Illustrated Otis Spann discography

source: Lawrence Cohn (ed.): Nothing but the Blues.- New York, London, Paris (Abbeville Press) 1993, p.184 ("Lawrence Cohn Collection" as per this book's Photography Credits on p. 430); actual photographer most likely (as per back cover of BluesTime BT 29006 / BTS 9006): Charles "Chuck" Stewart Otis Spann
b. March 21, 1924 in Belzoni, Humphreys County, Mississippi
d. April 24, 1970 at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois
buried at Burr Oak Cemetery in Worth, Illinois
discography
Otis Spann with James Cotton, hca, in Muddy Waters' basement flat/studio
at 4339 South Lake Park in Chicago, Illinois, 1965
source: Lisa Day (ed.): Chicago Blues as seen from the inside - The Photographs of Raeburn Flerlage.- Chicago (ECW Press) 2000, p. 15; photographer: Ray Flerlage

10/1953

MUDDY WATERS and his Guitar

- Blow Wind Blow (U 7551) @ youtube
- Mad Love (U 7552) (= I Want You To Love Me) @ youtube @ Spotify

originally unissued tracks from same session:
- Too Deep Blues (U 7553)
- Tell Me How (U 7553A)

rec. September 24, 1953 at Universal Recording Studios, 111 E. Ontario St. in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; ~~Walter Horton~~ Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jimmy Rogers, g; Elga Edmonds, dr

Chess 1550 (US 10/1953)

Muddy Waters discography
Little Walter discography
Jimmy Rogers discography

1/1954

MUDDY WATERS and his Guitar

- I'm Your Hoochie Cooche (or Kooche or Coochie) Man [sic] (U 7589-16) (2:49) # @ youtube
- She's So Pretty (U 7590-5) @ youtube

originally unissued track from same session:
- Hoochie Coochie Man (alt tk) (2:49) [Chess LP 6.24474, Chess LP 6-80002] @ youtube

rec. January 7, 1954 at Universal Recording Studios, 111 E. Ontario St. in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jimmy Rogers, g; Willie Dixon, b; Elga Edmonds, dr

Chess 1560 (US 1/1954)

# Chess 1973 (9/1966)

Muddy Waters discography
Little Walter discography
Jimmy Rogers discography

5/1954

THE HOWLIN' WOLF

- No Place To Go (U7618) (= You Gonna Wreck My Life) # @ youtube
- Rockin' Daddy (U7621) @ youtube

originally unissued tracks from same session:
- You Gonna Wreck My Life (U7618 alt tk) # [Chess 1744, Chess LP 1512] @ youtube
- Neighbors (U7619) [Chess LP 1512] @ youtube
- I'm The Wolf (U7620) # [Chess LP 1512] @ youtube

rec. March 1954 at Universal Recording Studios, 111 E. Ontario St. in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc, # hca; Otis Spann, p; Lee Cooper, g; Willie Dixon, b; Earl Phillips, dr

Chess 1566 (US 5/1954)

Howling Wolf discography

5/1954

MUDDY WATERS and his Guitar

- Just Make Love To Me (= I Just Want To Make Love To You) (U 7630) @ youtube
- Oh! Yeh (U 7631) (= "Oh Yeah" on most re-issues) @ youtube

rec. April 13, 1954 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jimmy Rogers, g; Willie Dixon, b; Elga Edmonds, dr

Chess 1571 (US 5/1954)

Muddy Waters discography
Little Walter discography
Jimmy Rogers discography

6/1954

JUNIOR WELLS

- 'Bout The Break Of Day (1441) @ youtube
- Lord, Lord (1442-2) (= Lawdy! Lawdy!) @ youtube

originally unissued tracks from same session:
- 'Bout The Break Of Day (1441-4) [Delmark DL 640] @ youtube
- Lord, Lord (1442-1) [Delmark DD 640] @ youtube

rec. April 15, 1954 in Chicago, IL; Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Muddy Waters, Louis Myers, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr

States S-139 (US 6/1954)

Junior Wells discography
Muddy Waters discography

6/1954

JIMMY ROGERS and his Rocking Four

- Chicago Bound (7592-3) # @ youtube
- Sloppy Drunk (7632) * @ youtube

# rec. January 7, 1954 at Universal Recording Studios, 111 E. Ontario St. in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Henry Gray or Johnny Jones, p; Muddy Waters, g; Odie Payne, dr
* rec. April 13, 1954 in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Muddy Waters, g; Willie Dixon, b; Elga Edmonds, dr

Chess 1574 (US 6/1954)

Jimmy Rogers discography
Little Walter discography
Muddy Waters discography

7/1954

THE HOWLIN' WOLF

- Baby How Long? (U7657) (= Baby, How Long) @ youtube
- Evil Is Goin' On (U7658) (= Evil) @ youtube

rec. May 25, 1954 in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jody Williams, Hubert Sumlin, g; Willie Dixon, b; Earl Phillips, dr

Chess 1575 (US 7/1954)

Howling Wolf discography
Hubert Sumlin discography

12/1954

THE HOWLIN' WOLF

- I'll Be Around (U7740) @ youtube
- Forty Four (U7741) (= I'm Mad) (15744) @ youtube

rec. October 1954 in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jody Williams, Hubert Sumlin, g; Willie Dixon, b; Earl Phillips, dr

Chess 1584 (US 12/1954)

Howling Wolf discography
Hubert Sumlin discography

12/1954

JUNIOR WELLS

- Tomorrow Night (1328-4) # @ youtube @ Spotify
- So All Alone (1443-7) * @ youtube @ Spotify

# rec. June 8, 1953 in Chicago, IL; Junior Wells, voc, hca; Johnny Jones, p; Elmore James or Louis Myers, g; Dave Myers, b-g; Odie Payne, dr

* rec. April 15, 1954 in Chicago, IL; Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Muddy Waters, Louis Myers, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr

States S-143 (12/1954)

Junior Wells discography
Muddy Waters discography

12/1954

OTIS SPANN

- It Must Have Been The Devil (7738) # @ youtube
- Five Spot (7739) (instr) * @ youtube [cf. Roy Milton and his Solid Senders' "Junior Jives" @ youtube]

rec. October 25, 1954 (after an all night party) in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, p, # voc; # George Smith, hca; * B.B. King, g; Jody Williams [not Robert Jr. Lockwood!], g; Willie Dixon, b; Earl Phillips [not Fred Below!], dr

10 inch 78 rpm

Checker 807 (US 12/1954)

7 inch 45 rpm

= Checker 807

7 inch 45 rpm

= Checker 807 (Henry Mariano, San Mateo, CA repro 1973) (black vinyl)

= Checker 807 (repro 19??) (purple vinyl)

3/1955

BO DIDDLEY

- I'm A Man (U 7786) # @ youtube
- Bo Diddley (U 7788) @ youtube

originally unissued tracks from same session:
- I'm A Man (alt tk) # [Chess CHD 9331]
- Little Girl (Can I Go Home With You) (U 7787) # [Checker LP 1436]
- Little Girl (alt tk) # [Chess CHD 9331]
- Bo Diddley (alt tk) [Hip-O-Select CD 9231-02]
- Bo Diddley (alt tk) [Hip-O-Select CD 9231-02]
- You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care) (U 7789) # [Checker LP 1436]

# rec. March 2/3, 1955 in Chicago, IL; Ellas Bates, voc, g; Billy Boy Arnold, hca; Otis Spann, p; Willie Dixon, b; Clifton James, dr; Jerome Green, mrcs

Checker 814 (US 3/1955)

= Checker 997 (11/1961)

Billy Boy Arnold discography

- Rhumba (U 7790)
- Sweet On You Baby (U 7791) # @ youtube
- You Got To Love Me Baby (U 7792) # *

rec. March 2, 1955 in Chicago, IL; Billy Boy Arnold, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Bo Diddley, g; James Bradford b; Clifton James, dr; Jerome Green, mrcs

Chess unissued

# Red Lightnin' RL 0012
# Ace CDCHD 610

* Chess CHD 4-9340

Billy Boy Arnold discography

11/1955

MUDDY WATERS And His Guitar

- Sugar Sweet (= I Can't Call Her Sugar) (U 7938) @ youtube
- Trouble, No More (U 7939) @ youtube

rec. November 3, 1955 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jimmy Rogers, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr; chorus

Chess 1612 (US 11/1955)

Muddy Waters discography
Little Walter discography
Jimmy Rogers discography

2/1956

HOWLIN' WOLF

- Smoke Stack Lightning (U7985) @ youtube
- You Can't Be Beat (U7986) @ youtube

rec. January 1956 in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc, hca; ~~Otis Spann~~ Hosea Lee Kennard, p; Willie Johnson, Hubert Sumlin, g; Willie Dixon, b; Earl Phillips, dr

Chess 1618 (US 2/1956)

= Chess 1618 (2014 repro)

Howling Wolf discography
Hubert Sumlin discography

8/1956

HOWLIN WOLF

- I Asked For Water (8175) @ youtube
- So Glad (8176) @ youtube

originally unissued track from same session:
- Break Of Day (8177) [Chess LP 6641 125] @ youtube

rec. July 19, 1956 in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc, hca; ~~Otis Spann~~ Hosea Lee Kennard, p; Willie Johnson, Otis 'Smokey' Smothers, g; Willie Dixon, b; Earl Phillips, dr

Chess 1632 (US 8/1956)

Howling Wolf discography
Otis 'Smokey' Smothers discography

- I'm Leaving You (8185) @ youtube
- I'm In Love With You Baby (8186) @ youtube

rec. July 1956 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, voc, p; Walter Horton, hca; Robert Lockwood Jr., g; unknown, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr

Chess unissued

Chess/P-Vine PLP-6022
Chess GCH-8105

4bb

1956

JIMMY ROGERS

- Walking By Myself (8305)
- If It Ain't Me (Who You Thinking Of) (8304)

rec. October 29, 1956 in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Walter Horton, hca; Otis Spann, p; Robert Lockwood Jr., g; Willie Dixon, b; A.J. Gladney, dr

Chess 1643 (US 1956)

Jimmy Rogers discography

4bbb

1956

MUDDY WATERS

- Just To Be With You (8147) * @ youtube
- I Got To Find My Baby (U 7937) # @ youtube

# rec. November 3, 1955 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jimmy Rogers, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr

* rec. June 29, 1956 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc; with prob.: Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Pat Hare, Hubert Sumlin, g; Willie Dixon, b; Odie Payne, dr

Chess 1644 (US 1956)

Muddy Waters discography

4bbbb

1956

JIMMY ROGERS

- I Can't Believe (8394)
- One Kiss (8395)

rec. December 1, 1956 in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Walter Horton, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jody Williams, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr

Chess 1659 (US 1956)

Jimmy Rogers discography
Walter Horton discography

- Can't Keep From Worryin' Lost (8396)

rec. December 1, 1956 in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Walter Horton, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jody Williams, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr

Chess unissued

Jimmy Rogers discography
Walter Horton discography

3/1958

JIMMY ROGERS

- What Have I Done (8597) @ youtube
- Trace Of You (8599) # @ youtube

originally unissued tracks from same session:
- What Have I Done (alt tk) [Chess 6.24807] @ youtube
- My Baby Don't Love Me No More (8598) (2:20) [Chess 2ACMB 207] @ youtube
- My Baby Don't Love Me No More (alt tk) (2:18) [Chess 6.24807] @ youtube
- Trace Of You (alt tk) # [Chess 2ACMB 207] @ youtube

rec. September 18, 1957 in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Little Walter, hca, # voc; Otis Spann, p; g; Willie Dixon, b; Francis Clay, dr, # Margaret Whitfield, voc

Chess 1687 (US 3/1958)

Jimmy Rogers discography
Little Walter discography

- Don't You Know My Baby (8797) § *
- Don't You Know My Baby (alt tk) § #
- Don't Turn Me Down (8598) § []
- Don't Turn Me Down (alt tk) § #
- Looka Here (8799) #
- This Has Never Been (inc) (8800-1) #
- This Has Never Been (alt tk) #
- This Has Never Been *

rec. May 20, 1958 in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; § ts; Otis Spann, p; Mighty Joe Young, g; Willie Dixon, b; Odie Payne, dr

Chess unissued

* Chess 2ACMB 207

[] Chess Teldec LP 6.24807

# MCA Chess CHD2-9372

Jimmy Rogers discography

4cc

1959

JIMMY ROGERS

- Rock This House (9241)
- My Last Meal (9242) []

rec. February 1959 in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Otis Spann, p; Reggie Boyd, g; Willie Dixon, b; S.P. Leary, dr; [] voc group

Chess 1721 (US 1959)

Jimmy Rogers discography

- Rock This House (alt tk)
- My Last Meal (alt tk) []
- My Last Meal (alt tk) []

rec. February 1959 in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Otis Spann, p; Reggie Boyd, g; Willie Dixon, b; S.P. Leary, dr; [] voc group

Chess unissued

Chess CHD 9372

Jimmy Rogers discography

4ccc

1959

MUDDY WATERS and his Guitar

- Clouds In My Heart (U 7940) *
- Ooh Wee (U 7747) #

# rec. November 1954 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Jimmy Rogers, g; Elga Edmonds, dr

* rec. November 3, 1955 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jimmy Rogers, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr; chorus

Chess 1724 (US 1959)

Muddy Waters discography

- You Don't Know (9808) #
- You Don't Know (alt tk) *
- Can't Keep From Worryin' (9809) #
- Can't Keep From Worryin' (alt tk) *

rec. c. November 1959; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Luther Tucker, g; Fred L. Robinson, b; George Hunter, dr

Chess unissued

# Chess 2ACMB 207 (1976)
# Chess C2-9211 (1984)
# * MCA CHD2-9372 (1997)
# MCA CH2-92505

Jimmy Rogers discography

11/1959

HOWLIN' WOLF

- The Natchez Burning (8178) *
- You Gonna Wreck My Life (U 7618 alt tk) #

# rec. March 1954 in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Lee Cooper, g; Willie Dixon, b; Earl Phillips, dr

* rec. July 19, 1956 in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Hosea Lee Kennard, p; Willie Johnson, Otis 'Smokey' Smothers, g; Willie Dixon, b; Earl Phillips, dr

Chess 1744 (US 11/1959)

Howling Wolf discography

4dd

1960

LITTLE WALTER

- Me And Piney Brown (9810)
- Break It Up (9811)

rec. 1960 in Chicago, IL; Little Walter, voc, hca; Luther Tucker, Jimmy Rogers, Freddy Robinson, g; Otis Spann, p; Willie Dixon, b; George Hunter, dr

Checker 938 (US 1960)

Synd. Chapter 004

Little Walter discography
Jimmy Rogers discography
Freddy Robinson discography

1960

HOWLIN' WOLF

- Spoonful (10265) #
- Howlin' For My Darling (9584) *

# rec. June 1960 in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc; Otis Spann, p; Freddy Robinson, Hubert Sumlin, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr

* rec. July 1959 in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc, hca; Abb Locke, ts; Hosea Lee Kennard, p; Hubert Sumlin, Abraham Smothers, g; S.P. Leary, dr

Chess 1762 (US 1960)

Howling Wolf discography

1960

HOWLIN' WOLF

- Back Door Man (10264)
- Wang Dang Doodle (10263)

rec. June 1960 in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc; Otis Spann, p; Freddy Robinson, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr

Chess 1777 (US 1960)

Howling Wolf discography

- Woman Leave Me Alone # [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488, Black Magic 9004] [Mosaic MR5-139 (as "Beat-Up Team (first version)")]
- Great Northern Stomp (instr) [Mosaic MR5-139] [Curcio GSR 84 (?)] @ youtube
- "Great Northern Stomp" (instr) [mistitled, actually "Cow Cow Blues"!] [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] [BYG 529512, as "Spann's Boogie"] [Curcio GSR 84 (?)] [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488 (as "Otis Rides Again")] [Mosaic MR5-139 (as "Cow Cow Blues")] [Roots RTS 113014, Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063, Orbis BLU NC 032, Blues Boulevard 250308] @ youtube
- Walkin' The Blues # [Barnaby KZ 31290, Curcio GSR 62] [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488 (as "Don't Give Up The Ship")] [Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- Otis In The Dark (Spann piano solo) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] [BYG 529512, as "Otis Alone"] [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488 (as "One More Encore")] [Mosaic MR5-139, House of Blues 7001087000, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- This Is The Blues # [Barnaby KZ 31290] [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488 (as "3 Minute Number Boogie")] [Curcio GSR 62, Roots RTS 113014, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- Worried Life Blues # [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001, BYG 529512, Curcio GSR 84, Roots RTS 113014, Mosaic MR5-139, Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063, Orbis BLU NC 032, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- Country Boy # [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] [BYG 529512, as "I'm Just A Country Boy"] [Roots RTS 113014, Mosaic MR5-139] [Emporio EMPRCD661 (as "Country Boy Blues")] [Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063, Orbis BLU NC 032, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- The Hard Way # [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] [BYG 529512, as "I Grew Up The Hard Way"] [Curcio GSR 62, Roots RTS 113014, Mosaic MR5-139, Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063, Orbis BLU NC 032, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- Beat-Up Team # [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] [BYG 529512, as "Got Me A Beat-Up Team"] [Roots RTS 113014, Mosaic MR5-139, Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063, Orbis BLU NC 032, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- My Home Is In The Delta # [Barnaby KZ 31290, Curcio GSR 84, Roots RTS 113014, Mosaic MR5-139] [Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063, Orbis BLU NC 032 (as "My Home In The Delta")] [Blues Boulevard 250308 (as "My Home On The Delta")]
- It Must Have Been The Devil # [Barnaby KZ 31290, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308]

- Take A Little Walk With Me * [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001, BYG 529512, Mosaic MR5-139, Emporio EMPRCD 661, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- I Got Rambling On My Mind # 2 * [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] [BYG 529512, as "Rambling On My Mind"] [Roots RTS 113014 (as "I Got Ramblin' On My Mind")] [Mosaic MR5-139 (as "Ramblin' On My Mind")] [Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063, Orbis BLU NC 032 (as "I Got Ramblin' On My Mind")] [Blues Boulevard 250308 (as "Ramblin' On My Mind")]
- Little Boy Blue * [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] [BYG 529512, as "Come Blow Your Horn"] [Curcio GSR 41, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- My Daily Wish (4:10) * [Candid 8001] [BYG 529512, as "Get You Off My Mind"] [Blues Boulevard 250308]
- Instrumental Boogie [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488; Black Magic BM 9004; Crosscut CCR 1003] [Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308 (as "Spann And Bob")]

- Monkey Woman || (4:56) [Barnaby KZ31290, Curcio GSR 51] [Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308 (as "Monkey Face Blues")] [Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063, Orbis BLU NC 032 (as " Monkey Face Woman")]
- One Doggone Reason || [Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- Strange Woman || [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488, Black Magic 9004] [Mosaic MR5-139 (as "Strange Woman Blues")]

- When Things Go Wrong # [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488, Black Magic 9004] [Mosaic MR5-139 (as "It Hurts Me Too")]
- Baby Child (tk 1) # [Crosscut CCR 1003, Black Magic 9004, Mosaic MR5-139]
- Baby Child (tk 5) # [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488]
- Talkin' The Blues (tk 1) # [Black Magic 9004, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- Talkin' The Blues (tk 3) # [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- Can't Stand Your Evil Ways (tk 2) # [Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- Otis' Blues (Spann piano solo) [Barnaby KZ 31290, Curcio GSR 41, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- Half Ain't Been Told # [Barnaby KZ 31290, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- Evil Ways # [Barnaby KZ 31290, Curcio GSR 62] [Mosaic MR5-139 as "Can't Stand Your Evil Ways (tk 4)"] [Blues Boulevard 250308]

- Going Down Slow || [Barnaby KZ 31290, Curcio GSR 41, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- The Girl I Love || [Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- Bad Condition || [Barnaby KZ31290, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- Come Day, Go Day (tk 2) || [Barnaby KZ 31290, Curcio GSR 51, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308]
- Come Day, Go Day (tk 3) || [Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308]

rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; Otis Spann, p, # voc; Robert Lockwood, g, * voc; || St. Louis Jimmy, voc; engineered by George Piros; prod. by Nat Hentoff

Candid recordings releases'/re-releases' timeline:

Candid CJM 8001 (mono) / GJS 9001 (stereo) (US 1960) "Otis Spann Is The Blues"

Python PLP KM 4 (UK 1969) "I Was Raised In Mississippi"

BYG 529512 (Fr 1971) "I Was Raised In Mississippi"

Fontana 6434 904 (Germany 1971) "I Was Raised In Mississippi"

Barnaby Z 30246 (US 1972) "Otis Spann Is The Blues"

Barnaby KZ 31290 (US 1972) "Walking The Blues"

Jazz Man BLZ 5504 (US 1980) "Otis Spann Is The Blues"

Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488 (US 1980) "Otis Rides Again

Curcio GSR 41 (It 1982) "Percy Sledge / Joe Simon / Otis Spann"

Curcio GSR 51 (It 1982) "Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry / Otis Spann / The Impressions"

Curcio GSR 62 (It 1982) "Mike Bloomfield & Electric Flag / Otis Spann"

Curcio GSR 84 (It 1982) "Shirley & Lee / Otis Spann"

CrossCut CCR 1003 (Germany 1983) "Otis Spann Is The Blues"

CrossCut CCR 1004 (Germany 1983) "Otis Spann ... And His Piano"

Black Magic BM 9004 (NL 1984) "Take Me Back Home"

Candid 9025 (Germany 1987) "Walking The Blues"

Candid CCD 79025 (UK 1989) "Walking The Blues"

Roots RTS 113014 (Be/Fr 1990) "This Is The Blues"

Mosaic MR5-139 / MD3-139 (US 1992) "The Complete Candid Otis Spann, Lightnin' Hopkins Sessions"

Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063 (Fr 1993) "My Home In The Delta"

Orbis BLU NC 032 "The Blues Collection" (EU 1994) "My Home In The Delta"

Emporio EMPRCD 661 (EU 1996) "Blues You Hate To Lose"

Candid CCD 79001 (UK 2000) "Otis Spann Is The Blues"

Music Avenue/Blues Boulevard 250308 (EU 2012) "Otis Spann: Ebony And Ivory Blues"

1960

Otis Spann Is The Blues

Candid 8001 et al. track sequence:
- The Hard Way @ youtube
- Take A Little Walk With Me * @ youtube
- Otis In The Dark (Spann piano solo) @ youtube
- Little Boy Blue * @ youtube
- Country Boy @ youtube

- Beat-Up Team @ youtube
- My Daily Wish (4:10) * @ youtube
- Great Northern Stomp (instr) @ youtube
- I Got Rambling On My Mind no. 2 * @ youtube
- Worried Life Blues @ youtube

Python PLP-KM 4 track sequence:
- Beat-Up Team
- Take A Little Walk With Me *
- The Hard Way
- Great Northern Stomp (instr)
- My Daily Wish (4:10) *

- I Got Rambling On My Mind no. 2 *
- Country Boy
- Little Boy Blue *
- Otis In The Dark (Spann piano solo)
- Worried Life Blues

CrossCut CCR 1003 track sequence:
- The Hard Way
- Take A Little Walk With Me *
- Otis In The Dark (Spann piano solo)
- Baby Child (tk 1) [previously unissued]
- Little Boy Blue *
- Country Boy

- Beat-Up Team
- My Daily Wish *
- Great Northern Stomp (instr)
- I Got Rambling On My Mind no. 2 *
- Worried Life Blues
- Instrumental Boogie

rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; Otis Spann, voc, p; Robert Lockwood, g, * voc; engineered by George Piros; prod. by Nat Hentoff
Candid 8001 photography/design by Frank Gauna

notes by Nat Hentoff

Candid CJM 8001 (mono) (US 1960) "Otis Spann Is The Blues"

notes by Nat Hentoff

Candid GJS 9001 (stereo) (US 1960) "Otis Spann Is The Blues"

notes (February 1969) by Keith Tillman

= Python PLP KM 4 (UK 1969) "I Was Raised In Mississippi"

notes by Don DeMicheal

= Barnaby Z 30246 (US 1972) "Otis Spann Is The Blues"

(shortened) notes by Nat Hentoff

= Jazz Man BLZ 5504 (US 1980) "Otis Spann Is The Blues"

(German) notes by Manfred Miller

= CrossCut CCR 1003 (Germany 1983) "Otis Spann Is The Blues"

notes by Nat Hentoff

= Candid CCD 79001 (UK 2000) "Otis Spann Is The Blues"

Robert Lockwood discography
Python Records discography

196?

Blues From Chicago Volume 2

Jimmy Lee Robinson and Band
- All Of My Life
Tommy Brown with Big Walter 'Shakey' Horton
- Remember Me
- Southern Women
Lazy Bill Lucas and his Blue Rhythms
- I Had A Dream
Otis Spann with Band
- Five Spot

Elmore James and his Broomdusters
- Baby What's Wrong
- Sinful Woman
Junior Wells and his Eagle Rockers
- Lawdy Lawdy (Lord, Lord) [States 139]
Muddy Waters with Rhythm Accompaniment
- You're Gonna Miss Me (When I'm Dead And Gone)
Little Johnny Jones & The Chicago Hound Dogs
- Sweet Little Woman (Dirty By The Dozen) [Flair 1010]

Python PLP-KM 9 (UK 196?)

Python Records discography

1963

Folk Festival Of The Blues Recorded Live

@ youtube (full album)

- Wee, Wee Baby - Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon and Buddy Guy @ youtube
- Sitting And Thinking - Muddy Waters @ youtube
- Worried Blues (3:10) - Buddy Guy || @ youtube
- Bring It On Home - Sonny Boy Williamson ||| [Checker 1134] @ youtube
- Sugar Mama - Howlin' Wolf [] # @ youtube

- Clouds In My Heart - Muddy Waters @ youtube
- May I Have A Talk With You - Howlin' Wolf # @ youtube
- Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters @ youtube
- Don't Know Which Way To Go - Buddy Guy @ youtube
- She's 19 Years Old - Muddy Waters @ youtube

# rec. July 26, 1963 at Copa Cabana Club, Chicago; Howlin' Wolf, voc, [] hca; Jarrett Gibson, ts; Donald Hankins, bs; Otis Spann, p; Buddy Guy, g; Jack Meyers, b; Fred Below, dr
|| / ||| studio recordings with dubbed audience:
|| rec. August 14, 1963 in Chicago, IL; Buddy Guy, voc, g; Jarrett Gibson, ts; Donald Hankins, bs; Lafayette Leake, p; Jack Meyers, b; Clifton James, dr
||| rec. January 11, 1963 in Chicago, IL; Sonny Boy Williemason, voc, hca; Lafayette Leake or Billy Emerson, org; Matt Murphy. g; Milton Rector, b; Al Duncan, dr

notes by Pete Welding

Argo LP 4031 (US 1963)

notes by Pete Welding

= PYE NPL 28033 (UK 1963) "Folk Festival Of The Blues Recorded Live"

= Marble Arch MALS 724 (UK 1967) "Festival Of The Blues"

= Chess/Funckler MAR-S 3171 (NL 1968) "Folk Festival of the Blues Recorded Live"

= Barclay 84116 S (Fr)

= Chess LP-1533 (1969) "Blues from 'Big Bill's' CopaCabana Recorded Live"

= Chess CH-9181

= Chess 9113 (1984) "Folk Festival of the Blues Recorded Live"

= Chess/Green Line GCH-8004 (It 1984)

= Chess/Green Line CD 1015 (It 1989)

= Charly CD BM 15 (UK 1993) "Live Action! - Charly Blues Masterworks Volume 15"

Muddy Waters discography
Howling Wolf discography

1963

American Folkblues [sic] Festival 1963 resp. American Folk Blues Festival 1963
"A documentation of the authentic blues featuring the best blues artists of America"

Memphis Slim - Wish Me Well @ youtube
Big Joe Williams - I Have No Friends @ youtube
Willie Dixon - Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues @ youtube
Willie Dixon - Crazy For My Baby @ youtube
Victoria Spivey - Grant Spivey @ youtube
Matt "Guitar" Murphy - Matt's Guitar Boogie @ youtube

Sonnyboy Williamson - I Don't Know @ youtube
Sonnyboy Williamson - Sonny's Harmonica Boogie @ youtube
Lonnie Johnson - It's Too Late To Cry @ youtube
Otis Spann - Had My Fun (3:53) @ youtube
Muddy Waters - Five Long Years @ youtube
Memphis Slim et al. - Bye, Bye, Blues @ youtube

rec. October 13, 1963 live at the (2nd) American Folk Blues Festival in Bremen, Germany; accompanists: Matt "Guitar" Murphy, g; Willie Dixon, b; Bill Stepney, dr; prod. by Siegfried E. Loch

Philips/Phonogram SFL-7385 track sequence:
Muddy Waters - Five Long Years
Willie Dixon - Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues
Willie Dixon - Crazy For My Baby
Matthew Murphy - Matt's Guitar Boogie
Sonny Boy Williamson - I Don't Know

Sonny Boy Williamson - I'm Trying To Make London My Home
Lightnin' Hopkins - Ain't It A Pity
Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby, Please Don't Go
Sunnyland Slim - Everytime I Get The Drinking
Hubert Sumlin - No Title Boogie
Howlin Wolf - Dust My Broom

Evidence ECD 26087-2 track sequence:
Fred McDowell - Highway 61 (1965)
Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go (1964)
John Lee Hooker - Della Mae (1965)
Memphis Slim - Wish Me Well (1963)
Muddy Waters - Five Long Years (1963)
Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog (1965)
Howlin' Wolf - Dust My Broom (1964)
T-Bone Walker - I'm In Love (1962)
Sunnyland Slim - Everytime I Get To Drinkin' (1964)
Buddy Guy - First Time I Met The Blues (1965)
Sugar Pie DeSanto - Slip In Mules (1964)
Shakey Jake - Love My Baby (1962)
Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years (1965)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Dissatisfied (1964)
Otis Spann - Goin' Down Slow (= "Had My Fun") (1963)
Brownie McGhee - Crying At The Station (1962)
J.B. Lenoir - Slow Down (1965)

originally unissued Otis Spann tracks from same event on Evidence ECD 26100, all previously (1992) released on ACT CD 9205:
Muddy Waters - Blow Wind Blow (alt tk) (= "In The City") (3:57)
Muddy Waters - My Home Is In The Delta (= "I Feel Like Cryin'") (4:42)
Sonny Boy Williamson - That's All I Want Baby (= "Your Love For Me Is True") (4:51) @ youtube
Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Misuse Me (4:47) @ youtube
Otis Spann - Goin' Down Slow (alt tk, sans Sonny Boy Williamson) (= "Had My Fun") (3:36)

notes (8-pp. German/English) by Horst Lippmann and Siegfried Schmidt-Joos

Fontana 681510 ZL (mono) (Germany 1963) "American Folkblues Festival" incl. photos by Rolf Ambor

or
= Fontana 885403 ZL (mono)
= Fontana 885403 ZY (stereo) (Germany 1963) "American Folkblues Festival"

notes by Anonymous

= Fontana TL 5204 (mono) (UK 1964) "American Folk Blues Festival"

notes by Jean Tronchot

= Fontana 885403 MY (mono)
= Fontana 885403 ZY (stereo) (Fr 196?)

notes by Jean Tronchot

= Fontana 681510 TL/ZL (Fr 19??)

= Fontana 858 100 FPY (NL 1968)

= Polydor 2310 296 (Fr)

= Exodus EX/EXS 302 (US 1966) [Ewart Abner's label]

(=) Philips/Phonogram SFL-7385 (Jp 1969) "American Folk Blues Festival 63-64"

notes by Willy Leiser

= L+R 42.023 (Germany 1981)

= Optimism/L+R CD-2023 (US 1983?)

= Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 42023 (Germany 1998)

5 CD box set
notes by Bill Dahl

(=) Evidence ECD 26100 (US 1995) "American Folk Blues Festival '62-'65" CDs 2 & 3: "1963, parts 1 & 2"

notes by Jerry Gordon

(=) Evidence ECD 26087-2 (US 1997) "American Folk Blues Festival '62-'65 - Highlights"

Evidence ECD 260101 "American Folk Blues Festival '66 - '72" (as announced in the notes accompanying Evidence ECD 26087-2) obviously never happened!

3 CD set

(=) Bellaphon CDLR 726321 (Germany 1999) "1962, 1963, 1964" CD 2: "1963"

(=) Oldays ODR 6287-88 (Jp 2016) "1962-63"

a few more re-releases @ discogs. com

American Folk Blues Festival discography
Fontana Records discography
L+R Records discography

1964

Otis Spann: Good Morning Blues
Portraits In Blues Vol. 3

Storyville SLP 157 / Everest FS 216 / Storyville SLP 4041 track sequence:
- Good Morning Mr. Blues (3:20) @ youtube
- Love, Love, Love (2:27) @ youtube
- Riverside Blues (3:20) @ youtube
- Must Have Been The Devil (2:30) @ youtube
- Jelly Roll Baker (4:00) @ youtube
- Trouble In Mind # (3:25) @ youtube

- Worried Life Blues (4:07) @ youtube
- T.B. Blues (4:12) @ youtube
- Spann's Boogie (instr) (2:15) @ youtube
- Don't You Know (4:28) @ youtube
- Goin' Down Slow (4:40) @ youtube

Storyville/Teldec 6.23708 bonus track:
- Keep Your Hands Out Of My Pocket [Storyville SLP 168] @ youtube

rec. October 16, 1963 in Copenhagen, Denmark; Otis Spann, voc, p; # Lonnie Johnson, g
Storyville SLP 157 photo by Rolf Ambor Storyville ST 21004 photo by Jean-Pierre Leloir

notes by Paul Oliver

= Storyville SLP 157 (Denmark 1964) "Portraits in Blues Vol. 3"

Storyville SLP 157 (Fr 196?) "Portraits in Blues Vol. 3" "festival"

notes by Paul Oliver

= Everest/Archive Of Folk & Jazz FS 216 (US 3/1968) "Otis Spann"
= Gamma/Archive Of Folk Music 6-8907 (Fr 19??) mispress: Side A was pressed at wrong speed (too high)

notes by Paul Oliver

= Storyville SLP 157 / Storyville 671157 (Germany 1972) "Portraits in Blues Vol. 3"

notes by Paul Oliver

= Storyville ST 21004 (Fr 197?) "Portraits in Blues"

= Storyville/Teldec 6.23708 (Germany 1979) "Blues Roots Vol. 9" "I Have Had My Fun"

= Storyville SLP 4041 (Switzerland 1985) "Blues Roots Vol. 7" "Good Morning, Mr. Blues"

= Storyville STCD 8010 (Denmark 1991)

180 g LP
notes by Paul Oliver

= Pure Pleasure Analogue PPAN SLP157 (US 2009)

Storyville Records discography
Lonnie Johnson discography

196?

Lonnie Johnson: Portraits In Blues Vol. 6

- Tomorrow Night
- Clementine Blues
- See See Rider
- Raining On The Cold Ground
- Jelly Jelly

- Too Late To Cry
- Call Me Darling
- Why Did You Go
- Swingin' With Lonnie
- Please Help Me

rec. October 16, 1963 in Copenhagen, Denmark; Lonnie Johnson, voc, g; Otis Spann, p

notes by Paul Oliver

Storyville SLP 162 (Denmark 196?)

notes by Paul Oliver

= Storyville 671162

= Storyville SLP 4042 "Blues Roots Vol. 5" "Swinging With Lonnie"

Storyville Records discography
Lonnie Johnson discography

1963

Piano Blues

Otis Spann
- The Skies Are Blue
- Keep Your Hand Out Of My Pocket
Speckled Red
- Cow Cow Blues
Memphis Slim
- A Letter Home
Sunnyland Slim
- Women Trouble Blues #
- Sittin' Here Thinkin' #

Champion Jack Dupree
- Don't Ever Believe
- I Just Want To Be Free
Memphis Slim
- Rebecca Blues *
Champion Jack Dupree
- T.V. Mama

# rec. October 8, 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark; Sunnyland Slim, voc, p
* rec. November 1, 1963 in Copenhagen, Denmark; Memphis Slim, voc, p; Sonny Boy Williamson, voc, hca

notes by Paul Oliver

Storyville SLP 168

DLP

(=) Storyville ST 21013 (Fr) (along with SLP 187)

Storyville Records discography

1964

Can't Keep From Crying
Topical Blues on the Death of President Kennedy

Big Joe Williams - A Man Amongst Men @ youtube
James & Fannie Brewer - I Want To Know Why
John Lee Granderson - A Man For The Nation @ youtube
Otis Spann - Sad Day In Texas @ youtube
Mary Ross - President Kennedy Gave His Life
Bill Jackson - The 22nd Day Of November

James Brewer - Why Did He Have To Go?
Johnny Young - I Tried Not To Cry
Avery Brady - Poor Kennedy @ youtube
Fannie Brewer - When We Got The Message
Jimmy Brown - He Was Loved By All The People @ youtube

CD bonus tracks:
Johnny Young - Tribute To J.F.K. @ youtube
Avery Brady - Poor Kennedy no. 2

rec. in Chicago, IL in the weeks immediately following JFK's death on November 22, 1963 by Norman Dayron and Peter J. Welding; prod. by Peter J. Welding

cover photo of Big Joe Williams by Lars Swanberg

printed on LP's back cover: "TESTAMENT RECORDS, P.O. Box 1813, Chicago, Illinois 60690"
later additionally stamped "New address: 577 Levering, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024"

notes by Peter J. Welding "5851 Blackstone Avenue/Chicago 37, Illinois"

"577 Levering Avenue/Los Angeles, Calif./90024"

Testament S-01 (US 1964 ff.)
BU 62 (May 1969), p. 26

notes by Peter J. Welding

= Bounty BY 6035 (UK 1967)

notes by Peter J. Welding

(=) Testament TCD-5007 (US 1994)

Testament Records discography

1964

Modern Chicago Blues

Johnny Young - My Baby Walked Out In 1954 #* @ youtube
Wilbert Jenkins - Married Woman Blues @ youtube
Johnny Young - You Make Me Feel So Good ##* @ youtube
Maxwell St. Jimmy - Crying Won't Make Me Stay || @ youtube
Big Walter Horton - Everybody's Fishing // @ youtube
Johnny Young - Money Taking Woman ## @ youtube
Robert Nighthawk - Blues Before Sunrise § @ youtube
Johnny Young - Back To Chicago @ youtube
John Lee Granderson - Bumble Bee \\ °° @ youtube
Maxwell Street Jimmy - I've Got My Eyes on You || °° @ youtube

Johnny Young - Bad Blood #* @ youtube
John Wrencher - I'm Going To Detroit [] @ youtube
Maxwell St. Jimmy - Hanging Around My Door || @ youtube
Johnny Young - Tired Of You Smiling ## @ youtube
Wilbert Jenkins - Crawling King Snake @ youtube
Johnny Young - Let Me Ride Your Mule #* @ youtube
Big Walter Horton - Hard-Hearted Woman // @ youtube
John Lee Granderson - I Don't Feel Good \\ @ youtube
Maxwell Street Jimmy - Long Haired Doney || °° @ youtube
John Lee Granderson - That's All Right \\ °° @ youtube
William Mack - Hideaway °° @ youtube

°° CD bonus tracks

rec. by Norman Dayron, Norman Goodis, or Peter J. Welding
# rec. November 17, 1963 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, g, ## mand; Otis Spann, p; Slim Willis, hca; * Robert Whitehead, dr
|| rec. 1963 at the Fickle Pickle, Chicago, IL by Norman Dayron; Maxwell Street Jimmy, voc, g
// rec. July 1, 1962 in Chicago, IL; Walter Horton, voc, hca; Jimmy Walker, p; Johnny Young, g
\\ rec. poss. September 30, 1962; John Lee Granderson, voc, g; Prez Thomas, hca; Jimmy Walker, p; William Mack, g
§ rec. October 14, 1964 in Chicago, IL; Robert Nighthawk, voc, g; Big John Wrencher, hca; Johnny Young, mand
[] rec. 1964 in Chicago, IL; Big John Wrencher, voc, hca; Johnny Young, mand; John Lee Granderson, g

Testament LP/CD front cover drawing by George Roth; Bounty/Polydor LPs front cover photo by Ray Flerlage; back liner photos by Peter J. Welding

notes by Peter J. Welding "P.O. Box 1813/Chicago, Illinois, 60690"

"577 Levering Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024"

"Los Angeles, Calif."

Testament T-2203 (US 1964 ff.)
BU 25 (September 1965), p. 23

= Testament T-2203 (special re-release by OJL)

= Bounty BY 6025 (UK 1966)

= Polydor 545 031 (UK 1966)

(=) Testament TCD-5008 (US 1994)

= P-Vine PCD-5566 (Jp 1999)

Testament Records discography
Johnny Young discography
Big Walter Horton discography
John Lee Granderson discography
Maxwell Street Jimmy discography
John Wrencher discography

1964

The Blues Of Otis Spann

Decca LK 4615 track sequence:
- Rock Me Mama (DR 33247) @ youtube
- I Came From Clarksdale (DR 33246) @ youtube
- Keep Your Hand Out Of My Pocket (DR 33250) @ youtube
- Spann's Boogie (DR 33243) (instr) @ youtube
- Sarah Street (DR 33234) @ youtube
- The Blues Don't Like Nobody (DR 33237) @ youtube
- My Home In The Delta (DR 33239) [Black Cat 001 bonus track, from Ace Of Clubs ACL/SCL 1220] @ youtube

- Meet Me In The Bottom (DR 33231) @ youtube
- Lost Sheep In The Fold (DR 33249) @ youtube
- I Got A Feeling (DR 33232) @ youtube
- Jangle Boogie (DR 33235) (instr) @ youtube
- T.99 (DR 33238) @ youtube
- Natural Days (DR 33230) @ youtube
- You Gonna Need My Help (DR 39340) [Black Cat 001 bonus track, from Ace Of Clubs ACL/SCL 1220] @ youtube

See For Miles SEE 54 track sequence:
- Rock Me Mama
- I Came From Clarksdale
- Keep Your Hand Out Of My Pocket
- Spann's Boogie
- Sarah Street
- The Blues Don't Like Nobody
- Country Boy (DR 39342) [from Ace Of Clubs ACL/SCL 1220]
- Pretty Girls Everywhere (DR 33241) [from Ace Of Clubs ACL/SCL 1220]

- Meet Me In The Bottom
- Lost Sheep In The Fold
- I Got A Feeling
- Jangle Boogie
- T 99
- Natural Days
- You're Gonna Need My Help (DR 39340) [from Ace Of Clubs ACL/SCL 1220]
- Stirs Me Up (DR 33244) [from Decca F.11972]

originally unissued tracks from same session:
- Nobody Knows (DR 33236) (4:12) [Black Magic BM 9004]
- I'd Rather Be The Devil (DR 33245) (2:48) [Black Magic BM 9004] @ youtube
- Sarah Street (alt tk)
- Get Out Of My Way (DR 33248)
- T.99 (DR 33251)

rec. May 4, 1964 at Decca No. 2 studio in West Hampstead, London, UK during the "Blues & Gospel Caravan" tour; Otis Spann, voc, p; "Brother" (Muddy Waters), g; Ransom Knowling, b; Little Willie Smith, dr; prod. by Mike Vernon

notes by Neil E. Slaven

Decca LK 4615 (UK 1964)

= Decca LK 4615 (Germany 1964)

= Black Cat 001 (NL 1980) "Half Ain't Been Told"

notes by Alan Balfour
= See For Miles SEE 54 (UK 1985)

notes by Alan Balfour
= See For Miles SEECD 54 (UK 1993)

180g LP
8-pp. booklet
= Decca no# (It 12/2016) (Blues In Vinile # 31)

- Meet Me In The Bottom (3:30) [Curcio GSR 84]
- Chicago Blues (5:50) [Curcio GSR 84]
- Spann's Boogie (instr) (3:45) [Curcio GSR 84]

rec. May 12, 1964 at Maison de la Radio (ORTF), Paris, France; Otis Spann, voc, p; Ransom Knowling, b; Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, dr

French broadcast, originally not published on record

- The Bible Don't Lie # // [J.O.B. 1110]
- Los Angeles Midnight Groove (instr) || [J.O.B. 1110]
- T-99 (A) # [J.O.B. 1111] @ youtube
- Love (B) (instr) // [J.O.B. 1111] @ youtube
- I'm A Lonely Man
- Somebody Is Knocking At Your Door

rec. 1964 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, p, # voc; J.T. Brown, // cl, || ts; g; b; dr

J.O.B. unissued

12a

9/1964

OTIS SPANN

- Stirs Me Up (A) * @ youtube
- Keep Your Hand Out Of My Pocket (B) #

rec. May 4, 1964 at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, London, UK; Otis Spann, voc, p; Muddy Waters, * Eric Clapton, g; Jimmy Page, # g, * hca, b & g (overdubbed); Ransom Knowling, b; Little Willie Smith, dr; prod. by Michael Vernon

7 inch 45 rpm single

Decca F.11972 (UK 9/1964)

12b

1964

MUDDY WATERS

- Put Me In Your Lay Away (13475) *
- Still A Fool (U 7360) #

* rec. c. September 1964 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc; J.T. Brown, cl; Otis Spann, p; Pee Wee Madison, g; Milton Rector, b; S.P. Leary, dr

# rec. July 11, 1951 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; James Cotton, hca; Jimmy Rogers, g; Big Crawford, b; Elga Edmonds, dr

# Chess 1480

Chess 1921

Muddy Waters discography

1965

Otis Spann: The Blues Never Die!

- The Blues Never Die @ youtube
- I Got A Feeling @ youtube
- One More Mile To Go # [] @ youtube
- Feeling Good # @ youtube
- After Awhile [on labels: "After While"] @ youtube

- Dust My Broom # @ youtube
- Straighten Up Baby # @ Spotify
- Come On @ youtube
- Must Have Been The Devil @ youtube
- Lightnin' (inst) @ youtube
- I'm Ready # (no guitar) @ youtube

rec. November 21, 1964 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, voc, p; "Dirty Rivers" [Muddy Waters], g; James Cotton hca, # voc; James "Pee Wee" Madison, g; Milton Rector, b; SP Leary, dr; [] band voc; prod. by Samuel Charters
front cover design by Don Schlitten, photo by Ray Flerlage

notes (May 1965) by Pete Welding

Prestige PR 7391 (mono / stereo) (US 1965) (blue trident label 1964-1971)

notes by Pete Welding

= Stateside SL 10169 (mono) (UK 1965)

notes by Pete Welding

= Prestige PR/PRST 7719 (US 1965?) (blue trident label 1964-1971)

notes by Pete Welding

= Prestige/SABA PRST 7391 (Germany 19??)

"In 1971 the Prestige label and its catalogue was sold to Fantasy Records of San Francisco, who proceeded to embark on a major programme of re-issues (light green label), sadly, of lamentable audio quality."

notes by Pete Welding

= Prestige/Fantasy PR-7719 (mono) (US 1972) (blue cover, light green label)

notes by Pete Welding

= Prestige/Fantasy PRT-7719 (stereo) (US 1972) (light purple cover, light green label)

notes by Pete Welding

= Bellaphon BJS 4053 (Germany 1974)

notes by Pete Welding

= Prestige HBS 8012 (It 1982)

notes by Pete Welding

= Ace CH 231 (UK 1988)

= P-Vine/Ace PJ 117 (Jp 1988?)

notes by Pete Welding

= OBC OBC-530 (US 1990)

notes by Pete Welding

= OBC OBCCD-530-2 (US 9/1990)

= Concord CD (NL 2006)

mini LP CD

= Oldays ODR 6604 (Jp 7/2018)

a few more re-releases @ discogs. com

7/1965

Blues Now

Otis Spann - Stirs Me Up (DR 33244) * @ youtube
The Art Woods - Sweet Mary
Champion Jack Dupree - I'm A Prisoner (DR 33475) # [previously unissued]
John Mayall & The Blues Breakers - I Need Your Love
Davy Graham - Goin' Down Slow
Otis Spann - Mojo Rock 'N' Roll (DR 33240) **
Curtis Jones - Shake It Baby []

Them - Baby Please Don't Go
Mae Mercer - Sweet Little Angel
Otis Spann - Pretty Girls Everywhere (DR 33241) *** @ youtube
Graham Bond Organization - Wade In The Water
Rod Stewart - Good Morning Little School Girl
Champion Jack Dupree - All Right [Decca DFE 8586] #
Ronnie Jones & The Night-Timers - I Need Your Loving

# rec. June 26, 1964 in London, UK; Jack Dupree, voc, p; Keith Smith's Climax Jazz Band: Keith Smith, tp; Mike Sherborne, tb; John Deferary, cl, ts; Paul Sealy, bj, g; Ray Holland, b; Dave Evans, dr; ** Jimmy Page, hca/g/b (overdubbed)
* rec. May 4, 1964 at Decca No. 2 studio, West Hampstead, London, UK; Otis Spann, voc, jangle p; Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, g; Ransom Knowling, b; Willie Smith, dr; Jimmy Page, hca/g/b (overdubbed)
** rec. May 4, 1964 at Decca No. 2 studio, West Hampstead, London, UK; Otis Spann, voc, p; Memphis Slim, p; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Ransom Knowling, b; Willie Smith, dr
*** rec. May 4, 1964 at Decca No. 2 studio, West Hampstead, London, UK; Otis Spann, voc, p; Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, g; Ransom Knowling, b; Willie Smith, dr
[] rec. November 27/28, 1963 at Decca No. 2 studio, West Hampstead, London, UK; Curtis Jones, voc, p; Alexis Korner, g; Jack Fallon, b; Eddie Taylor (British jazz drummer), dr

notes by M.V. (Mike Vernon)

Decca LK 4681 (UK 7/1965)

= Decca LK 4681 (UK 196?)

1965

Conversation With The Blues
A Documentary of Field Recordings by Paul Oliver

LP track sequence:
Boogie Woogie Red - So Much Good Feeling (spoken, with own piano)
Willie Thomas - A Little Different spoken @ youtube
James Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - Kill That Nigger Dead (Cage, voc & fiddle; Thomas, voc and guitar) spoken @ youtube
Lil' Son Jackson - The Onliest Way (spoken)
J.B. Lenoir - My Father's Style (guitar solo)
J.B. Lenoir - So It Rocked On (spoken)
J.B. Lenoir - Move To Kansas City (vocal and own guitar)
Otis Spann - When She Comes Back (spoken) #
Otis Spann - Poor Country Boy (vocal, with own piano) #
Lightnin' Hopkins - Ain't No Easy Thing (spoken)
Mance Lipscomb - Evil Heart Blues (vocal and own piano)
Blind Arvella Gray - A Roughneck (spoken)
Roosevelt Sykes - West Helena Blues (vocal and guitar)
Will Shade - Days Of Nineteen-Hundred (spoken)
Will Shade - Newport News Blues (vocal and own guitar)
Whistling Alex Moore - Chock House Days (spoken)
Whistling Alex Moore - Come and Get Me (vocal and own piano)
Brother John Sellers - Move Back For What? (spoken)
J.B. Lenoir - I Been Down So Long (vocal and own guitar)

Jasper Love - Santa Fé Blues (vocal and piano)
John Lee Hooker - Somewhere Down The Line (spoken)
Robert Curtis Smith - I Hope One Day My Luck Will Change (vocal and own guitar)
Otis Spann - Only Places They Can Go (spoken) #
Otis Spann - People Calls Me Lucky (vocal and own piano) #
Henry Townsend - What Have I Committed (spoken)
James Butch Cage - Tween Midnight And Day (vocal and own guitar) spoken @ youtube
Little Brother Montgomery - Walking Basses (spoken)
Little Brother Montgomery - Dud Low Joe (piano solo)
Little Brother Montgomery - It's A Barrelhouse Blues (spoken) []
Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues (vocal with piano)
Little Brother Montgomery - They Beat Me To Chicago (spoken) []
Roosevelt Sykes - They All Called Him 'Pork Chops' (spoken)
Roosevelt Sykes - Forty-Four Blues (vocal and own piano)
Robert Junior Lockwood & Sunnyland Slim - Doctor Clayton And Me (spoken) []
Robert Junior Lockwood & Sunnyland Slim - Take A Little Walk With Me (vocal with own electric guitar, with Sunnyland Slim, piano) []
Edwin Buster Pickens - To Have The Blues Within (spoken)
Mance Lipscomb - Blues In The Bottle (vocal and own guitar)

CD track sequence:@ youtube (full album)
- So Much Good Feeling - Boogie Woogie Red
- A Little Different - Willie Thomas
- Kill That Nigger Dead - James "Butch" Cage & Willie Thomas
- The Onliest Way - Lil Son Jackson
- My Father's Style / So It Rocked On / Move To Kansas City - J.B. Lenoir
- When She Come Back / Poor Country Boy - Otis Spann #
- Ain't No Easy Thing - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Evil Heart Blues - Mance Lipscomb
- A Roughneck - Blind Arvella Gray
- West Helena Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- Days of 1900 / Newport News Blues - Will Shade
- Chock House Days / Come and Get Me - Whistling Alex Moore
- Move Back! For What? - Brother John Sellers
- Been Down So Long - J.B. Lenoir
- A Place They Call Boots' - James "Stump" Johnson []
- Henry Brown Blues - Henry Brown []
- They Called Us Gandy Dancers / Work Songs / John Henry - Blind Arvella Gray with Blind James Brewer []
- Santa Fe Train - Edwin "Buster" Pickens
- Most Reason I Sing - Robert Curtis Smith
- Santa Fe Blues - Jasper Love
- Somewhere Down The Line - John Lee Hooker
- I Hope One Day My Luck Will Change - Robert Curtis Smith
- Only Places They Can Go / People Call Me Lucky - Otis Spann #
- What Have I Committed? - Henry Townsend
- 'Tween Midnight And Day - James "Butch" Cage
- Walking Basses / Dud Low Joe / The First Vicksburg Blues - Little Brother Montgomery
- They Call Him "Pork Chops" / Forty-Four Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- Blues In The Bottle - Mance Lipscomb
- To Have The Blues Within - Edward "Buster" Pickens
- Colorado Springs Blues - Edwin "Buster" Pickens []

All tracks recorded between June 26 and August 28, 1960
# rec. July 14, 1960 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, sp / voc, p

LP and CD have slightly different tracks: [] = not on LP resp. CD !!!

notes (plus 6-pp. insert) by Paul Oliver Decca LK 4664 insert (1 sheet folded to 6 pp.)

Decca LK 4664 (UK 1965)

notes by Paul Oliver

= Decca LK 4664 (Germany 1965)

LP resp. CD accompanying Paul Oliver's book by the same title:

London (Cassell) (1st UK ed. 1965) xv, 217 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm

New York (Horizon Press) (1st US ed. 1965) xix, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

London ("Jazz Book Club") JBC 64 (2nd UK ed. 1967)

Cambridge (University Press) 0 521 59181 3 (revised edition of the original 1965 book with enclosed CD) (2nd US ed. 1997)

Doyosha LLC (1st Jp ed. 2016) ISBN 978-4-907511-25-8 (190 × 129 × 21,8 mm | 336 pages (incl. 48 photos) | weight: 9,5 pound; price: 1.850 JPY equals 14,84 EUR) translated by Yasufumi Higurashi

1966

Otis Spann's Chicago Blues resp. Nobody Knows My Troubles

- Get Your Hands Out Of My Pocket # @ youtube
- Nobody Knows My Troubles # @ youtube
- Sarah Street # @ youtube
- Worried Life Blues @ Spotify
- You Can't Hide @ Spotify
- Jack-Knife (instr) # [] @ Spotify
- What's On Your Worried Mind? @ youtube

- Vicksburg Blues § @ Spotify
- Who's Out There? # @ youtube
- Spann's Boogie Woogie (instr) @ youtube
- See See Rider @ youtube
- Lovin' You # [] @ youtube
- One-Room Country Shack @ Spotify
- Mr. Jelly-Roll Baker @ Spotify

CD bonus track:
- G.B. Blues (instr) * [Testament T-2217] @ youtube @ Spotify

rec. 1965 in Chicago, IL by Pete Welding; Otis Spann, voc, p; § Robert Whitehead, dr
# rec. November 22, 1965 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, voc, p, [] org; James Cotton, hca; Johnny Young, g; Jimmy Lee Morris, b; S.P. Leary, dr
* rec. 1966 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, p; Walter Horton, hca; Johnny Shines, g; Lee Jackson, b; Fred Below, dr
cover photo by Pete Welding

notes by Pete Welding

Testament T-2211 (US 1966) "Otis Spann's Chicago Blues"

notes by Pete Welding

Testament T-2211 (US 19??) "Nobody Knows My Troubles"

notes by Pete Welding

= Bounty BY-6037 (UK 1967) "Nobody Knows My Troubles"

notes by Pete Welding

= Polydor 545 030 (UK 1969) "Nobody Knows My Troubles"

notes by Pete Welding

Testament T-2211 (Special re-release by OJL) (US 198?) "Otis Spann's Chicago Blues"

notes by Pete Welding

(=) Testament TCD 5005 (US 1994) "Otis Spann's Chicago Blues"

Testament Records discography
Walter Horton discography
Johnny Shines discography
Johnny Young discography

196?

The Best of The Blues

Big Bill Broonzy - Diggin' My Potatoes (DGF 38) # [Storyville SEP 383]
Speckled Red - Uncle Sam's Blues
Memphis Slim - Bertha May
Champion Jack Dupree - Christina, Christina Blues
Big Joe Williams - Vitamin A Blues
Lonnie Johnson with Otis Spann - Don't Cry Baby @ Spotify

Roosevelt Sykes - The Way I Feel
Sleepy John Estes - City Hall Blues
John Henry Barbee - Early In The Morning
Sunnyland Slim - One Room Country Shack
Sonny Boy & M. Slim - Copenhagen Woman *
Otis Spann - Boots And Shoes [] @ youtube

# rec. May 4, 1956 live at Club Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark; Big Bill Broonzy, voc, g
* rec. November 1, 1963 in Copenhagen, Denmark; Memphis Slim, voc, p; Sonny Boy Williamson, hca; Matt Murphy, g
[] rec. October 16, 1963 in Copenhagen, Denmark; Lonnie Johnson, voc, g; Otis Spann, voc, g

notes by Paul Oliver

Storyville SLP 188 (Denmark 196?)

notes by Paul Oliver

= Teldec/Storyville 671188 (Germany 1973)

notes (in Spanish) by Paul Oliver

= Discophon J-4310 (Sp 1973)

notes (in Japanese) by Paul Oliver

= Storyville ULS-1819-R (Jp 19??)

notes by Paul Oliver

= Storyville SLP 4023 (US 1981)

notes by Paul Oliver

= Storyville SLP 4023 (Switzerland 1985)

Storyville Records discography

1966

The Bluesmen of the Muddy Waters Chicago Blues Band

Band
- Chicago Slide (1:45) @ youtube
Luther Johnson
- Creepin' Snake (3:47) @ youtube
George Smith
- Lookout Victoria (2:45)
Otis Spann
- You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now # (3:50)
Victoria Spivey
- Take Webster's Word For It (5:45)
Band
- Theme (1:15)

Otis Spann
- Ain't Nobody's Business What I Do # (5:25)
Luther Johnson
- Born In Georgia (2:00) @ youtube
Victoria Spivey
- Trouble Hurts (2:45)
Band
- Watermelon Man (4:15)
George Smith
- Old Ugly Man Like Me (3:10)
Victoria Spivey
- Gave It All To Me (5:05)

P-Vine CD bonus tracks:
Otis Spann
- You Know You Don't Love Me Baby
- Why Don't You Leave Me Alone

rec. November 25, 1966 in New York City, NY; Victoria Spivey, voc; Otis Spann, p, # org, voc; George Smith, hca, voc; Luther 'Georgia Boy' Johnson, g, voc; Samuel Lawhorn, g; "Main Stream" (Muddy Waters, prob. does not play on all tracks), g; Francis Clay, dr
photos by Len Kunstadt

notes by Len Kunstadt

Spivey 1010 (US 1968)

notes by Len Kunstadt

Spivey 1010 (US 196?)

= P-Vine PCD-93209 (Jp 2009)

Spivey Records discography
Lucille Spann discography
George Smith discography
Muddy Waters discography
Luther "Georgia Boy" Johnson discography

1966

Chicago / The Blues / Today! Vol. 1

Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band
- Tribute To Sonny Boy Williamson (= Help Me) # @ youtube
- It Hurts Me Too (= When Things Go Wrong) # @ youtube
- Messin' With The Kid # @ youtube
- Vietcong Blues # @ youtube
- All Night Long (= Rock Me Baby) # @ youtube
J.B. Hutto And His Hawks
- Going Ahead
- Please Help

J.B. Hutto And His Hawks
- Too Much Alcohol
- Married Woman Blues
- That's The Truth
Otis Spann's South Side Piano
- Marie (instr) * @ youtube
- Burning Fire * @ youtube
- S.P. Blues (instr) * @ youtube
- Sometime I Wonder * @ youtube
- Spann's Stomp (instr) * @ youtube

# rec. December 1965 in Chicago, IL; Junior Wells, voc, hca; "Friendly Chap" (Buddy Guy), g; Jack Myers, b; Bill Warren, dr; prod. by Samuel Charters
* rec. December 1965 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, voc, p; S.P. Leary, dr; prod. by Samuel Charters

notes by Samuel Charters

Vanguard VRS 9216 (mono) (US 4/1966)

notes by Samuel Charters

= Vanguard VSD 79216 (stereo) (US 4/1966)

3 CD set
notes by Ed Ward

(=) Vanguard 3VCD 172/74-2 (US 1999)

Junior Wells discography

1966

Chicago / The Blues / Today! Vol. 2

Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet
- Cotton Crop Blues #
- Blues Keep Falling #
- Love Me or Leave #
- Rocket 88 #
- West Helena Blues #
Otis Rush Blues Band
- Everything's Going To Turn Out Alright (instr) * @ youtube
- It's a Mean Old World (2:24) * @ youtube

Otis Rush Blues Band
- I Can't Quit You Baby * @ youtube
- Rock (instr) * @ youtube
- It's My Own Fault * @ youtube
Homesick James & his Dusters
- Dust My Broom || @ youtube
- Somebody's Been Talkin' || @ youtube
- Set A Date || @ youtube
- So Mean To Me || @ youtube

# rec. December 1965 in Chicago, IL by Samuel Charters; James Cotton, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; James "Pee Wee" Madison, g; S.P. Leary, dr

* rec. December 28/29, 1965 in Chicago, IL by Samuel Charters; Otis Rush, voc, g; Robert "Sax" Crowder, as; Luther Tucker, g; ~~Roger Jones~~ [actually Ernest Gatewood], b; ~~Willlie Lion~~ [actually Jesse Green], dr

|| rec. late 1965 in Chicago, IL by Samuel Charters; Homesick James, voc, g; Willie Dixon, b; ~~Frank Kirkland~~ [actually Fred Below], dr

notes by Samuel Charters

Vanguard VRS 9217 (mono) (US 1966)

notes by Samuel Charters

= Vanguard VSD 79217 (stereo) (US 1966)

= Fontana TFL 6069 (UK 1966)

= Vanguard SVRL 19021 (UK 1966)

3 CD set
notes by Ed Ward

(=) Vanguard 3VCD 172/74-2 (US 1999)

Otis Rush discography
Homesick James discography

1966

The Johnny Shines Band
Masters Of Modern Blues Vol. 1

- Rollin' & Tumblin' @ youtube
- Trouble Is All I See @ youtube
- Mr. Tom Green's Farm @ youtube
- My Black Mare @ youtube
- What Kind Of Little Girl Are You? @ youtube

- So Cold In Vietnam @ youtube
- Sweet Home Chicago @ youtube
- Walkin' Blues @ youtube
- Black Panther @ youtube
- Two Trains Runnin' @ youtube

rec. June 1966 at One-derful Studios in Chicago, IL; The Johnny Shines Band: Johnny Shines, voc, g; Big Walter Horton, hca; Otis Spann, p; Lee Jackson, b; Fred Below, dr; prod. by Pete Welding
cover photograph line resolution by Brad Barrett from a photograph by Pete Welding; liner photo by Ray Flerlage

notes by Pete Welding

Testament T-2212 (US 1966)

notes by Pete Welding

Testament T-2212 (Special Re-Release by OJL) (US 198?)

notes by Pete Welding

= Testament TCD-5002 (US 1994)

= P-Vine PCD-5565 (Jp 1999)

Testament Records discography
Johnny Shines discography
Lee Jackson discography
Walter Horton discography

1966

Johnny Young And His Chicago Blues Band

Arhoolie F 1029 track sequence:
- Wild, Wild Woman [Arhoolie 45-515] @ youtube
- Keep Your Nose Out Of My Business @ youtube
- I'm Having A Ball @ youtube
- My Trainfare Out Of Town @ youtube
- I'm Doing All Right @ youtube
- Stealin' @ youtube

- Keep On Drinking @ youtube
- Hot Dog! @ youtube
- Come Early In The Morning @ youtube
- Moaning And Groaning @ youtube
- Crosscut Saw @ youtube
- Slam Hammer (instr) [Arhoolie 45-515] @ youtube

rec. November 11 [22 on back cover], 1965 at Sound Studios in Chicago, IL by Pete Welding; Johnny Young, voc, g, mand; Otis Spann, p; James Cotton, hca; Jimmy Lee Morris, b; S.P. Leary, dr; prod. by Chris Strachwitz
Arhoolie F 1029, etc. cover photo by Pete Welding
Arhoolie CD 325 cover photo by Chris Strachwitz

Arhoolie CD 325 / P-Vine PCD-2504 track sequence:
- Wild, Wild Woman
- Keep Your Nose Out Of My Business
- I'm Having A Ball
- My Trainfare Out Of Town
- I'm Doing All Right
- Stealin'
- Keep On Drinking
- Hot Dog!
- Come Early In The Morning
- Moaning And Groaning
- Cross-Cut Saw
- Slam Hammer
- Strange Girl
- Ring Around My Heart
- Sometimes I Cry
- Don't You Lie To Me
- On The Road Again
- Walter's Boogie
- Stockyard Blues
- Drinking Straight Whiskey

additional tracks on P-Vine PCD-2504:
- Sleeping With The Devil
- Fumbling Around

notes (1966) by Pete Welding Arhoolie Records, P.O. Box 5073, Berkeley 5, Calif.

Arhoolie F 1029 (US 1966)

notes by Pete Welding

= Fontana 688 809 ZL (UK 1967?)

notes by Pete Welding Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Ca. 94709

Arhoolie AR 19023 (Fr 1972)

notes by Pete Welding Arhoolie Records, 10341 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito, CA 94530

Arhoolie F 1029 (US 1987)

notes (1966 & 1968) by Pete Welding

(=) Arhoolie CD 325 (US 1990) (along with most of Arhoolie F 1037)

= P-Vine PCD-24106 (Jp 2002)

(=) P-Vine PCD-2504 (Jp 20??) (along with all of Arhoolie F 1037)

Johnny Young discography
Arhoolie Records discography
Fontana Records discography

22a

9/1966

MUDDY WATERS

- Hootchie Coochie Man [sic] (15035) (Willie Dixon) (2:51) # @ youtube
- Corine, Corina (14866) (Bob Miller) (3:10) * @ youtube

# rec. January 7, 1954 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jimmy Rogers, g; Elga Edmonds, dr
* rec. June 22/23, 1966 at Ter Mar Recording Studios in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; tp; tb; as; Gene Barge, ts; bs; James Cotton, hca; Otis Spann, p; Charles Stepney, org; Sammy Lawhorn, Pee Wee Madison, g; Calvin Jones, b; Willie Smith, dr

Corine, Corina: "from Chess LP 1507"

DJ Copy has title of A-side as "Hootchie Cootchie Man", title of B-side as "Corinna", writer's credit as "Hubert"!

Chess 1973 (US 9/1966)

1967

Raw Blues

Otis Spann
- Pretty Girls Everywhere (DR 33241) ** @ youtube
John Mayall
- Burn Out Your Blind Eyes
Champion Jack Dupree
- Calcutta Blues #
John Mayall & Steve Anglo
- Long Night
Otis Spann
- Country Boy (DR 33242) *
Curtis Jones
- You Got Good Business §
John Mayall & Eric Clapton
- Lonely Years

John Mayall & Peter Green
- Evil Woman Blues
Otis Spann
- My Home In The Desert (DR 33239) * @ youtube
John Mayall
- Milkman Strut
Champion Jack Dupree
- 24 Hours #
Curtis Jones
- Roll Me Over §
John Mayall & Eric Clapton
- Bernard Jenkins
Otis Spann
- You Gonna Need My Help (DR 39340) *** @ youtube

# rec. February 1966 in London, UK; Champion Jack Dupree, voc, p; John Mayall, hca; Eric Clapton, g; Tony McPhee, g; Malcolm Pool, b; Keef Hartley, dr
* rec. May 4, 1964 at Decca No. 2 studio, West Hampstead, London, UK; Otis Spann, voc, *** jangle p; Muddy Waters, g, *** voc; ** Eric Clapton, g; Ransom Knowling, b; Willie Smith, dr; Jimmy Page, hca/g/b (overdubbed)
§ rec. November 27 & 28, 1963 in West Hampstead, UK; Curtis Jones, voc, p; Alexis Korner, g; Jack Fallon, b; Eddie Taylor, dr

notes by Mike Vernon

London PS-543 (US 1967)

notes by Mike Vernon

= Ace Of Clubs ACL/SCL 1220 (UK 1967)

notes by Mike Vernon

= Decca ND 457 (Germany 1967)

quite a few more re-releases at discogs.com

1967

John Lee Hooker Live At Cafe Au Go-Go

- I'm Bad Like Jesse James @ youtube
- She's Long, She's Tall (She Weeps Like A Willow Tree) @ youtube
- When My First Wife Left Me @ youtube
- Heartaches And Misery @ youtube

- One Bourbon, One Scotch One Beer @ youtube
- I Don't Want No Trouble @ youtube
- I'll Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive @ youtube
- Seven Days And Seven Nights @ youtube

CD bonus tracks (Live at Soledad Prison):
- What's The Matter Baby @ youtube
- Lucille @ youtube
- Boogie Everywhere I Go @ youtube
- Serves Me Right To Suffer @ youtube
- Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang @ youtube

LP rec. August 20, 1966 "at the Café Au Go-Go" [actually studio recordings with an audience] in New York City by Rudy Van Gelder; John Lee Hooker, voc, g; Otis Spann, p; Muddy Waters, Sammy Lawhorn, Luther 'Georgia Boy' Johnson, gs; Mac Arnold, b; Francis Clay, dr; though listed on sleeve, George Smith does not appear; prod. by Bob Thiele

notes by Stanley Dance

Bluesway BL-6002 (mono) (US 1967)

Bluesway BLS-6002 (stereo) (US 1967)

= Bluesway/King SR-248 (Jp 1969)

= Mediterraneo-Movieplay TK 3029 (Sp 1976)

notes by Stanley Dance

= Beat Goes On BGOLP/BGOCD 39 (UK 1989)

Bluesway Records discography
Muddy Waters discography
Luther 'Georgia Boy' Johnson discography

etc., etc., etc. @ discogs

3/1967

Otis Spann: The Blues Is Where It's At

- Popcorn Man # @ youtube
- Brand New House # @ youtube
- Chicago Blues # * @ youtube
- Steel Mill Blues (= Five Long Years) @ youtube
- Down On Sarah Street # @ youtube

- T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do # @ youtube
- Nobody Knows Chicago Like I Do (Stanley Dance's subtitle: "Party Blues") # @ youtube
- My Home Is On The Delta [sic] * @ youtube
- Spann Blues # @ youtube

rec. August 30, 1966 "at the Café Au Go-Go" [actually studio recordings with an audience] in New York City, N.Y.; Otis Spann, voc, p; # George Smith, hca [without amplification]; Sammy Lawhorn, Luther 'Georgia Boy' Johnson [except "My Home Is On The Delta"], * Muddy Waters, g; Mac Arnold, b; Francis Clay, dr; prod. by Bob Thiele
photography by Charles Shabacon

notes by Stanley Dance

Bluesway BL-6003 (mono) (US 3/1967)

notes by Stanley Dance

= Bluesway BLS-6003 (stereo) (US 3/1967)

notes by Stanley Dance

Sparton/ABC BL 6003 (mono) (Ca 1967)

notes by Stanley Dance

= Sparton/ABC BLS 6003 (stereo) (Ca 1967)

notes by Stanley Dance

= His Master's Voice CLP 3609 (mono) (UK 1967)

notes by Stanley Dance

= His Master's Voice CSD 3609 (stereo) (UK 1967)

= Stateside SSLM 6042 (New Zealand 1967)

notes by Patrice Blanc-Francard

= Stateside CSSX 240.759 (stereo) (Fr 1968)

notes by Stanley Dance

= Probe IPR-8191 (Jp 1973)

notes by Stanley Dance

= MCA 204 927 (Fr 1982)

notes by Bez Turner

= Charly CRB-1062 (UK 1983) "Nobody Knows Chicago Like I Do"

notes by Stanley Dance

= Crosscut CCR 1016 (Germany 1987)

notes by Wolfgang Quander

= (AMIGA 8 56 566) Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin 0760 063 (LP) (GDR 1990) "Nobody Knows Chicago Like I Do" (Blues Collection Nr. 17)

= Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin/(Amiga) DSB 0460 063 (cassette) (GDR 1990) "Nobody Knows Chicago Like I Do" (Blues Collection Nr. 17)

notes by Stanley Dance

= Beat Goes On BGOCD 221 (UK 1994)

notes by Bill Dahl

(=) MCA MCAD-11202 (US 1995) "Down To Earth - The Bluesway Recordings" (Bluesway 6003 + 6013)

Bluesway Records discography
Muddy Waters discography
George 'Harmonica' Smith discography
Luther 'Georgia Boy' Johnson discography

25a

1/1968

The Super Super Blues Band
Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters & Bo Diddley

- Long Distance Call (16444)
- Ooh Baby & Wrecking My Love Life (16226)
- Sweet Little Angel (16229)

- Spoonful (16227)
- Diddley Daddy (6225)
- The Red Rooster (16224)
- Goin' Down Slow (16228)

rec. September 1967 at Ter Mar Studios, Chicago, IL; Bo Diddley, voc, g; Howlin' Wolf, voc, hca, ac g; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Otis Spann, p; Hubert Sumlin, g; Buddy Guy, b; Frank Kirkland, dr; Coockie Vee, voc, tamb

Charly BM 26 track sequence:
- Long Distance Call
- Goin' Down Slow
- You Don't Love Me
- I'm a Man
- Who Do You Love
- The Red Rooster
- Diddley Daddy
- I Just Want to Make Love to You

notes by Richard Meltzer

Checker LP 3010 (US mono)

notes by Richard Meltzer

Checker LPS 3010 (US stereo)

= Chess CRLS 4537 (UK 1968)

= Chess/Funckler MAR-S 3218 (NL 196?)

notes by Richard Meltzer

= Chess CH-9169 (US 1984)

(=) Charly BM 26 (UK 1993) "Charly Blues Masterworks Vol. 26"

1968

The Bluesmen of the Muddy Waters Chicago Blues Band Volume 2
with Otis Spann, Lucille Spann, Luther Johnson, Sammy Lawhorn, Little Sonny Wimberley, S.P. Leary, Paul Oscher, Pee Wee Madison, Willie Smith
They Done It Again!

@ youtube (full album playlist)

- Blues Trot (instr) # (3:35) # (Otis Spann, p) @ youtube
- Diving Mama (2:45) * (Otis Spann & Victoria Spivey, voc) @ youtube
- Been Hurt (3:20) # (Luther Johnson, voc) @ youtube
- Last Night (6:05) * (Pee Wee Madison, voc) @ youtube
- Blues For Spivey (instr) (5:40) # (Otis Spann, p) @ youtube

- Wonder Why (2:40) ## (Lucille & Otis Spann, voc) # @ youtube
- Funky Broadway (4:15) (Little Sonny Wimberly, voc) @ youtube
- Mother and Son (10:05) * (Otis Spann & Victoria Spivey, voc) @ youtube
- How Much More (3:25) * (Sammy Lawhorn, voc) @ youtube
- She's My Baby (2:35) # (Otis Spann, voc, p) @ youtube

P-Vine CD bonus tracks:
- Yes Sir! Boss (Muddy Waters Blues Men) [Spivey 1009, rec. November 25, 1966]
- Take Webster's Word For It (alt tk) (Victoria Spivey & Muddy Waters Blues Men) [Spivey 1026, rec. November 25, 1966]
- I'm A Bad Boy (Otis Spann) [Spivey 1013, rec. April 1969]
- Going Back Home (Otis Spann) [Spivey 1013, rec. April 1969]

# rec. 1967 in New York, NY; Otis Spann, voc, org, p; ## Lucille Spann, voc; Luther Johnson, g; Sammy Lawhorn, g; Little Sonny Wimberly, b; S.P. Leary, dr
* rec. 1968 in New York, NY; Otis Spann, voc, org, p; Victoria Spivey, voc; Paul Oscher, hca; Luther Johnson, g; Sammy Lawhorn, g; James 'Pee Wee' Madison, b; Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith, dr

front cover photos (top to bottom): Otis and Lucille Spann (Dennis Chalkin), Willie Smith and James Madison (Pete Lowry), Sammy Lawhorn (Len Kunstadt), Lawrence Wimberly (Pete Lowry), Victoria Spivey (Len Kunstadt), ~~Willie Smith~~ James Madison and Paul Oscher (Pete Lowry), Luther Johnson (Pete Lowry)

notes by Len Kunstadt

Spivey 1010 (US 1968)

notes by Len Kunstadt

Spivey 1010 (US 196?)

= P-Vine PCD-93209 (Jp 2009)

Spivey Records discography
Lucille Spann discography

1968

Otis Spann: The Bottom Of The Blues

@ youtube (full album playlist)

- Heart Loaded With Trouble
- Diving Duck
- Shimmy Baby #
- Look Like Twins *
- I'm A Fool #

- My Man # @ youtube
- Down To Earth #
- Nobody Knows
- Doctor Blues

rec. November 20, 1967 in New York City; Otis Spann, voc, p; # Lucille Spann, voc; * Muddy Waters, Luther Johnson, Sam Lawhorn, g; George Buford, hca; Sonny Wimberley, b; S.P. Leary, dr; prod. by Bob Thiele
photographer: Dennis Chalkin

notes by Sheldon Harris

Bluesway BLS 6013 stereo (US 1968) / (US 1970s repress)

notes by Sheldon Harris

= EMI Stateside SL 10255 mono / SSL 10255 stereo (UK 1968)

notes by Sheldon Harris

= Philips 843533 BY stereo (Germany 1968)

notes by Sheldon Harris

= Beat Goes On BGOLP 92 stereo (UK 1990)
= Beat Goes On BGOCD 92 (UK 1990)

(=) MCA 11202 (US 1995)

Bluesway Records discography
Lucille Spann discography
Luther 'Georgia Boy' Johnson discography
Mojo Buford discography
Muddy Waters discography

etc., etc., etc. @ discogs.com

9/1968

Otis Spann

- Can't Do Me No Good (SBH 10264) @ youtube
- Bloody Murder (SBH 10265) # @ youtube

rec. June 10, 1968 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, voc, p; Walter Horton, hca; Johnny Shines, g; Willie Dixon, b; Clifton James, dr

Blue Horizon 57-3142

# Excello 2329

Blue Horizon Records discography

- Chains Of Love

rec. September 26, 1968 in Los Angeles, Ca.; Lucille Spann, voc; Shakey Jake, hca; Otis Spann, p; Luther Allison, g; Robert "Big Mojo" Elem, b; Francis Clay, dr

World Pacific unissued

Capitol CD 36288 (1997)

- Love With A Feelin' @ youtube

rec. October 2, 1968 in Los Angeles, Ca.; Lucille Spann, voc; Otis Spann, p~~; George 'Harmonica' Smith. hca~~; Muddy Waters, Luther Allison, g; Lawrence "Little Sonny" Wimberley, b; S.P. Leary, dr

World Pacific unissued

Capitol CD 36288 (1997)

1968

Saint Louis Jimmy / Lucille & Otis Spann

Saint Louis Jimmy With Jimmy Odens Blues Soul Stirrers
- Going Down Slow *

Lucille & Otis Spann
- Night Time Is The Right Time #

* rec. Chicago; St. Louis Jimmy, voc; Little Brother Montgomery, p; b; dr

# rec. c.1968 in Chicago. Ill.; Otis Spann, voc, el-p; Lucille Spann, voc; Muddy Waters, Luther Allison, g; Lawrence "Little Sonny" Wimberley, b; S.P. Leary, dr

Ebony 1000
(prob. not issued)

1968

Johnny Shines: Last Night's Dream

- Solid Gold
- From Dark 'Til Dawn
- I Will Be Kind To You
- Last Night's Dream
- Baby Don't You Think I Know

- Pipeline Blues
- I Don't Know
- Black Panther
- I Had A Good Home
- Mean Fisherman

rec. and engineered June 10, 1968 [Blue Horizon BM 4607 says 'May 1968] by Malcolm Chrisholm at the Chess Records Ter-Mar studios in Chicago, Ill.; prod. by Mike Vernon; cover by Terence Ibbott; Johnny Shines, voc, g; Big Walter Horton, hca; Otis Spann, p; Willie Dixon, p; Clifton James, dr

notes by Mike Rowe

Blue Horizon 63212 (UK 1968)

= Blue Horizon BM 4607 "Blues Masters Vol. 7"

Sire/Warner Bros. CD 45285-2 (US 1993)

= Pure Pleasure Records APPR 63212 (180 gram vinyl)

EPIC 88697192172 (2008)

Blue Horizon Records discography
Johnny Shines discography

1968

Johnny Young: Blues Masters Vol. 9 / Fat Mandolin

Blue Horizon BM 4609 / Blue Horizon 7-63852 track sequence:
- Moaning And Groaning
- Heard My Doorbell Ring
- My Trainfare Out Of Town
- Lula Mae
- Jackson Bound
- Walking Slow

- Deal The Cards
- Lend Me Your Love
- Lorraine
- Prison Bound
- Little Girl
- Mean Black Snake

Sony/Blue Horizon CD track sequence:
- Moaning And Groaning
- Heard My Doorbell Ring
- My Trainfare Out Of Town
- Lula Mae
- Jackson Bound [tk 1: false start/previously unreleased plus tk 2: master version/remix]
- Walking Slow [master version/remix]
- Deal The Cards [tk 1: previously unreleased]
- Deal The Cards [tk 2: false start/previously unreleased plus tk 3: master version/remix]
- Lend Me Your Love [tks 1, 2 & 3: false starts/previously unreleased plus tk 4: master version/remix]
- Lorraine
- Prison Bound [tks 1 & 2: false starts/previously unreleased plus tk 3: master version/remix]
- Little Girl
- Mean Black Snake [master version/remix]
- Stealin' [previously unreleased]
- Go Ahead On (With That Funky Broadway Sound) [tk 1: false start plus tk 2/previously unreleased]
- Johnny's Mess Around [previously unreleased]

rec. April 6, 1969 at the O.D.O. Studios in New York City; Johnny Young, voc, g, mand; Paul Osher, hca; Otis Spann, p; Sammy Lawhorn, g, b; S.P. Leary, dr. prod. by Bart Friedman and Otis Spann

sleeve design of Blue Horizon 7-63852 ("Fat Mandolin") by Terence Ibbott

notes by Top Topham

Blue Horizon BM 4609 (US 1969) "Blues Masters Vol. 9"

notes by Top Topham

Blue Horizon 7-63852 (UK 1970) "Fat Mandolin"

notes by Michael Vernon

(=) Sony/BMG 88697079152 (UK 2007 / US 2008) "The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions"
[on the UK release half the tracks were remixed a half-step too slow !!!]

Blue Horizon Records discography
Johnny Young discography

1969

Otis Spann: The Biggest Thing Since Colossus

@ youtube (full album)

- My Love Depends On You
- Walkin' [Blue Horizon 57-3155, BH 304]
- It Was A Big Thing
- Temperature Is Rising (100.2° F)
- Dig You

- No More Doggin' (Rosco Gordon)
- Ain't Nobody's Business (Jimmy Witherspoon)
- She Needs Some Loving
- I Need Some Air
- Someday Baby

rec. January 9, 1969 at Tempo Sound Studios in New York City, U.S.; Otis Spann, voc, p; Peter Green, g; Danny Kirwan, g; John McVie, b; S.P. Leary, dr; prod. by Mike Vernon
sleeve design / photography by Terence Ibbott

Blue Horizon 7-63217 (UK 1969)

= Blue Horizon BH 4802 (US 1969)
= Blue Horizon ST-93328

notes by Mike Vernon

= Blue Horizon/Columbia CD COL 475972-2

Blue Horizon Records discography

1969

Fleetwood Mac: Blues Jam At Chess / In Chicago

- Watch Out
- Ooh Baby
- South Indiana - take 1 (instr)
- South Indiana - take 2 (instr)
- Last Night
- Red Hot Jam (instr) # @ youtube

- Worlds In A Tangle * @ youtube
- Talk With You * @ youtube
- Like It This Way * @ youtube
- Someday Soon Baby ** (Otis Spann, voc) @ youtube
- Hungry Country Girl ** (Otis Spann, voc) @ youtube

- I'm Worried
- I Held My Baby Last Night
- Madison Blues
- I Can't Hold Out
- I Need Your Love (tk 2) * (Walter Horton, voc) @ youtube
- I Got The Blues * (Walter Horton, voc) @ youtube

- Black Jack Blues # (J.T. Brown, voc) @ youtube
- Everyday I Have The Blues
- Rockin' Boogie (instr) # @ youtube
- Sugar Mama * @ youtube
- Homework * @ youtube

CD bonus tracks:
- Drifting
- Fleetwood Mac

2004 expanded edition, Volume One:
- Watch Out
- Ooh Baby
- South Indiana (tk 1)
- South Indiana (tk 2)
- Last Night
- Red Hot Jam (tk 1) (instr) # [bonus track] @ youtube
- Red Hot Jam (instr) #
- I'm Worried
- I Held My Baby Last Night
- Madison Blues
- I Can't Hold Out
- Bobby's Rock (instr) [bonus track]
- I Need Your Love (tk 2) *
- Horton's Boogie Woogie (tk 1) * [bonus track] @ youtube
- I Got The Blues *

2004 expanded edition, Volume Two:
- World's In A Tangle *
- Talk With You *
- Like It This Way *
- Someday Soon Baby ** (Otis Spann, voc)
- Hungry Country Girl ** (Otis Spann, voc)
- Black Jack Blues #
- Every Day I Have The Blues # @ youtube
- Rockin' Boogie # @ youtube
- My Baby's Gone (Honeyboy Edwards, voc) # @ youtube
- Sugar Mama (tk 1) * [bonus track] @ youtube
- Sugar Mama *
- Homework *
- Honey Boy Blues (instr) # [bonus track] @ youtube
- I Need Your Love (tk 1) * [bonus track] @ youtube
- Horton's Boogie Woogie (tk 2) (Walter Horton, voc) * [bonus track] @ youtube
- Have A Good Time (Walter Horton, voc) * [bonus track] @ youtube
- That's Wrong (Walter Horton, voc) * [bonus track] @ youtube
- Rock Me Baby (Walter Horton, voc) * [bonus track] @ youtube

rec. January 4, 1969 at Chess Ter Mar Studios, 320 E. 21st St. in Chicago, IL
# with David 'Honeyboy' Edwards, g
with Otis Spann, * p, ** voc, p

prod. by Mike Vernon and Marshall Chess
session photographs by Jeff Lowenthal

gatefold DLP

Blue Horizon 7-66227 (= Blue Horizon 7-63219/20) (UK 1969) "Blues Jam at Chess"

2 LPs

= Blue Horizon BH 4803 / BH 4805 (US 1970) "Blues Jam in Chicago" Volumes One & Two

gatefold DLP
= Blue Horizon BH 3801 (US 1971) "Blues Jam in Chicago" Volumes One & Two

gatefold DLP

= Sire SASH-3715-2 (US 1975) "Fleetwood Mac In Chicago"

gatefold DLP

= Epic EPC 88591 (US 1982) "Blues Jam In Chicago"

(=) Blue Horizon Remastered 5164462 (EU 7/2004) "Blues Jam In Chicago" Volume One
(=) Blue Horizon Remastered 90004-2 (US 7/2004) "Blues Jam In Chicago" Volume One

(=) Blue Horizon Remastered 5164472 (EU 7/2004) "Blues Jam In Chicago" Volume Two
(=) Blue Horizon Remastered 90005-2 (US 7/2004) "Blues Jam In Chicago" Volume Two

Blue Horizon Records discography
Honeyboy Edwards discography
Walter Horton discography

a whole bunch of re-releases at www.discogs.com

33a

7/1969

Otis Spann with Fleetwood Mac

- Walkin' (SBH 10504-2) # [Blue Horizon 7-63217, BH 4802, 57-3155] @ youtube
- Temperature Is Rising (98.8 Degrees F) (SBH 10512) [alt tk, not Blue Horizon 7-63217, BH 4802 version!] @ youtube

rec. January 9, 1969 at Tempo Sound Studios in New York City, U.S.; Otis Spann, voc, p; Peter Green, g; Danny Kirwan, g; John McVie, b; S.P. Leary, dr; prod. by Mike Vernon

Blue Horizon 57-3155 (UK 7/1969) "2:50" resp. no timing on A-side label, "5:15" resp. "5:13" on B-side label; "A" = promo version

Blue Horizon 57-3155 (NL 1969)

Blue Horizon 573155 (Germany 1969)

# Blue Horizon BH 304

Blue Horizon Records discography

1969

T-Bone Walker / Joe Turner / Otis Spann: Super Black Blues

- Paris Blues #
- Here Am I Broken Hearted

- Jot's Blues
- Blues Jam #

rec. October 17, 1969 prob. Los Angeles; Joe Turner, voc, T-Bone Walker, voc, g; Otis Spann, voc, p; # George Smith, hca; Ron Brown, b; Arthur Wright, g; Ernie Watts, ts; Paul Humphrey, dr; prod. by Bob Thiele

notes by Stanley Dance

BluesTime BTS 9003 (US 1969)

= Philips 6369416 (UK 1969)

notes by Stanley Dance

= RCA Victor Europe / BMG 74321851642 (Fr 2006)

1969

The Everlasting Blues vs. Otis Spann
with Otis Spann, Johnny Young, Luther Johnson, Peter Malick, SP Leary

- I'm A Bad Boy
- You're Going To Miss Me When I'm Gone
- Let Me Ride Your Mule #
- Number 12 And 10 Train #

- You Know You Don't Love Me Baby
- Why Don't You Leave Me Alone
- Where Is My Wife?
- Going Back Home

# rec. April 1969 in New York City; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Otis Spann, p; S.P. Leary, dr

notes by Len Kunstadt

Spivey 1013

Spivey Records discography

1969

OTIS SPANN And His Chicago Blues Band

- Got My Mojo Working
- Moon Blues

from BluesTime BTS 9006

BluesTime 45003

1969

In Our Own Way - Oldies But Goodies

Chicken Shack
- Hey Baby
Duster Bennett
- Raining In My Heart
Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation
- Cobwebs
Champion Jack Dupree
- I Haven't Done No-One No Harm
Otis Spann
- Bloody Murder [Blue Horizon 57-3142]
Chicken Shack
- Its Ok With Me Baby
Guitar Crusher
- Hambone Blues

Bobby Parker
- It's Hard But Its Fair
Otis Spann
- Can't Do Me No Good [Blue Horizon 57-3142]
Chicken Shack
- When My Left Eye Jumps
Champion Jack Dupree
- Ba' La Fouche
Bobby Parker
- I Couldn't Quit My Baby
Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation
- Warning
Garfield Love
- Part Time Love

Blue Horizon PR-37

Blue Horizon Records discography

1969

Otis Spann: Cracked Spanner Head

- Crack Your Head @ youtube
- Iced Nehi
- Wagon Wheel
- No Sense In Worrying
- Dollar Twenty-Five

- Everything's Gonna Be Alright
- Lucky So And So
- Sometimes I Wonder
- Mr. Highway Man
- What Will Become Of Me

outtakes from Decca LK.4615, recorded in 1964 and adorned with overdubs in 1969; prod. by Mike Vernon

Deram SML 1036 (UK 1969)

1969

Johnny Shines with Big Walter Horton
Electrifying Performances By Two Masters Of Modern Chicago Blues, With Luther Allison

- Hello Central * @ youtube
- You Don't Have To Go # @ youtube
- Sneakin' And Hidin' * @ youtube
- 'Til I Made My Tonsils Sore # @ youtube
- Fat Mama * @ youtube

- Worried Life Blues # @ youtube
- I Cry, I Cry * @ youtube
- If It Ain't Me * [] @ youtube
- I Want To Warn You, Baby # @ youtube
- G.B. Blues # @ youtube

Testament TCD-5015 bonus tracks:
- I Cry, I Cry (alt tk) * @ youtube
- Sneakin' And Hidin' Part 2 * @ youtube

Floating World 2CD track sequence:
CD 1:
- Hello Central *
- You Don't Have To Go #
- Sneakin' And Hidin' *
- 'Til I Made My Tonsils Sore #
- Fat Mama *
- G.B. Blues #
- Worried Life Blues #
- I Cry, I Cry *
- If It Ain't Me * []
- I Want To Warn You, Baby #
- I Cry, I Cry (alt tk) *
- Sneakin' And Hidin' Part 2 *

CD 2:
- Standing At The Crossroads
- Milk Cow's Troubles
- Death Hearse Blues
- Drunken Man's Prayer
- Hoo Doo Snake Doctor's Blues
- It's A Lowdown Dirty Shame
- How Long
- Crying Black Angel
- Down In Spirit
- Your Troubles Can't Be Like Mine
- Kind-Hearted Woman
- Baby Sister Blues
- My Rat
- Don't Take A Country Woman
- Kind-Hearted Woman
- Death Hearse Blues

# rec. June 1966 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Shines, voc, g; Big Walter Horton, hca; Otis Spann, p; Lee Jackson, b; Fred Below, dr
* rec. January 1969 in Los Angeles, LA; Johnny Shines, voc, g; Big Walter Horton, hca, [] voc; Luther Allison, g; Prince Candy, b; Bill Brown, dr
cover illustration by Warren Hughey; back liner photo by Brad Barrett

notes by Pete Welding

Testament T-2217 (US 1969)
BU 66 (October 1969), p. 29
BW 26 (January 1970), p. 15/16

= Testament T-2217 (Special Re-Release by OJL) (US 19??)

(=) Testament TCD-5015 (USA 1994)
= P-Vine PCD-5586 (Jp)

two CD set

= Floating World 2816717 (UK 2013) along with "Standing At The Crossroads"

Testament Records discography
Johnny Shines discography
Walter Horton discography
Lee Jackson discography

1969

Goin' To Chicago

Sam Lay Blues Band @ youtube (all three tracks)
- Tell Me, Mama *
- Walking By Myself *
- I Can't Be Satisfied *
Billy Boy Arnold Band
- I Left My Happy Home # [Testament TCD-5018] @ youtube
- Billy Boy's Jump # [Testament TCD-5018] @ youtube
- Crying And Pleading # [Testament TCD-5018] @ youtube

J.B. Hutto & The Hawks
- Wild, Wild Woman § [Testament TCD-5020] @ youtube
- Bluebird § [Testament TCD-5020] @ youtube
Floyd Jones - Eddie Taylor Band
- Playhouse Blues || [Testament TCD-5001] @ youtube
- I Feel So Bad || [Testament TCD-5001] @ youtube
- Sweet Talkin' Woman || [Testament TCD-5001] @ youtube

* rec. June 1966 in Chicago, IL; Sam Lay, voc; Jeff Carp, hca; Boots Hamilton, p; Paul Asbell, g; Chester 'Geno' Skaggs, b; Billy Davenport, dr
# rec. June 1966 in Chicago, IL; Billy Boy Arnold, voc, hca; Mighty Joe Young, Ted Mosley or Jody Williams, g; Jerome Arnold, b; Clifton James or Reynolds Howard, dr
§ rec. June 1966 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Hutto, voc, g; Walter Horton, hca; Johnny Young, g; Lee Jackson, b; Fred Below, dr
|| rec. 1966 in Chicago, IL; Floyd Jones, voc, g; Walter Horton, hca; Otis Spann, p; Eddie Taylor, b-g; Fred Below, dr
cover photo by Curt Burkhardt; back liner photo by Raeburn Flerlage

Testament T-2218 (US 1969)

= Testament T-2218 (Special Re-Release by OJL) (US 19??)

Testament Records discography

1969

The Story Of The Blues

Fra-Fra Tribesmen
- Yarum Praise Songs
Mississippi John Hurt
- Stack O' Lee Blues
Blind Willie McTell
- Travelin' Blues
Charley Patton
- Stone Pony Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Black Snake Moan
Leadbelly
- Pig Meat Papa
Texas Alexander
- Broken Yo-yo
Peg Leg Howell
- Broke And Hungry Blues
Barbecue Bob
- It Won't Be Long Now
Henry Williams
- Georgia Crawl
Mississippi Jook Band
- Dangerous Woman
Memphis Jug Band
- Gator Wobble
Bessie Smith
- In The House Blues
Lillian Glinn
- Shake It Down
Bertha 'Chippie' Hill
- Pratt City Blues
Butterbeans And Susie
- What It Takes To Bring You Back (Mama Keeps It All The Time)

Leroy Carr
- Midnight Hour Blues
Faber Smith
- East St Louis Blues
Peetie Wheatstraw
- Good Whiskey Blues
Casey Bill
- W.P.A. Blues
Bo Carter
- Sorry Feeling Blues
Robert Johnson
- Little Queen Of Spades
Bukka White
- Parchman Farm Blues
Memphis Minnie
- Me And My Chauffeur Blues

Blind Boy Fuller
- I Want Some Of Your Pie
Brownie McGhee
- Million Lonesome Woman
Joe Williams
- Wild Cow Moan
Big Bill Broonzy
- All By Myself
Joe Turner
- Roll 'Em Pete
Otis Spann
- Bloody Murder
Elmore James
- Sunnyland
Johnny Shines
- I Don't Know

compiled by Paul Oliver

DLP

CBS 22135

197?

Raw Blues Now

Otis Spann - Pretty Girls Everywhere [Decca LK 4681]
John Mayall - Burn Out Your Blind Eyes
Champion Jack Dupree - Calcutta Blues
John Mayall & Steve Anglo - Long Night
Otis Spann - Country Boy [Ace of Clubs 1220]
Curtis Jones - You Got Good Business
John Mayall & Eric Clapton - Lonely Years

Peter Green & John Mayall - Evil Woman Blues
Otis Spann - My Home In The Desert [Ace of Clubs 1220]
John Mayall - Milkman Strut
Champion Jack Dupree - 24 Hours Of Fear
Curtis Jones - Roll Me Over
John Mayall & Eric Clapton - Bernard Jenkins
Otis Spann - You Gonna Need My Help [Ace of Clubs 1220]

Savoy Brown Blues Band - Little Girl
Eddie Boyd - Vacation From The Blues
Savoy Brown Blues Band - Shake 'Em On Down
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Double Trouble
Eddie Boyd - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
Savoy Brown Blues Band - I Smell Trouble

Eddie Boyd - Too Bad Part 1 / Too Bad Part 2
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Jenny
Savoy Brown Blues Band - The Doormouse Rides The Rails
Amen Corner - Gin House Blues
Eddie Boyd - Letter Missin' Blues
Savoy Brown Blues Band - Black Night

2 LP boxset

(=) Decca XNU 375 013 (NL 197?) "Raw Blues Now"

1970

The Best Of The Chicago Blues

Jimmy Cotton - Love Me Or Leave Me
Jimmy Cotton - Next Time You See Me
Junior Wells - Vietcong Blues
Otis Spann - Spann's Stomp
Buddy Guy - One Room Country Shack
J.B. Hutto - That's The Truth

Homesick James - Somebody Been Talkin' [Vanguard VRS 9217]
Buddy Guy - I Had A Dream Last Night
Junior Wells - When My Baby Left Me
Otis Spann - Twisted Snake
Buddy Guy - Sweet Little Angel
Jimmy Cotton - Rocket 88

Otis Spann - Mule Kicking In My Stall
Jimmy Cotton - The Blues Keep Falling
Big Walter Horton - Rockin' My Boogie
Otis Spann - Blues Is A Botheration
Otis Spann - S.P. Blues
Junior Wells - Five Long Years

Junior Wells - Checking On My Baby
Otis Spann - Some Day
Buddy Guy - Money (That's What I Want)
Johnny Young - Stealin' Back
Junior Wells - Tobacco Road

DLP

Vanguard VSD-1/2

(=) Vanguard VMS-73125 (US 1986) "The Best Of The Chicago Blues Vol. 1"

1970

Otis Spann: Sweet Giant of the Blues

- Got My Mojo Working
- Sellin' My Thing
- Moon Blues
- I'm A Dues Payin' Man

- I Wonder Why
- Bird In A Cage
- Hey Baby
- Make A Way

front cover photo by Irv Glaser
back cover photo by Charles "Chuck" Stewart

notes by Sheldon Harris

BluesTime BT 29006 (mono)
BluesTime BTS 9006 (stereo) (US 1970)

= Ace CDCHM 1395 (UK 2014)

1970

Blues Special

The Graham Bond Organisation
- Hoochie Cooche Man
- Strut Around
- Hi Heel Sneakers
- Wade in the Water
- Little Girl
- Long Legged Baby

Otis Spann with Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters
- Stirs Me Up
Ronnie Jones and The Nighttimers
- I Need Your Loving
Curtis Jones with Alexis Korner
- Shake It Baby
Mae Mercer
- Sweet Little Angel
Champion Jack Dupree with Keith Smith
- All Right [Decca DFE 8586, Decca LK 4681]
- I'm A Prisoner [Decca LK 4681]

The Graham Bond Organisation: Graham Bond, Dick Heckstall Smith, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker

King/London SLC-295 (Jp)

1970

How Blue Can We Get?

Volume I: White
Fleetwood Mac - Watch Out
Jellybread - Don't Pay Them No Mind
Top Topham - Mini-Minor-Mo
Duster Bennett - What A Dream
Bacon Fat - Boom, Boom (Out Goes The Lights)
Chicken Shack - Evelyn

Christine Perfect - And That's Saying A Lot
Bacon Fat - Small's On 53rd
Fleetwood Mac - I'm Worried
Chicken Shack - The Way It Is
Jellybread - No Brag, Just Facts (parts 1 and 2)
Fleetwood Mac - Rambling Pony

Volume II: Black
Elmore James - Hand In Hand
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - That's Alright
Magic Sam - All Your Love
Larry Johnson - Catfish Blues
Otis Spann - My Love Depends On You
Furry Lewis - Casey Jones
Champion Jack Dupree - Grandma (You're A Bit Too Slow)

George Smith - No Time For Jive
Johnny Young - Deal The Cards
Roosevelt Holts - Little Bitty Woman
Bukka White - Bed Spring Blues
Mississippi Joe Callicott - On My Last Go Round
Otis Rush - Jump Sister Bessie

DLP

Blue Horizon PR 45/46 (UK 1970)

DLP

= Blue Horizon SPR 45/46 (NL 1970)

Blue Horizon Records discography

1970

Otis Spann: Cryin' Time

- Home To Mississippi
- Blues Is A Botheration
- You Said You'd Be On Time
- Cryin' Time
- Blind Man # @ youtube

- Some Day # @ youtube
- Twisted Snake
- Green Flowers
- The New Boogaloo
- Mule Kicking In My Stall

CD bonus tracks:
- Blues Jam
- He's Got The Whole World In His Hands #
- My God

rec. March 7, 20 & 21, 1968 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, voc, p, org; Barry Melton, g; Luther 'Georgis Boy' Johnson, g; Jos Davidson, b; Lonnie Taylor, dr; # Lucille Spann, voc

notes by Otis Spann

Vanguard VSD 6514

= Vanguard KICP-2510 (Jp)

(=) Vanguard CD 79537 (US 1999) "The Best of the Vanguard Years"

1970

Blue Rocks

- Got My Mojo Working - Otis Spann
- Everyday I Have the Blues - T-Bone Walker
- Alimony Blues - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
- Corrine, Corrina - Joe Turner / B.B. King / T-Bone Walker
- For B.B. King - T-Bone Walker
- Cleanhead Blues - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson

- Juice Head Baby - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
- Shake, Rattle and Roll - Joe Turner
- Moon Blues - Otis Spann
- Shake It Baby - T-Bone Walker
- How Long, How Long Blues - Joe Turner
- I Wonder Why - Otis Spann

BluesTime BTS 9010 / BT 29010

= RCA SF 8427 (UK 1973)

- Country Girl *
- Get On Down To The Nitty Gritty # *
- Long Distance Call # *
- I Got My Mojo Working # *
- Chains Of Love *
- Stomp With Spann *
- My Baby (Sweet As An Apple) § *
- I Wonder Why *
- My Man *
- Since I Fell For You
- Stormy Monday

rec. April 2-4, 1970 in Boston; Otis Spann, p; Lucille Spann, voc; Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, # g + voc, § g; Peter Malick, g; Ted Parkins, b; Richard Ponte, dr; prod by Peter Malick

unissued

* Mr. Cat Music MCAT 1014 (US 2000)

48a

1970

Junior Wells with Buddy Guy & Otis Spann: Southside Blues Jam

- Stop Breaking Down
- I Could Have Had Religion #
- Just Make Love To Me #
- Lend Me Your Love

- Long Distance Call
- Blues For Mayor Daley
- In My Younger Days #
- Trouble Don't Last Alaways

Delmark DE-628 (2012) bonus tracks:
- It's Too Late Brother
- Warmin' Up
- Love Me Baby
- I Could Have Had Religion (alt tk)
- Rock Me
- Lexington Movies
- Got To Play The Blues

rec. December 30, 1969 and January 8, 1970 in Chicago, IL; Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Buddy Guy, g (except #); # Louis Myers, g; Earnest Johnson, b; Fred Below, dr
front cover photo by Greg Roberts [aka Bob Koester], back cover photos by Ray Flerlage (top left), Zbigniew Jastrzebski (top right) & Greg Roberts (bottom)

notes by The Delmark Staff "7 West Grand - Chicago 60610" "4243 N. Lincoln - Chicago, Ill." (on labels) "4121 N. Rockwell - Chicago, IL 60618" (on labels)

Delmark DS-628 (US 1970) // (US 197? ff.)

notes by Jacques Jerome

= Delmark 900 204 (Fr 1970)

notes by The Delmark Staff "distributed by Talent Record Co Ltd."

Delmark DS-628 (UK 1971)

= BYG 529 510 (Fr 1971) // (Fr 19??) "Pop Blues Vol. 10"

notes (English & German) by Wolfgang Behr

= Fontana 6434 905 (Germany 1971) (The Blues Collection #3)

notes by Toyo Nakamura

Trio PA-3020 (Jp 1974)

= P-Vine PLP-366 (Jp 1988)

= Delmark DD-628 (US 1992)
= Delmark DC-628 (cassette) (US 1992)

= P-Vine PCD-5278 (Jp 1997)

= Delmark LP DS-628 (US 2010)

= Delmark CD DE-628 (US 2012)

notes by Michael Cuscuna
= Delmark CD DE-628 (US 2014)

Delmark Records discography
Junior Wells discography

48b

1971

OTIS SPANN

- The Bible Don't Lie #
- Los Angeles Midnight Groove (instr) *

rec. 1964 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, p, # voc; J.T. Brown, # cl, * ts; g; b; dr

J.O.B. 1110

48c

1971

OTIS SPANN

- T-99 (A) # @ youtube
- Love (B) (instr) * @ youtube

unissued tracks from same session:
- I'm A Lonely Man
- Somebody Is Knocking At Your Door

rec. 1964 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, p, # voc; J.T. Brown, * cl; g; b; dr

J.O.B. 1111

1971

Nothing But The Blues
The record companion to Hanover Publications' book "Nothing But The Blues" compiled by the Editors of Blues Unlimited

LP 1:
J.B. Lenoir - I Don't Care What Nobody Say [Blue Horizon 1004]
Juke Boy Bonner - Runnin' Shoes [Blues Unlimited 101]
Doctor Ross - Goin' Down Slow [Blue Horizon LP-1]
Model 'T' Slim - Woman's The Glory Of Man [Audio Blues AB-1933-A]
Little Mack Simmons - Come Back [C.-J. 606]
Johnny Shines - Pipeline Blues [Blue Horizon 7-63212]

Boozoo Chavis - Forty One Days [Folk Star 1201]
Hop Wilson - That Wouldn't Satisfy [Goldband G-1071]
Big Walter - My Tears [Flyright LP 4700]
Lonesome Sundown - I Stood By [Excello 2145]
Arthur Gunter - Don't Leave Me Now [Excello 2147]
Rockin' Sydney - Keep On Pushin' [previously unissued]

LP 2:
B.B. King - Eyesight To The Blind [Kent 441]
Otis Rush - All Your Love (I Miss Loving) [Cobra 5032]
Buddy Guy - Sit And Cry (The Blues) [Artistic 1501]
John Brim - Lifetime Baby [previously unissued]
Elmore James - Goin' For Good [previously unissued]
Magic Sam - All Night Long [Cobra 5025]

Lightnin' Slim - Greyhound Blues [Excello 2252]
Slim Harpo - Loving You (The Way I Do) [Excello 2282]
Otis Spann - Can't Do Me No Good [Blue Horizon 57-3142]
Sunnyland Slim - Midnight Jump [Blue Horizon 7-63213]
Johnny Young - Moaning And Groaning [Blue Horizon 7-63852]
George Smith - Telephone Blues [Blue Horizon7-63858]

compiled by Mike Leadbitter & Mike Vernon

2 LP set
notes by Mike Leadbitter

CBS 66278 (UK 1971)

DLP accompanying the book by the same title:

Mike Leadbitter (ed.): Nothing But The Blues.- London / New York (Hanover Books / Oak Publications) 1971

1971

Otis Spann: I Was Raised In Mississippi

Fontana 6434 904 track sequence:
- Beat-Up Team (5:57)
- My Daily Wish (4:22) #
- Great Northern Stomp (4:13)
- Rambling On My Mind (4:00) #
- Worried Life Blues (4:18)

- The Hard Way (5:05)
- Take A Little Walk With Me (3:27) #
- Otis In The Dark (4:36)
- Little Boy Blue (3:41) #
- Country Boy (4:28)

BYG 529512 track sequence:
- Got Me A Beat-Up Team
- Get You Off My Mind (= "My Daily Wish") #
- Spann's Boogie (= "Great Northern Stomp")
- Rambling On My Mind #
- Worried Life Blues

- I Grew Up The Hard Way
- Take A Walk With Me #
- Otis Alone (= "Otis In The Dark")
- Come Blow Your Horn (= "Little Boy Blue") #
- I'm Just A Country Boy

all tracks first released on Candid 8001/9001
rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; Otis Spann, voc, p; Robert Lockwood, g, # voc; originally engineered by George Piros; originally prod. by Nat Hentoff

notes (English/German) by Wolfgang Behr

Fontana 6434 904 (Germany 1971) "I Was Raised In Mississippi" (The Blues Collection series)

= BYG 529512 (Fr 1971) "I Was Raised In Mississippi" ("Pop Blues Vol. 12")

Robert Lockwood discography

12/1971

OTIS SPANN WITH FLEETWOOD MAC
- Hungry Country Girl [Blue Horizon 7-66227, BH 3801]
OTIS SPANN
- Walkin' [Blue Horizon 7-63217, BH 4802, 57-3155]

# rec. January 9, 1969 at Tempo Sound Studios in New York City, U.S.; Otis Spann, voc, p; Peter Green, g; Danny Kirwan, g; John McVie, b; S.P. Leary, dr; prod. by Mike Vernon

Blue Horizon BH 304 (US 12/1971)

Blue Horizon Records discography

1972

OTIS SPANN

- Bloody Murder [Blue Horizon 57-3142]
- Blues For Hippies (SBH-10506) # @ youtube

# rec. January 9, 1969 in New York, NY; Otis Spann, voc, p; Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, g; John McVie, b; S.P. Leary, dr

Excello EX 2329 (US 1972)

1972

Blues Piano Orgy

Speckled Red
- Blues Hurt My Tongue To Talk (4:12) // @ youtube
Curtis Jones
- Tin Pan Alley Blues (3:06) § @ youtube
Sunnyland Slim
- My Baby's Coming With A Marriage License (3:13) ## @ youtube
- Every Time I Get To Drinkin' (3:09) ##
Little Brother Montgomery
- Stendahl Stomp (2:49) || @ youtube
- Tremblin' Blues (3:05) ||

Little Brother Montgomery
- No Special Rider (2:38) ||
- Bass Key Boogie (2:57) || @ youtube
Roosevelt Sykes
- Dresser Drawers (2:43) ##
- Concentration Blues (2:56) ## @ youtube
- Kickin' Motor Scooter (2:51) # @ youtube
Otis Spann
- Three-In-One Blues (2:25) [] @ youtube

Delmark CD DE-626 bonus tracks:
Roosevelt Sykes
- (New Year's) Resolution Blues (2:28) ### [Delmark DD 773] @ youtube
Sunnyland Slim
- Poor Boy (4:04) **
- Depression Blues (3:03) ##
Memphis Slim
- Five O'Clock Blues (2:51)
- Nat Dee Special (2:47)
Curtis Jones
- Lonesome Bedroom Blues § (5:10) [Delmark DL 605] @ youtube
- Takin' Off (2:55) §§ @ youtube

// rec. 1956/57 in St. Louis, MO; Speckled Red, voc, p
# rec. May 17, 1963 in Chicago, IL; Roosevelt Sykes, voc, p resp. Sunnyland Slim, voc, p; ## Homesick James, g/b
### rec. May 17, 1963 in Chicago, IL; St. Louis Jimmy Oden, voc; Roosevelt Sykes, p
|| all 4 of Little Brother Montgomery's 1947 sides originally meant to be issued on Disc Records
§ rec. January 12, 1962 / §§ January 27, 1962 in Chicago, IL; Curtis Jones, voc, p
[] rec. December 30, 1969 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, p; Fred Below, dr
front cover photo by Ray Flerlage

notes by Bob Koester "Delmark Records, 4243 North Lincoln, Chicago, Illinois 60618"

Delmark 626 (US 1972)

= Trio PA-3046 (Jp 1974)

= Trio PA-6211 (Jp 1978)

notes by Bob Koester "Delmark Records, 4121 North Rockwell, Chicago, Illinois 60618"

(=) Delmark CD DE-626 (US 1996)

Delmark Records discography
Trio Records discography
Speckled Red discography
Roosevelt Sykes discography
Little Brother Montgomery discography
Curtis Jones discography
Homesick James discography

1972

Otis Spann: Walking The Blues
Featuring: St. Louis Jimmy and Robert Lockwood, Jr.

Barnaby KZ 31290 track sequence:
- It Must Have Been The Devil #
- Otis' Blues (Spann piano solo)
- Going Down Slow *
- Half Ain't Been Told #
- Monkey Face Woman *
- This Is The Blues (Spann piano solo)

- Evil Ways #
- Come Day, Go Day (tk 2) *
- Walking The Blues (Spann piano solo)
- Bad Condition *
- My Home Is On The Delta #

CrossCut CCR 1004 track sequence (°° bonus tracks):
- It Must Have Been The Devil # (3:44)
- Otis' Blues (Spann piano solo) (4:11)
- Going Down Slow * (3:54)
- Half Ain't Been Told # (4:39)
- Monkey Face Woman * (4:55)
- This Is The Blues (Spann piano solo) (3:05)
- Strange Woman (3:50) °°

- Evil Ways # (3:50)
- Come Day Go Day (tk 2) * (4:08)
- Walking The Blues (Spann piano solo) (4:55)
- When Things Go Wrong (4:54) °°
- Bad Condition * (4:17)
- My Home In The Delta # (3:10)

rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; Otis Spann, p, # voc; * St. Louis Jimmy, voc; Robert Lockwood, g; prod. by Nat Hentoff

Barnaby KZ 31290 photography by David Redfern
CrossCut CCR 1004 photography by Valerie Wilmer
Candid 9025/Candid CCD 79025 photography by Sylvia Pitcher

[originally intended as Candid 8025/9025]

notes (March 1972) by Pete Welding

Barnaby KZ 31290 (US 1972) "Walking The Blues" [Andy Williams' label, who bought Cadence from founder Archie Bleyer in 1965 when Bleyer retired]

notes (in German) by Manfred Miller

(=) CrossCut CCR 1004 (Germany 1983) "Otis Spann ... And His Piano" (Candid Spann Vol. 2)

notes by Tony Russell

= Candid 9025 (Germany 1987)

notes by Tony Russell

= Candid CCD 79025 (UK 1989)

quite a few more re-releases at discogs.com

1972

Muddy Waters: Rare Live Recordings Volume 1

- The Blues Ain't Nothin' (Otis Spann, voc) *
- Trouble No More *
- Five Long Years *
- Got My Mojo Working **
- Captain, Captain (Muddy Waters, voc, ac g) §
- T-99 (Otis Spann, voc) *

- Blowin' These Blues || [short instr version of "Got my mojo workin'"]
- Goodbye Baby # [actually "Blow Wind Blow", incomplete (part 2)]
- Hoochie Coochie Man #
- Honey Bee ##
- Walking Through The Park #

"All selections recorded 'live' at venues in U.S.A. & Europe"
* rec. October 4, 1963 at Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt a.M., Germany (American Folk Blues Festival '63); Muddy Waters, voc; Otis Spann, p; Matt Murphy, g; Willie Dixon, b: Billy Stepney, dr; ** band voc
§ rec. ~~October~~ September 29, 1963 at Kurhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany (American Folk Blues Festival '63); Muddy Waters, voc, ac g
|| rec. ???; Muddy Waters, g [?]; Paul Butterfield, hca; Luther Johnson, g; Jerome Arnold, b; Sam Lay, dr
# Radio broadcast November 1970, Stockholm, Sweden; Muddy Waters, voc, ## g; Carey Bell, hca; Joe 'Pinetop' Perkins, p; James 'Pee Wee' Madison, Sam Lawhorn g; Sonny Wimberley, b; Willie Smith dr
"Photograph courtesy of Scandinavian Blues Association, Tegnergatan 21, S-852, 49 Sundsvall, Sweden"

cover plain white with photocopied inserts

Python PLB-BB 901 (UK 1972) (Black Bear series)

cover plain white with photocopied inserts and blank red labels

= Python PLB-BB 901 (UK 197?) (Black Bear series)

Python Records discography
Muddy Waters discography

1972

Muddy Waters: Rare Live Recordings Volume 2

- Blues Riff (instr, incomplete)
- You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had
- Bloodstains On The Wall #
- Hoochie Coochie Man No. 2 / version 2
- Got My Mojo Working No. 2 / version 2

- Long Distance Call
- Country Boy
- Have You Ever Been Mistreated?
- What's Getting Wrong With Me *

"All selections recorded 'live' at venues in U.S.A. & Europe"
rec. October 21, 1968 at The Maltings, Snape, Suffolk, UK (BBC 2 TV Broadcast "Jazz At The Maltings"); Muddy Waters, voc, g; Paul Oscher, hca, Otis Spann, p, # voc; Luther 'Georgia Boy' Johnson, Pee Wee Madison, g; Sonny Wimberley, b; S.P. Leary, dr
* rec. 1963 in Europe; Otis Spann, voc, p, Willie Dixon, b; Bill Stepney, dr
"Photograph courtesy of Scandinavian Blues Association, Tegnergatan 21, S-852, 49 Sundsvall, Sweden"
Muddy Waters & Sammy Lawhorn; previously published in Jefferson No. 14, 1971, p. 13 (accompanying Clas Ahlstrand's, Peter Måhlin's and Jan-Åke Petterson's Muddy Waters article/interview "Muddy Talkin'", pp. 6-14); photographer Bill Greensmith [?]

cover plain white with photocopied inserts

Python PLB-BB 902 (UK 1972) (Black Bear series)

cover plain white with photocopied inserts and blank black labels

= Python PLB-BB 902 (UK 197?) (Black Bear series)

Python Records discography
Muddy Waters discography

1972

Muddy Waters: Rare Live Recordings Volume 3

Muddy Waters
- Blow Wind, Blow
- Trouble No More No. 2
- Built Up From The Ground #
- Goin' Down Slow
- Sonny Boy Williamson
- Muddy's Mojo
- Blowin' On Up
Jimmy Rogers
- My Home Is In Shelby County
- You're Sweet

# Otis Spann, voc, p

cover plain white with photocopied insert

Python PLB-BB 903 (Black Bear series)

Python Records discography

1972

The Great Blues Men

Vanguard VSD 25/26, LP 1:
Homesick James - Set A Date
John Lee Hooker - Dusty Road
Sleepy John Estes - Corinna °°
Muddy Waters - Nineteen Years Old
Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues
Mance Lipscomb - Blues In G
Rev. Gary Davis - If I Had My Way °°

Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Key To The Highway
Otis Spann - Burning Fire
Lightnin' Hopkins - Cotton Field Blues
Big Bill Broonzy - Louise, Louise Blues
Johnny Young - Tighten Up On It
James Cotton - Ain't Nobody's Business

Vanguard VSD 25/26, LP 2:
Mississippi John Hurt - Moanin' The Blues
Junior Wells - Stormy Monday Blues °°
Johnny Shines - Dynaflow Blues
Son House (+ Al Wilson) - Empire State Blues °°
Sonny Terry - Mountain Blues
Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - It's All Right, Baby

Jimmy Rushing - How Long, How Long Blues
Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues
J. B. Hutto - Please Help
Fred McDowell - Fred's Ramblin' Blues
Ida Cox - Four Day Creep °°
Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas [Vanguard VRS 9180, 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
Yank Rachell discography
Hammie Nixon discography
Robert Pete Williams discography
Jesse Fuller discography
John P. Hammond discography
Dave Van Ronk discography, Vanguard 3VCD 193/95-2] @ youtube
Otis Rush - I't's A Mean Old World

°° not on CD

design by Jules Halfant; front cover collage by Eric Von Schmidt

Vanguard VCD 25/26:
Homesick James - Set A Date (2:44)
John Lee Hooker - Dusty Road (3:05)
Muddy Waters - Nineteen Years Old (4:55)
Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:40)
Mance Lipscomb - Blues In G (3:33)
Mississippi John Hurt - Moanin' The Blues (3:15)
Johnny Shines - Dynaflow Blues (2:35)
Sonny Terry - Mountain Blues (3:04)
Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - It's All Right, Baby (2:30)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key To The Highway (3:38)
Otis Spann - Burning Fire (3:15)
Lightning Hopkins - Cotton Field Blues (5:36)
Big Bill Broonzy - Louise, Louise Blues (2:55)
Johnny Young - Tighten Up On It (3:06)
James Cotton - Ain't Nobody's Business (3:23)
Jimmy Rushing - How Long, How Long Blues (4:45)
Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues (4:10)
J.B. Hutto - Please Help (2:52)
Fred McDowell - Fred's Rambling Blues (2:05)
Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas (3:43)
Otis Rush - It's A Mean Old World (2:22)

gatefold DLP
notes Leroy J. Pierson

Vanguard VSD 25/26 (US 1972)

gatefold DLP
notes Leroy J. Pierson

= Vanguard VSD 25/26 (Fr 1972)

DLP, no gatefold, but 2-page leaflet
notes Leroy J. Pierson

Vanguard VSD 25/26 (US 1986)

notes Leroy J. Pierson

(=) Vanguard VCD 25/26 (US 1988)

lots of further editions at www.discogs.com

58a

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?)

1973

Otis Spann: Heart Loaded With Trouble
The Classic Blues of Otis Spann

- Heart Loaded With Trouble * @ youtube
- I'm A Fool * @ youtube
- Doctor Blues * @ youtube
- Looks Like Twins * @ youtube
- Down To Earth [] * @ youtube

- My Home Is On The Delta
- Down On Sarah Street #
- Spann Blues #
- Chicago Blues
- Brand New House #

# rec. August 30, 1966 "at the Café Au Go-Go" [actually studio recordings with an audience] in New York City; Otis Spann, voc, p; George Smith, hca [without amplification]; Muddy Waters, Sammy Lawhorn, Luther Johnson, gs; Mac Arnold, b; Francis Clay, dr; prod. by Bob Thiele
* rec. November 20, 1967 in New York City; Otis Spann, voc, p; [] Lucille Spann, voc; Muddy Waters, Luther Johnson, Sam Lawhorn, g; George Buford, hca; Sonny Wimberley, b; S.P. Leary, dr; prod. by Bob Thiele

"Previously issued in other albums" (part of BLS 6003 and BLS 6013)

notes by Joel Selvin

Bluesway BLS 6063 (US 1973, promo) has dissimilar (most likely false) track sequence written on back cover

notes by Joel Selvin

Bluesway BLS 6063 (US 1973) track sequence corrected by use of a sticker

Bluesway Records discography
Mojo Buford discography
George "Harmonica" Smith discography
Luther "Georgia Boy" Johnson discography
Muddy Waters discography
Lucille Spann discography

1974

The Best Of The Blues

Big Bill Broonzy
- Diggin' My Potatoes
Spreckled [sic] Red
- Uncle Sam's Blues
Memphis Slim
- Bertha May
Champion Jack Dupree
- Christina, Christina Blues
Big Joe Williams
- Vitamin A Blues
Lonnie Johnson with Otis Spann
- Don't Cry Baby [Storyville SLP 188]

Roosevelt Sykes
- The Way I Feel
Sleepy John Estes
- City Hall Blues
John Henry Barbee
- Early In The Morning
Sunnyland Slim
- One Room Country Shack
Sonny Boy Williamson & Memphis Slim
- Copenhagen Woman
Otis Spann
- Boots And Shoes [Storyville SLP 188]

Champion Jack Dupree & Mogens Seidelin
- Sporting Life Blues
Memphis Slim
- Blues Confession
John Henry Barbee
- That's Alright
Sippie Wallace & Little Brother Montgomery
- Suitcase Blues
Roosevelt Sykes
- No Money Down
Memphis Slim
- St. Louis Blues

John Henry Barbee
- Worried Life Blues
Memphis Slim
- Lonesome Blues
Champion Jack Dupree
- Number Nine
Sippie Wallace & Roosevelt Sykes
- You Don't Know My Mind
Speckled Red
- It Feels So Good
Roosevelt Sykes
- Baby Child

DLP
Storyville SLPD5

= Storyville DALP 2/1946

Storyville Records discography

1975

Spivey's Blues Showcase

Lefty Dizz
- We're Gonna Boogie @ youtube
- That's All Right
Sparky Rucker
- Black Snake Moan
- Kind Hearted Woman
Otis Spann
- If I Could Hear My Mother

Ralph Rush
- Smuggling Man
Danny Russo
- Blues Before Sunrise
Victoria Spivey
- TB Blues
Band
- Kazoo Jump

Spivey 1017 (US 1975)

6/1975

Genesis Vol. 3 - Sweet Home Chicago

Album 1:
Baby Face Leroy
- My Head Can't Rest Anymore
- Take A Little Walk With Me
Floyd Jones
- Dark Road
- Big World
- Overseas
- Playhouse
Otis Spann
- It Must Have Been The Devil
- Five Spot

Gus Jenkins
- Eight Ball
Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires
- One Of These Days [Checker 752]
- Murmur Low [Checker 752]
Little Henry
- I Declare That Ain't Right
- Matchbox Blues
Blue Smitty
- Sad Story
- Elgin Movements
- Date Bait

Album 2:
Muddy Waters
- Mean Red Spider
- Hard Days
- Burying Ground
- Last Time I Fool Around With You
- Screaming And Crying
- Where's My Woman Been
- Rollin' And Tumblin' - part 1
- Rollin' And Tumblin' - part 2

- Stuff You Gotta Watch
- Lonesome Day
- Iodine In My Coffee
- Flood
- I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
- Oh! Yeh
- Smokestack Lightning

Album 3:
Little Walter
- Juke
- Boogie
- Mean Old World
- Sad Hours
- Don't Have To Hunt No More
- Tonight With A Fool
- Quarter To Twelve
- Blues With A Feeling

- Last Boogie
- Fast Boogie
- Light's Out
- You're So Fine
- Blues Light
- Last Night
- Thunderbird
- I Got To Go

Album 4:
Jimmy Rogers
- Today, Today Blues
- The World Is In A Tangle
- She Loves Another Man
- Hard Working Man
- Chance To Love
- My Little Machine
- Mistreated Baby
- What's The Matter

Jimmy Rogers
- You're The One
John Brim
- Rattlesnake
- It Was A Dream
- Ice Cream Man
- Lifetime Baby
- Tough Times
- Go Away
- That Ain't Right

compiled by Mike Rowe

4 LP box set

Chess 6641 174 (UK Phonogram)

Neil Slaven review in Blues Unlimited 113, p. 24-25

'Genesis' discography

62a

1976

Jimmy Rogers
Chess Blues Masters Vol. 7

LP 1:
- Left Me With A Broken Heart
- Blues All Day Long
- Today Today Blues
- The World's In A Tangle
- She Loves Another Man
- Hard Working Man

- Chance To Love
- My Little Machine
- Mistreated Baby
- What's The Matter
- You're The One
- If It Ain't Me

LP 2:
- One Kiss
- I Can't Believe
- What Have I Done
- My Baby Don't Love Me No More (8598)
- Trace of You (alt tk)
- Don't You Know My Baby

- Crying Shame
- Give Love Another Chance
- This Has Never Been
- Rock This House
- My Last Meal
- You Don't Know #
- Can't Keep From Worrying #

Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Muddy Waters, g; Little Walter, hca; Big Crawford, b; Ernest Cotton, ts; Eddie Ware, p; "Elga Edmonds" [Elga Edmonds], dr; Bob Woodfork, g; Johnny Jones, p; Wille Dixon, b; AJ Gladney, dr; JT Brown, ts; Henry Gray, p; Fred Below, dr; Otis Spann, p; Walter Horton, hca; Joe Young, g; Odie Payne, dr; Wayne Bennett, g; Francis Clay, dr; SP Leary, dr; Luther Tucker, g; # Fred Robinson, g; George Hunter, dr

DLP
notes by Pete Welding

Chess 2ACMB-207

DLP

= Chess Vogue 427012 (Fr 1976)

DLP

= Chess C2-9211 (1984)
"Chess Masters"

= MCA CH2-92505

1977

Rare Gems
Previously unissued Chicago blues recordings from the collection of Norman Dayron

Roots TR 1005 LP 1 // TK Records TKR 82539:
Little Brother Montgomery - Ain't Nobody Here But Me @ youtube
John Lee Granderson - Bumble Bee @ youtube
Robert Nighthawk - Murderin' Blues (= Goin' Down To Eli's = Cheatin' And Lyin' Blues) @ youtube @ Spotify
Otis Spann - Hotel Lorraine @ youtube
Big Joe Williams - Sinkin' Blues @ Spotify
Johnnie Jones - Worried Life Blues @ youtube

Rev. Robert Wilkins - Glory Glory Hallelujah @ youtube
Big Joe Williams and Paul Butterfield - Wild Cow Moan @ Spotify
Johnnie Jones with Billy Boy Arnold - I Hear My Black Name Ringing @ youtube
James Cotton with Elvin Bishop - So Glad I'm Living @ Spotify
Little Brother Montgomery - Buddy Bolden's Blues @ youtube

Roots TR 1005 LP 2:
Otis Spann - Blues For Martin Luther King @ youtube
Robert Pete Williams - Ugly Man Blues @ Spotify
Little Brother Montgomery - Prescription For The Blues @ youtube
James Cotton with Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield - Diggin' My Potatoes @ Spotify
J.B. Lenoir - My Dear Old Mother °° @ youtube
Maxwell Street Jimmy - Someday Baby @ youtube

James Cotton with Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield, Billy Boy Arnold - Three Harp Boogie (= South Side Boogie) @ youtube @ Spotify
Big Joe Williams - Screamin' And Cryin' @ Spotify
Little Brother Montgomery - Salty Dog @ youtube
Robert Nighthawk - Medley: Annie Lee & Sweet Black Angel @ youtube @ Spotify
Rev. Robert Wilkins - Just A Closer Walk With Thee (2:50) °° @ youtube

°° not on Bullseye/Rounder CD BB 9530

Bullseye/Rounder CD BB 9530 track sequence
Little Brother Montgomery - Ain't Nobody Here But Me
John Lee Granderson - Bumble Bee
Robert Nighthawk - Murderin' Blues
Otis Spann - Hotel Lorraine
Big Joe Williams - Sinkin' Blues
Johnnie Jones - Worried Life Blues
Rev. Robert Wilkins - Glory Glory Hallelujah
Big Joe Williams and Paul Butterfield - Wild Cow Moan
Johnnie Jones with Billy Boy Arnold - I Hear My Black Name Ringing
James Cotton with Elvin Bishop - So Glad I'm Living
Little Brother Montgomery - Buddy Bolden's Blues
Otis Spann - Blues For Martin Luther King
Robert Pete Williams - Ugly Man Blues
Little Brother Montgomery - Prescription For The Blues
James Cotton with Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield - Diggin' My Potatoes
~~J.B. Lenoir - My Dear Old Mother~~ °°
Maxwell Street Jimmy - Someday Baby
James Cotton with Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield, Billy Boy Arnold - Three Harp Boogie
Big Joe Williams - Screamin' And Cryin'
Little Brother Montgomery - Salty Dog
Robert Nighthawk - Medley: Annie Lee & Sweet Black Angel
~~Rev. Robert Wilkins - Just A Closer Walk With Thee~~ °°

rec. early to mid 1960s in Chicago, IL by Norman Dayron; compiled and edited by Norman Dayron & Mark Naftalin

notes by Pete Welding

Roots TR 1005 (US 1977)

= CBS S2BP 220205 (Australia 1977)

notes by Pete Welding

(=) TK Records TKR 82539 (UK 1978) "Rare Gems Vol. 1" (LP 1 only)

notes by Pete Welding

(=) Bullseye Blues CD BB 9530 (US 1993) "Rare Chicago Blues 1962-1968"

1979

Blues Roots: Give Me The Blues
The Living Tradition

LP 1:
Smoky Babe - Boogy
Avery Brady - I Don't Want You No More
Doug Quattlebaum - Good Woman Blues
Huddie Ledbetter - Frankie And Albert, parts 1 + 2
[Jimmy Brewer - Big Road Blues
Even though shown on the cover as well as on the label track listing and even though there's a picture and a short bio of Jim Brewer in the liner notes, this Jim Brewer track is actually / erroneously? not included; instead there's the following Arthur Weston track !!!]
Arthur Weston - Someday Baby
Big Joe Williams - Long Road Blues
Big Bill Broonzy - You Better Mind

Clarence Edwards - Mean Old Frisco
Bert Logan, Russ Logan, Big Joe Williams - Four O'Clock In The Morning
Big ~~Joe~~ John Henry Miller, Jimmy Lee Miller - Down Here By Myself
Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires - 21 Below Zero
Johnny Young - Green Door Blues
Arthur Weston - Roll Me Over Slow

LP 2:
Champion Jack Dupree - Back Door Special
Roosevelt Sykes - Southern Style Piano
Henry Brown - Low Down Drag
Memphis Slim - Funky Blues
Jimmy Yancey - Yancey Special
Sunnyland Slim - Sunnyland's Boogie

Speckled Red - Cow Cow Blues
Otis Spann - The Skies Are Blue
Memphis Slim - A Letter Home
Otis Spann - Boots And Shoes
Memphis Slim - Rebecca Blues
Willie Mabon - I'm The Fixer
Champion Jack Dupree - I Just Want To Be Free

compiled by Manfred Miller
front cover lino-cut by Hartmut Heumann

accompanying flyer

DLP
notes by Manfred Miller (English translation by Christa M. Gowing)

Storyville 6.28470 (Germany 1979)
to read liner notes click on pictures of covers: G = German / E = English text has been black/white reversed to improve readability

= PGP RTB 2LP 3220044 (Yugoslavia 1981)

Storyville Records discography

1980

Otis Spann: Up in the Queen's Pad
A Musical Parlor Social Deluxe!!

- I Just Want A Little Bit (3:31) @ youtube
- I'm Accused (8:36)
- Vicksburg Blues (5:31)

- Five Long Years (5:25)
- Black Gal (2:47) #
- Let's Look After Each Other (5:30) #
- Help Me Somebody (3:22) #

rec. April 1969 at "Queen's Pad" (Spivey's Apartment), Albany Avenue, Brooklyn, NY; Otis Spann, voc and p and percussive foot stomping; Sammy Lawhorn, g; Victoria Spivey, incidental chatter and piano frets, # voc; "Guess Who", kazoo; Parakeets, Tweet and Chirp

notes by Len Kunstadt

Spivey 1031 (US 1980)

Spivey Records discography

1980

Otis Spann: Otis Rides Again

- Strange Woman # [previously unissued]
- When Things Go Wrong *# [previously unissued]
- Baby Child (tk 5) # [previously unissued]
- Talkin' The Blues (tk 1) *#§ [previously unissued]

- Woman Leave Me Alone (= Beat-Up Team) [previously unissued]
- Instrumental Boogie (= Spann And Bob) [previously unissued]
- Otis Rides Again (= Great Northern Stomp) [Candid 8001]
- Don't Give Up The Ship (= Walking The Blues) [Barnaby KZ 31290]
- One More Encore (= Otis In The Dark) [Candid 8001]
- 3 Minute Number Boogie (= Otis' Blues) [Barnaby KZ 31290]

# rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; St. Louis Jimmy, voc; Otis Spann, p, * voc; Robert Lockwood, g, § voc; prod. by Nat Hentoff

Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488 (US 1980)

1982

Percy Sledge / Joe Simon / Otis Spann

Percy Sledge
- (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right (3:58)
- (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay (2:36)
- Bring It On Home To Me (3:36)
Joe Simon
- My Adorable One (2:22)
- Let's Do It Over (2:19)
- The Whoopee (2:08)
- It's A Miracle (2:15)

Joe Simon
- Say (That Your Love Is True) (2:22)
- I Keep Remembering (2:30)
Otis Spann
- Otis' Blues (Otis Spann piano solo) (4:15) # [Barnaby KZ 31290]
- Going Down Slow (3:53) # § [Barnaby KZ 31290]
- Little Boy Blue (3:38) # * [Candid 8001/9001]

# rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; Otis Spann, p; Robert Lockwood, g, * voc; § St. Louis Jimmy, voc; prod. by Nat Hentoff
Otis Spann photo by Jean-Pierre Leloir

gatefold LP
notes by Enzo Caffarelli

Curcio GSR 41 (It 1982) ("La Grande Storia Del Rock # 41")

= Sarpe GER-32 (Spain 1983) ("Las Grandes Estrellas Del Rock # 32)

67a

1982

Shirley & Lee / Otis Spann

Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
- Crazy 'Bout You Baby (2:50)
- Sliding (2:33)
- She Loves So Easy (2:39)
Otis Spann
- Monkey Woman (4:53) # § [Barnaby KZ 31290]
- Come Day Go Day (4:07) # § [Barnaby KZ 31290]

The Impressions
- Young Lover (2:06)
- Lover's Lane (2:13)
- A Long Time Ago (2:20)
- Señorita I Love You (2:28)
- A New Love (2:04)
- Believe In Me (2:05)
- At The Country Fair (2:01)
- Let Me Know (2:35)

# rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; Otis Spann, p; Robert Lockwood, g; § St. Louis Jimmy, voc; prod. by Nat Hentoff

gatefold LP
notes by Peppe Videtti

Curcio GSR 51 (It 1982) ("La Grande Storia Del Rock # 51")

67b

1982

Mike Bloomfield & Electric Flag / Otis Spann

Mike Bloomfield & The Electric Flag
- Kansas City (3:35)
- Linda Lou (3:50)
- Blues In B Flat (6:00)
- Medley: Darktown Strutter's Ball / Mop Mop / Call Me A Dog (4:00)
- Great Gifts From Heaven (3:35)

Otis Spann
- This Is The Blues (3:05) # [Barnaby KZ 31290]
- Evil Ways (3:50) # [Barnaby KZ 31290]
- Walking The Blues (4:52) # [Barnaby KZ 31290]
- The Hard Way (5:02) # [Candid 8001/9001]

# rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; Otis Spann, p; Robert Lockwood, g; prod. by Nat Hentoff
Otis Spann photos by Jean-Pierre Leloir

gatefold LP
notes by Maria Laura Giulietti

Curcio GSR 62 (It 1982) ("La Grande Storia Del Rock # 62")

= Sarpe GER-36 (Spain 1983) ("Las Grandes Estrellas Del Rock # 36)

67c

1982

Shirley & Lee / Otis Spann

Shirley & Lee
- Bewildered
- Ya Moves Me
- Let's Live It Up
- Two Peas In A Pod
- After Last Night
Otis Spann
- Must Have Been The Devil (3:41) [Candid 8001/9001]
- Great Northern Stomp (4:15) [Candid 8001/9001]

Otis Spann
- My Home In The Delta (3:09) # [Candid 8001/9001]
- Worried Life Blues (4:20) # [Candid 8001/9001]
- Meet Me In The Bottom * (3:30) [previously unissued]
- Chicago Blues * (5:50) [previously unissued]
- Spann's Boogie (instr) * (3:45) [previously unissued]

# rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; Otis Spann, p; Robert Lockwood, g; prod. by Nat Hentoff
* rec. May 12, 1964 at Maison de la Radio (ORTF), Paris France; Otis Spann, voc, p; Ransom Knowling, b; Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, dr
Otis Spann photo by Jean-Pierre Leloir

gatefold LP

Curcio GSR 84 (It 1982) ("La Grande Storia Del Rock 84")

1983

New York Really Has The "Blues Stars" Vol. 4

Johnny Allen
- I'm Bad
Murch
- I'm Going To Send You Back To Your Mother
Harry Holt
- Crosscut Saw
Louvet Jackson
- Please, Please, Please

Bill Dicey
- Walking Blues
Nat Riddles
- Cross My Heart @ youtube
Chuck Hancock
- Cissy Strut
Victoria Spivey & The Muddy Waters Blues Band
- Gave It All To Me (alt tk) #

# rec. November 25, 1966 in New York; Victoria Spivey, voc; Otis Spann, p, org, voc; George Smith, hca, # whistling, voc; Luther "Georgia Boy - Snake" Johnson, b, voc; "Main Stream" (Muddy Waters), Samuel Lawhorn, g; Francis Clay, dr

Spivey 1035 (US 1983)

68a

1983

Chess Masters - Chicago Blues

Johnny Jones - Big Town Playboy
Johnny Jones - Shelby County
Blue Smitty - Sad Story [Chess 1522]
Blue Smitty - Elgin Movements [Chess unissued]
Blue Smitty - Date Bait [Chess unissued]
Eddie Boyd - Twenty Four Hours

J B Lenoir - Eisenhower Blues
J B Lenoir - Sitting Down Thinking
John Brim - It Was A Dream
Henry Gray - I Declare That Ain't Right
Henry Gray - Matchbox Blues
John Brim - Lifetime Baby

Otis Spann - It Must Have Been The Devil
Otis Spann - Five Spot
John Brim - Go Away
John Brim - That Ain't Right
Jimmy Rogers - You're The One
Jimmy Rogers - If It Ain't Me

Muddy Waters - Rock Me
Jimmy Rogers - One Kiss
Howlin' Wolf - I'm Leavin' You
Buddy Guy - Let Me Love You Baby
Buddy Guy - My Time After Awhile
Robert Nighthawk - Someday

concept by Matt Haywood; compiled by Leslie Fancourt & Matt Haywood

DLP

Chess CXMD 4013 (UK 1983)

1983

Piano Blues Legends

Professor Longhair
- P.L. Bounce
Lyin' Joe Holley
- Sea-Sick & Waterbound
- With You On My Mind
- Mother Fuyer
- Goin' Down Slow
Little Brother Montgomery
- St. Louis Blues

Otis Spann
- T.99
- Blood Stains On The Wall
- Why Should I Cry
- Blues Ain't Nothing' But A Botheration
- I Got A Gal

JSP 1056 (UK 1983)

JSP Records discography
Little Brother Montgomery discography
Lyin' Joe Holley discography

1984

Otis Spann: Take Me Back Home

- I'd Rather Be The Devil (2:48) [previously unissued] @ youtube
- Nobody Knows (4:12) [previously unissued]
- Pretty Girls Everywhere (2:55) [Decca LK 4681]
- Mojo Rock & Roll (2:17) [Decca LK 4681]
- Country Boy (3:29) [Ace of Clubs ACL/SCL 1220]
- Stirs Me Up (2:29) [Decca LK 4681]

- Woman Leave Me Alone (6:32) [Picc-A-Dilly 3488]
- Baby Child (tk 1) (4:02) [Crosscut CCR 1003]
- Strange Woman (3:50) # [Picc-A-Dilly 3488]
- Instrumental Boogie (3:09) [Picc-A-Dilly 3488]
- When Things Go Wrong (4:54) [Picc-A-Dilly 3488]
- Talkin' The Blues (tk 1) (5:16) *# [Picc-A-Dilly 3488]

# rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; St. Louis Jimmy, voc; Otis Spann, p, * voc; Robert Lockwood, g, * voc
prod. by Mike Vernon (tracks A1 to A6), Nat Hentoff (tracks B1 to B6)
front cover photo by Val Wilmer, back cover photography by Georges Adins, Robert Lockwood Jr. photo by Yannick Bruynoghe

Black Magic BM 9004 (NL 1984)

1984

Otis Spann: Rarest Recordings
featuring Muddy Waters & James Cotton

- Catfish Blues
- Boogie Woogie
- Slow Blues
- Jump Blues
- St. Louis Blues
- Everything Gonna Be Alright

- Love Me Or Leave Me
- Why Did She Have To Go
- Spann Boogie
- Why Should I Cry

side 1, tracks 1 to 5: Otis Spann, voc, p; James Cotton, hca; Muddy Waters, Pat Hare, g; Andrew Stephensen, b; Francis Clay, dr
side 1, track 6 and side 2: Otis Spann, voc, p; unknown accompanists

notes by Anonymous (most likely John Stedman)

JSP 1070 (UK 1984)

JSP Records discography

71a

1984

Chicago Piano-ology

Otis Spann
- I'm Leaving You [previously unissued]
- I'm In Love With You Baby [previously unissued]
- It Must Have Been The Devil [Checker 807]
- Five Spot [Checker 807]
Little Henry
- I Declare That Ain't Right (tk 2)
- I Declare That Ain't Right (tk 4)
- Matchbox Blues

Little Johnny Jones
- Big Town Playboy
- Shelby County Blues
Eddie Ware
- Wandering Lover
- Rumba Dust
- I Found Out
- Lima Beans
Sunnyland Slim
- Johnson Machine Gun
- Fly Right Little Girl

P-Vine/Chess PLP 6022 (Jp 1984)

notes (July 1988) by Chris Bentley

= Chess GCH 8105 (It 1988) "Knights Of The Keyboard - Chicago Piano Blues 1947-1956"

1987

Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band with Sippie Wallace and Otis Spann
Jug Band Blues

@ youtube (full album)

- Loving Sam (The Sheik from Alabam)
- Mighty Tight Woman *
- Black Snake Blues ||
- Special Delivery
- Jelly Roll Blues ||
- Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Morning

- Separation Blues *
- Gambler's Dream ||
- Up The Country #
- Muhammed Ali ||
- You Got To Know How
- Everybody Loves My Baby []

unissued tracks from same session:
- Hard Boiled Mama
- Shorty George
- Why Can't We Get Along
- Leavin' Me Daddy

rec. November 21/22, 1967 in New York, NY; Sippie Wallace, voc, # p; * Maria Muldaur, voc; || Otis Spann, p; Jim Kweskin, g, comb; Geoff Muldaur, cl, g, mand, washb, kazoo; Bill Keith, bj; Richard Greene, vl; Fritz Richmond, washtub b, jug; [] ensemble voc
session originally intended for Reprise

Mountain Railroad MR 52672 (US 1987)

= Drive CD 41043 (US 1994) "Sippie Wallace with Otis Spann and the Jim Kweskin Jug Band"

Jim Kweskin discography

1992

The Complete Candid Otis Spann, Lightnin' Hopkins Sessions

CD 1:

LP 1:
Otis Spann / Robert Lockwood / St. Louis Jimmy
- Beat-Up Team (first version) [previously unissued]
- Great Northern Stomp (instr) [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001]
- Cow Cow Blues (instr) [previously unissued]
- Walkin' The Blues (instr) [(~~Candid 9025~~), Barnaby KZ 31290]

- Otis In The Dark (instr) [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001]
- This Is The Blues (instr) [(~~Candid 9025~~), Barnaby KZ 31290]
- Worried Life Blues [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001]
- Country Boy [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001]
- Beat-Up Team [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001]

LP 2:
- The Hard Way [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001]
- My Home Is On The Delta [(~~Candid 9025~~), Barnaby KZ 31290]
- It Must Have Been The Devil [(~~Candid 9025~~), Barnaby KZ 31290]
- Take A Little Walk With Me (Robert Lockwood Jr., voc) [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001]
- Ramblin' On My Mind #2 (Robert Lockwood Jr., voc) [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001]
- Little Boy Blue (Robert Lockwood Jr., voc) [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001]

- My Daily Wish (Robert Lockwood Jr., voc) [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001] CD 2:

- Spann And Bob (= Instrumental Boogie) [Picc-A-Dilly 3488]
- Monkey Face Blues # [(~~Candid 9025~~), Barnaby KZ 31290]
- One Doggone Reason # [previously unissued]
- Strange Woman Blues # [Picc-A-Dilly 3488]

LP 3:
- It Hurts Me Too # [Picc-A-Dilly 3488]
- Baby Child ("tk 3", actually tk 1) # [Crosscut CCR 1003, Black Magic 9004]
- Baby Child (tk 5) # [Picc-A-Dilly 3488]
- Talkin' The Blues (tk 1) # [Black Magic BM 9004]

- Talkin' The Blues (tk 3) # [previously unissued]
- Can't Stand Your Evil Ways (tk 2) [previously unissued]
- Otis' Blues [(~~Candid 9025~~), Barnaby KZ 31290]
- Half Ain't Been Told [(~~Candid 9025~~), Barnaby KZ 31290]
- (Can't Stand Your) Evil Ways (tk 4) [(~~Candid 9025~~), Barnaby KZ 31290]

LP 4:
- Goin' Down Slow # [(~~Candid 9025~~), Barnaby KZ 31290]
- The Girl I Love [previously unissued]
- Bad Condition # [(~~Candid 9025~~), Barnaby KZ 31290]
- Come Day, Go Day (tk 2) # [(~~Candid 9025~~), Barnaby KZ 31290]
- Come Day, Go Day (tk 3) # [previously unissued]

CD 3:

Lightnin' Hopkins
- Rainy Highway
- When My First Wife Quit Me
- Walk On
- Lightnin's Guitar Boogie
- I've Had My Fun If I Don't Get Well No More
- Mister Charlie

LP 5:
- Mighty Crazy
- Wonder Why
- Black Cat

- The Trouble Blues
- Your Own Fault, Baby, To Treat Me The Way You Do
- Lightnin's Piano Boogie
- Take It Easy
- Come Go Home With Me

# rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; Otis Spann, p, voc; St. Louis Jimmy, voc; Robert Lockwood, g, voc; prod. by Nat Hentoff

5 LP box set
notes (16-pp. booklet) by Mark A. Humphrey and Michael Cuscuna

Mosaic MR5-139 (US 1992)

3 CD box set
notes (16-pp. booklet) by Mark A. Humphrey and Michael Cuscuna

Mosaic MD3-139 (US 1992)

1992

Blues Giants In Concert
More American Folk Blues Festival 1963 a/k/a "The Lost Blues Tapes, Vol. 2"

Memphis Slim - Blues Everywhere (2:29)
Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon - John Henry (2:50)
Muddy Waters - Captain Captain (3:47)
Muddy Waters - Catfish Blues (2:59)
Muddy Waters - In The City (= "Blow Wind Blow") # (3:56)
Muddy Waters - I Feel Like Cryin' (= "My Home Is In The Delta") # (5:07)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Your Love For Me Is True (= "That's All I Want Baby") # (4:51)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Misuse Me # (4:57)
Sonny Boy Williamson - I'm Gettin' Tired (3:04)
Otis Spann - Going Down Slow (alt version) (= "Had My Fun") ## (3:32)
Lonnie Johnson - Careless Love (3:13)
Lonnie Johnson - C.C. Rider (2:36)
Victoria Spivey - T.B. Blues (4:33)
Big Joe Williams - Big Roll Blues (2:55)
Big Joe Williams - Back In The Bottom (3:16)
Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go (2:21)

# rec. October 13, 1963 "live" in Bremen, Germany; Otis Spann, p, ## voc; prod. by Siegfried Loch, co-producer: Horst Lippmann

ACT 9205-2 (Germany 1992)

1990

Otis Spann: This Is The Blues / My Home In The Delta

Roots RTS 113014 track sequence:
- Country Boy (4:27) [Candid 8001/9001]
- My Daily Wish (4:28) # [Candid 8001/9001]
- Great Northern Stomp (4:18) [Candid 8001/9001]
- I Got Rambling On My Mind (no. 2) (4:04) # [Candid 8001/9001]
- Worried Life Blues (4:20) [Candid 8001/9001]
- The Hard Way (5:06) [Candid 8001/9001]

- Half Ain't Been Told (4:40) [Barnaby KZ31290]
- Monkey Woman * (4:56) [Barnaby KZ31290]
- This Is The Blues (3:06) [Barnaby KZ31290]
- Beat-Up Team (6:01) [Candid 8001/9001]
- Come Day Come Go [sic] (4:10) [Barnaby KZ31290]
- Bad Condition * (4:21) [Barnaby KZ31290]
- My Home Is [sic] In The Delta (3:13) [Barnaby KZ31290]

Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063 / Orbis BLU NC 032 track sequence:
- Country Boy [Candid 8001/9001]
- Beat-Up Team [Candid 8001/9001]
- My Daily Wish # [Candid 8001/9001]
- Great Northern Stomp [Candid 8001/9001]
- I Got Rambling On My Mind (no. 2) [Candid 8001/9001]
- Worried Life Blues [Candid 8001/9001]
- The Hard Way [Candid 8001/9001]
- Half Ain't Been Told [Barnaby KZ31290]
- Monkey Face Woman * [Barnaby KZ31290]
- Evil Ways [Barnaby KZ31290]
- Bad Condition * [Barnaby KZ31290]
- My Home In The Delta [Barnaby KZ31290]

rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; Otis Spann, voc, p; * St. Louis Jimmy, voc; Robert Lockwood, g, # voc; originally engineered by George Piros; originally prod. by Nat Hentoff

Roots RTS 113014 front cover photo: "Michael Ochs" (not necessarily the photographer, most likely from his photo collection) (photographer, according to the back cover of BluesTime BT 29006, is actually Charles "Chuck" Stewart)
Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063 front cover photo by Jean-Pierre Leloir

LP
notes by Herman van der Horst

Roots RTS 113014 (Be/Fr 1990) "This Is The Blues"

CD
notes by Herman van der Horst

Roots RTS 33014 (Be/Fr 1990) "This Is The Blues"

cassette
notes by Herman van der Horst

Roots RTS 43014 (Be/Fr 1990) "This Is The Blues"

Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063 (Fr 1993) "My Home In The Delta"

(=) Orbis BLU NC 032 "The Blues Collection" (Germany / EU 1994) "My Home In The Delta"

75a

1992

Chess Blues

disc 1:
- Lollypop Mama - Clarence Samuels
- Bilbo Is Dead - Andrew Tibbs
- Johnson Machine Gun - Sunnyland Slim
- Fly Right, Little Girl - Sunnyland Slim
- Little Anna Mae - Muddy Waters
- I Can't Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters
- My Sweet Lovin' Woman - Robert Nighthawk
- I Feel Like Going Home - Muddy Waters
- She Ain't Nowhere - Sunnyland Slim
- Florida Hurricane - St. Louis Jimmy
- Memory Of Sonny Boy - Forest City Joe
- Tonky Boogie - Forrest Sykes
- Cryin' The Blues - Laura Rucker
- My Head Can't Rest Anymore - Baby Face Leroy
- Big Town Playboy - Johnny Jones
- Sweet Black Angel - Robert Nighthawk
- Rollin' Stone - Muddy Waters
- Luedella - Jimmy Rogers
- Mother Earth - Memphis Slim
- Dr. Ross' Boogie - Doctor Ross
- Joliet Blues - Johnny Shines
- Moanin' At Midnight - Howlin' Wolf
- All Night Long - Muddy Waters (alt tk)
- Mr. Commissioner - Arbee Stidham (alt tk)
- Getting Old And Grey - Howlin' Wolf

disc 2:
- Walkin' The Boogie - John Lee Hooker Alternate Take
- Juke - Little Walter
- Conjur Man - Memphis Minnie
- Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone - Muddy Waters
- Broken Heart (alt tk) - Memphis Minnie
- Truckin' Little Woman - Willie Nix
- Funeral Hearse At My Door - Rocky Fuller
- Hard Time Gettin' Started - Eddie Boyd
- Don't Need No Horse - Little Walter
- Eight Ball - Gus Jenkins
- Fast Boogie - Little Walter
- I'm Mad - Willie Mabon
- Ice Cream Man - John Brim
- Whose Muddy Shoes - Elmore James
- Got To Have It - Willie Mabon
- I Declare That Ain't Right - Henry Gray
- Remember - Alberta Adams
- [Untitled Instrumental] - Henry Gray
- Blues With A Feeling - Little Walter
- (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters
- Forty-Four - Howlin' Wolf
- Got To Find My Baby (alt tk) - Little Walter
- Evil - Howlin' Wolf
- Reconsider Baby - Lowell Fulson
- Mama Talk To Your Daughter - J.B. Lenoir

disc 3:
- Mellow Down Easy - Little Walter
- My Eyes (Keep Me in Trouble) - Muddy Waters
- My Baby - Little Walter
- You Got To Love Me - Billy Boy Arnold
- Walking The Blues - Willie Dixon
- Don't Start Me To Talkin' - Sonny Boy Williamson II
- Smokestack Lightning - Howlin' Wolf
- Twenty-Nine Ways To My Baby's Door - Willie Dixon
- Right To Love You - Paul Gayton
- Ain't Nobody's Business - Jimmy Witherspoon
- I'm Leaving You - Otis Spann
- Break Of Day - Howlin' Wolf
- Please Don't Go - Floyd Dixon
- Keep It To Yourself - Sonny Boy Williamson II
- Walking By Myself - Jimmy Rogers
- Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters
- Fattening Frogs For Snakes - Sonny Boy Williamson II
- Slow Leake - Lafayette Leake
- Sitting On Top Of The World - Howlin' Wolf
- She Don't Know - J.B. Lenoir
- Your Funeral And My Trial - Sonny Boy Williamson II
- Key To The Highway - Little Walter
- Double Trouble (alt tk) - Muddy Waters
- Come On Home - Eddie Boyd
- Goat - Sonny Boy Williamson II Band Track
- So Many Roads, So Many Trains - Otis Rush

disc 4:
- First Time I Met the Blues - Buddy Guy
- Too Poor - Detroit Junior
- Blue Shadows - Lowell Fulson
- The Shakedown - Lloyd Glenn
- Sun Is Shining (alt tk) - Elmore James
- Calling On My Darling - Albert King
- The Red Rooster - Howlin' Wolf
- Nine Below Zero - Sonny Boy Williamson II
- Goin' Down Slow - Howlin' Wolf
- Satisfied - Little Milton
- Something's Got A Hold On Me - Etta James
- Wrinkles - The Big Three Trio
- Bring It On Home - Sonny Boy Williamson II
- Good Moanin' Blues - Big Walter Horton
- Killing Floor - Howlin' Wolf
- What Kind Of Man Is That? - Koko Taylor
- We're Gonna Make It - Little Milton
- Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor
- Dirty Work Goin' On - Little Joe Blue
- One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - John Lee Hooker
- Jinglin' Baby - Eddie "Guitar" Burns
- That's Why I Don't Mind - Muddy Waters
- Keep It To Myself - Buddy Guy
- Sitting Here Alone - Hound Dog Taylor
- I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James

compiled by Mary Katherine Aldin & Andy McKaie; prod. by Andy McKaie

4 CD box set
64-pp. booklet notes by Mary Katherine Aldin

MCA CHD4-9340 (US 1992)

199?

Savage Kick Vol. 7

Billy Garner - Little School Girl
J.D.Edwards - Hobo
The Barons - Who's In The Shack
Arthur Gunter - We're Gonna Shake
Otis Spann - It Must Have Been The Devil
Little Johnny Jones - Hoy Hoy
Jessie Hill - Oogsey Moo
Bobby Long - Jersey City

Louisiana Red - Ride On Red, Ride On
Junior Wells - Little By Little
Harold Burrage - She Knocks Me Out
Champion Jack Dupree - Nasty Boogie
Vincent Francks - Vincent's Blues
Little Sonny (Sonny Warner with Big Jay Mcneely) - ...Back...Shack...Trac
Little Sonny - Ride With Me
The Idols - The Prowler

Savage Kick SK-507 (UK 199?)

3/1995

Otis Spann: Down To Earth
The Bluesway Recordings

- Popcorn Man
- Brand New House
- Chicago Blues
- Steel Mill Blues
- Down On Sarah Street
- T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
- Nobody Knows Chicago Like I Do (Party Blues)
- My Home Is In The Delta
- Spann Blues
- Heart Loaded With Trouble °°
- Diving Duck °°
- Shimmy Baby °°
- Look Like Twins °°
- I'm A Fool °°
- My Man °°
- Down To Earth °°
- Nobody Knows °°
- Doctor Blues °°

°° previously Bluesway BLS 6013 (1968)

notes by Bill Dahl

MCA 11202 (US 3/1995)

1995

Testament Records Sampler

- Pet Cream Man - J.B. Hutto & The Hawks
- A Man For The Nation - John Lee Granderson
- Railroad Blues - The Chicago String Band
- Nobody Knows My Troubles - Otis Spann
- Jesus Is On The Mainline - Fred McDowell & The Hunter's Chapel Singers
- Peach Tree Blues - Eddie Taylor
- I'm Talking 'Bout You - Eddie Lee "Mustright" Jones
- Cat Squirrel - Dr. Isaiah Ross
- I'm Gettin' Tired - Robert Nighthawk
- Going Back To Texas - Jimmy Walker & His Western Stars/Erwin Helfer
- Black Mary - Ruby McCoy
- So Cold In Vietnam - Johnny Shines
- Titanic Blues - Bill Jackson
- Don't Start Me To Talkin' - A Feeling / Johnny Turner & Blues With A Feeling
- All My Money Gone - Johnny Young
- One Thin Dime - Blind Connie Williams
- Goin' Down South - Fred McDowell
- I'm Going To Detroit - John Wrencher
- Annie Mae - Big Joe Williams
- My Babe - Napoleon Strickland Fife & Drum Band
- Hoodoo Snake Doctor Blues - Johnny Shines
- Dust My Broom - Johnny Littlejohn
- Pleading And Crying - Billy Boy Arnold

notes by Pete Welding

Testament TCD-4001 (US 1995)

Testament Records discography

1995

Sonny Boy Williamson In Europe
with Eric Clapton, Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, Matt "Guitar" Murphy

- I'm Trying To Make London My Home (4:14)
- I Don't Know # (4:50)
- Sonny Boy's Harmonica Blues (2:54)
- Had My Fun ## (3:50)
- Dissatisfied (4:24)
- Bye Bye Bird (3:40)
- Mister Downchild (3:54)
- 23 Hours Too Long (5:07)
- Pontiac Blues (3:49)
- Take It Easy Baby (version 1) (5:41)
- Out On The Water Coast (3:08)
- I Don't Care No More (3:43)
- Do The Weston (3:00)
- Take It Easy Baby (version 2) (4:12)

Otis Spann, # p, ## voc, p
cover photo by Stephanie Wiesand

notes by Mick Martin

Evidence ECD 26071-2 (US 1995)

79a

1996

Blues You Hate To Lose

Otis Spann - Country Boy Blues
Robert Lockwood Jr. - Take A Little Walk With Me
Memphis Slim - El Capitan
Sammy Price - How Long Blues
Lightnin' Hopkins - It's Your Own Fault
Jazz Gillum - New Key To The Highway
Arbee Stidham - Bad Luck And Troubles
Jimmy Witherspoon - In The Evening
Art Hodes - Mamie's Blues
Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry - See See Rider
Lowell Fulson - I've Been Mistreated
Louis Jordan - I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
Big Bill Broonzy - It's A Low Down Dirty Shame
Carrie Smith - When I've Been Drinkin'
Bo Diddley - Bring It To Jerome
Muddy Waters -Goin' Down Slow

Emporio EMPRCD 661 (EU 1996)

1997

Chicago Blues Masters Vol. 3

World Pacific WPS 21887 / Liberty LBS 83218 track sequence:
- Mellow Down Easy *
- Can't Hold Out Much Longer
- My Babe *
- Juke #
- West Helena Woman #

- Tell Me Mama #
- Last Night #
- You Better Watch Yourself #
- Key To The Highway #
- Everything Gonna Be Alright # *
- Too Late *

Capitol CD 36288 track sequence:
disc 1:
Shakey Jake Harris
- Everything Gonna Be Alright
- Hold That Bus, Conductor
- Stollin' The Strip
- Respect Me Baby
- I Will Always Love You
- Three Times Seven
- Father On Up The Road
- A Hard Road To Travel
- Save Your Money, Baby
- Too Hot To Hold
- Long Distance Call
- Don't Answer The Door
- Love Me Baby
- Chains Of Love
James Cotton
- Sky Is Falling
- Long Distance Operator
- I'm A Free Man
- Can't Live Without Love
- Kiddy Boy
disc 2:
George Smith
- Mellow Down Easy
- Can't Hold On Much Longer
- My Babe
- Juke
- West Helena Woman
- Tell Me Mama
- Last Night
- You Better Watch Yourself
- Key To The Highway
- Everything's Gonna Be Alright
- Too Late
- Love With A Feelin' #
- Goin' Down Slow
- Just A Feelin'
James Cotton
- She Moves Me
- Tonight I Wanna Love Me A Stranger
- Nose Open
- Goodbye My Lady
- Georgia Swing

# Lucille Spann, voc~~; George 'Harmonica' Smith, hca~~
compiled by Billy Vera

BGOCD 1035 bonus tracks (from 1979)
- Goin' Down Slow
- Just A Feelin'
- Love With A Feelin' (Lucille Spann, voc)

rec. October 2-4, 1968 at Liberty Studios, Los Angeles; George Smith, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Muddy Waters, g; Lawrence 'Little Sonny' Wimberley, b; S.P. Leary, d; # Marshall Hooks, g; * Luther Johnson, g; prod. by Steve LaVere & Pete Welding

BGOCD 1035 remastered by Andrew Thompson

notes by Pete Welding

World Pacific WPS 21887 (US 1969) "George Smith & The Chicago Blues Band: Blues With A Feeling"

= Liberty LBS 83218 (UK 1969) "George Smith & The Chicago Blues Band: Blues With A Feeling"

2 CD set
notes by Keith Briggs

(=) Capitol CD 36288 (US 1997) "Chicago Blues Masters Vol. 3"

orig. notes by Pete Welding plus new notes by Tony Russell

(=) Beat Goes On BGOCD 1035 (UK 2012) "George Smith & The Chicago Blues Band: Blues With A Feeling" ("digitally remastered and slipcased")

1997

Muddy Waters & Friends: Goin' Way Back

- Gypsy Woman § //
- Little Anna Mae § //
- My Home Is On The Delta [sic] § //
- Take A Little Walk § //
- Mean Disposition # § //
- Laverne (Why Do You Treat Me So Mean?) * //
- Leavin' In The Mornin' * //
- Got A Sweet Little Girl # * //
- Bad Lovin' Trouble [] #
- Nothin' Bother Me [] #
- Crazy 'Bout You Baby # \\ //

rec. October 18, 1967 at 624 Prince Arthur Street Rooming House in Montreal, Québec, Canada; Muddy Waters, voc, § g; [] Otis Spann, voc, ac g; George 'Mojo' Buford, # hca, \\ voc; * Luther 'Georgia Boy-Snake' Johnson, voc, g; // Sammy Lawhorn, g; Lawrence 'Little Sonny' Wimberley, b; S.P. Leary, dr; executive producer: Jim West; reissue producer: Michael Nerenberg

notes by Michael Nerenberg

Just A Memory JAM CD 9130-2 (Ca 1997)

81a

6/1997

Chess Blues Piano Greats
The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection

disc 1
Eddie Boyd
- 24 Hours
- Got Lonesome Here
- I Got The Blues
- I Began To Sing The Blues °°
- Rosa Lee Swing
- Blues For Baby
- Hard Time Gettin' Started
- Third Degree
- Just A Fool
- Rattin' And Running Around
- Hush Baby, Don't You Cry
- Instrumental (tk 2) (instr) (=? Back Beat, tk 2) °°
- Picture In The Frame
- Nothing But Trouble
- Got Me Seein' Double
- What's The Matter Baby? °°
- Life Gets To Be A Burden
- Hotel Blues °°
- Come On Home
- Five Long Years °°
Otis Spann
- It Must Have Been The Devil
- Five Spot (instr)
- I'm Leaving You
- I'm In Love With You Baby

disc 2
Willie Mabon
- Don't Know
- Worry Blues
- I'm Mad
- Got To Have It
- Monday Woman
- I Got To Go
- Life Could Be Miserable °°
- Late Again
- Willie's Blues
- Say Man
- Poison Ivy
- Wow! I Feel So Good
- The Seventh Son
- Lucinda °°
- Someday You Will Have To Pay
- He Lied
- Knock On Wood
- I Love My Baby °°
Lafayette Leake
- Slow Leake
- Wrinkles (live)
- Swiss Boogie (live)

compiled by Andy McKaie with Don Snowdon; prod. by Andy McKaie
cover photo by Ray Flerlage

°° previously unreleased (in the USA)

2 CD set
notes by Don Snowdon

MCA/Chess CHD2-9385 (US 6/1997)

Eddie Boyd discography
Willie Mabon discography

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)

1997

Otis Spann with Muddy Waters and his Band: Live The Life

- Been A Long, Long Time (4:23) # *
- Look Under My Bed (4:26) # *
- Tribute To Martin Luther King (4:40) # *
- Sarah Street (6:24) # *
- Worried Life Blues (4:00) # *
- Kansas City (4:11) || #
- Tin Pan Alley (7:29) || #
- 5 Long Years (7:32) ||
- Live The Life I Love ||(3:21)
- I Wanna Go Home (5:59) || §
- Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had (3:37) || *
- High Rising (instr) (4:36) ||
- Everything's Gonna Be Alright (2:09) # *
- What's On Your Worried Mind (2:27) # *
- Mean Old Train (3:03) \\ @ youtube
- My Baby Left Me (2:55) // @ youtube

rec. c. 1968 live, unknown location; Otis Spann, p, # lead voc; Muddy Waters, || voc, * g; prob. Paul Oscher, hca; prob. Sammy Lawhorn, Pee Wee Madison, g; Sonny Wimberley, b; S.P. Leary. dr; § Charles Morganfield & others, chorus
\\ rec. November 17, 1963 (?) in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, g; Slim Willis, hca; Otis Spann, p; Robert Whitehead, dr
// rec. May 1964 in Chicago, IL; Slim Willis, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Johnny Young, g; Robert Whitehead, dr

notes by Frank Scott

Testament TCD-6001 (US 1997)

Testament Records discography

2000

Otis Spann: Last Call
Live at Boston Tea Party, April 2, 1970

- Country Girl
- Get On Down To The Nitty Gritty #
- Long Distance Call #
- I Got My Mojo Working #
- Chains Of Love
- Stomp With Spann
- My Baby (Sweet As An Apple) §
- I Wonder Why
- My Man

hidden track:
- Blues For Otis (Peter Malick, voc, g)

rec. April 2-4, 1970 in Boston, MA; Otis Spann, p; Lucille Spann, voc; Luther 'Georgia Boy' / 'Snake' Johnson, # g + voc, § g; Peter Malick, g; Ted Parkins, b; Richard Ponte, dr; prod by Peter Malick

notes by Peter Malick

Mr. Cat Music MCAT 1014

= Conqueroot CD 2001

2001

Newport Folk Festival
Best of the Blues 1959-68

disc 1:
Mississippi John Hurt
- Sliding Delta
- Candy Man
- Coffee Blues
- Stagger Lee
- Here I Am Lord Send Me
- Pallet On Your Floor
Skip James
- Devil Got My Woman (3:23)
- Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
Son House
- Preaching Blues
- Death Letter Blues
- Empire State Express
- Son Blues
Bukka White
- Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Louise
- If The River Was Whiskey
Muddy Waters (solo)
- Walkin' Blues [Vanguard VCD2-77005]
- I Can't Be Satisfied [Vanguard VCD2-77005]

disc 2:
Robert Pete Williams
- Levee Camp Blues
- Midnight Boogie
- On My Way From Texas
Mance Lipscomb
- Freddie
- So Different Blues
- God Moves On The Water (The Sinking Of The Titanic)
Jesse Fuller
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Double Double Do Love You
Rev. Gary Davis
- Samson And Delilah
- I Won't Be Back No More
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
- Intro/The Train Is Leaving °°
- Drink Muddy Water °°
- Long Gone
- Key To The Highway
- My Baby Done Changed The Lock On The Door
Sleepy John Estes
- Clean Up At Home

disc 3:
Lightnin' Hopkins
- Woman I'm Lovin' She's Taken My Appetite
- Baby Please Don't Go
Lightnin' Hopkins & Samuel Lay
- Shake That Thing
John Lee Hooker & Bill Lee
- Tupelo
- Bus Station Blues
- Let's Make It °°
- Great Fire Of Natchez °°
- Boom Boom °°
- I Can't Quit You Baby / Stop Now Baby
Memphis Slim
- How Long °°
- Black Cat Crossed My Path °°
- Harlem Bound °°
- Piano Instrumental °°
Muddy Waters & Otis Spann
- Blow Wind Blow °° @ youtube
- Flood (= "Clouds In My Heart") °° @ youtube
Chambers Brothers
- CC Rider
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- Blues With A Feeling
- Born In Chicago °°

compilation prod. by Tom Vickers
front cover painting by Meredith Steele
°° 12 previously unreleased tracks

3 CD set
notes by John Milward

Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2 (US 2001)

2002

Colin James presents THE BLUES MASTERS

@ youtube (full album)

- I've Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters
- Blues Don't Like Nobody - Otis Spann
- How Long Has That Train Been Gone - Mable Hillery @ youtube
- Cornbread And Peas - Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee
- Hooray, These Women Is Killin' Me - Sonny Terry
- Born And Livin' With The Blues - Brownie McGhee
- Tin Pan Alley Blues - Sunnyland Slim
- T'aint Nobody's Business If I Do - Otis Spann
- Crazy For My Baby - Willie Dixon/Sunnyland Slim/Colin James
- Bassology - Willie Dixon
- You Can't Lose What You Never Had - Muddy Waters
- Bye Bye Baby, Goodbye - Muddy Waters

A re-edited version of a "Festival" series programme originally recorded by CBC in a Toronto studio over three days in 1966

DVD

Sanctuary Visual Entertainment SDE 2022 (US 2002)

2003

Roots Of The Blues

disc 1 "Folk Blues":
Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:47)
The Chambers Brothers - See See Rider (3:08)
John Hammond - Statesboro Blues (3:39)
Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (3:53)
Dave Van Ronk - Cocaine (3:46)
Buffy Sainte-Marie - You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond (2:51) °°
Spider John Koerner - Traveling Blues (4:44)
Bill Monroe - Blue Yodel # 4 (2:43)
Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Maria Muldaur - Richland Woman (4:19)
Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Geoff & Maria Muldaur - Chevrolet (3:51)
Sam & Kirk McGee - Milk Cow Blues (2:31) °°
Tony Glover - I Dont Need No Whiskey (4:30) °°
Josh White - What You Gonna Do When Your Meat Gives Out (1:49) °°
Eric Von Schmidt - Grizzly Bear (4:34)
Mance Lipscomb - Keep On Truckin' Mama (1:35) °°

disc 2 "Delta & Country Blues":
Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53)
Rev. Gary Davis - You Got To Move (5:50)
Skip James - I'm So Glad (1:53)
Son House - Empire State Express (3:50)
Bukka White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (4:45)
Mississippi Fred McDowell - If The River Was Whiskey (2:34)
Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied (2:53)
Odetta - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (2:13)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key To The Highway (3:37)
Sleepy John Estes - Clean Up At Home (2:59)
Mance Lipscomb - Freddie (1:50)
Memphis Slim - How Long (2:59)
Robert Pete Williams - Midnight Boogie (3:25) [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VSD 77/78, Vanguard CD 70193-2, Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube
Eddie Boyd & Willie Dixon - Five Long Years (2:22)
Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (5:12)

disc 3 "Urban Blues":
Junior Wells - Messin' With The Kid (2:21)
Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby (3:14)
J.B. Hutto & The Hawks - Going Ahead (2:03)
Otis Spann - Marie (2:28)
James Cotton - Rocket 88 (2:03)
Homesick James And His Dusters - Dust My Broom (3:17)
Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band - One More Time (2:26)
The Johnny Shines Blues Band - If I Get Lucky (3:23)
Buddy Guy - One Room Country Shack (5:30)
Muddy Waters with Otis Spann - Blow Wind Blow (3:09)
Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go (2:37)
Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Blues With A Feeling (3:55)
Charlie Musselwhite - Juke (4:18)
Big Mama Thornton - Ball And Chain (6:48)
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom (3:01)

compilation prod. by Tom Vickers; cover design by Ann Smalley; photography by David Gahr

°° previously unreleased tracks

3-CD Set
notes by Ed Ward

Vanguard 3VCD 208-10 (Germany 2002)
= Vanguard CD 79715 (US 2003)

2004

Windy City Blues

Willie Dixon Band / Albert King
- The Lovin'est Woman In Town
- Put It All In There
- Need More Mamma
- Love Me To Death
Otis Spann
- Dust My Broom
- Must Have Been The Devil
Willie Dixon
- Move Me
- That's My Baby
Billy Boy Arnold
- Two Drinks of Wine
- Playing With The Blues
- Billy Boy's Blues
Sunnyland Slim
- The Devil Is A Busy Man
- Every Time I Get To Drinking
- Tired Of You Clowning
Homesick James
- Gotta Move (alt tk) [Prestige unissued]
- The Cloud Is Cryin' (alt tk) [Prestige unissued]
- Homesick's Shuffle (alt tk) [Prestige unissued]

Fantasy/Stax SCD 8612

2004

I Blueskvarter Chicago 1964, Volume Three

CD One:
Snooks Eaglin
- Yours Truly @ Spotify
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie @ Spotify
- My Babe @ Spotify
- Let Me Go Home, Whiskey @ Spotify
- Careless Love @ Spotify
- Rock Island Line @ Spotify
- C.C. Rider @ Spotify
- I'm Looking For A Woman @ Spotify
- Hello Dolly @ Spotify
- Lonesome Road @ Spotify
Babe Stovall
- Good Morning Blues @ Spotify
- Candy Man @ Spotify
- Fo' Day Blues @ Spotify
- Gonna Move To Kansas City @ Spotify
Johnny Moment
- Keep Our Business To Yourself @ Spotify
- You Got To Mind How To Treat Someone Else @ Spotify
Will Shade
- I Got The Blues So Bad @ youtube @ Spotify
- I Can't Stand It @ youtube @ Spotify
Furry Lewis
- Baby, I Know You Don't Love Me @ Spotify
Earl Bell
- Travellin' Man @ Spotify
- Terraplane Blues @ Spotify
Moose Williams
- Mother Keep Your Light Burning High In The Window @ Spotify

CD Two:
Willie Mabon
- Somebody's Got To Pay @ Spotify
Big Walter Horton
- West Side Blues @ Spotify
- Tin Pan Alley @ Spotify
- This Is It @ Spotify
Sunnyland Slim
- Prison Bound @ Spotify
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- Hot Potatoes @ Spotify
- One Room Country Shack @ Spotify
Little Brother Montgomery
- Vicksburg Blues @ Spotify
Johnny Young
- You Got Bad Blood, I Think You Need A Shot @ Spotify
Washboard Sam
- Mama Don't Allow @ Spotify
Big Joe Williams
- Rootin' Groundhog @ Spotify
- Southern Blues @ Spotify
- King's Highway Blues @ Spotify
Champion Jack Dupree
- Improvisations and Interview 1 @ Spotify
- Drive 'em Down Special @ Spotify
- Improvisations and Interview 2 @ Spotify
- I Feel Like A Millionaire @ Spotify
- Improvisations and Interview 3 @ Spotify
- Barrelhouse Woman @ Spotify
- Improvisations and Interview 4 @ Spotify

Snooks Eaglin tracks rec. June 2, 1964 in New Orleans, LA
Babe Stovall tracks rec. June 2, 1964 at the Art Gallery, St. Peter Street, New Orleans, LA
Johnny Moment, Will Shade, Furry Lewis, Earl Bell, and Moose Williams rec. May 26, 1964 at Will Shade's apartment, Memphis, TN
CD 2 tracks rec. May 1964 at Southerland Lounge, Chicago, IL
Johnny Young track rec. May 23, 1964 at Southerland Lounge, Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, g; Slim Willis, hca; Otis Spann, p; Robert Whitehead, dr
except
Big Joe Williams tracks rec. May 18, 1961 at Willie Dixon's home in Chicago,IL
Champion Jack Dupree tracks rec. January 26, 1964 at Sveriges Radio, Karlaplansstudion in Stockholm, Sweden

2 CD set
notes writer's name not given, most likely Leif Gäverth

Jefferson Records SBACD 12658/9 (Sweden 2004)

2006

Otis Spann: The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions

CD 1:
- Can't Do Me No Good [Blue Horizon 57-3142]
- Bloody Murder [Blue Horizon 57-3142]
- Someday Soon Baby
- Hungry Country Girl
- My Love Depends On You
- Walkin'
- It Was A Big Thing
- Temperature Is Rising (100.2°F)
- Dig You
- No More Doggin'
- Ain't Nobody's Business
- She Needs Some Loving
- I Need Some Air
- Someday Baby

CD 2:
- No More Doggin' (tk 1) [previously unreleased]
- No More Doggin' (tk 2, false start plus tk 3) [previously unreleased]
- I Need Some Air (tk 2, false start plus tk 2) [previously unreleased]
- Walkin' (tk 1 & 2, false start plus tk 3) [previously unreleased]
- Walkin' (tk 4) [previously unreleased]
- Blues For Hippies (tk 1, complete master version/remix]
- Temperature Is Rising (98.8°F) (tk 1, single master version/remix]
- Someday Baby (tk 1, 2 & 3, false start plus tk 4) [previously unreleased]
- Someday Baby (tk 5) [previously unreleased]
- Someday Baby (tk 6) [previously unreleased]
- She Needs Some Loving (tk 1) [previously unreleased]
- Dig You (tk 1) [previously unreleased]
- Dig You (tk 2, false start plus tk 3) [previously unreleased]
- She's Out Of Sight (tk 1 & 2, false start plus tk 3) [previously unreleased] @ youtube

prod. by Mike Vernon

2 CD set

Blue Horizon/Columbia 82876822902

2011

We're Gonna Boogie

Lefty Dizz - We're Gonna Booogie
John Littlejohn - Shake Your Money Maker
Poor Bob - The Sun Is Rising
West Virginia Slim Electric Blues Band - Only Sixteen
Richard Riggins - Dust My Broom
Willie Williams - Wine Head Woman
Prez Kenneth - I Am The Man Downstairs
Luke "Long Gone" Miles - Hello Josephine
Prez Kenneth - I Am Looking For My Baby
Model "T" Slim - Shake Your Boogie
Cliff Jackson - Nine Below Zero
Model "T" Slim - Jackson Tennessee
Big Jack Reynolds - I Had A Little Dog
Poor Bob - Ain't Got A Lousy Dime
Otis Spann - You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
Johnny Young and Big Walter - Don't You Lie To Me
Homesick James - Crutch And Cane
John Littlejohn - Bloody Tears
Alabama Watson - Cost Time
West Virginia Slim Electric Blues Band - I Love You

Crawdad CD-001

2012

Otis Spann: Ebony And Ivory Blues

CD 1:
- It Must Have Been The Devil (2:44) [Checker 807]
- Five Spot (2:46) [Checker 807]
- I'm Leaving You (2:42) [Chess/P-Vine PLP-6022]
- I'm In Love With You Baby (2:35) [Chess/P-Vine PLP-6022]
- Worried Life Blues (4:19) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001]
- This Is The Blues (3:09) [Barnaby KZ 31290]
- Beat-Up Team (5:59) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001]
- The Hard Way (5:03) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001]
- Country Boy (4:24) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001]
- My Home Is On The Delta (3:11) [Barnaby KZ 31290]
- It Must Have Been The Devil (3:43) [Barnaby KZ 31290]
- Rambling On My Mind [# 2] (4:03) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001]
- Take A Little Walk With Me (3:26) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001]
- Little Boy Blue (3:40) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001]
- My Daily Wish (4:26) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001]
- Great Northern Stomp (4:13) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001]
- Otis In The Dark (4:35) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001]
- Walkin' The Blues (4:56) [Barnaby KZ 31290]
- Cow Cow Blues (4:16) (~~= Great Northern Stomp~~) [Mosaic MR5-139]
- Spann And Bob (3:19) [Picc-A-Dilly 3488]

CD 2:
- Monkey Face Blues (4:56) [Barnaby KZ31290] []
- One Doggone Reason (2:40) [Mosaic MR5-139]
- Strange Woman Blues (3:51) [Picc-A-Dilly 3488]
- It Hurts Me Too (4:56) [Picc-A-Dilly 3488]
- Baby Child (tk 5?) (4:04) [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488]
- Talkin The Blues (tk 3?) (5:20) [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488]
- Can't Stand Your Evil Ways (tk 2) (3:43) [Mosaic MR5-139]
- Otis Blues (Spann piano blues) (4:15) [Barnaby KZ 31290]
- Half Ain't Been Told (4:39) [Barnaby KZ 31290]
- Going Down Slow (3:57) [Barnaby KZ 31290]
- The Girl I Love (3:47) [Mosaic MR5-139]
- Bad Condition (4:20) [Barnaby KZ31290]
- Come Day, Go Day (tk 2?) (4:10) [Barnaby KZ31290]
- Got My Mojo Working (4:27) (Muddy Waters, voc)
- Evil (Is Going On) (2:51) (Howling Wolf, voc) [Chess 1575]
- No Money Down (2:59) (Chuck Berry, voc, g)
- I'm A Man (3:00) (Bo Diddley, voc, g; Billy Boy Arnold, hca) [Checker 814]
- As Long As I Have You (2:39) (Walter Horton, voc, hca)
- Let Me Love You Baby (2:52) (Buddy Guy, voc, g; Junior Wells, hca)
- Don't Start Me Talking (2:36) (Sonny Boy Williamson II)

2 CD set
notes by Alfie Falckenbach

Music Avenue/Blues Boulevard 250308 (EU 2012)

2016

Jimmy Rogers: Chicago Bound
Complete Solo Chess Records As & Bs 1950-1959

@ youtube (full album)

- That's All Right (with Little Walter) (2:46)
- Ludella (with Little Walter) (2:50)
- Goin' Away Baby (with Little Walter & Muddy Waters) (2:41)
- Today Today Blues (with Little Walter & Muddy Waters) (3:07)
- The World's In A Tangle (with His Rocking Four) (2:54)
- She Loves Another Man (with His Rocking Four) (2:51)
- Money, Marbles And Chalk (with Little Walter) (3:15)
- Chance To Love (with Little Walter) (3:17)
- I Used To Have A Woman (3:09)
- Back Door Friend (3:08)
- Last Time (with Muddy Waters & Willie Dixon) (2:41)
- Out On The Road (with Muddy Waters & Willie Dixon) (2:50)
- Left Me With A Broken Heart (with Little Walter & Muddy Waters) (2:54)
- Act Like You Love Me (with His Rocking Four) (2:58)
- Chicago Bound (with His Rocking Four) (2:38)
- Sloppy Drunk (with His Rocking Four) (3:00)
- Blues Leave Me Alone (with His Rocking Four) (3:05)
- You're The One (with Little Walter & Willie Dixon) (2:28)
- If It Ain't Me (Who Are You Thinking Of) (with Otis Spann & Willie Dixon) (2:01)
- Walking By Myself (with Otis Spann & Willie Dixon) (2:45)
- One Kiss (2:42)
- I Can't Believe (2:43)
- What Have I Done (with Otis Spann & Willie Dixon) (2:40)
- Trace Of You (with Otis Spann & Willie Dixon) (2:28)
- My Last Meal (with Otis Spann & Willie Dixon) (3:04)
- Rock This House (with Otis Spann & Willie Dixon) (2:47)

Jasmine JASMCD 3054 (UK 2016)

2017

Down Home Blues - Chicago - Fine Boogie

CD 1:
James McCain - I Got To Check Up On My Baby(3:32)
James McCain - Good Morning Mr. Roosevelt (2:40)
Bluesboy Bill - Come On Babe (2:28)
Johnny Shines - Tennessee Woman Blues (2:51)
Muddy Waters - Jitterbug Blues (2:52)
Muddy Waters - Burying Ground Blues (2:45)
Muddy Waters - Hard Day Blues (2:50)
John Sellers - Let Me Be Your Sidetrack (2:47)
Willie "Long Time" Smith - My Buddy Doctor Clayton (3:04)
Willie "Long Time" Smith - I Love You Baby Boogie (3:09)
Little Walter with Othum Brown - Ora Nelle Blues (2:37)
Little Walter - I Just Keep Loving Her (2:29)
Jimmy Rogers - Little Store Blues (2:37)
Johnny Young - Money Taking Woman (2:35)
Johnny Temple - Old '98' Blues (2:25)
Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied (2:43)
St. Louis Jimmy - Florida Hurricane (2:57)
Delta Joe aka Sunnyland Slim - Train Time (3:19)
Delta Joe aka Sunnyland Slim - Roll Tumble And Slip (3:25)
Floyd Jones - Stockyard Blues (2:54)
Floyd Jones - Keep What You Got (2:22)
Little Walter - Blue Baby (2:17)
Little Walter - I Want My Baby (2:48)
Robert Nighthawk with Ethel Mae Brown - Down The Line (2:50)
The Nighthawks - She Knows How To Love A Woman (3:09
Big Maceo - One Sunday Morning (2:52)
Big Maceo - Just Tell Me Baby (2:29)

CD 2:
Pete Franklin - Down Behind The Rise (3:12)
Pete Franklin - Casey Brown Blues (3:15)
Mildred White - Kind Hearted Woman (2:52)
Mildred White - Cutting Out On Me (2:57)
Muddy Waters - Last Time I Fool Around With You (2:39)
Muddy Waters - You Gonna Need my Help (3:04)
Baby Face Leroy - My Head Can't Rest Anymore (3:16)
Baby Face Leroy - Take A Little Walk With Me (3:10)
Gray Haired Bill - Gertrude (2:38)
Gray Haired Bill - I'm A Hard Working Man (2:59)
The Nighthawks - Black Angel Blues (3:05)
Jimmy Rogers - Ludella (2:42)
Muddy Waters - Rollin' Stone (3:03)
Floyd Jones - Dark Road (3:15)
Floyd Jones - Overseas (2:13)
Floyd Jones - Playhouse (2:45)
Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call (2:41)
Muddy Waters - All Night Long (3:50)
J.B. Lenoir - Let's Roll (2:52)
Howlin' Wolf - Howling Wolf Boogie (2:40)
Johnny Shines - Ramblin' (2:32)
Johnny Shines - Ain't Doin' No Good (2:36)
Snooky Pryor - Fine Boogie (3:04)
Memphis Minnie - Conjur Man (2:59)
Little Walter - Juke (3:00)
Little Walter - Can't Hold Out Much Longer (2:55)

CD 3:
Elmore James - She Just Won't Do Right (3:04)
Elmore James - My Best Friend (3:22)
Elmore James - Whose Muddy Shoes (3:17)
Baby Face Leroy - Blues Is Killin' Me (3:04)
Baby Face Leroy - Late Hours At Midnight (3:11)
Blue Smitty - Crying (3:03)
Blue Smitty - Date Bait (2:37)
Jimmy Rogers - Mistreated Baby (3:30)
Jimmy Rogers - What's The Matter (3:17)
Homesick James - Whiskey Headed Woman (2:48)
Little Walter - Blue Midnight (3:04)
Johnny Williams - Silver Haired Woman (2:47)
Johnny Williams - Fat Mouth (2:39)
Jimmy Reed - You Don't Have To Go (3:06)
Jimmy Rogers - Act Like You Love Me (3:03)
Homesick James - Homesick (3:08)
Homesick James - Late Hours At Midnight (2:52)
Billy Boy Arnold - Hello Stranger (2:53)
Billy Boy Arnold - I Ain't Got No Money (2:31)
Johnny Shines - Evening Shuffle (2:16)
J.B. Lenoir - The Mojo (2:53)
J.B. Lenoir - Slow Down Woman (3:24)
Howlin' Wolf - You Gonna Wreck My Life (2:37)
Big Boy Spires - Someday little Darling (3:11)
Big Boy Spires - Rhythm Rock Boogie (2:38)
Memphis Minnie - Kissing In The Dark (2:32)

CD 4:
Sonny Boy Williamson - Work With Me (2:56)
Sonny Boy Williamson - You Killing Me (3:24)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Start Me Talkin' (2:36)
John Brim - Ice Cream Man (2:49)
John Brim - Life Time Baby (3:06)
Lazy Bill - My Baby's Gone (2:45)
Lazy Bill - I Can't Sleep, I Can't Eat (2:50)
Albert King - Little Boy Blue (2:45)
Albert King - Sweet Woman (2:59)
Sunnyland Slim - Trouble Of My Own (3:04)
Sunnyland Slim - Worried About My Baby (3:01)
Henry Gray - I Declare That Ain't Right (3:09)
Henry Gray - Matchbox Blues (3:25)
J.B. Hutto - Price Of Love (3:02)
Big Boy Spires - Tired Of Being Mistreated (2:30)
Sunnyland Slim - I Done You Wrong (3:04)
Sunnyland Slim - Be My Baby (2:55)
Little Walter - Got To Find My Baby (3:09)
J.B. Lenoir - Eisenhower Blues (2:32)
Dusty Brown - Yes She's Gone (2:41)
Dusty Brown - He Don't Love You (3:15)
Dusty Brown - Rusty Dusty (2:47)
Jimmy Rogers - You're The One (2:37)
Billy Boy Arnold - Sweet On You Baby (2:36)
Billy Boy Arnold - You Got To Love Me (2:29)
Jimmy Reed - You Upset My Mind (2:53)
Jimmy Reed - Come On Baby (2:40)

CD 5:
Elmore James - The Twelve Year Old Boy (3:07)
Elmore James - Coming Home (2:27)
Elmore James - It Hurts Me Too (3:06)
John Brim -Go Away (2:45)
John Brim - That Ain't Right (2:51)
Birmingham Junior - Birmingham Late Hours (2:30)
Birmingham Junior - You're Too Bad (2:31)
Howlin' Wolf - Break Of day (2:48)
Howlin' Wolf - Bluebird (3:35)
Howlin' Wolf - You Ought To Know (3:22)
Otis Spann - I'm Leaving You (2:42)
Otis Spann - I'm In Love With You Baby (2:40)
Snooky Pryor - Someone To Love Me (2:37)
Snooky Pryor - Judgement Day (2:47)
Snooky Pryor - You Tried To Ruin Me Baby (2:02)
Po' Joe Williams - Kings Highway (2:27)
Po' Joe Williams - Eula Mae (2:50)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Lose Your Eye (3:04)
Sonny Boy Williamson - I Wonder Why (1:34)
Sonny Boy Williamson - I Know What Love Is All About (2:42)
Jimmy Reed - When You Left Me (2:37)
Jimmy Reed - It's You Baby (2:27)
Jimmy Reed - Do The Thing (2:47)
Sonny Boy Williamson - The Key To Your Door (2:37)
John Brim - I Would Hate To See You Go (2:46)
John Brim - You Got Me Where You Want Me (3:02)
Eddie Boyd - 24 Hours Of Fear (2:34)
Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years (2:46)

88-pp. book by Mike Rowe

5 CD set

Wienerworld WNRCD5100 (US/EU 2017)

2018

Otis Spann: In Session - Diary Of A Chicago Bluesman 1953-1960

CD 1:
MUDDY WATERS 1. BLOW WIND, BLOW 2. MAD LOVE MUDDY WATERS 3. I'M YOUR HOOCHIE COOCHIE MAN 4. SHE'S SO PRETTY THE HOWLIN WOLF 5. ROCKIN' DADDY JUNIOR WELLS 6. 'BOUT THE BREAK OF DAY 7. LAWDY! LAWDY! 8. SO, ALL ALONE LITTLE WALTER 9. I GOT TO FIND MY BABY HOWLIN WOLF 10. BABY HOW LONG? 11. EVIL IS GOIN' ON LITTLE WALTER 12. YOU'D BETTER WATCH YOURSELF HOWLIN' WOLF 13. I'LL BE AROUND OTIS SPANN 14. IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE DEVIL 15. FIVE SPOT BO DIDDLEY 16. I'M A MAN 17. BO DIDDLEY 'SONNY BOY' WILLIAMSON or SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON 18. DON'T START ME TALKIN' 19. ALL MY LOVE IN VAIN CHUCK BERRY 20. YOU CAN'T CATCH ME 21. NO MONEY DOWN 'SONNY BOY' WILLIAMSON or SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON 22. LET ME EXPLAIN 23. YOUR IMAGINATION OTIS SPANN 24. I'M LEAVING YOU 25. I'M IN LOVE WITH YOU BABY BO DIDDLEY 26. COPS AND ROBBERS

CD 2:
OTIS SPANN 1. BOOGIE WOOGIE 2. SLOW BLUES 3. JUMP BLUES JOHN LEE HOOKER 4. IT'S MY OWN FAULT 5. MAUDIE 6. I WANNA WALK 7. I WISH YOU WERE HERE OTIS SPANN 8. GREAT NORTHERN STOMP 9. OTIS IN THE DARK 10. WORRIED LIFE BLUES 11. COUNTRY BOY 12. THE HARD WAY 13. BEAT-UP TEAM 14. TAKE A LITTLE WALK WITH ME 15. I GOT RAMBLING ON MY MIND 16. LITTLE BOY BLUE 17. MY DAILY WISH

2 CD set

Jasmine JASMCD 3131 (UK 2018)

7/2019

Down Home Blues - Chicago Volume 2 - Sweet Home Chicago

CD 1:
James Clark - Who But You (2:41)
Memphis Jimmy - Drifting (3:20)
Johnny Shines - Delta Pine Blues (3:03)
Johnny Shines - Ride, Ride Mama (2:55)
Johnny Shines - Evil-Hearted Woman Blues (2:50)
Homer Harris - I'm Gonna Cut Your Head (2:56)
Homer Harris - Tomorrow Will Be Too Late (3:06)
Willie "Long Time" Smith - Due Respects To You (3:27)
Willie "Long Time" Smith - No Special Rider Here (3:03)
'Blues Boy' Bill - "Little Boy" Blue (3:14)
Muddy Waters - Burying Ground Blues (alt tk) (2:33)
James (Beal Street) Clark - Come To Me Baby (2:51)
James (Beal Street) Clark - You Can't Make The Grade (2:55)
Herman Ray - Xmas Blues (2:44)
Forest City Joe - Special Delivery Man (2:52)
Forest City Joe -. Shady Lane Woman (3:02)
Homer Harris - Atomic Bomb Blues (2:34)
Homer Harris - Tomorrow Will Be Too Late (3:08)
Willie "Long Time" Smith - Devilment On My Mind (2:57)
Willie "Long Time" Smith - Homeless Blues (3:12)
Forest City Joe - Mean Mistreatin' Woman (2:52)
Forest City Joe - Lonesome Day Blues (2:51)
Dirty Red - Mother Fuyer (2:28)
Dirty Red - You Done Me Wrong (3:14)
Pete Franklin - Mr. Charley (3:10)
Big Bill Broonzy - Water Coast Blues (2:46)

CD 2:
Muddy Waters - Hard Days (2:41)
Muddy Waters - Burying Ground (2:38
Floyd Jones - School Days (2:51
Tampa Red - Come On, If You're Coming (2:53)
Tampa Red - I'll Find My Way (2:39)
Johnny Temple - Between Midnight And Day (2:36)
Johnny Temple - Sit Right On It (2:22)
Jimmy Rogers - Hard Working Man (3:22)
Jimmy Rogers - My Little Machine (3:12)
Jimmy Rogers - Crying Shame (2:50)
Robert Lockwood Jr. - Glory For Man (2:30)
Robert Lockwood Jr. - My Daily Wish (2:43)
Howling Wolf - How Many More Years (alt tk) (2:47)
Howling Wolf - Just My Kind (2:53)
Memphis Minnie - Broken Heart (2:37)
Memphis Minnie - Lake Michigan (3:00)
Memphis Minnie - Me And My Chauffeur (alt tk) (2:54)
Muddy Waters - Lonesome Day (3:32)
Muddy Waters - Stuff You Gotta Watch (2:52)
Blue Smitty - Crying (2:45)
Blue Smitty - Elgin Movement (3:27)
Memphis Minnie - In Love Again (2:32)
Memphis Minnie - What A Night (3:00)
Rocky Fuller - Funeral Hearse At My Door (3:17)
Little Walter - Driftin' (alt tk) (3:09)
Little Walter - Off The Wall (alt tk) (2:59)

CD 3:
Honey Boy Edwards - Sweet Home Chicago (tk 2) (3:03)
Honey Boy Edwards - Drop Down Mama (2:39)
Henry Gray - I Declare That Ain't Right (tk 4) (2:34)
Big Boy Spires - My Baby Left Me (2:36)
Little Walter - That's It (3:14)
Little Walter - That's It (edited) (2:47)
Little Walter - Blues With A Feeling (alt tk) (2:57)
Elmore James - I See My Baby (3:07)
Elmore James - Country Boogie (2:43)
Lazy Bill - I Had A Dream (alt tk) (2:57)
Lazy Bill - She Got Me Walkin' (alt tk) (3:08)
Albert King - Little Boy Blue (alt tk) (2:41)
Albert King - Hand Me Down (Sweet Woman) (2:58)
Albert King - Murder (2:59)
Morris Pejoe - Untitled Instrumental (2:23)
Morris Pejoe - Hurt My Feelings (2:55)
Homesick James - Lonesome Blues (2:23)
Homesick James - 12th St Station (2:44)
Homesick James - Long Lonesome Days (2:26)
Gus Jenkins - Eight Ball (3:12)
Muddy Waters - (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man (alt tk) (2:48)
Otis Spann - It Must Have Been The Devil (2:43)
Otis Spann - Five Spot (2:45)
Little Walter - I Love You So (Oh Baby) (2:35)
Little Walter - Last Night (first tk) (2:56)
Henry Gray - Goodbye Baby (3:19)
Henry Gray - You Messed Up (2:53)

CD 4:
Chuck Berry - Wee Wee Hours (3:06)
Chuck Berry - No Money Down (3:00)
Chuck Berry - I've Changed (3:07)
Billy Boy Arnold - I Was Fooled (2:53)
Billy Boy Arnold - Don't Stay Out All Night (2:54)
Bo Diddley - Little Girl (alt tk) (2:38)
Bo Diddley - I'm A Man (alt tk) (3:08)
Bo Diddley - You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care) (2:50)
Henry Gray - Watch Yourself (2:45)
Henry Gray - That Ain't Right (2:29)
Muddy Waters - This Pain (3:10)
Muddy Waters - I Want To Be Loved (alt tk) (2:46)
Little Walter - Little Girl (3:07)
Little Walter - Temperature (first tk) (2:02)
Dusty Brown - Hurry Home (2:45)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Good Evening Everybody (2:38)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Have You Ever Been In Love (2:55)
Herby Joe - Smokestack Lightning (2:53)
Herby Joe - Dreamed (Last Night) (2:28)
Harmonica "Blues King" Harris - I Need You Pretty Baby For My Own (2:47)
Harmonica "Blues King" Harris - Blues King Mango (2:26)
Po Joe Williams - Goin' Back (2:53)
Po Joe Williams - My Baby Left (2:37)
Billy Boy Arnold - You Got Me Wrong (2:41)
Billy Boy Arnold - My Heart Is Crying (2:12)
Sonny Boy Williamson - I Don't Know (2:56)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Like Wolf (2:51)
Sonny Boy Williamson - This Is My Apartment (2:41)

CD 5:
Jimmy Reed - I'm Gonna Ruin You (first tk) (2:49)
Jimmy Reed - Honey, Where You Going? (2:41)
Jimmy Reed - Little Rain (2:59)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Hurts Me So Much (tk 2) (2:38)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Fattening Frogs For Snakes (alt tk) (3:01)
Elmore James - Knocking At Your Door (2:39)
G. "Davy" Crockett - Look Out Mable (2:25)
Jimmy Reed - Honey, Where You Going? (alt tk) (3:14)
Jimmy Reed - Little Rain (alt tk) (3:12)
Jimmy Reed - Signals Of Love (alt tk) (2:32)
Dusty Brown - Well You Know (I Love You) (2:48)
Freddie Hall - I Love This Carrying On (2:43)
Freddie Hall - She's A Upsetter (2:35)
Little Mack Simmons - My Walking Blues (3:12)
Little Mack Simmons - Come Back (2:35)
Eddie Boyd - Nothing But Trouble (2:34)
Eddie Boyd - Her Picture In The Frame (3:28)
Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years (3:05)
Elmore James - I Can't Hold Out (2:18)
Elmore James - The Sun Is Shining (2:47)
Howling Wolf - Mr Airplane Man (2:47)
Howling Wolf - Little Baby (2:45)
Hound Dog Taylor - Baby's Coming Home (2:38)
Hound Dog Taylor - Five, Take Five (2:05)
Homesick James - Can't Afford To Do It (2:31)
Homesick James - Set A Date (2:40)
Slim Willis - Running Around (2:55)
Slim Willis - No Feeling For You (3:02)

essay by Mike Rowe

5 CD set

Wienerworld WNRCD5106 (US/EU 7/2019)

Will be completed and expanded with further details !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 195
- Bill Rowe (revised and updated by Chris Smith and Howard Rye): The Half Ain't Been Told - An Otis Spann Career Discography.- Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Micrography Discographical Publications), 2000, 136 pp.
- https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/record-labels-guide/prestige/prestige-records-history/
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
thanks to Craig Ruskey, Tony Rounce, Klaus Kilian, Keith Randall, Chris Smith, Mike Atherton, Hank Moore, Claes Parmland, Don Deering, Tom Morris, Victor Batwing, Jim Clay, Tom Wendt and Elbio Barilari for additional info / scans

Muddy Waters, Jerome Green (maraccas), Otis Spann, Henry Strong,
"Elga Edmonds" [Elga Edmonds], Jimmy Rogers (presumably from the early 1950s)
source: Mike Rowe: Chicago Blues - The City and the Music.- New York (Da Capo Paperback) 1975,
first published in 1973 as "Chicago Breakdown", p. 146 ("from Chess files")

Muddy Waters, Viola Spearman (Koko Taylor's Sister), Levi Walton (Koko Taylor's Brother), Otis Spann, Vera Walton (Levi Walton's Wife),
Elga Edmonds, Koko Taylor, Robert Taylor, Jimmy Rogers, Savannah Becton (Koko Taylor's Sister) at Silvio's Lounge, mid 1950s
source: "Koko Taylor Collection, courtesy of Alligator Records - Tim Kolleth" at https://bobcorritore.com/photos/koko-taylor-photo-page/; a bit photoshop treated by Stefan Wirz

Little Johnny Jones and Otis Spann with George 'Mojo' Buford, Chicago, late 1950s
source: Living Blues 42 (1979), p. 24 ("Courtesy Letha Jones")

Hanging out in Muddy's basement at 4339 South Lake Park Avenue, Chicago, IL:
James Cotton, Sonny Boy Williamson, Jimmy Rogers, Muddy Waters, Otis Spann (1959)
source: Front page of Block - Tijdschrift voor Blues #85 (jan/feb/mrt '93)
photographer: Georges Adins ("met dank aan Kees van Wijngaarden")
James Cotton's face pasted from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmoNlTH66_8 by Stefan Wirz

Otis Spann, England, 1963
source: Blues Unlimited 146 (Autumn/Winter 1984), p. 45; photographer: Jim Simpson

Lucille and Otis Spann
source: Blues Revue #50 (September 1999), p. 27; photographer: Moses Glidden

source: Front cover of Candid CJM 8001; photographer: Frank Gauna

source: Back cover of Blue Horizon 763217; photographer: Terrence Ibbott