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Wirz' AMERICAN MUSIC

L O V E Y   W I L L I A M S; source: Back cover of XTRA 1105; photographer: Bill Ferris
source: Back cover of XTRA 1105
photographer: Bill Ferris
Trailer for William Ferris' 1974 film 'Mississippi Delta Blues'
Bill Ferris' / Judy Peiser's 1974 film "Mississippi Delta Blues"
at http://www.folkstreams.net/film-detail.php?id=310

 

Lovey Williams
b. December 25, 1934 in Rising Star, Hinds County, Mississippi
discography

L O V E Y   W I L L I A M S; source: Front cover of XTRA 1105; illustration by Peter Thaine
source: Front cover of XTRA 1105
illustration by Peter Thaine

#year
of release
title / label / notes
11970James 'Son' Thomas, Lee Kizart & Lovey Williams:
The Blues Are Alive And Well


Son Thomas
- Crawling Kingsnake   @ youtube
- Beefsteak Blues   @ youtube
- Fast Boogie   @ youtube
- Recollections of childhood and sessions   @ youtube
- 44 Blues   @ youtube
- Standing At The Crossroads   @ youtube
Lee Kizart
- Boogie Woogie Woman   @ youtube
- I Got The World In A Jug Baby And The Stopper In My Hand   @ youtube
- Been A Long Time Since I Been Home   @ youtube
- Hello Miss Good Looking   @ youtube

Lee Kizart
- Got The Blues For My Baby   @ youtube
- Conversation about Blues and Religion   @ youtube

Lovey Williams
- Honey, I Ain't Going Outta That Door #   @ youtube
- Baby, Let Me Ride In Your Automobile #   @ youtube
- Coal Black Mare #   @ youtube
- Mo Jo Hand #   @ youtube
- Boogie Chillun #   @ youtube

# rec. December 1968 in Rising Star, MS by Bill Ferris; Lovey Williams, voc, g

[] also published on CD accompanying William Ferris: Give My Poor Heart Ease - Voices of the Mississippi blues.- Chapel Hill (University of North Carolina Press), 2009

notes (September 1969) by Bill Ferris

XTRA 1105 (UK)

XTRA Records discography

21972Blues From The Delta
Field Recordings 1968

Son Thomas
- Cairo Blues   @ youtube
Lee Kizart
- Bottle Up And Go   @ youtube
Scott Dunbar
- Big Fat Momma   @ youtube

Lovey Williams
- Rooting Ground Hog   @ youtube
Son Thomas
- Rock Me Momma   @ youtube


Lovey Williams
- Train I Ride [= Mystery Train]   @ youtube
Scott Dunbar
- It's So Cold Up North   @ youtube
Lee Kizart
- Don't Want No Woman Telling Me What To Do   @ youtube
Scott Dunbar
- Jay Bird   @ youtube


# rec. December 1968 in Rising Star, MS by Bill Ferris; Lovey Williams, voc, g

notes (September 1969) by Bill Ferris

Matchbox SDM 226 (UK 1972)


= Autogram ALLP-243 (Germany 19??)

LP accompanying William Ferris Jr.: Blues From The Delta.- Studio Vista, London 1970

William Ferris Jr.: Blues From The Delta.- Studio Vista, London 1970 (series ed. by Paul Oliver)

31983Bothered All The Time

Lovey Williams - Going Away Blues [CD accompanying Ferris' 2009 book "Give My Poor Heart Ease"]   @ youtube
Sonny Boy Williams - How I Learned To Play Guitar
Louis Dotson - Sitting On Top Of The World
Arthur Williams - A Definition Of The Blues
Parchman Work Gang - Rosie
James 'Son' Thomas - Bull Cow Blues
Lee Kizart - Juke Joint Reminiscence
Lee Kizart - Boogie
Lee Kizart - A Tale Of Church Hypocrisy
James 'Son' Thomas - Blues And Spirituals
Southland Hummingbirds - There Are Days

Jasper Love - The Blues As Consolation
Lee Kizart - World In A Jug
Gussie Tobe - The Abuse Of Farm Laborers
Sonny Boy Williams - Shotgun Blues
Gussie Tobe - Why They Called Colored Folks Bears
Sonny Boy Williams - Going Down To The Station
Anonymous - Hidden Violence In Mississippi

Lovey Williams - Mojo Hand Blues [XTRA 1105]
Jasper Love - Tables Turned On The Bossman
Wash Herron & Big Jack Jackson - Stack Of Dollars


rec. 1963-68 by William Ferris; ed. by John Barnie
cover art by Mara Califf

notes by William Ferris, essay on inner sleeve by John Barnie

Southern Culture SC 1703 (US 1983)

Southern Culture discography

46/2018Voices Of Mississippi
Artists And Musicians Documented by William Ferris

CD 1: Blues
James "Son Ford" Thomas - 44 Blues (3:45)
Lovey Williams - I Feel So Good (2:06)
Wallace "Pine-Top" Johnson & Maudie Shirley with Jasper Love - Stackalee And Billy Lyons (2:45)
Scott Dunbar - Lil' Liza Jane (2:59)
Mississippi Fred McDowell - Big Fat Mama (2:28)
Louis Dotson - Bottle Blowing (0:52)
Sonny Boy Watson - Bring Me My Shotgun (3:08)
Sam Myers - Eyesight To The Blind (2:25)
James "Son Ford" Thomas - Cairo (2:49)
Scott Dunbar - Jaybird (8:35)
Tom Dumas - Cotton Eyed Joe (2:24)

Lovey Williams - Coal Black Mare (2:37)
Unidentified Musician with Mississippi Fred McDowell - I Dreamed I Went To The U.N. (2:30)
Walter Lee Hood - Darling If You Must Leave (1:06)
Mississippi Fred McDowell - I Got A Letter From Hot Springs (3:54)
Wallace "Pine-Top" Johnson & Maudie Shirley With Jasper Love - Baby Loves To Boogie (3:13)
Wash Heron & "Big" Jack Johnson - Nothing (1:36)
James "Son Ford" Thomas - Dust My Broom (2:31)
Scott Dunbar - The Memphis Mail (3:30)
Sonny Boy Watson - Have You Seen My Baby (3:48)
James Hughes - Instrumental Guitar Piece In A (1:37)

Lovey Williams - Train I Ride (1:57)
Unidentified Musician with Mississippi Fred McDowell - Little Red Rooster (3:01)
Leland Musician - Darlin' Why You Treat Me So? (2:19)
Inmates at Parchman Farm - Water Boy Drowned In The Mobile Bay (1:57)
George Lee "Sun Bud" Spears - I Ain't Gonna Live It No More (4:10)
James "Son Ford" Thomas with Sonny Boy Watson - I Cannot Stay Here Baby (4:03)



CD 2: Gospel
Mary Alice & Alan McGowan - My Mother's On That Train (1:36)
The Southland Hummingbirds - You Don't Know Like I Know (3:48)

Lovey Williams - I'm Standing In The Safety Zone (1:20)
Reverend Smith And Family - Children, Go Where I Send Thee (3:27)
Liddle Hines - What Could I Do? (3:23)
Providence Missionary Baptist Church - So Glad I Got Good Religion (3:21)
Church Of God In Christ - I Know The Lord Will Make A Way (Yes He Will) (2:08)
Walter Lee Hood And Parchman Inmates - Home On High (2:28)
Fannie Bell Chapman -We're So Glad To Be Here (3:52)
Mary & Amanda Gordon -Lord, I'm In Your Hand (2:59)
Reverend Ott & Family - You Don't Knock, You Just Walk On In (2:29)
Walter Lee Hood - They Tell Me Of An Uncloudy Day (1:33)
Rose Hill Church - Thanks For Bill Ferris (0:35)
Rose Hill Church - Over Yonder Where The Sun Will Never Shine (2:48)
The Southland Hummingbirds - I've Been Born Again (3:18)

Lovey Williams & Family - The Lord Will Make A Way Somehow (2:51)
Providence Missionary Baptist Church - How Did You Feel When You Come Out Of The Wilderness (4:10)
Church Of God In Christ - I Don't Have To Worry About Where I Spend Eternity (2:56)
Fannie Bell Chapman & Family - He's My Rock, My Sword, And Shield (3:58)
Walter Lee Hood & Parchman Inmates - Thank You Jesus (2:23)
Mary & Amanda Gordon - Cross Of Calvary (2:50)
The Church Of God In Christ - My Grave's Gonna Be Decorated On That Day (2:55)
The Southland Hummingbirds - There Are Days (2:58)
The Church Of God In Christ - You Can't Hide Sinner (2:43)
Reverend Isaac Thomas & Rose Hill Church - Lord, Remember Me (2:51)
The Church Of God In Christ - Glory, Glory (Lay My Burden Down) (8:38)



CD 3: Storytelling
Barry Hannah - On Bill (1:34)
Alice Walker - Regions Of The Mind And Heart (0:46)
Alex Haley - The South (1:46)
Ray Lum - A Trader Is (1:18)
Bobby Rush - The Blues To Me (1:23)
Barry Hannah - On Son Thomas And Tradition (1:49)
James "Son Ford" Thomas - I Know It's Wrong To Be Playin' The Blues (2:56)
Sonny Boy Watson - Jitterbug Comes To Town (2:06)
James "Son Ford" Thomas - You Whistlin' (2:19)
Joe "Skeet" Skillet - Mule Toast And Pool Hall Toast (3:02)
Joe Cooper - The Preacher (1:28)
Wallace "Pine-Top" Johnson, Jasper Love, Maudie Shirley - Lyin' (1:05)
Shelby "Poppa Jazz" Brown - Two Brothers, Heaven And Hell (5:26)
Shelby "Poppa Jazz" Brown - Creekman Killed Charlie Kirkland (3:26)
B.B. King - Lucille (3:20)
Allen Ginsberg, James "Son Ford" Thomas, Bill Ferris - On Blues Composition (4:41)
Robert Penn Warren - The Decline In Human Values (2:46)
Pecolia Warner - The Bible Salesma n(5:06)
Ray Lum - Fast Traders Disguising Mules (2:50)
Ray Lum - Horses Too Tall To Drown (1:02)
Ray Lum - The Ark And The Cats (1:55)
Ray Lum - The Panther (1:33)
Victor Bobb - Fixing Charles Lindbergh's Engine (7:43)
Barry Hannah - Lying About Being From Mississippi (0:58)
Pete Seeger - We Shall Overcome (2:13)
James "Son Ford" Thomas - Cemetery Conversations (6:50)



DVD 4: Films
William Ferris - Gravel Springs Fife And Drum - Otha Turner(10:28)
William Ferris - Green Valley Grandparents (10:20)
William Ferris - Ray Lum: Mule Trader (18:03)
William Ferris - Fannie Bell Chapman: Gospel Singer (42:47)
William Ferris - Four Women Artists: Pecolia Warner, Eudora Welty, Ethel Mohamed, Theora Hamblett (24:04)
William Ferris - Hush Hoggies Hush: Tom Johnson's Praying Pigs (4:15)
William Ferris - Bottle Up And Go - Louis Dotson (17:56)


3 x CD, DVD-Video

Dust-To-Digital DTD-53 (US June 1, 2018)



Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 230
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970 (2nd edition).- Vancouver (Eyeball Productions) 2012, p. 674
- William Ferris: Give My Poor Heart Ease - Voices of the Mississippi Blues.- Chapel Hill (The University of Northern Carolina Press), 2009
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Marc Claes, Fede Corchero and Max Hoeffner for additional info / scans

 

 

 

 

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