- Lonesome Cabin Blues (Log Cabin Blues) (A / A860)   @ youtube
- Baba-Du-Lay Fever (B / A859) [= G.I. Fever]   @ youtube

rec. 1949 in Fresno, CA; Mercy Dee, voc, p

 
Spire 11-001 (101)
[Chester Lew's ("Lu"'s) label]

- Evil And Hanky (A)   @ youtube
- Travelin Alone Blues (B)   @ Spotify

rec. 1949 in Fresno, CA; Mercy Dee, voc, p

 
Spire 11-002 (102)

- Bird Brain Baby (IM228) (3:08) #   @ youtube
- Big Foot Country (IM249) *   @ Spotify

# rec. c. November 1950 in Los Angeles, CA; Mercy Dee, voc, p; g; b
* rec. December 1950 in Los Angeles, CA; Mercy Dee, voc, p; g; b

Imperial 5110

- Roamin' Blues (IM251)   @ Spotify
- Bought Love (IM253)   @ Spotify

rec. December 1950 in Los Angeles, CA; Mercy Dee, voc, p; g; b

Imperial 5118

- Danger Zone (IM250) [= Crepe On Your Door]   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Pay Off (IM256) [= Anything In The World]   @ Spotify

rec. December 1950 in Los Angeles, CA; Mercy Dee, voc, p; g; b

Imperial 5127

- Insect Ball (IM261) #   @ youtube
- Sad Story (IM262) *   @ Spotify

rec. 1951 in Los Angeles; Big Jay McNeely, ts; # Mercy Dee Walton, voc
* Jesse Belvin and Three Dots & A Dash; Jesse Belvin, voc

Imperial 5130

- Straight And Narrow (IM252)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Happy Bachelor Blues (IM255)   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. December 1950 in Los Angeles, CA; Mercy Dee, voc, p; g; b

Colony 102

- Old Fashioned Ways (IM254)   @ Spotify
- Pay Off (IM256) [= Anything In The World] [Imperial 5127]

rec. December 1950 in Los Angeles, CA; Mercy Dee, voc, p; g; b

Colony 107

- Danger Zone (IM250) [Imperial 5127]
- All Over (IM227) [= Please Understand] #   @ youtube

# rec. c. November 1950 in Los Angeles, CA; Mercy Dee, voc, p; g; b

Colony 111

- One Room Country Shack   @ youtube
- My Woman Knows The Score   @ youtube



originally unissued tracks from same session:
- Misery Blues (3:05) [Specialty CD 7036]
- The Great Mistake (2:58) [Specialty CD 7036]
- Save Me Some (2:14) [Specialty CD 7036]
- Strugglin' With The Blues (2:55) [Specialty CD 7036]
- Lonesome Cabin Blues (2:57) [Specialty CD 7036]

rec. May 13, 1952 in Los Angeles, CA; Mercy Dee, voc, p; Jesse Sailes, dr

 

Specialty 458
[Art Rupe's label]

- Anything In The World (IM256) [= Pay Off] [Imperial 5127; Colony 107]
- Please Understand (IM227) [Colony 111 "All Over"]

rec. c. November 1950 in Los Angeles, CA; Mercy Dee, voc, p; g; b

Bayou 003

Bayou 45-003
[founded by Franklin Kort in the spring of 1953, the Bayou label in the summer of 1953 was absorbed into the Imperial label]

- Crepe On Your Door (IM250) [Imperial 5127 "Danger Zone"]]
- Happy Bachelor Blues (IM255) [Colony 102]

Bayou 013

Bayou 45-013

- Rent Man Blues #   @ youtube
- Fall Guy   @ youtube



originally unissued tracks from same session:
- The Drifter (2:21) [Specialty SNTF 5015, CD 7036]
- Hear Me Shout (2:20) [Specialty CD 7036]
- Love Is A Mystery (1:49) [Specialty CD 7036]
- Winter Blues (2:41) [Specialty CD 7036]
- Pauline (1:30) [Specialty CD 7036]

rec. April 25, 1953 in Los Angeles, CA; Mercy Dee, voc, p; # Thelma 'Lady Fox' Walton, voc

 
Specialty XSP-466/SP-466

- Get To Gettin' #   @ youtube
- Dark Muddy Bottom *   @ youtube



originally unissued tracks from same session:
- What'cha Gonna Do? # (2:13) [Specialty CD 7036]
- My Woman And The Devil (2:27) [Specialty CD 7036]
- Big Minded Daddy # (1:57) [Specialty CD 7036]
- Perfect Health (1:17) [Specialty CD 7036]
- Problem Child (2:26) [Ace CH 276, Specialty CD 7036]
- Pull 'em And Pop 'em (1:03) [Specialty CD 7036]
- 8th Wonder Of The World (1:47) [Specialty CD 7036]
- Rock & Roll Fever (1:15) [Specialty CD 7036]

rec. October 4, 1953 in Los Angeles, CA; Mercy Dee, voc, p; Thelma 'Lady Fox' Walton, # voc, * tamb; # ts

 
Specialty XSP-481/SP-481

- Trailing My Baby (A) #   @ youtube
- The Main Event (B) (instr)   @ youtube



originally unissued track from same session:
- Trying To Kick This Habit # [Arhoolie F1007, 2nd pressing only!]   @ youtube

# rec. 1954 in Oakland, CA; Mercy Dee, voc, p; L.C. Robinson, steel g; dr
* rec. 1954 in West Oakland, CA; Big Jim Wilson, ts; p (unlikely to be Walton); g; b; dr

Rhythm 1774

L.C. Robinson discography

- Romp & Stomp Blues (FL244)   @ youtube
- Oh, Oh, Please (FL245)   @ youtube

rec. 1955 in Los Angeles, CA; Mercy Dee, voc, p; g; b; dr

Flair 1073

Flair 45x1073

= Flair 1073 (repro 9/2011)

- Come Back Maybellene (FL246) #   @ youtube
- True Love (FL257) *

rec. 1955 in Los Angeles, CA; Mercy Dee, voc, p; g; # 2nd gs; b; dr; * ens voc

 
Flair 1077

- Have You Ever (FL259)
- Stubborn Woman (FL258)   @ youtube



originally unissued track from same session:
- Have You Ever (alt tk) [Kent KST 9012]

rec. 1955 in Los Angeles, CA; Mercy Dee, voc, p; g; b; dr

Flair 1078

Arhoolie FS 101 / F 1006 (1961 + 197?) track sequence:
Big Joe Williams - Married Woman Blues   @ youtube
Lil' Son Jackson - Johnny Mae   @ youtube
Lowell Fulson - Good Woman Blues   @ youtube
Mance Lipscomb - Back Water Blues   @ youtube
Jasper Love - Love's Honeydripper   @ youtube
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - One Thin Dime   @ youtube

Sam Chatman - God Don't Like Ugly   @ youtube
"Whistling" Alex Moore - Wake Up Old Lady   @ youtube
Black Ace - Hitchhiking Woman   @ youtube
Robert Curtis Smith - Stella Ruth   @ youtube
Mercy Dee - I Been A Fool [Arhoolie CD 369]   @ youtube

Arhoolie F 1006 (1980) track sequence:
Big Joe Williams - Married Woman Blues
Lil' Son Jackson - Johnny Mae
Lowell Fulson - Good Woman Blues
Mance Lipscomb - Back Water Blues
Jasper Love - Love's Honeydripper
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - One Thin Dime
Sidney Maiden - Chicago Blues °°   @ youtube

Black Ace - Hitchhiking Woman
Sam Chatman - God Don't Like Ugly
"Whistling" Alex Moore - Wake Up Old Lady
Black Ace - Ace's Guitar Blues °°   @ youtube
Robert Curtis Smith - Stella Ruth
Fat Boy Hayes [aka 'Jelly Belly'] - Goin' Back South [aka "Down South Blues"] °°
Mercy Dee - I Been A Fool [Arhoolie CD 369]

°° 1980 version "bonus tracks", listed on labels, but not on back cover!

Black Ace rec. September 19, 1960 in Ft. Worth, TX by Chris Strachwitz
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas rec. 1960 in Zachary, LA by Chris Strachwitz
Sam Chatman rec. July 25, 1960 in Hollandale, MS by Chris Strachwitz
Lowell Fulson rec. c. 1949 in Oakland, CA by Bob Geddins
Fat Boy Hayes [aka 'Jelly Belly'] rec. 1947 in New York, NY
Lil' Son Jackson rec. July 1960 in Dallas, TX by Chris Strachwitz
Mance Lipscomb rec. August 13, 1960 in Navasota, TX by Chris Strachwitz
Jasper Love rec. July 23, 1960 in Clarksdale, MS by Chris Strachwitz
Sidney Maiden rec. February 5, 1961 in Stockton, CA by Chris Strachwitz
Mercy Dee Walton rec. February 5, 1961 in Stockton, CA by Chris Strachwitz; Mercy Dee, voc, p
"Whistling" Alex Moore rec. summer 1960 in Dallas, TX by Chris Strachwitz
Robert Curtis Smith rec. July 24, 1960 at the "Big 6" Barbershop in Clarksdale, MS by Chris Strachwitz
Big Joe Williams rec. October 6, 1960 in Los Gatos, CA by Chris Strachwitz

Arhoolie FS101 front cover lay-out by Clair Moxley
Arhoolie F1006 front cover design by Wayne Pope
photos by Chris Strachwitz (except Black Ace, courtesy B.K. Turner)

I Have To Paint My Face - Mississippi Blues 1960

Arhoolie CD 432 (1995) track sequence:
- I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Big Road Blues - K.C. Douglas [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.]
- I Stand And Wonder - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Texas Blues - Big Joe Williams [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.]
- Night Shirt Blues - K.C. Douglas [previously unreleased]   @ Spotify
- Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas/Bruce Bratton [previously unreleased]   @ Spotify
- Hollandale Blues - Sam Chatmon [previously unreleased]   @ Spotify
- The Slop - Jasper Love/Columbus Jones [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Stella Ruth - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- God Don't Like Ugly - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Rooster Blues - Wade Walton [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton / R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st ed.]
- Going Back To Texas - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Blues And Trouble - K.C. Douglas/Sidney Maiden [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.]
- Lonely Widower - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Lost Love Blues - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Married Woman Blues - Big Joe Williams [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Love's Honeydripper - Jasper Love [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Desert Blues - Jasper Love [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- One Thin Dime - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Butch's Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Forty Four Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Chicago Blues - Sidney Maiden/K.C. Douglas [Arhoolie F 1006, 2nd. ed.]

notes (on 4-pp. leaflet, December 1961) by Chris Strachwitz   "P.O. Box 671 - Los Gatos, Calif."

Arhoolie FS101 (US 1961)

notes (on 4-pp. leaflet, December 1961) by Chris Strachwitz   "P.O. Box 671 - Los Gatos, Calif."

= Arhoolie F 1006 (196?)

notes (on back cover, 1961) by Chris Strachwitz   "P.O. Box 5073, Berkeley, California"
   
= Arhoolie F 1006 (197?)

notes (on back cover, 1961) by Chris Strachwitz   "Box 9195, Berkeley, CA. 94709"

(=) Arhoolie F 1006 (US 1980)   1980 release uses same front and back covers as 197? release, but actually has slightly different content - as printed on the labels!

notes by Chris Strachwitz

partly reissued on Arhoolie CD 432 (US 1995) subtitled "Mississippi Blues 1960"

Arhoolie Records discography

- Lady Luck (2:40) [Arhoolie F1007]   @ youtube
- Betty Jean (1:50) [Arhoolie F1007]   @ youtube

rec. April 16, 1961 in Berkeley, CA; Mercy Dee Walton, voc, p; Sidney Maiden, hca; Otis Cherry, dr

7 inch 45 rpm

Arhoolie 45-501 (US 1961)

Arhoolie Records discography
Sidney Maiden discography

first pressing track sequence:
- Mercy's Troubles (9:30)   @ youtube
- Jack Engine (4:02) ° [never re-released on CD]   @ youtube
- Lady Luck (3:10) [Arhoolie 45-501]   @ youtube
- Red Light (2:30)   @ youtube

- Walked Down So Many Turnrows (3:05)   @ youtube
- Troublesome Mind (5:55)   @ youtube
- Betty Jean (1:30) [Arhoolie 45-501]   @ youtube
- Call The Asylum (3:05)   @ youtube
- Mercy's Party (5:08) # ° [never re-released on CD]   @ youtube

second pressing track sequence:
- Mercy's Troubles (9:30)
- Harvest Time (3:45) [Bluesville BV 1039 as "Have You Ever Been Out In The Country"]   @ youtube
- Lady Luck (3:10)
- Red Light (2:30)
- Trying To Kick This Habit (2:25) °° [1954 Rhythm unissued]   @ youtube

- Walked Down So Many Turnrows (3:05)
- After The Fight (3:15) °°   @ youtube
- Troublesome Mind (5:55)
- Betty Jean (1:30)
- Call The Asylum (3:05)
- Shady Lane (4:20) °°   @ youtube

° only on 1st pressing
°° only on 2nd pressing

rec. February 5 & 12, & March 12, 1961 in Stockton, CA & April 16, 1961 in Berkeley, CA; Mercy Dee Walton, voc, p; K.C. Douglas, g, # voc; Sidney Maiden, hca, # voc; Otis Cherry, dr
cover photo by William Carter

notes (1961) by Chris A. Strachwitz     "Arhoolie Records, Box No. 5073, Berkeley 5, Calif."
 
Arhoolie F1007 (1st pressing 1961, blue back cover)

notes (1961, newly typeset) by Chris A. Strachwitz     "Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Ca. 94709"

Arhoolie F1007 (1st pressing 1963?, white back cover)
"ZIP Codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) since 1963." (en.wikipedia)
Mercy Dee's death on December 2, 1962 is mentioned in the newly typeset notes, so publishing date must be 1963!

notes (1961) by Chris A. Strachwitz

Arhoolie F1007 (2nd pressing 1965?)   track list correction sticker on back cover!

Arhoolie CD 369 (US 1993)

Arhoolie Records discography
K.C. Douglas discography
Sidney Maiden discography

Lightning Hopkins - Wine Drinking Woman
Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly - Yellow-Brown Woman
Little Son Willis - Nothing But The Blues
Blind James Phillips - Night Is Falling
Lil' Son Jackson - Bad Whiskey - Bad Women
Juke Boy Bonner - Ridin' The Greyhound Bus Again (4:10) °° [add'l track, on later release only]   @ youtube
Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - B & O Blues

Mercy Dee - Sugar Daddy #   @ youtube
Big Joe Williams - Little Machine
Paul McZiel Zydeco Band - I'm Sad And I'm Blue
Blind James Campbell - Sittin' Here Drinking
Robert Shaw - Turn Loose My Tongue
Dr. Ross (Isaiah Ross) - Downtown Boogie (tk 2) (2:20) °° [add'l track, on later release only]   @ youtube

°° on later release (1964?) only!
# rec. April 16, 1961 in Berkeley, CA by Chris Strachwitz; Mercy Dee Walton, voc, p; Sidney Maiden, hca; Otis Cherry, dr

notes by Chris A. Strachwitz   "Arhoolie Records, Box No. 5073, Berkeley 5, Calif."

Arhoolie F 1012 (US 1962) (11 tracks!)

notes by Chris A. Strachwitz   "Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Ca. 94709"

Arhoolie F 1012 (US 196?) (11 tracks!)

notes by Chris A. Strachwitz   "Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Ca. 94709"

Arhoolie F 1012 (US 1964?) (13 tracks!)

Arhoolie Records discography

Lowell Fulson
- San Francisco Blues
- Three O¹Clock Blues
- I'm Wild About You
- Don't Be So Evil
- Prison Bound
- My Baby Left Me
- Double Trouble
- Storming and Raining

K. C. Douglas with Sidney Maiden
- Mercury Boogie
Sidney Maiden with K. C. Douglas
- Eclipse Of The Sun
Willie B. Huff
- Beggar Man Blues
Mercy Dee
- Trailing My Baby [Rhythm 1774]
Johnny Fuller
- Train, Train, Train
Thunder Smith
- New Worried Life Blues
Rocky ("Rocky Mountain" Stoneham)
- Water Coast Blues
Thunder Smith
- Thunder's Unfinished Boogie (piano solo)

recorded by Bob Geddins; edited & selected by Chris A. Strachwitz

notes by Chris Strachwitz

Heritage HLP 1003 (UK 1961)

Heritage Records discography

Smokey Hogg
- Penitentiary Blues
- Penitentiary Blues, part 2
Mercy Dee
- Lonesome Cabin Blues [Spire 11-001]
Frankie Lee Sims
- Lucy Mae Blues
John Hogg
- West Texas Blues
- Black Snake Blues
Frankie Lee Sims
- I'm Long, Long Gone
Buddy Chiles
- Mistreated Blues
Anonymous [Mance Lipscomb]
- Tom Moore's Farm
L.C. Williams
- Trying, Trying
Texas Alexander
- Crossroads
L.C. Williams
- Hole In The Wall
Lightning Hopkins
- Late In The Evening

Blues Classics BC 16

Blues Classics discography

- Pity And A Shame (4:01) *
- Your Friend And Woman (5:15)
- Five Card Hand (3:06) * []
- Have You Ever Been Out In The Country (3:38) (= "Harvest Time")   @ youtube
- After The Fight (3:54) *

- One Room Country Shack (4:06)
- My Little Angel (4:07) *
- Shady Lane (5:14)
- The Drunkard (5:37) * []

rec. April 16, 1961 in Berkeley, CA by Chris Strachwitz; Mercy Dee Walton, voc, p; Sidney Maiden, hca; * Otis Cherry, dr; [] Marcellus Thomas [Big Joe Williams' chauffeur!], voc
front cover photo by William Carter

notes by Chris Strachwitz

Bluesville BV 1039 (US c.1963)

notes by Chris Strachwitz

= OBC OBCCD-552-2 (US 1992)

Bluesville Records discography
OBC Records discography
K.C. Douglas discography
Sidney Maiden discography

Manny Nichols
- Long Skinny Mama
Mance Lipscomb
- You Don't Mean Me No Good
Black Ace
- Beer Drinking Woman
Rattlesnake Cooper
- I'm Leaving Town
Mercy Dee
- Ebony Baby #
Isam Hisam & Lightnin' Hopkins
- I'm Feeling Bad
Manny Nichols
- Walking Talking Blues

Billy Bizor
- Tom Moore
Alex Moore
- Chock House Boogie
Smokey Hogg
- Hello Baby
Robert Shaw
- The Fives
Lightning Hopkins
- Hurricanes Carla & Esther
Mercy Dee
- 8th Wonder Of The World # *

# rec. February 5, 1961 in Stockton, CA by Chris Strachwitz; Mercy Dee Walton, voc, p; * K.C. Douglas, g; Otis Cherry, dr

notes by Paul Oliver

Arhoolie F 1017

(=) P-Vine PCD 2519 (Jp 1989)

Arhoolie Records discography

Clifton Chenier
- Why Did You Go Last Night
R.C. Smith
- Don't Drive Me Away
Mercy Dee
- Bird Brain Baby # [never re-released on CD]
Lightning Hopkins & Spider Kilpatrick
- Candy Wagon
James Phillips
- No Lovin'
Little Son Willis
- Bad Luck N' Trouble
K.C. Douglas
- I Know You Didn't Want Me (tk 5)

Fred McDowell
- Fred's Rambling Blues
Little Son Willis
- Harlem Blues
Detroit Slim
- Nelly Mae
Essie Jenkins
- Influenza Blues
Bukka White
- Midnight Blues
Manny Nichols
- Throw A Little Boogie

# rec. March 12, 1961 in Stockton, CA by Chris Strachwitz; Mercy Dee Walton, voc, p; K.C. Douglas, g; Otis Cherry, dr

Arhoolie F1018

Arhoolie Records discography

on front cover: Sleepy John Estes' hands, cropped from a 1962 photo by Georges Adins

- Don't Lie To Me - Fats Domino
- Mother Fuyer - Dirty Red (Nelson Wimborn)
- Vida Lee - T-Bone Walker
- Too Many Drivers - Smiley Lewis
- Sweet Old Chicago - Roosevelt Sykes
- Story To Tell - Joe Turner
- Empty Life - Mercy Dee [Imperial 5104]

- Rose Mary - Fats Domino
- You Done Me Wrong - Dirty Red
- I Get So Weary - T-Bone Walker
- Tee Nah Nah - Smiley Lewis
- You Can't Be Lucky All The Time - Roosevelt Sykes
- Battle Of The Blues (part 1) - Joe Turner & Wynonie Harris
- Danger Zone - Mercy Dee [Imperial 5127]

notes by Pete Welding

Imperial LM 94002 (US 1968)

= Liberty LBL 83215 (UK)

Imperial/Liberty "Legendary Masters" series discography

Lloyd Lambert
- Heavy Sugar
Mercy Dee
- Rent Man Blues [Specialty 466]
- Fall Guy [Specialty 466]
Dirty Red
- Mother Fuyer
- Home Last Night
- You Done Me Wrong
- Hotel Boogie

Lloyd Lambert
- King Cotton
Floyd Dixon
- Hole In The Wall
- Old Memories
- Oooh Little Girl
- What Is Life Without A Home
Champion Jack Dupree
- Drunk Again
- Shim Sham Shimmy

back cover plain white

Negro Art M-12-SB-363 (Fr 1968)

Negro Art Records discography

LP 1:
Country Blues
Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down
Mance Lipscomb - Sugar Babe
Black Ace - New Triflin' Woman
Alex Moore - July Boogie
Big Joe Williams - Greystone Blues
Lil Son Jackson - Roberta
John Jackson - Going Down In Georgia On A Horn
Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly - No More Hard Times
Lowell Fulson - River Blues

City Blues
Mercy Dee - Walked Down So Many Turnrows
Juke Boy Bonner - Going Back To The Country
Lightning Hopkins - Tom Moore Blues
Big Mama Thornton - Unlucky Girl
Clifton Chenier - Louisiana Blues
Larry Williams - I Know You Hear Me Calling
Johnny Young - Wild Wild Woman


LP 2:
Gospel & Jazz
Bukka White - Jesus Died On The Cross To Save The World
Jesse Fuller - Amazing Grace
Rev. Overstreet - I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord
Robert Shaw - The Ma Grinder
Kid Thomas - Eh La Bas
Joe Turner - Old Piney Brown's Gone
Luna - Nisaba In The Grass

Country, Cajun & Folk
J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers - Run Mountain
Del McCoury - Dreams
The Hodges Brothers - Carroll County Blues
Luderin Darbone - Crowley Waltz
Nathan Abshire - Cajun Two Step
Alice Stuart - Once I Had A Sweetheart
Crabgrass - Charles Giteau
James Campbell - Baby Please Don't Go

compilation of tracks previously on Arhoolie LPs; ed. & prod. by Chris Strachwitz
no previously unissued tracks!

2-disc package
notes by Pete Welding

Arhoolie R2001/2002 (US 1968)

= Stateside SR-9323B (Jp 1972)

Arhoolie Records discography

Gospel
- It's Getting Late In The Evening - Chosen Gospel Singers
- By and By - The Soul Stirrers
- Somebody Touched Me - Prof. Alex Bradford
- Trouble In My Way - The Swan Silvertones
Country Blues
- Don't Trust Nobody - John Lee Hooker
- Married Woman - Frankie Lee Sims
- One Room Country Shack - Mercy Dee [Specialty 458]

City Blues
- R.M. Blues - Roy Milton
- Pink Champagne - Joe Liggins
Ballads
- Please Send Me Someone To Love - Percy Mayfield
- Tabarin - The Four Flames
Jump & Boogie
- X-Temporaneous Boogie - Camille Howard
- Hucklebuck - Roy Milton
- Shuffle Shuck - Jimmy Liggins

Specialty SP/SPS 2117 (US 1969)

= Specialty SNTF 5002 (UK)

= Columbia SL-5083-SP (Jp 1974)

LP 1:
- Frisco Lines - Fred McDowell
- Fare You Well Baby Blues - Joe Callicott
- Long Haired Doney - R.L. Burnside
- Mean Stepfather - Big Joe Williams
- Bald Eagle Train - Bukka White and "Washboard Willie" [= Wayne Pope!]   @ youtube
- Don't Drive Me Away - R.C. Smith

- Long Tall Girl - Mance Lipscomb
- Red River Blues - Lil' Son Jackson
- I Am The Black Ace - Black Ace
- Whistling Alex Moore Blues - Alex Moore
- Texas Blues - Lowell Fulson and Martin Fulson, rhythm g
- The Ma Grinder - Robert Shaw
- Take A Walk - Lightnin' Hopkins


- Bear Cat Blues - John Jackson
- Snowing And Raining Blues - Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly
- Got A Date At Half Past Eight - Jesse Fuller
- You Got Another Man - Lightnin' Hopkins and Barbara Dane
- Struggle Here In Houston - Juke Boy Bonner and Alvin J. Simon, dr
- Listen At That Bull - G. Coleman
- Trouble Blues - Big Joe Turner

- Dream - John Littlejohn
- Sugar Daddy - Mercy Dee Walton [Arhoolie F 1012]
- I'm Feeling Alright - Big Mama Thorton
- Sometimes I Cry - Johnny Young
- Black Snake Blues - Clifton Chenier
- Two Bugs - Earl Hooker

"The selections from this album have been comprised from the catalog of Arhoolie Records ... Except where otherwise indicated, all selections produced and recorded by Chris Strachwitz"

gatefold DLP

Poppy PYS-60.003 (US 1969)
= RCA Victor 740 069 (France 1969)

= RCA Victor SHP-6124/25 (Jp)

= Tomato TOM-2-7006 (US 1978)

gatefold DLP

= Tomato DLP 2696181 (Germany 1989)

2 CD set
notes by Bill Dahl

= Tomato CD TOM-3001 (US 2002)

Kent/United/Musidisc LPs track sequence:
Mercy Dee
- Stubborn Woman [Flair 1078] #
- Have You Ever [Flair alt. tk.] #
Jimmy Nelson
- T-99 Blues
Pee Wee Crayton
- Blues After Hours
- Texas Hop
Saunders King
- S.K. Blues (part 1)

J.W. Walker
- Sitting Here Wondering
- J. W.'s Blues
James Reed
- Dr. Brown [Flair 1042]   @ youtube
- You Better Hold Me [Flair 1042]   @ youtube
Roy Hawkins
- Strange Land   @ youtube
Saunders King
- S.K. Blues (part 2)

Kent KST-9012 inner gatefold

P-Vine PCD-3042 track sequence:
Mercy Dee - Stubborn Woman [Flair 1078, Kent KST-9012] #
Mercy Dee - Have You Ever [Flair alt tk, Kent KST-9012] #
Mercy Dee - Romp & Stomp Blues [Flair 1073] #
Jimmy Nelson - T-99 Blues
Jimmy Nelson - Big Mouth
Jimmy Nelson - Rain Drop Blues
Pee Wee Crayton - Blues After Hours
Pee Wee Crayton - Texas Hop
Pee Wee Crayton - When Darkness Falls
Pee Wee Crayton - Rosa Lee
Pee Wee Crayton - Boogie Walk
Pee Wee Crayton - Where Can You Be?
Saunders King - S.K. Blues (Part 1)
Saunders King - S.K. Blues (Part 2)
J.W. Walker - Sitting Here Wondering
J.W. Walker - J.W.'s Blues
Roy Hawkins - Strange Land [Kent KST 9012]
Roy Hawkins - The Thrill Is Gone [Modern 826]

# rec. 1955 in Los Angeles, CA; Mercy Dee, voc, p; g; b; dr

notes by Michael Bromberg

Kent KST-9012

= United Superior US-7789

notes by Michael Bromberg

= Musidisc 30 AB 5612 (Fr 1976)

12 page booklet

(=) P-Vine PCD-3042 (Jp 1994) "Anthology of
the Blues Vol. 7"

Kent Anthology discography

K.C. Douglas - Mercury Boogie [Down Town 2004]
Sidney Maiden - Eclipse Of The Sun [Down Town 2004]
Willie B. Huff - Beggar Man Blues [Rhythm 1770]
Juke Boy Bonner - Well Baby [Irma 111]
Mercy Dee Walton - Trailing My Baby [Rhythm 1774]
LC Good Rockin' Robinson - Why Don't You Write To Me [Rhythm 1772]
Juke Boy Bonner - Rock With Me Baby [Irma 111]

Johnny Fuller - Train, Train Blues [Rhythm 1773]
Johnny Fuller - First Stage Of The Blues [Rhythm 1767]
Jimmy McCracklin - When I'm Gone [Trilon 245]
Jimmy Wilson - Tin Pan Alley [Big Town 101]
Jimmy Wilson - A Woman Is To Blame [Big Town 107]
Jimmy Wilson - Blues At Sundown [Big Town 107]
Jimmy Wilson - Frisco Bay [Rhythm 1766]

notes by Lee Hildebrand

Arhoolie 2008 (US 1970)

= Trio PA-3063 (Jp 1975)

Arhoolie Records discography
Trio Records discography
K.C. Douglas discography
Sidney Maiden discography
Juke Boy Bonner discography
LC Good Rockin' Robinson discography
Johnny Fuller discography
Jimmy McCracklin discography
Jimmy Wilson discography

- Nothin' But Trouble - John Lee Hooker
- A Woman Acts Funny - Pinebluff Pete
- Rather Be Sloppy Drunk - Big Joe Williams
- Black Cat Bone - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Ain't Done Nothin' Wrong - Clarence London
- Hollywood Boogie - Country Jim

- Dark Muddy Bottom Blues - Mercy Dee [Specialty 481]
- Ride My New Car With Me - Big Joe Williams
- Uncle Sam Blues - Pinebluff Pete
- I Need Love So Bad - John Lee Hooker
- Dial 110 Blues - Country Jim
- Dark and Cloudy - Lightnin' Hopkins

compiled by Barret Hansen

notes by Darryl Stolper

Specialty SPS 2149

= Pony Canyon CD 18323
(2000)

Roosevelt Sykes
- Homesick Blues
Bumble Bee Slim
- Strange Angel
- Lonesome Trail Blues
Jesse Thomas
- Jack O'Diamonds
Mercy Dee
- The Drifter [Specialty unissued]
- Dark Muddy Bottom [Specialty 481]
Big Maceo Merriweather
- Just Tell Me Baby

Honeyboy
- Blood Stains On The Wall
- My Time Ain't Long
Gus Jenkins
- Cold Love
- Worries & Troubles
Frankie Lee Sims
- Yeh Baby
Mercy Dee & Thelma
- Rent Man Blues [Specialty 466]
Joe Turner
- Still In The Dark

notes by Samuel Charters

Specialty SNTF 5015 (UK)

- Big City Blues - Big Maceo
- Lonesome Old Feeling - Bumble Bee Slim
- I'll Get Along Sonehow - Frankie Lee Sims
- My Woman Knows The Score - Mercy Dee [Specialty 458]
- Cryin' For My Baby - Pete McKinley
- I'm through with You - Smokey Hogg
- I Ate The Wrong Part - Little Temple And His "88"

- One Sunday Morning - Big Maceo
- Goin' Back To Mama - Clarence London
- One Room Country Shack - Mercy Dee [Specialty 458]
- Ida Red - Bumble Bee Slim
- Yeh, Baby! - Frankie Lee Sims
- Mean Black - Pete McKinley
- Ay-Tete Fee - Clifton Chenier

Specialty SNTF 5024 (UK)

= Specialty SPY 28092 (Fr 1977)

Lowell Fulson - Stormin' And Rainin'
L.C. Williams - All Through My Dreams
Sidney Maiden - Thinking The Blues [Imperial 5189]
Sidney Maiden - Honey Bee Blues [Imperial 5189]
Mercy Dee Walton - Bird Brain Baby
Mercy Dee Walton - Roaming Blues
J.D. Edwards - Crying

Cecil Gant - When You Left Me Baby
Cecil Gant - Blues By Cecil
Amos Milburn - Chicken Shuck Boogie
Joe Turner - Story To Tell
Joe Turner & Wynonie Harris - The Battle Of The Blues
T-Bone Walker - Blues Is A Woman
T-Bone Walker - I Got The Blues

Toshiba/Liberty LLR-8192 (Jp 1975)

Imperial/Liberty discography

Thunder Smith
- Thunder's Unfinished Boogie
- New Worried Life Blues
Jimmy McCracklin
- Highway 101
- Street Loafin' Woman
Thunder Smith
- Little Mama Boogie
Mercy Dee
- Straight And Narrow [Colony 102]
Little Son Willis
- Howling Woman
- Roll Me Over Slow

Little Willie Littlefield
- Little Willie's Boogie
Thunder Smith
- West Coast Blues
- Low Down Dirty Ways
Luther "Rocky Mountain" Stoneham
- Mable Blues
Mercy Dee
- The Pay Off [Colony 107]
- Baba-Du-Lay Fever (G.I. Fever) [Spire 101]
Little Son Willis
- Skin And Bones
Jimmy McCracklin
- Baby, Don't You Want To Go

illustration by Mike Faye

notes by Frank Scott

Muskadine M 104

Muscadine discography

- Deacon Rides Again
- Blow Blow Blow
- Jay Walk
- Night Ride
- Jet Fury w/ Cheers
- Deacon's Express
- Insect Ball [Imperial 5130]

- Sad Story
- All That Wine Is Gone
- Don't Cry Baby
- Let's Do it (Deacon's Hop)
- I'll Never Love again
- Love From the Heart (True Love)
- Old Black Mule

notes by Kurt Mohr

Imperial / EMI-Pathe
Marconi 1546691 (Fr 1983)

- G.I. Fever [Spire 101]
- Homely Baby [Imperial 5104]
- Evil And Hanky [Spire 102]
- Empty Life [Imperial 5104]
- Get To Gettin' [Specialty 481]
- Bird Brain Baby [Imperial 5110]
- Crepe On Your Door [Imperial 5127]
- Please Understand [Colony 111]

- Fall Guy [Specialty 466]
- Come Back Maybelline [Flair 1077]
- Bought Love [Imperial 5118]
- Happy Bachelor [Colony 102]
- Romp & Stomp Blues [Flair 1073]
- Roamin' Blues [Imperial 5118]
- Oh, Oh, Please [Flair 1073]
- Anything In This World [Imperial 5127]
- True Love [Flair 1077]

album prod. by Hank Davis & Jonas Bernholm
all photos by William Carter (1961)

notes by Hank Davis

Crown Prince IG-406 (Sweden 1985)

BU147,41 Dave Penny

K.C. Douglas
- Wake Up
- Working Woman
- Broken Heart
Alec Seward
- Evil Woman Blues
- Creepin' Blues
Doug Quattlebaum
- You Is One Black Rat
- Sweet Little Woman
Scrapper Blackwell And Brooks Berry
- 'Bama Bound
- Blues And Trouble
Jesse Fuller
- Key To The Highway
- Stranger Blues
Snooks Eaglin
- That's All Right
- Well, I Had My Fun (Goin' Down Slow)
Henry Townsend
- Cairo Is My Baby's Home
- I Asked Her If She Loved Me
Mercy Dee Walton
- Pity And A Shame [Bluesville 1039]
- Have You Ever Been Out In The Country (= "Harvest Time") [Bluesville 1039]
Shakey Jake
- Gimme A Smile
- Jake's Cha Cha
Arbee Stidham
- I'm Tired Of Wandering
- You Can't Live In This World By Yourself
St. Louis Jimmy
- Goin' Down Slow

Prestige PRCD-9918-2

Bluesville Records discography

LP track sequence:
- Sweet Little Angel - B.B. King
- She Moves Me - Johnny Guitar Watson
- Sufferin' Mind - Guitar Slim
- I'll Get Along Somehow - Frankie Lee Sims
- Blues Serenade - Babyface Turner
- On My Way Back Home - Flash Terry
- Odds Against Me - John Lee Hooker
- Sitting Here Thinking - T-Bone Walker
- Problem Child - Mercy Dee [Specialty unissued]

- Worried About My Baby - Howling Wolf
- Tavern Lounge Boogie - Eddie Guitar Burns
- Believe I'll Change Towns - Smokey Hogg
- Too Many Drivers - Lowell Fulson
- Yesterday - Clifton Chenier
- Lonesome Dog Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Hard Times - Johnny Fuller
- Riding Mighty High - Floyd Dixon
- Please Find My Baby - Elmore James

compiled by Ted Carroll

CD track sequence:
- Sweet Little Angel - B.B. King
- She Moves Me - Johnny Guitar Watson
- Sufferin' Mind - Guitar Slim
- I'll Get Along Somehow - Frankie Lee Sims
- Blues Serenade - Babyface Turner
- On My Way Back Home - Flash Terry
- Odds Against Me - John Lee Hooker
- Sitting Here Thinking - T-Bone Walker
- Problem Child - Mercy Dee Walton [Specialty unissued]
- Lonesome Old Feeling - Bumble Bee Slim
- I Tried - Young Wolf
- Cotton Picker - Chuck Higgins & The Mellotones
- Wild Hop - Pee Wee Crayton
- Worried About My Baby - Howling Wolf
- Tavern Lounge Boogie - Eddie Guitar Burns
- Believe I'll Change Towns - Smokey Hogg
- Too Many Drivers - Lowell Fulson
- Yesterday - Clifton Chenier
- Lonesome Dog Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Hard Times - Johnny Fuller
- Riding Mighty High - Floyd Dixon
- Please Find My Baby - Elmore James

compiled by Ted Carroll

notes by Ted Carroll

Ace CH 276

Ace CD 276 (1997)

- One Room Country Shack (2:47) [Specialty 458]
- My Woman Knows The Score (2:11) [Specialty 458]
- Misery Blues (3:05)
- The Great Mistake (2:58)
- Save Me Some (2:14)
- Strugglin' With The Blues (2:55)
- Lonesome Cabin Blues (2:57)
- Rent Man Blues (with Thelma) (2:21) [Specialty 466]
- Fall Guy (2:45) [Specialty 466]
- The Drifter (2:21)
- Hear Me Shout (2:20)
- Love Is A Mystery (1:49)
- Winter Blues (2:41)
- Pauline (1:30)
- Get To Gettin' (with Lady Fox) (2:21) [Specialty 481]
- Dark Muddy Bottom (3:00) [Specialty 481]
- What'cha Gonna Do? (with Lady Fox) (2:13)
- My Woman And The Devil (2:27)
- Big Minded Daddy (Lady Fox) (1:57)
- Perfect Health (1:17)
- Problem Child (2:26)
- Pull 'em And Pop 'em (1:03)
- 8th Wonder Of The World (1:47)
- Rock & Roll Fever (1:15)

compiled and prod. for reissue by Billy Vera
photography by Bill Greensmith

Specialty SPCD-7036-2

= Ace CDCHD 475 (UK)

- Have You Ever Been Out In The Country (P-8) (3:39) [Bluesville 1039, Arhoolie F1007, 2nd ed. as "Harvest Time"]
- Five Card Hand (P-7) (3:07) [] [Bluesville 1039]
- After The Fight (M-62) (3:16) ("previously unreleased", actually on Arhoolie F1007, 2nd ed.!)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Lady Luck (M-73) (2:45) (previously unreleased)   @ Spotify
- Betty Jean (M-76) (2:06) (previously unreleased)   @ Spotify
- One Room Country Shack (P-5) (4:05) [Bluesville 1039]
- Mercy's Troubles (M-44) (9:32) [Arhoolie F1007]
- Sugar Daddy (P-11) (4:30) [Arhoolie F1012]
- Red Light (M-38) (2:30) [Arhoolie F1007]
- Walked Down So Many Turnrows (M-25) (3:05) [Arhoolie F1007]
- Call The Asylum (M-70) (4:00) (previously unreleased)   @ Spotify
- Mercy's Shuffle (P-10) (3:12) (previously unreleased)   @ Spotify
- Troublesome Mind (5:55) [Arhoolie F1007]
- Shady Lane (M-68) (4:20) ("previously unreleased", actually on Arhoolie F1007, 2nd ed.!)   @ Spotify
- Eighth Wonder Of The World (M-36) (2:37) [Arhoolie F1017]   @ Spotify
- I Been A Fool (M-37) (3:20) [Arhoolie F1006]

rec. February 5, 12 & 16, 1961 in Stockton, CA; Mercy Dee Walton, voc, p; K. C. Douglas, g, # voc; Sidney Maiden, hca; Otis Cherry, dr; [] Marcellus Thomas [Big Joe Williams' chauffeur!], voc

Arhoolie 1007 (1961/63?)

notes (1961 & 1991) by Chris Strachwitz (edited by Dix Bruce)

Arhoolie CD 369 (US 1993)

Mercy Dee Walton
- One Room Country Shack

5 CD set
notes by Billy Vera

Ace / Specialty 5SPCD-4412-2

- G.I. Fever (Baba-Du-Lay-Fever)
- Lonesome (Cabin Blues)
- Evil And Hanky
- Travellin' Alone Blues
- Homely Baby
- Empty Life
- Please Understand
- Bird Brain Baby
- Big Foot Country
- Crepe On Your Door (Danger Zone)
- Roamin' Blues
- Straight And Narrow
- Bought Life
- Old Fashioned Ways
- Happy Bachelor
- Anything In The World (Pay Off)
- Trailing My Baby [Rhythm 1774]
- The Main Event (instrumental)
- Romp & Stomp Blues
- Oh Oh Please
- Come Back Maybellene
- True Love
- Have You Ever
- Have You Ever (alt tk)
- Stubborn Woman

cover art by Erik Trauner

notes by Nicholas Neptune

RST CD1518-2 (Austria 1994)

www.rst-entertainment.at (Rudi Staeger)

Big Joe Duskin - The Tribute [Arhoolie 1080]
Pete Johnson - Rocket Boogie '88' (Part 2)
Joe Turner / W. Pete Johnson - Wine-o Baby Boogie
Dave Alexander - The Rattler
Earl Hooker - Earl's Boogie Woogie
Robert Shaw - The Cows
Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin's Boogie
Piano Red - Atlanta Bounce
Alex Moore - Rock And Roll Bed
Big Joe Williams - Throw The Boogie Woogie
Big Joe Duskin - Down The Road A Piece >[Arhoolie 1080]
Robert Shaw - Fast Santa Fe (Bear Cat)
L.C. Williams - Boogie All The Time
Piano Red - The Right String But The Wrong Yo Yo
Pete Johnson - Hala Tight Boogie
Lightnin' Hopkins - Hammond Boogie (Organ Boogie)
Mercy Dee - Red Light
Big Walter Horton - Walter's Boogie
Clifton Chenier - Houston Boogie
L.C. Robinson - Pine Top's Boogie Woogie
Katie Webster - I Know That's Right
Dave Alexander - Fillmore Street Boogie
Pete Johnson - Skid Row Boogie

compiled by Chris Strachwitz and John Broven

notes by Chris Smith

Ace CDCHD 526 (UK 1994)

- Dollar Bill Boogie - Big Joe Duskin
- Have You Ever Been Out In The Country (= "Harvest Time") - Mercy Dee
- Whistling Alex Moore's Blue - Whistling Alex Moore
- Moaning And Groaning - Johnny Young/Otis Spann
- Katie's Boogie Woogie - Katie Webster
- Cruel Hearted Woman - Thunder Smith
- Ma Grinder, The - Robert Shaw
- Why Did You Go Last Night - Clifton Chenier/Elmore Nixon
- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - L.C. "Good Rockin" Robinson/Pinetop Perkins
- San Francisco Can Be Such A Lonely Town - Omar Sharriff
- Rocket Boogie "88" - Pete Johnson
- Sugar Hill - Bukka White
- You Ain't Got A Chance - Piano Red
- Cold Chills - Henry Gray
- On The Spot Boogie - Charlie Musselwhite/Lafayette Leake

Arhoolie CD 108 (US 1997)

K.C. Douglas
- Wake Up
- Working Woman
- Broken Heart
Alec Seward
- Evil Woman Blues
- Creepin' Blues
Doug Quattlebaum
- You Is One Black Rat
- Sweet Little Woman
Brooks Berry and Scrapper Blackwell
- 'Bama Bound [Bluesville BV/BVLP 1074]
- Blues And Trouble [Bluesville BV/BVLP 1074]
Jesse Fuller
- Key To The Highway
- Stranger Blues
Snooks Eaglin
- That's All Right
- Well, I Had My Fun (Goin' Down Slow)
Henry Townsend
- Cairo Is My Baby's Home
- I Asked Her If She Loved Me
Mercy Dee Walton
- Pity And A Shame
- Have You Ever Been Out In The Country (= "Harvest Time")
Shakey Jake
- Gimme A Smile
- Jake's Cha Cha
Arbee Stidham
- I'm Tired Of Wandering
- You Can't Live In This World By Yourself
St. Louis Jimmy
- Goin' Down Slow

Prestige PRCD-9918-2 (US 1998)

Bluesville Records discography

disc 1:
- San Francisco Bay Blues - Jesse Fuller (previously unreleased)
- Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas
- Shake Shake Mama - Mance Lipscomb
- Cairo Blues - Lil' Son Jackson
- Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton / Robert Curtis Smith [Arhoolie F 1005]
- One Thin Dime - Butch Cage / Willie Thomas
- Charmin' Betsy - Hodges Brothers
- Whistlin' Alex Moore's Blues - Alex Moore
- I Am The Black Ace - Black Ace
- Brother James - Big Joe Williams
- Lady Luck - Mercy Dee
- Don't Drive Me Away - R.C. Smith
- Zydeco Introduction - Zydeco Announcer
- Bernadette Chere - Albert Chevalier
- Bald Headed Woman - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Baby Please Don't Go - James Campbell
- Believe On Me - Rev. Louis Overstreet
- Low Down Blues - George Lewis
- The Country Blues - J.E. Mainer
- Crowley Waltz - The Hackberry Ramblers
- She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain - Booker White (previously unreleased)
- Ay, Ai Ai - Clifton Chenier
- Write Me A Few Lines - Fred McDowell
- Charlie James - Mance Lipscomb
- Louisiana Blues - Clifton Chenier

disc 2:
- Cindy - John Jackson
- Little Red Rooster - Big Mama Thornton
- La Betaille - Isom Fontenot
- Calcasieu Waltz - Nathan Abshire
- Almlied - Eibelsberger Duo
- I Wonder Where You Are Tonight - Del McCoury
- In The Breeze - Jerry Hahn Quintet
- Goin' Back To The Country - Juke Boy Bonner
- Sometimes I Cry - Johnny Young
- Two Bugs And A Roach - Earl Hooker
- Dream - John Littlejohn
- Things Gonna Get Better - Bee Houston
- Visions - Sonny Simmons
- I Wish I Could Sing - Bongo Joe
- Boogieing In Strasbourg - Alex Moore
- The Death Of Dr. Martin Luther King - Big Joe Williams
- Please Settle In Vietnam - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Shake 'Em On Down - Fred McDowell / Johnny Woods
- El Desesperado - Los Pinguinos Del Norte
- Creole Belles - New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra
- Finger Lickin' Good - Charlie Musselwhite

disc 3:
- Church Point Breakdown - Austin Pitre
- Gstanzeln Aus Dem Freistriztal - Original Herberstein Trio
- Gibson Creek Shuffle - Charles Ford Band
- Ups And Downs - L.C. Robinson
- You Ain't Got A Chance - Piano Red
- Home Sweet Home - Boisec Ardoin / Canray Fontenot
- Satan's Burning Hell - Bill Neely
- Luzita - Narciso Martinez
- Yo Me Enamore - Trio San Antonio
- Borracho Perdido - Trio San Antonio
- One Of These Mornings (I'm Checkin' Out) - J.C. Burris
- Allons A Grand Coteau - Clifton Chenier
- En Bas Du Chene Vert - Dewey Balfa / Marc Savoy/D.L. Menard
- Besos Y Copas - Chavela Ortiz Y Brown Express
- Fast Santa Fe - Robert Shaw
- I'll See You In C-U-B-A - Any Old Time String Band
- El Balaju - Conjunto Alma Jarocha
- La Gata - Los Caporales De Panuco
- Beym Rebas Sude - The Klezmorim
- J'ai Laisse De La Maison - Cheese Read
- Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio - Don Santiago Jimenez Sr.
- Mi Problema - Lydia Mendoza

disc 4:
- Gritenme Piedras Del Campo - Flaco Jimenez
- Co-Fe - John Delafose
- Single Girl - Rose Maddox
- Bec De La Manche - Canray Fontenot
- Bosco Stomp - Octa Clark / Hector Duhon
- Negra Ausencia - Santiago Jimenez Jr.
- La Chanson De Cinquante Sous - Michael Doucet Dit BeauSoleil (previously unreleased)
- Shake What You Got - Preston Frank
- Little Black Eyes - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band
- The Chill Of A Saturday Afternoon - Wade Fruge
- Jolie Blonde - Chuck Guillory
- Here To Stay - Rebirth Brass Band
- I Know That's Right - Katie Webster
- I've Been There - Lawrence Ardoin
- Mentiste Cuando Dijiste - Flaco Jimenez
- Aguililla - Los Campesinos De Michoacan
- La Reine De La Salle - Odile Falcon
- Chanson De La Sagesse - Michael Doucet
- Hot Chili Mama - BeauSoleil
- Check Out The Zydeco - C.J. Chenier
- El Canoero - Valerio Longoria
- Corrido Del Mono - Los Gavilanes De Oakland
- San Francisco Can Be Such A Lonely Town - Omar Sharriff

disc 5:
- Mother - Paramount Gospel Singers
- Gumagarugu - Chatuye
- Khandan-E Amaturi III - Aziz Herawi
- A Ti, Colombia - Ivan Cuesta
- Food Stamp Blues - Treme Brass Band
- Ain't It A Shame - Elder Roma Wilson
- J'ai Ete Au Bal - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band
- La Mal Sentada - Los Cenzontles
- Falling For You - Rose Maddox
- Los Traficantes Del Bravo - Los Palomares Del Bravo (previously unreleased)
- Jesus Will Fix It For You - Sonny Treadway
- Medved Na Lancu - Csokolom
- Jale Griego - Jose Moreno
- El Corrido De Esequiel Hernandez - Santiago Jimenez, Jr.
- What's His Name - Jesus! - The Campbell Brothers
- Just A Closer Walk With Thee - Aubrey Ghent

Compilation producers: Chris Strachwitz & Elijah Wald; digitally remastered by Mike Cogan

5 CD box
66-pp. booklet by Chris Strachwitz, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt & Elijah Wald

Arhoolie CD 491 (US 2000)

Arhoolie Records discography

Connie Mack Booker
- All Alone
- Love Me Pretty Baby
- Love Me Pretty Baby (RPM unissued alt. tk.)
King Curtis
- unknown instrumental
- unknown instrumental
- unknown instrumental
- unknown instrumental
Melvin Daniels
- Boogie In The Moonlight (Lean Chick)
- Hey Hey Little Girl
- I'll Be There
- If You Don't Want My Lovin'
Mercy Dee
- Come Back Maybellene [Flair 1077]
- True Love [Flair unissued instrumental version]
Lucky Enois
- Crazy Man Crazy
- Zig Zag Ziggin'
Clarence "Bon Ton" Garlow
- Crawfishin'
- Route "90"
Peppermint Harris
- Bye Bye Fare Thee Well
- The Blues Ain't Nothing (RPM unissued)
Quinn Kimble
- Blue Memories
- Feel My Broom
Preacher Stevens
- So Far Away
- Whoopin' & Hollerin'

P-Vine PCD 3057 (Jp 2003)

- Insect Ball [Imperial 5130]
- Sad Story
- All That Wine Is Gone
- Don't Cry Baby
- Let's Do It
- I'll Never Love Again
- Love From The Heart
- Old Black Mule
- Deacon Blows For Ray
- Tall, Brown Woman
- Deacon Rides Again
- Blow, Blow, Blow
- Jay Walk
- Night Ride
- Jet Fury
- Deacon's Express
- Goof
- Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)
- Just Crazy
- Big Jay Shuffle

Classics CD 5058 (Fr 2003)

- I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatman
- John Henry - John Jackson [Arhoolie 1025 1970]
- Walked Down So Many Turn Rows - Mercy Dee
- Tom Moore's Farm - Mance Lipscomb
- Tom Moore Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
- River Blues - Lowell Fulson
- Levee Camp Blues - Fred McDowell
- The 1919 Influenza Blues - Essie Jenkins
- Why I Like Roosevelt - Willie Eason
- Little Soldier Boy - Doctor Ross
- Prisoner's Talking Blues - Robert Pete Williams
- I Got To Climb A High Mountain - Johnie Lewis
- Depression Blues - Herman E. Johnson
- Stockyard Blues - Johnny Young/Big Walter Horton
- What Will I Tell The Children - Juke Boy Bonner
- It's Enough - Juke Boy Bonner
- Things Gonna Get Better - Bee Houston
- Back Home Blues - Big Joe Williams

ed. by Chris Strachwitz & Paul Oliver

on front cover: Sleepy John Estes' hands
cropped from a 1962 photo by Georges Adins

notes by Paul Oliver

Arhoolie CD 510 (US 2005)

on front cover: Sleepy John Estes' hands cropped from a 1962 photo by Georges Adins

Arhoolie Records discography

disc 1:
- Wine, Women, Whiskey - Papa Lightfoot
- Rock Me Mama - Lightnin' Slim
- Little Lean Woman - Little Al
- Hydramatic Woman - Joe Hill Louis
- Lucy Mae Blues - Frankie Lee Sims
- Goin' To New Orleans - Little Sam Davis
- Another Fool Like Me - Jesse Thomas
- Little Milton's Boogie - Little Milton Anderson
- Scott's Boogie - L.B. Lawson
- She's Gone - Schoolboy Cleve
- Down At the Depot - John Lee
- Calling All Cows - Blues Rockers
- Courtin' In a Cadillac - Jerry McCain
- Walkin' And Cryin' Blues - Sonny Boy Holmes
- Ride Hooker Ride - Earl Hooker
- Don't Let Your Daddy Slow Walk You Down - Good Rockin' Sam
- Cool Down Mama - Lost John Hunter
- Country Boy - Pee Wee Hughes
- Lillie Mae Boogie - Alex Moore
- Gotta Get Together - Frank Edwards
- When I Come In This House Woman - Big Son Tillis
- I'm Gonna Leave You Baby - Lazy Lester
- Evil And Hanky - Mercy Dee
- Bad Luck - Lightnin' Slim
- Central Avenue Blues - R. Green & Turner
- On My Way - Alvin Smith
- Highway 80 Blues - Tommy Lee Thompson
- Mama Does the Boogie - Red Johnson

disc 2:
- She Fool Me - Harvey Hill Jr.
- Chicken Hearted Woman - Clarence Samuels
- That's What They Want - Jerry McCain
- Sneaky Groundhog - Clifford Gibson
- Blinds Blues - John Lee
- Sugar Mama - Pee Wee Hughes
- One Room Country Shack - Mercy Dee
- You Are Doing Me Wrong - Arthur Gunter
- I Can't Live Happy - Lightnin' Slim
- Mean Old Train - Papa Lightfoot
- Jackson Juke - Little Milton Anderson
- Jealous Man - Johnny Lewis
- Winehead Swing - James Tisdom
- Weekend Blues - Lafayette Thomas
- Leave My Money Alone - Lonesome Sundown
- Pebble In My Shoe - Wild Bill Phillips
- Lonely Blues - K.C. Douglas
- No-4 Boogie - Pinebluff Pete
- Someday You'll Understand - King Davis
- Alley Corn - Earl Hooker
- I Got Them Blues - Sonny Boy Holmes
- L.J. Boogie - Louis Jackson
- She's So Good To Me - Little Sam Davis
- New Orleans Bound - Lightnin' Slim
- West Kinney Street Blues - Skoole-Dum-Doo & Sheffield
- I'm Him - Schoolboy Cleve
- Neglected Woman - Alex Moore
- Too Much Competition - Tarheel Slim

disc 3:
- A Fool No More - Eddie Hope & The Mannish Boys
- Johnny Mae - Blues Rockers
- Got My Call Card - L.B. Lawson
- Love My Baby - Frank Edwards
- Jump the Boogie - Papa Lightfoot
- One Thing My Baby Likes - Country Jim
- A Dream - Little Willie Cotton
- Happy Go Lucky - Good Rockin' Beasley
- Bugger Bugger Boy - Lightnin' Slim
- Sweet Angel - Earl Hooker
- You Don't Love Me No More - Jerry McCain
- My Woman Knows the Score - Mercy Dee
- Goin' Home To Mother - Little Sam Davis
- Santa Fe Blues - Pee Wee Hughes
- Tiger Man - Little Al
- Alabama Boogie - John Lee
- Wolf Call Boogie - Coy 'Hot Shot' Love
- Congo Mombo - Guitar Gable
- Big Time Woman - Ernest McClay
- Paper Wooden Daddy - Dennis McMillon
- Bloodstains On the Wall - Honeyboy
- Rub a Little Boogie - Alec Seward
- Schoolboy - Lost John Hunter
- Ethel May - Lightnin' Slim
- Knocking the Boogie - Jerry Perkins
- Mistreated Baby Blues - Little Milton Anderson
- The $64 Question - Sonny Boy Holmes
- If I Lose You Woman - Alex Moore

disc 4:
- Lester's Stomp - Lazy Lester
- Dark Muddy Bottom - Mercy Dee
- Lost Child - Eddie Hope & The Mannish Boys
- 1958 Blues - Little Sam Davis
- Now Listen Baby - Good Rockin' Sam
- Lost Without Love - Lonesome Sundown
- Alla Blues - R. Green & Turner
- She's Mine All Mine - Arthur Gunter
- T.N.T. Woman - Sonny Boy Holmes
- Lightnin' Blues - Lightnin' Slim
- K.C. Boogie - K.C. Douglas
- Baby Blues - John Lee
- She's Taking All My Money - Johnny Lewis
- Let Me Be Your Handy Man - Clifford Gibson
- You Better Change - Ole Sonny Boy
- Strange Letter Blues - Schoolboy Cleve
- Things Ain't Right - Jerry McCain
- Wine Head Baby - Lazy Slim Jim
- Don't Take It Out On Me - Frankie Lee Sims
- Deep South Guitar Blues - Lafayette Thomas
- Packin' Up My Blues - Tommy Lee Thompson
- Blow It Down - Little Milton Anderson
- Good Road Blues - Wright Holmes
- Katherine Blues - Jerry Perkins
- On the Hook - Earl Hooker
- I Can't Be Successful - Lightnin' Slim
- Philippine Blues - Country Jim
- Harpin' On It - Coy 'Hot Shot' Love

4 CD set
notes by Neil Slaven

JSP JSPCD 7796 (UK 2007)

- The Honey Jump pt. 1 - Red Callender & Sextet
- The Honey Jump pt. 2 - Red Callender & Sextet
- Soldier's Blues - Red Callender (Duke Upshaw - Vocal)
- In The Meantime - Red Callender (Duke Upshaw - Vocal)
- Anything In This World - Mercy Dee [Bayou 003]
- Please Understand - Mercy Dee [Bayou 003]
- Sabre Jet - Joe Houston
- Moody - Joe Houston
- Country Gal - Dave Bartholomew
- Snatchin' Back - Dave Bartholomew
- Gather 'Round - Jimmy Gil
- North Wind - Jimmy Gil
- Mean And Evil - L.C. Williams
- My Darkest Hours - L.C. Williams
- Low Top Inn - Clarence Samuels
- Drunk Or Sober - Clarence Samuels
- Dragnet - Jesse Allen
- Take It Easy - Jesse Allen
- Pigtails - Joe Houston
- Chillin' - Joe Houston
- Crepe On Your Door - Mercy Dee [Bayou 013]
- Happy Bachelor - Mercy Dee [Bayou 013]
- Hometown Jamboree - Big Jay McNeely
- Teenage Hop - Big Jay McNeely
- Blues Jumped The Rabbit - Joe Turner
- The Sun Is Shining - Joe Turner
- I'm Thankful - Fats Mathews
- Goin' Down - Fats Matthews
- Landslide - Joe Houston
- Scramble - Joe Houston
- Catastrophe - Big Jay McNeely
- Calamity - Big Jay McNeely

BCD-1008

Oscar McLollie - Roll, Hot Rod , Roll
Joe Clay - Crackerjack
Eddie Daniels - I Wanna Know (Why You Love Me So)
Chuck Berry - The Down Bound Train
John Greer - Come Back, Maybelline
Al Downing - Down On The Farm
Roy Gaines - Worried 'bout You Baby
Mercy Dee - Oh Oh Please [Flair 1073]
Magic Sam - Love Me With A Feeling
Roy Brown - Be My Love Tonight
Joe Clay - You Look That Good To Me
Jimmy Newsome - Long Gone Lonesome Blues
McKinley Mitchell - Rock, Everybody, Rock
Eddie Riff - Ain't That Lovin' You Baby
Magic Sam - 21 Days In Jail
Mercy Dee - True Love [Flair 1077]
Bobo Jenkins - Tell Me Who
Pico Pete - Hot Dog
Arthur Gunter - Honey Baby
TV Slim - Flatfoot Sam
Roy Brown - Hip Shakin' Baby
Joe Clay - Get On The Right Track Baby
Johnnie Fuller - All Night Long
Jerry Mccain - My Next Door Neighbor
Ray Sharpe - Oh, My Baby's Gone
Hill Billy Blues
Lazy Lester - I'm A Lover Not A Fighter
Johnnie Fuller - First Stage Of The Blues
Eddie Riff - My Baby's Gone
Rosco Gordon - Sally Jo
Tarheel Slim - Wildcat Tamer
Tarheel Slim - Number 9 Train

2 LP / 1 CD

El Toro ET 1023

CD 1:
- Dirty By The Dozen (Sweet Little Woman) - Little Johnny Jones & The Chicago Hound Dogs
- Early In The Morning - Elmore James & His Broomdusters
- She Wants To Rock (tk 2) - The Flairs
- I Wonder Why (tk 1) - The Royal Hawk & His Orchestra
- Can't Stop Lovin' - Elmore James & His Broomdusters
- Midnight Hours Journey - Johnny Ace
- Down At Hayden's - The Hunters feat. Young Jessie
- Hello Baby - Big Duke & His Orchestra
- Send Him Back (tk 6) - Shirley Gunter with Monroe Tucker & His Orchestra
- Route "90" - Clarence "Bonton" Garlow & His Orchestra
- Strange Kinda Feeling - Elmore James & His Broomdusters
- Pleadin' Heart - The Whips
- Found Some Good Lovin' (tk 1, breakdown & tk 2, master) - Shirley Gunter with Maxwell Davis & His Orchestra
- Gettin' High (tk 1) - The Flairs
- Baby Beat It (tk 4) - Big Duke & His Orchestra
- This Time It's Real - Ricky & Jennell
- My Mama Told Me - James Reed
- Beggin' & Pleadin' (tk 1) - Big Duke & His Orchestra
- My Close Friend (tk 1) - Saunders King & His Orchestra
- I've Got The Feeling - Baby "Pee Wee" Parham
- Baby Please (tk 4) - Mat Cockrell
- Night Howler - Billy Gale & His Orchestra
- Sho' Nuff I Do - Elmore James & His Broomdusters
- You Better Hold Me (tk 1) - James Reed & His Orchestra
- Loosely - Ike Turner & His Orchestra

CD 2:
- Chop House (tk 1) - Blinky Allen & His Orchestra
- Let's Make With Some Love (tk 2) - The Flairs
- Quit Hangin' Around Me (tk 1) - Saunders King & His Orchestra
- An Angel Cried - Anna Marie & The Stardusters with Blinky Allen & The Stardusters
- Blue Mambo - Bobby Rey & His Orchestra
- Oop Shoop (tk 2) - Shirley Gunter & The Queens
- Love Me, Love Me, Love Me (tk 2) - The Chimes
- Sputterin' Blues - Walter Robertson
- Hard Times - Johnny Fuller
- The Big Break - Richard Berry
- Standing At The Crossroads - Elmore James & His Broomdusters
- Daddy Daddy (tk 1) - Richard Berry & The Dreamers
- Cuban Get Away - Ike Turner & His Orchestra
- Dizzy (tk 1) - The Carroll County Boys featuring Pee Wee Crayton
- Farewell - Bobby Relf & The Laurels
- Oh! Oh! Get Out Of The Car - Richard Berry
- She Loves To Dance - The Flairs
- Stubborn Woman - Mercy Dee
- Next Time (tk 4) - Richard Berry
- Oh, Oh, Please - Mercy Dee
- Ipsy Opsie Ooh (tk 1) - Shirley Gunter & The Flairs
- Dust My Blues - Elmore James & His Broomdusters
- Together (tk 2) - Richard Berry & The Dreamers
- Have You Ever? - Mercy Dee
- Goodbye - Elmore James & His Broomdusters

compiled by Tony Rounce

2 CD set
notes by Tony Rounce

Ace CD TOP2 1382 (UK 11/2011)