Turner, voc; * Little Brother Montgomery, ^ Roosevelt Sykes, p; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr notes (1969) by Karlheinz Drechsel Amiga 850126 (GDR 1969) notes (1969) by Karlheinz Drechsel = Amiga 855126 (GDR 1979) (Amiga Jazz series) = Amiga 855126 (GDR 1981-86?) blue label re-release = Amiga CD 82876-63061-2 (Germany 2004) American Folk Blues Festival discography Fontana Records discography L+R Records discography Roosevelt Sykes discography Otis Rush discography Little Brother Montgomery discography Sleepy John Estes discography Robert Pete Williams discography
58	1968	The Chicago Housebands Frank Tannehill - Door Bell Blues - Parted Down Blues Tampa Red - I'll Try To Forget - She Loves Just Right - The Woman I Love - Lulu Mae Washboard Sam - Every Tub Stands On Its Own Bottom Washboard Sam - Brown And Yellow Woman Blues - She Belongs To The Devil William 'Jazz' Gillum - No Friend Blues - From Now On - Long Razor Blues Yank Rachel - Peach Tree Blues - She Loves Who She Pleases Sunflower ET-1401 Sunflower Records discography
59	1968	Missouri and Tennessee 1924-1937 *Missouri* Charley Jordan - Raidin' Squad The Two Charlies - Got Your Water On - Don't Put Your Dirty Hands On Me Henry Spaulding - Biddle Street Blues Stovepipe No. 1 - Lonesome John - Fisher's Hornpipe Henry Townsend - She's Got A Mean Disposition Stovepipe No. 1 & David Crockett - A Woman Gets Tired Of The Same Man All The Time *Tennessee* Hambone Willie Newbern - Hambone Willie's Dreamy-eyed Woman's Blues - Way Down In Arkansas Banjo Joe - My Money Never Runs Out Rosie Mae Moore - Staggering Blues James "Yank" Rachel - Little Sarah - T-Bone Steak Blues Charlie Pickett - Crazy 'bout My Black Gal Memphis Jug Band - Evergreen Money Blues Roots RL 310 (Austria 1968) Roots Records discography
60	1968	Down With The Game Vol. 3 Big Bill (Broonzy) - C & A Blues Devil's Daddy In Law (Floyd Council) - Lookin' For My Baby Sonny Boy Nelson - Low Down Yank Rachell & Dan Smith - Night Latch Blues - Gravel Road Blues Frank Stokes - Mistreatin' Blues (Big) Joe Williams - Meet Me Around The Corner Walter Roland - Piano Stomp Will Batts - Cheatin' Woman - Cadillac Baby Lucille Bogan - Shave 'Em Dry Devil's Daddy In Law (Floyd Council) - I Don't Want No Hungry Woman Sam Montgomery - I'm Through With You Charlie Pickett - Trembling Blues Down With The Game D 203 DWTG Records discography
61	1968	Down With The Game Vol. 5 Vintage Country Blues Walter Roland - Cold Blooded Murder Sam Montgomery - Honey Dripper - Mercy Mercy Blues Jazz Gillum - Sarah Jane - I Want You By My Side George Noble - New Milk Cow Blues Hattie Hudson - Doggone My Good Luck Soul J. T. 'Funny Papa' Smith - Howling Wolf Blues part 1 - Howling Wolf Blues part 2 Walter Roland - Sail On Little Girl No.2 George Noble - Dozing Blues Yank Rachel - Lake Michigan Blues Albert Clemens - Policy Blues Big Bill Broonzy (with George Barnes lead guitar) - You Know I Got A Reason Down With The Game D 205 DWTG Records discography
62	1969	Vintage Country Blues Vol. 6 Scrapper Blackwell Big Bill Broonzy - Something Good Bumble Bee Slim - Everybody's Fishing Tommy Griffin - Mistreatin' Papa - Snake Hipping Blues Frank James - Springback Papa Elijah Jones - Katy Fly - Mean Actin' Mama Robert Petway - Let Me Be Your Boss Josh White - Cherry Picker - Pigmeat And Whiskey Blues Joe Williams - Crawlin' King Snake Blind Squire Turner - She Ain't No Girl Of Mine - Pitty-Pat Blues Down With The Game D 206 DWTG Records discography
63	1969	Up The Country ! Blues People Robert Pete Williams - Don't the Moon Look Lonesome Yank Rachell - Yellow Jam Blues * Sippie Wallace - Up The Country Sleepy John Estes - I'm A Tearing Little Daddy # Magic Sam Blues Band - Back Door Friend Roosevelt Sykes - Boot That Thing Roosevelt Sykes - Night Time Is The Right Time Sippie Wallce - Women Be Wise Magic Sam Blues Band - Feeling Good Joe Turner - Chains Of Love Joe Turner with Otis Rush's Blues Band - Well Oh Well # rec. October 9, 1964 at the Musikhalle, Hamburg, Germany (American Folk Blues Festival '64); Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca * rec. October 16, 1966 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, East-Berlin; Yank Rachell, voc, mand; Sleepy John Estes, g Scout Sc-3 (Germany 1969) Scout Records discography
64	7/1969	Sonny Boy Williamson: Sonny Boy And His Pals - Tell Me Baby (with Walter Davis & Big Bill Broonzy) - Honey Bee Blues (with Walter Davis & Big Bill Broonzy) - Decoration Day Blues No. 2 (with Joshua Altheimer & Fred Williams) - Love Me Baby (with Big Bill Broonzy, Blind John Davis & Alfred Elkins) - I'm Gonna Catch You Soon (with Ransom Knowling & Blind John Davis) - Miss Stella Brown Blues (with Blind John Davis, Ted Summitt & Armand Jump Jackson) - Desperado Woman Blues (with Blind John Davis, Ted Summitt & Armand Jump Jackson) - Lonesome Man Blues (with Elijah Jones, Yank Rachell & unknown accompanist) - I'm Wild and Crazy As I Can Be (with Elijah Jones & Yank Rachell) - Army Man Blues (with Yank Rachell, William Mitchell & Washboard Sam) - Tappin' That Thing (with Yank Rachell, Alfred Elkins & Washboard Sam) - Worried Blues (with Yank Rachell, William Mitchell & Washboard Sam) - 38 Pistol (with Yank Rachell, William Mitchell & Washboard Sam) - Vitamin A Blues (with Joe Williams & Jump Jackson) notes by David Harrison Saydisk Matchbox SDR 169 (UK 7/1969)
65	1969?	The Blues In Memphis 1927-1939 Sleepy John Estes - Drop Down Mama - Married Woman Blues Allen Shaw - I Couldn't Help It Robert Wilkins - New Stock Yard Blues Yank Rachell - Gravel Road Woman Furry Lewis - Falling Down Blues Beale Street Shieks - Mr. Crump Don't Like It Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie - That Will Be Alright - Goin' Back To Texas Vol Stevens - Vol Stevens Blues Minnie Wallace - The Old Folks Started It Cannon's Jug Stompers - Viola Lee Blues Jack Kelly - Flower Blues Will Weldon - Hitch Me To Your Buggy And Drive Me Like A Mule front cover design by Marina Bokelman notes by Dave [sic] Evans Origin Jazz Library OJL-21 (US 1969?) OJL Records discography
66	1970	Travellin' This Lonesome Road An Anthology Of The Victor/Bluebird Catalogues Luke Jordan - Church Bells Blues # - Pick Poor Robin Clean # Blind Willie McTell - Mr. McTell's Got The Blues Memphis Jug Band - She Stays Out All Night Long James Rachel - Sweet Mama Clifford Gibson - Jive Me Blues - She Rolls It Slow Cannon's Jug Stompers - Pretty Mama Blues Walter Davis - Travellin' This Lonesome Road - Sad And Lonesome Blues Elijah Jones - Katy Fly - Mean Actin' Mama Joe Williams - Get Your Head Trimmed Down - Peach Orchard Mama Sonny Boy Williamson - Early In The Morning - Project Highway # previously unissued first takes notes by Neil Slaven RCA International (Camden) INT 1175 (UK 1970) = RCA International 731.046 (UK 1970) = RCA 731.046 (Fr 1970) = RCA 731.046 (Fr)
66a	1970	Sonny Boy Williamson: Bluebird B-lues - Honey Bee Blues # - Whiskey Headed Blues # - Lord, Oh Lord Blues # - Shannon Street Blues # - You've Been Foolin' Round Downstairs # - Deep Down In The Ground # - Number Five Blues - Christmas Morning Blues - Susie Q - Bluebird B-lues Part 2 - Little Girl Blues - Low Down Ways - Goodbye Red - The Right Kind Of Life - Insurance Man Blues - Rainy Day Blues # with Yank Rachell notes by Neil Slaven RCA Int 1088 (Germany 1970) = RCA 731.014 (Fr)
67	1970	Memphis Blues (1927-1939) Vol. 2 Memphis Minnie - Squat It Kansas Joe McCoy - Someday I'll Be In The Clay Jack Kelly's South Memphis Jug Band - Highway 61 Blues - No. 2 Blind Clyde Church - Number Nine Blues - Pneumatic Blues Rosie Mae Moore - Mad Dog Blues Little Buddy Doyle - Hard Scufflin' Blues - Renewed Love Blues Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell - Sweet Mama Furry Lewis - Good Looking Girl Blues Will Batts - Country Woman Cannon's Jug Stompers - Money Never Runs Out - Prison Wall Blues Casey Bill Weldon - Blues Everywhere I Go - Somebody's Got To Go The Three Stripped Gears - 1931 Depression Blues Roots RL 329 (Austria 1970) Roots/Saydisc RL-329 (UK 19??) = autogram/Roots RL-329 (Germany 20??) Roots Records discography
68	1970	Memphis Jamboree 1927-1936 Will Batts - Highway No. 61 Blues Memphis Minnie - Ain't No Use You Tryin' To Tell On Me Hattie Hart - Coldest Stuff In Town Yank Rachell & Dan Smith - Squeaky Work Bench Blues Memphis Minnie - Soo Cow Soo The Two Charlies - I Couldn't Stay Here Kansas Joe Mccoy - Joliet Bound Memphis Minnie - Drunken Barrel House Blues Furry Lewis - Dry Land Blues Memphis Minnie - That'll Be Alright Kansas Joe Mccoy - Something Gonna Happen To You Gus Cannon - Can You Blame The Colored Man Jim Jackson & Co. - Jim Jackson's Jamboree San Townsend - Lily Kimball Blues notes by Stephen Calt, Nick Perls, Michael Stewart Yazoo L 1021 (US 1970) = CD 1021 YAZ (US 1991) Shanachie Blues "Out of Production" Yazoo Records discography
69	197?	Hometown Skiffle Early Folk Blues Vol. 2 Beale Street Sheiks - You Shall Excelsior Quartette - Jelly Roll Blues Mississippi Sheiks - Too Long Napoleon Fletcher - She Showed It All Hokum Boys - I'm Gonna Get It Ol Ced Odom & Lil "Diamonds" Hardaway - Derbytown Paramount All Stars - Hometown Skiffle - part 1 - Hometown Skiffle - part 2 Beale Street Sheiks - It's A Good Thing Excelsior Quartette - Kitchen Mechanic Blues Winston Holmes and Charlie Turner - Skinner Bumble Bee Slim - Slave Man Blues Hokum Boys - Keep Your Mind On It Tampa Red and The Chicago Five - Stop Truckin' And Suzi-Q Yank Rachell - Texas Tommy The Delta Boys - Every Time My Heart Beats Matchbox SDR 206 (UK 197?)
70	197?	Lake Michigan Blues 1934-1941 Robert Nighthawk - Don't Mistreat Your Woman Yank Rachell - Lake Michigan Blues Tampa Red - Worried Devil Blues Elijah Jones - Stuff Stomp Robert Nighthawk - Lonesome World Sonny Boy Williamson - Bluebird B-lues Tampa Kid - Baby Please Don't Go Robert Nighthawk - Take It Easy Baby Robert Nighthawk - G Man Milton Sparks - I Wake Up In The Morning Tampa Red - She Don't Know My Mind, Pt. 2 Yank Rachell - I'm Wild And Crazy As I Can Be Robert Nighthawk - Sweet Pepper Mama Sonny Boy Williamson - Jackson Blues Robert Lockwood - Little Boy Blue Robert Nighthawk - Friar's Point Blues Nighthawk 105 (US 197?) Nighthawk Records discography
71	1973	Sleepy John Estes with Yank Rachell: 1929-30 Sessions - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair - Broken-Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too - Divin' Duck Blues - Little Sarah - Black Mattie Blues - T-Bone Steak Blues - Milk Cow Blues - Street Car Blues - Expressman Blues - Whatcha Doin'? - Poor John Blues - Stack O'dollars - My Black Gal Blues - Sweet Mama Roots RSE 4 (Austria 1973) Roots Records discography Sleepy John Estes discography
72	1973	Yank Rachell - Tappin' That Thing * [] - Pack My Clothes And Go # - Skinny Woman Blues # - Matchbox Blues # - Texas Tony * [] - Des Moines, Iowa # - Shotgun Blues * [] - Sugar Farm Blues # - Diving Duck Blues * [] - Wadie Green # - Peach Tree Blues * rec. 1973 in Indianapolis, IN; James Rachell, voc, # g, * mand; [] Backwards Sam Firks (Michael Stewart), g "His most beautiful piece, ... outstanding" [HERZHAFT 1992] notes by Stephen Calt "Blue Goose, 54 King Street, New York, N.Y. 10014" Blue Goose BG 2010 (US 1973) = Blue Goose BG 2010 (US 197?) = Random Chance RCD-2 (US 1999) Random Chance owner Rick Congress: "Unfortunately, the licenses I bought for two Yank Rachell albums have long expired."Blue Goose Records discography
72a	1975	Windy City Blues The Transition: 1935 to 1953 Pinetop [Aaron 'Pinetop' Sparks] - Every Day I Have The Blues State Street Boys - Sweet To Mama Washboard Sam - Easy Ridin' Mama Robert Lee McCoy - Prowlin' Nighthawk Sonny Boy Williamson - Sunnyland # - My Little Cornelius # Robert Lockwood - Black Spider Blues - I'm Gonna Train My Baby Guitar Pete Franklin - Down Behind The Rise - Casey Brown Blues Tampa Red - Green And Lucky Blues Robert Lockwood - Gonna Dig Myself A Hole - Dust My Broom Tony Hollins - Fishin' Blues - Wino Woman Johnny Shines - Please Don't # with Yank Rachell notes by Leroy Pierson Nighthawk 101 (US 1975) Nighthawk Records discography
72b	1976	Great Bluesmen Newport Robert Pete Williams - Midnight Boogie - Levee Camp Blues 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 Blues - Death Letter Blues # - Pony Blues Sleepy John Estes - Mailman Blues - Clean Up At Home Doc Reese - Hey Rattler / Oh My Lord Mississippi John Hurt - Sliding Delta - Trouble, I've Had It All My Day Skip James - Hard Times Killing Floor Blues - Cherry Ball Blues - Illinois Blues The Reverend Gary Davis - Death Don't Have No Mercy Willie Doss - Catfish Blues - I Had A Woman Mississippi Fred McDowell - Lord, I'm Going Down South - If The River Was Whiskey Lightnin' Hopkins with Samuel Lay - Cotten Fields Blues - Shake That Thing # note on CD 77/78: "due to compact disc time restrictions some songs on the original album are not included in this package" gatefold DLP notes by Maynard Solomon Vanguard VSD 77/78 King/Vanguard LAX-155 (Jp 1976) notes by Samuel Charters = Vanguard CD 77/78 (1991) 2 LPs on 1 CD # "Great Bluesmen At Newport 1959-1965" Newport Folk Festival discography
72c	197?	Real Bluesmen & Folksingers LP 1: - Dog Me Around - Howlin' Wolf - Lonesome Bedroom Blues - Curtis Jones - Red River - Sonny Terry - See See Rider - Lightnin' Hopkins - Texas Tony - Yank Rachell - Bad Boy - John Lee Hooker - In The Wee Wee Hours - Junior Wells - Nobody Knows Chicago Like I Do - Big Joe Williams - The Gallis Pole - Leadbelly - Pretty Boy Floyd - Woody Guthrie - Dust My Blues - Elmore James LP 2: - Prison Blues Come Down On Me - Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby, Please Lend Me Your Love - Otis Spann, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Crying At Daybreak - Howlin' Wolf - The House Carpenter - Pete Seeger - Buffalo Skinners - Woody Guthrie - Rambling On My Mind - 'Big Boy' Crudup - Gonna Boogie - John Lee Hooker - So Glad I'm Livin' - Sleepy John Estes - Looky, Looky Younder - Leadbelly - Johnny Hard - Cisco Houston gatefold DLP BYG 20 A (Fr 197?)
72d	1977	Indianapolis Jump@ youtube (full album playlist) Shirley Griffith & J.T. Adams - Maggie Campbell # @ youtube - Saturday Blues # @ youtube - Indianapolis Jump (instr) # @ youtube - Big Road Blues # @ youtube Yank Rachell & Shirley Griffith - Mandolin Stomp (instr) [] @ youtube J.T. Adams & Shirley Griffith - Kill It Kid (instr) § @ youtube - I Don't Feel Welcome * @ youtube - The Hop Joint (instr) § @ youtube - Kentucky Guitar Blues (instr) @ youtube Pete Franklin - Lowdown Dirty Ways \|\|\| @ youtube - The Fives \|\|\| @ youtube - Penal Farm Blues \|\|\|\| @ youtube Bertha Lee Jones - Spanish Blues °° @ youtube Scrapper Blackwell - Little Girl Blues \\ @ youtube - Cherry (instr) \\ @ youtube James Easley** - Big Leg Woman // @ youtube all tracks rec. in Indianapolis, IN by Art Rosenbaum # rec. September 1960; Shirley Griffith, voc, g; J.T. Adams, g [] rec. June 17, 1964; Yank Rachell, mand, sp; Shirley Griffith, g § rec. June 1, 1966; J.T. Adams, g; Shirley Griffith, g * rec. September 1960; J.T. Adams, g, * voc, ** sp; Shirley Griffith, * g, ** sp \|\| rec. December 24, 1963 in Indianapolis; Guitar Pete Franklin, voc, \|\|\| p, \|\|\|\| g °° rec. June 17. 1961; Bertha Lee Jones, g \\ rec. June 4, 1958; Scrapper Blackwell, voc, g // rec. June 17, 1961 in Indianapolis; James Easley, voc, hca; Guitar Pete Franklin, g; Raymond Holloway, g all photographs by Art Rosenbaum = re-released on Dust-to-Digital DTD-06 (2006), Dust-to-Digital DTD-12 (2009), Dixiefrog DFGCD8697 (2010) notes by Art Rosenbaum Flyright LP 523 (UK 1977) Flyright Records discography Shirley Griffith discography Pete Franklin discography Scrapper Blackwell discography
73	1977	Songs of Love, Courtship, and Marriage Folk music in America Vol. 2 - Love Is A Song - Lonnie Johnson - That's All Right, Baby - Mose "Clear Rock" Platt - Two Menominee Flute Songs - John Okimase - Little Sarah - James Rachel, John Estes - Going To Richmond - Jimmie Strothers - Come Back To Me In My Dreams - Bill Monroe - María, María - Lydia Mendoza Y Cuarteto Mendoza - If One Won't, Another One Will - Carter Family - Joe Bowers - J.C. White - Renewed Love Blues - Little Buddy Doyle - Your Small And Sweet - Segura And Herbert - You Are A Little Too Small - Carolina Tar Heels - Lily Monroe - Uncle Alex Dunford - Midnight On The Stormy Deep - Blue Sky Boys - The Married Man - Emry Arthur - Emily - Sam Manning - Three Nights In A Bar Room - Wade Mainer ed. by Richard K. Spottswood Library of Congress LBC 2
74	1978	Let's Get Loose Folk and Popular Blues Styles from the Beginning to the Early 1940s Yank Rachell & Sonny Boy Williamson - Peach Tree Blues Pillie Browning - Brownskin Woman Johnson Boys - Violin Blues Modern Jazz Quartet of Norfolk - What's The Matter Now Buck Mountain Band - Yodeling Blues Hattie Hudson & Willie Tyson - Doggone My Good Luck Soul Clara Smith - Let's Get Loose George O'Connor - Nigger Blues Tyus & Tyus - Dad's Old Mule Rufus & Ben Quillan - Keep It Clean Leroy Carr - Blue Night Blues Walter Roland - House Lady Blues Wilbur "Joe" McCoy & Herb Morand - I'm Cuttin' Out Tommy McClennan - Deep Blue Sea Blues Sonny Boy Williamson & Big Bill Broonzy - Love Me Baby The Five Breezes - My Buddy Blues compiled by David Evans notes by David Evans New World 290
74a	1980	Henry Townsend: "Mule" - Bad Luck Dice - Nothing But Trouble - Things Have Changed # - The Old Man's Soul - Tears Come Rollin' Down - It's A Hard Toad To Travel - Talkin' Guitar Blues * - I'm Just An Ordinary Man - Alley Strut - Can't You See - Dark Clouds Rising # - The Train Is At The Station - Overstayed My Time rec. 1979 in St. Louis, MO; Henry Townsend, voc, p, g; Yank Rachell, # mand, * g; Vernell Townsend, voc; Norman Merritt, g notes by Leroy Pierson Nighthawk 201 = Nighthawk NHCD-201 (US 1993) Nighthawk Records discography Henry Townsend discography
74b	1982	Big City Blues Bumble Bee Slim - Burned Down Mill Sonny Boy Williamson - Good Morning, School Girl Rosetta Howard - Let Your Linen Hang Low Curtis Jones - Gold Digger Blues Doctor Clayton - On The Killin' Floor Jazz Gillum - Take A Little Walk With Me Peg Leg Howell - Sadie Lee Blues Texas Alexander - Sabine River Blues Martha Copeland - Stole My Man Blues Cousin Joe - Bad Luck Blues Walter Davis - I Did Everything I Could Lonnie Johnson - Mr. Johnson Swing Peetie Wheatstraw - Chicago Mill Blues St. Louis Jimmy - Going Down Slow Jim Jackson - My Monday Woman Blues Leroy Carr - Six Cold Feet In The Ground Albatros VPA 8473 (It 1982) = Albatros VC 5021 (cassette) Albatros Records discography
75	1983	James "Yank" Rachel Vol. 1 (1934-38) Complete recordings in chronological order Yank Rachell with Dan Smith - Blue And Worried Woman - Sugar Farm Blues - Stack O'Dollars Blues - Night Latch Blues - Squeaky Work Bench Blues - Gravel Road Woman Elijah Jones with Yank Rachell - Katy Fly - Big Boat - Only Boy Child - Lonesome Man Elijah Jones with Yank Rachell - Mean Actin' Mama - Stuff Stomp Yank Rachell - J.L. Dairy Blues - Rachel Blues - Lake Michigan Blues - I'm Wild And Crazy As I Can Be - When You Feel Down And Out - Texas Tommy - It's All Over - My Mind Got Bad notes by Paul Oliver Wolf WSE 106 (Austria 1983) notes by Paul Oliver = Wolf WBCD-006 (Austria 1991) Wolf Records (WSE/WBCD) discography
76	1983	James "Yank" Rachel Vol. 2 (1938-41) Complete recordings in chronological order - Get Your Head Trimmed Down - Peach Orchard Mama - Haven't Seen No Whiskey - Goin' Up The Mountain - Hobo Blues - It Seems Like A Dream - Army Man Blues - 38 Pistol Blues - Worried Blues - Biscuit Baking Woman - Insurance Man Blues - Up North Blues (There's A Reason) - Yellow Yam Blues - Tappin' That Thing - Rainy Day Blues - Peach Tree Blues - She Loves Who She Pleases - Bye-Bye Blues - Loudella Blues - Katy Lee Blues notes by Paul Oliver Wolf WSE 107 (Austria 1983) notes by Paul Oliver = Wolf WBCD-007 (Austria 1991) = Wolf WBCD-007 (Austria 199?) Wolf Records (WSE/WBCD) discography
76a	1983	Memphis Harmonica Kings 1929-30 The Complete Recordings in Chronological Order of Noah Lewis and Jed Davenport Noah Lewis - Chickasaw Special (56337-2) - Devil In The Woodpile (56338-2) - Like I Want To Be (64734-2) - Ticket Agent Blues (64736) # - New Minglewood Blues (64737-2) # - Selling The Jelly (64738) - Bad Luck's My Buddy (64739-2) Jed Davenport - Selling The Jelly (C-6438) - Talkin' Bout My Buddy (C-64739-2) - How Long How Long Blues (m-197) - Cow Cow Blues (M-198) - Beale Street Breakdown (Mem-734) - You Ought To Move Out Of Town (Mem-735) - The Dirty Dozen (Mem-763) - Jug Blues (Mem-764) - Save Me Some (Mem-774) - Piccolo Blues (Mem-775) # with Yank Rachell Matchbox MSE-213 (UK 1983) Matchbox Records discography
77	1985	Howard Armstrong: Louie Bluie Film sound track - New State Street Rag - Nothing In This World For Me - That'll Never Happen No More - Ted's Stomp - My Four Reasons - Barushka - 38 Pistol Blues # - Darktown Strutter's Ball - When He Calls Me I Will Answer - Vine Street Drag - My Gal Sal Medley - State Street Rag - Du, Du Liegst Mir Im Herzen - Railroad Blues - Cacklin' Hen - Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams CD bonus tracks: - Vine Street Drag (The Tennessee Chocolate Drops) - The Girl I Love - Milk Cow Blues (Sleepy John Estes with Yank Rachell) # - When You Feel Down And Out (Yank Rachell) # # Yank Rachell, voc, mand notes by Marty Pahls Arhoolie 1095 (US 1985) (=) Arhoolie CD 470 (US 1998) Arhoolie Records discography
78	1985	Going Back On The Farm Blues in Chicago 1940-1942 Roosevelt Sykes - Let The Black Have His Way Baby Doo - I'm Gonna Walk Your Log Big Bill Broonzy - Jivin' Mr. Fuller Blues Lil Green - 99 Blues Willie '61' Blackwell - Machine Gun Blues The Florida Kid - I'm Going Back On The Farm Little Bill Gaither - Life Of Leroy Carr Big Joe & His Rhythm - What Will I Do Yank Rachell - Katy Lee Blues Gene Gilmore - She Got Something There The Five Breezes - My Buddy Blues Frank Edwards - Three Women Blues Peetie Wheatstraw's Buddy - Sleeping By Myself Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - Kind Lover Blues Peter Chatman & His Washboard Band - The Jive Blues Washboard Sam & His Washboard Band - Good Old Cabbage Greens notes by John Cowley Travelin' Man TM-809 (UK 1985) Travelin' Man Records discography
79	198?	Sleepy John Estes recorded live featuring James 'Yank' Rachel [sic] and Hammie Nixon 1966 / 1974 - Blues For Johnny * - Mailman Blues * - Three Little Flowers * § - You Shouldn't Say That * - You Don't Mean Me No Good * § - I've Been Well-Warned * - Divin' Duck Blues * - Clean Up At Home * - I'll Be Glad When You're Dead # - Rats In My Kitchen # [] - Sleepy John's Twist # - Diving Duck Blues # - Stop That Thing # - I Wanta Tear It All The Time # - Corinne, Corinna # - Holy Spirit Don't Leave Me # * rec. October 1966 in Hinterbrühl, Austria; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Yank Rachell, mand, § voc # rec. 1974; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, [] Sam Chatmon Wolf 120.913 (Austria 198?) Sleepy John Estes discography
80	1986	Yank Rachell: Blues Mandolin Man - My Baby's Gone * - Moonshine Whiskey * - She Changed The Lock # - Bugle Call (instr) § * - Dreamy Eyed Woman * - Cigarette Blues # - Make My Love Come Down * - Black Snake * - Des Moines, Iowa * Random Chance RCD-1 bonus track: - Wadie Green [] rec. 1986 at TRC Studios, Indianapolis, Ind.; Yank Rachell, voc, mand, § sp; Peter Roller, ac & el g; # Peter "Madcat" Ruth, hca; * Sheena Rachell (Yank's granddaughter), b; * Leonard Marsh Jr., dr [] rec. 1983 in Bloomington, Ind.; James Rachell, voc, mand; Peter Roller, g notes by Peter Roller Blind Pig BP 1986 (=) Random Chance RCD-1 (1999) [Label owner Rick Congress: "Unfortunately, the licenses I bought for two Yank Rachell albums have long expired."] = Blind Pig CD 8012 (US 2011)
80a	1987	Walter Davis 1937-1941 - Fifth Avenue Blues - West Coast Blues - Good Gal - Holiday Blues - Streamline Woman - My Babe - Walking The Avenue # - Friendless Blues # - 13 Highway # - Homesick # - Just Tell Me You Troubles # - I Like The Way You Spread Your Wings - Doctor Blues - Cotton Farm Blues - Come Back Baby - No Place To Go - I Just Can't Remember - All My Money Gone # with Yank Rachell Best of Blues B.o.B. 5
80b	1987	Sonny Boy Williamson 1937-45 - Sugar Mama Blues - Worried Me Blues - Black Gal Blues - Frigidaire Blues - Suzanna Blues - My Little Cornelius # - Decoration Blues' # - Miss Louisa Blue #s - Sunny Land # - My Baby I've Been Your Slave # - Doggin' My Love Around - Little Low Woman Blues - Sugar Mama Blues No. 2 - Good Gravy - Tell Me, Baby - Honey Bee Blues - I'm Gonna Catch You Soon - Elevator Woman # with Yank Rachell Old Tramp 1205 (NL 1987)
80c	1987	Yank Rachell - Chicago Style - Depression Blues - Roll Me Over Baby - Check Up On My Baby - Early In The Morning - Diving Duck - Let Me Tangle In Your Vines - I Don't Believe You Love Me No More - Going To St. Louis CD bonus track: - Sugar Mama rec. August 16, 1979 in Chicago, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, hca, g, mand; Pete Crawford, g; Floyd Jones, b; Odie Payne, dr Delmark DS-649 (US 1987) = Delmark 800649 (Fr) (=) Delmark CD DD-649 (US 1993)
80d	1987	Sonny Boy Williamson: Bluebird B-lues - Up The Contry Blues - Worried Me Blues - Black Gal Blues - Collector Man Blues - Frigidaire Blues - Suzanna Blues - Early In The Morning - Project Highway - Honey Bee Blues # - My Baby I've Been Your Slave # - Whiskey Headed Blues # - Lord, Oh Lord Blues # - You Give An Account # - Shannon Street Blues # - You've Been Foolin' Round Town # - Deep Down In The Ground # # with Yank Rachell notes by Terry Ohmer [Neil Slaven] Bluetime BT 2006 (Denmark)
81	1988	Country Blues Live! Mississippi John Hurt - I Shall Not Be Moved # [never re-released] @ youtube - Avalon Blues # [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down # [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - Payday # [never re-released] @ youtube - Casey Jones # [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - Spanish Flang Dang # [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - Welcome (Address) # [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube Robert Pete Williams - I'm So Worried \|\| [never re-released] @ youtube John Jackson - John Henry * [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - Poor Boy * [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - Buck Dancer's Choice * [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - Tell Me Pretty Mama * [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell - I'm A Tearing Little Daddy § [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - 80 Highway § [never re-released] @ youtube - Mailman Blues § [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube # rec. 1960s at Joel Jacobson's in Washington, D.C. \|\| rec. October 1966 at Johnny [Parth]'s in Hinterbrühl, Austria * rec. prob. 1966 at the Washington Folk Festival in Washington, DC; John Jackson, voc, g § rec. October 1966 at a TV show in Vienna, Austria Document DLP 525 Limited Edition Document DOCD-5697 (UK 2013) Document Records discography
81a	1988	Sonny Boy Williamson: Rare Sonny Boy 1937-1947 - Sugar Mama Blues - Skinny Woman - Worried Me Blues - Black Gal Blues - Frigidaire Blues - Suzanna Blues - Early In The Morning - My Little Cornelius # - Decoration Blues # - You Can Lead Me # - Miss Louisa Blues # - Sunnyland # - I'm Tired Trucking My Blues Away # - Beauty Parlor # - My Baby I've Been Your Slave # - Doggin' My Love Around - Little Low Woman Blues - Sugar Mama Blues No.2 - Good Gravy - Good Gal Blues - I'm Not Pleasing You - Tell Me, Baby - Honey Bee Blues - I'm Gonna Catch You Soon - Blues That Made Me Drunk - Elevator Woman - Mellow Chick Swing - Lacey Belle - Apple Tree Swing - Sugar Gal - No Friend Blues - I Love You For Myself - Bring Another Half A Pint - Southern Dream - Better Cut That Out # with Yank Rachell DLP notes (French & English) by Jean Buzelin (transl. by Don Waterhouse) RCA NL 90027 (Fr) = RCA CD NL 90027 (1995)
82	1989	Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair - Broken-Hearted, Raged And Dirty Too - Diving Duck Blues - Little Sarah (Yank Rachell, voc) - Black Mattie Blues - T-Bone Steak Blues (Yank Rachell, voc) - Milk Cow Blues - Street Car Blues - Expressman Blues - Whatcha Doin'? - Poor John Blues - Stack O' Dollars - My Black Gal Blues - Sweet Mama - Come Back Home, Little Girl] - Lawyer Clark Blues - Little Laura Blues - Working Man Blues with Yank Rachell and Son Bonds Document DLP 564 (US 1989) Sleepy John Estes discography
82a	1989	Sonny Boy Williamson and Big Joe Williams: Throw A Boogie Woogie - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Sugar Mama Blues - Got The Bottle Up And Gone - Early In The Morning - Black Gal Blues - Moonshine # - Whiskey Headed Blues # - You Give An Account # - Rootin' Ground Hog - Brother James - Peach Orchard Mama - Crawling King Snake - Highway 49 - Please Don't Go - North Wind Blues - Throw A Boogie Woogie # with Yank Rachell notes by Bill Altman RCA NL 90320 (Germany) = RCA CD ND 90320 = RCA cassette NK 90320 = RCA CD 9599 = Roslin CD (2010)
82b	1990	Gus Cannon & Noah Lewis: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Volume 2 (12 September 1929 to 28 November 1930) Cannon And Woods (The Beale Street Boys) - Last Chance Blues - Fourth And Beal Cannon's Jug Stompers - Last Chance Blues - Tired Chicken Blues - Going To Germany - Walk Right In Noah Lewis - Chickasaw Special - Devil In The Woodpile Cannon's Jug Stompers - Mule Get Up In The Alley - The Rooster's Crowing Blues - Jonestown Blues - Pretty Mama Blues - Bring It With You When You Come - Wolf River Blue Noah Lewis - Like I Want To Be Noah Lewis' Jug Band - Ticket Agent Blues # - New Minglewood Blues # - Selling The Jelly - Bad Luck's My Buddy Cannon's Jug Stompers - Money Never - Prison Wall Blues # with Yank Rachell notes by Chris Smith Document DOCD 5033 (Austria 1990)
82c	1991	Blues At Newport Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival 1959-64 Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man - Coffee Blues - Stagolee Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Long Gone - Key To The Highway Reverend Gary Davis - Samson And Delilah - I Won't Be Back No More Reverend Robert Wilkins - The Prodigal Son - (I Wish I Was In) Heaven Sitting Down Skip James - Devil Got My Woman Sleepy John Estes, Yank Rachel [sic] & Hammy [sic] Nixon - Clean Up At Home Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas - Bulldog Blues Jesse Fuller - I Double Double Do Love You - San Francisco Bay Blues John Hammond - Me And The Devil John Lee Hooker - Sometimes You Make Me Feel So Bad - Hobo Blues Dave Van Ronk - That Will Never Happen No More compilation prod. by Sam Charters notes by Sam Charters Vanguard VCD 115/16 (US 1991) Newport Folk Festival discography Mississippi John Hurt discography Reverend Gary Davis discography Reverend Robert Wilkins discography Skip James discography Sleepy John Estes discography Hammie Nixon discography Robert Pete Williams discography Jesse Fuller discography John P. Hammond discography Dave Van Ronk discography
82d	1993	Delmark 40th Anniversary Blues Junior Wells - Snatch It Back And Hold It Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go Jimmie Lee Robinson - Lonely Traveller Big Time Sarah - I Make Love Dave Specter, Barkin' Bill Smith - Things I'd Do For You Robert Lockwood Jr. - Rambling On My Mind Sleepy John Estes - I'd Been Well Warned Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - That's All Right Otis Rush - You're Breakin' My Heart (alt tk) J.B. Hutto - Slidewinder Roosevelt Sykes - Eagle Rock Me Baby Jimmy Johnson - Easy Money Curtis Jones - Highway 51 Blues Edith Wilson - Mistreatin' Blues Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozen Yank Rachell - Let Me Tangle In Your Vines Jesse Fortune - Fortune Tellin' Man Willie Kent - Memory Of You Magic Sam - I Need You So Bad Delmark DX-2 (US 1993) Delmark Records discography
83	1993	Live Blues Live from the Slippery Noodle Inn Volume 1 Yank Rachell - Yank Rachell's Blues # [] Red Beans & Rice - Just U Wait Nc Bangkok Rooster - My Number Is Up Studebaker John And The Hawks - Shake David Morgan - Last Steam Engine Train Southside Denny - Breaks My Heart Mean Weenies - Santa Cruz Glenn Davis & Blues Commission - High Cost Of Loving Rebirth Blues Band - Never Trust A Man Studebaker John & Hawks - New Way Of Walkin' Bangkok Rooster - Rattlesnake Shake Mean Weenies - Don't Let Go Rebirth Blues Band - Wet Match Southside Denny - Food For Thought Red Beans & Rice - Someone Like You David Morgan - She Caught The Katy Yank Rachell - Mandolin Blues # Glenn Davis & Blues Commission - Nightlife rec. November 11-14, 1993 live at the Slippery Noodle Inn in Indianapolis, IN; # Yank Rachell, voc, mand; Red Beans & Rice: Yun Hui Percifield, kbds; Robert Coleman Jr., g; Tom Becklöehimer, b: Bill Young, dr; [] unknown MC Slippery Noodle SNS 0001
83a	1994	Walter Davis Volume 3 Complete recorded works in chronological order 5 May 1937 to 17 June 1938 - Good Gal - Holiday Blues - Streamline Woman - Big Jack Engine Blues - Guiding Rod - Talk's All Over Town - My Babe - If You Ever Get Lonesome - I Did Everything I Could - When Nights Are Lonesome # - Million-Dollar Baby # - Candy Man # - If You Only Understand # - I Hear My Baby Crying # - Walking The Avenue # - Easy Goin' Mama # - Friendless # - Angel Child - Part 2 # - 13 Highway # - Homesick - If You Treat Me Right # - What Is Wrong With You? # - Love Will Kill You # # with Yank Rachell Document DOCD-5283 (Austria 1994) Walter Davis discography
83b	1994	Walter Davis Volume 4 Complete recorded works in chronological order 17 June 1938 to 21 July 1939 - Just Tell Me Your Trouble # - Call Me Anytime # - I Like The Way You Spread Your Wings - Cuttin' Off My Days - You Don't Know Right From Wrong - Bad Luck And Trouble - Smoky Mountain - Your Time Is Comin' - Everything Is O.k. - Troubled And Weary - Early This Mornin' - Mercy Blues - Corrine - New Orleans - Big Four Blues - Airplane Blues Let Me In Your Saddle - Green And Lucky - I Love You More And More - Bachelor Blues - Just Another Day - Froggy Bottom - Down And Out # with Yank Rachell Document DOCD-5284 (Austria 1994) Walter Davis discography
83c	1994	Sleepy John Estes: First Recordings - Broken Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair - Divin' Duck Blues - Little Sarah - Black Mattie Blues - T-Bone Steak Blues - Chickasaw Special - Devil I The Woodpile - Milk Cow Blues - Street Car Blues - Expressman Blues - Watcha Doin'? - Poor John Blues - Stack O'Dollars - My Black Gal Blues - Sweet Mama - Like I Want To Be - Ticket Agent Blues - New Minglewood - Selling The Jelly - Bad Luck's My Buddy JSP CD 601 (UK 1994) notes by Keith Briggs = JSP CD 3406 (UK 2002) 2 CD set along with "Gus Cannon & His Jug Stompers" (JSP 610; 1994) remastered by John R.T. Davies Sleepy John Estes discography
84	1996	Yank Rachell / David Morgan: Pig Trader Blues - I Love My Woman - My First Mandolin # - Slammin' Doors In My Face - Sloppy Drunk - Jump In C - Mistreated Blues - She Caught The Katy - Yank Rachell Boogie - Dark Cloud Rising - I Don't Care How Long You Been Gone - I Can't Go Down That Road By Myself - Yellow Yams rec. November 1994 to March 1995 in Indianapolis, IN; # Yank Rachell, voc, mand, # sp only; David Morgan, g Slippery Noodle SNS 0007
85	1996	John Sebastian & the J Band: I Want My Roots - Mobile Line - I Want My Roots - Goin' To German - Big Road Blues - Just Don't Stop 'Till You're All Worn Out - Ain't Nowhere To Hobo Anymore - Milk Cow Blues - Rain, Hey, Rain - Statesboro Blues - New Jug Band Waltz - Tapping That Thing # - Yank Rachell's Boogie # - Divin' Duck # - K.C. Moan # rec. 1996 in Indianapolis, IN; Yank Rachell, voc, mand; John Sebastian, bj, g; Jimmy Vivino, g; Fritz Richmond, jug, washb Music Masters 01612-65137
86	1997	Mandolin Blues Yank Rachell - Dig My Buddy, Joe @ youtube - Smokey Joe @ youtube - Rainy Day Blues # @ youtube - My Baby's Gonna Jump And Shout # @ youtube Carl Martin - Every Day I Have The Blues @ youtube - Grave Digger Blues @ youtube Willie Hatcher (with John Lee Granderson, g) - Garbage Man Blues @ youtube - Crawdad @ youtube - Waiting Just For You @ youtube Ted Bogan - Mary, Run To The Window § @ youtube Johnny Young - Highway 61 @ youtube - Jumpin' On Eight (instr) @ youtube - Stealin' @ youtube - Mandolin Rock (instr) @ youtube - I Tried To Get You Off My Mind @ youtube - Bumble Bee [] @ youtube - Crawling King Snake \|\| @ youtube Yank Rachell tracks rec. February 12, 1967 in Chicago, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, mand, g; Taj Mahal, g, # hca; Sleepy John Estes, g Carl Martin tracks rec. ~~June 6, 1966~~ [actually May 31, 1966] in Chicago, IL; Carl Martin, voc, fiddle, g, mand; Johnny Young, g Willie Hatcher tracks rec. prob. mid-1960s in Chicago, IL; Will(ie) Hatcher, voc, mand; John Lee Granderson, g Ted Bogan track rec. prob. December 20, 1965 in Chicago, IL; Ted Bogan, voc, g; John Lee Henley, hca; Johnny Young, mand Johnny Young tracks rec. 1963-1964 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, mand; John Wrencher, hca; John Lee Granderson, g [] rec. May 9, 1964 live at the University of Chicago; Johnny Young, voc, mand, g; Little Walter, hca; Jimmy Walker, p \|\| rec. 1963-1964 in Chicago, IL ; Johnny Young, voc, mand, g; Little Walter, hca; Jimmy Walker, p notes by Frank Scott Testament TCD 6004 (US 1997) Testament Records discography
87	1998	Yank Rachell: Too Hot For The Devil Acoustic Blues - Bring It Back Home - Too Hot For The Devil - 38 Pistol - Going To St. Louis - Decoration Day (intro) - Decoration Day - Worried Blues - Pat Webb Blues - Yank and Allen talk about Sleepy John Estes and Hammy Nixon - Yank Rachell Boogie - Wadie Green - Roll Me Over Slow - Leave Here Walkin' - Potato Diggin' Man - Blues For Allen Stratyner - Yank talks about Sonny Boy Williamson rec. 1997 in Indianapolis, IN; James 'Yank' Rachell, voc, mand; Allen Stratyner, hca; Pat Webb, g; Chris Webb, g; snare dr; C.J. Watson, g; Warren Lacey, b Flat Rock 16
88	1999	John Sebastian & the J Band: Chasin' Gus' Ghost - Stealin' - Minglewood Blues - Fare Thee Well - Write Me A Few Of Your Lines - My Passing Fantasy - Jug Band Music - One Step Forward - Viola Lee - Got No Automobiles - Wild About My Lovin' - Kansas City - Yank Rachell Intro # * - Laundromat Blues # - Tap That Thing # - My Baby Left Town # # rec. January 25, 1996 live in Indianapolis, IN; Yank Rachell, voc, mand, * sp; John Sebastian, bj, g; Jimmy Vivino, g; Fritz Richmond, jug; James Wormworth, dr, washb Hollywood HR-62227
88a	1999	I Blueskvarter Chicago 1964, Volume One CD One: Willie Mabon - Michelle @ Spotify - I'm Hungry @ Spotify - I Don't Know @ Spotify - New Orleans Blues @ Spotify - I'm The Fixer @ Spotify James Brewer - I Know A Woman, She Lives Up The Hill @ Spotify - Big Road Blues @ Spotify - Blues In The Morning, Blues Every Turn Around @ Spotify - Poor Kelly Blues @ Spotify - I Don't No Woman, She Got Hair Like Drops Of Rain @ Spotify Eddie Boyd (+ Mike Bloomfield) - Five Long Years @ Spotify - Her Picture In The Frame @ Spotify - Early Grave @ Spotify - The Big Question @ Spotify - Look Over Younder Wall @ Spotify Yank Rachell - Going To Pack Up My Things And Go @ Spotify - Every Night And Day, I Hear My Baby Call My Name @ Spotify - My Baby Rocks Me @ Spotify - My Baby's Gone, Soon I'll Be Gone Myself @ Spotify CD Two: Johnny Young (+ Slim Willis, Otis Spann, Robert Whitehead) - Why Did You Break My Heart @ Spotify - Better Cut It Out @ Spotify - My Baby Walked Out And Left @ Spotify - Step By, Baby @ Spotify - Monkey-Face Woman @ Spotify Sunnyland Slim (+ Mike Bloomfield) - Brownskin Woman @ Spotify - It's You Baby @ Spotify - One Room Country Shack @ Spotify - Sunnyland's Jump @ Spotify - Rock Me @ Spotify Big Walter Horton (+ Robert Nighthawk) - Let's Have A Good Time @ Spotify - Mean Mistreater @ Spotify - I'm In The Mood @ Spotify - Louise, Louise @ Spotify - You Don't Mistreat Me @ Spotify - Trouble In Mind @ Spotify Interviews (& Olle Helander) Willie Mabon @ Spotify James Brewer @ Spotify Eddie Boyd @ Spotify Yank Rachell @ Spotify unissued tracks from same session: Yank Rachell - Texas Tony (takes 1 to 3) - Bye Bye Baby - Sometimes I Believe My Baby Treats Me Wrong - My Rock Is My Steady Pistol CD 1 tracks all rec. May 16, 1964 in Chicago, IL Willie Mabon, voc, p James Brewer, voc, g Eddie Boyd, voc, p; Mike Bloomfield, g Yank Rachell, voc, mand, g; Mike Bloomfield, p; John Lee Granderson, g CD 2 tracks all rec. May 1964 in Chicago, IL Johnny Young rec. May 23, 1964; Johnny Young, voc, g; Slim Willis, hca; Otis Spann, p; Robert Whitehead, dr Sunnyland Slim rec. May 19, 1964; Sunnyland Slim, voc, p Walter Horton rec. May 23, 1964; Walter Horton, voc, hca; Robert Nighthawk, g all interviews rec. May 16, 1964 2 CD set notes by Scott Barretta, Björn Helander, Peps Persson, Sven Zetterberg & Louise Hoffsten Jefferson Records SBACD 12653/4 (Sweden 1999)
89	2002	Sleepy John Estes: Newport Blues - Intro - Special Agent - Wadie Green Blues - Airplane Blues - Up & Down - Need More Blues - Newport Blues - B K Blues - 80 Highway - Mary Come On Home - New York City Breakdown * - City Hall Blues - Worried Mind Blues * - I Wanta Tear It All The Time - Government Money * - Poor Mother's Child - New Doorbell Blues # rec. July 28, 1964 in New York; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Yank Rachell, mand, g, p, # voc; Hammie Nixon, hca, jug, * voc Delmark DE 639 (US 2002) Sleepy John Estes discography
90	2006	The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of disc 1 Freeny's Barn Dance Band: Croquet Habits Son House: Mississippi County Farm Blues Georgia Pot Lickers: Up Jumped The Rabbit Memphis Minnie & Joe McCoy: I'm Going Back Home Wilmer Watts & The Lonely Eagles: Fightin' In The War With Spain John Byrd: Old Timbrook Blues Ernest Phipps And His Holiness Singers: A Little Talk With Jesus Tommy Johnson: Slidin' Delta The Three Striped Gears: Alabama Blues Jack Gowdlock: Rollin Dough Blues Kentucky Ramblers: Ginseng Blues Ollis Martin: Police And High Sheriff Come Ridin' Down Roy Harvey & Jess Johnston And The West Virginia Ramblers: John Hardy Blues Long "Cleeve" Reed & Little Harvey Hull - The Down Home Boys: Original Stack O' Lee Blues Amedie Ardoin & Dennis McGee: Two Step De La Prairie Soileau Andrew & Jim Baxter: Operator Blues J.D. Harris: The Grey Eagle Memphis Jug Band: Jim Strainer Blues Grayson County Railsplitters: Ain't That Trouble In Mind (unissued) Dock Boggs: Old Rub Alcohol Blues Jaybird Coleman: Mistreatin' Mama Henry Whitter: It's A Rough Road To Georgia (unissued) Rev. B.L. Wightman with Lottie Kimbrough & Congregation: Live The Life disc 2 Yank Rachel with Sleepy John Estes & Jab Jones: Sweet Mama Crowder Brothers: We All Love Mother (unissued) Son House: Clarksdale Moan Ashley & Foster: Bull Dog Sal (unissued) Jesse "Babyface" Thomas: Down In Texas Blues Georgia Pot Lickers: Chicken Don't Roost Too High William Harris: I'm Leavin' Town (But I Sho' Don't Wanna Go) Asa Martin & Roy Hobbs: Wild Cat Rag King Solomon Hill: Whoopee Blues (Alternate Take) Chubby Parker: Davey Crockett Geeshie Wiley: Skinny Leg Blues Sweet Brothers: I'm Gonna Marry That Pretty Little Girl Blind Roosevelt Graves & Varoy Graves: I Shall Not Be Moved Smith & Irvine: Lonesome Road Blues Luke Jordon: If I Call You Mama Grayson & Whitter: My Mind Is To Marry (unissued) Osey Helton: Green River Lottie Kimbrough: Don't Speak To Me Wade Ward: Married Man's Blues (unissued) Ken Maynard: Sweet Betsey From Pike (unissued) Jaybird Coleman: Boll Weevil Bill Shepherd with Hayes Shepherd & Ed Webb: Bound Steel Blues Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1: Bells Of Love double CD Yazoo YAZ CD 2202 street date: April 4th, 2006 more info: Tom Mug's Blog Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop
91	2007	Sleepy John Estes: Legendary Country Blues Artists also featuring Yank Rachell, 'Brownsville' Son Bonds, Charlie Pickett disc 1: Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair # - Broken-Hearted, Ragged and Dirty Too # - Divin' Duck Blues # - Little Sarah # - Black Mattie Blues # - T-Bone Steak Blues # - Milk Cow Blues # - Street Car Blues # - Expressman Blues # - Whatcha Doin? # - Poor John Blues # - Stack O' Dollars # - My Black Gal Blues # - Sweet Mama # - Down South Blues - Stop That Thing - Someday Baby Blues - Who's Been Telling You Buddy Brown Blues - Married Woman Blues - Drop Down Mama - Government Money - I Wanna Tear It All the Time - Vernita Blues - I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More - Floating Bridge # with Yank Rachell disc 2: - Need More Blues - Jack and Jill Blues - Poor Man's Friend (T Model) - Hobo Jungle Blues - Airplane Blues - Everybody Oughta Make a Change - Liquor Store Blues - Easin' Back to Tennessee - Fire Department Blues (Martha Hardin) - Clean Up at Home - New Someday Baby - Brownsville Blues - Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues) - Mailman Blues - Time Is Drawing Near - Mary Come on Home - Jailhouse Blues - Tell Me How About It (Mr Tom's Blues) - Drop Down (I Don't Feel Welcome Here) - Don't You Want to Know - You Shouldn't Do That - When the Saints Go Marching In - Lawyer Clark Blues - Little Laura Blues - Working Man Blues - Harlem Bound - Stone Blind disc 3: Yank Rachell - Blue and Worried Woman - Sugar Farm Blues - Stack O' Dollars Blues - Night Latch Blues - Squeaky Work Bench Blues - Gravel Road Woman - J.L. Dairy Blues - Rachel Blues - Lake Michigan Blues - I'm Wild and Crazy as Can Be - When You Feel Down and Out - Texas Tommy - It's All Over - My Mind Got Bad - Hobo Blues - It Seems Like a Dream - Army Man Blues - 38 Pistol Blues - Worried Blues - Biscuit Baking Woman - Insurance Man Blues - Up North Blues - Yellow Yam Blues - Tappin' That Thing - Rainy Day Blues - Peach Tree Blues disc 4: - She Loves Who She Please - Bye-Bye Blues - Loudella Blues - Katy Lee Blues 'Brownsville' Son Bonds - All Night Long - She Walks Like My Woman - Weary Worried Blues - Back and Side Blues - I Want to Live So God Can Use Me - Ain't That News? - Give Me That Old Time Religion - In My Father's House - Trouble Trouble Blues - Tennessee Worried Blues - I'll Work Up to You Someday - Old Bachelor Blues - Black Gal Swing - Get Up and Go - Every Time My Heart Beats - 80 Highway Blues - Hard Pill to Swallow, A - Come Back Home, Little Girl - Crazy 'Bout My Black Gal - Trembling Blues - Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon - Down the Highway 4 CD set notes by Neil Slaven JSP JSPCD 7779 Sleepy John Estes discography
92	2007	The Original Sonny Boy Williamson Volume 1 disc 1: - Good Morning, Little School Girl - Blue Bird Blues - Jackson Blues - Got the Bottle Up And Gone - Sugar Mama Blues - Skinny Woman - Tough Luck - (with Robert Lee McCoy) - Prowling Night-Hawk - (with Robert Lee McCoy) - Sweet Pepper Mama - (with Robert Lee McCoy) - I Know You Gonna Miss Me - (with Big Joe Williams) - Rootin' Ground Hog - (with Big Joe Williams) - Brother James - (with Big Joe Williams) - I Won't Be In Hard Luck No More - (with Big Joe Williams) - Up the Country Blues - Worried Me Blues - Black Gal Blues - Collector Man Blues - Frigidaire Blues - Suzanna Blues - Early In the Morning - Project Highway - My Friend Has Forsaken Me - (with Robert Lee McCoy) - Mean Black Cat - (with Robert Lee McCoy) - Brickyard - (with Robert Lee McCoy) - Mamie Lee - (with Robert Lee McCoy) - Take It Easy Baby - (with Robert Lee McCoy) disc 2: - I Have Spent My Bonus - Robert Lee McCoy - CNA - Robert Lee McCoy - Lose Your Man - Henry Townsend - All I've Got's Gone - Henry Townsend - A Ramblin' Mind - Henry Townsend - Now I Stay Away - Henry Townsend - My Little Cornelius - Decoration Blues - You Can Lead Me - Moonshine - Miss Louisa Blues - Sunny Land - I'm Tired Trucking My Blues Away - Down South - Beauty Parlor - Until My Love Come Down - Katy Fly - Elijah Jones - Big Boat - Elijah Jones - Only Boy Child - Elijah Jones - Lonesome Man - Elijah Jones - Mean Actin' Mama - Elijah Jones - Stuff Stomp - Elijah Jones - J.L. Dairy Blues - Yank Rachell - Rachel Blues - Yank Rachell - Lake Michigan Blues - Yank Rachell disc 3: - I'm Wild And Crazy As Can Be - Yank Rachell - Honey Bee Blues - My Baby I've Been Your Slave - Whiskey Headed Blues - Lord, Oh Lord Blues - You Give An Account - Shannon Street Blues - You've Been Foolin' Round Town - Deep Down In The Ground - When You Feel Down And Out - Yank Rachell - Texas Tommy - Yank Rachell - It's All Over - Yank Rachell - My Mind Got Bad - Yank Rachell - Get Your Head Trimmed Down - 'Jackson' Joe Williams - Peach Orchard Mama - 'Jackson' Joe Williams - Haven't Seen No Whiskey - 'Jackson' Joe Williams - Goin' Up The Mountain - 'Jackson' Joe Williams - You Got To Fix It - Speckled Red - Number Five Blues - Christmas Morning Blues - Susie-Q - Blue Bird Blues - Part 2 - Little Girl Blues - Low Down Ways disc 4: - Goodbye Red - Right Kind Of Life, The - Insurance Man Blues - Rainy Day Blues - Next Door Neighbor - (with Rambling Bob (McCoy)) - Big Apple Blues - (with Rambling Bob (McCoy)) - Freight Train Blues - (with Rambling Bob (McCoy)) - Good Gamblin' - (with Rambling Bob (McCoy)) - Bad Luck Blues - My Little Baby - Doggin' My Love Around - Little Low Woman Blues - Good For Nothing Blues - Sugar Mama Blues No. 2 - Good Gravy - T.B. Blues - Something Goin' On Wrong - Good Gal Blues - Joe Louis And John Henry Blues - Thinking My Blues Away - I'm Not Pleasing You - New Jail House Blues - Life Time Blues - Miss Ida Lee - Tell Me, Baby 4 CD set JSP JSPCD 7797 (UK 2007) Sonny Boy Williamson I discography
93	11/2007	Art Of Field Recording Volume I 50 Years of Traditional American Music documented by Art Rosenbaum James 'Yank' Rachell & Shirley Griffith - Peach Orchard Mama [] - Mandolin Stomp (instr) [] Shirley Griffith - River Line Blues - Maggie Campbell Blues [] rec. June 17, 1964; Yank Rachell, voc/sp, mand; Shirley Griffith, g 4 CD set 96-pp. book Dust-to-Digital DTD-08
94	2010	Dixiefrog presents Black & White Recorded in the Field by Art Rosenbaum Henry Grady Terrel - Old John Henry Died On The Mountain The Chancey Brothers - I Wish I Was A Mode In The Ground Mose Parker - John Henry Silver Light Gospel Singers - Don't You Let Nobody Turn You 'round Gordon Tanner & Smokey Joe Miller - Devilish Mary James "Yank" Rachell & Shirley Griffith - Mandolin Stomp [Flyright 523] Lawrence Eller & Vaughn Eller - Down The Road Golden River Grass - Going Down The Road Feeling Bad Jake Staggers - Going Down The Road Feeling Bad Brady Doc & Lucy Barnes - Free Go Lily Ben Entrekin & Uncle John Patterson - Flat Foot Charlie Cecil Barfield - Georgia Bottkeneck Blues Lawrence McKiver & The McIntosh County Shouters - Jubilee Marie Lomax - Lord Daniel The Eller Brothers & Ross Brown - Don't Go Riding Down That Old Texas Trail Guitar Pete Franklin - Guitar Pete's Blues Albert Hash & Art Rosenbaum - Train 45 Eddie Bowles - Bowles' Blues George Childers - Nobody's Business Scrapper Blackwell - Goin' Where The Monon Crosses The Yellow Dog Fleeta & Rev. Nathaniel Mitchell - Brother, You Ought T've Been There Tony Bryant - Broke Down Engine Juanita & Oscar Shorty Shehan - Free Little Bird The Balfa Brothers & Nathan Abshire - J'ai passé devant ta porte Dixiefrog DFGCD8697
Will be completed and expanded with further details !!!

Other artist's **Covers of Yank Rachell songs**
#	year of release	Artist Record Title - featured Yank Rachell song / label # / notes
1	2009	A Tribute To The Legendary Blues Mandolin Man James "Yank" Rachell 1910-1997 - Texas Tony - Tim O'Brien@ Spotify (full album) - Shotgun Blues - Rich DelGrosso - She Caught The Katy - Karen Irwin - Moonshine Whiskey - Jermoe Mills - Sebastian Speaks - John Sebastian - Tappin' That Thing - John Sebastian - My Baby's Gone Andra Faye - Sitting On Top Of The World - Peter Rowan & Lowell Levinger - Divin' Duck - Greg Ashby - Deep Elam [not "Flam"] Blues - Mike Seeger - My Mind Got Bad - Karen Irwin - Bluesy Little Tune - Stanley Smith - Depression Blues - Steve Brown - Gonna Get Up In The Morning - The Buckhannon Brothers - Let Me Tangle In Your Potato Vines - Orville Johnson - Brownsville Blues - Sleepy John Estes - Seems Like A Dream - Bert Deivert - Wasie Green - Curtis Tipton - Lake Michigan Blues - Sheena Rachell - Cigarette Blues - Jean-Louis Mahjun - Freedom - May Nell, Willa B. & Sheena Rachell Yanksville YR-CD012708

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Karel Bogaert: Blues Lexicon.- Antwerpen (Standaard) 1972, pp. 309-310
- Lawrence Cohn: Nothing But The Blues.- New York, London, Paris (Abbeville Press) 1993, p. 75
- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943, 4th ed. 1997, pp. 207, 489, 543-544, 736-737, 1044-1045
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, pp. 240-241
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, pp. 147-148, 453
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, pp. 819-820
- Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 201, pp. 368-369, 459
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
thanks to Alan Balfour, Ken Brooks and Wilson Fabian Ruales Villalva for additional info / scans

Y A N K R A C H E L L; source: Cohn 1993, p. 75 (Frank Driggs collection)
source: Lawrence Cohn: Nothing But The Blues.-
New York, London, Paris (Abbeville Press) 1993, p. 75
(Frank Driggs collection)

Front cover of Living Blues # 79 (1988)

Richard Congress: Blues Mandolin Man - The Life and Music of Yank Rachell
University Press of Mississippi (2001)
(cover photograph by Patrick Schneider)