... for (re)issues of recordings with Joe Willie Wilkins as accompanistsee the resp. discographies of the artists he is accompanying: Charley Booker discography Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup discography David 'Honeyboy' Edwards discography Willie Love / Sonny Boy Williamson discography Willie Nix discography
Joe Willie Wilkinsb. January 7, 1923 near Davenport, Coahoma County, Mississippid. March 28, 1979 at the University of Tennessee Hospital in Memphis, Tennesseeburied at Galilee Memorial Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee (just as Memphis Slim)discography
Sun unissued
Redita LP 105Sun Box 105Bear Family
Trumpet no #
Trumpet 129
Trumpet 139
Trumpet 140
Trumpet 144
Trumpet 145
Trumpet 147
Willie Love discography
Trumpet 166
Trumpet 168
Jewel 783: Elmo James - Make A Little Love (DRC 129) (Trumpet 186) [] - Catfish Blues (DRC52) (Trumpet 146) * [] rec. August 28, 1952 in Jackson, Ms.; Arthur Crudup, voc; Sonny Boy Williamson, hca; Joe Willie Wilkins, g; b [credited to "Elmer/Elmo James"] # rec. August 5, 1951 in Jackson, Ms.; Elmore James, voc, g; Sonny Boy Williamson, hca; Leonard Ware, b; Frock O'Dell, dr * rec. July 24, 1951 in Jackson, Ms.; Andrew 'Bobo' Thomas, voc, g; Sonny Boy Williamson, hca; Leonard Ware, b [credited to "Elmo James"]
Trumpet 186
(=) Jewel 764 (1965)
(=) Jewel 783 (1967)
Elmore James discography
Trumpet unissued
P-Vine PCD 2185 (Jp)
Arthur Crudup discography
Sun 179
Willie Nix discography
# Charly CR 30114* Titanic CD 6006
# Sun Box 105* Charly CR 30127
* Charly CD Sun 7
# Charly CR 30127Charly Sun Box 105
David 'Honeyboy' Edwards discography
# Acoustic Archives AA 700
Trumpet 212
Trumpet 215
House of Sound C&S 505 [Chesley Sherod's label]
Mimosa 174 [Steve LaVere's label]
notes by Paul Oliver "Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Ca. 94709" Arhoolie 2020 (US 1970)
notes by Paul Oliver = Trio PA-3057 (Jp 1975)
notes by Paul Oliver "Arhoolie Records, 10341 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito, Ca. 94530" (uses slightly different "King Biscuit Time" photo!)= Arhoolie 2020 (US 19??)
Arhoolie Records discography
Redita RLP 105 (NL 1973) [first series]BU 107,23
Indigo IGOTCD 2537 track sequence: CD 1: The Devil's Music Part 1 Sam Chatmon - Stop And Listen Big Joe Williams - Highway 49 Houston Stackhouse - Cool Drink Of Water * Sam Chatmon - Sam's Rag Big Joe Williams - Watergate Blues Sam Chatmon - Who Gonna Love You Tonight Bukka White - Aberdeen, Mississippi Mose Vinson - When You Got Rid Of My Mule Sonny Blake - One Room Country Shack // Sonny Blake - Bring It On Home [] Joe Willie Wilkins - Mr. Downchild # Houston Stackhouse - Mean Red Spider * Mose Vinson - Bugle Call Blues Laura Dukes - Crawdad The Aces - Take A Little Walk With Me Billy Boy Arnold - Somebody Help Me Fenton Robinson - Somebody Loan Me A Dime Good Rockin' Charles - Don't Start Me Talkin' Fenton Robinson - You Don't Know What Love Is Joe Carter - It Hurts Me Too CD 2: The Devil's Music Part 2 Billy Boy Arnold - She Fooled Me The Aces - Blue Shadows Good Rockin' Charles - Shake Your Boogie Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues Edith Wilson - Yankee Doodle Blues Little Brother Montgomery - I Ain't Got No Special Rider Now James De Shay - Crossroads °° James De Shay - Pony Blues °° James De Shay - Mistake In Life °° James De Shay - Evil Is Going On °° James De Shay - Hold That Train, Conductor °° James De Shay - Forty Four °° Big Joe Williams - Providence Help The Poor People °° Henry Townsend - Tears Came Rolling Down °° Big Joe Williams - Sloppy Drunk °° Henry Townsend - Wave My Hands Bye Bye °° Big Joe Williams - Meet Me At The Bottom °° Victoria Spivey - T.B. Blues °° CD 3: Live 1963 European Blues Festival Memphis Slim - Wish Me Well °° Memphis Slim - I Wrote This Song °° Memphis Slim - All By Myself °° Sonny Boy Williamson - 99 °° Sonny Boy Williamson - Bye Bye Bird °° Memphis Slim - In The Evening °° Matt Murphy - Grooving On Bounce °° Matt Murphy - Taking Off °° Sonny Boy Williamson - All My Love In Vain °° Sonny Boy Williamson - Your Funeral And My Trial °° Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Start Me Talkin' °° °° Indigo IGOTCD 2537 bonus tracks # rec. January 19, 1976 in Memphis, TN; Joe Willie Wilkins, voc, g; Mose Vinson, p; Houston Stackhouse, g; L.T. Lewis, dr * rec. January 19, 1976 in Memphis, TN; Houston Stackhouse, voc, g; Joe Willie Wilkins, g [] // rec. January 19, 1976 in Memphis, TN; Sonny Blake, voc, hca; // Mose Vinson, p; [] Joe Willie Wilkins, g; L.T. Lewis, dr
gatefold DLPnotes by Giles Oakley Red Lightnin' RL 0033 (UK 1976)
3 CD box setnotes by Neil Slaven = Indigo IGOTCD 2537 (UK 2003) "The Devil's Music: The Soundtrack To The 1976 BBC TV Documentary Series"
Red Lightnin' Records discography
notes by Steve LaVere Adamo ADS 9507 (US 1977)
P-Vine PLP-310 (Jp 1986)
Walter Horton discographyJack Kelly discography
CD track sequence: R.L. Burnside - Long Haired Doney (3:41) ** [Wolf 120.921 CD] @ Spotify - When My First Wife Left Me (tk 1) (3:28) * [Wolf 120.921 CD] @ Spotify - Poor Black Mattie (3:01) ** [Wolf 120.921 CD] @ Spotify - Jumper On The Line (3:17) (with Daniel Burnside, b; Calvin Jackson, dr) ** [Wolf 120.921 CD] @ Spotify - Rollin' And Tumblin' (3:02) ** [Wolf 120.921 CD] @ Spotify - It's Be Troubled [sic] (3:38) * [Wolf 120.921 CD] James "Son" Thomas - It Hurts Me Too (3:20) # - Four Women Blues (2:30) # - Shake 'Em On Down (2:53) # - Dust My Broom (3:07) # - Beefsteak Blues (3:44) ## - Rock Me (2:40) ### @ Spotify Joe Willie Wilkins - Walking Blues (2:39) || Boogie Bill Webb - Doodeville Blues (2:38) // - I'll Buy A Ticket (2:29) // - It Used To Be (2:37) // - Maggie Campbell Blues (2:16) // - Seven Sister's Blues (2:23) \\ - I Ain't For It (2:37) /// @ Spotify Clyde Maxwell - Untitled Blues (2:42) [] Cornelius Bright & Jimmy Holmes - Devil's Blues (3:53) # rec. November 6, 1981 in Leland, MS by Michael Hortig; James 'Son" Thomas, voc, g ## rec. July 6, 1975 in Leland, MS by Hannes Folterbauer & Christoph Steffl; James 'Son" Thomas, voc, g ### rec. June 17, 1991 in Leland, MS by Ulrich Hahn; James 'Son" Thomas, voc, g * rec. July 9, 1975 in Senatobia, MS by Hannes Folterbauer & Christoph Steffl; R.L. Burnside, voc, g ** rec. September 1991 in Coldwater, MS by Hannes Folterbauer; R.L. Burnside, voc, g || rec. 1976 in Memphis, TN by Hannes Folterbauer; Joe Willie Wilkins, voc, g; Sonny Blake, hca // rec. June 20, 1981 in New Orleans, LA by Ulrich Hahn; Boogie Bill Webb, voc, g \\ rec. October 24, 1981 in New Orleans, LA by Michael Hortig; Boogie Bill Webb, voc, g /// rec. April 6,, 1990 in New Orleans, LA by Clarence Toussaint; Boogie Bill Webb, voc, g [] rec. October 30, 1981 near Camden, MS by Michael Hortig; Clyde Maxwell, voc, g § rec. June 16, 1981 at the Blue Front Cafe in Bentonia, MS by Ulrich Hahn; Cornelius Bright, voc; Jimmy Holmes, g cover drawing of Clyde Maxwell by Bernd Conrad
notes by Michael Hortig and Herbert Pessiak Wolf LP 120.917 (Austria 1988)
notes by Larry Hoffman (=) Wolf CD 120.917 "1975-1991" (Austria 1991)
notes by Steve LaVere Memphis Archives CD 7008 (US 1994)
notes by Stephen C. LaVereMemphis Archives CD MA 7009
Charley Booker discography
notes by Chris SmithBlues Documents BDCD-6050 (Austria 1994)
Blues Documents discography
Schoolkids SKR 2104 (US 1996)
= Sequel NEX CD 285 (UK 1996)
thanks to John Burton and Michael Hortig for additional info / scans
"Joe Willie Wilkins & His King Biscuit Boys":Melvin Lee, Houston Stackhouse, Joe Willie Wilkins, Homer Jackson and Nathaniel Armstrongsource: Blues Unlimited 134 (March/June 1979), p. 13; photographer's name not given
Joe Willie Wilkins during the filming of "The Friendly Invasion",BBC-TV at the Hollywood Café in Hollywood, Mississippi, June 29, 1973source: The Blues - A Book of Postcards (Vol. 1).- San Francisco (Pomegranate Artbooks A534), 1995photographer: Rene Koopmanphoto was also used on the front cover of Adamo LP ADS 9507 (US 1977)"Joe Willie Wilkins & His King Biscuit Boys"
Joe Willie Wilkins, Houston Stackhouse & Robert Lockwood Jr. at Ann Arbor, September 7/8/9, 1973source: Blues Unlimited 111 (December-January 1974/75), p. 5; photographer: Norbert Hess
Joe Willie Wilkins at Ann Arbor, September 7/8/9, 1973source: Sheldon Harris 1987, p. 560; photographer: Peter B. Lowry
Joe Willie Wilkins at the Memphis Blues Caravan,Wisconsin Dells, September 30, 1973source: Notes of Memphis Archives CD MA 7009 (US 1994)"Memphis Blues Caravan Vol. II"; photographer: Stephen C. LaVere
Floyd Jones & Joe Willie Wilkins at Wilkins' home at 1656 Carpenter Street in North Memphis, TN, March 31, 1974source: The Blues - A Book of Postcards (Vol. 1).- San Francisco (Pomegranate Artbooks A534), 1995; photographer: Stephen C. LaVere
Joe Willie Wilkins headstone at Galilee Memorial Gardensin Memphis, Tennessee, erected by The Killer Blues projectsource: Twitter; photographer: most likely Steven Salter