1	1974	Orange County Special John Snipes - Old Rattler Run The Fox * Wilbert Atwater - Shine On Jamie Alston - McKinley John Snipes - Hello My Darling, Hello My Babe # Wilbert Atwater - My Baby's Leaving Willie Trice - Wild Bill Wilbert Atwater - Goin' Away Baby And I Sure Don't Want To Go - Go Up On The Mountain Willie Trice - Sweet Sugar Mama Jamie Alston - Step It Up And Go John Snipes - Laura Lee #   Willie Trice - I Ain't Got Nobody To Help Me - Mamie Wilbert Atwater - Long Tailed Bird John Snipes & Jamie Alston - Molly Hare (instr) ** Wilbert Atwater - Molly Hare Jamie Alston & Tom Carter - Don't Let The Deal Go Down # rec. January 1973 in Orange County, NC by Bruce Bastin; John Snipes, voc, bj * rec. April 7, 1973 in Orange County, NC by Bruce Bastin; John Snipes, voc, bj; ** Jamie Alston, g back cover photo (Willie Trice with Richard Trice in the background) by Valerie Wilmer notes by Bruce Bastin Flyright LP 506 (UK 1974) = Flyright LP 506 (UK 1976) Flyright Records discography Wilbert Atwater discography
2	1979	Ain't Gonna Rain No More Blues and Pre-Blues from Piedmont North Carolina - Snow A Little, Rain A Little - John Snipes - Old Joe Clark - Joe & Odell Thompson - Little Brown Jug - Dink Roberts - Roustabout - Dink Roberts - Rya's House - Joe & Odell Thompson - McKinley - Jamie Alston - Can't Get A Letter From Down The Road - Wilbert Atwater - Molly Put The Kettle On - Joe & Odell Thompson - Ain't Gonna Rain No More (banjo version) - Jamie Alston - Julie - Dink Roberts - Six White Horses - Jamie Alston - I Think I Heard The Chilly Wind Blow - John Snipes - Rich Girl Ride In An Automobile - Wilbert Atwater - Ain't Gonna Rain No More (guitar version) - Jamie Alston - Georgia Buck - Joe & Odell Thompson - Old Blue - Dink Roberts - Buffalo - Wilbert Atwater - Went Up On The Mountain - Jamie Alston - Going Down The Road Feeling Bad - Joe & Odell Thompson - Come On Down To My House - Guitar Slim (Stephens) - Goin' Away - Jamie Alston rec. between January 1974 & June 1976 by Kip Lornell; mixed by Pete Lowry & Kip Lornell LP jacket design and illustration by Susan Marsh notes by Kip Lornell Rounder 2016 (US 1979) notes (in Portuguese) by Kip Lornell = Rounder 2016 (Portugal 1979, distributed by Dargil) Rounder Records discography Wilbert Atwater discography
3	1998	The High Lonesome Sound Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia - The Coo Coo (Coo Coo Bird) - John Snipes   @ youtube   @ Spotify - The Coo Coo (Coo Coo Bird) - Dink Roberts - Old Rattler (Fox Chase) - John Snipes   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Georgia Buck (Georgie Buck) (Never Let A Woman Have Her Way) - Dink Roberts - Georgia Buck - Joe and Odell Thompson - John Henry - James Roberts - High Sheriff - Dink Roberts - John Hardy - Dink Roberts - Garfield - Dink Roberts - Old Corn Liquor - Dink Roberts - Old Corn Liquor - Joe and Odell Thompson - John Henry - Joe and Odell Thompson - Love Somebody (Soldier's Joy) - Joe and Tommy Thompson - Long Tail Blue - John Snipes   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Ain't Gonna Rain No More - John Snipes and Tommy Thompson   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Going Where I've Never Been Before - John Snipes   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Black Annie - Dink Roberts - Old Blue - Dink Roberts - Going Away From Home (Take Care Of My Wife And Child) - John Snipes   @ youtube   @ Spotify - You Don't Know My Darling - John Snipes   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Jaybird March - Etta Baker and Cora Phillips - Going Up North - John Jackson - Sugar Hill - Homer Walker - Momma Don't Allow - Irvin Cook and Leonard Bowles - Shortnin' Bread - Leonard Bowles - Shortnin' Bread - Lewis "Big Sweet" Hairston - Fox Chase - John Tyree - Roustabout (Buffalo) - Dink Roberts - Cookin' In The Kitchen - John Snipes   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Coo Coo Bird - Rufus Kasey - Fox Chase - Dink Roberts - Little Brown Jug - Joe and Odell Thompson prod. by Cece Conway and Scott Odell cover artwork by Henry Ossawa Turner notes by Cece Conway and Scott Odell Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40079 (US 1998)
4	1998	Africans in America Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon - Your Country (2:09) Bernice Johnson Reagon, Harry Anderson, Toshi Reagon - Song In B (2:02) Bernice Johnson Reagon, Toshi Reagon - Venture's Song (3:52) Djimo Kouyate - Dialiya (3:38) United Southern Prayer Bands Of Baltimore And Washington - Run Mary Run (3:53) Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon - Shabazz (3:10) Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon - Kneebone (2:34) Jerry O'Sullivan - Green Fields Of America (2:24) Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon - Ship Of Zion (6:21) Toshi Reagon - Steal Away (3:29) Joe Thompson - Donney Got A Rambling Mind (1:52) Bernice Johnson Reagon, Gbehanzin Johnson, Tosu Johnson - Blue Rhumba (3:29) Ryan Brown , Colin St. Martin, James Weaver - When Jesus Wept (2:15) Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon - Troubled (3:54) James Weaver - La D'Hericourt (3:45) David Jones - Ballad Of The Flying Cloud (7:28) John Snipes - Coo Coo (1:14) [Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40079] Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon - What Kind Of Land (3:33) Ryan Brown, Howard Bass, Colin St. Martin - Air From The Spanish Barber (1:45) Greg Sanon, Harry (Aiyzan) Sanon, Francois Louis Dumas & Evans Sezey - Nago (4:04) Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon - Remember (4:10) Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon - Freedom Call (2:18) Rykodisc RCD 10444 (US 1998)
5	1998	The North Carolina Banjo Collection disc 1: Odell Thompson - Georgia Buck (3:12) Babe Reid - Corinna (1:25) Etta Baker - Going Down The Road Feeling Bad (2:18) Libba Cotten - Low Baked A Hoe Cake (1:19) John Snipes - Snow A Little, Rain A Little (3:51) [Rounder 2016] Dink Roberts - Fox Chase (2:19) Ola Belle Reed - Going To Write Me A Letter (3:18) Samantha Bumgarner - The Worried Blues (3:18) Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Mr. Garfield (8:20) Bertie Dickens - Cleveland's Marching To The White House (1:24) Marvin Gaster - The Old Doctor That Fell In The Well (1:50) Walter Raleigh Babson - Hello Coon (2:57) Scotty Wiseman - Sugar Babe (2:26) Doc Watson - Reuben's Train (2:40) Gaither Carlton - Rambling Hobo (0:56) Frank Proffitt - Cumberland Gap (1:23) Fred Cockerham - Roustabout (1:21) Stella Kimble - Cottone Eyed Joe (2:18) Tommy Jarrell - John Henry (1:21) Kyle Creed - Lost Indian (2:34) Charlie Lowe - Cripple Creek (2:4) 1 Carlie Marion - Under The Double Eagle (3:07) disc 2: Glenn Davis - Blue Ridge Mountain Home (3:15) Kelly Sears - Little Log Cabin In The Lane (2:29) Ernest Helton - Royal Clog (3:06) Clay Everhart - Arkansas Traveler / Old Black Joe / Sweetheart, Would You Care? (1:54) Frank Jenkins - Babtist Shout (2:46) Smith And Allgood - American And Spanish Fandango (3:04) Fisher Hendley - Shuffle, Feet, Shuffle (2:37) J.G. & Jerry Wayne Britt - Missouri Waltz (3:09) Carl Nance - Italian Waltz (1:40) Charlie Poole - There'll Come A Time (3:29) Mack Woolbright - The Man Who Wrote 'Home Sweet Home' Never Was A Married Man (3:19) Wilmer Watts - Cotton Mill Blues (3:02) Dock Walsh - Come Bathe In That Beautiful Pool (2:57) Arnold Watson - Biscuits (3:17) Hobbie Whitener - Whoa, Mule, Whoa (2:20) George Pegram - I Left My Old Home In The Mountains (4:20) Wade Mainer - Short Life And Its Trouble (2:27) Snuffy Jenkins - Nancy Rowland (0:50) A.C. Overton - Railroad (1:23) Carroll Best - The Nut Medley: Chinquapin Hunting / Acorn Hill Breakdown (2:14) artwork by Azechi Atsu 2 CD set notes by Bob Carlin, Andy Cahan, Robert Winans, Wayne Martin Rounder CD 0439/40 (US 1998) Samantha Bumgarner discography
6	2013	Classic Banjo (From Smithsonian Folkways) Pete Seeger - Fly Around My Blue Eyed Girl / Cripple Creek / Ida Red / Old Joe Clark (2:35) Hobart Smith - Banging Breakdown (1:17) Frank Proffitt - Johnson Boys (1:41) Wade Ward - Peachbottom Creek (1:24) Dink Roberts - Coo Coo (2:10) Mike Seeger - Josh Thomas's Roustabout (2:38) Willie Chapman - Jaw Bone (0:52) Dock Boggs - Bright Sunny South (3:36) Pete Steele - Coal Creek March (1:52) Josh Thomas - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues (3:37) Rufus Crisp - Walk Light Ladies (1:28) Bill Cornett - Buck Creek Girls (1:00) Don Vappie - Gut Bucket Blues (4:15) Mick Moloney - Skylark / Roaring Mary (3:24) Ken Perlman - St. Anne's Reel / La Renfleuse Gorbeil (2:50) Roger Sprung - Smokey Mokes (2:21) A.L. Camp - Golden Bell Polka (2:25) Tony Trischka with Bill Evans - Banjoland (3:00) Snuffy Jenkins - Sally Ann (1:10) Roni Stoneman - Lonesome Road Blues (1:12) Lee Sexton - Fox Chase (0:56) John Tyree - Hop Along Lou (1:08) "Big Sweet" Lewis Hairston - Cotton Eyed Joe (1:23) Ola Belle Reed - Foggy Mountain Top (2:29) Doc Watson - Rambling Hobo (1:37) John Snipes - Old Rattler (2:46) Elizabeth Cotten - Georgia Buck (1:42) Irvin Cook - Wish To The Lord I'd Never Been Born (3:07) Roscoe Holcomb - Black Eye Susie (1:24) Bill Keith with Bill Monroe And The Bluegrass Boys - Bluegrass Breakdown (3:09) Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40209 (US 2013)
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Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - Cecelia Conway: African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Study of Folk Traditions.- Knoxville (University of Tennessee Press), 1995 - Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 278 - Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, pp. 421-422 - eBay auctions - diverse internet resources thanks to Rob Ford, Fernando Goin and Max Hoeffner for additional info / scans   John Snipes at Dodsons Crossroads, 1973 source: Smithsonian Folkways CD SF 40079 photographer: Cece Conway