George "Bullet" Williamsb. in Alabama, reportedly Millport, Lamar County, or Selma, Dallas County, about 1890 [Bogaert 1972: b. 1892 in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama]He was around Brazil, Tallahatchie County, MS, in 1930d. after 1930, reportedly at Whitfield State Insane Asylum (later, Mississippi State Hospital) in Whitfield, Rankin County, MS [Bogaert 1972: d. 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama]discography
Paramount 12651
= Broadway 5085
Paramount 12680
Paramount 12680[at least one copy known]
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
notes by Jacques Roche Origin Jazz Library OJL 14
notes by "Humphrey Higgins" [= Stephen Calt] on back cover: "Yazoo Records, 390 East 8th Street, NY 10009" front cover says Belzona but the record has a Yazoo back cover and a (black) "Yazoo" label - this LP was never released with Belzona labelsBelzona L-1006 (US 1968) "The Blues of Alabama"
notes by "Humphrey Higgins" [= Stephen Calt] "Yazoo Records, 390 East 8th Street, NY 10009" = Yazoo L-1006 (196?) "Alabama Blues"
notes by "Humphrey Higgins" [= Stephen Calt] "Yazoo Records, 245 Waverly Place, NY 10014" "Yazoo Records, P.O. Box 810, Newton, New Jersey 07860" = Yazoo L-1006 (197?) "Alabama Blues"
notes by "Humphrey Higgins" [= Stephen Calt] "Yazoo Records, P.O. Box 810, Newton, New Jersey 07860" = Yazoo CD 1006 (US 1991) "Alabama Blues"
Yazoo Records discographyClifford Gibson discographyJay Bird Coleman discographyMarshall Owens discography
Yazoo L 1018 (US 1969)
= CD 1018 YAZ (US 1992)
Yazoo Records discography
Roots RL-320 (Austria 1969)
= Roots RL-320 (Austria 19??) distributed in the UK by Saydisk Records
= Roots/Autogram RL-320 (Germany 19??)
the LP front cover depicts Percy Randolph being recorded by Harry Oster, most likely January/February 1958 in New Orleans (Harry Oster, on the left of the original photo, has been cropped; the original photo was published in Les Génies du Blues, Volume 2.- Paris (Editions Atlas) 1993, p. 67 ("D.I.T.E. / I.P.S." [French photo agency]; photographer's name not given)
Roots Records discography
Flyright LP 102 (UK 1972)
Flyright Records discography
notes by Paul OliverWolf WSE 127 (Austria 1988)
(=) Wolf WSE 113 CD (Austria 1998)
3 LP set with 24-pp. booklet notes (English and German) by Paul Oliver RST Blues Documents BD-01 (Austria 1990)
3 CD setnotes 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)
notes by Howard RyeDocument DOCD-5100 (Austria 1992)
notes by Roger MisiewiczDocument DOCD 5150 (Austria 199?)
Yazoo CD 2019 (US 1996)
Wolf WSE 113 CD (Austria 1998)
4 CD box JSP JSPCD 7798 (UK 2007) (UK)
thanks to Alan Balfour, Paul Vernon and David J Costa for additional info / scans
Cal Stephens: Booker White on Bullet Williams78 Quarterly No. 6 (1991), pp. 83-85