 Frank Stokes with a Martin 00-28 guitar Hooks Brothers photo (glass plate found in the 1990s) a cut out version of that photo has been used for a 1927 Victor catalog |  Dan Sane & Frank Stokes (playing a guitar with a tailpiece!) source: Front cover of Yazoo LP L-1056 Frank Stokes b. January 1, 1877 (military registration card & death certificate) or June 1878 (1900 census) in Whitehaven, Shelby County, Tennessee d. September 12, 1955 at John Gaston Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee discography | 
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| 1 | 1927 | Beale Street Sheiks Stokes and Sane - You Shall (4771-3) (2:50) # @ youtube @ Spotify - It's A Good Thing (4772-1) (2:56) # @ youtube @ Spotify or - You Shall (20043-2) (2:43) * @ Spotify - It's A Good Thing (20044-2) (2:59) * @ youtube @ Spotify # c. August 1927 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g * c. September 1927 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g
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| 2 | 1927 | Beale Street Sheiks (Stokes and Sane) - Half Cup Of Tea (4774-1) @ youtube - Sweet To Mama (4773-1) @ Spotify c. August 1927 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g
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| 3 | 1927 | Beale Street Sheiks Stokes and Sane - Mr. Crump Don't Like It (20045-2) @ youtube - Blues In "D" (20048-2) # @ Spotify c. September 1927 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g, # sp
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| 4 | 1927 | Beale Street Sheiks Stokes and Sane - Beale Town Bound (4775-2) # @ youtube - Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon (20047-2) * @ youtube # c. August 1927 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g * c. September 1927 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g
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| 5 | 1927 | Beale Street Sheiks - Jazzin' The Blues (4778-1) @ Spotify - Last Go Round (4771-1) @ youtube c. August 1927 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g
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| 6 | 1928 | Frank Stokes - Bedtime Blues (41825-1) @ youtube @ Spotify - Downtown Blues (41822-1) @ Spotify or - Downtown Blues (41822-2) @ Spotify rec. February 1, 1928 at the Memphis Auditorium in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g; unknown, g
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| 7 | 1928 | Frank Stokes - Mistreatin' Blues (45419-1) @ youtube - It Won't Be Long Now (45420-1) @ youtube or - It Won't Be Long Now (45420-2) rec. August 27, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g
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| 8 | 1928 | Frank Stokes - Stomp That Thing (45426-2) * @ youtube - Nehi Mamma Blues (45421-2) # @ youtube # rec. August 27, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g * rec. August 28, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g
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| - Killing Me (45427-2) rec. August 28, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g Victor unissued | ||
| 9 | 1928 | Frank Stokes - 'Tain't Nobody's Business [ - 'Tain't Nobody's Business [ rec. August 30, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g
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| - 'Tain't Nobody's Business–Part 2 (45453-1) @ youtube rec. August 27, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g Victor unissued X LVA3032 | ||
| 10 | 1928 | Frank Stokes - I Got Mine (45422-2) # @ youtube - How Long (45455-1) * @ youtube # rec. August 27, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g * rec. August 30, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g
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| 11 | 1928 | Frank Stokes - What's The Matter Blues (41826-1) # @ youtube - Take Me Back (45454-2) * @ youtube # rec. February 1, 1928 at the Memphis Auditorium in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g; unknown, g * rec. August 30, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g
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| 12 | 1929 | Beale Street Sheiks - Wasn't That Doggin' Me (21242-2) @ youtube @ Spotify - Rockin' On The Hill Blues (21240-2) @ youtube @ Spotify c. March 1929 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g
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| 13 | 1929 | Beale Street Sheiks - Ain't Goin' To Do Like I Used To Do (21229-2) @ Spotify - Hunting Blues (21234-1) @ Spotify c. March 1929 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g
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| 14 | 1929 | The Beale Street Sheiks - Fillin' In Blues—Part I (21241-1) @ Spotify - Fillin' In Blues—Part II (21241-2) @ Spotify c. March 1929 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g
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| - Jumpin' On The Hill [Policy Wheel] / Unnamed Blues [Yazoo] (21246-1) @ Spotify c. March 1929 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g Paramount unissued Policy Wheel 4591 | ||
| 15 | 1929 | Frank Stokes - Bunker Hill Blues (55574-1) @ youtube - South Memphis Blues (55573-2) @ youtube rec. September 23, 1929 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Will Batts, vn
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| 16 | 1929 | Frank Stokes - Right Now Blues (55584-2) @ youtube - Shiney Town Blues (55591-1) @ youtube rec. September 25, 1929 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Will Batts, vn
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| 17 | 1929 | Frank Stokes - Old Sometime Blues (56304-2) @ youtube - I'm Going Away Blues (56303-2) @ youtube rec. September 30, 1929 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Will Batts, vn |
| 18 | 1929 | Frank Stokes - Frank Stokes' Dream (56305-2) @ youtube - Memphis Rounders Blues (56306-2) @ youtube rec. September 30, 1929 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g
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 LP / CD compilations | ||
| 19 | 1953 | Kings of the blues backgrounds of jazz vol. 3 Jim Jackson - I'm Wild About My Lovin' - This Morning She Was Gone Furry Lewis - I Will Turn Your Money Green - Dry Land Blues (alt 1) Frank Stokes - Down Town Blues (tk 1) [Victor 21272] - 'Tain't Nobody's Business (- Part 2) (tk 1) [Victor unissued] Ishman Bracey - Leavin' Town Blues - Brown Mamma Blues
10 inch LP |
| 20 | 1960 | The Rural Blues A Study of the Vocal and Instrumental Resources LP 1: Will Shade - I Can't Stand It Hambone Willie Newbern - Shelby County Work House Blues Robert Johnson - From Four Until Late Furry Lewis - You Can Leave, Baby Sleepy John Estes - Sloppy Drunk Blues [= "Milk Cow Blues"] L'il Son Jackson - Roberta Blues Lightnin' Hopkins - Bad Luck And Trouble °° Blind Boy Fuller - Thousand Woman [sic!] Blues Arthur Crudup - If I Get Lucky Charlie Pickett - Down The Highway Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues Blind Willie Johnson - Take Your Burden To The Lord Tommy McClennan - New Highway 51 Lightnin' Hopkins - Penitentiary Blues °° Blind Willie McTell - Mama T'ain't Long 'Fo' Day Charlie Burse - Take Your Fingers Off It Charlie Lincoln - My Wife Drove Me From My Door [on back cover: "Drive"] Peg Leg Howell - Skin Game Blues Lightnin' Hopkins - Come Go Home With Me °° Lightnin' Hopkins - Goin' Back To Florida Robert Johnson - Standing At The Crossroads LP 2: Lightnin' Hopkins - One Kind Favor Furry Lewis - John Henry Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's Fault But Mine Furry Lewis - Warm Up Bukka White - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing Furry Lewis - Casey Jones Peg Leg Howell - Coal Man Blues John Hurt - Frankie Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Mama Papa Charlie Jackson - Airy Man Blues Skip James - Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - New How Long Blues Bert Bilbro - Mohana Blues °° Sonny Terry & Oh Red - Harmonica Stomp Frank Stokes - Shiney Town Blues Virgil Perkins - Trouble In Mind Arthur Crudup- Mean Old Frisco Brownie McGhee- Sportin' Life Blues Virgil Perkins - [Washboard] Solo Charlie Burse - Tippin' Round Ham Gravy - Mama Don't 'Low It Moochie Reeves - Key To The Highway compiled by Samuel B. Charters "The Material is in part from unissued material in the author's collection, in part from material on the author's Folkways releases, and in part from early blues recordings." RF-202 features only extracts of most of the recordings! °° tracks not on RF-202 (X) (1964) Moochie Reeves track rec. July 1954 in Mobile, AL; previously unissued and from Samuel B. Charters' collection 2 LP boxed set (=) RBF RF-202 (X) (1964) RBF discography |
| 20a | 1964 | The Rural Blues A Study of the Vocal and Instrumental Resources LP 1: Will Shade - I Can't Stand It (1:20) [RBF 202, Wolf 120.920] @ youtube Hambone Willie Newbern - Shelby County Work House Blues [OKeh 8740] Robert Johnson - From Four Until Late [Vocalion 03623] Furry Lewis - You Can Leave, Baby [rec. October 3, 1959, previously unissued, Wolf 120.920] Sleepy John Estes - Milk Cow Blues [aka "Sloppy Drunk Blues", Victor V38614] L'il Son Jackson - Roberta Blues [Gold Star 638] Blind Boy Fuller - Thousand Woman [sic] Blues [OKeh 05657] Arthur Crudup - If I Get Lucky [Bluebird B8858] Charlie Pickett - Down The Highway [Decca 7707] Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues [Decca 7026] Blind Willie Johnson - Take Your Burden To The Lord [Columbia 14520-D] Tommy McClennan - New Highway 51 [Bluebird B8499] Blind Willie McTell - Mama T'ain't Long 'Fo' Day [Victor 21474] Charlie Burse - Take Your Fingers Off It (0:34) [previously unissued] Charlie Lincoln - My Wife Drove Me From My Door [Columbia 14305-D] Peg Leg Howell - Skin Game Blues [Columbia 14473-D] Lightnin' Hopkins - Goin' Back To Florida [rec. January 16, 1959, Folkways FS 3822] @ youtube (3:17) Robert Johnson - Standing At The Crossroads [aka "Cross Road Blues", Vocalion 03519] LP 2: Lightnin' Hopkins - One Kind Favor (0:57) [rec. January 16, 1959, previously unissued] @ youtube Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's Fault But Mine [Columbia 14303-D] Furry Lewis - Warm Up [rec. October 3, 1959, previously unissued, Wolf 120.920] Bukka White - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing [OKeh 05625] Peg Leg Howell - Coal Man Blues [Columbia 14194-D] Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Mama [Columbia 14632-D] Papa Charlie Jackson - Airy Man Blues [Paramount 12219] Skip James - Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues [Paramount 13085] Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - New How Long Blues [Vocalion 1435] Sonny Terry & Oh Red - Harmonica Stomp [OKeh 05538] Frank Stokes - Shiney Town Blues [Victor V38589] Virgil Perkins - Trouble In Mind [rec. November 6, 1955, previously unissued] Arthur Crudup - Mean Old Frisco [Bluebird 34-0704] Brownie McGhee - Sportin' Life Blues [Alert 401] Virgil Perkins - [washboard] Solo [rec. November 6, 1955, previously unissued] Charlie Burse - Tippin' Round (1:27) [previously unissued] Ham Gravy (= Washboard Sam) - Mama Don't Love It [aka "Mama Don't Allow, No. 1", Vocalion 03275] Moochie Reeves - Key To The Highway (3:11) [previously unissued] @ youtube compiled by Samuel B. Charters "The Material is in part from unissued material in the author's collection, in part from material on the author's Folkways releases, and in part from early blues recordings." "All original recordings are included in their entirety" (RBF notes), while the previously unissued tracks (Charters' "field recordings") all seem to be cut short, "some without the courtesy of a proper fadeout, some of the cuts occur mid-stanza" (Charles Radcliffe review in Blues Unlimited 30, pp. 20-21)
2 LP boxed set
2 LP boxed set DLP gatefold = Fontana 982.099 2 x CDr RBF discography |
| 21 | 1965 | Country Blues Classics Volume 1 Billy Baker - No No Blues Fred McMullen - De Kalb Chain Gang Curley Weaver - Ticket Agent Cripple Clarence Lofton - Brown Skin Girls Black Ivory King - Flying Crow John Lee - Blind's Blues Munroe Moe Jackson - Go Away From My Door Elmore James - Dust My Broom Joe McCoy - Evil Devil Woman Jim Jackson - I Heard The Voice Of A Porkchop Jesse James - Southern Casey Jones Black Ivory King - Southern Casey Jones Tim Wilkins (Robert Wilkins) - Dirty Deal Blues Tommie Bradley & Cole - Window Pane Blues Frank Stokes - Downtown Blues (tk 2) - T'aint Nobody's Business (tk 1) Tony Hollins - Stamp Blues
Blues Classics discography |
| 22 | 1965 | Country Blues Classics Volume 2 Bayless Rose - Frisco Blues Frank Stokes - I Got Mine Joe Williams - I'm Getting Wild About Her Bukka White - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing - Good Gin Blues Frank Stokes - How Long Bobo Jenkins - Democrat Blues Blind Norris - Sundown Blues Scrapper Blackwell - Rambling Blues Pinetop Slim - Applejack Boogie Milton Sparks - Erie Train Blues Blind Boy Fuller - Rag Mama Rag Dan Pickett - Baby, How Long Frank Edwards - Terraplane Blues - We Got To Get Together Johnny Shines - Ramblin'
Blues Classics discography |
| 23 | 1966 | Bluebird Blues 1933-46 RCA Victor LPV-518 / RCA RD-7786 track sequence: Blind Willie McTell - Lonesome Day Blues - Searching The Desert For The Blues Tampa Red - Kingfish Blues - Mean Mistreater Blues Big Joe Williams - Wild Cow Blues - Somebody's Been Borrowing That Stuff °° Sonny Boy Williamson - Down South - Moonshine Tommy McClennan - Bluebird Blues °° - Brown Skin Girl Sleepy John Estes - Lawyer Clark Blues °° - Little Laura Blues °° Arthur Crudup - Black Pony Blues - Death Valley Blues Lonnie Johnson - Jersey Belle Blues - Crowing Rooster Blues reissue prod. by Brad McCuen; °° = tracks not on RCA 430.701 RCA 430.701 track sequence: Frank Stokes - It Won't Be Long Now °° Blind Willie McTell - Lonesome Day Blues - Searching The Desert For The Blues Tampa Red - Kingfish Blues - Mean Mistreater Blues Leroy Carr - Ain't It A Shame °° Big Joe Williams - Wild Cow Blues Curtis Jones - Drinking And Thinking Blues °° Curtis Jones - School Mate Blues °° Sonny Boy Williamson - Down South - Moonshine Tommy McClennan - Brown Skin Girl Arthur Crudup and Joe McCoy - Black Pony Blues - Death Valley Blues Lonnie Johnson - Jersey Belle Blues - Crowing Rooster Blues compiled by Bert Bradfield; °° = tracks not on RCA Victor LPV-518 / RCA RD-7786
notes by Lawrence Cohn notes by Lawrence Cohn
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| 24 | 1968 | 10 Years In Memphis 1927-1937 Furry Lewis - Billy Lyons And Stack O 'Lee Furry Lewis - Big Chief Blues Frank Stokes - What's The Matter Blues Frank Stokes - Jazzin' The Blues Tom Dickson - Happy Blues [OKeh 8590] Tom Dickson - Death Bell Blues [OKeh 8590] Kansas Joe - Pile Drivin' Blues George Torey - Married Woman Blues George Torey - Lonesome Man Blues Gus Cannon - Poor Boy Allen Shaw - Moanin' The Blues Robert Wilkins - Jailhouse Blues Robert Wilkins - Falling Down Blues Big Boy Cleveland - Goin' To Leave You Blues 
notes by Don Kent 390 East 8th Street New York, New York 10009 notes by Don Kent 390 East 8th Street New York, N.Y. 10009 notes by Don Kent 54 King Street New York, N.Y. 10014 notes by Don Kent 245 Waverley Place New York, N.Y. 10014 notes by Steve Calt [!] Yazoo Records discography |
| 25 | 1968 | Down With The Game Vol. 3 Big Bill (Broonzy) - C & A Blues Devil's Daddy In Law (Floyd Council) - Lookin' For My Baby Sonny Boy Nelson - Low Down Yank Rachell & Dan Smith - Night Latch Blues - Gravel Road Blues Frank Stokes - Mistreatin' Blues (Big) Joe Williams - Meet Me Around The Corner Walter Roland - Piano Stomp Will Batts - Cheatin' Woman - Cadillac Baby Lucille Bogan - Shave 'Em Dry Devil's Daddy In Law (Floyd Council) - I Don't Want No Hungry Woman Sam Montgomery - I'm Through With You Charlie Pickett - Trembling Blues
DWTG discography |
| 26 | 1968 | Frank Stokes' Dream 1927-1931 Tom Dickson - Labor Blues Frank Stokes - Frank Stokes' Dream - Take Me Back Pearl Dickson - Twelve Pound Daddy Furry Lewis - Black Gypsy Blues - Creeper's Blues Noah Lewis - Devil In The Woodpile Will Weldon - Turpentine Blues Furry Lewis - I Will Turn Your Money Green - Judge Harsh Blues Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - 'Frisco Town - I Don't Want That Junk Outta You Cannon's Jug Stompers - Noah's Blues Frank Stokes - Last Go Round
notes by Fritz Peterson
Yazoo Records discography |
| 26a | 1968 | The Memphis Area - 1927-1932 Cannon's Jug Stompers - Madison Street Rag - Hollywood Rag Sleepy John Estes - Broken-Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too - Black Mattie Blues Hambone Willie Newbern - Nobody Knows What The Good Deacon Does Burse & Stephen - Tappin' That Thing "Poor Jab" - Come Along, Little Children Frank Stokes - It Won't Be Long Now - tk. 2 Memphis Minnie - Garage Fire Blues Noah Lewis' Jug Band - Bad Luck's My Buddy Sleepy John Estes - Stack O' Dollars - My Black Gal Blues Hambone Willie Newbern - Roll And Tumble Blues Robert Wilkins - Nashville Stonewall Blues - Police Sergeant Blues Memphis Jug Band - Kansas City Blues
Roots Records discography |
| 27 | 1968 | Frank Stokes with Dan Sane & Will Batts 1927-1929 - You Shall - Sweet To Mama - Half Cup Of Tea - Beale Town Bound (Beale Street Sheiks August 1927) - Mr. Crump Don't Like It - Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon (Beale Street Sheiks September 1927) - Bedtime Blues (Frank Stokes February 1928) - Mistreatin' Blues - Nehi Mama Blues - Stomp That Thing (Frank Stokes August 1928) - Ain't Goin' To Do Like I Used To Do (Beale Street Sheiks March 1929) - South Memphis Blues - Bunker Hill Blues - Memphis Rounders Blues (Frank Stokes September 1929)
Roots Records discography |
| 28 | 1969 | Memphis Blues Johnson Boys - Prater Blues Frank Stokes - 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - part 1 Ollie Rupert - I Raised My Window Ollie Rupert - Ain't Gonna Be Your Low Down Dog Hambone Willie Newbern - She Could Toodle William & Versey Smith - Everybody Help The Boys Come Home Furry Lewis - Mr. Furry's Blues - Mistreatin' Mama Allen Shaw - I Couldn't Help It Tom Dickson - Worry Blues Sleepy John Estes - Poor John Blues - Whatcha Doin'? Rosie Mae Moore - School Girl Blues Jim Jackson - Bootlegging Blues Memphis Jug Band - You Got Me Rollin' Washboard Rhythm Kings - Shoot 'Em
Roots Records discography |
| 29 | 1969 | Masters Of The Blues 1928-1940 Robert Johnson (recorded Dallas, June 20, 1937) - Little Queen Of Spades - Love In Vain Blues Curley Weaver accompanied by Blind Willie McTell (recorded Chicago, April 23, 1935) - Sometime Mama - Two Faced Woman Little Bill Gaither (recorded Chicago, June 12, 1940) - Georgia Barrel House Blind Boy Fuller (recorded Chicago, June 12, 1940) - You Got To Have Your Dollar Robert Hill (recorded New Orleans, Oct 15, 1936) - I Had A Gal For The Last Fifteen Years Tommy Johnson (recorded Memphis, August 31, 1928) - Lonesome Blues (take 1) unissued - Lonesome Blues (take 2) unissued - Canned Heat Blues Bumble Bee Slim (Amos Easton) with Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell (NY, March 16, 1932) - I'm Waitin' On You Frank Stokes (recorded Memphis, Feb 2, 1928) - Downtown Blues (unissued take) Texas Alexander (recorded San Antonio, March 10, 1928) with Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson - Yellow Girl Blues - I Am Calling Blues
notes by Chris Albertson Historical Records discography |
| 30 | 1969 | Going Away Blues 1926 - 1935 Lottie Beaman - Going Away Blues - Rolling Log Blues George 'Big Boy' Owens - Kentucky Blues Charlie Kyle - Kyle's Worried Blues Jelly Jaw Short - Grand Daddy Blues Frank Stokes - Right Now Blues George 'Bullet' Williams - Frisco Leaving Birmingham Charley Jordan - Stack O'Dollar Blues Henry Thomas - Railroadin' Some Robert Wilkins - Old Jim Canaan - New Stockyard Blues William McCoy - Central Tracks Blues Uncle Bud Walker - Look Here Mama Blues Elvie Thomas & Geeshie Wiley - Over To My House
= CD 1018 YAZ (US 1992) Yazoo Records discography |
| 31 | 1969? | The Blues In Memphis 1927-1939 Sleepy John Estes - Drop Down Mama - Married Woman Blues Allen Shaw - I Couldn't Help It Robert Wilkins - New Stock Yard Blues Yank Rachell - Gravel Road Woman Furry Lewis - Falling Down Blues Beale Street Shieks - Mr. Crump Don't Like It Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie - That Will Be Alright - Goin' Back To Texas Vol Stevens - Vol Stevens Blues Minnie Wallace - The Old Folks Started It Cannon's Jug Stompers - Viola Lee Blues Jack Kelly - Flower Blues Will Weldon - Hitch Me To Your Buggy And Drive Me Like A Mule front cover design by Marina Bokelman
notes by Dave [sic] Evans OJL Records discography |
| 31a | 1970 | Cream Of The Crop Son House - Shetland Pony Blues Willie Brown - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor Bukka White - Sic 'Em Dogs On - Po' Boy William Harris - Kitchen Range Blues Dennis Crumpton & Robert Summers - Go I'll Send Thee - Everybody Ought To Pray Sometime Bo Weavil Jackson (Sam Butler) - Why Do You Moan? Son House - The Pony Blues - The Jinx Blues - part 1 Alfred Lewis - Mississippi Swamp Moan Walter "Buddy Boy" Hawkins - Workin' On The Railroad - Yellow Woman Blues Richard (Rabbit) Brown - James Alley Blues The Beale Street Sheiks - Rockin' On The Hill Blues
Roots Records discography |
| 32 | 1970 | Kings Of Memphis Town (1927-1930) Furry Lewis - Falling Down Blues - Mean Old Bedbug Blues - Why Don't You Come Home - Furry's Blues - Kassie Jones - pt. 1 - Kassie Jones - pt. 2 Robert Wilkins - Alabama Blues - Long Train Blues Frank Stokes - Downtown Blues - Hunting Blues Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair - Divin' Duck Blues - Milk Cow Blues - Expressman Blues Lonnie McIntorsh - Sleep On Mother, Sleep On - The Lion And The Tribes Of Judah
Roots Records discography |
| 33 | 1970 | Some Cold Rainy Day Tommy Johnson - Slidin' Delta - I Wonder To Myself Georgia Cotton Pickers (Buddy Moss, Curley Weaver, Fred McMullen) - I'm On My Way Down Home - Diddle-Da-Diddle - She Looks So Good - She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day (78 rpm!) - She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day (72 rpm!) Curly Weaver & Ruth Willis - Some Cold Rainy Day Fred McMullen & Ruth Willis - Just Can't Stand It Joe Evans & Arthur McClain - My Baby Got A Yo-Yo - Mill Man Blues Beale Street Sheiks (Frank Stokes & Dan Sane) - Fillin' In Blues - Part 1 - Fillin' In Blues - Part 2 Charlie 'Dad' Nelson - Cleveland Stomp - Scoville Ave. Blues Southern Preservation Records S.P.R. 2 compiled by Jeff Tarrer
notes by Jeff Tarrer
Flyright Records discography |
| 34 | 1970 | Home Town Skiffle Early Folk Blues Vol. 2 Beale Street Sheiks - You Shall Excelsior Quartette - Jelly Roll Blues Mississippi Sheiks - Too Long Napoleon Fletcher - She Showed It All Hokum Boys - I'm Gonna Get It Ol Ced Odom & Lil "Diamonds" Hardaway - Derbytown Paramount All Stars - Hometown Skiffle - part 1 - Hometown Skiffle - part 2 Beale Street Sheiks - It's A Good Thing Excelsior Quartette - Kitchen Mechanic Blues Winston Holmes and Charlie Turner - Skinner Bumble Bee Slim - Slave Man Blues Hokum Boys - Keep Your Mind On It Tampa Red and The Chicago Five - Stop Truckin' And Suzi-Q Yank Rachell - Texas Tommy The Delta Boys - Every Time My Heart Beats compiled by David Harrison notes by Tony Russell |
| 35 | 1971 | Blues 1920-40 LP track sequence: LP 1 Tommy Johnson - Big Road Blues Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues Ishman Bracey - Trouble-Hearted Blues Blind Willie McTell - Dark Night Blues Blind Willie McTell - Loving Talking Blues Clifford Gibson - Drayman Blues Bukka White - The Panama Ltd. Jim Jackson - I'm Wild About My Loving Furry Lewis - Dry Land Blues Frank Stokes - T'Ain't Nobody's Business Frank Stokes - Frank Stokes' Dream Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair Sleepy John Estes - Lawyer Clark Blues Memphis Minnie - Don't Want No Woman LP 2 Memphis Jug Band - Memphis Jug Blues Memphis Jug Band - Going Back To Memphis Memphis Jug Band - Jug Band Waltz Gus Cannon - Viola Lee Blues Gus Cannon - Going To Germany Gus Cannon - Walk Right In Daddy Stovepipe - The Spasm Tommy McClennan - Whiskey Head Woman Tommy McClennan - De'se My Blues Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go Big Joe Williams - Highway 49 Big Joe Williams - Peach Orchard Mama Robert Petway - Catfish Blues Robert Lockwood - Take A Little Walk With Me LP 3 Leroy Carr - Rocks In My Bed Leroy Carr - - Six Cold Feet In The Ground Peetie Wheatstraw - Devil's Son-In-Law Peetie Wheatstraw - Peetie Wheatstraw Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues - part 3 Big Maceo - Worried Life Blues Joe Pullum - Hard Working Man Blues [Bluebird B6276] Big Bill Broonzy - Friendless Blues Big Bill Broonzy - The Southern Blues Tampa Red - Kingfish Blues Robert Lee McCoy - Tough Luck Sonny Boy Williamson - Good Morning Schoolgirl Sonny Boy Williamson - Early In The Morning Jazz Gillum - Key To The Highway CD track sequence: CD 1 Early Years of Country Blues Tommy Johnson - Road Blues (3:18) Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues (3:37) Ishman Bracey - Trouble-Hearted Blues (3:24) Blind Willie McTell - Dark Night Blues (2:49) Blind Willie McTell - Loving Talking Blues (2:34) Clifford Gibson - Drayman Blues (2:59) Clifford Gibson - She Rolls It Slow (2:44) °° Bukka White - The Panama Ltd. (3:08) Memphis Blues Jim Jackson - I'm Wild About My Loving (3:11) Furry Lewis - Dry Land Blues (3:05) Frank Stokes - 'Taint Nobody's Business (3:11) Frank Stokes - Frank Stokes' Dream (2:52) Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love, She Got ... (2:56) Sleepy John Estes - Poor John Blues (2:52) °° Sleepy John Estes - Lawyer Clark Blues (3:09) Son Bonds - A Hard Pill To Swallow (2:58) °° Memphis Minnie - Don't Want No Woman (3:13) Jug Band Memphis Jug Band - Memphis Jug Blues (3:30) Memphis Jug Band - Going Back To Memphis (2:20) Memphis Jug Band - Jug Band Waltz (2:49) Cannon's Jug Stompers - Viola Lee Blues (3:08) Cannon's Jug Stompers - Going To Germany (2:32) Cannon's Jug Stompers - Walk Right In (2:52) Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah - The Spasm (2:54) Washboard Sam & His Washboard Band - Gonna Hit The Highway (3:09) °° CD 2 Mississippi Blues In The 30's Tommy McClennan - Whisky Head Woman (3:00) Tommy McClennan - Des'e My Blues (3:17) Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go (3:21) Big Joe Williams - Highway 49 (3:12) Big Joe Williams - Peach Orchard Mama (2:46) Robert Petway - Catfish Blues (2:52) Robert Lockwood - Take A Little Walk With Me (2:55) Piano Blues Leroy Carr - Rocks In My Bed (3:11) Leroy Carr - Six Cold Feet In The Ground (3:06) Peetie Wheatstraw - Devil's Son-In-Law (3:22) Peetie Wheatstraw - Pete Wheatstraw (3:15) Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues Part 3 (3:07) Big Maceo - Worried Life Blues (2:57) Big Maceo - Detroit Jump (2:47) °° Joe Pullum with Andy Boy - Hard Working Man Blues (3:35) City Blues Big Bill Broonzy - Friendless Blues (3:22) Big Bill Broonzy - The Southern Blues (3:32) Tampa Red - Kingfish Blues (3:11) Robert Lee McCoy - Tough Luck (3:04) Sonny Boy Williamson - Good Morning Schoolgirl (3:01) Sonny Boy Williamson - Elevator Woman (2:38) °° Sonny Boy Williamson - Early In The Morning (2:58) Jazz Gillum - Key To The Highway (2:40) Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - That's All Right (2:54) °° compiled by Yasufumi Higurashi, Toyo Nakamura & Hiroshi Suzuki; manufactured from Master Recordings of RCA corporation °° CD has seven additional tracks!
3 LP folding box with 30-page booklet 3 LP slide-in box with 30-page booklet 2 CD set, notes by Hiroshi Suzuki, Toyo Nakamura, Yasufumi Higurashi, Hisamitsu Noguchi & Shoichi Yui 2 CD set |
| 36 | 1971 | Ragtime 2 / The Country Country Mandolins, Fiddles, and Guitars - Dallas Rag - Dallas String Band - No Use Workin' So Hard - Carolina Tarheels - Old Weary Blues - Jesse Young's Tennessee Band - Hungry Man's Scuffle - Jolly Jivers - Downtown Blues - Frank Stokes - They Go Wild Simply Wild Over Me - Leake County Revelers - Hale's Rag - Theron Hale and Daughters - Laughing Rag - Sam Moore and Horace Davis - Lindy - Proximity String Quartet - Kansas City Dog Walk - Charlie Turner - Ozark Rag - East Texas Serenaders - Dill Pickle Rag - Kessinger Brothers - Rag Mama Rag - Blind Boy Fuller compiled by Samuel Charters cover design by Ronald Clyne
notes by Samuel Charters RBF discography |
| 37 | 1972 | Mississippi & Beale Street Sheiks 1927 - 1932 Sittin' On Top Of The World The Mississippi Sheiks - I'll Be Gone, Long Gone - Please Baby - Don't Wake It Up - Go Away Woman - New Shake That Thing - Isn't A Pain To Me - The New Sittin' On Top Of The World - The New Stop And Listen Blues The Beale Street Sheiks - Last Go Round - Jazzin' The Blues - Mr. Crump Don't Like It - Blues In "D" - You Shall - It's A Good Thing - Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon - Sweet To Mama
Biograph Records discography |
| 38 | 1976 | Jumping On The Hill The Beale Street Sheiks - Jumping On The Hill Memphis Jug Band - My Love Is Cold Furry Lewis - Cannon Ball Blues Kaiser Clifton - She'll Be Back Some Day The Delta Boys - Don't You Want To Know? Jim Jackson - Old Dog Blues Memphis Jug Band - Little Green Slippers Too Tight Henry - Squinch Owl Moan Tom Dickson - Worry Blues Memphis Jug Band - Fishin' In The Dark Little Buddy Doyle - She's Got Good Dry Goods Kaiser Clifton - Teach Me Right From Wrong Hattie Hart - Won't You Be Kind To Me? Jim Jackson - Santa Fe Blues Memphis Jug Band - Jug Band Quartette Too Tight Henry - The Way I Do
notes (unsigned) by Chris Smith Policy Wheel Records discography |
| 39 | 1977 | Frank Stokes: Creator Of The Memphis Blues - Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon - Memphis Rounders Blues - Unnamed Blues - Stomp That Thing - Mr. Crump Don't Like It - Nehi Mamma Blues - It's A Good Thing - You Shall - It Won't Be Long Now - Mistreatin' Blues - Wasn't That Doggin' Me - 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do Part 2 - Sweet To Mama - Beale Town Bound cover artwork by Robert Armstrong
notes by Steve Calt
Yazoo Records discography |
| 40 | 1984 | Memphis Blues (1928 - 1930) (Jazz Tribune No. 51) Frank Stokes - How Long? - 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do Part 2 - It Won't Be Long Now - Right Now Blues Jim Jackson - I'm Wild About My Lovin' - I'm Gonna Move To Louisiana Part 1 - I'm Gonna Move To Louisiana Part 2 - This Mornin' She Was Gone Furry Lewis - Kassie Jones Part 1 - Dry Land Blues - I Will Turn Your Money Green - Mistreatin' Mama Robert Wilkins - Jailhouse Blues - Rolling Stone Part 1 - Rolling Stone Part 2 - I Do Blues Memphis Jug Band - Sun Brimmer Blues - Snitchin' Gambler Blues - Peaches In The Springtime - A Black Woman Is Like A Black Snake Minnie Wallac - Dirty Butter - The Old Folks Started It Hattie Hart - Won't You Be Kind To Me? - You Wouldn't, Would You Papa? Cannon's Jug Stompers - Big Railroad Blues - Feather Bed - Viola Lee Blues - Bring It With You When You Come Memphis Minnie - I'm Going back home - I Never Told A Lie Joe McCoy and Joe Johnson - Don't Want No woman Memphis Minnie - Georgia Skin DLP = BMG/RCA CD 74321264092 (1995) |
| 41 | 1984 | Frank Stokes 1927-29 The Remaining Titles - Half Cup Of Tea (4774-2) - Ain't Goin' To Do Like I Used To Do (21229-2) - Hunting Blues (21234-1) - Rockin' On The Hill Blues (21240-2) - Fillin' In The Blues - Part 1 (21241-1) - Fillin' In The Blues - Part 2 (21241-2) - South Memphis Blues (55573-2) - Bunker Hill Blues (55574-1) - Right Now Blues (55584-2) - Shiney Town Blues (55591-1) - Downtown Blues (41822-1) [actually 41822-2!] - Bedtime Blues (41825-1) - What's The Matter Blues (41826-1) - It Won't Be Long Now (45420-1) - I Got Mine (45422-2) - 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do Part-1 (45452-1) - 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do Part-2 (45453-1) - Take Me Back (45454-2) - How Long (45455-1) - Frank Stoke's Dream (56305-2)
notes by Paul Oliver Matchbox Records discography |
| 42 | 1984 | Songsters & Saints Vocal Traditions on Race Records Vol. 2 LP 1: Medicine Show Songsters Papa Charlie Jackson - I'm Alabama Bound - Long Gone Lost John Cannon's Jug Stompers - My Money Never Runs Out Banjo Joe (Gus Cannon) - Can You Blame The Colored Man Jim Jackson - Bye, Bye, Policeman - My Monday Woman Blues - Old Dog Blue Beale Street Sheiks (Stokes and Sane) - Mr. Crump Don't Like It - Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon Songsters East and West Stovepipe No. 1 and David Crockett - A Chicken Can Waltz The Gravy Around - A Woman Get's Tired Of The Same Man All The Time Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas" - Old Country Stomp - Bob McKinney - Arkansas Luke Jordan - Traveling Coon - Cocaine Blues Blind Blake - He's In The Jail House Now - West Coast Blues / Dry Bone Shuffle [?] LP 2: The Straining Preachers Rev. J.C. Burnett - The Donfall Of Nebuchadnezzar - The Gambler's Doom Rev. J.M. Gates - Yonder Comes My Lord With A Bible In His Hand - God's Wrath In The St. Louis Cyclone - The Eagle Stirs Her Nest Rev. F.W. McGee - The Half Ain't Never Been Told - Jonah In The Belly Of The Whale Rev. D.C. Rice - Come And See - We Got The Same Kind Of Power Over Here Saints of Church and Street Arizona Dranes - It's All Right Now - Just Look Blind Joe Taggart - God's Gonna Separate The Wheat From Tares - There's A Hand Writing On The Wall Blind Willie Johnson - If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down - God Moves On The Water - The Rain Don't Fall On Me Elders McIntosh and Edwards - The Latter Rain Is Fall Memphis Sanctified Singers - He Got Better Things For You
gatefold DLP This DLP set was issued to complement Paul Oliver's book "Songsters & Saints: Vocal Traditions On Race Records".- Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 1984: Matchbox Records discography |
| 43 | 1987 | Memphis Blues (1927 - 1937) Ollie Rupert - I Raised My Window And Looked At The Rising Sun - Ain't Goin' To Be Your Low Down Dog Big Boy Cleveland - Quill Blues - Goin' To Leave You Blues Walter Rhodes - The Crowing Rooster - Leaving Home Blues Frank Stokes - Downtown Blues Tom Dickson - Death Bell Blues - Worry Blues Tom Dickson - Happy Blues - Labor Blues Robert Wilkins - Rolling Stone - Part 2 (take 1 [?]) [Victor 21741] Sam Townsend - I'm Missing That - Lily Kimball Blues Allen Shaw - I Coundn't Help It - Moanin' The Blues George Torey - Married Woman Blues - Lonesome Man Blues
HK Records discography |
| 44 | 1990 | The Deep South (1927-1937) Al Miller's String Band - Saturday Night Hymn Beale Street Sheiks - You Shall Bessie Tucker - My Man Has Quit Me Edward Thompson - Up On The Hill Blues - When You Dream Of Muddy Water Tommy Johnson - Ridin' Horse - Alcohol And Jake Blues Tommy Settlers - Low Down Blues Moon - part 1 - Low Down Blues Moon - part 2 - Shaking Weed Blues - Big Bed Bug (Bed Bug Blues) - Pearlie Mae Blues - Don't Want You No More - You Don't Mean No Good - Blaze Face Blues
Document Records discography |
| 45 | 1990 | The Greatest in Country Blues (1927-1956) LP 1 - High Water Everywhere - Charlie Patton - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Cotton Field Blues Part 2 - Garfield Akers - James Alley Blues - Richard "Rabbit" Brown - Had A Good Father And Mother - Washington Phillips - Travelin' Blues - Blind Willie McTell - Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson - Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers - Nappy Head Blues - Bobby Grant - Third Street Woman Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds - My Black Momma Part I - Son House - Bull-Doze Blues - Henry Thomas - Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground - Blind Willie Johnson - Trouble Hearted Blues - Ishman Bracey - Honey In The Rock - Blind Mamie Forehand - Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt - Man Trouble Blues - Jaybird Coleman - How Long - Frank Stokes - Future Blues - Willie Brown - Voice Throwin' Blues - Walter "Buddy Boy" Hawkins LP 2 - Devil Got The Woman - Skip James - When That Great Ship Went Down - William And Versey Smith - The Jail House Blues - Sam Collins - Touch Me Light Momma - George "Bullet" Williams - Mothers Love - Blind Joe Taggart - Skin Man Blues - "Hi" Henry Brown - Lost Lover Blues - Lottie Kimbrough - Levee Camp Moan Blues - Texas Alexander - K.C. Moan - Memphis Jug Band - Paddlin' Madeline Blues - Gitfiddle Jim - Preachin' Blues - Robert Johnson - Billy Lyons And Stack O'Lee - Furry Lewis - Fryin' Pan Skillet Blues - Bessie Tucker - Dallas Rag - Dallas String Band - Crazy Cryin' Blues - Memphis Minnie - Woke Up This Morning - Roosevelt Graves - That's No Way To Get Along - Robert Wilkins - McAbee Railroad Piece - Palmer McAbee - The Gone Dead Train - King Soloman Hill - Hastings St. - Blind Blake and Charlie Spand LP 3 - Shorty George - Smith Casey - Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down - Bozie Sturdivant - I Be's Troubled - Muddy Waters - How You Want It Done? - Big Bill Broonzy - She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day - The Georgia Cotton Pickers - Sic 'Em Dogs On - Bukka White - California Desert Blues - Lane Hardin - Lonesome Day Blues - Jesse James - Moanin' The Blues - Allen Shaw - Midnight Hour Blues - Leroy Carr - Jack O'Diamonds - Pete Harris - Dust My Broom - Elmore James - Rowdy Blues - Kid Bailey - Rollin' And Tumblin' - Baby Face Leroy - Penitentiary Blues (Pt. 1 & 2) - Smokey Hogg - Baby How Long - Dan Pickett - Mighty Long Time - Sonny Boy Williamson - River Blues (Pt. 2) - Lowell Fulson - Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins compiled by Johnny Parth
3 LP set with 24-pp. booklet notes (English and German) by Paul Oliver 3 CD set = Century Media SOB 3521-2/3522-2/3523-2 (1994) 3 CD set |
| 46 | 1991 | Wild About My Lovin' Beale Street Blues 1928-1930 The Memphis Jug Band - Overseas Stomp - Stealin' Stealin' - K. C. Moan - On The Road Again - Jug Band Waltz Jim Jackson - My Monday Woman Blues - I'm Wild About My Lovin' - When I Woke Up This Morning She Was Gone - I Heard The Voice Of A Pork Chop Cannon's Jug Stompers - Walk Right In - Viola Lee Blues - Bring It With You When You Come - Going To Germany - Prison Wall Blues Frank Stokes - Downtown Blues - Taint Nobody's Business - Taint Nobody's Business (Part II) - Take Me Back compiled by Billy Altman; digitally remastered by Joe Lopes remastered from the original source recordings notes by Billy Altman |
| 47 | 1992 | The Beale Street Sheiks (Frank Stokes & Dan Sane) (1927-1929) In Chronological Order - You Shall (4771) - It's A Good Thing (4772) - Sweet To Mama - Half Cup Of Tea - Beale Town Bound - Last Go Round - Jazzin' The Blues - You Shall (20043) - It's A Good Thing (20044) - Mr. Crump Don't Like It - Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon - Blues In D - Ain't Goin' To Do Like I Used To Do - Hunting Blues - Rockin' On The Hill Blues - Fillin' In Blues - Part 1 - Fillin' In Blues - Part 2 - Wasn't That Doggin' Me - Jumpin' On The Hill notes by Chris Smith |
| 48 | 1992 | Frank Stokes: The Victor Recordings In Chronological Order (1928-1929) - Downtown Blues - Downtown Blues - Bedtime Blues - What's The Matter Blues - Mistreatin' Blues - It Won't Be Long - It Won't Be Long - Nehi Mamma Blues - I Got Mine - Stomp That Thing - 'Taint Nobody's Business - 'Taint Nobody's Business - 'Taint Nobody's Business - Take Me Back - How Long - South Memphis Blues - Bunker Hill Blues - Right Now Blues - Shiney Town Blues - Frank Stokes' Dream - Memphis Rounders Blues
notes by Chris Smith = Document DOCD-5013 (Austria 2000) |
| 49 | 1994 | Memphis Masters Early American Blues Classics 1927-1934 - Country Woman - Will Batts - Death Bell Blues - Tom Dickson - Billy Lyons and Stackolee - Furry Lewis - Pile Driver Blues - Joe McCoy - I'm Going Away Blues - Frank Stokes - Little Rock Blues - Pearl Dickson - Beale Street Breakdown - Jed Davenport - Where Is My Good Man At? - Memphis Minnie - Doctor Medicine - South Memphis Jug Band - Poor Boy A Long Way From Home - Gus Cannon - Red Ripe Tomatoes - Jack Kelly - Downtown Blues - Frank Stokes - Last Chance Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers - Better Leave That Stuff Alone - Will Shade - Won't You Be Kind? - Hattie Hart - Cadillac Baby - Will Batts - Bob Lee Junior Blues - Memphis Jug Band - T And T Blues - Mooch Richardson - I Let My Daddy Do That - Hattie Hart - Old Sometime Blues - Frank Stokes remastered by Richard Nevins
notes by Don Kent Yazoo Records discography |
| 50 | 1994 | Memphis Country Blues Greatest Hits Vol. 1 - Ain't No Use You Trying To Tell Me - Memphis Minnie (1935) - Walk Right In - Cannon's Jug Stompers (1929) - Old Jim Cannan - Robert Wilkins, Kids Spoons (1935) - Highway 61 Blues - Will Weldon (1927) - Roll and Tumble Blues - Hambone Willie Newbern (1929) - Coldest Stuff in Town - Hattie Hart, Allen Shaw, Willie Borum (1934) - Jim Jackson's Jamboree - Jim Jackson, Tampa Red, Georgia Tom, Speckled Red (1929) - New Frisco Town - Bukka White, Napoleon Harrison (1930) - Shake 'Em on Down - Bukka White, Napoleon Harrison (1937) - Someday Baby Blues - Sleepy John Estes, Hammie Nixon (1935) - Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Frank Stokes, Dan Sane - The Beale Street Sheiks (1925) - Stealin', Stealin' & Whitewash Station Blues - Memphis Jug Band (1928) - Everybody's Blues - Furry Lewis (1927) - That's No Way to Get Along - Robert Wilkins ( 1929) prod. by Richard Hite using selections from his personal 78 collection
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| 51 | 1995 | Furry Lewis & Frank Stokes: Beale Street Blues The Blues Collection No. 61 Furry Lewis - I Will Turn Your Money Green (3:10) - Judge Harsh Blues (2:59) - Mistreatin' Mamma (3:05) - Kassie Jones - Part 1 (3:04) - Kassie Jones - Part 2 (3:01) - Cannon-Ball Blues (3:11) - Furry's Blues (3:12) - Dry Land Blues (3:04) Frank Stokes - Downtown Blues (3:19) - Nehi Mamma Blues (3:08) - I Got Mine (3:03) - Stomp That Thing (3:20) - 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 2 (3:18) - How Long (3:14) - Bunker Hill Blues (3:02) - Right Now Blues (3:12) - Frank Stokes Dream (3:04) - Memphis Rounders Blues (2:57) ed. by Tony Russell; remastered by John R.T. Davies
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| 52 | 1995 | The Essential Recordings of Memphis Blues - My Money Never Runs Out - Gus Cannon - Mr Crump Don't Like It - Beale Street Sheiks - Twelve Pound Daddy - Pearl Dickson - Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Frank Stokes - Happy Blues - Tom Dickson - I Will Turn Your Money Green - Furry Lewis - Judge Harsh Blues - Furry Lewis - Rollin' Stone (part 1 & 2) - Robert Wilkins - That's No Way To Get Along - Robert Wilkins - Walk Right In - Cannon's Jug Stompers - KC Moan - Memphis Jug Band - Cocaine Habit Blues - Memphis Jug Band - Travelling Mama Blues - Joe Callicott - Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins - Ticket Agent Blues - Noah Lewis Jug Band - Hesitation Blues - Jim Jackson - Can I Do It For You (part 1) - Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - Granpa And Grandma Blues - Memphis Minnie Jug Band - Highway No 61 Blues - Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band - Moanin' The Blues - Allen Shaw - Sugar Farm Blues - Yank Rachell - Need More Blues - 'Sleepy' John Estes - Renewed Love Blues - Little Buddy Doyle
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| 53 | 1996 | Before The Blues Vol. 2 The Early American Black Music Scene Dallas String Band - Dallas Rag Frank Stokes - How Long Peg Leg Howell - Skin Game Blues Memphis Jug Band - K.C. Moan Charley Jordan - Just A Spoonful Hattie Hudson - Doggone My Good Luck Soul Eck Robertson - There's A Brown Skin Girl Down The Road Somewhere Lulu Jackson - You're Going To Leave The Old Home Jim! Tommy McClennan - Deep Blue Sea Blues South Street Trio - Cold Morning Shout Blind Joe Taggart - Been Listening All The Day Charley Patton - Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues Golden P- Harris - I'll Lead A Christian Life Minnie Wallace - The Old Folks Started It Tennessee Chocolate Drops - Vine Street Drag Blind Willie Johnson - It's Nobody's Fault But Mine Geeshie Wiley - Last Kind Words Blues Roland & Scott - Guitar Stomp Blind Lemond Jefferson - Jack O'diamond Blues Emry Arthur - Reuben Oh Reuben Blue Boys - Memphis Stomp Louise Johnson - On The Wall Frank Jenkins - Roving Cowboy
notes by Don Kent and Richard Nevins Yazoo Records discography |
| 54 | 1996 | Before The Blues Vol. 3 The Early American Black Music Scene - Frisco Town - Memphis Minnie - Spike Driver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt - Feather Bed - Cannon's Jug Stompers - Fox And The Hounds - Henry Thomas - A Lazy Farmer Boy - Buster Carter / Preston Young - Pick Poor Robin Clean - Luke Jordan - Nappy Head Blues - Bobby Grant - Sourwood Mountain - Taylor's Kentucky Boys - Levee Camp Moan Blues - Alger "Texas" Alexander - John Henry Blues - Joe Evans / Arthur McClain - Coming To Christ - Biddleville Quintette - House Carpenter - Clarence Ashley - Furniture Man - Lil McClintock - Alabama Strut - Charles 'Cow Cow' Davenport - Kassie Jones, Pt. 1 - Furry Lewis - Thousand Woman Blues - Blind Boy Fuller - Champaign Charlie Is My Name - Blind Blake - Molly Man - Moses Mason - Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon - Frank Stokes - Little Birdie - John Hammond - Black Skunk Blues - Barbecue Bob - Drunkard's Special - Coley Jones - Easy Winner - Blue Boys
Yazoo Records discography |
| 54a | 1996 | The Roots Of Rap Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s Blind Willie Johnson - If I Had My Way I'd Tear This Building Down Luke Jordan - Cocaine Blues Allen Brothers - Bow Wow Blues Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon - Jive Man Blues Henry Thomas - Jonah In The Wilderness Willie Walker - South Carolina Rag Memphis Jug Band - Whitewash Station Red Henderson - Automobile Ride Through Alabama Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozen No. 2 Butterbeans & Susie - 'Tain't None O' Your Business Beale Street Sheiks - It's A Good Thing Jimmie Davis - She's A Hum Dum Dinger Leroy Carr - Papa's On The House Top Rev. Edward W. Clayborn - Let That Liar Alone Frank Hutchinson - Back In My Home Town T.C.I. Section Crew - Track Linin Blind Willie McTell - Atlanta Strut Lonnie Glosson - Arkansas Hard Luck Blues Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom - How Can You Have The Blues? Seven Foot Dilly & His Dill Pickles - Pickin' Off Peanuts Pine Top Smith - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out Dixieland Jug Blowers - When I Stopped Running I Was At Home Memphis Minnie - Frankie Jean
Yazoo Records discography |
| 55 | 1997 | Southern Country Blues Vol. 1: Down In Boogie Alley disc 1: Memphis & The Mississippi Delta Frank Stokes - 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Part II Cannon's Jug Stompers - Walk Right In Jim Jackson - Old Dog Blue Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - Pickin' The Blues Memphis Jug Band - Stealin' Stealin' Furry Lewis - Big Chief Blues Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues Charley Patton - High Sheriff Blues Son House - My Black Mama - Part II Robert Johnson - Crossroads Blues Big Joe Williams & Sonny Boy Williamson - Break 'Em On Down Bo Carter - Banana In Your Fruit Basket The Mississippi Sheiks - Sitting On Top Of The World Tommy Johnson - Big Road Blues Muddy Waters - Country Blues (No. 1) disc 2: Alabama & The Eastern States Ed Bell - Bad Boy Jaybird Coleman - Man Trouble Blues Lucille Bogan & Walter Roland - Down In Boogie Alley Papa Charlie Jackson - Papa's Lawdy Lawdy Blues Blind Blake - Hey Hey Daddy Blues Ma Rainey & Tampa Red & Georgia Tom Dorsey - Black Eye Peas Peg Leg Howell - Coal Man Blues Georgia Cotton Pickers - Diddle-Da-Diddle Andrew Baxter & Jim Baxter - Georgia Stomp Blind Willie McTell - Love Changing Blues Josh White - Silicosis Is Killin' Me Rev. Gary Davis - Cross And Evil Woman Blues Blind Boy Fuller & Sonny Terry - You Got To Have Your Dollar Luke Jordan - Cocaine Blues disc 3: South & The Mid-Western States Texas Henry Thomas - Old Country Stomp Blind Lemon Jefferson - Matchbox Blues Blind Willie Johnson - God Moves On The Water Hattie Hudson - Doggone My Good Luck Soul Texas Alexander & Willie Reed - Easy Rider Blues J. T. "Funny Paper" Smith - Howling Wolf Blues - No. 1 Leadbelly - Four Day Worry Blues Arkansas 3-8. Buddy Boy Hawkins - A Rag Louisiana King Solomon Hill - Down On My Bended Knee (tk 2) Amédé Ardoin - Blues De Basile Oscar Woods - Don't Sell It - Don't Give It Away Kansas Lottie Kimbrough - Going Away Blues Missouri Henry Townsend - Henry's Worry Blues Lonnie Johnson - Woke Up With The Blues In My Fingers Mary Johnson & Henry Brown & Ike Rodgers - Room Rent Blues Charley Jordan - Keep It Clean Roosevelt Sykes - Poor Boy Blues Sparks Brothers - "4-11-44" compiled by Johnny Parth; licensed from Document Records; remastered
3 CD set = 1201 Music (2001) "Southern Country Blues Vol. 2: Down In Boogie Alley" [sic] |
| 56 | 1997 | Paramount Blues Hometown Skiffle From the Paramount collection of Gayle Dean Wardlow Blind Roosevelt Graves - Bustin' The Jug - Crazy About My Baby Buddy Boy Hawkins - A Rag Blues - Snatch It And Grab It "The Paramount All Stars" featuring Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, Will Ezell, Charlie Spand, The Hokum Boys, Papa Charlie Jackson - Hometown Skiffle - Part 1 - Hometown Skiffle - Part 2 Beale Street Sheiks - Mr. Crump Don't Like It - Jazzin' The Blues Tampa Red - Through Train Blues Charlie Spand - Fetch Your Water - Soon This Morning Dad Nelson - Cleveland Stomp Blind Blake - He's In The Jailhouse Now - Blind Arthur's Breakdown Johnnie Head - Fare Thee Blues Part 1 Papa Charlie Jackson - Forgotten Blues Blind Blake - Southern Rag Blind Roosevelt Graves - Guitar Boogie - New York Blues Will Ezell - Just Can't Stay Here
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| 57 | 199? | Too Late, Too Late Vol. 5 (1927-64) Sister Morgan (1927) - Hurry Down, Sunshine, And See What Tomorrow Brings Lonnie Johnson (1927) - Handfull O' Keys - Searchin' For Flats Cow Cow Davenport (1928) - Cow Cow Blues (tk B) Elizabeth Johnson (1928) - Be My Kid Blues - Sobbin' Woman Blues Leroy Carr (1928) - Box Car Blues Frank Stokes (1929) - I'm Going Away Blues - Old Sometime Blues Henry Townsend (1931) - Doctor, Oh Doctor - Jack Of Diamonds Georgia Rub Blind Wille McTell (1933) - Broke Down Engine No. 2 (tk 1) - Love Makin' Mama (tk 2) John (Big Nig) Bray (1934) - Trench Blues. Leadbelly (1940) - Didn't Ol' John Cross The Water? Sonny Terry (1944/45) - I Have Had My Fun - Keys To The Highway Leadbelly (1945) - Eagle Rock Rag (alt tk) James 'Jack Of All Trades' McCain (1945) - Good Mr. Roosevelt Montana Taylor (1946) - Lowdown Bugle (tk B) - Detroit Rocks Big Maceo (c.1950) - Eloise, Don't Play Me For A Fool Scrapper Blackwell (1959) - How Long No. 2 Rev. Lonnie Farris (1964) - Peace In The Valley (Proverb 1001)
notes by Dr. Guido van Rijn |
| 58 | 1998 | Memphis Blues Singers, Volume 1 Frank Stokes - Downtown Blues - Bedtime Blues - What's The Matter Blues Rosie Mae Moore - Staggering Blues - Ha-Ha Blues - School Girl Blues - Stranger Blues Tommy Johnson - Cool Drink Of Water Blues - Big Road Blues - Bye Bye Blues - Maggie Campbell Blues Ishman Bracey - Saturday Blues - Left Alone Blues Frank Stokes - Mistreatin' Blues - It Won't Be Long Now - Nehi Mamma Blues - I Got Mine - Stomp That Thing - 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do, Pt. 1 - 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do, Pt. 2 - Take Me Back - How Long remastered by John R.T. Davies
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| 59 | 1999 | Broke, Black And Blue An Anthology Of Blues Classics And Rarities disc 1: Up Country Blues - Barrel House Blues - Ed Andrews - Georgia Stockade Blues - Tom Delaney - Sun Brimmers Blues - Memphis Jug Band - Goin' To Leave You Blues - Big Boy Cleveland - Dry Bone Shuffle - Blind Blake - Up Country Blues - DeFord Bailey - Dead Drunk Blues - Sippie Wallace - Original Stack O'Lee Blues - Long 'Cleve' Reed - Easy Rider Don't You Deny My Name - Barbecue Bob - Bo Lita - Kid Brown - Everybody Help The Boys Come Home - William & Versey Smith - Church Bells Blues - Luke Jordan - Two Ways To Texas - Emery Glen - It Won't Be Long Now - Barbecue Bob & Laughing Charley - Bottleneck Blues - Weaver & Beasley - Rock Island Blues - Lewis Black - Midnight Blues - Bill Moore - Fare Thee Blues - Johnnie Head - My Monday Woman Blues - Jim Jackson - What's The Matter Blues - Frank Stokes - School Girl Blues - Rosie Mae Moore - Cool Drink Of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson - Left Alone Blues - Ishman Bracey - T And T Blues - Mooch Richardson - TC Johnson Blues - T. C. Johnson disc 2: Broke & Hungry Blues - Ham Hound Crave - Rube Lacey - No More Women Blues - Alger "Texas" Alexander - How Long, How Long Blues - Willie Jackson - Unknown Blues - Tarter & Gay - Chicken Wilson Blues - Chicken Wilson - Stack O' Lee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt - Broke And Hungry Blues - Peg Leg Howell - Funny Feathers - Victoria Spivey - Pitchin' Boogie - William Ezell - Mr- Devil Blues - Jed Davenport - Mississippi Bottom Blues - Kid Bailey - Weary Heart Blues - James Wiggins - Poor Man Blues - Henry Townsend - Framer's Blues - Eli Framer - Trinity River Blues - T-Bone Walker - Heavy Suitcase Blues - Charley Taylor - Traveling Mama Blues - Joe Calicott - Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues - Garfield Akers - Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins - Walking Blues - Son House - Future Blues - Willie Brown - Long Ways from Home - Louise Johnson - Frisco Blues - Bayless Rose - Good Boy Blues - Arthur Petties - No Special Rider Blues - Little Brother Montgomery disc 3: Good Whiskey Blues - Married Man Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds - Dupree Blues - Willie Walker - 22-20 Blues - Skip James - Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins - Midnight Hour Blues - Leroy Carr - Fat Mama Blues - Jabo Williams - Never Mind Blues - Georgia Boyd - Twelves (Dirty Dozens) - Kokomo Arnold - Little Leg Woman - Big Joe Williams - That's What My Baby Likes - Bessie Jackson - Good Whiskey Blues - Peetie Wheatstraw - Strut That Thing - Cripple Clarence Lofton - Teasin' Brown Blues - Louie Lasky - Cold Blooded Murder, No.2 - Bumble Bee Slim - Baby You Gotta Change Your Mind - Blind Boy Fuller - Ashes In My Whiskey - Walter Davis - It's Cold in China Blues - The Mississippi Moaner - Jockey Blues - Jazz Gillum - Prisoner Blues - George Clarke - Back Door Blues - Casey Bill Weldon - Don't Sell It (Don't Give It Away) - Buddy Woods - Booker T. Blues - Washboard Sam - Hard Scufflin' Blues - Little Buddy Doyle - Jersey Belle Blues - Lonnie Johnson - Baby, Please Don't Tell On Me - Tommy McClennan disc 4: Jumpin' At The Club Blue Flame - East St.Louis Blues - Faber Smith, Jimmy Yancey - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing - Bukka White - Can't You Read - Big Maceo Merriweather - Life Is Like That - Memphis Slim - Memory Of Sonny Boy - Forrest City Joe - Horse Shoe Boogie - Lee Brown - Ruby Moore Blues - Lee Brown - Low Land Blues - Lee Brown - Round The World Blues - Lee Brown - Rock That Boogie - Jimmie Gordon - Fast Life - Jimmie Gordon - Mistreated Blues - Jimmie Gordon - I Ain't Like That No More - Jimmie Gordon - Chain Gang Blues - Johnny Temple - Yum, Yum, Yum - Johnny Temple - My Baby's Acting Funny - Jimmie Gordon - It's Time To Go - Jimmie Gordon - That Woman's A Pearl Diver - Jimmie Gordon - Jumpin' At The Club Blue Flame - Jimmie Gordon - I Believe I'll Go Downtown Again - Johnny Temple - Something In The Moon That Gives Me A Thrill - Johnny Temple - Dixie Flyer - Johnny Temple - Believe My Sins Have Found Me Out - Johnny Temple - Rhythm Mama - Johnny Temple - New Little Girl, Little Girl - Lee Brown
4 CD set |
| 60 | 1999 | Violin, Sing The Blues For Me African-American Fiddlers 1926 - 1947 - Violin Blues - Johnson Boys - K.C. Railroad Blues - Andrew & Jim Baxter - Beaver Slide Rag - Peg Leg Howell - Alma Waltz - Mississippi Mud Steppers - Window Pane Blues - Tommie Bradley - Travelin' Railroad Man Blues - Alabama Sheiks - Pig Meat Blues - Whistler & His Jug Band - Right Now Blues - Frank Stokes - East Jackson Blues - Bo Chatmon - Memphis Blues - Mobile Strugglers - Vine Street Drag - Tennessee Chocolate Drops - Broken Bed Blues - Kansas City Blues Strummers - Lonesome Blues - Eddie Anthony / Henry "Rubberlegs" Williams - Memphis Shakedown - Memphis Jug Band - Adam And Eve - Tommie Bradley - Tell Me Man Blues - Henry "Son" Sims - Blue Coat Blues - Tom Nelson - Salty Dog - Booker Orchestra - Baby, Please Don't Go - Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers - Stop And Listen Blues No. 2 - Mississippi Sheiks - Stealin' Blues - Cow Cow Davenport - The Moore Girl - Andrew & Jim Baxter - Highway 61 Blues - Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band - Ted's Stomp - Louie Bluie
notes by Marshall Wyatt |
| 61 | 1999 | The Cornshuckers Frolic Vol. 2 Downhome Music and Entertainment from the American Countryside - The Grape Vine Twist - Steve & His Hot Shots - They Don't Roost Too High For Me - Earl Johnson - Mule Get Up in the Alley - Cannon's Jug Stompers - Leather Britches - The Leake County Revelers - Possum Trot School Exhibition (Pt. 2) - Stoneman's Blue Ridge Cornshuckers - Beaver Slide Rag - Eddie Anthony / Peg Leg Howell - Kitty Hill - Bill Chitwood & His Georgia Mountaineers - Practice Night at Chicken Bristle (Pt. 2) - Bob Miller & His Hinky Dinkers - Georgia Stomp - Andrew & Jim Baxter - A Fiddler's Tryout in Georgia (Pt. 1) - Joe Brown / John Dilleshaw / Seven Foot Dilly / A.A. Gray - A Fiddler's Tryout in Georgia (Pt. 2) - Joe Brown / John Dilleshaw / Seven Foot Dilly / A.A. Gray - Charmin' Betsy - Henry Thomas - Durang's Hornpipe - The Massey Family - Rock That Cradle Lucy - The Cofer Brothers - Blind Arthur's Breakdown - Blind Blake - Darneo - The Blue Ridge Highballers - Lynchburg - Uncle Jimmy Thompson - Memphis Shakedown - Memphis Jug Band - Old Molly Hare - Fiddlin' Powers & Family - John Brown's Dream - Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters - Hot Dogs - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Old Fashioned Square Dance - Billy Milton - You Shall - Dan Sane / Frank Stokes
Yazoo Records discography |
| 62 | 2001 | "Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow!" Fiddle Music 1927-35 - Rukus Juice And Chittlin' - Memphis Jug Band - The Jazz Fiddler - Lonnie Carter / Walter Jacobs - Moanin' And Groanin' Blues - Peg Leg Howell - Dance Hall Shuffle - Clifford Hayes - My Four Reasons - Ikey Robinson & His Band - Wild Cow Blues - Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers - Knox County Stomp - Tennessee Chocolate Drops - Rustlin' Man - State Street Boys - Sister Maud Mule - Alec Johnson - G Rag - Georgia Yellow Hammers - Throw Me In The Alley - Peetie Wheatstraw - If You Can't Make It Easy, Sweet Mama - The Dixieland Jug Blowers - Bunker Hill Blues - Frank Stokes - I Got A Gal - James Cole String Band - Sweet To Mama - State Street Boys - Doctor Medicine - Memphis Jug Band - Cabo Verdranos Peca Nove - Abrew's Portuguese Instrumental Trio - Worried Man Blues - Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers - Georgia Crawl - Eddie Anthony / Henry "Rubberlegs" Williams - Good Old Turnip Greens - Bo Chatmon - Memphis Stomp - The Blue Boys - Get Up Off That Jazzophone - Bubbling Over Five - Rukus Juice Shuffle - Alabama Rascals - Lazy Lazy River - Mississippi Sheiks compiled by Marshall Wyatt
notes by Marshall Wyatt |
| 63 | 2002 | Country Blues - the essential CD 1: - Weeping Willow - Blind Boy Fuller - Little Rock Blues - Pearl Dickson - Weak-Minded Woman - Willie Baker - Saturday Blues - Ishman Bracey - Rolling Log Blues - Lottie Kimborough - Starvation Farm Blues - Bob Campbell - California Desert Blues - Lane Hardin - Fence Breakin' Blues - Shreveport Home Wreckers - Mississippi Jailhouse Groan - Rube Lacey - Charming Betsy - Henry Thomas - Mamlish Blues - Barefoot Bill - Easy Rider Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Davidson County Blues - De Ford Baily - Kentucky Blues - Little Hat Jones - Cocaine Blues - Luke Jordan - Mama, You Gotta Get It Fixed - Troy Ferguson - One Way Gal - William Moore - Two Time Blues - Arthur Petties CD 2: - Hambone Willie's Dreamy-Eyed Woman's Blues - Hambone Willie Newbern - Police Sargeant Blues - Robert Wilkins - Penal Farm Blues - Scrapper Blackwell - Ghost Woman Blues - George Carter - Indian Squaw Blues - Freezone - Unknown Blues - Tarter & Gay - Nehi Mamma Blues - Frank Stokes - I Ain't Givin' Nobody None - Mae Glover - Happy Blues - Tom Dickson - Cairo Blues - Henry Spaulding - C.C. & O Blues - Pink Anderson and Simmy Dooley - I Will Turn Your Money Green - Furry Lewis - John Henry Blues - Evans & McClain - Jealous Hearted Blues - Charlie Lincoln - Last Kind Words Blues - Geeshie Wiley - Devil In The Woodpile - Noah Lewis - Bye Bye Mama - Buddy Moss - Jailhouse Fire Blues - Walter 'Buddy Boy' Hawkins
2 CD set |
| 64 | 2002 | When The Sun Goes Down Vol. 2: The First Time I Met the Blues 'The Secret History of Rock & Roll' series Victoria Spivey - Telephoning The Blues Cannon's Jug Stompers - Viola Lee Blues Genevieve Davis - Haven't Got A Dollar To Pay Your House Rent Man Ishman Bracey - Saturday Blues Jim Jackson - When I Woke Up This Morning She Was Gone Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues Memphis Jug Band - Stealin', Stealin' Furry Lewis - Judge Harsh Blues Edna Winston - Rent Man Blues Harris And Harris - I Don't Care What You Say Lizzie Miles With Jelly Roll Morton - I Hate A Man Like You Frank Stokes - "Taint Nobody's Business If I Do-Part I Sippie Wallace - I'm A Mighty Tight Woman Jimmy Rogers - Blue Yodel #9 Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love, She Got Long, Curly Hair Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - Don't Want No Woman (Have T' Give My Money To) Memphis Jug Band - Cocaine Habit Blues Blind Willie Reynolds - Married Woman Blues Jimmie Davis - Red Nightgown Blues Mississippi Matilda - Hardworking Woman Bo Carter - Doubled In A Knot Daddy Stovepipe and Mississippi Sarah - If You Want Me Baby Little Brother Montgomery - The First Time I Met The Blues Mississippi Sheiks with Bo Carter - Sales Tax
notes by David Evans and Colin Escott |
| 65 | 2003 | The Best There Ever Was The Legendary Early Blues Performers Classic Recordings From the 1920s & 30s Garfield Akers - Dough Roller Blues Tommy Johnson - Big Road Blues Son House - My Black Mamma - part 1 Mississippi John Hurt - Ain't No Tellin Skip James - Cypress Grove Blind Willie Johnson - I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole Blind Willie McTell - Mama Tain't Long Fo' Day Jaydee Short - Barefoot Blues Robert Wilkins - I'll Go With Her Blues Ed Bell - Squabblin Blues Charlie Patton - It Won't Be Long Frank Stokes - What's The Matter Blues Geeshie Wiley - Last Kind Word Blues William Harris - Bullfrog Blues Blind Blake - You Gonna Quit Me Blues King Solomon Hill - The Gone Dead Train Memphis Minnie - Outdoor Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson - Prison Cell Blues Sam Collins - Graveyard Digger's Blues Furry Lewis - Big Chief Blues
Yazoo Records discography |
| 66 | 2003 | Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s Volume 1 2004 Calendar with free CD CD and Calendar contents: - He's In The Jailhouse Now - Blind Blake - No Job Blues - Ramblin' Thomas - 22-20 Blues - Skip James - Rising High Water Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Down The Dirt Road Blues - Charley Patton - Death Cell Blues - Blind Willie McTell - Rough Rugged Road - Bumble Bee Slim - Dry Spell Blues - Son House - Bad Feeling Blues - Blind Blake - Beale Town Bound - The Beale Street Sheiks - Black Snake Dream - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Dead Drunk Blues - Ma Rainey Supplementary CD tracks: - I Want Someone To Love Me - Tommy Johnson - Cold Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds - Times Has Done Got Hard - King Solomon Hill restored by Richard Nevins
Blues Images calendar discography |
| 67 | 2004 | Masters Of Memphis Blues disc A: Furry Lewis Furry Lewis - Everybody's Blues (2:56) - Mr. Furry's Blues (2:35) - Sweet Papa Moan (2:12) - Rock Island Blues (2:49) - Jelly Roll (2:39) - Billy Lyons And Stack O'Lee (2:34) - Good Looking Girl Blues (2:52) - Why Don't You Come Home Blues (2:46) - Falling Down Blues (2:51) - Big Chief Blues (2:52) - Mean Old Bed Bug Blues (2:45) - Furry's Blues (3:16) - I Will Turn Your Money Green (tk 1) (3:13) - I Will Turn Your Money Green (tk 2) (3:11) - Mistreatin' Mama (3:09) - Dry Land Blues (3:07) - Cannon Ball Blues (3:06) - Kassie Jones - Part 1 (3:06) - Kassie Jones - Part 2 (3:04) - Judge Harsh Blues (tk 1) (3:06) - Judge Harsh Blues (tk 2) (3:04) - John Henry (The Steel Driving Man) (tk 1) (2:54) - John Henry (The Steel Driving Man) (tk 2) (3:21) - Black Gypsy Blues (2:50) - Creeper's Blues (2:41) disc B: Beale St. Sheiks / Banjo Joe The Beale Street Sheiks (Stokes & Sane) - You Shall (2:50) - It's A Good Thing (2:56) - Sweet To Mama (2:55) - Half Cup Of Tea (2:51) - Beale Town Bound (2:53) - Last Go Round (2:56) - Jazzin' The Blues (2:49) - You Shall (2:43) - It's A Good Thing (2:59) - Mr. Crump Don't Like It (2:59) - Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon (3:06) - Blues In D (2:44) - Ain't Goin' To Do Like I Used To Do (2:56) - Hunting Blues (3:06) - Rockin' On The Hill Blues (3:12) - Fillin' In Blues - Part 1 (3:09) - Fillin' In Blues - Part 2 (3:15) - Wasn't That Doggin' Me (3:09) - Jumpin' On The Hill (3:06) Banjo Joe (Gus Cannon) - Jonestown Blues (3:11) - Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home (3:12) - Madison Street Rag (2:57) - Jazz Gypsy Blues (2:58) - Can You Blame The Colored Man (2:45) - My Money Never Runs Out (2:51) disc C: Frank Stokes / Allen Shaw Frank Stokes - Downtown Blues (tk 1) (3:10) - Downtown Blues (tk 2) (3:15) - Bedtime Blues (2:58) - What's The Matter Blues (3:01) - Mistreatin' Blues (3:15) - It Won't Be Long (tk 1) (3:03) - It Won't Be Long (tk 2) (3:25) - Nehi Mamma Blues (3:06) - Got Mine (3:01) - Stomp That Thing (3:18) - 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 1 (3:11) - 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 2 (tk 1) (3:18) - 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 2 (tk 2) (3:16) - Take Me Back (3:11) - How Long (3:12) - South Memphis Blues (2:56) - Bunker Hill Blues (2:55) - Right Now Blues (3:07) - Shiney Town Blues (3:07) - I'm Going Away Blues (2:47) - Old Sometime Blues (2:47) - Frank Stokes' Dream (2:54) - Memphis Rounders Blues (2:49) - I Couldn't Help It (3:06) - Moanin' The Blues (3:02) disc D: Robert Wilkins / Little Buddy Doyle Robert Wilkins - Rolling Stone - Part 1 (2:55) - Rolling Stone - Part 2 (3:31) - Jail House Blues (3:33) - I Do Blues (3:39) - That's No Way To Get Along (2:55) - Alabama Blues (2:39) - Long Train Blues (3:07) - Falling Down Blues (2:39) - Nashville Stonewall Blues (3:25) - Police Sergeant Blues (3:04) - Get Away Blues (3:33) - I'll Go With Her Blues (3:07) - Dirty Deal Blues (3:16) - Black Rat Blues (2:53) - New Stock Yard Blues (2:58) - Old Jim Canaan's (2:54) - Losin' Out Blues (3:12) Little Buddy Doyle - Hard Scufflin' Blues (2:40) - Grief Will Kill You (2:37) - Slick Capers Blues (2:38) - Renewed Love Blues (2:32) - Bad In Mind Blues (2:35) - Three-Sixty-Nine Blues (2:53) - She's Got Good Dry Goods (2:36) - Lost Baby Blues (2:42) - Sweet Man Blues (2:40)
4 CD box set |
| 68 | 2004 | Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s Volume 2 2005 Calendar with free CD CD and Calendar contents: - Drunken Spree - Skip James - My Black Mama Parts 1 & 2 - Son House - Blues, Oh Blues - Ma Rainey - Jungle Man Blues - Papa Charlie Jackson - Mamlish Blues - Ed Bell - Sitting On Top Of The World - Mississippi Sheiks - Pony Blues - Charley Patton - Lonesome Swamp Rattlesnake - Jaydee Short - Depressions Gone From Me Blues - Blind Blake - Midnight Hour Blues - Ida Cox - Half Cup Of Tea - Beale Street Sheiks - Christmas Eve Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson Supplementary CD tracks: - My Buddy, Blind Papa Lemon - King Solomon Hill - Ninety Nine Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds - You Gotta Have That Thing - Memphis Jug Band - Bottle It Up And Go - Memphis Jug Band restored by Richard Nevins
Blues Images calendar discography |
| 69 | 2005 | The Best Of Frank Stokes - Take Me Back - Mistreatin' Blues - You Shall - What's The Matter Blues - I'm Going Away Blues - Memphis Rounders Blues - It Won't Be Long Now - It's a Good Thing (tk 1) - Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do, Pt. 2 (tk 1) - Old Sometime Blues - I Got Mine - Sweet To Mama - Nehi Mama - Downtown Blues - How Long - South Memphis Blues - Frank Stokes' Dream - Mr. Crump Don't Like It - Bedtime Blues - Jumpin' On The Hill - Blues In "D" - Right Now Blues
notes by Don Kent Yazoo Records discography |
| 70 | 2005 | Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926 - 1937 disc 1: - The Spasm - Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah - Tanner's Boarding House - Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett - Don't Think I'm Santa Claus - Lil McClintock - Hokum Blues - Dallas String Band with Coley Jones [Columbia 14389-D] - Jimbo Jambo Land - Shorty Godwin - Gonna Swing On The Golden Gate - Fiddlin' John Carson & His Virginia Reelers - Papa's 'Bout To Get Mad - Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was A Married Man - Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright - Bye, Bye, Policeman - Jim Jackson - The Bald-Headed End Of A Broom - Walter Smith - Bow Wow Blues - Allen Brothers - Beans - Beans Hambone & El Morrow - A Chicken Can Waltz The Gravy Around - Stovepipe # 1 and David Crockett - Tell It To Me - Grant Brothers & Their Music - Ain't No Use Working So Hard - Carolina Tar Heels - Mama Keep Your Yes Ma'am Clean - Walter Cole - C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken - Kirk McGee & Blythe Poteet - My Money Never Runs Out - Banjo Joe - Railroadin' Some - Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas" - Traveling Man - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers - G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again - Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop - Baby All Night Long - Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers - Born In Hard Luck - Chris Bouchillon - He's In The Jailhouse Now - Memphis Sheiks disc 2: - Gonna Tip Out Tonight - Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - Chevrolet Car - Sam McGee - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' - Gid Tanner & His Skillet-Lickers - Bring It With You When You Come - Cannon's Jug Stompers - Atlanta Strut - Blind Sammie - Go Along Mule - Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers - Casey Bill - Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band - I Got Mine - Frank Stokes - Hannah - Chris Bouchillon - Adam & Eve In The Garden - Bogus Ben Covington - Mysterious Coon - Alec Johnson & His Band - Her Name Was Hula Lou - Carolina Tar Heels - Reno Blues - Three Tobacco Tags - Scoodle Um Skoo - Papa Charlie Jackson - Stackalee - Frank Hutchison - The Cat's Got The Measles, The Dog's Got The Whooping Cough - Walter Smith - Shout You Cats - Hezekiah Jenkins - Nobody's Business If I Do - Tommie Bradley - Sweet Sixteen - Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers - Ticklish Reuben - Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright - I Heard The Voice Of A Porkchop - Jim Jackson> - Shine - Dallas String Band with Coley Jones [Columbia 14574-D] - The Gypsy - Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers - Kiss Me Cindy - J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers
2 CD set |
| 71 | 2006 | Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s Volume 4 2007 Calendar with free CD CD and Calendar contents: - Dope Head Blues - Victoria Spivey - Cocaine Habit Blues - Memphis Jug Band - Gonna Move To Alabama - Charley Patton - Texas Blues - Marshall Owens - 'fore Day Creep - Ida Cox - Black Snake Moan No. 2 - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Jazzin' The Blues - Beale Street Sheiks - Back To The Woods Blues - Charlie Spand - Chain Gang Bound - Bumble Bee Slim - Don't Wake It Up - Mississippi Sheiks - Blues The World Forgot - parts I & II - Ma Rainey - Lonesome Christmas Blues - Blind Blake Supplementary CD tracks: - Try Me One More Time - Marshall Owens - Stingaree Man Blues - Chocolate Brown - Mississippi County Farm Blues - Son House - Clarksdale Moan - Son House restored by Richard Nevins
Blues Images calendar discography |
| 71a | 2006 | Broadcasting The Blues: Black Blues In The Segregation Era CD 1: (Big) Joe Williams - Baby, Please Don't Go Blind Lemon Jefferson - Match Box Blues Ma Rainey - Yonder Come The Blues Bessie Smith - Yellow Dog Blues Robert Johnson - Walkin' Blues Mamprusi Tribesmen - Ring Dance Austin Coleman - My Soul Is A Witness Clyde Hill - Long Hot Summer Days Ed Lewis - Lucky Holler Texas Alexander - Penitentiary Moan Henry Thomas - Old Country Stomp Blind Blake - Dry Bone Shuffle Alec Johnson - Mysterious Coon William Moore - Ragtime Millionaire Beale Street Sheiks - You Shall Gus Cannon - Interview Jim Jackson - I Heard The Voice Of A Pork Chop Mississippi John Hurt - Spike Driver Blues Furry Lewis - Kassie Jones - Part 1 Joe Callicott - Fare Thee Well Blues Gus Cannon - Poor Boy Long Ways From Home Blind Willie McTell - Travelin' Blues CD 1: Barbecue Bob - Chocolate To The Bone Norfolk Jazz Quartette - Sad Blues Jimmie Strothers - Tennessee Dog Muddy Waters - Country Blues Bobbie Leecan's Need-More Band - Washboard Cut-Out Washboard Sam - Flying Crows Blues Edith Wilson - Rules And Regulations 'Signed Razor Jim' Gladys Bentley - Ground Hog Blues Peg Leg Howell - Broke And Hungry Blues John Lee Hooker - Wednesday Evening She Left Me Jesse James Blues - Lonesome Day Blues Sonny Boy Williamson - Win The War Blues Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Fox Hunt Big Bill Broonzy - Black, Brown And White Bertha "Chippie" Hill - Pratt City Blues Leroy Carr - Blues Before Sunrise Tommy McClennan - Blues Trip Me This Morning Henry Townsend - Poor Man Blues Henry Townsend - Interview Son House - My Black Mama - Part 1 Robert Petway - Cotton Pickin' Blues Wade Walton - Interview Wesley Wallace - Number 29 - Cow Cow Davenport - Jim Crow Blues CD 2: Memphis Jug Band - Aunt Caroline Dyer Blues Willie Shade - Interview Bumble Bee Slim - Policy Dream Blues Memphis Minnie - North Memphis Blues Stump Johnson - Interview Lucille Bogan - They Ain't Walkin' No More Whistlin' Alex Moore - Ice Pick Blues Lonnie Johnson - Interview Bukka White - Parchman Farm Blues Hambone Willie Newbern - Shelby County Workhouse Blues Peetie Wheatstraw - Working On The Project Black Ace - Interview Carl Martin - Let's Have A New Deal Mattie Delaney - Tallahatchie River Blues Lonnie Johnson - St. Louis Cyclone Blues John Lee Hooker - Interview Sleepy John Estes - Fire Department Blues Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Give Me A 32-20 Rayford Logan - Interview Mr. Honey - Build A Cave Red Nelson - Crying Mother Blues Speckled Red - Interview Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozen Blind Boy Fuller - Three Ball Blues Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues Tommy Johnson - Cool Drink Of Water Blues Charley Patton - Some Summer Day Mama Yancey - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor Papa Charlie Jackson - Long Gone Lost John Meade "Lux" Lewis - Spirit Of The Boogie-Woogie Rev. F.W. McGee - Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room compiled by Paul Oliver
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| 72 | 2007 | Memphis - That's All Right - From Blues To Rock'n'Roll Part 1 - Old School Frank Stokes - Memphis Rounders Blues (1929) Cannon's Jug Stompers - Bring It With You When You Come (1930) Joe Hill Louis - Heartache Baby (1950) McCoy & Johnson - Don't Want No Woman (1930) D.A. Hunt - Lonesome Old Jail (1953) Little Buddy Doyle - Grief Will Kill You (1939) Sleepy John Estes - Divin' Duck Blues (1929) Howlin' Wolf - I Asked For Water (1956) Memphis Jug Band - Kansas City Blues (1927) Doctor Ross - Doctor Ross Boogie (1951) Furry Lewis - Black Gypsy Blues (1929) Robert Wilkins - Falling Down Blues (1929) Part 2 - New Wave Bobby Bland - It's My Life Baby (1955) Minnie Thomas - I Know What You Need (1956) Johnny Ace - So Lonely (1954) Jackie Brenston - Rocket 88 (1951) Little Junior's Blue Flames - Mystery Train (1953) Elvis Presley - That's All Right (1954) Rufus Thomas - Bear Cat (1953) The Del Rios with The Bear Cats - Alone On A Rainy Nite (1956) Rosco Gordon - Booted (1951) Little Milton - Homesick For My Baby (1954) James Cotton - Straighten Up Baby (1953) B.B. King - Everyday I Have The Blues (1955)
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| 73 | 2010 | Frank Stokes: Downtown Blues - Downtown Blues - Bedtime Blues - What's The Matter Blues - Mistreatin' Blues - It Won't Be Long Now - Nehi Mamma Blues - I Got Mine - Stomp That Thing - 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Take Me Back - How Long - South Memphis Blues - Bunker Hill Blues - Right Now Blues - Shiney Town Blues - Frank Stokes' Dream - Memphis Rounders Blues
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| 74 | 2010 | Beale Street Sheiks: Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon - You Shall (2:46) - It's A Good Thing (2:52) - Sweet To Mama (2:52) - Half Cup Of Tea (2:50) - Beale Town Bound (2:50) - Last Go Round (2:53) - Jazzin' The Blues (2:45) - You Shall (2:40) - It's A Good Thing (2:55) - Mr. Crump Don't Like It (2:36) - Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon (3:03) - Blues In "D" (2:40) - Ain't Goin' To Do Like I Used To Do (2:50) - Hunting Blues (3:03) - Rockin' On The Hill Blues (3:08) - Fillin' In Blues Pt.1 (3:05) - Fillin' In Blues Pt.2 (3:12) - Wasn't That Doggin' Me (3:06) - Jumpin' On The Hill (3:03)
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| 75 | 2012 | Cluck Old Hen J.O. Albert LaMadeleine - Chicken Reel Casey Bill - Rooster Blues Riley Puckett - Riley's Hen-House Door John McClung - Chicken George Edgin's Corn Dodgers - Corn Dodger No. 1 Special Walter Rhodes - The Crowing Rooster Peg Leg Howell & Eddie Anthony - Turkey Buzzard Blues Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band - Under The Chicken Tree Cliff Carlisle - It Takes The Old Hen To Deliver The Goods Grayson & Whitter - Cluck Old Hen Sweet Papa Stovepipe - All Birds Look Like Chicken To Me Dixieland Jug Blowers - Hen Party Blues The Leake County Revelers - Crow Black Chicken Gene Autry - Stay Away From My Chicken House Georgia Browns - Who Stole De Lock? Teddy Bunn & Spencer Williams - The Chicken And The Worm Six Jumping Jacks - There's A Trick In Pickin' A Chick-Chick-Chicken Carolina Ramblers String Band - Barnyard Frolic Utica Institute Jubilee Singers - Chicken Beale Street Sheiks - Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon Mustard And Gravy - Rooster On The Limb Honeyboy & Sassafras - The Chicken Sermon The Tune Wranglers - Chicken Reel Stomp Binkley Brothers' Dixie Clodhoppers - I'll Rise When The Rooster Crows
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| 76 | 2013 | The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records 1917-1927, Volume 2 Beale Street Sheiks - You Shall 6xLP, Album, Comp, Bur + M/Stick + 800xFile, MP3
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| 77 | 2014 | The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records 1928-1932, Volume 2 The Beale Street Sheiks - Ain't Goin' To Do Like I Used To Do 6xLP, Comp, Etch, RM, Lab + M/Stick + 800xFile, MP
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| 78 | 2015 | Memphis Rounders Blues Blues Singers Recorded in Memphis 1928 & 1929 Jim Jackson, voc, g - I'm Wild About My Lovin' - This Morning She Was Gone [previously unissued] - This Ain't No Place For Me [previously unissued] - I'm Gonna Move To Louisiana - Pt. 1 [previously unissued] - I'm Gonna Move To Louisiana - Pt. 2 [previously unissued] Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g - 'Tain't Nobody's Business [ - 'Tain't Nobody's Business [ Tommy Johnson, voc, g - Lonesome Home Blues - Lonesome Home Blues [previously unissued] Charlie Kyle, voc, g - Kyle's Worried Blues - Monkey-Man Blues Will Shade, voc, g; Jab Jones, p - Better Leave That Stuff Alone - Better Leave That Stuff Alone [previously unissued] - She Stabbed Me With An Ice-Pick [previously unissued] Minnie Wallace, voc; acc. prob.: Will Shade, g -1 / hca -2; Milton Roby, vn; Jab Jones, p -1 / jug -2; Charlie Burse, g -2 - Dirty Butter -1 - The Old Folks Started It -2 [previously unissued] Frank Stokes, voc, g; Will Batts, vn - South Memphis Blues - Bunker Hill Blues Hattie Hart, voc; prob.: Will Shade, g; Milton Roby, vn; Johnny Hardge, p - Won't You Be Kind To Me? Frank Stokes, voc, g; Will Batts, vn -1 - Right Now Blues -1 - Shiney Town Blues -1 - I'm Going Away Blues -1 - Old Sometime Blues -1 - Frank Stokes' Dream - Memphis Rounders Blues including alternate takes, rare tests, & previously unissued tracks all transfers by Nick Dellow, from rare originals
notes by Paul Swinton |
| 79 | 2017 | American Epic: The Collection disc 1: - The Coo Coo Bird (The Cuckoo) - Clarence Ashley - On the Road Again - Memphis Jug Band - The Panama Limited - Bukka White - Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers - 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do, Pt. 1 - Frank Stokes - K.C. Railroad Blues - Andrew & Jim Baxter - I Am Bound for the Promised Land - Alfred G. Karnes - Cottonfield Blues, Pt. 2 - Garfield Akers - I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Down On Penny's Farm - Bentley Boys - Foldin' Bed - Whistler's Jug Band - Greenback Dollar - Weems String Band - Tallahatchie River Blues - Mattie Delaney - Walk Right In - Cannon's Jug Stompers - Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow - The Carter Family - Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson - Bayou Teche - Columbus Fruge - Cool Drink of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson - Train On the Island - J.P. Nestor disc 2: - My Heart Keeps Singing - Elder J.E. Burch - Ninety-Nine Year Blues - Julius Daniels - I Get My Whiskey From Rockingham - Earl Johnson and his Clodhoppers - Death's Black Train Is Coming - Rev. J. M. Gates - Waiting for a Train - Jimmie Rodgers - Darling, Where Have You Been So Long? - Tenneva Ramblers - Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Ma Blond Est Partie - Amadie Breaux, Ophey Breaux & Cleoma Breaux - Peg and Awl - Carolina Tar Heels - Chocolate to the Bone - Barbecue Bob - Down On Me - Eddie Head and Family - Prenez Courage - Cleoma Breaux with Joseph Falcon and Ophy Breaux - Pickin' Off Peanuts - Dilly and his Dill Pickles - Just Because - Nelstone's Hawaiians - Dupree Blues - Willie Walker - Ladies On the Steamboat - Burnett & Rutherford - Mamma, 'Tain't Long Fo' Day - Blind Willie McTell disc 3: - Cecilia - Cuarteto Flores - La Coquetera - Los Borinquenos - Coconito - Guty Cárdenas Y Lencho - Lovesick Blues - Emmett Miller - Long Tall Mama - Big Bill Broonzy - John Henry Blues - Two Poor Boys - Mr. Tom Hughes' Town - Lead Belly - Louis Collins - Mississippi John Hurt - I Am The Light of the World - Blind Gary Davis - Fifty Miles of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. McGee - Chant of the Eagle Dance - Hopi Indian Chanters - Hilo Hula - Mike Hanapi & The Ilima Islanders - If The River Was Whiskey - Charlie Poole - Stackalee - Frank Hutchison - The Wreck of the '97 - Ernest Stoneman - Faded Coat of Blue - Buell Kazee - Country Blues - Dock Boggs - Sail Away Ladies - Uncle Dave Macon and His Fruit-Jar Drinkers - Sail Away Lady - Uncle Bunt Stephens - Sally Gooden - Eck Robertson - Arkansas Traveller - Don Richardson disc 4: - Hard Time Blues - Lane Hardin - Down the Dirt Road Blues - Charley Patton - Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home - Banjo Joe - Hastings Street - Blind Blake & Charlie Spand - See That My Grave's Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Gonna Have 'Lasses In the Morning - Golden Melody Boys - New Orleans Stop Time - Memphis Minnie & Bumblebee Slim - Prove It On Me Blues - Ma Rainey - Gonne Die with My Hammer in My Hand - Williamson Brothers & Curry - Last Kind Words Blues - Geeshie Wiley - Banjoreno - Dixieland Jug Blowers - It's a Good Thing - Beale Street Sheiks - Trust In God and Do the Right - Blind Willie Davis - Someday Baby Blues - Sleepy John Estes - Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins - Future Blues - Willie Brown - Bull Doze Blues - Henry Thomas - Brown Skin Gal (Down the Lane) - Massey Family - Henry Lee aka Young Hunting - Dick Justice - Old Country Rock - William Moore - La Danseuse - Delma Lachney & Blind Uncle Gaspard - My Black Mama, Pt. 1 & 2 - Son House - Cypress Grove Blues - Skip James disc 5: - Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson - Mal Hombre - Lydia Mendoza - Sunshine Special - Frenchy's String Band - Old Jim Canan's - Robert Wilkins - Les Blues De Voyage - Amédé Ardoin & Dennis McGee - The Lost Child - Stripling Brothers - I'm Gonna Cross the River Jordan Some of These Days - Jaybird Coleman - Tomi Tomi - Sol K. Bright with The Aloha Serenaders - Sittin' On Top of the World - Mississippi Sheiks - James Alley Blues - Richard Rabbit Brown - The Indian Tom Tom - Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band - Blues In a Bottle - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers - Je Me Suis En Alle - Bartmont Montet & Joswell Dupuis - Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson - E Mama Ea - Sol Hoopii & His Novelty Quartette - Ghost Dance - Truett & George - Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind On Jesus) - Roosevelt Graves & Brother - Allons A Lafayette - Joseph Falcon - Corrido De Joaquin Murrieta, Pt. 1 & 2 - Los Madrugadores - Denomination Blues (Part 1 & 2) - Washington Phillips "American Epic: The Collection gathers 100 of these original recordings from the 1920s and 1930s in one five-disc set, restored to unprecedented levels of sonic fidelity. For this box set, compiled by Director Bernard MacMahon, engineer Nicholas Bergh refined a transfer process using a mix of both modern and vintage equipment in order to extract the remarkable resolution from the records that is often missed."
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Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - Jean-Claude Arnaudon: Dictionnaire du Blues.- Paris, France (Filipacci) 1977, pp. 237-238 - Karel Bogaert: Blues Lexicon.- Antwerpen (Standaard) 1972, p. 357 - Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943.- Oxford (Clarendon), 4th ed. 1997, pp. 865-866 - Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 238 - Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- New York (Da Capo Press) 1987, pp. 485-486 - John Tefteller and Blues Images Collection - used with permission - eBay auctions - diverse internet resources thanks to Jim Clay, Gerard Herzhaft, Russell Shor, Ray Templeton, David J Costa, Eric Simkin, Donovan Weaver, Helge Thygesen, Izumi Kinoshita, Devon Níall Flaherty, T. DeWayne Moore and Alex van der Tuuk for additional info / scans
   "A Negro jug band" "on their trip home to Memphis" and thereby playing for "Boss Crump", who "strolls with accompanying minstrels through cars of his special train" on 1st, 2nd and 3rd photo: Charlie Burse with guitar; on 2nd photo: Will Shade with jug source: Life magazine Vol. 8, No. 13 (March 25, 1940), p. 20; jug band photos reprinted in Blues & Rhythm #62 (1991) |