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Raymond
Barrow

date and location of birth unknown
date and location of death unknown

discography

This discography is a non-commercial labor-of-love and is in no way associated with any business firm.
All I know about the resp. artist's / label's musical output is shown on this page. To purchase out-of-print records I recommend an ebay, gemm or google search. And - sorry for that - I have not the time to answer any e-mails asking me about further information, let alone duplicating out-of-print recordings I happen to own.

Stefan Wirz   www.wirz.de

Raymond Barrow 78 rpm / LPs / CDs
#year
of release
titlelabel # / notes

10 inch 78 rpm
11929 

Freezone
- Indian Squaw Blues (15156- ) #   @ youtube

Raymond Barrow
- Walking Blues (15165- ) * @ youtube

# rec. June 6, 1929 in Richmond, IN; Freezone, voc, prob. g


* rec. July 7, 1929 in Richmond, IN; Raymond Barrow, p, voc [almost inaudible]

Freezone discography




Paramount 12803

LP / CD compilations
21970Stomp 'Em Down
Piano Blues 1927-1937

James 'Boodle It' Wiggins
- Keep A Knockin' An You Can't Get In
- Evil Woman Blues
Bob Call
- 31 Blues

Raymond Barrow
- Walking Blues
'Spider' Carter
- Dry Spell Blues
Ell-Zee Floyd
- Snow Bound And Blue
John Oscar
- Dyin' Mother Blues
- Whoopee Mama Blues

George Noble
- If You Lose Your Good Gal, Don't Mess With Mine
Pinetop Burks
- Aggravatin' Mama Blues
- Sundown Blues
Joe Pullum
- CWA Blues [Bluebird B5534]
- Cows, See That Train Coming? [Bluebird B5534]
Robert Cooper
- West Dallas Drag [Bluebird B5459]
Walter 'Cowboy' Washington
- Ice Pick Mama
- West Dallas Woman


Black Snake BSL 18003 cover by John W. van Tilburg
notes by Anonymous



Black Snake BSL 18003 (NL)
[Dick Bakker label
300 copies pressed]

notes by
Dick van Herrikhuysen
& Eric Mossel



= Oldie Blues OL 2808
(NL 1975?)

Oldie Blues discography

31972Barrelhouse Blues 1927-1936

Bob Call
- Thirty-One Blues
Barelhouse Welsh
- Dying Pickpocket Blues
Joe Dean
- I'm So Glad I'm Twenty-One Years Old Today
George Noble
- Seminole Blues
Lonnie Johnson
- Sam, You're Just A Rat
Louise Johnson
- On The Wall
Montana Taylor
- Indiana Avenue Stomp

Little Brother Montgomery
- Vicksburg Blues No. 2
Charley Taylor
- Heavy Suitcase Blues
Cow Cow Davenport
- State Street Jive
Jabo Williams
- Polack Blues
Jesse James
- Ramrod

Raymond Barrow
- Walking Blues
Will Ezell
- Barrelhouse Woman Take 2


notes by Stephen Calt,
Jerome Epstein, Nick Perls
click to enlarge!

click to enlarge!
Yazoo 1028

= Yazoo CD 1028 YAZ

Yazoo discography

41982Paramount Vol. 2   1927-1932
'raised in the alley' (The Piano Blues Vol. 17)

Jabo Williams
- Pratt City Blues
Henry Brown
- Eastern Chimes Blues
Freddie Brown
- Raised In The Alley Blues
Skip James
- 22-20 Blues

Raymond Barrow
- Walking Blues
Charley Taylor
- Heavy Suitcase Blues
Barrel House Welch
- Dying Pickpocket Blues
Louise Johnson
- Long Way From Home

Louise Johnson
- On The Wall
Charley Taylor
- Louisiana Bound
Barrel House Welch
- Larceny Woman Blues
Meade Lux Lewis
- Honky Tonk Train Blues
Will Ezell
- Playing The Dozen
Freddie Brown
- Whip It To A Jelly
Henry Brown
- Deep Morgan Blues
Jabo Williams
- Jab Blues
notes by Bob Hall
and Richard Noblett
click to enlarge !

click to enlarge !
Magpie PY 4417 (UK 1982)

(=) Magpie PYCD 05

Magpie discography

51988Barrelhouse, Blues & Boogie Piano   (1927-1930)

Raymond Barrow
- Walking Blues
Bob Call
- 31 Blues
Piano Kid Edwards
- Piano Kid Special
- Give Us Another Jug
Blind Leroy Garnett
- Chain 'em Down
- Louisiana Glide

James "Boodle It" Wiggins
- Keep A-Knockin' An You Can't Get In
- Evil Woman Blues
- My Lovin' Blues
- Weary Heart Blues
- Forty-Four Blues
- Frisco Bound
- Corinne Corinna Blues
- Gotta Shave 'em Dry



RST Blues Documents
BD 2033 (Austria 1988)
61992Boogie Woogie & Barrelhouse Piano   Vol. 2   1928 - 1930

Bob Call
- Keep A-knockin' An You Can't Get In (James "Boodle-It" Wiggins, voc)
- Evil Woman Blues (James "Boodle-It" Wiggins, voc)
- 31 Blues

Raymond Barrow
- Walking Blues
Blind Leroy Garnett
- My Lovin' Blues (James "Boodle-It" Wiggins, voc)
- Weary-Heart Blues (James "Boodle-It" Wiggins, voc)
- Chain 'em Down
- Louisiana Glide
- Forty-Four Blues (James "Boodle-It" Wiggins, voc)
- Frisco Bound (James "Boodle-It" Wiggins, voc)
- What Do You Think This Is? (Marie Griffin, voc)
- Blue And Disgusted (Marie Griffin, voc)
James "Boodle-It" Wiggins
- Corinne Corinna Blues
- Gotta Shave 'em Dry Listen
Romeo Nelson
- Head Rag Hop
- Gettin' Dirty Just Shakin' That Thing
- Dyin' Rider Blues
- 11.29 Blues (The Midnight Special)
Rudy Foster
- Black Gal Makes Thunder
- Corn Trimmer Blues
Piano Kid Edwards
- Gamblin' Mans Prayer Blues
- Hard Luck Gamblin' Man
- Piano Kid Special
- Give Us Another Jug


notes by Bob Hall

Document DOCD-5103
(Austria 1992)

notes by Mike Rowe

= Document DOCD-5103
(UK 200?)

71998Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here
Strutting the Dozens
Classic Piano Rags, Blues & Stomps 1928-35

- Trenches - Turner Parrish
- Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here - Cow Cow Davenport
- Atlanta Rag - Cow Cow Davenport
- Avenue Strut - Herve Duerson
- Mixed up Rag - William Ezell
- Louisiana Glide - Blind Leroy Garnett
- Windy City - Arnold "Doc" Wiley
- Slum Gullion Stomp - Cow Cow Davenport
- Old Mill Blues - William Ezell
- Wilkins Street Blues - Speckled Red
- Easy Drag - Herve Duerson
- Texas Shout - Cow Cow Davenport
- The Fives - Turner Parrish
- Arnold Wiley Rag - Arnold "Doc" Wiley
- Playing the Dozen - William Ezell
- Chain 'Em Down - Blind Leroy Garnett
- Alabama Strut - Cow Cow Davenport
- Heifer Dust - William Ezell

- Walking Blues - Raymond Barrow
- The Dirty Dozen - Speckled Red
- The Dirty Dozen No. 2 - Speckled Red
- Chimin' the Blues - Cow Cow Davenport
- Oh You Devil You - Oliver Brown



Yazoo CD 2034
82004The Paramount Masters

disc 1
- Nappy Head Blues - Bobby Grant
- Red River Blues - Lottie Beaman
- Honky Tonk Train Blues - Meade Lux Lewis
- You Can't Keep No Brown - Bo Weevil Jackson
- Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues - Teddy Darby
- No. 29 - Wesley Wallace
- Outside Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds
- Old Country Rock - William Moore
- Keep A-Knockin' - James "Boodle It" Wiggins
- Touch Me Light Mama - George "Bullet" Williams
- Jack Of All Trades - Moanin' Bernice Edwards
- Come on in (Ain't Nobody Here But Me) - Harum Scarums
- All Birds Look Like Chicken To Me - Sweet Papa Stovepipe
- Cotton Field Blues - Charlie 'Dad' Nelson
- Traveling Blues - Ma Rainey
- Soon This Morning Blues - Charlie Spand
- Gay Cattin' - Papa Charlie Jackson
- Whoopee Blues - King Solomon Hill
- Eagles on a Half - Geechie Wiley
- Wasn't It Sad About Lemon - Washboard Walter
- Freakish Man Blues - George Hannah
- Rough Rugged Road Blues - Bumble Bee Slim
- Mississippi Jail House Groan - Rube Lacy
- Try Me One More Time - Marshall Owens
- Barrel House Flat Blues - Mary Johnson


disc 2
- I Shall Not Be Moved - Charley Patton
- Walking Blues - Raymond Barrow
- Guitar Boogie - Blind Roosevelt Graves
- Black and Evil Blues - Alice Moore
- The New Dirty Dozen - Ben Curry
- Low-Down Mississippi Bottom Man - Freddie Spruell
- Vicksburg Blues - Little Brother Montgomery
- Jack of Diamonds Georgia Rub - Henry Townsend
- Billy Goat Blues - John Byrd
- Bunker Hill Blues - Side Wheel Sally Duffie
- Number Three Blues - Buddy Boy Hawkins
- Mamlish Blues - Ed Bell
- Eastern Chimes Blues - Henry Brown
- Fetch Your Water - Charlie Spand
- Lonesome Swamp Rattlesnake - J.D. Short
- Water Bound Blues - Alice Pearson
- Broke Down Engine - Lonnie Clark
- Dying Pickpocket Blues - Barrel House Welch
- Seven Sister Blues - Edward Thompson
- Old Timbrook Blues - John Byrd
- The Preacher Must Get Some Sometime - Bob Robinson
- Motherless Child Blues - Elvie Thomas
- The Ducks Yas Yas - Jack O' Diamonds
- Boodle De Bum Bum - Ben Curry
. Gotta Shave 'Em Dry - James Wiggins


disc 3
- Some Scream High Yellow - Bo Weevil Jackson
- Jab Blues - "Jabo" Williams
- Raised In The Alley Blues - Freddie Brown
- Frisco Leaving Birmingham - George "Bullet" Williams
- Ninety Nine Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds
- Conjur Man Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- Mama's Angel Child - Sweet Papa Stovepipe
- Honey Blues - Lottie Beaman
- Lonesome Atlanta Blues - Bobby Grant
- Fat Greasy Baby - Robert Peeples
- No Special Rider Blues - Little Brother Montgomery
- New York Blues - Blind Roosevelt Graves
- Doctor, Oh Doctor - Henry Townsend
- I Heard The Voice Of A Pork Chop - Bogus Ben Covington
- Red Letter Blues - Ruby Paul
- Piano Kid Special - Piano Kid Edwards
- Where Did You Stay Last Night - Famous Hokum Boys
- The Gone Dead Train - King Solomon Hill
- Fanny Lee Blues - Wesley Wallace
- Narrow Face Blues - Washboard Walter
- Pick Poor Robin Clean - Geechie Wiley
- The Boy In The Boat - George Hannah
- Texas Blues - Marshall Owens
- Evil Woman Blues - James "Boodle It" Wiggins
- Three, Six and Nine - Roosevelt Sykes


disc 4
- Tom Cat Blues - Freddie Spruell
- Smiling Blues - Jack O' Diamonds
- Mama, Don't You Think I Know - Papa Charlie Jackson
- Back To The Woods Blues - Charlie Spand
- Prison Blues - Alice Moore
- Deep Morgan Blues - Henry Brown
- My Laona Blues - Teddy Darby
- Pistol Blues - Bo Weevil Jackson
- Pratt City Blues - "Jabo" Williams
- Telephone Arguin' Blues - J.D. Short
- Over To My House - Elvie Thomas
- Hambone Blues - Ed Bell
- Down In Tennessee - Lonnie Clark
- Ham Hound Crave - Rube Lacy
- Fire Detective Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- Up On The Hill Blues - Edward Thompson
- Key To The Mountain Blues - Mary Johnson
- Down On My Bended Knee - King Solomon Hill
- Red River Blues - Charlie 'Dad' Nelson
- Give Us Another Jug - Piano Kid Edwards
- Nehi Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds
- Last Farewell Blues - Ruby Paul
- Larceny Woman Blues - Barrel House Welch
- Wicked Devil's Blues - Robert Peeples
- Raggin' The Blues - William Moore
4 CD box

JSP JSPCD 7723


Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

source of left column picture: Front cover of Black Snake BSL 18003 (by John W. van Tilburg)

thanks to Eric Simkin for label scan

 

source: front cover of Document DOCD-5103
photo above of a barrelhouse piano player taken in Minglewood, TN in 1920
(Special Collections Photograph Archives of the University of Louisville)
source: front cover of Document DOCD-5103
click to enlarge !
Stefan Wirz


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