Illustrated Henry Thomas discography

source: Blues Images Calendar Vol. 11 (2014) (rel. 2013)
Unidentified musician (Henry Thomas ?) on Maxwell Street in Chicago, IL, early 1930s
screen capture (at 56:30) from 1931 film "Weltstadt in Flegeljahren. Ein Bericht über Chicago" by Heinrich Hauser, available at:
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/090556-000-A/weltstadt-in-flegeljahren-ein-bericht-ueber-chicago/

Henry Thomas
a/k/a "Ragtime Texas"
b. 1874 in Big Sandy, Upshur County, Texas
date (c. 1930) and location of death unknown
burial place unknown
discography

year
of release

title / label / notes

10 inch 78 rpm
Since this ain't no museum, my aim is not to depict actually existing specimen of 78 rpm records, but to show the labels as pristine as workmanlike possible
even if this - in some cases - takes a whole lot of my time to photoshop process the initial data

1927

Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas"

- John Henry (C-1024/25) # @ youtube
- Cottonfield Blues (C-1024/25) @ youtube

unissued track from same session:
- The Fox And The Hounds (C-1021/22/23) #

rec. June 30, 1927 in Chicago, IL; Henry Thomas, voc, g, # quills

Vocalion 1094 (US 1927)

Chicago Defender advertisement for 1927 Vocalion 1094
source: Back cover of Herwin LP H 208

Chicago Defender advertisement for 1927 Vocalion 1094
source: Samuel Charters: The Bluesmen.- New York (Oak Publications) 1967, p. 194

1927

Henry Thomas "Rag Time Texas"

- The Fox And The Hounds (C-1198/99) @ youtube
- Red River Blues (C-1205/06/07) @ youtube

rec. October 5, 1927 in Chicago, IL; Henry Thomas, voc, g; quills

Vocalion 1137

Chicago Defender advertisement for 1927 Vocalion 1137

1927

Henry Thomas "Rag Time Texas"

- The Little Red Caboose (C-1200/01) @ youtube
- Bob McKinney (C-1202/03/04) @ youtube

rec. October 5, 1927 in Chicago, IL; Henry Thomas, voc, g; # quills

Vocalion 1138

1927

Henry Thomas "Rag Time Texas"

- Shanty Blues (C-1224/25) @ youtube
- Woodhouse Blues (C-1226/27) @ youtube

rec. October 7, 1927 in Chicago, IL; Henry Thomas, voc, g

Vocalion 1139

1927

Henry Thomas "Rag Time Texas"

- Jonah In The Wilderness (C-1228/2 @ youtube
- When The Train Comes Along (C-1230/31) @ youtube

rec. October 7, 1927 in Chicago, IL; Henry Thomas, voc, g

Vocalion 1140

Chicago Defender advertisement for 1927 Vocalion 1140
source: Back cover of Herwin LP H 208

6/1928

Henry Thomas "Rag Time Texas"

- Run, Mollie, Run (C-1222/23) @ youtube
- Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance? (C-1220/21) @ youtube

rec. October 7, 1927 in Chicago, IL; Henry Thomas, voc, g; quills

Vocalion 1141(US 6/1928)

Chicago Defender advertisement for 1927 Vocalion 1141
source: Back cover of Herwin LP H 208

1928

Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas"

- Don't Ease Me In (C-2000- ) @ youtube
- Texas Easy Street Blues (C-2001- ) @ youtube

rec. June 13, 1928 in Chicago, IL; Henry Thomas, voc, g

Vocalion 1197

Chicago Defender advertisement for 1928 Vocalion 1197
source: Samuel Charters: The Bluesmen.- New York (Oak Publications) 1967, p. 194

1/1929

Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas"

- Bull-Doze Blues (C-1999- ) @ youtube
- Old Country Stomp (C-2008- ) @ youtube

rec. June 13, 1928 in Chicago, IL; Henry Thomas, voc, g; quills

Vocalion 1230(US January 15, 1929)

1929

Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas"

- Texas Worried Blues (C-2002- ) @ youtube
- Fishing Blues (C-2003- ) # @ youtube

rec. June 13, 1928 in Chicago, IL; Henry Thomas, voc, g; # quills

Vocalion 1249

1929

Henry Thomas
- Arkansas (C-1028/29) # @ youtube
Georgia Tom and Tampa Red
- Pat That Bread (C-3540- ) * @ youtube

# rec. June 30, 1927 in Chicago, IL; Henry Thomas, voc, g
* rec. May 25, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Georgia Tom, voc, p; Tampa Red, voc, g

Vocalion 1286

= Supertone S2216
some copies of Supertone S2216 as by "'Honey Boy' Smith And Southern Jack"

1/1930

Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas"

- Railroadin' Some (C-4623- ) @ youtube
- Don't Leave Me Here (C-4624- ) @ youtube

rec. October 7, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Henry Thomas, voc, g; quills

Vocalion 1443 (US January 15, 1930)

1929

Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas"

- Charmin' Betsy (C-4621- ) # @ youtube
- Lovin' Babe (C-4622- ) @ youtube

rec. October 7, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Henry Thomas, voc, g; # quills

Vocalion 1468 (US 1929)

= Brunswick/Decca (Vocalion 1468) - tests (US 1940s)
Brunswick had planned to issue this on one of its 2 Folk Music albums but never did.

Henry Thomas

- She's Got What I Want (77310-1)
- My Sweet Candy (77311-1)

rec. December 11, 1933 in Chicago, IL; Henry Townsend, voc, g; Roosevelt Sykes, p

Bluebird B5343

= Sunrise S3424

Henry Townsend discography

Henry Thomas / Walter Davis

- Sick With The Blues (77314-1) *
- Stormy Weather Blues No. 2 (77286-1) (Walter Davis)

* rec. December 11, 1933 in Chicago, IL; Henry Townsend, voc, g; Roosevelt Sykes, p

Bluebird B5411

Henry Townsend discography

LP / CD compilations

1952

Anthology Of American Folk Music
Volume Two: Social Music

LP 1:
- Sail Away Lady - Uncle Bunt Stephens
- The Wild Wagoner - Jilson Setters
- Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
- La Danseuse - Delma Lachney And Blind Uncle Gaspard
- Georgia Stomp - Andrew And Jim Baxter
- Brilliancy Medley - Eck Robertson
- Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming & His Pep-Steppers

- Old Country Stomp - Henry Thomas
- Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson
- Saut Crapaud - Columbus Fruge
- Acadian One-Step - Joseph Falcon
- Home Sweet Home - Breaux Freres
- Newport Blues - Cincinnati Jug Band
- Moonshiner's Dance (part one) - Frank Cloutier And The Victoria Cafe Orchestra

LP 2:
- You Must Be Born Again - Rev. J.M. Gates
- Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting - Rev. J.M. Gates
- Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
- Present Joys - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
- This Song Of Love - Middle Georgia Singing Conv. No. 1
- Judgement - Sister Mary Nelson
- He Got Better Things For You - Memphis Sanctified Singers
- Since I Laid My Burden Down - Elders McIntorsh & Edwards' Sanctified Singers

- John The Baptist - Rev. Moses Mason
- Dry Bones - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
- John The Revelator - Blind Willie Johnson
- Little Moses - Carter Family
- Shine On Me - Ernest Phipps & Holiness Singers
- Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. McGee
- In The Battlefield For My Lord - Rev. D.C. Rice And Congregation

edited by Harry Smith

2 LP set
booklet of notes by Harry Smith

Folkways FP-252 (US 1952)

2 LP set
booklet of notes by Harry Smith

= Folkways FA 2952 (US 1967)

box set of 3 double CDs
notes by Amy Horowitz, Anthony Seeger, Neil V. Rosenberg, Jeff Place, Jon Pankake, Greil Marcus & Pete Reiniger

(=) Smithsonian Folkways SFW 40090 (US 1997) containing Folkways FA 2951, FA 2952 & FA 2953

2 LP set

= Doxy DOY626 (It 2009)

1952

Anthology Of American Folk Music
Volume Three: Songs

LP 1:
- The Coo Coo Bird - Clarence Ashley
- East Virginia - Buell Kazee
- Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- I Woke Up One Morning In May - Didier Hebert
- James Alley Blues - Richard "Rabbit" Brown
- Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs
- I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford

- Mountaineer's Courtship - Ernest and Hattie Stoneman
- The Spanish Merchant's Daughter - The Stoneman Family
- Bob Lee Junior Blues - The Memphis Jug Band
- Single Girl, Married Girl - The Carter Family
- Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme - Clemo Breaux and Joseph Falcon
- Rabbit Foot Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Expressman Blues - Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell

LP 2:
- Poor Boy Blues - Ramblin' Thomas
- Feather Bed - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Country Blues - Dock Boggs
- 99 Year Blues - Julius Daniels
- Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- C'est Si Triste Sans Lui - Cleoma and Orphy Breaux w/ Joe Falcon

- Way Down The Old Plank Road - Uncle Dave Macon
- Buddy Won't You Roll Down The Line - Uncle Dave Macon
- Spike Driver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt [OKeh 8692]
- K.C. Moan - The Memphis Jug Band
- Train On The Island - J.P. Nestor
- The Lone Star Trail - Ken Manyard
- Fishing Blues - Henry Thomas

edited by Harry Smith

2 LP set

Folkways FP-253 (US 1952)

2 LP set
booklet of notes by Harry Smith

= Folkways FA 2953 (US 1967)

= Folkways FA 2953 (US 1972) "Folkways Records and Service Corp., 43 W. 61st St., N.Y.C., U.S.A. 10023"

2 LP set

= Doxy DOY627 (It 2009)

= Mississippi MRP-072 (US 2014)

= Death Is Not The End DEATH012 (cassette) (UK 2016)

1962

Really! The Country Blues 1927-1933

@ youtube (playlist)

Tommy Johnson - Maggie Campbell Blues
William Moore - Old Country Rock
Son House - My Black Mama, Parts 1 and 2
Sunny Boy and His Pals - France Blues
Skip James - Devil Got My Woman
Ishman Bracey - Woman Woman Blues

Sam Collins - The Jail House Blues
George 'Bullet' Williams - Touch Me Light Mama
Henry Sims - Tell Me Man Blues
Buster Johnson - Undertaker Blues
Henry Thomas - Don't Ease Me In
Garfield Akers - Cottonfield Blues - part 1
Garfield Akers - Cottonfield Blues - part 2

compiled by Bill Givens; edited by Pete Whelan; lyrics transcribed by Bill Givens and David Evans

Rory Block: "Stefan [Grossman] gave me a record called 'Really The Country Blues' and that was the beginning of my love affair with the music".

insert brochure notes by Gayle Dean Wardlow

Origin Jazz Library OJL 2 (US 1962, 1st ed.)

notes by Bill Givens and Pete Whelan

= Origin Jazz Library OJL 2

notes by Bill Givens and Pete Whelan on three stapled A4 copy sheets

= Origin Jazz Library OJL 2

= Soundmark 48172 (2011, download only)

OJL Records discography

1962

Henry Thomas Sings The Texas Blues!

OJL LP 3 track sequence:
- Texas Worried Blues
- Cottonfield Blues
- Run, Mollie, Run
- Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance?
- The Fox And The Hounds
- Bob McKinney
- Bull Doze Blues

- Texas Easy Street
- Woodhouse Blues
- When The Train Comes Along
- The Little Red Caboose
- Red River Blues
- Shanty Blues
- John Henry

Herwin DLP H 209 / Yazoo L 1080/81 track sequence:
LP 1:
- John Henry °°
- Cottonfield Blues °°
- Arkansas
- The Fox And The Hounds °°
- Red River Blues °°

- The Little Red Caboose °°
- Bob McKinney °°
- Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance? °°
- Run, Mollie, Run °°
- Shanty Blues °°
- Woodhouse Blues °°

LP 2:
- Jonah In The Wilderness
- When The Train Comes Along °°
- Bull Doze Blues °°
- Don't Ease Me In
- Texas Easy Street °°
- Texas Worried Blues °°

- Fishing Blues
- Old Country Stomp
- Charmin' Betsy
- Lovin' Babe
- Railroadin' Some
- Don't Leave Me Here

°° 14 [out of 23] tracks on OJL 3
Yazoo LP/CD front cover drawing by Frederick Carlson

Origin Jazz Library OJL 3 (US 1962) "Henry Thomas Sings The Texas Blues!" "Limited Edition"

= Origin Jazz Library OJL 3 (US 1962) "Henry Thomas Sings The Texas Blues!"

DLP
bound in notes by Mack McCormick

(=) Herwin H 209 (US 1974) "Henry Thomas - Ragtime Texas: Complete Works - 1927 to 1929 in Chronological Order"

DLP
notes by Steven Calt & Mack McCormick

= Yazoo L 1080/81 (US 1989) "Texas Worried Blues"

notes by Stephen Calt

= Yazoo CD 1080/81 (US 1993) "Texas Worried Blues"

DLP
notes by Steven Calt & Mack McCormick

= Yazoo L 1080/81 (US 2013) 180g "Texas Worried Blues"

OJL Records discography
Herwin Records discography
Yazoo Records discography

1968

Tex-Arkana-Louisiana Country 1929-1933 resp. Don't Leave Me Here

Buddy Boy Hawkins - Awful Fix
Henry Thomas - Don't Leave Me Here
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Hot Dogs
Little Hat Jones - Bye Eye Baby Blues
Six Cylinder Smith - Oh Oh Lonesome
Sammy Hill - Needin' My Women
King Solomon Hill - The Gone Dead Train

Willie Reed - Dreaming Blues
Henry Thomas - Lovin' Babe
Texas Alexander - 98 Degree Blues
Little Hat Jones - Kentucky Blues
Sammy Hill - Cryin' For You
King Solomon Hill - Tell Me Baby
Six Cylinder Smith - Pennsylvania Woman Blues

notes by Horace Butterworth [= Stephen Calt] 390 East 8th Street, New York, N.Y. 10009

Belzona L-1004 (US 1968)

notes by Horace Butterworth [= Stephen Calt] 390 East 8th Street, New York, N.Y. 10009 (black and purple label)

= Yazoo L-1004 (US 1968)

notes by Stephen Calt 54 King Street, New York, N.Y. 10014 (black, purple & red label)

= Yazoo L-1004 (US 196? ff.)

notes by Stephen Calt 245 Waverly Place, New York, N.Y. 10009 (red label)

= Yazoo L-1004 (US 19??)

notes by Stephen Calt 245 Waverly Place, New York, N.Y. 10009 (new front cover, new title, red or peacock label)

= Yazoo L-1004 (US 19??) "Don't Leave Me Here" The Blues of Texas, Arkansas, & Louisiana 1927-1932

= Yazoo 1004 cassette (US 1989)

notes by Stephen Calt

= Yazoo CD 1004 YAZ (US 1991)

Yazoo Records discography
Buddy Boy Hawkins discography
Blind Lemon Jefferson discography
Little Hat Jones discography
King Solomon Hill discography
Texas Alexander discography

1968

Texas Country Music Vol. 1 (1927-1936)

Henry Thomas
- Arkansas
Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Sunshine Special - tk 1
Bernice Edwards
- Hot Mattress Stomp
J.T. "Funny Paper" Smith
- Before Long
Texas Tommy
- Jail Break Blues
Ramblin' Thomas
- No Job Blues
- Back Gnawing Blues
Billiken Johnson & Neal Roberts
- Frisco Blues

Coley Jones
- Sweet Mama Blues
Dallas String Band
- Dallas Rag
Blind Willie Johnson
- When The War Was On
- Praise God I'm Satisfied
Texas Alexander
- Section Gand Blues
- No More Woman Blues
- Sittin' On A Log
Jesse James
- Sweet Patuni

compiled and produced by Evelyn Parth; cover photo: Mike Leadbitter

Roots RL-312 (Austria 1968)

= Roots RL-312 (Austria 19??)

= Autogram RL-312 (Germany 2010) "Texas Country Music Vol. 1 - Blues series"

Roots Records discography

1968

Texas Country Music Vol. 2
1927-1937

Henry Thomas
- Charmin Betsy
Coley Jones
- The Elders He's My Man
Blind Willie Johnson
- If It Had Not Been For Jesus
Will Day
- Sunrise Blues
Texas Alexander
- Corn Bread Blues & Long Lonesome Blues
"Little Brother"
- Blues [Up And Down Building K.C. Line]
Andrew Hogg
- Family Trouble Blues

Litlle Hat Jones
- Corpus Blues
Billiken Johnson & Neal Roberts
- Wild Jack Blues
Blind Willie Johnson
- The Soul Of Man & Take Your Stand
Jack Ranger
- T.P. Window Blues
Whistlin' Alex Moore
- It Wouldn't Be So Hard
Leadbelly
- Packin' Trunk Blues & All Out & Down
Texas Alexander
- Long Lonesome Day Blues
- Corn-Bread Blues

compiled and produced by Evelyn Parth; cover photo: Mike Leadbitter

Roots RL-315 (Austria 1968)

= Autogram RL-315 (Germany 2010) "Texas Country Music Vol. 2 - Blues series

Roots Records discography

1970

Southern Sanctified Singers

Blind Willie Johnson
- Go With Me To That Land
Washington Phillips
- A Mother's Last Word To Her Daughter
Bessie Johnson
- The Great Reaping Day
Bozie Sturdivant (Silent Grove Baptist Church)
- When I've Done The Best I Can, I Want My Crown
Sam Butler
- Christians Fight On, Your Time Ain't Long
Rev. Edward W. Clayborn
- Your Enimy Cannot Harm You (But Watch Your Best Friend)
Arizona Dranes
- In That Day
Blind Willie Davis
- When The Saints Go Marching In

Henry Thomas
- Jonah In The Wilderness
Washington Phillips
- I've Got The Key To The Kingdom
Rev. J.C. Burnett
- Put Your Trust In Jesus
Sam Butler
- Heaven Is My View
Blind Joe Taggart
- I'll Be Satisfied
Nugrape Twins
- There's A City Built On Mansions
Rev. Edward W. Clayborn
- The Gospel Train Is Coming
Elder Otis Jones
- Holy Mountain

Roots RL 328 (Austria 1970)

Roots Records discography

1972

Texas Blues 1927-1952

Henry Thomas
- Old Country Stomp
- Fishing Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Match Box Blues
Little Hat Jones
- Little Hat Blues
- New Two Sixteen Blues
- Two String Blues
Texas Bill Day
- Don't Get Love In Your Mind
Black Ace
- Lowing Heifer

Texas Alexander
- Yellow Girl Blues
- I Am Calling Blues
- Broken Yo-Yo
- Katy Crossing Blues
Oscar Woods
- Lone Wolf Blues
Lightnin' Hopkins
- Another Fool In Town
- Sad News From Korea
Smoky Hogg
- Penitentiary Blues - part 1
- Penitentiary Blues - part 2

Paltram PL-102 (Austria 1972)

= Autogram PL-102 (Germany)

Paltram discography

1975

Blues, Boogie And Beat

LP 1: Country Blues
- Don't Ease Me In - Henry Thomas
- Need More Blues - Sleepy John Estes
- Prison Bound Blues - Leroy Carr
- Cold Winter Day - Blind Willie McTell
- Chickasaw Train Blues - Memphis Minnie
- Shack Bully Stomp - Peetie Wheatstraw
- Bad Things On My Mind - Lightnin' Hopkins

Gospel
- The Storm Is Passing Over - Blind Joe Taggart
- Chariot's Coming Down - Rev. J.C.Burnett
- Didn't It Rain - Norfork Jubilee Singers
- Take My Hand, Precious Lord - Selah Jubilee Singers
- God's Gonna Separate - Mahalia Jackson
- I Feel My Time Ain't Long - Blue Jay Singers
- Motherless Children Had Hard Times - Dixie Hummingbirds

LP 2: Boogie Woogie
- Pinetop's Boogie - Pinetop Smith
- Boogie Woogie Stomp - Albert Ammons
- Death Ray Boogie - Pete Johnson
- Boogie Woogie Cocktail - Andy Kirk
- Hamp's Boogie Woogie - Lionel Hampton
- Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - Louis Jordan
- I'm Wild About You, Baby - Lightnin' Hopkins

R & B to Rock
- Hey Ba-Ba-Re-Bop - Lionel Hampton
- Let The Good Times Roll - Louis Jordan
- Treat Your Daddy Well - T-Bone Walker
- Talkin' All Out My Head - Little Esther
- The Ladder Of Love - The Flamingos
- Shake, Rattle And Roll - Joe Turner
- Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley

compiled by Toyo Nakamura

gatefold DLP
notes by Toyo Nakamura

MCA-3521/22 (Jp 1975)

gatefold DLP
notes by Toyo Nakamura

= MCA VIM-4636/37 (Jp 1981)

1976

Blues In The Twenties

Bo Weavil Jackson - You Can't Keep No Brown
Furry Lewis - Sweet Papa Moan
Henry Thomas - Cottonfield Blues
Tampa Red & Georgia Tom - It's Tight Like That
Bertha "Chippie" Hill - Trouble In Mind
Leroy Carr - How Long How Long Blues - no. 2
Pine Top Smith - Nobody Knows You When You'r Down And Out

Henry Spaulding - Cairo Blues
Henry Brown - Stomp 'Em Down To The Bricks
Gus Cannon & Hosea Woods - Last Chance Blues
Robert Wilkins - That's No Way To Get Along
Jim Jackson - Jim Jackson's Jamboree - part 1
Jim Jackson - Jim Jackson's Jamboree - part 2
Garfield Akers - Dough Roller Blues
"Funny Paper" Smith - Howlin' Wolf Blues no. 1

notes by Toyo Nakamura

MCA MCA-3525 (Jp 1976)

1979?

The Roots Of Rock

Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie
- When The Levee Breaks
Charley Patton
- A Spoonful Blues
Bukka White
- Shake 'em On Down
Skip James
- I'm So Glad
Bo Carter
- Corrine Corrine.
Blind Blake
- Diddie Wa Diddie
Blind Willie McTell
- Statesboro Blues

Henry Thomas
- Bull Doze Blues
Tommy Johnson
- Big Road Blues
Hambone Willie Newbern
- Roll And Tumble Blues
Blind Joe Reynolds
- Outside Woman Blues
Robert Wilkins
- That's No Way To Get Along
Blind Blake
- That Will Never Happen No More
Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Walk Right In

notes by Steve Calt

Yazoo 1063 (US 1979?)

Yazoo CD 1063 (US 1991?)

Yazoo Records discography

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
notes by Paul Oliver

Matchbox MSEX 2003/2004 (UK 1984)

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

25a

1986

The Roots Of Robert Johnson

Skip James
- Devil Got My Woman
Kokomo Arnold
- Milk Cow Blues
Leroy Carr
- When The Sun Goes Down
Son House
- Preachin' The Blues - part 1
Lonnie Johnson
- Life Saver Blues
Henry Thomas
- Red River Blues
Charley Patton
- Revenue Man Blues

Son House
- My Black Mama - part 1
Skip James
- 22-20 Blues
Hambone Willie Newbern
- Roll And Tumble Blues
The Mississippi Sheiks
- Sitting On Top Of The World
Scrapper Blackwell
- Kokomo Blues
Casey Bill Weldon
- Go Ahead, Buddy
Johnnie Temple
- Lead Pencil Blues

notes by Stephen Calt

Yazoo L 1073 (US 1986)

= Yazoo CD 1073 YA

cover artwork by Malcolm Kirton

notes by Stephen Calt 245 Waverly Place, New York, N.Y. 10014

Yazoo L 1073 (US 1986)

= Yazoo CD 1073 YAZ (US 1990)

Yazoo Records discography

25b

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

RST Blues Documents BD-01 (Austria 1990)

3 CD set
notes by Paul Oliver

Vol. 1: 1927-1930

Vol. 2: 1927-1936

Vol. 3: 1929-1956
= Story Of Blues/Da Music 3521/3522/3523 (Austria 1992)

= Century Media SOB 3521-2/3522-2/3523-2 (1994)

3 CD set

= 1201 Music 7002-2 (US 1999)

RST discography

1992

Henry Thomas: The Complete Recordings

- John Henry
- Cottonfield Blues
- Arkansas
- The Fox And The Hounds
- The Little Red Caboose
- Bob McKinney
- Red River Blues
- Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance?
- Run, Mollie, Run
- Shanty Blues
- Woodhouse Blues
- Jonah In The Wilderness
- When The Train Comes Along
- Bull Doze Blues
- Don't Ease Me In
- Texas Easy Street Blues
- Texas Worried Blues
- Fishing Blues
- Old Country Stomp
- Charmin' Betsy
- Lovin' Babe
- Railroadin' Some
- Don't Leave Me Here

notes by Yoshio Nakayama

P-Vine PCD-2265 (Jp 1992) "King of the Blues # 10"

= P-Vine PCD-20079 (Jp 2011)

1996

Before The Blues
The Early American Black Music Scene

- Bamalong Blues - Andrew And Jim Baxter
- Run Mollie Run - Henry Thomas
- Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins
- Jackson Stomp - Missippi Mud Steppers
- On Jordan's Stormy Banks We Stand - Seventh Day Adventist Choir
- Mississippi Jail House Groan - Rube Lacy
- Forked Deer - Taylor's Kentucky Boys
- Bye Bye Baby Blues - Little Hat Jones
- Pretty Polly - B.F. Shelton
- Soft Steel Piston - Weaver & Beasley
- Two White Horses In A Line - Evans & McClain
- Jamestown Exhibition - Bayless Rose
- Dupree Blues - Willie Walker
- France Blues - Papa Harvey Hull
- Dying Mother And Her Child - Rev. Gates & Congregation
- John Hardy - Buell Kazee
- Wayward Girl Blues - Lottie Kimbrough
- Newport Blues - Cincinnati Jug Band
- Tom Sherman's Barroom - Dick Devall
- Stack O'Lee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
- Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues - Teddy Darby
- I'll Go With Her Blues - Robert Wilkins
- Christian Soldier - Denson Quartet

Yazoo CD 2015 (US 1996)

Yazoo Records discography

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

notes by Don Kent

Yazoo CD 2018 (US 1996)

Yazoo Records discography

2000

The Early Blues Roots of Bob Dylan
Under The Influence, Vol. 4

- Ragged And Dirty - Sleepy John Estes
- Blood In My Eyes - Mississippi Sheiks
- Broke Down Engine - Blind Willie McTell
- Stack-O-Lee - Mississippi John Hurt
- Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Rev. J. C. Burnett
- Frankie And Albert - Mississippi John Hurt
- Sittin' On Top Of The World - Mississippi Sheiks
- Step It Up And Go - Blind Boy Fuller
- It Hurts Me Too - Tampa Red
- Corrina Corrina - Bo Carter
- Honey Allow Me One More Chance - Texas Henry Thomas
- Fixin' To Die - Bukka White
- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Railroad Bill - Will Bennett
- Motherless Children - Blind Willie Johnson
- Grasshoppers In My Pillow - Leadbelly
- Poor Lazarus - Josh White
- Matchbox Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Candy Man - Mississippi John Hurt
- Po' Boy - Bukka White
- Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin' Bed - Blind Willie Johnson

Catfish CD 168 (UK 2000)

Catfish Records (UK) discography

2000

Henry Thomas: "Ragtime Texas"
Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order 1927-1929

- John Henry
- Cottonfield Blues
- Arkansas
- The Fox And The Hounds
- The Little Red Caboose
- Bob McKinney
- Red River Blues
- Honey, Don't You Allow Me One More Chance?
- Run, Mollie, Run
- Shanty Blues
- Woodhouse Blues
- Jonah In The Wilderness
- When The Train Comes Along
- Bull-Doze Blues
- Don't Ease Me In
- Texas Easy Street Blues
- Fishing Blues
- Old Country Stomp
- Charmin' Betsy
- Lovin' Babe
- Railroadin' Some
- Don't Leave Me Here

notes by Ken Romanowski

Document DOCD-5665 (UK 2000)

notes by Ken Romanowski

= Document DOCD-5665 (EU 2000)

2004

Texas Blues: Early Blues Masters From The Lone Star State

disc 1:
Henry Thomas
- John Henry
- Cottonfield Blues
- Arkansas
- The Fox And The Hounds
- The Little Red Caboose
- Bob McKinney
- Red River Blues
- Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance
- Run, Mollie, Run
- Shanty Blues
- Woodhouse Blues
- Jonah In The Wilderness
- When The Train Comes Along
- Bull Doze Blues
- Don't Ease Me In
- Texas Easy Street
- Texas Worried Blues
- Fishing Blues
- Old Country Stomp
- Charmin' Betsy
- Lovin' Babe
- Railroadin' Some
- Don't Leave Me Here
Pete Harris
- Jack O'Diamonds
- Is You Mad At Me
- Blind Lemon's Song
- Carrie

disc 2:
Ramblin' Thomas
- So Lonesome
- Hard To Rule Woman Blues
- Lock And Key Blues
- Sawmill Moan
- No Baby Blues
- Ramblin' Mind Blues
- No Job Blues
- Back Gnawing Blues
- Jig Head Blues
- Hard Dallas Blues
- Hard Dallas Blues (Take 4)
- Ramblin' Man
- Poor Boy Blues
- Good Time Blues
- New Way Of Living Blues
- Ground Hog Blues
- Shake It Gal
- Ground Hog Blues No. 2
- Little Old Mama Blues
Willie Reed
- Dreaming Blues
- Texas Blues
- Leavin' Home
- Goin' Back To My Baby
- Some Low Down Groundhog Blues
- All Worn Out And Dry Blue

disc 3:
Oscar Woods
Fence Breakin' Blues
Home Wreckin' Blues
Evil Hearted Woman Blues
Lone Wolf Blues
Don't Sell It - Don't Give It Away
Muscat Hill Blues
Don't Sell It (Don't Give it Away)
Baton Rouge Rag
Jam Session Blues
Low Life Blues
Token Blues
Come On Over To My House Baby
Look Here Baby, One Thing I Got To Say
Sometimes I Get To Thinkin' (Take 1)
Don't Sell It
Sometimes I Get To Thinkin' (Take 2)
Boll Weevil Blues
Smith Casey
Shorty George
Santa Fe Blues
Hesitating Blues
Two White Horses Standing In Line
Jack O'Diamonds
Mournful Blues
East Texas Rag

disc 4:
Coley Jones
- My Mule In No Man's Land
- Traveling Man
- Drunkard's Special
- The Elder's He's My Man
Little Hat Jones
- New Two Sixteen Blues
- Two String Blues
- Rolled From Side To Side Blues
- Hurry Blues
- Little Hat Blues
- Corpus Blues
- Kentucky Blues
- Bye Bye Baby Blues
- Cross The Water Blue
- Cherry Street Blues
Jesse "Babyface" Thomas
- Down In Texas Blues
- My Heart's A Rolling Stone
- Blue Goose Blues
- No Good Woman Blues
Black Ace
- Trifling Woman
- Black Ace
- You Gonna Need My Help Some Day
- Whiskey And Women
- Christmas Time Blues
- Lowing Heifer

compiled by Neil Slaven

4 CD box set
notes by Neil Slaven

JSP JSPCD 7730 (UK 2004)

= JSP JSPCD 77174 (UK 2015)

2010

The Frog Blues and Jazz Annual Vol. 1

Roosevelt Graves - Woke Up This Morning (With Jesus On My Mind)
Mississippi Jook Band - Hittin' The Bottle Stomp
Thomas Morris - The Mess
George McClennon's Jazz Devils - Home Alone Blues
Henry Thomas - Railroadin' Some
Dorothy Everetts - Macon Blues
Charlie Patton - Down The Dirt Road Blues
Roger (Burn Down) Garnett - Lighthouse Blues
Henry Thomas - Don't You Leave Me Here
Edmonia Henderson - Who's Gonna Do Your Lovin' (When You're Good Man's Gone Away)
Frenchy's String Band - Sunshine Special
Ida Cox - My Mean Man Blues #1
Henry Brown - Stomp 'Em Down To The Bricks
Wesley Wallace - No 29
The Missourians - Market Street Stomp
The Tub Jug Washboard Band - San
Ma Rainey - Black Cat Hoot Owl Blues
Lil's Hot Shots - Georgia Bo Bo
Arnold Wiley - Windy City
James 'Boodle It' Wiggins - Keep A Knockin' An You Can't Get In #1
Fletcher Henderson - Fidgety Feet
Everitt Robbins - A Triflin' Daddy's Blues
Duke Ellington - Cotton Club Stomp #B
Irene Wiley - Bo Hog Blues
McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Tight Like That
Leslie Hutchinson, Opal Cooper - Moonlight On The Ganges

remastered by Nick Dellow

CD accompanying the Frog Blues and Jazz Annual - Vol. 1

2012

Henry Thomas: Bull Doze Blues

- Bull Doze Blues
- Dont Ease Me In
- Railroadin Some
- Shanty Blues
- Fox And The Hounds
- Fishing Blues

- Lovin Babe
- Old Country Stomp
- Red River Blues
- Texas Worried Blues
- Honey Wont You Allow Me One More Chance
- Jonah In The Wilderness

mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk

Mississippi / Little Axe MRL-004

2012

The Return of The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

disc 1:
Alex Hood & His Railroad Boys - L And N Rag
Hambone Willie Newburn - Roll And Tumble Blues
Appalachia Vagabond (Hayes Shepherd) - Hard For To Love
Washington (Bukka) White - The Panama Limited
Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers - John Henry Blues
Geeshie Wiley - Last Kind Words Blues
Carter Brothers & Son - Old Jaw Bone
B.F. Shelton - Oh Molly Dear
Charley Patton - High Water Everywhere - Part 1
Ernest Stoneman & Kahle Brewer - Lonesome Road Blues
Ishman Bracey - Woman Woman Blues
Fiddling Powers & Family - Old Molly Hair
Ashley's Melody Men - Bath House Blues
Dennis McGee & Sady Courville - Mon Chere Bebe Creole
Willie Walker - Dupree Blues
Packie Dolan & His Boys - Irish Girl/Blue Breeches
Cartwright Brothers - Texas Ranger
L.O. Birkhead & A.E. Ward - Robinson County
Robert Wilkins - That's No Way To Get Along
Lewis Brothers - Bull At The Wagon
Karola Stocha & S. Bachleda - Koscieliska
Fruit Jar Guzzlers - Stack-O-Lee
Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers - Sail Away Ladies

disc 2:
Mississippi Possum Hunters - The Last Shot Got Him
George Edgin's Corn Dodgers - My Ozark Mountain Home
Henry Thomas - Charmin Betsey
Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers - Milwaukee Blues
Eck Robertson & Family - Texas Wagoner
Joe Evans & Arthur McClain - Two White Horses
Leo Soileau & Mayuse Lafleur - Basile Waltz
Lottie Kimbrough - Rolling Log Blues
Luke Hignight & His Ozark Strutters - Fort Smith Breakdown
Carver Boys - Tim Brook
Blind Willie Johnson - Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed
Furry Lewis - Billy Lyons And Stack O'Lee
J.P. Nester & Norman Edmonds - Train On The Island
Tommy Johnson - Lonesome Home Blues
Orkiestra Majkuta - Wsciekla Polka
Lulu Jackson - Little Rosewood Casket
E. Mullaney & P. Stack - Maid In A Cherry Tree
Elder Golden P. Harris - I'll Lead A Christian Life
Fiddling Sam Long - Seneca Square Dance
Blind Blake - Sun To Sun Blues
Blue Ridge Mountain Singers - The Letter That Never Came
Charley Patton - Some These Days I'll Be Gone
Allison's Sacred Harp Singers - I'm A Long Time Traveling Away From Home

prod. & remastered by Richard Nevins
artwork by Drew Friedman

54-pp. booklet with stories and anecdotes of shellac collectors

Yazoo CD 2203 (US 9/2012)

Yazoo Records discography

9/2013

Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s Volume 11
2014 Calendar with free CD

CD and Calendar contents:
Henry Thomas - Bull Doze Blues (Vocalion 1230)
Furry Lewis - Good Looking Girl Blues (Vocalion 1132)
Charley Patton - Mean Black Cat (Paramount 12943)
The Mississippi Sheiks - Crackin' Them Things (Okeh 8810)
Blind Blake - Miss Emma Liza (Paramount 13115)
Luella Miller - Rattlesnake Groan (Vocalion 1081)
Reverend E.W. Clayborn - Your Enemies Cannot Harm You, But Watch Your Close Friends (Vocalion 1082)
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Long, Lonesome Blues (Paramount 12354)
Washboard Walter - She's A Long, Tall, Disconnected Mama (Paramount 12991)
Bessie Smith - Blue Spirit Blues (Columbia 14527)
Papa Charlie Jackson - Let's Get Along (Paramount 12358)
Mother McCollum - Jesus Is My Air-O-Plan (Vocalion 1616)

Supplementary CD tracks:
Blind Gussie Nesbitt - He's The Joy Of My Salvation (Decca 7113)
Blind Gussie Nesbitt - God Is Worried At Your Wicked Ways (Decca 7113)
Jim Thompkins - Bedside Blues (Brunswick 7200)
George Carter - Ghost Woman Blues (Paramount 12769)
George Carter - Weeping Willow (Paramount 12769)
Blind Percy And His Blind Band - Fourteenth Street Blues (Paramount 12584)
Blind Percy And His Blind Band - Coal River Blues (Paramount 12584)
Washboard Walter - Overall Cheater Blues (Paramount 12991)
Tenderfoot Edwards - When You Dream Of Muddy Water (Paramount 12952)
Tenderfoot Edwards Paramount - Up On The Hill Blues (Paramount 12952)
Blind Blake - Dissatisfied Blues (Paramount 13115)
Charley Patton - Magnolia Blues (Paramount 12943)

restored by Richard Nevins

Blues Images Calendar Vol. 11 (rel. 2013, for 2014)

Blues Images CD BIM-111 (US 2013) accompanying Blues Images Calendar Vol. 11 (for 2014)

Blues Images calendar discography

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."

5 CD set

American Epic AMPC451 (US 2017)

10/2021

24 Classic Blues Songs from the 1920s Volume 19
2021 Calendar with free CD

CD and Calendar contents:
- Packin' Trunk - Lead Belly
- John Henry - Henry Thomas
- Jellyroll - Furry Lewis
- John The Revelator - Blind Willie Johnson
- Lemon's Cannon Ball Moan - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Little Low Mama Blues - Ma Rainey
- Hot Papa Blues No. 2 - Papa Charlie Jackson
- Back Door Slam Blues - Blind Blake
- You Can't Give It Away - Memphis Minnie
- Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson
- Homeless Blues - Bessie Smith
- I Declare My Mother Ought To Live Right - Famous Blue Jay Singers of Birmingham

Supplementary CD tracks:
- Wuffin' Blues - Washboard Walter
- I Don't Care What You Do - Black Byrd and Washboard Walter
- The Boll Weevil - Lead Belly
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Lead Belly
- Skip To My Lou - Lead Belly
- Take This Hammer - Lead Belly
- Good Morning Blues - Lead Belly
- Ain't Gonna Let You Worry My Life No More - Lead Belly
- Pretty Papa - Lead Belly
- Stewball - Lead Belly
- Grey Goose - Lead Belly
- The Alligator Pond Went Dry - Victoria Spivey

restored by the AMERICAN EPIC sound team

Blues Images Calendar Vol. 19 (rel. 10/2021, for 2022)

Blues Images CD BIM-119 (US 2021) accompanying Blues Images Calendar Vol. 19 (for 2022)

Blues Images calendar discography

Additional information appreciated !!!

Other artist's **Covers of Henry Thomas songs**
#	year of release	Artist: Record Title - featured Henry Thomas song / label # / notes
1	1966	The Grateful Dead - Stealin' (Garcia) - Don't Ease Me In (Garcia) @ youtube Scorpio 201
2	11/1968	Canned Heat: Living the Blues - Pony Blues (Charley Patton) - My Mistake (Alan Wilson) - Sandy's Blues (Bob Hite) - Going Up The Country (Wilson) @ youtube - Walking By Myself (Jimmy Rogers) - Boogie Music (L.T. Tatman III) - One Kind Favor (Tatman) - Parthenogenesis (Medley) (Canned Heat) - Refried Boogie Part I (Canned Heat) - Refried Boogie Part II (Canned Heat) "The flute part in 'Going Up the Country' was inspired by 'Bull Doze Blues' recorded by Henry Thomas in the late 1920s. Thomas accompanied himself on guitar and quills, an early Afro-American instrument similar to panpipes. The melody that Thomas played on the quills was reproduced on the flute by multi-instrumentalist Jim Horn for the recording of 'Going Up the Country'." (wikipedia.org 05/27/2012) DLP Liberty LST-27200 = LBS 83210 X (Ger 1969)
3	1971	Taj Mahal: The Real Thing Live at Fillmore East - Fishin' Blues @ Spotify - Ain't Gwine To Whistle Dixie (Any Mo') - Sweet Mama Janisse - Going Up To The Country And Paint My Mailbox Blue - Big Kneed Gal - You're Going To Need Somebody On Your Bond - Tom And Sally Drake - Diving Duck Blues - John, Ain' It Hard - She Caught The Katy And Left Me A Mule To Ride - You Ain't No Street Walker Mama, Honey But I Do Love The Way You Strut Your Stuff with Howard Johnson (double B flat, F), Bob Stewart (double C), Joseph Dailey (double B flat), and Earle McIntyre (E flat), tubas DLP CBS S 66288

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Samuel Charters: The Bluesmen.- New York (Oak Publications) 1967
- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943, 4th ed. 1997, p. 222, 917-918
- John Tefteller and Blues Images Collection - used with permission
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
thanks to Al Haug, Eric Simkin, Daniel Wheeler, John Heneghan, Russell Shor, REDge Peterson, Christopher M. Smith, John Crosby, Evan Schroeder, Elijah Wald, Matthew Thomas, Tony Persson, Christopher Berry and Edith de Ronde for additional info / scans

Henry Thomas entry by Tony Russell
in Tony Russell & Chris Smith with Neil Slaven, Ricky Russell & Joe Faulkner: The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings.- London/New York/Toronto (Penguin Books), 2006, p. 645

H E N R Y T H O M A S; from Paramount ad in Chicago Defender; source: Samuel Charters: The Bluesmen.- New York (Oak Publications) 1967, p. 194
from Vocalion ad in Chicago Defender
source: Samuel Charters: The Bluesmen.- New York (Oak Publications) 1967, p. 194

Henry Thomas's Dream, painted by Eric Von Schmidt
source: https://www.greenparrot.com/eric-von-schmidt-1931-2007/

My (and others') guesses about who's who:
1 - Henry Thomas
2 - Henry Townsend or Muddy Waters (?)
3 - Willie McTell
4 - Othar Turner (?)
5 - B.B. King (?)
6 - Napoleon Strickland (?)
7 - Charley Patton
8 - Son House
9 - Rev. Gary Davis
10 - Memphis Minnie
11 - Sonny Terry
12 - Blind Lemon Jefferson
13 - Lead Belly
14 - Son Sims
15 - Iron Head Baker (?)
16 - Frank Stokes
17 - Yank Rachell (?)
18 - Barbecue Bob
19 - Robert Johnson
20 - Mississippi John Hurt
21 - Gus Cannon
22 - One-String Eddie Jones (?)
23 - ?

Henry Thomas, painted by Chris Powell
source: The Frog Blues & Jazz Annual N^o 1 (2010), p. 32

... finally: