Daddy Stovepipereal name: Johnny Watsonb. April 12, 18671) in Mobile, Alabamad. November 1, 1963 in Chicago, Illinoisburied at Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Cook County, Illinoisdiscography
1) "July 8, 1888", according to his 1942 draft registration card
Gennett 5459 (US 6/1924)
= Claxtonola 40335
= Silvertone 4042
August 5, 1924 Shelbyville, KY article "'Stovepipe' Now Playing Blues for Gennett Records"
Gennett unissued
Gennett 6212
= Champion 15361
Vocalion 1662
Vocalion 1667
Vocalion 1670
Vocalion 1676
Bluebird B-5913 (US April 24, 1935)
Bluebird B-6023 (US July 31, 1935)
notes by Paul Oliver Heritage HLP 1004 (UK 1961)
= Collector's Issue C-5527 (Austria 1989?)
notes by Paul Oliver, Rien Wisse & Gary Atkinson = Document DOCD 5692 (UK 2012)
Heritage Records discographyCollector's Issue discographyArvella Gray discographyJames Brewer discography
"His [Daddy Stovepipe's] last recordings were made for Paul Oliver during his trip to the States in 1961. These were issued on a 77 label LP in England." (Bob Koester in Blues Unlimited # 9 (Febr. 1964)
"(...) rec. 1960, Heritage label, Chicago; rec. 77 label, Chicago, 1961 (...) " (Sheldon Harris' 1979 Blues Who's Who, p. 545)
notes by Jacques Roche Origin Jazz Library OJL 14 (US 1967)
OJL Records discography
notes by Henry Vestine Origin Jazz Library OJL 19 (US 1969)
Roots RL-320 (Austria 1969)
= Roots RL-320 (Austria 19??) distributed in the UK by Saydisk Records
= Roots/Autogram RL-320 (Germany 19??)
the LP front cover depicts Percy Randolph being recorded by Harry Oster, most likely January/February 1958 in New Orleans (Harry Oster, on the left of the original photo, has been cropped; the original photo was published in Les Génies du Blues, Volume 2.- Paris (Editions Atlas) 1993, p. 67 ("D.I.T.E. / I.P.S." [French photo agency]; photographer's name not given)
Roots Records discography
Roots RL-325 (Austria 1969)
°° CD has seven additional tracks!
3 LP folding box with 30-pp. booklet RCA Victor RA-5433/5 (Jp 1971)
3 LP slide-in box with 30-page booklet = RCA Victor RA-9051/3 (Jp 1975)
2 CD set, notes by Hiroshi Suzuki, Toyo Nakamura, Yasufumi Higurashi, Hisamitsu Noguchi & Shoichi Yui = RCA BVCP-8733/4 (Jp 1994) "Blues 1927-46"
2 CD set = RCA BVCM-37530/1 (Jp 2004) "Blues 1927-46"
2 LP set Document DLP 503/504 (Austria 1986)
Document Records discographyEddie Mapp discography
notes by Keith Briggs Document DOCD-5166 (Austria 1993)
notes by Keith Briggs = Document CDr DOCD-5166 (UK 2006)
notes by Don Kent Yazoo CD 2033 (US 1998)
Yazoo Records discography
notes by David Evans & Colin Escott RCA Victor 63987
notes by David Evans & Colin Escott Bluebird RCA 50958
2 CD set with 72-pp. bookletnotes by Marshall Wyatt & Bengt Olsson Old Hat CD 1005 (US 2005)
4 CD box JSP JSPCD 7798 (UK 2007)
Blues Images Calendar Vol. 17 (rel. 2019, for 2020)
Blues Images CD BIM-117 (US 2019) accompanying Blues Images Calendar Vol. 17 (for 2020)
Blues Images calendars discography
thanks to 'Cambio' for posting the Old Hat Pic and to Flemming Nielsen, Eric Simkin, Z. Edward Sigall, Helge Thygesen, John Burton, Tony Russell, Benoît Brière, Per Oldaeus and Chris Smith for additional information / scans
Original caption: "The street surges to the rhythm of "Stovepipe" Watson's band.The homemade instruments beat out frantic music that isn't good, but loud."Anonymous: "Chicago Side Show: A Picture Pageant".- "Pageant" Vol. 1, No. 4 (March 1945), pp. 45-52 'Stovepipe' Watson's Band on Maxwell Street in Chicago, IL, 1949source: ("published in a book 1955") Facebook; photographer's name ("a Swede") not given Daddy Stovepipe playing on Maxwell Street in Chicago, IL, 1959source: Lori Grove & Laura Kamedulski: Chicago's Maxwell Street.- Mount Pleasant, SC (Arcadia Publishing)Illustrated Edition (October 1st, 2002), p. 81; photographer: Clarence Hines Daddy Stovepipe on Maxwell Street in Chicago, IL, 1959drawing by Robert Crumb, 2018 Daddy Stovepipe on Maxwell Street in Chicago, IL, 1960source: Notes accompanying Heritage HLP 1004, p. 8photographer: Paul Oliver Daddy Stovepipe on Maxwell Street in Chicago, IL, 1960source: Tony Russell: Blacks Whites and Blues.- London (Studio Vista) 1970, p. 34photographer: Paul Oliver Daddy Stovepipe playing on Maxwell Street in Chicago, IL, 1963source: Posted @ Facebook by George Mitchellphotographer: George Mitchell Daddy Stovepipe's headstoneat Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Cook County, Illinois, Sec. L5, Row 4, Gr. 87placed by the Killer Blues Headstone Project in 2012source: https://de.findagrave.com/memorial/10662/johnny-watsonphotographer: "Gravehunter1"
'Stovepipe' Watson's Band on Maxwell Street in Chicago, IL, 1949source: ("published in a book 1955") Facebook; photographer's name ("a Swede") not given Daddy Stovepipe playing on Maxwell Street in Chicago, IL, 1959source: Lori Grove & Laura Kamedulski: Chicago's Maxwell Street.- Mount Pleasant, SC (Arcadia Publishing)Illustrated Edition (October 1st, 2002), p. 81; photographer: Clarence Hines Daddy Stovepipe on Maxwell Street in Chicago, IL, 1959drawing by Robert Crumb, 2018 Daddy Stovepipe on Maxwell Street in Chicago, IL, 1960source: Notes accompanying Heritage HLP 1004, p. 8photographer: Paul Oliver Daddy Stovepipe on Maxwell Street in Chicago, IL, 1960source: Tony Russell: Blacks Whites and Blues.- London (Studio Vista) 1970, p. 34photographer: Paul Oliver Daddy Stovepipe playing on Maxwell Street in Chicago, IL, 1963source: Posted @ Facebook by George Mitchellphotographer: George Mitchell Daddy Stovepipe's headstoneat Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Cook County, Illinois, Sec. L5, Row 4, Gr. 87placed by the Killer Blues Headstone Project in 2012source: https://de.findagrave.com/memorial/10662/johnny-watsonphotographer: "Gravehunter1"
Daddy Stovepipe playing on Maxwell Street in Chicago, IL, 1963source: Posted @ Facebook by George Mitchellphotographer: George Mitchell Daddy Stovepipe's headstoneat Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Cook County, Illinois, Sec. L5, Row 4, Gr. 87placed by the Killer Blues Headstone Project in 2012source: https://de.findagrave.com/memorial/10662/johnny-watsonphotographer: "Gravehunter1"
Daddy Stovepipe's headstoneat Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Cook County, Illinois, Sec. L5, Row 4, Gr. 87placed by the Killer Blues Headstone Project in 2012source: https://de.findagrave.com/memorial/10662/johnny-watsonphotographer: "Gravehunter1"