source: Front cover of Fantasy 24716; photographer: Lee Friedlander

Robert Pete Williams b. March 14, 1914 at Mr. Anderson's Place in Zachary, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana d. December 31, 1980 at Earl K. Long Hospital in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana buried at Southern Memorial Gardens, Blount Road, Baton Rouge discography

#	year of release	title/ label # / notes
		- Levee Camp Blues (6:07) [Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-3, Collector JGN 1006, Arhoolie R 2011] - Levee Camp Blues (alt tk) (7:07) [Arhoolie CD 394]   @ youtube rec. January 26, 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary, LA by Dr. Harry Oster and Richard B. Allen; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- I'm Blue As A Man Can Be (I'll Be Glad When I'm From Behind Iron Walls) (5:23) [Folk Lyric FL 109, 77 LA 12/17, Arhoolie 2015, Arhoolie CD 394]   @ youtube rec. January 27, 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary, LA by Dr. Harry Oster and Richard B. Allen; Robert Pete Williams, voc, 12-str g
		- Army Blues (3:37) [Folk Lyric FL 109, 77 LA 12/17] - Boogy Woman (3:06) [Folk Lyric FL 109, 77 LA 12/17] rec. January 28, 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary, LA by Dr. Harry Oster and Richard B. Allen; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g; Matthew 'Hogman' Maxey, 2nd g
		- Bulldog Blues (4:01) [Vanguard VRS 9183/VSD79183 unissued] rec. Febuary 10, 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary, LA by Dr. Harry Oster and Richard B. Allen; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- Some Got Six Months (3:47) [Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-3, Collector JGN 1006, Arhoolie R 2011, Arhoolie CD 419] rec. Febuary 12, 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary, LA by Dr. Harry Oster and Richard B. Allen; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- I'm Lonesome Blues (4:00) [Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-3, Collector JGN 1006, Arhoolie R 2011, Arhoolie CD 419] rec. Febuary 22, 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary, LA by Dr. Harry Oster and Richard B. Allen; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- Up And Down Blues (6:00) [Arhoolie R 2015, Arhoolie CD 394] - Letter From The Penitentiary (Part One) [Ama 503] - Letter From The Penitentiary (Part Two) [Ama 503] - Prisoner's Talking Blues [Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-3, Collector JGN 1006, Arhoolie R 2011, Arhoolie CD 419, Arhoolie CD 510]   @ youtube - Motherless Children Have A Hard Time [Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-3, Collector JGN 1006, Arhoolie R 2011, Arhoolie CD 394]   @ youtube - What A Shape I'm In [Arhoolie CD 511]   @ youtube - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues # [Folk Lyric FL 111, Arhoolie R 2018]   @ youtube rec. March 21, 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary, LA by Dr. Harry Oster and Richard B. Allen; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g; # Robert 'Guitar' Welchess, 2nd g
		- John Henry (2:42) [Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-5, Collector JGN 1006, Arhoolie R 2012, Arhoolie CD 448]   @ youtube rec. 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary, LA by Dr. Harry Oster and Richard B. Allen; Guitar Welch, voc; Hogman Maxey, voc; Robert Pete Williams, voc
		- I'm On My Way (2:41) [Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-5, Collector JGN 1006, Arhoolie R 2012, Arhoolie CD 448]   @ youtube rec. 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary, LA by Dr. Harry Oster and Richard B. Allen; Andy Mosely, voc; Robert Pete Williams, voc
		- Little School Song (1:37) [Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-6, 77 LA 12/13, Arhoolie CD 9036]   @ youtube - Dig My Grave With A Silver Spoon (3:46) [Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-6, 77 LA 12/13, Arhoolie CD 9036]   @ youtube rec. June 5, 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary, LA by Dr. Harry Oster and Richard B. Allen; Tom Dutson, voc; Robert Pete Williams, g
		- Pardon Denied Again (4:41) [Folk Lyric FL 109, 77 LA 12/17, Arhoolie R 2015, Arhoolie CD 394]   @ youtube rec. June 10, 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary, LA by Dr. Harry Oster and Richard B. Allen; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- Louise (4:21) [Folk Lyric FL 109, 77 LA 12/17, Arhoolie R 2015, Arhoolie CD 394]   @ youtube rec. September 22, 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary, LA by Dr. Harry Oster and Richard B. Allen; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- Make Me A Pallet On The Floor (3:37) [Folk Lyric FL 109, 77 LA 12/17]   @ youtube rec. October 21, 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary, LA by Dr. Harry Oster and Richard B. Allen; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- Almost Dead Blues (3:57) [Bluesville BVLP 1026, Prestige PR/PRT 7808, OBCCD-553-2, Fantasy F24716]   @ youtube rec. February 10, 1960 in Denham Springs, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- Broke My Mother's Rule [unissued] rec. June 1, 1960 in Baton Rouge, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- Church On Fire With The Word Of God [Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-6, 77 LA 12/13, Arhoolie CD 9036]   @ youtube - Church On Fire ... (tk 2) (2:58) [Arhoolie CD 394]   @ youtube - Dyin' Soul [Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-6, 77 LA 12/13, Arhoolie CD 395, Arhoolie CD 9036]   @ youtube - So Much Is Happenin' In The News (or In This Wicked World) [Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-6, 77 LA 12/13, Arhoolie CD 394, Arhoolie CD 9036]   @ youtube - I'm Goin' Back With Him When He Comes [Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-6, 77 LA 12/13, Arhoolie CD 9036]   @ youtube - Blue In Me [Folk Lyric FL 109, 77 LA 12/17, Arhoolie R 2015, Arhoolie CD 395]   @ youtube - Come Here Baby, Tell Me What Is Wrong With You [Folk Lyric FL 109, 77 LA 12/17, Arhoolie R 2015, Arhoolie CD 394]   @ youtube - I Got The Blues So Bad [Folk Lyric FL 109, 77 LA 12/17, Arhoolie R 2015, Arhoolie CD 395]   @ youtube - Blues In The Dark [Folk Lyric FL 109, 77 LA 12/17, Arhoolie CD 394] - Angola Special [Folk Lyric FL 109, 77 LA 12/17, Arhoolie CD 394]   @ youtube - Texas Blues [Arhoolie 2015, Arhoolie CD 394]   @ youtube - This Wild Old Life [Arhoolie 2015, Arhoolie CD 394]   @ youtube - I'm Glad My Mother Teached Me How To Pray [Storyville SLP 135]   @ youtube - When I Lay My Burden Down [Arhoolie CD 9036]   @ youtube rec. 1959/60 [from sessions above, exact date not assignable] in Baton Rouge, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
1	1959	Robert Pete Williams, Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey: Angola Prisoners' Blues Robert Pete Williams - Levee Camp Blues (6:07) # ° Hogman Maxey - Stagolee °°   @ youtube Guitar Welch - Electric Chair Blues °°   @ youtube Robert Pete Williams - Prisoner's Talking Blues § °°   @ youtube Robert Pete Williams - Motherless Children Have A Hard Time § °   @ youtube Hogman Maxey - Black Night Is Fallin' °°   @ youtube Robert Pete Williams Some Got Six Months * °°   @ youtube Guitar Welch - I'm Gonna Leave You Mama °°   @ youtube Robert Pete Williams - I'm Lonesome Blues || °°   @ youtube ° re-released on Arhoolie CD 394 ("Levee Camp Blues" is a different (slightly longer: 7:07) version!) °° re-released on Arhoolie CD 419 rec. 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary, Louisiana by Dr. Harry Oster and Richard B. Allen; some artists play on Harry Oster's 12-string guitar # rec. January 26, 1959 * February 12, 1959 || February 22, 1959 § March 21, 1959 notes by Harry Oster and Richard Allen & Paul B. Crawford   Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-3 (US 1959) notes by Harry Oster and Richard Allen & Paul B. Crawford = Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-3 (US 19??) notes by Harry Oster and Richard Allen & Paul B. Crawford   = Collector JGN 1003 (UK 1960) bottom left is a review of that LP from Blueprint - British Blues Connection (August 1992), pp. 18-19 notes by Harry Oster and Richard Allen & Paul B. Crawford = Arhoolie R 2011 (US 1970) "Angola Prisoner's Blues" notes by Harry Oster & Paul B. Crawford (=) Arhoolie CD 419 (US 1994) "Angola Prisoners' Blues" = Doxy DOY636 (It 2010) Dr. Harry Oster Recordings discography Arhoolie Records discography
2	1959	Prison Worksongs Rodney Mason, Rev. Rogers & Roosevelt Charles - Berta Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey & Andy Mosley - Take This Hammer Rev. Rogers, Rodney Mason & Smith - Stewball Odea Mathews - Five Long Years For One Man Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey & Andy Mosley - Alberta Let Your Bangs Grow Long James Russel & Gang - I Had Five Long Years Johnny Butler & Gang - Early In The Mornin' Roosevelt Charles, Davis & Rodney Mason - All Teamed Up in Angola's Mule Lot Willy Rafus & Gang - I Got a Hurtin' In My Right Side Rodney Mason, Willy Rafus & Davis - Let Your Hammer Ring Willy Rafus, Andy Mosley & Johnny Butler - Cleaning This Highway Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey & Robert Pete Williams - John Henry   @ youtube Odea Mathews - Something Within Me Murray Macon - Jesus Cares Arhoolie CD 448 bonus tracks: Emanuel Dunn - Working On The Levee (Part 1) Emanuel Dunn - Working On The Levee (Part 2) Big Louisiana - Take This Hammer Creola Scott/Ceola Scott - Pickin' Cotton All Day Long Emanuel Dunn - My Mule "Grey" rec. 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana by Harry Oster notes by Harry Oster Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-5 (US 1959) notes by Harry Oster = Collector JGN 1006 (UK 12/1961) notes by Harry Oster (1959) with some editing by Chris Strachwitz = Arhoolie R 2012 (US 1970/71?) (=) Arhoolie CD 448 (US 1997) Dr. Harry Oster Recordings discography Arhoolie Records discography
3	1959	Angola Prison Spirituals Andy Mosely & Robert Pete Williams - I'm On My Way   @ youtube Robert Pete Williams - Church On Fire With The Word Of God Robert "Guitar" Welch - What Shall I Do Angola Quartet - Brother Norah Tom Dutson & Robert Pete Williams - Little School Song   @ youtube Robert Pete Williams - Dyin' Soul Roosevelt Charles - Let My People Go Robert Pete Williams - So Much Is Happenin' In The News Tom Dutson & Robert Pete Williams - Dig My Grave With A Silver Spade   @ youtube Andy Mosely & "Hogman" Maxey - Brother Mosely Crossed The Water Angola Quartet No. 2 - I'm Stranded On The Banks Of Jordan Robert Pete Williams - I'm Goin' Back With Him When He Comes Rev. Benjamin E. Osborne - The Old Ship Of Zion Arhoolie CD 9036 bonus tracks: Robert Pete Williams - When I Lay My Burden Down Angola Quartet - See How They Done My Lord Angola Quartet - Be With Me Jesus Angola Vocal Group - Rise And Fly Andy Mosely & "Hogman" Maxey - I Know I Got Religion Andy Mosely & "Hogman" Maxey - Jesus Angola Choir - I Take Jesus (Do Lord, Remember Me) Angola Choir - Each Day (Life's Evening Sun)r Angola Choir - Steal Away rec. 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary, LA by Harry Oster notes by Harry Oster Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-6 (US 1959) notes by Harry Oster = Folk-Lyric Records LFS A-6 (US 1960) notes by Harry Oster = 77 LA 12/13 (UK 1962) notes by Harry Oster & Chris Strachwitz = Arhoolie CD 9036 (US 2003) = Death Is Not The End DEATH001 (UK 2014) cassette = Death Is Not The End DEATH001LP (UK 2016) LP Dr. Harry Oster Recordings discography 77 Records discography
4	196?	ROBERT PETE WILLIAMS - Letter From The Penitentiary (Part One) (5003A)   @ youtube - Letter From The Penitentiary (Part Two) (5003B)   @ youtube rec. March 21, 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary, LA by Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g seems like this is an edited version of "Prisoner's Talking Blues" (originally on Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-3) 7 inch 45 rpm AMA 503 (US 196?)
5	1963	Robert Pete Williams: Those Prison Blues Folk Lyric FL 109 // 77 LA 12/17 track sequence: - I'll Be Glad When I'm From Behind Iron Walls (= "I'm Blue As A Man Can Be") # - Louise # - Blue In Me § - Come Here Baby, Tell Me What Is Wrong With You # - I Got The Blues So Bad § - Boogy Woman [] - Pardon Renied (Denied) Again # - Army Blues [] - Blues In The Dark - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor - Angola Special # Arhoolie R 2015 track sequence: - Pardon Denied Again # - This Wild Old Life # - Texas Blues # - Up And Down Blues # - I'm Blue As A Man Can Be (= "I'll Be Glad When I'm From Behind Iron Walls") # - Louise # - Blue In Me § - I Got The Blues So Bad § - Come Here Baby, Tell Me What Is Wrong With You # green = track on both LPs # re-released on Arhoolie CD 394 § re-released on Arhoolie CD 395 rec. 1959 & 1960 at Angola State Penitentiary, LA by Harry Oster and Richard Allen; Robert Pete Williams, voc, 6- or 12-str g; Hogman Maxey, 12-str g cover photo by Harry Oster notes by Harry Oster Folk Lyric FL 109 (US 1963) notes by Harry Oster = Folk Lyric FL 109 (US 196?) notes by Harry Oster = 77 LA 12/17 (UK 1963) notes by Chris Strachwitz (=) Arhoolie R 2015 (US 1971) notes by Henry Kaiser (=) Arhoolie CD 394 "I'm Blue As A Man Can Be" (US 1994) (=) Arhoolie CD 395 "When A Man Takes The Blues" (US 1994) Arhoolie Records discography
6	196?	Country Negro Jam Sessions@ youtube (full album) Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - 44 Blues *   @ youtube Robert Pete Williams & Guitar Welch, 2nd g - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues #   @ youtube Clarence Edwards - Smokes Like Lightning Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - Who Broke The Lock ||   @ youtube Clarence Edwards - You Don't Love Me Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - It's The Sign Of The Judgement ||   @ youtube Ben Douglas - Foxhunt Sally Dotson with Smoky Babe & Hillary Blunt - Your Dice Won't Pass (2:51) [aka "Someday Baby"]   @ youtube   @ Spotify Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - Jelly Roll   @ youtube Rebecca Smith etc. - I've Got Religion Smoky Babe - Going Downtown Boogie (3:44) [Talkin' Blues or Talkin' Baby] ##   @ youtube   @ Spotify Clarence Edwards - Stack O' Dollars Willie Thomas & Butch Cage - Brown Skin Woman   @ youtube Leon Strickland with Lucius Bridges - I Won't Be Your Low Down Dog No More unissued track from November 3, 1960 session: Smoky Babe - Leavin' Blues additional tracks on Arhoolie CD 372: °° Butch Cage & Willie B Thomas - The Piano Blues //   @ youtube Smoky Babe - Cotton Field Blues (3:32)   @ Spotify Otis Webster - The Farm Blues - The Boss Man Blues Butch Cage & Willie B Thomas - Whoa Mule! ^^   @ youtube Otis Webster - Boll Weevil Blues Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage - Thousand Miles From Nowhere   @ youtube Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas - Dead And Gone ^^   @ youtube - Called For You Yesterday ^^   @ youtube - Me & My Chauffeur ^^   @ youtube - Baby Please Don't Go ^^   @ youtube rec. during the late 1950s and early 1960s in southwest Louisiana by Harry Oster; Arhoolie R 2018 prod. by Harry Oster & Chris Strachwitz # rec. March 21, 1959 in Angola, LA; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g; Robert 'Guitar' Welch, 2nd g cover photo of Butch Cage and Willie Thomas with their wives (Rosa and Martha) by Harry Oster notes (booklet) by Harry Oster Folk-Lyric FL 111 (US 1960) notes by Harry Oster with some additional comments by Chris Strachwitz = Arhoolie R 2018 (US 1970) = Trio PA-6028 (Jp 1978?) notes by Chris Strachwitz (=) Arhoolie CD 372 (US 1993) °° announced in a catalog for issue in February 1962 as Folk-Lyric album titled "Boll Weevil and Bossman Blues", but that LP never materialized Harry Oster / Folk-Lyric Records discography Arhoolie Records discography Trio Records discography
7	1961	Robert Pete Williams: Free Again - Free Again []   @ youtube - Almost Dead Blues   @ youtube - Rolling Stone {}   @ youtube - Two Wings $   @ youtube - A Thousand Miles From Nowhere #   @ youtube - Thumbing A Ride ||   @ youtube - I've Grown So Ugly \\   @ youtube - Death Blues //   @ youtube - Hobo Worried Blues *   @ youtube - Hay Cutting Song §   @ youtube rec. September - November 1960 in Baton Rouge by Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g # rec. September 25, 1960 in Denham Springs * rec. September 30, 1960 in Baton Rouge § rec. October 10, 1960 in Baton Rouge || rec. October 16, 1960 in Baton Rouge // rec. October 18, 1960 in Baton Rouge \\ rec. October 20, 1960 in Baton Rouge [] rec. November 10, 1960 in Baton Rouge {} rec. November 11, 1960 in Baton Rouge $ rec date unknown Fantasy F24716 re-mastered 1973 by Mike Reese notes by Harry Oster Bluesville BVLP 1026 (US 1961) notes by Harry Oster = Prestige PR/PRT 7808 (US 1970) "electronically remastered for stereo" notes by Robert Shelton = Fantasy F24716 (US 1973) "Rural Blues" (along with BVLP 1046 Snooks Eaglin) = Prestige HBS 8006 (It 1982) = OBCCD-553-2 (Germany/US 1992) notes by Robert Shelton = Ace CDCHD 705 (UK 1998) = Doxy DOY657LP (EU 2011) 180 g LP = Doxy DOY657LP (EU 2014) 140 g LP Bluesville Records discography OBC Records discography Snooks Eaglin discography
		- Yessuh 'n Josuh Blues [unissued] rec. November 12, 1960 in Denham Springs, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- The Midnight Rambler [unissued] rec. February 10, 1961 in Scotlandville, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- Freeman Blues [unissued] - Albert [unissued] rec. February 21, 1961 in Scotlandville, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- Boll Weevil [unissued] - Black Snake Blues # [unissued] rec. March 8, 1961 in Denham Springs or Zachary, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g, # Butch Cage, vl
		- Worried Life Blues [unissued] rec. March 12, 1961 in Baton Rouge, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- Bobbie's Blues [unissued] rec. March 31, 1961 in Baton Rouge, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- Farm Blues [unissued] rec. April 15, 1961 in Baton Rouge, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- Black Cat Bone [Flyright FLY 545]   @ youtube - Hoodoo Blues [Flyright FLY 545]   @ youtube rec. June 12, 1961 in Zachary, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g, Butch Cage, vl
		- Lay By The Corn [unissued] rec. June 22, 1961 in Baton Rouge, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- Bottle Up 'an Go [unissued] rec. June 28, 1961 in Baton Rouge, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- Mule Blues [unissued] rec. July 21, 1961 in Baton Rouge, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- Goodtime Lonesome Blues [unissued] rec. July 30, 1961 in Baton Rouge, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- Lonesome Blues [unissued] rec. July 31, 1961 in Baton Rouge, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- Rockwell Blues [unissued] - Black Snake Blues [unissued] - Tough Livin' Blues [unissued] - Walk Up Blues [unissued] - Teasin' Blues [unissued] rec. June/July 1961 in Baton Rouge, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- California Blues [unissued] rec. June 30, 1962 in Baton Rouge, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
		- House Burnt Down Blues (AFS 12,582) [unissued] - Levee Camp Blues [unissued] rec. April 23, 1963 in Baton Rouge, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g; C.J. Jones, voc
		- Lord, What's Gonna Become 'o Me (My Mind Wondering Around) (AFS 12,583) [Arhoolie CD 2-511] - Let's Cut This Cane [unissued] - Tom And Old Master (AFS 12,589) [Arhoolie CD 2-511] rec. April 28, 1963 in Baton Rouge, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc
8	1964	Country Spirituals Snooks Eaglin - Down By The Riverside Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd - Whe I See The Blood Della Williams - Motherless Children New Orleans Street Gospel Singers - I Will Be Your God Otis Webster - In My Saviours Care Charles Henderson, Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd - Jesus On The Main Line Rev. Pearly Brown - If I Never See You Anymore Andy Mosely, George Williams & Hogman Maxey - I Know I Got Religion Otis Webster - This Little Light Of Mine Angola Quartet - Be With Me Jesus Robert Pete Williams - I'm Glad My Mother Teached Me How To Pray #   @ youtube Rev. Pearly Brown - Nobody's Fault But Mine Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd - If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again   @ youtube # rec. 1959 in Angola, LA by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g notes by Harry Oster Storyville SLP 135 (Denmark 1964) Storyville Records discography
9	6/1965	The Blues at Newport   1964  Part 1 Fred McDowell - Lord I'm Going Down South (3:00) - Highway 61 (3:28)   @ youtube - If The River Was Whiskey (2:20)   @ youtube Sleepy John Estes - Sleepy John's Twist (2:35) - Mailman Blues (2:35) - Drop Down Mama (2:25) - Clean Up At Home (2:53)   @ youtube Doc Reese - Old Hannah (3:05) - Hey Rattler / Oh My Lord (3:21) Robert Pete Williams - Levee Camp Blues (5:10) # [Vanguard VSD 77/78, Vanguard CD 70193-2, Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] - On My Way From Texas (3:43) # [Vanguard VSD 25/26, Vanguard VCD 115/16 (US 1991) Newport Folk Festival discography Mississippi John Hurt discography Reverend Gary Davis discography Reverend Robert Wilkins discography Skip James discography Sleepy John Estes discography Yank Rachell discography Hammie Nixon discography Robert Pete Williams discography Jesse Fuller discography John P. Hammond discography Dave Van Ronk discography, Vanguard 3VCD 193/95-2]   @ youtube - Midnight Boogie (3:13) # [Vanguard VSD 77/78, Vanguard CD 70193-2, Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]   @ youtube rec. July 23-26, 1964 live at the Newport Folk Festival # rec. July 25, 1964; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g photos by David Gahr notes by Samuel Charters Vanguard VRS 9180 (mono) (US 6/1965) notes by Samuel Charters = Vanguard VSD 79180 (stereo) (US 6/1965) notes by Samuel Charters = Fontana TFL 6048 (UK 196?) 2 CD set (=) King/Vanguard KICP 2118/9 (Jp 1991) "The Blues at Newport 1964 part 1 and 2"
10	1965	Traditional Music at Newport   1964   Part 2 Clayton McMichen with Frank Wakefield - Old Joe Clark - Bile Them Cabbage Down Phipps Family - Anchored His Love - God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign Robert Pete Williams - Bulldog Blues # [Vanguard VCD 115/16 (US 1991) Newport Folk Festival discography Mississippi John Hurt discography Reverend Gary Davis discography Reverend Robert Wilkins discography Skip James discography Sleepy John Estes discography Yank Rachell discography Hammie Nixon discography Robert Pete Williams discography Jesse Fuller discography John P. Hammond discography Dave Van Ronk discography]   @ youtube Seamus Ennis - Did The Rum-Do-Daddy - Piper On The Hearth - What'll Ye Do - Father's Maid Prank Proffitt - My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains - Poor Man Georgia Sea Island Singers - Down In The Mire Mississippi John Hurt - Coffee Blues Glenn Ohrlin - Montana Is My Home - The Chickens They Grow Tall Jean Ritchie - 'Tis The Gift To Be Simple - Goin' To Boston Almeda Riddle - The Hangman Phoeba and Roscoe Parsons - Sourwood Mountain - Shortening Bread Reverend Robert Wilkins - I Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down - Thank You Jesus (with the Georgia Sea Island Singers) rec. July 23-26, 1964 live at the Newport Folk Festival # rec. July 25, 1964; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g photos by David Gahr 4-pp. insert + notes by Ralph Rinzler Vanguard VRS-9183 (mono) (US 1965) 4 page insert + notes by Ralph Rinzler = Vanguard VSD-79183 (stereo) (US 1965) 2 CD set King/Vanguard KICP 2116/7 (Jp 1991) "Traditional Music at Newport 1964 part 1 and 2"
11	1966	Robert Pete Williams: Louisiana Blues Takoma LP track sequence: - Somebody Help Poor Me - Freight Train Blues - It's Hard To Tell - I'm Going Down Slow - Motherless Children Have A Hard Time - Ugly - So Long Boogie - This Is A Mean Old World To Me - High As I Want To Be - It's A Long Road Vanilla OMP track sequence: - Freight Train Blues - High As I Want To Be - I'm Going Slow - It's A Long Old Road - It's Hard To Tell - Motherless Children Have A Hard Time - So Long Boogie - Somebody Help Poor Me - This Is A Mean Old World To Me - Ugly rec. July 1966 in Berkeley, CA; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g; prod. by John Fahey Takoma B-1011 (US 1966) front cover photo by Harry Taussig notes (8-pp. booklet) by Elijah P. Holloway Takoma B-1011 (US 1966) = Takoma B-1011 (US 1967) notes by Alan Wilson = Takoma TAK 7011 (US 1980) "The Takoma Blues series" notes by Alan Wilson = Takoma ST-72711 (US 1980) "The Takoma Blues series" notes by Elijah P Holloway, John Crosby & Alan 'Owl' Wilson = Takoma/Ace CDTAK 1011 (UK 1998) = AIM CD 0014 (Australia 1999) "It's A Long Old Road" (Legendary Masters series) = Vanilla OMP ( 2010) "Freight Train Blues" = Water Water245 (US 2010) CD = 4 Men With Beards 4m193 (US 2011) 180g LP = 4 Men With Beards 4m193 (US 8/2016) limited edition of 600 on 180g LP, "bottleneck brown" (marbled) vinyl Takoma Records discography
12	1966	Son House & Robert Pete Williams: Live! Son House - Depot Agent Blues * - County Farm Blues * - The Pony Blues * - Death Letter Blues * Robert Pete Williams - I'm A Poor Boy Long Ways From Home # - Workin' Woman Blues # - I'm Down On My Knees # - Oh Lord Please Help Me On My Way # - I'm Drunk Now # [] * rec. 1964 [1965] live in Rochester, NY; Son House, voc, g # rec. October 1966 live in Hinterbrühl, Austria; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g; [] Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell, sp Roots SL 501 (Austria 1966) = Autogram SL 501 (Germany 2005) Roots Records discography
13	1966	American Folk Blues Festival '66 Fontana 885 431 BY / L+R 42.069 Roosevelt Sykes - Running The Boogie   @ youtube   @ Spotify Otis Rush - All Your Love ||   @ youtube   @ Spotify Little Brother Montgomery - I Keep On Drinking   @ youtube   @ Spotify Sleepy John Estes - You Shouldn't Do It   @ youtube   @ Spotify Otis Rush - My Own Fault || [actually "Sweet Little Angel"]   @ youtube   @ Spotify Junior Wells - Checkin' On My Baby \\   @ youtube @ Spotify - A Tribute To Sonny Boy Williamson \\ @ youtube (2:40)   @ Spotify Sippie Wallace - Suitcase Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify Robert Pete Williams - Louise   @ youtube   @ Spotify Big Joe Turner - Flip, Flop And Fly // *   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Roll 'Em Pete // ^   @ youtube   @ Spotify rec. October 16, 1966 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, East-Berlin, GDR (American Folk Blues Festival 1966); prod. by Siegfried E. Loch Roosevelt Sykes, voc, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr || Otis Rush, voc, g; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Little Brother Montgomery, voc, p; Freddie Below, dr Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Yank Rachell, voc, mand \\ Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Sippie Wallace, voc; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Robert Pete Williams, voc, g // Big Joe Turner, voc; * Little Brother Montgomery, ^ Roosevelt Sykes, p; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr notes by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos Fontana 885 431 TY (Germany 1966) = Fontana 885 431 BY/MY (Fr 1966) = Fontana TL 5389 (mono) / STL 5389 (stereo) (UK 1966) = Fontana 681.533 TL/IL (Fr 1966?) = Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 42069 (Germany 1990) = Optimism/L+R LR CD-2069 (US 1990) 4-CD-Box original 1966 notes by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos   (=) Bellaphon CDLR 726322 (Germany 1998) (45 Tracks, 165:59) American Folk Blues Festival '66   Vol. 1 Vol. 1: Amiga 855114 Roosevelt Sykes - Running The Boogie   @ youtube   @ Spotify Otis Rush - All Your Love ||   @ youtube   @ Spotify Little Brother Montgomery - I Keep On Drinking   @ youtube   @ Spotify Sleepy John Estes - You Shouldn't Do It   @ youtube   @ Spotify Big Joe Turner - Roll 'Em Pete // ^   @ youtube   @ Spotify Junior Wells - Sheckin' [sic] On My Baby \\   @ youtube @ Spotify - Vietnam Blues \\ °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify Sippie Wallace - Suitcase Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify Robert Pete Williams - Midnight Boogie °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify Big Joe Turner - Flip, Flop And Fly // *   @ youtube   @ Spotify °° not on Fontana 885 431 BY rec. October 16, 1966 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, East-Berlin, GDR (American Folk Blues Festival 1966); prod. by Siegfried E. Loch Roosevelt Sykes, voc, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr || Otis Rush, voc, g; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Little Brother Montgomery, voc, p; Freddie Below, dr Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Yank Rachell, voc, mand \\ Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Sippie Wallace, voc; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Robert Pete Williams, voc, g // Big Joe Turner, voc; * Little Brother Montgomery, ^ Roosevelt Sykes, p; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr notes (1968) by Karlheinz Drechsel Amiga 855114 (GDR 1968) notes (1968) by Karlheinz Drechsel = Amiga 855114 (GDR 1979) (Amiga Jazz series) = Amiga 855114 (GDR 1981-86?) blue label re-release = Amiga CD 82876-63060-2 (Germany 2004) American Folk Blues Festival '66   Vol. 2 Vol. 2: Amiga 850126/855126 Otis Rush - It Takes Time || °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify Roosevelt Sykes - Night Time Is The Right Time °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify Otis Rush - My Own Fault || [actually "Sweet Little Angel"]   @ youtube   @ Spotify Little Brother Montgomery - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify Sleepy John Estes, g (Yank Rachell, voc, mand!) - Yellow Jam Blues °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify Junior Wells - Over Yonders Walls \\ °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify Sippie Wallace - Women Keep Your Mouth Shut °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify Junior Wells - A Tribute To Sonny Boy Williamson \\ @ youtube (2:40)   @ Spotify Robert Pete Williams - Louise   @ youtube   @ Spotify Big Joe Turner - Feeling Happy // * °° °° not on Fontana 885 431 BY rec. October 16, 1966 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, East-Berlin, GDR (American Folk Blues Festival 1966); prod. by Siegfried E. Loch Roosevelt Sykes, voc, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr || Otis Rush, voc, g; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Little Brother Montgomery, voc, p; Freddie Below, dr Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Yank Rachell, voc, mand \\ Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Sippie Wallace, voc; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Robert Pete Williams, voc, g // Big Joe Turner, voc; * Little Brother Montgomery, ^ Roosevelt Sykes, p; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr notes (1969) by Karlheinz Drechsel Amiga 850126 (GDR 1969) notes (1969) by Karlheinz Drechsel = Amiga 855126 (GDR 1979) (Amiga Jazz series) = Amiga 855126 (GDR 1981-86?) blue label re-release = Amiga CD 82876-63061-2 (Germany 2004) American Folk Blues Festival discography Fontana Records discography L+R Records discography Roosevelt Sykes discography Otis Rush discography Little Brother Montgomery discography Sleepy John Estes discography Yank Rachell discography Robert Pete Williams discography
14	1968	Bye Bye, Bird ... Solo Blues Sonny Boy Williamson - Bye Bye Bird Robert Pete Williams - Midnight Boogie Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues Willie Dixon - Big Legged Woman Sonny Boy Williamson - In My Own Little Cabin Sunnyland Slim - Leavy [sic] Camp Moan Sonny Boy Williamson - Dissatisfied J.B. Lenoir - Everybody Is Crying About Vietnam Hubert Sumlin - When I Feel Better notes by Horst Lippmann Scout Sc-1 (Germany 1968) Scout Records discography
15	1969	Up The Country Robert Pete Williams - Don't The Moon Look Lonesome Yank Rachell - Yellow Jam Blues Sippie Wallace - Up The Country Sleepy John Estes - I'm A Tearing Little Daddy Magic Sam Blues Band - Back Door Friend Roosevelt Sykes - Boot That Thing Roosevelt Sykes - Night Time Is The Right Time Sippie Wallace - Women Be Wise Magic Sam Blues Band - Feeling Good Joe Turner - Chains Of Love Joe Turner with Otis Rush's Blues Band - Well Oh Well Scout Sc-3 (Germany 1969) Scout Records discography
16	1971	Robert Pete Williams - Farm Blues   @ Spotify - Goodbye Slim Harpo °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Rub Me Until My Love Comes Down   @ Spotify - Freight Train Blues   @ Spotify - Got Me Way Down Here   @ Spotify - Matchbox Blues   @ Spotify - Railroad Blues   @ Spotify - Tombstone Blues   @ Spotify - Sweep My Floor   @ Spotify - You Used To Be A Sweet Cover Shakin' Woman But You Ain't No More   @ Spotify - Vietnam Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify rec. during the week of Christmas, 1970 at Maringouin, LA by Parker A. Dinkins; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g photographs by Parker Dinkins °° Fat Possum CD 80349 bonus track notes by Terry Pattison Ahura Mazda AMS 2002 (US 1971) notes by Terry Pattison = Saydisk / Ahura Mazda AMS 2002 (UK 1971) notes by Terry Pattison = Fat Possum CD 80349 (US 2001) Ahura Mazda Records discography
17	1971	ROBERT PETE WILLIAMS - Goodbye Slim Harpo #   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Vietnam Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify rec. during the week of Christmas, 1970 at Maringouin, LA by Parker A. Dinkins; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g photographs by Parker Dinkins 7 inch 45 rpm Ahura Mazda 45-AMS-101 (UK 1971) = Fat Possum CD 80349 (US 2001) Ahura Mazda Recordsdiscography Slim Harpo discography
18	1972	Robert Pete Williams with Big Joe Williams Storyville SLP 225 track sequence: - Doctor Blues - Got On His Mind # - Meet Him Over In Paradise - Goodbye Baby # - It's Gotta Be Jelly 'Cause Jam Don't Shake Thataway - Texas Blues - Talkin' Blues - Greyhound Blues # Storyville STCD 8001 track sequence: - Doctor Blues(3:07) - Got On His Mind # (5:14) - Meet Him Over In Paradise (3:41) - Goodbye Baby # (5:03) - It's Gotta Be Jelly 'Cause Jam Don't Shake Thataway (3:30) - She Walked Around With Her Mouth Poked (3:04) [previously unissued] - I Need To Be Loved (2:54) [previously unissued] - Blues Leave Me Alone (3:19) [previously unissued] - Texas Blues (3:12) - Talkin' Blues (13:26) - Greyhound Bus # (3:13) - Put On A Show (3:18) [previously unissued] - Take It Along With You Everywhere You Go (3:25) [previously unissued] - Late Night Boogie (3:10) [previously unissued] rec. March 20, 1972 in Copenhagen, Denmark; Robert Pete Williams, voc, 12str g, 6str g; # Big Joe Williams, kazoo notes by Derrick Stewart-Baxter Storyville SLP 225 (Denmark 1972) notes by Derrick Stewart-Baxter = Storyville ST 21023 (Fr 19??) notes by Derrick Stewart-Baxter (=) Storyville STCD 8001 (Denmark 1991) (Blues Masters, Vol. 1) 180 g LP = Pure Pleasure SLP 225 (UK 2008) Storyville Records discography
19	1972	The Great Blues Men Vanguard VSD 25/26, LP 1: Homesick James - Set A Date John Lee Hooker - Dusty Road Sleepy John Estes - Corinna °° Muddy Waters - Nineteen Years Old Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues Mance Lipscomb - Blues In G Rev. Gary Davis - If I Had My Way °° Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Key To The Highway Otis Spann - Burning Fire Lightnin' Hopkins - Cotton Field Blues Big Bill Broonzy - Louise, Louise Blues Johnny Young - Tighten Up On It James Cotton - Ain't Nobody's Business Vanguard VSD 25/26, LP 2: Mississippi John Hurt - Moanin' The Blues Junior Wells - Stormy Monday Blues °° Johnny Shines - Dynaflow Blues Son House (+ Al Wilson) - Empire State Blues °° Sonny Terry - Mountain Blues Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - It's All Right, Baby Jimmy Rushing - How Long, How Long Blues Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues J. B. Hutto - Please Help Fred McDowell - Fred's Ramblin' Blues Ida Cox - Four Day Creep °° Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VCD 115/16 (US 1991) Newport Folk Festival discography Mississippi John Hurt discography Reverend Gary Davis discography Reverend Robert Wilkins discography Skip James discography Sleepy John Estes discography Yank Rachell discography Hammie Nixon discography Robert Pete Williams discography Jesse Fuller discography John P. Hammond discography Dave Van Ronk discography, Vanguard 3VCD 193/95-2]   @ youtube Otis Rush - I't's A Mean Old World °° not on CD design by Jules Halfant; front cover collage by Eric Von Schmidt Vanguard VCD 25/26: Homesick James - Set A Date (2:44) John Lee Hooker - Dusty Road (3:05) Muddy Waters - Nineteen Years Old (4:55) Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:40) Mance Lipscomb - Blues In G (3:33) Mississippi John Hurt - Moanin' The Blues (3:15) Johnny Shines - Dynaflow Blues (2:35) Sonny Terry - Mountain Blues (3:04) Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - It's All Right, Baby (2:30) Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key To The Highway (3:38) Otis Spann - Burning Fire (3:15) Lightning Hopkins - Cotton Field Blues (5:36) Big Bill Broonzy - Louise, Louise Blues (2:55) Johnny Young - Tighten Up On It (3:06) James Cotton - Ain't Nobody's Business (3:23) Jimmy Rushing - How Long, How Long Blues (4:45) Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues (4:10) J.B. Hutto - Please Help (2:52) Fred McDowell - Fred's Rambling Blues (2:05) Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas (3:43) Otis Rush - It's A Mean Old World (2:22) gatefold DLP notes Leroy J. Pierson Vanguard VSD 25/26 (US 1972) gatefold DLP notes Leroy J. Pierson = Vanguard VSD 25/26 (Fr 1972) DLP, no gatefold, but 2-pp. leaflet notes Leroy J. Pierson Vanguard VSD 25/26 (US 1986) notes Leroy J. Pierson (=) Vanguard VCD 25/26 (US 1988) lots of further editions at www.discogs.com
20	1972	Robert Pete Williams: Sugar Farm@ youtube (full album playlist) - Better Have Your Way °°   @ youtube - Louise   @ youtube - When I Was Young   @ youtube - My Shoes Torn [on 1981 LP: "Turn"] Up My Feet   @ youtube - The New Talking Blues Of Angola   @ youtube - Two White Horses In A Line   & See That My Grave Is Kept Clean   @ youtube °° track not on Blues Beacon 631000 (1981) rec. March 11 & 12, 1972 at the Meilhaus Studio in Munich, Germany; prod. by Peter Gleissner during the American Folk Blues Festival 1972 notes by Teddy Doering Blues Beacon 1932 101 (Germany 1972) notes by Teddy Doering = Roots SL 512 (issued in a Blues Beacon jacket) (Austria 1972) (=) Blues Beacon 631000 (Germany 1981) Blues Beacon Records discography Roots Records discography
21	1973	Robert Pete Williams & Roosevelt Sykes: Blues From The Bottoms - Gonna Stand No Quittin' #   @ youtube - Broken Hearted Man # - Salty Woman # - Whiskey Head Man # °°   @ youtube - I'm The Sweet Root Man * - Spontaneous Conversation * - Lord Help Poor Me # °°   @ youtube - Goodbye Faye And John # # rec. December 12, 1971 at 1213 Bourbon Street, New Orleans by John Bentley; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g * rec. December 30, 1971 at 1213 Bourbon Street, New Orleans by John Bentley; Roosevelt Sykes, voc, g notes by John Bentley 77 LEU 12/50 (UK 1973) °° re-released on Southland SCD-004 77 Recordsdiscography Roosevelt Sykes discography
22	197?	Robert Pete Williams: When I Lay My Burden Down - Straighten Up - Your Troubles Gonna Be Like Mine - Ramblin' Man - No One To Care For Me - Frisky Woman - Promise Me That - When I Lay My Burden Down - Sick And Lonesome - May Rise Out Of My Tomb (instr) # - Tippin' In On Me rec. December 1971 in New Orleans, LA by John Bentley; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g, # kazoo photography by Fay Rogers notes by John Bentley Southland SLP-4 (US 197?) notes by John Bentley Southland SCD-4 (US 6/2009) "Broken-Hearted Man" Southland Records discography
23	1973	American Folk Blues Festival '72 LP 1: Bukka White - I'm Gettin' Ready *   @ youtube - World Boogie (1:25) * °°   @ youtube - Aberdeen Blues *   @ youtube Big Joe Williams - My Baby Is Gone #   @ youtube - My Boots & Shoes #   @ youtube - Louise (1:28) # °°   @ youtube Robert Pete Williams - Look Here Woman #   @ youtube Roosevelt Sykes - Driving Wheel (2:50) *   @ youtube - Sweet Home Chicago (2:10) *   @ youtube - Boot That Thing (2:10) * °°   @ youtube Memphis Slim - Baby Please Come Home # °°   @ youtube - Lonesome Traveller #   @ youtube - Boogin' And Bluesin' #   @ youtube Johnny Young, W.D. Kent, Billy Davenport - Instrumental Boogie *   @ youtube LP 2: Big Mama Thornton - Tell Me Baby #   @ youtube - Ball In [sic] Chain #   @ youtube T-Bone Walker - Shake It Baby #   @ youtube - Goin' Back To Church #   @ youtube Jimmy Rogers & Whispering Smith - Chicago Bound (3:10) * °°   @ youtube - Tricky Woman *   @ youtube Lightnin' Slim & Whispering Smith - Winter Time Blues *   @ youtube Jimmy Dawkins Chicago Blues Band - Don't Ever Leave Me *   @ youtube - Got My Mojo Workin' *   @ youtube °° not on CD # rec. March 16, 1972 at Hilpert Theatre, Lünen, Germany: Memphis Slim, voc, p; Big Mama Thornton, voc, hca; Big Joe Williams, voc, g; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g; T-Bone Walker, voc, g, p; Hartley Severns, ts, bs, ss, vn; Edward Taylor, ts; Paul Lenart, g; Phillip Morrison, b; Vinton Johnson, dr * rec. October 26, 1972 at Circus-Krone-Bau, München, Germany: Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Roosevelt Sykes, voc, p; Bukka White, voc, g; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Lightnin' Slim, voc, g; Whispering Smith, voc, hca; Jimmy Dawkins, voc, g; Big Voice Odom, voc; Jesse Williams, g; W.D. Kent, b; Billy Davenport, dr photography by Rolf Ambor, Hans Harzheim, Norbert Hess gatefold DLP notes (German & English) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos   Atlantic 60036 (Germany, Austria, Switzerland 1973) "The 10th American Folk Blues Festival - 'Blues Giants - Rock Creators'" gatefold DLP notes (English only) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos = L+R 42.018 (Germany 1980) "American Folk Blues Festival '72" = L+R LRC-2018 (cassette) (Germany 1980) = Edigsa/L+R 12A0272 (Sp 1981) notes (English only) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos (=) Optimism/L+R LR CD-2018 (US 1991?) notes (English only) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos (=) Bellaphon/L+R CDLS 42018 (Germany 1998?) American Folk Blues Festival discography L+R Records discography Bukka White discography Big Joe Williams discography Roosevelt Sykes discography Johnny Young discography Jimmy Rogers discography Whispering Smith discography Lightnin' Slim discography Jimmy Dawkins discography
24	1973	Robert Pete Williams: The Legacy Of The Blues   Vol. 9 - Woman Ain't No Good - Come Here Sit Down On My Knee - Angola Penitentiary Blues - Late Night Boogie - Goin' Out Have Myself A Ball - Poor Girl Out Of The Mountain - Grave Yard Blues - You're My All Day Steady And My Mid-Nite Dream - Keep Your Bad Dog Off Me rec. 1972 at Capitol City Sound Studios, Baton Rouge, LA; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g; prod. by Samuel Charters photographer: Sam Charters notes by Sam Charters Sonet SNTF 649 (UK 1973) = Columbia C062-94819 (Fr 1974) notes by Sam Charters = GNP Crescendo GNPS-10019 (US 1976) = Discophon J-4475 (Sp 1981) = Sonet PGP RTB 2222590 (Yugoslavia 1985) notes by Sam Charters = Sonet SNTCD 649 (Switzerland 1988) = Universal Music AB 06 02498 692554 (EU 2005) = Verve/Sonet B0007207-02 (US 2005) "The Sonet Blues Story"   book accompanying "The Legacy Of The Blues" LP series             Sam Charters: The Legacy Of The Blues - (A Glimpse Into The) Art And Lives Of Twelve Great Bluesmen. UK hardback edition: London (Calder & Boyars) 1975 UK paperback edition: London (Marion Boyars Publishers) 1975 US hardback edition: Boston (Da Capo Press) 1977 US paperback edition: Boston (Da Capo Paperback) 1977
25	1974	The Legacy Of The Blues Sampler - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues - Bukka White - Funky Malaguena - Snooks Eaglin - Found My Baby Gone - Champion Jack Dupree - Wishy Washy Woman - Mighty Joe Young - I'm A Bluesman - Juke Boy Bonner - Black Gal You're Sure Looking Warm - Big Joe Williams - Long Time Gone, A - Memphis Slim - Starry Crown Blues - J.D. Short - I'm Going To Have Myself A Ball - Robert Pete Williams - The Cannonball - Eddie Boyd - She's So Mellow - Sunnyland Slim - Please Help Poor Me - Lightnin' Hopkins "Maxi Sampler" bonus tracks: - Poor Boy Long Way From Home - Bukka White - Drive It Home - Snooks Eaglin - You're The One - Champion Jack Dupree - Early In The Morning - Mighty Joe Young - Lonesome Ride Back Home - Juke Boy Bonner - I Been Wrong But I'll Be Right - Big Joe Williams - Lets Get With It - Memphis Slim - Make Me Down A Pallet - J.D. Short - You're My All Day Steady And My Midnight Dream - Robert Pete Williams - It's A Mellow Day - Eddie Boyd - Get Hip To Yourself - Sunnyland Slim - Water Fallin' Boogie - Lightnin' Hopkins series prod. by Sam Charters front cover photo by Sam Charters notes by Anonymous (most likely Sam Charters) Sonet SNTX 1 / Sonet 201.038 (UK 1974) notes by Anonymous (most likely Sam Charters) = Crescendo GNPS 10010 (US 1976) = Poljazz PSJ-146 (Poland 1976) gatefold DLP (=) Sonet INT 157.103 (UK 1983) "The Legacy Of The Blues Maxi Sampler" (=) Sonet DLP SNTD 202 (Germany 1983) "The Legacy Of The Blues Maxi Sampler" (=) Sonet SNTDCD 202 (UK 1983) "The Legacy Of The Blues Maxi Sampler" notes (1988) by Samuel Charters = Sonet SNTXCD1 (UK 1988) "The Legacy Of The Blues Sampler" = GNP Crescendo GNP5-0010X (cassette) (US 1990)   book accompanying "The Legacy Of The Blues" LP series             Sam Charters: The Legacy Of The Blues - (A Glimpse Into The) Art And Lives Of Twelve Great Bluesmen. UK hardback edition: London (Calder & Boyars) 1975 UK paperback edition: London (Marion Boyars Publishers) 1975 US hardback edition: Boston (Da Capo Press) 1977 US paperback edition: Boston (Da Capo Paperback) 1977
26	1976	Great Bluesmen Newport Robert Pete Williams - Midnight Boogie (3:13) [Vanguard VRS 9180]   @ youtube - Levee Camp Blues (5:16) [Vanguard VRS 9180] Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - My Baby Done Changed The Lock On The Door John Lee Hooker with Bill Lee on bass - Tupelo - Bus Station Blues Son House - Son's Blues (6:18) [aka "Preaching Blues"] [Vanguard VSD 79225] - Death Letter Blues (2:50) °° [Vanguard VSD 79225] - Pony Blues (2:30) [previously unissued] (with Mance Lipscomb, 2nd g) Sleepy John Estes - Mailman Blues [Vanguard VRS 9180 / VSD 79180] - Clean Up At Home [Vanguard VRS 9180 / VSD 79180] Doc Reese - Hey Rattler / Oh My Lord [Vanguard VRS 9180 / VSD 79180] Mississippi John Hurt - Sliding Delta [Vanguard VRS-9145 / VSD-79145] - Trouble, I've Had It All My Day [Vanguard VRS-9145 / VSD-79145] Skip James - Hard Times Killing Floor Blues [previously unissued] - Cherry Ball Blues °° [Vanguard VRS-9181 / VSD-79181] - Illinois Blues [previously unissued] The Reverend Gary Davis - Death Don't Have No Mercy [Vanguard SRV-73008] Willie Doss - Catfish Blues [Vanguard VRS-9182 / VSD-79182]   @ youtube - I Had A Woman [Vanguard VRS-9181 / VSD-79181] Mississippi Fred McDowell - Lord, I'm Going Down South - If The River Was Whiskey Lightnin' Hopkins with Samuel Lay - Cotten Fields Blues - Shake That Thing front cover drawing by Eric Von Schmidt °° note on CD 77/78: "due to compact disc time restrictions some songs on the original album are not included in this package" DLP notes by Maynard Solomon Vanguard VSD-77/78 (US 1976) DLP notes by Maynard Solomon = Vanguard VSD-77/78 (Fr 1976) = King/Vanguard LAX-155 (Jp 1976) notes (December 1988) by Samuel Charters (=) Vanguard CD 77/78 (US 1989) (2 LPs on 1 CD) °° "Great Bluesmen At Newport 1959-1965"
27	1977	Rare Gems Previously unissued Chicago blues recordings from the collection of Norman Dayron Roots TR 1005 LP 1 // TK Records TKR 82539: Little Brother Montgomery - Ain't Nobody Here But Me   @ youtube John Lee Granderson - Bumble Bee   @ youtube Robert Nighthawk - Murderin' Blues (= Goin' Down To Eli's = Cheatin' And Lyin' Blues)   @ youtube   @ Spotify Otis Spann - Hotel Lorraine   @ youtube Big Joe Williams - Sinkin' Blues   @ Spotify Johnnie Jones - Worried Life Blues   @ youtube Rev. Robert Wilkins - Glory Glory Hallelujah   @ youtube Big Joe Williams and Paul Butterfield - Wild Cow Moan   @ Spotify Johnnie Jones with Billy Boy Arnold - I Hear My Black Name Ringing   @ youtube James Cotton with Elvin Bishop - So Glad I'm Living   @ Spotify Little Brother Montgomery - Buddy Bolden's Blues   @ youtube Roots TR 1005 LP 2: Otis Spann - Blues For Martin Luther King   @ youtube Robert Pete Williams - Ugly Man Blues #   @ Spotify Little Brother Montgomery - Prescription For The Blues   @ youtube James Cotton with Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield - Diggin' My Potatoes   @ Spotify J.B. Lenoir - My Dear Old Mother °°   @ youtube Maxwell Street Jimmy - Someday Baby   @ youtube James Cotton with Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield, Billy Boy Arnold - Three Harp Boogie (= South Side Boogie)   @ youtube   @ Spotify Big Joe Williams - Screamin' And Cryin'   @ Spotify Little Brother Montgomery - Salty Dog   @ youtube Robert Nighthawk - Medley: Annie Lee & Sweet Black Angel   @ youtube   @ Spotify Rev. Robert Wilkins - Just A Closer Walk With Thee (2:50) °°   @ youtube °° not on Bullseye/Rounder CD BB 9530 Bullseye/Rounder CD BB 9530 track sequence Little Brother Montgomery - Ain't Nobody Here But Me John Lee Granderson - Bumble Bee Robert Nighthawk - Murderin' Blues Otis Spann - Hotel Lorraine Big Joe Williams - Sinkin' Blues Johnnie Jones - Worried Life Blues Rev. Robert Wilkins - Glory Glory Hallelujah Big Joe Williams and Paul Butterfield - Wild Cow Moan Johnnie Jones with Billy Boy Arnold - I Hear My Black Name Ringing James Cotton with Elvin Bishop - So Glad I'm Living Little Brother Montgomery - Buddy Bolden's Blues Otis Spann - Blues For Martin Luther King Robert Pete Williams - Ugly Man Blues # Little Brother Montgomery - Prescription For The Blues James Cotton with Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield - Diggin' My Potatoes J.B. Lenoir - My Dear Old Mother °° Maxwell Street Jimmy - Someday Baby James Cotton with Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield, Billy Boy Arnold - Three Harp Boogie Big Joe Williams - Screamin' And Cryin' Little Brother Montgomery - Salty Dog Robert Nighthawk - Medley: Annie Lee & Sweet Black Angel Rev. Robert Wilkins - Just A Closer Walk With Thee °° rec. early to mid 1960s in Chicago, IL by Norman Dayron; compiled and edited by Norman Dayron & Mark Naftalin # rec. January 1965 live at the University of Chicago Folk Festival; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g notes by Pete Welding Roots TR 1005 (US 1977) = CBS S2BP 220205 (Australia 1977) notes by Pete Welding (=) TK Records TKR 82539 (UK 1978) "Rare Gems Vol. 1" (LP 1 only) notes by Pete Welding (=) Bullseye Blues CD BB 9530 (US 1993) "Rare Chicago Blues 1962-1968"
28	1978	10th Anniversary New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival - Caledonia - Clifton Chenier - Brown Skin Girl - Irving McLean - Ice Cream Freezer - Roosevelt Sykes - The Breaks - Henry Butler - Baby What You Want Me To Do - Ironing Board Sam - Paul Barbarin's Second Line - Onward Brass Band - Rock Me Mama (2:02) - Robert Pete Williams #   @ youtube - Jolie Blonde - Mamou Hour Cajun Band - Charleston Rag - Eubie Blake - Darktown Strutter's Ball - New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra - Themes From A Movie - Charles Mingus solo performance - Doxology - The Youth Inspirational Choir, Lois Dejean, soloist # rec. April 16, 1976 live at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g notes by John Murphy Flying Fish FF099 (US 1978) = Sonet SNTF 812 (UK 1979) notes by John Murphy = Flying Fish CD FF-70099
29	1978	I Blues di Robert "Pete" Williams - Wrong (3:24) - Big Fat Mama (3:23) - Chicago (4:17) - Must Be Another Man (3:46) - Promise Land (3:36) - Louise (4:10) - Gamblin Man (4:40) - Talkin' Blues (4:55) - Match Box Blues (4:32) - Watch Yourself Boy Round By That Deep Blue Sea (4:00) - Medley: Monologue by Robert "Pete" Williams (6:05) - Greyhound Blues (6:05) rec. September 19, 1977 at Cinemusic in Milano, Italy; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g photography by Paola Mattioli notes by Diana Nadas D.D.Q. Q28004 (It 1978) "Dischi della Quercia"
30	1979	Butch Cage: Raise A Rukus Tonight Butch Cage with Willie Thomas - Mean Old Frisco Robert 'Pete' Williams with Butch Cage - Black Cat Bone #   @ youtube Clarence Edwards - Awful Blue Butch Cage with Willie Thomas - If I Had My Way Charles Henderson - She Was A Woman Didn't Mean No Man No Good Clarence Edwards - Come On Baby, Don't You Want To Go Butch Cage with Willie Thomas - Tomorrow Gonna Be My Trying Day Butch Cage with Willie Thomas - Raise A Ruckus Tonight Butch Cage with Willie Thomas - Let Your Light Shine On Me Charles Henderson - Rock Island Blues Clarence Edwards - I Got A Coal Black Mare Charles Henderson - Corrine, Corrina Butch Cage with Willie Thomas - I Shall Not Be Moved Robert 'Pete' Williams with Butch Cage - Hoodoo Blues #   @ youtube Clarence Edwards - Can't Stand To Be Your Dog Butch Cage with Willie Thomas - I Take The Blues When It Rains field recordings made in Zachary, Louisiana in 1960 and 1961 by Harry Oster # rec. June 12, 1961 in Zachary, LA; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g, Butch Cage, vl notes (July 1978 and insert with track details) by Bruce Bastin Flyright LP 545 (UK 1979) Flyright Records discography Butch Cage & Willie Thomas discography
31	1980	Dick Annegarn - Robert Pete Williams: Ferraillages Dick Annegarn - duduche's blues - françoise parodie - johnny johnny - désolé Robert Pete Williams - I Wrote My Woman A Letter - Drag For You, Baby - Baby Please Don't Go Robert Pete Williams - Mama Had A Shotgun - I'm Goin' Away Dick Annegarn - le blues de londres - traversin - albert - qua-dri-pho-nie rec. November 23 & 24, 1979 live au Théâtre de Sartrouville, France Robert Pete Williams photo by Jean-Philippe Martin Payre Spalax 86818 (Fr 1980)
32	1980	Robert Pete Williams: Santa Fe Blues - Santa Fe Blues   @ Spotify - Cow Bell Mourn   @ Spotify - Late Las' Nite   @ Spotify - Time's So Hard With Me   @ Spotify - Goin' Thru' The Bushes Like A Turkey Again #   @ Spotify - Candy Man   @ Spotify - I'm Gonna Go To The River   @ Spotify - My Baby Leant Out With Another Man   @ Spotify - The Woman I Got   @ Spotify - Santa Fe Kazoo Blues   @ Spotify - C'Mon Babe, Let's Have A Ball   @ Spotify - I'm Gonna Leave You Baby [a cappella]   @ Spotify rec. November 19, 1979 at Metronome Studios in Paris, France; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g, kazoo; # Larry Martin, p; # "Sloppy" Willie Eckert, g; prod. by Larry Martin & Paul Pechenaert Paris PLB 2.28504 cover photo by J.P (Jean-Philippe) Martin-Payre BLU 3035 front cover photo by Jean-Pierre Leloir notes by Larry Martin Paris PLB 2.28504 (Fr 1980) = Free Bird FLY 14 (Fr 1980) = DeAgostini BLU 3035 (Switzerland 1993) "Time's so Hard with Me" = Editions Atlas BLU 3035 (Fr 1993) "Time's so Hard with Me" = EPM/Blues Collection BC 157832 (Fr 1996) "Last Recordings"
33	1988	Country Blues Live! Mississippi John Hurt - I Shall Not Be Moved # [never re-released]   @ youtube - Avalon Blues # [Document DOCD-5697]   @ youtube - I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down # [Document DOCD-5697]   @ youtube - Payday # [never re-released]   @ youtube - Casey Jones # [Document DOCD-5697]   @ youtube - Spanish Flang Dang # [Document DOCD-5697]   @ youtube - Welcome (Address) # [Document DOCD-5697]   @ youtube Robert Pete Williams - I'm So Worried || [never re-released]   @ youtube John Jackson - John Henry * [Document DOCD-5697]   @ youtube - Poor Boy * [Document DOCD-5697]   @ youtube - Buck Dancer's Choice * [Document DOCD-5697]   @ youtube - Tell Me Pretty Mama * [Document DOCD-5697]   @ youtube Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell - I'm A Tearing Little Daddy § [Document DOCD-5697]   @ youtube - 80 Highway § [never re-released]   @ youtube - Mailman Blues § [Document DOCD-5697]   @ youtube # rec. 1960s at Joel Jacobson's in Washington, D.C. || rec. October 1966 at Johnny [Parth]'s in Hinterbrühl, Austria * rec. prob. 1966 at the Washington Folk Festival in Washington, DC; John Jackson, voc, g § rec. October 1966 at a TV show in Vienna, Austria Document DLP 525 Limited Edition (Austria 1988) most titles on Document DOCD-5697 (UK 2013) Document Records discography
34	1991	Blues At Newport Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival 1959-64 Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man - Coffee Blues - Stagolee Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Long Gone - Key To The Highway Reverend Gary Davis - Samson And Delilah - I Won't Be Back No More Reverend Robert Wilkins - The Prodigal Son - (I Wish I Was In) Heaven Sitting Down Skip James - Devil Got My Woman Sleepy John Estes, Yank Rachel [sic] & Hammy [sic] Nixon - Clean Up At Home Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas (3:49) [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VSD 25/26, Vanguard 3VCD 193/95-2]   @ youtube - Bulldog Blues (4:15) [Vanguard VRS-9183]   @ youtube Jesse Fuller - I Double Double Do Love You - San Francisco Bay Blues John Hammond - Me And The Devil John Lee Hooker - Sometimes You Make Me Feel So Bad - Hobo Blues Dave Van Ronk - That Will Never Happen No More compilation prod. by Sam Charters notes by Sam Charters Vanguard VCD 115/16 (US 1991) Newport Folk Festival discography Mississippi John Hurt discography Reverend Gary Davis discography Reverend Robert Wilkins discography Skip James discography Sleepy John Estes discography Yank Rachell discography Hammie Nixon discography Jesse Fuller discography John P. Hammond discography Dave Van Ronk discography
35	1991	Robert Pete Williams Live 1974: Out On The Highway Wolf 120.919 track sequence: - Big Fat Mama - Mr. Charlie - I Got The Blues - Have Mercy On Me - Out On The Highway - My Woman Left Me - Greyhound Blues - Railroad Slide Wolf CD 120.912 track sequence: - Louise °° - Big Fat Mama - Mr. Charlie - I Got The Blues - Glory Hallelujah °° - You Don't Have To Go °° - Have Mercy On Me - Greyhound Blues - Out On The Highway - My Woman Left Me - Dying Bed °° - Railroad Slide rec. 1974 live at the University of Miami, FL; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g °° CD bonus tracks Wolf 120.919 (Austria 1991) Wolf CD 120.912 (Austria 2007) "Louise"
36	1993	Blues With A Feeling Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival disc 1 / Vanguard VCD 73133-2: - Introduction by Dick Waterman (2:05) # Son House (1965) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Preachin' Blues (3:54) [Vanguard VSD 79225] # - Death Letter (4:01) [Vanguard VSD 79225] # - Empire State Express (3:50) # [Vanguard VSD 25/6; 3VCD 208-10] Skip James (1964 blues workshop, introduction most likely by Bill Barth) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Devil Got My Woman (4:52)   @ youtube Bukka White [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2; 3VCD 208-10] - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (5:00) Robert Pete Williams - Levee Camp Blues (5:26) °° [Vanguard VRS 9180; 3VCD193/95-2] Mississippi Fred McDowell [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Louise Louise (3:05) Rev. Robert Wilkins - Don't Let Nobody Turn You 'round (3:48)   @ youtube Rev. Pearly Brown & Mrs. Christine Brown - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning (3:06)   @ youtube Fred and Annie Mae McDowell with Rev. Robert Wilkins - What Do You Think About Jesus (5:43)   @ youtube Lightnin' Hopkins (July 23, 1965 morning "Blue Guitar" workshop) [ Vanguard VCD 79715-2] - The Woman I'm Loving, She's Taken My Appetite (Monkey Faced Woman) (3:22)   @ youtube - Come On Baby (2:13)   @ youtube - Baby Please Don't Go (2:46) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]   @ youtube Mance Lipscomb [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Freddie (2:01) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]   @ youtube - So Different Blues (2:33)   @ youtube - God Moves On The Water (The Sinking Of The Titanic) (2:36)   @ youtube disc 2 / Vanguard VCD 73134-2: Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (4:02) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] Mississippi John Hurt [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Here I Am Lord, Send Me (3:54) - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor (3:20) Jesse Fuller [Vanguard VRS-9185; 3VCD193/95-2; 3VCD 208-10] - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:51) °° John Lee Hooker (1964 blues workshop) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - I Can't Quit You Baby / Stop Now Blues (2:48)   @ youtube Muddy Waters (1968 blues workshop) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Walkin' Blues (4:31)   @ youtube - I Can't Be Satisfied (3:16)   @ youtube Eddie Boyd & Willie Dixon - Five Long Years (2:26) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] Willie Dixon & Lafayette Leake with Pete Seeger, bj - Wrinkles (instr) (3:28) Dave Van Ronk - Cocaine (3:44) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] John Hammond - Drop Down Mama (2:50) Eric Von Schmidt - Grizzly Bear (4:55) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] John Koerner - Traveling Blues (4:49) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]   @ youtube The Chambers Brothers [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - See See Rider (3:21) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]   @ youtube Paul Butterfield Blues Band (July 23, 1965) - Blues With A Feeling (4:12) * [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2; 3VCD 208-10]   @ youtube - Look Over Yonders Wall (2:10) *   @ youtube - Born In Chicago (4:08) ** [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2]   @ youtube compilation prod. by Mary Katherine Aldin # rec. 1965 live at Newport Folk Festival ("Blues Workshop") in Newport, RI; Son House, voc, g * rec. July 23, 1965 at an afternoon workshop called "Blues: Origins and Offshoots" (late addition to the roster - advertisements for the concert series make no mention of the group); Paul Butterfield, voc, hca; Michael Bloomfield, g; Elvin Bishop, g; Jerome Arnold, b; Sam Lay, dr; Nick Gravenites, voc; ** Bruce Langhorne, tamb "all tracks previously unreleased except" °° 2 CD set notes (May 1993) by Mary Katherine Aldin Vanguard VCD2-77005 (US/Germany 1993) (=) Vanguard VCD 73133-2 (US 1997) "part one" (=) Vanguard VCD 73134-2 (US 1997) "part two"
37	1994	Robert Pete Williams: I'm Blue As A Man Can Be - Pardon Denied Again - This Wild Old Life - Just Tippin' In (previously unreleased) - Louise - Church On Fire No. 2 (3:01) (previously unreleased) - Texas Blues - I'm Blue As A Man Can Be - Up and Down Blues - So Much Is Happenin' In This Wicked World (previously unreleased) - Come Here Baby - Levee Camp Blues - Two Wings (previously unreleased) - Angola Special - Motherless Children Have A Hard Time - Please Lord, Help Me on My Way (previously unreleased) rec. 1959/1960 at Angola State Penitentiary, Louisiana by Harry Oster Arhoolie CD 394 (US 1994) Arhoolie Records discography
38	1994	Robert Pete Williams: When A Man Takes The Blues - When A Man Takes The Blues * (previously unreleased) - I Had Trouble * (previously unreleased) - All Night Long (previously unreleased) - Dyin' Soul - I Got The Blues So Bad - Sinner Don't You Know (previously unreleased) - Hot Springs Blues (Peetie Wheatstraw Blues) (previously unreleased) - This Train Is Heaven Bound (previously unreleased) - Santa Fe Blues - Blue In Me - Death Comes Creepin' In Your Room (previously unreleased) - Wife And Farm Blues (previously unreleased) - I Want To Die Easy (previously unreleased) - Robert Pete Williams Monologue * (previously unreleased) rec. 1959/1960 in Louisiana by Harry Oster * rec. April 1970 in Berkeley, CA by Chris Strachwitz cover photo by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie CD 395 (US 1994) Arhoolie Records discography
39	1996	Angola Prisoners' Blues Robert Pete Williams - Prisoner's Talking Blues # Hogman Maxey - Stagolee # Guitar Welch - Electric Chair Blues # Hogman Maxey - Black Night Is Fallin' # Robert Pete Williams - Some Got Six Months # Guitar Welch - I'm Gonna Leave You Mama # Robert Pete Williams - I'm Lonesome Blues # A Capella Group - Angola Bound Hogman Maxey - Worried Blues Guitar Welch - Josephine Clara Young - Soldier's Plea Odea Mathews - The Moon Is Rising Thelma Mae Joseph - I'm Still In Love With You Vocal Group - I Miss You So Butterbeans - Hello, Sue Hogman Maxey - Fast Life Woman Otis Webster - Careless Love Roosevelt Charles & Otis Webster - Have You Ever Heard The Church Bells Tone Guitar Welch - 61 Highway Roosevelt Charles - Strike At Camp I # previously released on Arhoolie 2011 all others previously unreleased Arhoolie CD 419 (US 1996) Arhoolie Records discography
40	1996	Arhoolie presents American Masters   Vol. 1 15 Down Home Country Blues Classics Mississippi Fred McDowell - Frisco Line [Arhoolie 1027, CD 304]   @ youtube Lightning Hopkins - Have You Ever Loved A Woman [Arhoolie 1063]   @ youtube John Jackson - Going Down In Georgia On A Horn [Arhoolie 1025, CD 378]   @ youtube Melvin "Lil' Son" Jackson - Cairo Blues [Arhoolie 1004, CD 352]   @ youtube Mance Lipscomb - 'Bout A Spoonful [Arhoolie 1001, CD 306]   @ youtube Black Ace - Drink On Little Girl [Arhoolie 1003]   @ youtube Snooks Eaglin - Country Boy Down In New Orleans [Arhoolie CD 348]   @ youtube Bukka White - Columbus, Mississippi Blues [Arhoolie 1005]   @ youtube Dr. Ross - Shake 'em On Down [Arhoolie 1065, CD 371]   @ youtube Robert Pete Williams - Just Tippin' In (4:10) [Arhoolie CD 394]   @ youtube [not "Just Trippin' In", as youtube video suggests] Jesse Fuller - Hump In My Back [Arhoolie CD 360]   @ youtube Big Joe Williams - Brother James [Arhoolie 1002, CD 315]   @ youtube Smoky Babe - I'm Broke And I'm Hungry [Arhoolie 2019, CD 440]   @ youtube R.L. Burnside - Poor Black Mattie [Arhoolie 1042, CD 402]   @ youtube K.C. Douglas - Mercury Blues [Arhoolie CD 432]   @ youtube prod. and edited by Chris Strachwitz cover photo (Big Joe Williams) by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie CD 101 (US 1996) Arhoolie Records discography
41	1999	Down the Country Way The Bluesville Years   Volume Nine J.T. Adams And Shirley Griffith - Match Box Blues [Bluesville BVLP 1077] - O Mama How I Love You [Bluesville BVLP 1077] Robert Curtis Smith - Get A Real Young Woman - I'm Going Away Smoky Babe - Hottest Brand Goin' - Locomotive Blues Robert Pete Williams - Free Again [Bluesville BVLP 1026] - Rolling Stone [Bluesville BVLP 1026] Wade Walton - Rock Me, Mamma - Blues, Stay Away From Me Big Joe Williams - Jockey Ride Blues - Coal And Iceman Blues Pete Franklin - I Got To Find My Baby - Black Gal Scrapper Blackwell - Blues Before Sunrise - A Blues Blind Willie Mctell - Broke Down Engine Blues - Don't Forget It Tampa Red - Dark And Stormy Night - You Better Let My Gal Alone Prestige PRCD-9917-2 (US 1999) Bluesville Records discography
42	2001	Newport Folk Festival Best of the Blues 1959-68 disc 1: Mississippi John Hurt - Sliding Delta - Candy Man - Coffee Blues - Stagger Lee - Here I Am Lord Send Me - Pallet On Your Floor Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (3:23) - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues Son House - Preaching Blues - Death Letter Blues - Empire State Express - Son Blues Bukka White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues Mississippi Fred McDowell - Louise - If The River Was Whiskey Muddy Waters (solo) - Walkin' Blues [Vanguard VCD2-77005] - I Can't Be Satisfied [Vanguard VCD2-77005] disc 2: Robert Pete Williams - Levee Camp Blues (5:22) [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VSD 77/78] - Midnight Boogie (3:25) [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VSD 77/78]   @ youtube - On My Way From Texas (3:48) [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VSD 25/26, Vanguard VCD 115/16] Mance Lipscomb - Freddie - So Different Blues - God Moves On The Water (The Sinking Of The Titanic) Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues - Double Double Do Love You Rev. Gary Davis - Samson And Delilah - I Won't Be Back No More Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Intro/The Train Is Leaving °° - Drink Muddy Water °° - Long Gone - Key To The Highway - My Baby Done Changed The Lock On The Door Sleepy John Estes - Clean Up At Home disc 3: Lightnin' Hopkins - Woman I'm Lovin' She's Taken My Appetite - Baby Please Don't Go Lightnin' Hopkins & Samuel Lay - Shake That Thing John Lee Hooker & Bill Lee - Tupelo - Bus Station Blues - Let's Make It °° - Great Fire Of Natchez °° - Boom Boom °° - I Can't Quit You Baby / Stop Now Baby Memphis Slim - How Long °° - Black Cat Crossed My Path °° - Harlem Bound °° - Piano Instrumental °° Muddy Waters & Otis Spann - Blow Wind Blow °°   @ youtube - Flood (= "Clouds In My Heart") °°   @ youtube Chambers Brothers - CC Rider The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Blues With A Feeling - Born In Chicago °° compilation prod. by Tom Vickers front cover painting by Meredith Steele °° 12 previously unreleased tracks 3 CD set notes by John Milward Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2 (US 2001)
43	2003	Roots Of The Blues disc 1 "Folk Blues": Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:47) The Chambers Brothers - See See Rider (3:08) John Hammond - Statesboro Blues (3:39) Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (3:53) Dave Van Ronk - Cocaine (3:46) Buffy Sainte-Marie - You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond (2:51) °° Spider John Koerner - Traveling Blues (4:44) Bill Monroe - Blue Yodel # 4 (2:43) Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Maria Muldaur - Richland Woman (4:19) Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Geoff & Maria Muldaur - Chevrolet (3:51) Sam & Kirk McGee - Milk Cow Blues (2:31) °° Tony Glover - I Dont Need No Whiskey (4:30) °° Josh White - What You Gonna Do When Your Meat Gives Out (1:49) °° Eric Von Schmidt - Grizzly Bear (4:34) Mance Lipscomb - Keep On Truckin' Mama (1:35) °° disc 2 "Delta & Country Blues": Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53) Rev. Gary Davis - You Got To Move (5:50) Skip James - I'm So Glad (1:53) Son House - Empire State Express (3:50) Bukka White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (4:45) Mississippi Fred McDowell - If The River Was Whiskey (2:34) Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied (2:53) Odetta - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (2:13) Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key To The Highway (3:37) Sleepy John Estes - Clean Up At Home (2:59) Mance Lipscomb - Freddie (1:50) Memphis Slim - How Long (2:59) Robert Pete Williams - Midnight Boogie (3:25) [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VSD 77/78, Vanguard CD 70193-2, Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]   @ youtube Eddie Boyd & Willie Dixon - Five Long Years (2:22) Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (5:12) disc 3 "Urban Blues": Junior Wells - Messin' With The Kid (2:21) Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby (3:14) J.B. Hutto & The Hawks - Going Ahead (2:03) Otis Spann - Marie (2:28) James Cotton - Rocket 88 (2:03) Homesick James And His Dusters - Dust My Broom (3:17) Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band - One More Time (2:26) The Johnny Shines Blues Band - If I Get Lucky (3:23) Buddy Guy - One Room Country Shack (5:30) Muddy Waters with Otis Spann - Blow Wind Blow (3:09) Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go (2:37) Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Blues With A Feeling (3:55) Charlie Musselwhite - Juke (4:18) Big Mama Thornton - Ball And Chain (6:48) John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom (3:01) compilation prod. by Tom Vickers; cover design by Ann Smalley; photography by David Gahr °° previously unreleased tracks 3-CD Set notes by Ed Ward Vanguard 3VCD 208-10 (Germany 2002) = Vanguard CD 79715 (US 2003)
44	2004	Robert Pete Williams: Poor Bob's Blues disc 1 - My Mind Wandering Around (a capella) * - Cane Cut Man - My Daddy Was A Hoodoo Man - No More Sweet Potatoes - Poor Bob's Blues - Cows Love Music - Can't Yo-Yo No More - Shake, Shake Baby - Lord, I Done You Wrong - Been Mistreated So Long disc 2 - Things All Wrong With Me - Matchbox Blues # - Sad News From Korea - What A Shape I'm In - Poor Boy, Long Way From Home - Out All Night Long - Crying Won't Make Me Stay - All Out And Down - Tom And Old Master (story) * unissued tracks from same sessions: - Highway Blues # - California Blues || - House Burnt Down Blues // - Levee Camp Blues // - Let's Cut This Cane * rec. by Dr. Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g, * a capella # rec. September 25, 1960 in Denham Springs * rec. April 28, 1963 in Baton Rouge all other tracks || June 30, 1962, or // April 23, 1963 in Baton Rouge 2 CD set notes by Elijah Wald Arhoolie CD 511 (US 2004) Arhoolie Records discography
45	2004	Robert Pete Williams: Long Ol' Way From Home (The Chicago Sessions) - It's So Cold In Chicago   @ youtube - Bye, Bye Baby   @ youtube - Greyhound Bus Blues   @ youtube - Louise   @ youtube - Freight Train Blues   @ youtube - Lord, I'm Going Back Home Soon   @ youtube - Kazoo Blues   @ youtube - Jessie James   @ youtube - Feel Like Blowing My Horn   @ youtube - Motherless Child   @ youtube - Ugly Man Blues   @ youtube - Lonesome Blues   @ youtube - I Just Can't Stand It No More   @ youtube - My Mother Prayed In The World One Day   @ youtube - Poor Boy Long Ol' Way From Home   @ youtube rec. January 29-31, 1965 at Mandelhall, University of Chicago in Chicago, IL, and February 14, 1965 at Lake Forest College; prod. by Norman Dayron notes by Bill Dahl Fuel 2000 CD 061391 (US 2004)
46	2005	Blues With A Message - 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 (live) - Mance Lipscomb (3:40) [Arhoolie 1077] - 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   @ youtube - 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 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
47	2014	The Roots Of It All: Acoustic Blues - The Definitive Collection, Vol. 3 disc 1: The 1960s Mance Lipscomb - Shake, Shake, Mama (2:50) John Lee Hooker - Tupelo (3:19) Rev. Gary Davis - Samson And Delilah (4:05) Robert Pete Williams - I've Grown So Ugly (2:48) Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand (3:03) Lonnie Johnson - Moaning Blues (4:01) Smoky Babe - Hottest Brand Goin' (4:06) Herman E. Johnson - I Just Keeps On Wanting You (2:45) Scrapper Blackwell - Shady Lane (5:27) Pink Anderson - I Got Mine (3:07) Pete Franklin - Prison Bound (4:21) Shirley Griffith - Bye Bye Blues (4:11) R.C. Smith - Please Don't Drive Me Away (2:25) Memphis Willie B. - Wine Drinking Woman (3:36) Baby Tate - What Have I Done To You (2:42) Leroy Dallas - She Caught The M & O (3:43) Sleepy John Estes - Vernita's Blues (2:19) J.D. Short - I'm Just Wastin' My Time (5:25) Muddy Waters - Feel Like Going Home (3:52) Buddy Moss - Amy (2:42) Johnny Young - Want My Lovin' (3:30) Arvella Gray - Corrine, Corrina (2:13) Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53) Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis - Alberta (2:56) disc 2: The 1970s Son House - Empire State Express (3:41) Mississippi Fred McDowell - Frisco Lines (3:59) J.B. Lenoir - If I Get Lucky (2:59) Skip James - Sickbed Blues (4:06) R.L. Burnside - Long Haired Doney (2:45) Furry Lewis - Old Original Furry Lewis Blues (3:46) Joe Callicott - Lonesome Katy Blues (3:04) John Jackson - Rocks And Gravel (3:15) Babe Stovall - Worried Blues (3:33) Howlin' Wolf - Ain't Goin' Down That Dirt Road #2 (4:20) Larry Johnson - Four Women Blues (2:33) Jack Owens - I Love My Baby (4:50) Johnny Shines - Your Troubles Can't Be Like Mine (4:18) Brownie McGhee - My Last Suit (3:53) Juke Boy Bonner - Tired Of The Greyhound Bus (2:26) Tarheel Slim - So Sweet, So Sweet (3:19) Tom Shaw - Baby Be A Boy Child Named Him After Me (5:44) Eddie Taylor - Bullcow Blues (3:10) Bill Williams - Salty Dog (4:37) Guitar Shorty - Jessie Jones (3:58) Rev. Pearly Brown - It's A Mean Old World To Try To Live In (2:24) Louisiana Red - Dead Stray Dog (3:56) David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Big Fat Mama (2:56) Henry Townsend - Can't You See (3:18) front cover photo (of Big Joe Williams) by Axel Küstner 112-pp. booklet notes by Bill Dahl Bear Family BCD 17231 (Germany 2014)
48	2019	Blues Kings Of Baton Rouge CD 1: Slim Harpo - Blues Hang-Over [Excello 2184] Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas - Who Broke The Lock [Folk-Lyric FL 111] Lightnin' Slim - Bad Luck [Feature 3006] Lightnin' Slim - Bugger Bugger Boy [Feature 3012] Schoolboy Cleve - Strange Letter Blues [Feature 3013] Clarence Edwards - Smokestack Lightning [Folk-Lyric FL 111] Robert Pete Williams - Angola Special [Folk Lyric FL 109, 77 LA 12/17, Arhoolie CD 394] Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas - Jelly Roll [Folk-Lyric FL 111] Slim Harpo - I'm A King Bee [Excello 2113] Lonesome Sundown - My Home Is A Prison [Excello 2102] Lightnin' Slim - Mean 'Ol Lonesome Train [Excello 2106] Clarence Edwards - Stack O' Dollars [Folk Lyric FL 111] Robert Pete Williams - Come Here Baby [Folk Lyric FL 109, 77 LA 12/17, Arhoolie R 2015, CD 394] Sally Dotson & Smoky Babe - Your Dice Won't Pass [Folk-Lyric FL 111, Arhoolie R 2018, CD 372] Lazy Lester - They Call Me Lazy [Excello 2107] Jimmy Dotson - Looking For My Baby [Zynn 511] Raful Neal - Crying Hard [Peacock 1686] Lazy Lester - I'm A Lover Not A Fighter [Excello 2143] Lightnin' Slim - Lightnin's Troubles [Excello 2160] Slim Harpo - One More Day [Excello 2162] Lightnin' Slim - Rooster Blues [Excello 2169] Lightnin' Slim & Lazy Lester - Trip To Chicago (alt tk) [Ace CDCHD 1403] Slim Harpo - What A Dream [Excello 2184] Smoky Babe, Clyde Causey - Black Gal [Folk-Lyric FL 111, 77 LA 12-12, Arhoolie CD 440] Smoky Babe & Lazy Lester - Mississippi River So Deep And Wide [Folk-Lyric FL 111, 77 LA 12-12, Arhoolie R 2019, CD 440] Herman E. Johnson - Depression Blues [Arhoolie 1060, CD 440] CD 2: Slim Harpo - Rainin' In My Heart [Excello 2194] Lightnin' Slim - I'm Tired Waitin' Baby [Excello 2203] Tabby Thomas - Hoodoo Party [Excello 2212] Lonesome Sundown - My Home Ain't Here [Excello 45-2213] Jimmy Anderson - Naggin' [Excello 2220] Silas Hogan - Trouble At Home Blues [Excello 2221] Lightnin' Slim - Winter Time Blues [Excello 2224] Jimmy Anderson - Going Through The Park [Excello 2227] Lightnin' Slim - I'm Evil [Excello 2228] The Nitehawks - Boogie Chillun [Montel 913] Moses "Whispering" Smith - Mean Woman Blues [Excello 22] Silas Hogan - I'm Goin In The Valley [Excello 2241] Silas Hogan - Dark Clouds Rollin' [Excello 2251] Lightnin' Slim - Can't Live This Life No More [Excello 2267] Isaiah Chattman - Cold In Hand [Flyright FLY 512] Slim Harpo - Baby, Scratch My Back [Excello 2273] Slim Harpo - I'm Gonna Miss You (Like The Devil) [Excello 2173] Silas Hogan - Hoo Doo Blues [Excello LPS-8015/16] Henry Gray - Showers Of Rain [Excello LPS-8015/16] Arthur Kelley - Number Ten At The Station (And Number 12 Is On The Road) [Excello LPS-8015/16] Arthur Kelley - How Can I Stay (When All I Have Is Gone) [Excello LPS-8015/16] Moses "Whispering" Smith - Baton Rouge Breakdown [Excello LPS-8015/16] Silas Hogan - Honey Bee Blues [Excello LPS-8015/16] Silas Hogan - I Didn't Tell Her To Leave [Excello LPS-8015/16] Slim Harpo - The Music's Hot [Excello LPS-8013] Robert Pete Williams - Goodbye Slim Harpo [Ahura Mazda AMS 2002, 45-AMS-101, Fat Possum CD 80349] Slim Harpo - Talking Blues [Flyright 558] reissue prod. by Martin Hawkins 2 CD set notes by Martin Hawkins Bear Family Records BCD 17512 (Germany 2019) Excello Records discography Slim Harpo discography Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas discography Lightnin' Slim discography Lonesome Sundown discography Smoky Babe discography Lazy Lester discography Herman E. Johnson discography Silas Hogan discography Moses "Whispering" Smith discography Arthur "Guitar" Kelley discography
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Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - Jean-Claude Arnaudon: Dictionnaire du Blues.- Paris, France (Filipacci) 1977, pp. 273-274 - Karel Bogaert: Blues Lexicon.- Antwerpen (Standaard) 1972, pp. 408-409 - Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 210 - Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970 (2nd edition).- Vancouver 2012, pp. 676-678 - Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, pp. 1061-1063 - Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, pp. 499-500 - https://jukegh.blogspot.com/2018/09/robert-pete-williams-complete-early.html - diverse internet ressources - Ebay auctions thanks to Alan Balfour, John Rische, Oliver Kostrinsky, Snežana Lazarević, Klaus Kilian, Wilson Fabian Ruales Villalva, Chris Stovall Brown, Teddy Doering, Gerard Herzhaft, "Ballas", Benoît Brière and Michael Schulze for additional info / scans   Dr. Harry Oster (April 12, 1923 - Jan. 19, 2001) source: http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/faculty/memorials/oster.shtml Discography of Dr. Harry Oster recordings   source: Front cover of Arhoolie 2015 photographer: Harry Oster   Robert Pete Williams & Bill Williams at the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklife in Montreal, Canada, July 1/2, 1971 source: Paul Oliver: Blues Off The Record.- Tunbridge Wells (The Baton Press) 1984, unpaginated photo pp. between pp. 138 and 139; photographer: Paul Oliver