Butch Cage (voc, fiddle) & Willie B. Thomas (voc, guitar) LPs / CDs
| # | year
of release | title | label # / notes |
|---|
| 1 | 1960 | Country Negro Jam Sessions
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- 44 Blues
Robert Pete Williams
- Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
Clarence Edwards
- Smokes Like Lightning
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Who Broke The Lock
Clarence Edwards
- You Don't Love Me
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- It's The Sign Of The Judgement
Ben Douglas
- Foxhunt
Sally Dotson with Smoky Babe & Hillary Blunt
- Your Dice Won't Pass
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Jelly Roll
Rebecca Smith etc.
- I've Got Religion
Smoky Babe
- Going Downtown Boogie
Clarence Edwards
- Stack O' Dollars
Willie Thomas & Butch Cage
- Brown Skin Woman
Leon Strickland with Lucius Bridges
- I Won't Be Your Low Down Dog No More
additional tracks on CD:
Butch Cage & Willie B Thomas
- The Piano Blues
Smoky Babe
- Cotton Field Blues
Otis Webster
- The Farm Blues
- The Boss Man Blues
Butch Cage & Willie B Thomas
- Whoa Mule!
Otis Webster
- Boll Weevil Blues
Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage
- Thousand Miles From Nowhere
Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas
- Dead And Gone
- Called For You Yesterday
- Me & My Chauffeur
- Baby Please Don't Go
rec. in southwest Louisiana during the late 1950s and early 1960s by Harry Oster
cover photo of Butch Cage and Willie Thomas with their wives by Harry Oster
 Dr. Harry Oster discography | notes by Harry Oster
Folk-Lyric FL 111notes by Chris Strachwitz
 
= Arhoolie R 2018 (1970)
"Country Negro Jam Session" = Trio PA-6028 (Jp 1974) notes by Chris Strachwitz
Arhoolie CD 372 www.arhoolie.com |
| 2 | 1960 | I Have To Paint My Face
F 1005 (1960) track list:
Sam Chatman
- I Have To Paint My Face [lyrics]
- You Shall Be Free (Nigger Be A Nigger) *
- I Stand And Wonder
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Forty-Four Blues #
Jasper Love
- Desert Blues
Sam Chatmon
- Lay My Burden Down (Glory Hallelujah) *
Kathryn Pitman and group
- Save A Seat For Me
Wade Walton & R. C. Smith
- Barbershop Rhythm
R.C. Smith
- Going Back To Texas
Jasper Love & Columbus Jones
- The Slop
R. C. Smith
- Lost Love Blues
- Lonely Widow
Wade Walton
- Rooster Blues
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Butch's Blues
  
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas; from notes to Arhoolie F 1005 (1960);
photographer: Chris Strachwitz [?] [click to enlarge !]
F 1005 (1980) track list:
Sam Chatman
- I Have To Paint My Face [lyrics]
K. C. Douglas
- Big Road Blues #
Sam Chatman
- I Stand And Wonder
Big Joe Williams
- Texas Blues #
Bukka White
- Drifting Blues #
Wade Walton & R. C. Smith
- Barbershop Rhythm
R. C. Smith
- Going Back To Texas
K. C. Douglas & Sidney Maiden
- Blues And Trouble #
R. C. Smith
- Lonely Widow
Wade Walton
- Rooster Blues
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Butch's Blues
* omitted from 1969 and 1980 remastered LP versions; not included in CD 432
# on remastered LP version only
BC & WT rec. Zachary, La., summer 1960 by Chris A. Strachwitz with assistance from Mr. and Mrs. Paul Oliver
| notes by Mack McCormick
Arhoolie F 1005 (1960)notes by Chris Strachwitz
Arhoolie F 1005 (1980)
subtitled "A Random Collection of
Mississippi Blues" 
partly reissued on Arhoolie
CD 432 (1995)
"Mississippi Blues 1960"
www.arhoolie.com |
| 3 | 1960 | Blues 'n Trouble
Big Joe Williams
- Married Woman Blues
Lil' Son Jackson
- Johnny Mae
Lowell Fulson
- Good Woman Blues
Mance Lipscomb
- Back Water Blues
Jasper Love
- Jove's Honeydripper
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- One Thin Dime #
Sam Chatman
- God Don't Like Ugly
"Whistling" Alex Moore
- Wake Up Old Lady
Black Ace
- Hitchhiking Woman
Robert Curtis Smith
- Stella Ruth
Mercy Dee
- I Been A Fool
Sidney Maiden
- Chicago Blues *
Fat Boy Hayes [aka 'Jelly Belly']
- Goin' Back South *
* on 1980 remastered LP version only
on CD 432 only:
Sam Chatmon
- Hollandale Blues
# rec. August 7, 1960 by Chris Strachwitz | 
Arhoolie FS 101notes by Chris Strachwitz
Arhoolie F 1006
partly reissued on Arhoolie
CD 432 (1995)
"Mississippi Blues 1960"
www.arhoolie.com
|
| 3a | 1960 | Muddy Waters at Newport 1960
- I Got My Brand On You
- (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
- Baby, Please Don't Go
- Soon Forgotten
- Tiger In Your Tank
- I Feel So Good
- Got My Mojo Working
- Got My Mojo Working pt. 2
- Goodbye Newport Blues []
- I Got My Brand On You #
- Soon Forgotten #
- Tiger In Your Tank #
- Meanest Woman #
rec. July 3, 1960 at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island; Muddy Waters, voc, g; James Cotton, hca, Otis Spann, p; Pat Hare, g; Andrew Stephens, b; Francis Clay, dr; [] Butch Cage, vl; [] Lafayette Thomas, g
# 2001 MCA/Chess bonus tracks; rec. June 1960 in Chicago | 
Chess LP 1449 |
| 4 | 1961 | The Folk Music Of The Newport Folk Festival 1959-60 Vol. 1
O. J. Abbott
- On The Banks Of The Don
O. J. Abbott & Pete Seeger
- Barley Grain
Willie Thomas & Butch Cage
- I'm A Stranger Here
- 44 Blues
Pat Clancy
- Bonnie Bunch O' Roses-O
Mike Seeger
- Fair Ellender
-
Pete Seeger
- Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase
Alan Mills
- Citadel Hill
- Cod Liver Oil
Frank Hamilton
- I'm A Stranger Here
- I'm A Pilgrim
rec. Newport, RI., 1959, prob. June 25
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas at Newport
(from notes to Folkways FA 2461;
Polaroid Land Photo by W. Field) | notes by Irwin Silber
Folkways FA 2461www.folkways.si.edu download liner notes
at Smithsonian Global Sound |
| 1960 Newport Festival on USIA film short series JAZZ-USA (nos. 20, 22) |
| 5 | 196? | The Country Blues
Storyville Blues Anthology Vol. 10
Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, Butch Cage
- Mean Old Frisco
Smoky Babe
- Boogy
Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, Butch Cage
- Miss Sadie May
Smoky Babe
- I Went Down 61 Highway
Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, Butch Cage
- Stagalee
Smoky Babe & Sally Dotson
- Black Ghost
Lemon Nash & Henry Thomas
- New Orleans Blues
Smoky Babe
- Regular Blues
Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, Butch Cage
- I Can't Quit You Baby
Hilary Blunt
- A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, Butch Cage
- This Is My Life
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Bugle Call Blues
Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, Butch Cage
- Goin' Back To New Orleans
Smoky Babe
- Talkin' Baby
rec. at informal sessions in the homes of Butch Cage & Mabel Lee Williams near Baton Rouge, Louisiana by Harry Oster
liner notes by Harry Oster
Dr. Harry Oster discography | 
Storyville SLP 129
Storyville discography
= Teichiku ULS-1825-R
(Jp 1975)
|
| 6 | 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
Rev. Pearly Brown
- Nobody's Fault But Mine
Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd
- If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again
rec. by Paul Oster; notes by Paul Oster | 
Storyville SLP 135 |
| 7 | 1965 | Conversation With The Blues
A Documentary of Field Recordings by Paul Oliver
Boogie Woogie Red - "So Much Good Feeling" Spoken, with own piano
Willie Thomas - "A Little Different" Spoken #
James Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - "Kill That Nigger Dead" Cage, vocal and fiddle; Thomas, vocal and guitar #
Lil' Son Jackson - "The Onliest Way" Spoken
J. B. Lenoir - "My Father's Style" Guitar solo
J. B. Lenoir - "So It Rocked On" Spoken
J. B. Lenoir - "Move To Kansas City" Vocal and own guitar
Otis Spann - "When She Comes Back" Spoken
Otis Spann - "Poor Country Boy" Vocal, with own piano
Lightnin' Hopkins - "Ain't No Easy Thing" Spoken
Mance Lipscomb - "Evil Heart Blues" Vocal and own piano
Blind Arvella Gray - "A Roughneck" Spoken
Roosevelt Sykes - "West Helena Blues" Vocal and guitar
Will Shade - "Days Of Nineteen-Hundred" Spoken
Will Shade - "Newport News Blues" Vocal and own guitar
Whistling Alex Moore - "Chock House Days" Spoken
Whistling Alex Moore - "Come and Get Me" Vocal and own piano
Whistling Alex Moore - "Chock House Days" Spoken
Brother John Sellers - "Move Back For What?" Spoken
J. B. Lenoir - "I Been Down So Long" Vocal and own guitar
Jasper Love - "Santa Fé Blues" Vocal and piano
John Lee Hooker - "Somewhere Down The Line" Spoken
Robert Curtis Smith - "I Hope One Day My Luck Will Change" Vocal and own guitar
Otis Spann - "Only Places They Can Go" Spoken
Otis Spann - "People Calls Me Lucky" Vocal and own piano
Henry Townsend - "What Have I Committed" Spoken
James Butch Cage - "Tween Midnight And Day" Vocal and own guitar [!!!] #
Little Brother Montgomery - "Walking Basses" Spoken
Little Brother Montgomery - "Dud Low Joe" Piano solo
Little Brother Montgomery - "It's A Barrelhouse Blues" Spoken
Little Brother Montgomery - "Vicksburg Blues" Vocal with piano
Little Brother Montgomery - "They Beat Me To Chicago" Spoken
Roosevelt Sykes - "They All Called Him 'Pork Chops'" Spoken
Roosevelt Sykes - "Forty-Four Blues" Vocal and own piano
Robert Junior Lockwood & Sunnyland Slim - "Doctor Clayton And Me" Spoken
Robert Junior Lockwood & Sunnyland Slim - "Take A Little Walk With Me" Vocal with own electric guitar, with Sunnyland Slim, piano
Edwin Buster Pickens - "To Have The Blues Within" Spoken
Mance Lipscomb - "Blues In The Bottle" Vocal and own guitar
# rec. Zachary, La. Aug. 7, 1960; LP accompanying Paul Oliver's book by the same title
 | 
Decca LK 4664
2nd ed. (1997) of book
(with enclosed CD)
|
| 8 | 1965 | Music Down Home
An Introduction to Negro Folk Music, USA
- Take This Hammer Lead Belly
- Field Call - Annie Grace Horn Dodson
- Children's Call - Annie Grace Horn Dodson
- Complaint Call - Enoch Brown
- Water On The Wheel - Annie Dodson
- Railroad, 1 - Rich Amerson
- Move Members Move - Rosie Hibler and Family
- Go Pray Ye - Annie Dodson
- The Day Is Past - Dorothy Melton
- Prayer Song - Dock Reed and Vera Hall
- King David - Rich Amerson and Earthy Anne Colema
- Rockin' Jerusalem - Fisk Jubilee Singers
- Just Got Over at Last - Little Brother Montgomery
- Mama's Goin' to Buy Him a Little Lap Dog Vera Hall Ward
- Brother Hawk, Brother Buzzard and Brother Rabbit - Rich Amerson
- I'm Goin' Up North Satisfied - Children of East York School
- Railroad, 2 - Rich Amerson
- Lost John - Sonny Terry
- Lost John - Prison Farm Work Group
- I'm Goin' to Pack Up My Things - Mozelle Moore
- Careless Love - Brownie McGhee
- Let Me Go Home, Whiskey - Snooks Eaglin
- You're My Man - Slick Chick Blues - Victoria Spivey
- I Wonder When I'll Get to Be Called A Man - Big Bill Broonzy
- Mule Ridin', Talking Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
- Black Woman - Rich Amerson
- Old John Booker - You Call That Gone Gus Cannon
- John Henry - Furry Lewis
- Take Your Fingers Off It - Gus Cannon, Charlie Burse, and Will Shade
- 44 Blues - Willie Thomas and Butch Cage
- Sonny's Jump Sonny Terry's Washboard Band
- Birmingham Jail - Lead Belly
- I'm So Glad - Montgomery Gospel Trio
ed. by Charles Edward Smith | 2 LP box
Folkways FA 2691www.folkways.si.edu download liner notes
at Smithsonian Global Sound
[notes (mis)credit:
Willie Thomas, voc, fiddle;
Butch Cage, voc, g] |
| 8a | 1970 | John Jeremy's Film
Blues Like Showers Of Rain
Gus Cannon
- My Money Never Runs Out
J.B. Lenoir
- It Hurts Me So Bad (Someday Baby)
Willie Thomas, James 'Butch' Cage & Grandson
- Little Red Rooster
Little Brother Montgomery
- Trembling Blues
J.B. Lenoir
- I Feel Like Playing My Box
Sunnyland Slim & Robert Lockwood
- Take a Little Walk With Me
Wade Walton & R.C. Smith
- Barbershop Rhythm
J.B. Lenoir
- I Been Don So Long [from Decca 4664]
Otis Spann
- People Call Me Lucky
Willie Thomas & James 'Butch' Cage
- Penitentiary Blues
Sunnyland Slim & Robert Lockwood Jr.
- Prison Bound
J.B. Lenoir
- I Don't Care What Nobody Say (Stand By Me)
Willie Thomas & James 'Butch' Cage
- Kill That Nigger Dead
J.B. Lenoir
- It Hurts Me So Bad (Someday Baby)
Robert Curtis Smith
- Blues | 
Kay 014 KJ (1979)
(30 minutes)
= Rhapsody 8022 (1986)
(=) Vestapol DVD 13003
(2003 "bonus track")
"Legends of Country
Blues Guitar Vol. 1"
|
| 9 | 19?? | ???
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Gamblin' Man
|
Metronome MLP 1000 |
| 10 | 1977 | Songs Of Complaint And Protest
Folk Music In America Vol. 7
Mattie, Marthie, and Minnie
- You Can’t Live With ‘Em (And You Can’t Live Without ‘Em)
Wilmoth Houdini
- Don’t Do That To Me
Dutch Coleman
- Granny Get Your Hair Cut
John McGhee
- Well World Doggone
Bumble Bee Slim
- Hard Rocks In My Bed
Jerry McCain And His Upstarts
- My Next Door Neighbour
Ewgen Zukowsky
- Wujko politykan
David McCarn
- Poor Man, Rich Man
Gabriel Brown
- I'm Gonna Take It Easy
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Kill That Nigger Dead #
J.B. Lenoir
- Mississippi Road
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
- Over The Hills To The Poorhouse
Bessie Tucker
- Key To The Bushes Blues
Walter Roland
- Collector Man Blues
The Tiger
- Workers' Appeal
# rec. Zachary, La. Aug. 7, 1960
collection ed. by Richard K. Spottswood for The Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture | 
Library of Congress LBC7 |
| 11 | 1979 | Butch Cage:
Raise A Rukus Tonight
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas
- Mean Old Frisco
Robert 'Pete' Williams
- Black Cat Bone
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
- 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
- Hoodoo Blues
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 Louisiana in 1960 and 1961 by Harry Oster | notes by Bruce Bastin
Flyright LP 545 |
| 12 | 1993 | Country Negro Jam Session
- 44 Blues - Butch Cage/Willie B. Thomas
- Mississippi Heavy Water Blues - Robert Pete Williams/Robert "Guitar" J. Welch
- Smokestack Lightning - Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage
- Who Broke The Lock - Butch Cage/Willie B Thomas
- You Don't Love Me - Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage
- It's The Sign Of The Judgement - Butch Cage/Willie B. Thomas
- Foxhunt - Ben Douglas
- Your Dice Won't Pass - Sally Dotson/Smoky Babe/Hillary Blunt
- Jelly Roll - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage
- I've Got Religion - Rebecca Smith/Tom Miller/Ruth Miller
- Going Downtown Boogie - Smoky Babe
- Stack O'Dollars - Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage
- Brown Skin Woman - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage/Martha Thomas
- I Won't Be Your Low-Down Dog No More - Leon Strickland/Lucius Bridges/Leslie Anders
- The Piano Blues - Butch Cage/Willie B Thomas (previously unreleased)
- Cotton Field Blues - Smoky Babe (previously unreleased)
- The Farm Blues - Otis Webster (previously unreleased)
- The Boss Man Blues - Otis Webster (previously unreleased)
- Whoa Mule! - Butch Cage/Willie B. Thomas (previously unreleased)
- Boll Weevil Blues - Otis Webster (prev unreleased)
- Thousand Miles From Nowhere - Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage (previously unreleased)
- Dead And Gone - Butch Cage/Willie B Thomas (previously unreleased)
- Called For You Yesterday - Butch Cage/Willie B. Thomas (previously unreleased)
- Me & My Chauffeur - Butch Cage/Willie B Thomas (previously unreleased)
- Baby Please Don't Go - Butch Cage/Willie B. Thomas (previously unreleased
rec. in southwest Louisiana during the late 1950s and early 1960s by Harry Oster
cover photo of Butch Cage and Willie Thomas with their wives by Harry Oster
Dr. Harry Oster discography | Folk-Lyric FL 111 (1960)
= Arhoolie R 2018 (1970)
= Trio PA-6028 (Jp 1974)notes by Chris Strachwitz
Arhoolie CD 372 www.arhoolie.com |
| 13 | 1995 | I Have To Paint My Face
- I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatmon [lyrics]
- Big Road Blues - K.C. Douglas
- I Stand And Wonder - Sam Chatmon
- Texas Blues - Big Joe Williams
- Night Shirt Blues - K.C. Douglas (previously unreleased)
- Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas/Bruce Bratton (previously unreleased)
- Hollandale Blues - Sam Chatmon (previously unreleased)
- The Slop - Jasper Love/Columbus Jones
- Stella Ruth - R.C. Smith
- God Don't Like Ugly - Sam Chatmon
- Rooster Blues - Wade Walton
- Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton/R.C. Smith
- Going Back To Texas - R.C. Smith
- Blues And Trouble - K.C. Douglas/Sidney Maiden
- Lonely Widower - R.C. Smith
- Lost Love Blues - R.C. Smith
- Married Woman Blues - Big Joe Williams
- Love's Honeydripper - Jasper Love
- Desert Blues - Jasper Love
- One Thin Dime - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas
- Butch's Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas
- Forty Four Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas
- Chicago Blues - Sidney Maiden/K.C. Douglas | Arhoolie F 1005 (1960)
Arhoolie F 1006 (1960)notes by Chris Strachwitz
Arhoolie CD 432 www.arhoolie.com |
| 14 | 2000 | The Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Box Set
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- One Thin Dime
"106 songs by 96 artists clocks in at over 6 hours" | 5 CD box set
Arhoolie CD 491www.arhoolie.com |
| 15 | 2006 | Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas:
Old Time Black Southern String Band Music
- Bugle Call Blues #
- Some Day Baby
- Mean Old Frisco
- Piano Blues
- The Hen Cackle
- The Dirty Dozen
- Rock Me Mama
- It Ain't Gonna Rain No More
- Easy Rider Blues
- Whoa Mule
- I Had A Dream Last Night (All I Had Was Gone)
- Careless Love Blues
- Sneaky Ways
- Since I Layed My Burden Down
- You've Gotta Move
rec. in 1959 by Harry Oster
"all but one previously unissued" | 
Arhoolie CD 9045www.arhoolie.com |
Will be completed and expanded with further details !!!
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