James 'Boodle It' Wigginsexact date (1898/99?) and location (Louisiana? Alabama) of birth unknown in 1940 resided in Southside Chicago, aged 41d. date and location of death unknowndiscography
B&GR 1997: "Broadway 5086 as by 'Boodle It' Williams." It is known that Broadway re-pressed some of their releases changing the originally invented monikers by the proper names of the artists, so the specimen shown might be one of those later re-pressings!
Paramount 12662
= Broadway 5086
Vocalion unissued
Paramount 12860
Broadway 5061 (as by James Harris)
Paramount 12878
Paramount 12916
Riverside RLP 1052 (US 1955) "Boogie Woogie Classic Blues Accompaniments"
London AL 3544 (UK 1955) "Boogie-Woogie with the Blues"
London/Riverside Records discography
°° it was then believed that Dobby Bragg [Roosevelt Sykes] did the piano accompaniment
Riverside RLP 153 (US 1962?)
notes by Tracy Nelson Origin Jazz Library OJL 15 (US c.1967)
OJL Records discography
notes by Anonymous Black Snake BSL 18003 (NL 1970) [Dick Bakker label, 300 copies pressed]
notes by Dick van Herrikhuysen & Eric Mossel = Oldie Blues OL 2808 (NL 1975?)
Oldie Blues discography
notes by Bernard Klatzko Herwin H-205 (US 1973)
Herwin Records discography
foreword by Francis Smithnotes by Bob Hall and Richard Noblett Magpie PY 4401 (UK 1977)
Magpie PYCD 01 (UK 1990) (four add'l tracks)
Magpie Records discography
foreword by Francis Smithnotes by Bob Hall Magpie PY 4420 (UK 1984)
RST Blues Documents BD 2033 (Austria 1988)
RST discography
Magpie PY 4401 + four tracks from Magpie PY 4420
notes by Bob Hall and Richard Noblett Magpie PYCD 01 (UK 1990)
Black Swan HCD-11 (US 1991)
notes by Mike Rowe Document DOCD-5103 (Austria 1992)
notes by Mike Rowe = Document DOCD-5103 (UK 2008)
Black Swan HCD-12 (US 1994)
4 CD set40-pp. booklet by Joop Visser Proper CDBOX 7 (UK 1999)
booklet by Bob HallYazoo CD 2053 (US 2000)
Yazoo discography
double CDnotes by Gary AtkinsonDocument CBL-200004 (UK 2001)
4 CD box JSP JSPCD 7723 (UK 2004)
CD accompanying the Frog Blues and Jazz Annual - Vol. 1www.frogrecords.co.uk
12-pp. bookletHidden Charms LP-001 (NL 2012) (500 copies made)
thanks to David J Costa, Guido van Rijn, Helge Thygesen and Bob Eagle for additional info / scans