Willie Guy Rainey at the Georgia Grassroots Music Festival source: Blues Unlimited 131/132, 1978, p. 36; photographer: Margo Rosenbaum

Willie Guy Rainey Willie Guy 'Scoot' Rainey b. April 17, 1901 near Anniston in Calhoun County, Alabama d. August 23, 1983 in Red Oak, Fulton County, Georgia buried at Flat Rock Cemetery in Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia discography

source: http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/...; photographer: Ross Kapstein

1	1978	Georgia Grassroots Music Festival The Eller Brothers - Going To Georgia The Female Nightingales - I'm Wrapped Up, Tied Up, And Tangled Up In His Love Eddie Kirkland - Mojo Hand   @ youtube Betty Smith - Little Margaret Ed Hoover & Burt Williamson - Sugar Foot Rag John Lee Ziegler - Used To Be Mine, But Look Who Got Her Now (2:40) #   @ youtube The Jazzology All-Stars - Walking Stick Willie Guy Rainey - Temper Blues #   @ youtube James 'Tip' Neal - Jews Harp Jump Brother Theotis Taylor - If I Could Just Hold Out Till Tomorrow Comes   @ youtube Clint Carter & His Old-Time Fiddle Band - Sally Goodin Embry Raines - All Night Boogie   @ youtube Uncle John Patterson - Snowbird In Ashbank The Washboard Band - Toddy For The Body Song Joe Parr - Indian Chief Blues Grandpa Lester Smallwood - Cripple Creek Golden Bailey - The Dog Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers - I'm Gonna Lay Down My Life For My Lord rec. 1976 and 1977 at the Georgia Grassroots Festival, Atlanta, GA; produced and edited by George Mitchell # rec. September 1976 at the Georgia Grassroots Festival, Atlanta Civic Center, Atlanta, GA; Willie Guy Rainey, voc, p front cover illustration by Art Rosenbaum; photography by John Miller Georgia Grassroots Music Festival Records HY 1346 ("Not for sale commercially")
		rec. November 4, 1978 at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC by Bob Jordan & Laura Boosinger; Willie Guy Rainey voc, g, sp, hca; Bob Jordan, g, sp; Laura Boosinger, sp unissued sound clips at www.aca-dla.org
2	1978	Willie Guy Rainey - So Sweet *   @ youtube - Keep On Trucking #   @ youtube - Sitting On Top Of The World   @ youtube - Old-Time Religion $   @ youtube - Step It Up And Go   @ youtube - Don't You Lie To Me   @ youtube - Kansas City Blues   @ youtube - Somebody's Calling My Name   @ youtube - Bottle It Up And Go #   @ youtube - New York Waltz $   @ youtube - John Henry   @ youtube rec. 1978 at the studio in George Buck's house in Decatur, Georgia by Bruce Baxter (Stone Mountain Music, Inc.); produced & edited by George Mitchell; front cover photograph by Margo Rosenbaum; photographer's name of back cover photo not given Willie Guy Rainey, voc, ac g * Willie Guy Rainey, voc, el g $ Willie Guy Rainey, voc, p # Willie Guy Rainey, voc, el g; Albie Scholl, hca; Tommy Dean, b; Don Shackleford, dr notes by George Mitchell Southland SLP-7 (US 1978) Southland Records discography

Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 44 - Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, p. 824 - Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 201, p. 369 - Robert Springer: Georgia blues today.- Blues Unlimited 131/132, 1978, p.36-37 - Robert Springer: Review 'Georgia Grassroots Music Festival' (Album without label, not for sale commercially).- Blues Unlimited 133 (1979), p. 27-28 - Val Wilmer: Still got the blues - Georgia bluesmen talking to Val Wilmer.- Blues Unlimited 133 (1979), p. 16-20 - Robert Springer: Review of Southland SLP-7 in Blues Unlimited 137/138, 1980, p. 47-48 - Jim O'Neal: Willie Guy Rainey.- Living Blues 58 (1983), p. 44 - eBay auctions - diverse internet resources   Willie Guy Rainey, Palmetto, Georgia, September 1978 source: Blues Unlimited 133 (January/February 1979), p. 16; photographer: Valerie Wilmer   Willie Guy Rainey, Palmetto, Georgia, September 1978 source: Blues Unlimited 131/132 (September/December 1978), p. 55; photographer: Valerie Wilmer   cover of Blues Unlimited 133, 1979 photographer: Valerie Wilmer   source: Back cover of Southland SLP-7; photographer's name not given