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year of
release
titlenotes
VPA 8137
(19??)
Musica Del Burundi
VPA 8146
(19??)
Il Canavese
VPA 8174
(19??)
Ritmi E Canti Del Marocco
VPA 8175
(19??)
Viva Chile
VPA 8183
(19??)
Santiago Penando estas
VPA 8184
(19??)
Victor Jara: Te Recuerdo Amanda
VPA 8187
(1974)
Il Blues Rurale - Country Blues

Richard Rabbit Brown
- James Alley Blues
Blind Boy Fuller,
- Three Ball Blues
Willie Baker
- Sweet Patunia
Willie Reed
- Leaving Home
Leadbelly
- See See Rider
Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Pneumonia Blues
Texas Alexander
- Water Bound Blues
Black Ace
- Christmas Time Blues

Furry Lewis
- Pearlee Blues
Bessie Tucker
- Penitentiary
Sleepy John Estes
- Diving Duck Blues
Charley Patton
- High Water Everywhere
Robert Wilkins
- National Stonewall Blues
Skip James
- Cypress Grove Blues
Robert Johnson
- Hellhound On My Trail
Big Joe Williams
- Rooting Ground Hog

Albatros VPA 8187
Albatros VC 0775
(cassette)


(=) Albatros ALB 8
3LP = VPA 8187/88/89
"Il Blues Rurale/Jazzistico/
Urbano"

VPA 8188
(1974)
Il Blues Jazzistico - Jazz Blues

Big Bill Broonzy, Ida Cox, Rosetta Crawford, Cow Cow Davenport, Jimmie Gordon, Roosevelt Graves, Bertha "Chippie" Hill, Rosetta Howard, Edith Johnson, Ma Rainey, Ollie Shepard, Trixie Smith, Joe Turner. Plus 3 jazz tracks



Albatros VPA 8188
Albatros VC 0776
(cassette)


(=) Albatros ALB 8
3LP = VPA 8187/88/89
"Il Blues Rurale/Jazzistico/
Urbano"

VPA 8189
(1974)
Il Blues Urbano - Urban Blues

Kokomo Arnold, Blind Blake, Lucille Bogan, Big Bill Broonzy, Leroy Carr, Georgia Tom Dorsey, Jesse James, Lonnie Johnson, Memphis Minnie, Little Brother Montgomery, Red Nelson, Speckled Red, Roosevelt Sykes, Peetie Wheatstraw, Sonny Boy Williamson, Jimmy Yancey

Albatros VPA 8189
Albatros VC 0777 (cassette)


(=) Albatros ALB 8
3LP = VPA 8187/88/89
"Il Blues Rurale/Jazzistico/
Urbano"

VPA 8187/8/9
(1974)
Il Blues Rurale - Jazzistico - Urbano

Arvella Gray picture
on front cover

VPA 8198
(1981)
Pete Seeger: American Favorite Ballads Vol. 1

= Folkways

VPA 8199
(1981)
Pete Seeger: American Favorite Ballads Vol. 2

= Folkways

VPA 8200
(1981)
Pete Seeger: American Favorite Ballads Vol. 3

= Folkways

VPA 8201
(1981)
Pete Seeger: American Favorite Ballads Vol. 4

= Folkways

VPA 8202
(1981)
Pete Seeger: American Favorite Ballads Vol. 5

= Folkways

VPA 8205
(1974)
Victor Jara: El Derecho De Vivir En Paz (Vol. 2)
VPA 8206
(19??)
Musiche e canti popolari siciliani, Canti del lavoro
VPA 8207
(19??)
Inti Illimani Vol. 2
VPA 8209
(197?)
Woody Guthrie: (Vol. 1)

 
VPA 8210
(197?)
Woody Guthrie: (Vol. 2)

 
VPA 8217
(19??)
Victor Jara Vol. 3
VPA 8218
(19??)
Musica Popolare Di Cipro
VPA 8222
(19??)
Bergamo e il suo territorio
VPA 8223
(19??)
Brescia e il suo territorio
VPA 8225
(19??)
Fiestas In Guatemala
VPA 8227
(19??)
Inti Illimani Vol. 3
VPA 8230
(19??)
Musica Dell'Etiopia
VPA 8236
(19??)
I protagonisti. Le mondine di Villa Garibaldi
VPA 8232
(19??)
Gabon: Musica Fang Bwiti
VPA 8234
(1975)
Victor Jara Presente (Vol. 4)
VPA 8236
(19??)
I protagonisti. La musica del Carnevale di Bagolino
VPA 8237
(19??)
I protagonisti. Minatori della Valtrompia. La famiglia Bregoli di Pezzaze
VPA 8240
(1975)
Tennessee Blues Vol. 1

Little Laura Dukes
- Stack O'Lee Blues
- Jimmy's Blues
- Eh, Lord Lord!
- Bricks In My Pillow
John 'Piano Red' Williams
- Baby Please Come Back To Me
- Forgive Me Baby
- Goin' To St. Louis
- Blues In The Mornin'
Bukka White
- Aberdeen Blues
- Please!
- I Ain't Got A Little Bed
- All Night Long
- Cross The River

rec. Memphis, Tenn., 1972

= Albatros VC 0715 (cassette)




reissued (along with
VPA 8261)
by Dom disques Fr 1997
as Albatros CD DAF 101
"Tennessee Blues Vol. 1"

Bukka White discography

VPA 8246
(1975)
Woody Guthrie: Bound For Glory (Vol. 3)

- Stagolee
- Swim, Swim, Swimmy I Swim
- Ship In The Sky
- Little Sack Of Sugar
- Childrens' Song
- Vigilante Man
- Do Re Mi
- Pastures Of Plenty
- Grand Coulee Dam
- This Land Is Your Land
- Talking Fish Blues
- The Sinking Of Reuben James
- Jesus Christ
- There'S A Better World A-Comin'
 
VPA 8247
(1975)
Woody Guthrie: Ballate di Sacco e Vanzetti (Vol. 4)

- I Just Want To Sing Your Name
- Red Wine
- Suasso's Lane
- The Flood And The Storm
- Vanzetti's Rock
- Root Hog And Die
- Sacco's Letter To His Son
- You Souls Of Boston
- Old Judge Thayer
- We Welcome To Heaven
- Vanzetti's Letter
- Two Good Men

Albatros VC 0721 (cassette)

= Folkways FH 5485

more info

VPA 8249
(19??)
India Del Nord: Musica Popolare e Religiosa, Vol.  1
VPA 8256-8
3 LP set

(19??)
African Rhythms and Instruments
Recorded live at the First Pan-African Cultural Festival 1969
VPA 8258
(19??)
India Del Nord: Musica Popolare e Religiosa, Vol.  3
VPA 8261
(19??)
Dewey Corley / Mose Vinson: Tennessee Blues Vol. 2

- Stop And Listen
- It Was A Dream
- Fishing In The Dark
- Blues Jumped The Rabbit
- Dewey's Stomp
- Big Leg Woman

- Memphis Boogie
- So Long Blues
- You May Be Old
- I Can't
- I Had A Dream Last Night
- Rains All Night



Albatros VPA 8261

= Albatros VC 0741 (cassette)




reissued (along with
VPA 8240)
by Dom disques Fr 1997
as Albatros CD DAF 101
"Tennessee Blues Vol. 1"

VPA 8262
(19??)
Africa: Dolore e Magia
VPA 8265
(19??)
Inti Illimani Vol. 4
VPA 8266
(19??)
India Del Nord: Musica Popolare e Religiosa, Vol.  2
VPA 8268
(197?)
Pete Seeger: Ámerican Industrial Ballads (Vol. 6)

 
VPA 8269
(19??)
I protagonisti. Ernesto Sala. Il “piffero” di Cegni
VPA 8276
(1976)
Woody Guthrie: (Vol. 5)

 
VPA 8277
(1976)
Hammie Nixon
Tennessee Blues Vol. 3

- You're So Fine
- Nix's Boogie
- Sweet Old Kokomo
- My Babe
- But Someday Baby
- Yeller Yams
- Yeller Yams (n. 2)

- You Know I Don't Want No Woman
- Somebody Done Changed That Little Lock On My Door
- Sweet Old Kokomo (n. 2)
- Sugar Mama
- So Long
- She Keeps Me Worried And Bothered All The Time
- Holy Spirit Don't Leave Me

On-the-field-recordings by Lucio Maniscalchi & Gianni Marcucci




Albatros VPA 8277

= Albatros VC 0757 (cassette)




reissued (along with
VPA 8285)
by Dom disques Fr 1997
as Albatros CD DAF 102
"Tennessee Blues Vol. 2"

VPA 8279
(19??)
Australia: Canti degli Aborigeni
VPA 8280
(19??)
Negro Prison Songs

 
VPA 8281
(19??)
Woody Guthrie: Poor Boy (Vol. 6)

 
VPA 8284
(19??)
Woody Guthrie: Songs To Grow On (Vol. 9)

 
VPA 8285
(1976)
'Sleepy' John Adam Estes
Tennessee Blues Vol. 4

- Lord Have Mercy
- Clean That Home
- When You Lose Your Eyesight
- I Wanna Tear It All The Time
- Poor Man's Friend
- I'm Twist
- Broke And Hungry
- She Was A Dreamer
- Someday Baby Blues
- Mailman
- Kansas City Blues
- Mailman
- Kansas City Blues
- Need More
- President Kennedy
- I Came For To Do It
- John & Hammie's Blues
- The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair

rec. march 26, 1976 in Brownsville, Tenn. by Lucio Maniscalchi & Gianni Marcucci

= Albatros VC 0766 (cassette)




reissued (along with
VPA 8277)
by Dom disques Fr 1997
as Albatros CD DAF 102
"Tennessee Blues Vol. 2"

Sleepy John Estes
discograpy

VPA 8290
(19??)
Cuba Rivoluzionaria
VPA 8292
(1976)
Woody Guthrie: Goin' Down This Road (Vol. 7)

 
VPA 8293
(1976)
Woody Guthrie: The Struggle (Vol. 8)

= Folkways (1946)

VPA 8294
(19??)
Leadbelly: Looky Looky Yonder (Vol. 1)

= Verve Folkways FV 9021

VPA 8295
(19??)
Grecia: Musica Popolare del Dodescaneso
VPA 8297
(1975)
Musica Popolare delle Bahama
Popular Music Of The Bahamas

a cura di / edited by
Samuel B. Charters

 

VPA 8298
(19??)
Grecia: Musica Popolare della Grecia del Nord
VPA 8299
(19??)
Como e il suo territorio
VPA 8300
(197?)
Southern Prison Blues
blues da un penitenziario del sud

Hogman Maxey
- Duckin' And Dodgin'
John Henry Jackson & A.C. Craig
- My Baby Got To Go
Otis Webster
- Penitentiary Blues
Guitar Welch
- Lonesome Blues
Jesse Butcher & Guitar Welch
- They'll Miss Me When I'm Gone
Hogman Maxey
- Rock Me Mama

Guitar Welch
- Boll Weevil Blues
Hogman Maxey
- Hard Headed Woman
Otis Webster
- Standing At The Greyhound Bus Station
John Henry Jackson & A.C. Craig
- Tell Me Pretty Baby
Otis Webster
- Ball And Chain For Me
Guitar Welch
- Bad Luck Blues
The Cool Cats
- Goin' Home To My Old Used To Be
cura di - collected & edited
by Harry Oster

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= Tradition 2006 (196?)

Dr. Harry Oster discography

VPA 8302
(19??)
Folkmusic Of Ireland (Vol. 9)


Albatros VPA 8302
VPA 8303
(1976)
Leadbelly: We Shall Be Free )Vol. 2)
with Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston & Sonny Terry

Cisco Houston discography

VPA 8305
(19??)
Inti Illimani Vol. 5
VPA 8306
(19??)
Victor Jara Vol. 5
VPA 8318
(19??)
Brasile: Muiscanera di Bahia
VPA 8341
(19??)
I protagonisti. I cantastorie di Pavia
VPA 8343
(1977)
Victor Jara: Canto Libre (Vol. 6)
VPA 8371
(1981)
Cisco Houston: Pie In The Sky
canzoni di cow-boys e di vagabondi

- Mule Skinner Blues
- Git Along Little Dogies
- The Erie Canal
- East Virginia Blues
- Travel On
- Beans, Bacon And Gravy

- Pie In The Sky
- The Job I Left Behind Me [= Mysteries ...]
- Soup Song
- Hobo's Lullaby
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
- Cryderville Jail
- I Ain't Got No Home

= Folkways FA 2480
"Cisco Houston Sings Songs
Of The Open Road"

Cisco Houston discography

VPA 8372
(19??)
I protagonisti. Cantori di Premana
VPA 8381
(19??)
I protagonisti. Calabresi a Milano
VPA 8386
(1977)
Come All You Coal Miners

George Tucker
- Black Lung Blues
Hazel Dickens
- Black Lung
Nimrod Workman
- Don't You Want To Go To That Land
Hazel Dickens
- Cold Blooded Murder
Sarah Ogan Gunning
- Come All You Coal Miners
Nimrod Workman
- Both Lungs Is Broke Down

George Tucker
- Thirty Inch Coal
Sarah Ogan Gunning
- Dreadful Memories
Hazel Dickens
- Clay County Miner
Nimrod Workman
- The N & W Train Don't Stop Here No More
Sarah Ogan Gunning
- That 25 Cents That You Paid
Hazel Dickens
- Manning Mine Desaster

prod. by Guy Caravan

Rounder 4005 (1973)


= Albatros VPA 8386

VPA 8387
(1977)
Mississippi Delta & South Tennessee Blues

Sam Chatmon
- Open Your Book
Eddie Cusic [name misspelled "Eddie Quesie"] & James Thomas, g
- Once I Had A Car
Asie Payton
- Catfish Blues
Wallace Johnson
- Pine Top's Boogie
James Thomas
- Bottle Up And Go
Eugene Powell
- Poor Boy Blues

Walter Cooper
- Peach Tree Blues
Cary Tate
- Early One Morning
Charley Sangster
- Bull Cow Blues
Van Hunt
- Mister Crump
Joe Cooper
- Boogie Children
Eugene Powell
- M & O Blues
rec. 1976



= Albatros VC 4894 (cassette)

VPA 8392
(1979)
See See Rider
South Mississippi Blues

Babe Stovall & Herb Quinn
- See See Rider
Eli Owens
- Rabbit On A Log
Roosevelt Holts
- Big Fat Mama Blues
Herb Quinn
- Casey
Babe Stovall
- Candy Man
O. D. Jones & Babe Stovall, Dink Brister
- Bye Bye Baby
Eli Owens
- Old Hen Cackle
Esau Weary
- You Don't Have To Go
Babe Stovall
- Do Lord, Remember Me
Roosevelt Holts
- Matchbox Blues

Roosevelt Holts
- Mean Conductor Blues
Eli Owens
- Muleskinner Blues
Babe Stovall
- Maypole March
Myrt Holmes
- Run Here, Fairo
Isaac Youngblood
- Hesitating Blues
Esau Weary
- Forty-Four Blues
Babe Stovall
- Boll Weevil
Eli Owens
- Ida Red - Sally Goodin'
Babe Stovall
- Sweet Bunch Of Daisies
Eli Owens
- Ways Like The Devil
Roosevelt Holts
- Home Town Skiffle

rec. by David Evans between 1965 and 1971




Rounder 2009 (197?)
"South Mississippi Blues"




= Albatros VPA 8392
"See See Rider"

VPA 8393
(19??)
Leadbelly: Midnight Special (Vol. 3)
with Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston

Cisco Houston discography

VPA 8394
(1977)
Wake Up Dead Man
black convict worksongs from texas prisons
canti di lavoro di detenuti neri nei penitenziari del texas

Benny Richardson e gruppo
- Jody
W. D. Alexander e gruppo
- Julie
Joseph "Chinaman" Johnson e gruppo
- Long Hot Summer Days
Johnny Jackson e gruppo
- I'm In The Bottom
Ebbie Veasley, Marshall Phillips, Theo Mitchell
- Captain Don't Feel Sorry For A Longtime Man

Houston Page e gruppo
- Down The Line
Willie "Cowboy" Craig e gruppo
- Early In The Morning
Henry Scott e gruppo
- Hammer Ring
Joseph "Chinaman" Johnson e gruppo
- Fallin' Down
Voci anonime
- Log Loading Talk, Yells, Chants
Benny Richardson e gruppo
- Grizzly Bear

edited & collected by Bruce Jackson in the mid-1960s




Rounder LP 2013 (1975)




= Albatros VPA 8394


= Rounder CD 2013 (1994)

www.rounder.com

VPA 8395
(1978)
Ray Brothers And Red Cravens: Really Bluegrass

 
VPA 8408
(1977)
Sam Chatmon
Hollandale Blues


- St. Louis Blues
- That's All Right
- Stoop Down Girl
- Baby Please Come Back To Me
- I'm Fool About Her Loving

- Prowling Ground Hog
- Old Devil
- Used To Be
- Blues When It Rains
- Good Eating Meat
- Let's Get Drunk Again
rec. Hollandale Aug. 6, 1976

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= Albatros VC 4901 (cassette)

Sam Chatmon discography

VPA 8418
(197?)
Blues All Around My Bed
Blues Scene USA Vol. 3

Carl Hodges
- Blues All Around My Bed
Big Joe Williams
- Hellhound On My Trail
John Lee Granderson
- Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl
Johnny Young & John Wrencher & John Lee Granderson
- Green Door Blues
James Robinson
- Standing In My Backk Door Crying
W.B. 'Piano Bill' Bryson
- Sometimes I Rate

Connie Williams
- One Thin Dime
Leroy 'Country' Dallas
- Sweet Man Blues

Doug Quattlebaum
- Good Woman Blues
Bill Jackson
- Trouble In Mind
Avery Brady
- Gonna Let You Down
Arthur Weston & Big Joe Williams & George Robertson
- Roll Me Over Slow

= Storyville SLP 181
= Storyville 670181 (D)
= Storyville SLP 842

= Albatros VPA 8418 (197?)


= Storyville SLP 4036 (1981)
"Blues Roots Vol. 2"

VPA 8422
(1975)
Eugene Powell ("Sonny Boy Nelson")
Police In Mississippi

- Police In Mississippi Blues
- 44 Blues
- Blues Leaping From Texas
- Blues In G
- The Blues Jumped A Rabbit
- Old Home Blues
- Reminiscences
- Meet Me In The Bottom
- Dark Road Blues

rec. August 8, 1976 in Greenville, Miss., by Enzo Castello & Gianni Marcucci


Albatros VPA 8422
VPA 8424
(1978)
Cary Tate
Blues From The Heart


- Blues All In My Bread
- Catfish Blues
- Coal Black Mare
- Bumble Bee Blues
- What's That Smells Like Gravy?
- What's That Smells Like Gravy? N. 2

- The Honeydripper
- Moaning
- Bluebird Blues
- How Many More Years
- I'm Going Down Brownsville

1976 field recordings

notes by Gianni Marcucci

Albatros VPA 8424
VPA 8425
(197?)
Aunt Molly Jackson

 
VPA 8426
(197?)
Musica Dei Cajuns Della Louisiana

 
VPA 8428
(19??)
I protagonisti. Montanari di Val Brembana
VPA 8437
(19??)
La Ballata Afro-Americana
Afro-American Ballads - La Ballade Afro-Américaine

Hi Henry Brown, Mississippi John Hurt, Jesse James, Leadbelly, Furry Lewis, Willie Walker. Plus 6 postwar tracks

= Albatros: VC 4934 (cassette)

VPA 8443
(1979)
Jack Owens: Bentonia Country Blues

- Cherry Ball Blues
- Keep On Groaning
- Please Give Me Your Money
- Devil Got My Woman

- Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
- Don't Sell My Monkey

Jack Owens discography

VPA 8447
(197?)
Almeda Riddle: My Old Cottage Home

 
VPA 8451
(197?)
Bad Luck And Trouble
Louisiana & Mississippi Blues

Roosevelt Holts
- My Phone Keeps Ringing
Isaiah Chattman
- Found My Baby Gone
Arzo Youngblood
- Bye And Bye Blues
Cornelius Bright
- My Baby's Gone
Herb Quinn
- Casey, You Can't Ride This Train
Arzo Youngblood
- Four Women Blues
L.V. Conerly
- Bad Luck And Trouble
Mager Johnson
- Travelling Blues

O.D. Jones & Babe Stovall
- Got The Blues This Morning
Jack Owens
- B & O Blues
Bill "Boogie Bill" Webb
- Dooleyville Blues
Roosevelt Holts
- Nowhere To Go
Mager Johnson
- Big Road Blues
Cornelius Bright
- Devil Got My Woman
Jack Owens
- Devil Got My Woman

a cura di / edited by David Evans

notes by David Evans

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Decca LK 4931 (UK 1968)
"Goin' Up The Country"

notes by David Evans
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= Rounder 2012 (US 1975)
"Goin' Up The Country"


= Albatros VPA 8451

VPA 8453
(1979)
Way Back Yonder ...
Original Country Blues Volume 1
Memphis & Brownsville, Tennessee (1976-1978)

Charley Sangster
- The Dirty Dozen
- Peach Tree Blues
Hammie Nixon
- Viola Lee Blues
Walter Cooper
- Baby Please Don't Go
Hammie Nixon
- Ida Mae

Lum Guffin
- Roll And Tumble Blues
- Casey Jones
Willie Borum
- 61 Highway
John Williams
- Cow Cow Blues
- How Long Blues
notes by Gianni Marcucci



Albatros VPA 5453
VPA 8456
(1979)
Erotic Blues
Canti Erotici Afroamericani

Dirty Red
- Mother Fuyer
Sam Collins
- Slow Mama Slow
Washboard Sam
- Let Me Play Your Vendor
Bo Carter
- Ram Rod Daddy
Lucille Bogan
- Coffee Grindin' Blues
Lonnie Johnson
- Jelly Roll Baker
Tampa Red
- She Can Love So Good
Blind Blake
- Diddie Wa Diddie
Peetie Wheatstraw
- Peetie Wheatstraw Stomp
Mississippi John Hurt
- Candy Man Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson
- Suzie Q
Ruby Glaze & Blind Willie McTell
- Rollin' Mama Blues
Blind Boy Fuller
- I'm A Rattlesnakin' Daddy
Big Bill Broonzy
- Night Watchman Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Oil Well Blues
Walter Davis
- Think You Need A Shot

coll. by Alessandro Roffeni


Albatros VPA 8456
Albatros VC 4961 (cassette)

notes by
Alessandro Roffeni





= DOM/Albatros CD
DAF 120

VPA 8457
(1979)
Piano Blues, Boogie Woogie, and Rags 1927 - 1941

Cripple Clarence Lofton
- Sixes And Sevens
Walter Roland
- Talkin' Low Blues
Jimmie Gordon
- Lookin' For The Blues
George Hannah
- Freakish Man Blues
Will Ezell
- Barrel House Man
Faber Smith
- I Received A Letter
Speckled Red
- The Dirty Dozen
Henry Brown
- Twenty-First Street Stomp

Joe Turner
- Roll 'Em Pete
Sugar Underwood
- Davis Street Blues
Roosevelt Sykes
- Love Will Wear You Down
James 'Boodle It' Wiggins
- My Lovin' Blues
Will Ezell
- West Coast Rag
Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell
- Gone Mother Blues
Pine Top Smith
- Pine Top Blues
Turner Parrish
- Fives

coll. by Alessandro Roffeni


Albatros VPA 8457

notes by
Alessandro Roffeni






= DOM/Albatros CD
DAF 115

VPA 8459
(197?)
Way Back Yonder ...
Original Country Blues Volume 2
Clarksdale, Greenville, Leland, Mississippi (1978)

Wade Walton
- The Little Red Rooster
- Razor Rhythm
Ernest Roy
- Boogie Children
Big Jack Johnson
- Catfish Blues
Wallace Johnson
- Tommy Dorsey Boogie
- Vicksburg Blues

Eugene Powell
- Hesitation Blues
- See See Rider
Son Thomas
- Shake 'Em On Down
- If I Get Lucky
- Four Women Blues



Albatros VPA 8459
VPA 8460
(1979?)
Way Back Yonder ...
Original Country Blues Volume 3
Flora, Canton, Bentonia, Crystal Springs, Mississippi & Bogalusa, Louisiana (1978)

- Sound Of The Yazoo river
Mott Willis
- Baby Please Don't Go
William Diamond
- Black Mattie
- Shaggy Hound
Jack Owens
- Cherry Ball Blues no. 2
Jacob Stuckey
- Devil Got My Woman

Lonzo Burkes
- Train I Ride
- Back Door Friend
- Smokestack Lightning
Roosevelt Holts
- Big Road Blues
- Look-a-here Little Woman

rec. & ed. by Gianni Marcucci Aug. 1978



Albatros VPA 8460
Albatros VC4960
VPA 8461
(1979)
I Got The Blues This Morning

Charley Sangster
- Dreamed Eyes Woman
- Kokomo Blues
Lum Guffin
- Louise
- Baby Please Don't Go
John Williams
- Mr. Freddy Blues
Charley Taylor
- The Blues So Bad
Eugene Powell
- Greenville Boogie
- I Got The Blues And I Can't Be Satisfied

James Thomas
- Mama Don't Allow
- Bumble Bee Blues
Lonzo Burkes
- Louisiana Blues
Eugene Powell
- Big Fat Mama
William Diamond
- Stop Your Crying
Sam Chatmon
- Falling Out
Eddie Cusic [name misspelled "Eddie Quesie"]
- You Better Stop Arguing Over Me
Wallace Johnson
- After Hours
Van Hunt
- Mississippi River Blues
Clay Pittman
- I Got The Blues This Morning
Asie Payton
- Blind Man
notes by Gianni Marcucci



Albatros VPA 8461
VPA 8462
(1980)
Forty-Four Blues
Piano Blues And Boogie Vol. 1

field recordings Memphis & Mississippi 1976/78


Albatros VPA 8462
VPA 8473
(1982)
Big City Blues

Bumble Bee Slim
- Burned Down Mill
Sonny Boy Williamson
- Good Morning, School Girl
Rosetta Howard
- Let Your Linen Hang Low
Curtis Jones
- Gold Digger Blues
Doctor Clayton
- On The Killin' Floor
Jazz Gillum
- Take A Little Walk With Me
Peg Leg Howell
- Sadie Lee Blues
Texas Alexander
- Sabine River Blues

Martha Copeland
- Stole My Man Blues
Cousin Joe
- Bad Luck Blues
Walter Davis
- I Did Everything I Could
Lonnie Johnson
- Mr. Johnson Swing
Peetie Wheatstraw
- Chicago Mill Blues
St. Louis Jimmy
- Going Down Slow
Jim Jackson
- My Monday Woman Blues
Leroy Carr
- Six Cold Feet In The Ground



Albatros VPA 8473

= Albatros: VC 5021 (cassette)

VPA 8474
(1982)
Combo Blues

Victoria Spivey
- Dirty T. B. Blues
The Alabama Jug Band
- Gulf Coast Blues
Bill Gaither
- Who's Been Here Since I Been Gone?
Bumble Bee Slim
- My Big Moments
Jimmie Gordon
- Plenty Trouble On Your Hand
Ollie Shepard
- No One To Call You Dear
Washboard Sam
- I Love My Baby
Rosetta Howard
- Men Are Like Street Cars

Peetie Wheatstraw
- Gangster's Blues
Joe Turner
- Last Goodbye Blues
T-Bone Walker
- Call It Stormy Monday
Jazz Gillum
- Hand Reader Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson
- Rub A Dub
Cousin Joe
- Box Car Shorty And Peter Blue
Big Bill Broonzy
- You Changed
Amos Milburn
- Let's Have A Party



Albatros VPA 8474

= Albatros VC 5022 (cassette)

VPA 8490
(19??)
La settimana santa in Sicilia
VPA 8902
(19??)
Woody Guthrie
usa folk and blues with cisco houston and sonny terry

 
ALB 2
(19??)
America Del Nord: Musica degli Indiani e degli Eschimesi
ALB 8
(19??)
Il Blues Rurale / Jazzistico / Urbano

3 LP set

 



Will be completed and expanded with further details !!!

Sources:
- http://sunsite.kth.se/feastlib/mrf/yinyue/pw/ALBATR.HTM
- own record collection
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks for additional information to Yves Doremieux, Jeff Konkel, and Jean-Pierre Urbain

 

 

Stefan Wirz


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||| Oddities on LP/CD covers |||
||| Doubleneck guitars |||
||| Resonator guitars |||
||| American Folk Blues Festival |||
||| Lawrence Gellert recordings |||
||| Dr. Harry Oster recordings |||
||| Yazoo Records | Blue Goose Records | Nick Perls |||
| Anthology | Roy Bookbinder | Steve Calt/Dave Mann | Sam Chatmon | Robert Crumb ... |
| Shirley Griffith | Graham Hine | Son House | Roger Hubbard | Larry Johnson | Jo Ann Kelly |
| Gary Lawrence ... | Steve Mann | John Miller | Yank Rachell | Alan Seidler | Tom Shaw | Bill Williams |
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||| Adelphi Records |||
||| Advent Records |||
||| Albatros Records |||
||| Audio-Video Productions |||
||| Barrelhouse Records |||
||| Blues Classics Records |||
||| Prestige/Bluesville Records |||
||| Flyright Records |||
||| Heritage Records |||
||| Herwin Records |||
||| Kicking Mule Records |||
||| L + R Records |||
||| Mamlish Records |||
||| Muskadine Records |||
||| Nighthawk Records |||
||| Origin Jazz Library OJL |||
||| Policy Wheel Records |||
||| the post war blues |||
||| RBF Records |||
||| Revival Records |||
||| Scout Records |||
||| Southland Records |||
||| Spivey Records |||
||| Spokane Records |||
||| Storyville Records |||
||| Takoma Records |||
||| Trix Records |||
| Casey Anderson | Pink Anderson | Memphis Willie B. | John Henry Barbee | Ed Bell | Leon Bibb |
| Eric Bibb | (Bahamian) Blind Blake | Allan Block | Juke Boy Bonner |
| Roy Book Binder | James Booker | Chris Bouchillon | Jim Brewer |
| David Bromberg | Ian Buchanan | Len Chandler | Joe Callicott | Sam Chatmon |
| Frank Christian | Doctor Clayton | Paul Clayton | Andy Cohen | Karen Dalton | Barbara Dane |
| Blind Teddy Darby | Bonnie Dobson | Doctor Ross | Driftin' Slim | Champion Jack Dupree |
| Snooks Eaglin | Archie Edwards | David 'Honeyboy' Edwards | Frank Edwards |
| Ramblin' Jack Elliott | Logan English | Sleepy John Estes | Even Dozen Jug Band |
| Billy Faier | Guitar Pete Franklin | Jesse Fuller |
| Sam Gary | Paul Geremia | Fred Gerlach | Arvella Gray | Mitch Greenhill | Shirley Griffith |
| George Gritzbach | Stefan Grossman | Guitar Nubbit |
| Guitar Gabriel (Nyles Jones) | Guitar Shorty (John Henry Fortescue) | John Hammond | Hecksaw Harney |
| Gordon Heath & Lee Payant | Blind Joe Hill | Son House | Cisco Houston | John Jackson | Skip James | Henry 'Rufe' Johnson |
| Larry Johnson | Blind Willie Johnson | Nyles Jones (Guitar Gabriel) | Luke Jordan | Danny Kalb |
| Jo Ann Kelly | Lisa Kindred | Koerner, Ray & Glover |
| Jim Kweskin | Peter La Farge | Bruce Langhorne | Terrea Lea |
| J.B. Lenoir | Furry Lewis | Mance Lipscomb | Willie Mabon | Steve Mann | Judy Mayhan | Suni McGrath |
| Mississippi Fred McDowell | Memphis Willie B. | Herb Metoyer | Elmon Mickle | Luke 'Long Gone' Miles |
| John Miller | Sam Mitchell | Model T. Slim | Little Brother Montgomery | Buddy Moss | Fred Neil |
| Bob Neuwirth | New Lost City Ramblers | Johnny Nicholas | Hermes Nye | Jack Owens |
| Dave Peabody | Buster Pickens | Lonnie Pitchford | Doug Quattlebaum | Willie Guy Rainey |
| Jerry Rasmussen | 'Philadelphia' Jerry Ricks | Walt Robertson |
| Judy Roderick | Dick Rosmini | Doctor Ross | Carl Sandburg | Brother John Sellers | Sid Selvidge |
| Thomas Shaw | Siegel-Schwall Band | Patrick Sky | Gordon Smith | Smoky Babe | Joseph Spence |
| Mark Spoelstra | Babe Stovall | Abu Talib (Freddy Robinson) |
| Baby Tate | Harry Taussig | Art Thieme | James 'Son' Thomas | Jesse Thomas |
| Joan Toliver | Henry Townsend | Willie Trice | Ton van Bergeyk |
| Dave van Ronk | Eric von Schmidt | Jackie Washington | Casey Bill Weldon |
| 'Bukka' White | Josh White | Geeshie Wiley | Major Wiley | Robert Wilkins | Bill Williams |
| Big Joe Williams | Robert Pete Williams | Chris Youlden |
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