John Henry Barbee 78 rpm / LPs / CDs
| # | year
of release | title | label # / notes |
|---|
| 1 | 1938 | John Henry Barbee
- Six Weeks Old Blues (C-2304-1,-2) #
- God Knows I Can't Help It (C-2305-1)
rec. September 8, 1938 in Chicago; John Henry Barbee, voc., g; Willie Bee James, g; unknown, sb | 
Vocalion 04417# Blues Classics BC 14
Document DLP 520
Document DOCD 5159 |
| | |
- You'll Work Down To Me Someday (C-2306-2)
- Against My Will (C-2307-2)
rec. September 8, 1938 in Chicago; John Henry Barbee, voc., g; Willie Bee James, g; unknown, sb | Vocalion unissued Document DLP 520
Document DOCD 5159 |
| 2 | 1964 | Chicago Blues
A Bonanza All Star Blues LP
Sunnyland Slim
- Won't Do That No More
John Henry Barbee
- Early In The Morning #
St. Louis Jimmy
- Goody Goody Goody
Willie Dixon
- Weak Brain ! Narrow Mind !
Homesick James
- Can't Hold Out
Cocoa Taylor
- What Kind Of Man Is This?
Homesick James
- Queen's Rock
John Henry Barbee
- No Pickin', No Pullin' #
Sunnyland Slim
- Drinking
St. Louis Jimmy
- Going Down Slow
Cocoa Taylor
- Which-A-Way To Go
Willie Dixon
- So Long!
# rec. March 26, 1964 in Chicago; John Henry Barbee, voc, g; Homesick James, g; Washboard Sam, wb | 
Spivey 1003 Spivey discography
|
| 3 | 196? | Encore For The Chicago Blues
Muddy Waters Blues Men
- Yes Sir! Boss
Harvey Hill
- I Feel So Good
Koko Taylor
- I'm Looking For A Man
Memphis Slim
- Chicago To Paris
Babe Stovall
- My Brown Is A Mistraeter
Big Joe Williams
- Move Your Hand
Olive Brown
- Woman's Lament
J.B. Lenoir
- Korea Blues
Washboard Sam's Band
- Chicago Rock
Victoria Spivey
- T B Blues
Willie Dixon
- Brooklyn Going To Be My Home
John Hammond
- Squeeze My Lemon
John Henry Barbee
- Six Week Old Blues [sic] #
Viola Wells
- See See Rider
Homesick James
- Somebody's Been Talkin'
Roosevelt Sykes
- Dirty Mother Fuyer
# rec. March 26, 1964 in Chicago; John Henry Barbee, voc, g: Willie Dixon, perc | 
Spivey 1009Spivey discography |
| 4 | 196? | American Folk Blues Festival '64
Sonnyboy Williamson
- I'm Trying To Make London My Home
- Dissatisfied
Sunnyland Slim
- Everytime I Get To Drinkin'
Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins
- Ain't It A Pity
- Baby Please Don't Go
Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon
- I'm A Tearing Little Daddy
John Henry Barbee
- Cotton Pickin' Blues #
Hubert Sumlin / Sunnyland Slim
- No Title Boogie
Sugar Pie Desanto
- Slip In Mules
Howlin' Wolf
- Dust My Broom
# rec. October 9, 1964 at the Musikhalle, Hamburg, Germany; John Henry Barbee, voc, g
insert notes of Fontana 681 522 TL [in German !]
 
   | notes by Georges Adins,
Joachim E. Behrend,
Jacques Demêtre
Bob Koester, Horst
Lippmann, Paul Oliver
Fontana 681 522 TL (mono)
= Fontana 885 411 MY (stereo)
= Fontana TL 5225
[not = Amiga 850043 !!!] 
(=) Philips/Phonogram
SFL-7385 (1969)
American Folk Blues
Festival 63-64
notes by Willy Leiser
L + R 42.024 (1981) = LR CD-2024 L + R discography 
= disc 4 of Evidence
5 CD set ECD 26200
|
| 5 | 196? | Guitar Blues
Big Joe Williams
- Wild Ox Moan
- Juanita Blues
Lightnin' Hopkins
- Walkin' The Streets
- Mussy Haired Woman
John Henry Barbee
- Your Friend #
- Backwater Blues #
Lonnie Johnson
- My Bay Is Gone
- You Don't Know What Love Is
Math. Murphy
- Gravel Road
John Lee Hooker
- Stand By My Baby
- Baby Please Don't Go
rec. October 8, 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark; John Henry Barbee, voc, g | notes by Paul Oliver
Storyville SLP 166Storyville discography |
| 6 | 1964 | John Henry Barbee:
Portraits in Blues Vol. 9
- Dust My Broom
- Hey Baby
- That's Alright
- Early Morning Blues
- I Heard My Baby
- I Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton
- Worried Life Blues
- Miss Nelly Grey
- Tell Me Baby
- John Henry
rec. October 8, 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark; John Henry Barbee, voc, g | 
Storyville SLP 171
= Storyville 671171
= Storyville 616013 (1965)
"I Ain't Gonna Pick No
More Cotton"
= Storyville/Teichiku
ULS-1814-R (Jp 1975)
= Storyville/Teldec 6.23701
(D 1979)
"Blues Roots Vol. 2
Guitar Blues From The
Memphis Area"
= PGP RTB 2220636 (P)
= Storyville SLP 4037
"Blues Roots Vol. 3"
Storyville discography notes by Theo Lehmann
Amiga 856281 (GDR 1989)
"Blues Collection Vol. 11" |
| 7 | 19?? | The Best of The Blues
Big Bill Broonzy
- Diggin' My Potatoes
Speckled Red
- Uncle Sam's Blues
Memphis Slim
- Bertha May
Champion Jack Dupree
- Christina, Christina Blues
Big Joe Williams
- Vitamin A Blues
Lonnie Johnson
- Don't Cry Baby
Roosevelt Sykes
- The Way I Feel
Sleepy John Estes
- City Hall Blues
John Henry Barbee
- Early In The Morning #
Sunnyland Slim
- One Room Country Shack
Sonny Boy & M. Slim
- Copenhagen Woman
Otis Spann
- Boots And Shoes
rec. October 8, 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark; John Henry Barbee, voc, g | Storyville SLP 188 
= Storyville 671188
notes by Paul Oliver
= Storyville SLP 4023 (1981) |
| 8 | 1967 | Country Blues Classics, Volume 4
Leroy Dallas
- I'm Going Away
- Good Morning Blues
- I'm Down Now
- Jump Little Children
Joe Williams
- His Spirit Lives On
Peter Warfield
- Morning Train Blues
Dennis McMillon
- Going Back Home
John Henry Barbee
- Six Week Old Blues [Vocalion 04417]
Carl Martin
- Lets Have A New Deal
Sonny Boy Johnson
- Swimming Pool Blues
Gabriel Brown
- Black Jack Blues
Lost John Hunter
- YM & V Blues
James Cain
- Good Mr. Roosevelt
Peter McKinley
- Mean Black Snake | 
Blues Classics BC 14
Blues Classics
discography |
| 9 | 1972 | A Festival Of Blues
Recorded in Europe
Champion Jack Dupree
- Sporting Life Blues
- Number Nine
John Henry Barbee
- Worried Life Blues (alt. tk.)
- That's Alright (alt. tk.)
Memphis Slim
- Blues Confession
- St. Louis Blues
- Lonesome Blues
Sippie Wallace
- You Don't Know My Mind
- Suitcase Blue
Speckled Red
- It Feels So Good
Roosevelt Sykes
- No Money Down
- Baby Child | 
Storyville SLP 214Storyville discography |
| 10 | 1974 | The Best Of The Blues
Big Bill Broonzy
- Diggin' My Potatoes
Spreckled [sic] Red
- Uncle Sam's Blues
Memphis Slim
- Bertha May
Champion Jack Dupree
- Christina, Christina Blues
Big Joe Williams
- Vitamin A Blues
Lonnie Johnson
- Don't Cry Baby
Roosevelt Sykes
- The Way I Feel
Sleepy John Estes
- City Hall Blues
John Henry Barbee
- Early In The Morning
Sunnyland Slim
- One Room Country Shack
Sonny Boy Williamson & Memphis Slim
- Copenhagen Woman
Otis Spann
- Boots And Shoes
Champion Jack Dupree & Mogens Seidelin
- Sporting Life Blues
Memphis Slim
- Blues Confession
John Henry Barbee
- That's Alright
Sippie Wallace & Little Brother Montgomery
- Suitcase Blues
Roosevelt Sykes
- No Money Down
Memphis Slim
- St. Louis Blues
John Henry Barbee
- Worried Life Blues
Memphis Slim
- Lonesome Blues
Champion Jack Dupree
- Number Nine
Sippie Wallace & Roosevelt Sykes
- You Don't Know My Mind
Speckled Red
- It Feels So Good
Roosevelt Sykes
- Baby Child | DLP Storyville SLPD5 
= Storyville DALP 2/1946
Storyville discography
|
| 11 | 1979 | Chicago Blues
- Live at the Fickle Pickle
Johnny Jones & Willie Dixon
- Johnny's Boogie
Maxwell Street Jimmy
- Long Haired Doney
John Henry Barbee
- Baby I Need Your Love #
Blind James Brewer
- Big Road Blues
- Poor Kelly
Big Joe Williams
- Sugar Mama
Maxwell Street Jimmy
- Make Some Love To Me
- Smokestack Lightnin'
John Henry Barbee
- Tell Me Baby #
Johnny Jones & Billy Boy Arnold
- Sloppy Drunk
- Early In The Morning
- My Little Machine
- Going To The River
# rec. 1963 live at the Fickle Pickle, Chicago, Ill.; John Henry Barbee, voc, g; concert promoters: George Mitchell & Michael Bloomfield; rec. by Norman Dayron | 
Flyright LP 549Flyright discography |
| 12 | 1967 | John Henry Barbee & Sleepy John Estes: Blues Live
Sleepy John Estes
- Drop Down Mama
- I'd Been Well Warned
- Stop That Thing #
- Divin' Duck Blues
- Vernita Blues
- Bottle Up And Go #
- Mountain Cat Blues
John Henry Barbee
- Hey Woman
- Backwater Blues
- Boll Weevil
- Somebody Done Change The Lock On My Door
- That's All Right
CD bonus tracks:
- Tell Me Baby
- John Henry
- Dust My Broom
Estes tracks rec. live October 8, 1964 in Copenhagen; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca, # jug
Barbee tracks rec. live October 8, 1964 at the Folk Club of Denmark in Copenhagen; John Henry Barbee, voc, g | notes by Paul Oliver
Storyville SLP 4074Storyville discography 
Storyville STCD 8051 (2000)
www.storyville-records.com |
| 13 | 1987 | Mississippi Country Blues, Vol. 2 (1938-1942)
"Delta Blues In Chicago"
Tommy McClennan
- Brown Skin Girl
- New Highway No. 51
- Whiskey Head Man
- Deep Blue Sea Blues
- I'm A Guitar King
- Mozelle Blues
- Mr. So And So Blues
- Bluebird Blues
John Henry Barbee
- Six Weeks Old Blues [Vocalion 04417]
- God Knows I Can't Help It [Vocalion 04417]
Willie "61" Blackwell
- She's Young And Wild
- Noiseless Motor Blues
- Don't Misuse Me, Baby
- Bald Eagle Blues
- Four O'Clock Flower Blues
- Chalk My To
- Machine Gun Blue
- Rampaw Street Blue
John Henry Barbee
- You'll Work Down To Me Someday [Vocalion unissued]
- Against My Will [Vocalion unissued] | 
Document DLP 520 |
| 14 | 1994 | John Henry Barbee: Blues Masters Vol. 3
- Dust My Broom
- Hey Baby
- That's All Right
- Early Morning Blues, No. 1
- I Heard My Baby
- I Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton
- Worried Life Blues, No. 2
- Miss Nelly Grey
- Tell Me Baby
- John Henry
- Your Friend
- Backwater Blues
- Early in the Morning, No. 2
- Jump Blues
- Worried Life Blues, No. 1
- That's All Right, No. 2 | notes by Paul Oliver
Storyville STCD 8003www.storyville-records.com Storyville discography |
| 15 | 1993 | Memphis Blues 1927 - 1938
Ollie Rupert (1927)
- I Raised My Window And Looked At The Risin' Sun
Ain't Goin' To Be Your Low Down Dog
Walter Rhodes (1927)
- The Crowing Rooster
- Leaving Home Blues
Pearl Dickson (1927)
- Twelve Pound Daddy
- Little Rock Blues
Madelyn James (1930)
- Stinging Snake Blues
- Long Time Blues
Charlie Bozo Nickerson (1930)
- What's The Matter Now? - Part 1
- What's The Matter Now? - Part 2
- Bozo's Blues - Part 1
- Bozo's Blues - Part 2
Sam Townsend (1930)
- I'm Missing That
- Lily Kimball Blues
Hattie Hart (1934)
- I'm Missing That Thing
- I Let My Daddy Do That
- Coldest Stuff In Town (Duet w. Allen Shaw)
- Happy-Go-Lucky Blues
George Torey (1937)
- Married Woman Blues
- Lonesome Man Blues
John Henry Barbee (1938)
- Six Weeks Old Blues (take 1)
- Six Weeks Old Blues (take 2)
- God Knows I Can't Help It
- You'll Work Down To Me Someday
- Against My Will | notes by Kip Lornell
Document DOCD 5159www.document-records.com |
| 16 | 1998 | Down Home Slide
- That's All Right - Robert Nighthawk
- I Know She Didn't Love Me - John Henry Barbee #
- Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed - Mississippi Fred McDowell, Annie Mae McDowell
- Roll Me Over Slow - Big Joe Williams
- Everything Gonna Be Alright - Robert Nighthawk
- John Henry - Elijah Brown
- Jackson Town Eddie Taylor
- Mad & Evil - George Coleman
- I'm On My Way To Canaan Land - Blind Connie Williams
- Which Way My Baby Go - Big Joe Williams
- Hoodoo Snake Doctor Blues Johnny Shines
- Slidin' John Littlejohn
- Walk On, Little Girl - Big Joe Williams
- Poor Boy Long Way From Home Arthur Weston
- Anna Lee - Robert Nighthawk
- Sweet Home Chicago David Honeyboy Edwards
- I'm So Glad I Got Good Religion - Mississippi Fred McDowell
- My Lonesome Bed - Big Joe Williams
- Key To The Highway - Blind Connie Williams
# rec. May 12, 1963 in Chicago, Ill.; John Henry Barbee, voc, g | 
Testament CD 6009 |
| 17 | 200? | John Henry Barbee
The George Mitchell Collection Vol. 30
- That Ain't It
- Gonna Lose Your Mind
rec. 1963 live at the Fickle Pickle, Chicago, Ill.; John Henry Barbee, voc, g; concert promoters: George Mitchell & Michael Bloomfield; rec. by Norman Dayron | 7 inch 33 rpm 
Fat Possum
|
| 18 | 2009 | The Blues Box
CD 1:
Lonnie Johnson
Otis Spann
CD 2:
Speckled Red
Sunnyland Slim
CD 3:
Roosevelt Sykes
Sippie Wallace
Little Brother Montgomery
CD 4:
Big Joe Williams
Sleepy John Estes
Robert Pete Williams
CD 5:
Big Bill Broonzy
- Glory Of Love
- Careless Love
- I Gets The Blues When It Rains
- My Name Is Lee Conley Broonzy
- Take This Hammer
- See See Ride
- Diggin’ My Potatoes
- Midnight Special
- Keep Your Hands Off Her
- I Got A Girl
- You Better Mind
- I Love You So Much
- Sixteen Tons
- Black Brown And White
- Goodnight Irene
John Henry Barbee
- Dust My Broom
- I Heard My Baby
- I Ain’t Gonna Pick No More Cotton
- Miss Nelly Grey
- Tell Me Baby
- Jump Blues
CD 6:
Memphis Slim
Champion Jack Dupree
Eddie Boyd
Jay McShann
CD 7:
Sonnyboy Williamson
Sonny Terry
Brownie McGhee
DVD:
Champion Jack Dupree
Sonnyboy Williamson
Robert Lockwood Jr.
James Caroll Booker III
Henry Gray
Boogie Bill Webb, Harmonica Slim
Cousin Joe | 7 CD + DVD set
Storyville 108 8604www.storyvillerecords.com |
Will be completed and expanded with further details !!!
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